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Sporting Authoritarianism

Anti-Trans Feminists in the Anti-Gender Movement

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The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition unites anti-trans feminist groups in a crusade against “gender ideology” in women’s sports, exemplifying the growing prevalence of anti-gender campaigns in the U.S.

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From Courts to Clinics

How the Anti-Gender Far Right is Reshaping Texas

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In Texas, state Attorney General Ken Paxton is testing the powers of the AG to enact wide-ranging right-wing policies, including anti-trans and anti-abortion legislation, that extends beyond state lines.

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Gender and Authoritarianism

A Framework for Analysis and Action

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Annie Wilkinson provides a framework understanding the rise of anti-gender movements across the globe as part of a wave of autocratization.

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Feminists Against Women

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In a world of competing feminisms, from anti-trans feminists to liberal feminists, Sophie Lewis makes the case for taking feminism seriously in all its forms in order to make real progress toward a multiracial, feminist democracy.

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Trad Values Meets Tech

The U.S. Right’s Pronatalist Coalition

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Pronatalism has produced a tenuous coalition of traditional conservatives, abortion opponents, and White nationalists working together with tech moguls, futurists, libertarians, and libertines, united in a common cause of promoting more births.

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Canaries in the Classroom

Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky

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In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.

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White Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and the Ongoing Threat to Native Sovereignty

An Issue of the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook Newsletter

If you’re serious about fighting white nationalism and authoritarianism, you need to understand how they’re built on the foundations of settler colonialism. Native genocide, tribal termination, and constant attacks on treaty rights aren’t just…

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Authoritarianism, Criminalization, and Reproductive Injustice

A Roundtable Discussion

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In this roundtable discussion, seasoned practitioners who work on the front lines of healthcare, reproductive justice, and criminal law join to share insights drawn from their experiences of navigating repression.

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Three Way Fight

Author Q&A with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons

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Ben Lorber interviews authors Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons about their book Three Way Fight, a collection of essays designed to serve as a guide to antifascism and revolution.

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Stacking the Courts against Mifepristone

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Conservative groups are reshaping judicial outcomes in their favor using forum shopping and dark money, as seen in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA case on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

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Barstool Politics

Sports Media and Fratriarchy

Barstool Sports, a Boston sports publication turned national sports multimedia company, has become a decentralized platform for the dissemination of misogynistic and racist attitudes.

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Leading in Resistance: Three Decades of Fighting Authoritarian and Supremacist Forces, A Conversation with Tarso Luís Ramos

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 10

PRA’s former Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos about the ways that the terrain of contestation between Left and Right has shifted over three decades, and where he looks to for inspiration in an era of growing authoritarianism.

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Calling In

Author Q&A with Loretta Ross

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PRA talks to Loretta Ross about her journey through activism and her framework for addressing conflict within and beyond social justice movements.

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The Moral Conservatism Behind Global Resistance to LGBTI Rights

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An excerpt from The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights explores the global coordination of movements around Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) rights.

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Right-Wing Grievances in Progressive Clothing: Canada's Far Right, with Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 9

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Koki speaks with researchers Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack about the Far Right in Canada today. They discuss the evolution of the Far Right and its disparate movements and the current rise to prominence of the Far Right in provincial politics.

Podcast

Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

A Conversation with Deon Haywood, Laura McTighe, and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

A discussion with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and the authors of Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South about Black feminist liberatory praxis and resistance strategies to White supremacy.

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How Solidarity Provides the Path of Resistance: A Conversation with Naomi Washington-Leapheart

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 8

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In this episode, Naomi Washington-Leapheart explores the role of community and solidarity in creating responsive and durable strategies of contestation—of resistance—in our contemporary political moment.

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Strategizing for the 2025 Trump Regime Change with Steven Gardiner

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 7

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PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner provides astute analysis on what has led us to this moment in history—when Donald Trump and the Republican Party have so decisively won the presidency and both houses of congress.

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Review: Commune or Nothing!

Lessons for Building Grassroots Power Toward Liberation and Democracy

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Hialy Gutierrez reviews Chris Gilbert’s book Commune or Nothing!, a story of Venezuela’s communes as a model for liberatory organizing.

Book Review

The Education Wars

Author Q&A with Jennifer C. Berkshire

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Jennifer C. Berkshire’s interview with PRA about her and Jack Schneider’s new book, The Education Wars, provides a road map for defending public education.

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