is politics just a struggle for power, or is that just what we’ve made it out to be?

#power #politics #powerpolitics

this isn’t necessarily because of differences between men and women, but because of the norms and traditions our society holds. women aren’t conditioned to seek power in the same way.

#genderbalance

a large takeaway was that many of the questions women ask themselves when thinking about entering politics are questions that men don’t ask.

#genderpolitics #genderparity #parityingovernment

getting gender parity in government isn’t about fairness. it’s about reshaping the norms that define our country, truly representing a diverse electorate, and bringing new ideas to the table.

#diversityinpolitics #socialnorms #newideas

at RepresentWomen’s holiday party last week Ambassador Hunt told us about the questions she asked herself when her career path started to shift from being a common cause activist to a diplomat.

#diplomacy #USpolitics #power

fascinating highlights
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/12/13/striking-findings-from-2022/

•”A growing share of adult TikTok users in the U.S. are getting news on the platform”

•”Most Americans who have experienced extreme weather in the past year—majorities in both political parties—see climate change as a factor”

•”Following the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the partisan gap in views of the court grew wider than at any point in more than three decades”

#PewResearch

Posted this before and it is certainly getting better as I curate my follows, but...

What are some accounts you follow on here for movies, pop culture, and the like? My feed is a little too Business Casual Cocktail Party so far, where I’m used to more of a Comic Con Meet-Up

Oklahoma's jobless rate has been rising, and Fed expects higher unemployment in 2023 https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/employment/2022/12/19/oklahoma-unemployment-rate-steady-jobs-still-outnumber-job-seekers/69724884007/

Also worth a read– "benevolent" and "hostile" sexism and how both forms maintain patriarchal gender norms and can dictate behavior.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1997.tb00104.x

#genderpolitics #behavior #socialscience #gendernorms #behavioralscience

Saw this on twitter and figured it was worth sharing here. The piece speaks for itself and is worth a read. We can't keep ignoring the warning signs that lead to mass shootings. Over two-thirds of mass shootings are linked to domestic violence, yet we continue to punish those "who don’t conform to heteropatriarchal notions of sexuality, gender, and power."

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/colorado-springs-shooting-suspect?r=1aupz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#domesticviolence #gunviolence #massshootings #genderviolence #gender #colorado

@paulgowder special formula = american sugar

@MathijsvdSande @fpo i think this would be a good way to look at it but i don’t think that’s how it always is…
contemporary is maybe past 50 years of thought for me but not sure how that plays into the dead/alive lines

An observation after reviewing a series of journal articles related in various ways to something called the “Black Radical tradition.” We need to get better at thinking about “radical” in temporal terms, as having distinct meanings relative to periods and grievances. The linking of “radical” with an end to “capitalism” in readings of 19th-century African-American thinkers often obscures and disfigures what they were up to. Rather than proceeding based on a unified description, there may be more use in marking internal differences, even as many in the tradition longed for liberation. This would also allow us to see that for many African American thinkers in the 19th century, liberation was rarely understood in class terms and that they imagined a form of capitalism that did not need to be domineering. This may open more fruitful intellectual space for genealogical development and critique as Black thinkers from the 18, 19, and 20th centuries struggled for freedom and equal regard in the "West."

In a sane world, the possibility of over 800 mass shootings in a single year would be incomprehensible and intolerable.

This also means a new record for women in congress with at least 148 serving in the 118th congress. Still waiting on AK House races.

#genderpolitics #womeninpolitics #genderparity #elections #CAWP

Alaska live-streamed RCV tabulation: https://www.ktoo.org/gavel/video/2022111009/2022-alaska-ranked-choice-vote-count/

Sen. Murkowski wins with 53.69% in third round.
Rep. Peltola wins with 54.94% in third round.
Last time Peltola had a come-from-behind win, but this cycle she led in every round.

#elections #rcv #voting #electionreform #alaska #peltola #murkowski #elections2022 #midterms

Disturbed by reports of Black Mastodon users—Black women in particular—having negative experiences on this app, including being randomly banned for discussions of racism. Some of these users will not come back. All will share their experiences. The answer is not to condescendingly lecture them on “how the fediverse works,” as if their experiences are inevitable, nor to swear to do better next time. (There may not be one.) It’s to do better now lest the reputation of this app be cemented.

In a week 637,154 users joined #mastodon. And mind you: The most active Twitter users are migrating first, so there is a good chance we are welcoming the very cream of the crop.

Source: @mastodonusercount

At a meta level, something I find mildly interesting is how many people are writing stuff on Mastodon about how it's impossible for Mastodon to scale up without using an ad supported model (b/c server costs), it's better to have ranked feeds because most people want them, etc.

The thing I think is interesting is that the people writing this stuff, implicitly, seemingly cannot conceive of a model where the organization is not growth and profit maximizing.

@philosophy I'm thrilled to be keynoting the Philosophy in the Ozarks Grad Conference on social epistemology & philosophy of language this year! But honestly, I'm most excited to get to chat with the other folks who will be presenting at it and to learn about all the cool projects grad students are working on!!!

Submissions are due Nov 28, so if you're a grad student working in social epistemology or phil language, please submit!!! https://philevents.org/event/show/102646