Kat Fuller
@katfuller.bsky.social
Sociologist nerd | Research interests: far-right movement, post-colonialism, and gender | www.sociologistkatfuller.com
Six transgender and nonbinary candidates made history on Election Day by winning races in states that have never elected a trans person into their legislature before. These candidates will expand LGBTQ+ political power at a time when their rights are increasingly under attack nationwide.
These trans and nonbinary candidates just made history
Across six states, these Democratic candidates will be the first transgender and nonbinary people to serve in their state legislatures.
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Oh, this is amazing. radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...
EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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Violence against women and trans people is worse than previously thought, according to new research released Wednesday from Tulane University and University of California, San Diego. https://bit.ly/4cKqLnp
My blog post on anti-intellectualism and the Fulnecky’s case is out now! I interviewed @floralashes.bsky.social for thoughts on the case www.cifrs.org/post/extra-c...
Extra Credit for Transphobia: Canada’s Risk of Anti-Intellectualism
Moral panic over ‘wokeism’ and ‘gender ideology’ fuels anti-intellectualism in Canada, which includes claims of media censorship over disinformation, public distrust towards experts, and the normaliza...
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She endured eight hysteroscopies, four years of fertility treatment and turned to surrogacy to grow her family. When she unexpectedly became pregnant herself, Texas’ abortion ban made her next decision far more complicated.
Tina wanted another baby. She also needed an abortion. Texas made both harder.
She endured eight hysteroscopies and years of IVF, turning to surrogacy to grow her family. When she unexpectedly became pregnant herself, the state's abortion ban made her next decision far more comp...
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Concerns have been raised about why members of US “right-wing extremist” group were granted visas to visit UK Enrique Tarrio & Barry Ramey, members of the ‘Proud Boys’, travelled to Northern Ireland & met with various right-wing, anti-Muslim and loyalist activists www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
Belfast visit by US far-right figures raises questions over UK visa rules
A human rights group has questioned why two members of a group involved in the January 6 2021 attack in Washington were permitted to visit Northern Ireland
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Hostile and violent attitudes toward women are the clearest warning sign of violent extremism, a study has found. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Misogyny identified as biggest red flag for violent extremism
A new study finds that violent attitudes towards women are not just a social issue but a matter of national security.
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"Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be ... convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly" 1/ www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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Public historians and other women librarians founded Save Our Signs with a goal to create a crowdsourced historical record of information signs at national park sites, in the event they are changed under the Trump administration. https://bit.ly/4zBUJUz
National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the record
The revisions have scrubbed or softened accounts of violence, slavery, activism and lived experiences, raising questions about whose stories the government considers worth telling.
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“Allowing myself to experience and embrace these feelings, no longer repressing them, has brought profound relief and joy.” Kat Fuller recounts a childhood of repressed sexuality and describes how sociology provided the key to greater self-awareness and understanding. buff.ly/xxPATub
Inaccessibility to GLP-1 drugs because of factors like cost, shortages and insurance coverage have allowed a gray market to flourish online — particularly on TikTok. The unregulated sale of weight loss drugs primarily targets women through deceptive marketing often featuring sexualized content.
She bought 'GLP-1' patches on TikTok. She got scammed instead.
A new report finds a trend of TikTok accounts promoting the unregulated sale of weight loss drugs that feature sexualized images and videos of women.
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We're recruiting a Trustee! Join the Board of The Sociological Review Foundation and help shape our marketing and communications. 🗓 Expressions of interest close 24 August. Find out more: buff.ly/7sySPqN
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There’s a few other folks forgotten in this cartoon; any guess who that could be?
🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️@buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis cartoon by Matt Wuerker with Politico sums it up nicely! #Blues
Last year, a white supremacist dating site was hacked and its users leaked. Josiah Patton of Nanaimo BC is one such user. He wrote that he was looking to "find a White woman the younger the better (15+)" The 36-year-old represents himself online as a tutor for teens.
WhiteDate’s Most Prolific User is a Canadian Looking for a Child Bride
On a dead-end street in the small Vancouver Island city of Nanaimo, Josiah Patton has spent the last four years alternately shouting, begging, and despairing into the void of the white supremacist dat...
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THE MYTH OF A GLOBAL ANTIFA Fascism, not anti-fascism, is the threat, both domestically and internationally. fpif.org/the-myth-of-...
The Myth of a Global Antifa - FPIF
Fascism, not anti-fascism, is the threat, both domestically and internationally.
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Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Users on a niche far-right imageboard dedicated to coordinating online harassment campaigns have spent the last year developing artificial intelligence tools meant to help them surface private personal information for the targets of their abuse - aka ‘doxxing’ openmeasures.io/soyjak-ai-do...
Users on This Far-Right Imageboard Are Building ‘Fully Autonomous AI Doxxing’ Tools - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.
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Final call! Just a handful of places remain for Live Methods with Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Registration closes at midnight on Monday 3 August. This course won't be running again for a while, so don't miss your chance to join us. buff.ly/LCytOtC
Secret anti-protest group for university administrators, police, and government representatives? It’s more likely than you think!
Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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“They do whatever they want. They just harm whoever they want, whenever they want. And so, this is a step in making them accountable.”
This nurse brings health care to people outside a detention center. She says ICE agents assaulted her.
This week, the ACLU announced it has filed 54 claims on behalf of Norma Bowe and others who allege violence and additional harms from federal immigration officials.
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The Campus Free Speech Wars Are Over. MAGA Won. It’s clear that the right was always the biggest threat to free speech. The MAGA-pilled Republican Party has moved at federal & state levels to censor very content of what professors can teach & students can learn. newrepublic.com/article/2135...
The Campus Free Speech Wars Are Over. MAGA Won.
The right spent years trying to convince us that campus lefties were authoritarians in waiting. But then an actual authoritarian became president.
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‘Civil rights advocates have said these prosecutions, even when unsuccessful, are part of an effort to criminalize lawful community organizing, weaken movements opposing deportations and turn the lives of activists upside down.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Trump's Red Scare Trump administration is reviving the McCarthy Era with unhinged attacks on the left as communist and praise for past government witch hunts and blacklists globalextremism.org/post/trumps-...
Trump's Red Scare
The Trump administration is reviving McCarthy-era tactics, portraying political opponents as communist threats while targeting protected speech, protest, and association. A recent State Department min...
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Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on charges of rape and sex trafficking UK to seek extradition over sexual exploitation, ‘extreme pornography’ and assault and indecent images of a child www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on charges of rape and sex trafficking
UK to seek extradition over sexual exploitation, ‘extreme pornography’ and assault and indecent images of a child
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Dozens of people held at a sprawling Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten, according to a new report issued by legal and human rights advocates apnews.com/article/ice-...
Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.
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Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...
"it's OK to be manly" sounds a lot like the male supremacist version of "it's OK to be white"
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm going to become the Joker
