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Political Education Resources
On Gender & Authoritarianism
In The Public Eye Magazine
Gender and Authoritarianism: A Framework for Analysis and Action by Annie Wilkinson
Annie Wilkinson provides a framework understanding the rise of anti-gender movements across the globe as part of a wave of autocratization.
Canaries in the Classroom: Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky by Mary Reynolds and Carol Mason
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.
From Courts to Clinics: How the Anti-Gender Far Right is Reshaping Texas By Chancie Calliham
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.
Trad Values Meets Tech: The U.S. Right’s Pronatalist Coalition by Gaby Del Valle
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.
Feminists Against Women by Sophie Lewis
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.
Sporting Authoritarianism: Anti-Trans Feminists in the Anti-Gender Movement by Hannah Silver
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.
Other PRA Resources
Cooksey explores the growing online Tradwife subculture, one with deep ties to White nationalism, Christian nationalism, and anti-feminism.
An influential, militant wing of the anti-abortion movement has coopted the language of the 19th century anti-slavery abolitionists, organizing under the banner of "abortion abolitionists."
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