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Audrey T. Carroll

@audreytcarroll.bsky.social

Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers. Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee. EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social) 📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024) She/they https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll

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Audrey T. Carroll@audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 2w ago

To add to this: ultimately, the project of eugenics always returns to regulating humanity, homogenizing us until we are each useful, predictable tools that can produce (labor, children, etc.) for the rich and powerful.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Going after autistic/ADHD kids next after trans kids makes all the sense in the world, because the larger global fascist project is making sure your children-property do and be whatever their parent-owners want. You can "fix" your broken toy rather than deal with the reality of another person.

Audrey T. Carroll@audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 4w ago

This kind of rhetoric relies on old eugenics tropes. It's a hop and a skip from "the people we don't like are deformed" to "the people we don't like don't belong in public." And there's already a push toward more institutionalization (see the US DOJ opinion issued on June 18th, 2026).

“Any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, or an improper person to be allowed in or on the streets, highways, thoroughfares or public places in this city shall not therein or thereon expose himself or herself to public view under penalty of one dollar for each offense. On the conviction of any person for a violation of this section, if it shall seem proper and just, the fine provided for may be suspended, and such person detained at the police station, where he shall be well cared for, until he can be committed to the county poor house.” (Chicago’s Ugly Law, 1881-1973)
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 4w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Audrey T. Carroll@audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm excited to share this new project with y'all! I've been researching eugenics with a Disability Studies lens, analyzing how it shows up in literature, as well as in the broader culture. Sharing with friends and colleagues is much appreciated!

Text over book covers reads: Literature & Culture: Eugenics A new public scholarship series Premiering September 1st YouTube.com/@Dr.Heffers
Audrey T. Carroll@audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm excited to share this new project with y'all! I've been researching eugenics with a Disability Studies lens, analyzing how it shows up in literature, as well as in the broader culture. Sharing with friends and colleagues is much appreciated!

Text over book covers reads: Literature & Culture: Eugenics A new public scholarship series Premiering September 1st YouTube.com/@Dr.Heffers
Audrey T. Carroll@audreytcarroll.bsky.social · last mo.

I've been in the trenches researching/writing about eugenics in literature and culture for a Youtube series I'm putting together. This "women need to marry young" line of thinking is something that Francis Galton, the man who coined the term "eugenics," was complaining about way back in 1901.

Even Francis Galton addressed this very directly in a 1901 lecture, where he discusses the “effect of reducing the age at marriage,” bemoaning that “There is unquestionably a tendency among cultured women to delay or even to abstain from marriage; they dislike the sacrifice of freedom and leisure, of opportunities for study and of cultured companionship” (25-26). This is the fear expressed in so much eugenics and its literature, like in The Marching Morons where the intelligent elite don’t reproduce as much as their “moron class” counterparts. Galton goes on to share the anecdotal observation that “The large and thriving families that I have known were the offspring of mothers who married very young” (27).
William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social · last mo.

Her "model" for "ending the fertility crisis" is for women to marry young while they're most fertile. OK, except there's still a decent chunk of people who would deal with infertility even then. My wife and I were in our mid-20s when we started having this struggle. In her world, we don't count.