Since we first started this podcast in the summer of 2023, we’ve gotten a lot of pushback… is this really fascism that we’re talking about? Can we use that word?
YES!
Let’s explore why…
“The project of restoring the world to a time before “gender” promises a return to a patriarchal dream-order that may never have existed but that occupies the place of “history” or “nature”—an order that only a strong state can restore. The shoring up of state powers, including the powers of the courts, implicates the anti-gender movement in a broader authoritarian project. The targeting of sexual and gender minorities as dangers to society, as exemplifying the most destructive force in the world, in order to strip them of their fundamental rights, protections, and freedoms, implicates the anti–gender ideology in fascism.”
Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Conversations happening on news sites:
- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/03/26/fascism-scholars-trump-critics-leave-yale-canada
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html
- https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5164488/harris-trump-fascist-explained
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-rhetoric-compares-to-historic-fascist-language