Tenure is supposed to protect professors to teach what they know. That stops political idealogues like Donald Trump or Joseph McCarthy from controlling knowledge. Unfortunately, it's no protection for professors in this political moment as Moira Finkelstein found out when she lost her tenured job as an anthropologist at Muhlenberg College over an Instagram Story that was critical of Zionism. Zionism is an ideology, not a religion, and many Jews, including Dr. Finkelstein, are critical of it. But that didn’t stop her from being labeled antisemitic.

In this episode we talk about the BIG LIE: that any criticism of Israel is anti-semitism. The GoP and even some Dems have been using this lie to attack professors, often feminist scholars who are themselves Jewish. In this part of the episode, we talk to Nicole Morse, former head of gender studies at Florida Atlantic University, and Jessica Pabon, who taught gender studies at SUNY New Paltz. Both were punished by their institutions for criticizing Israeli policy in Gaza.

This episode is the second part to Episode 4: The Anti-Gender Movement in Mexico City. This time though, we have a lot more hope to offer. Dive into these exciting interviews to learn about the feminist resistance happening in Mexico City and all the ways we can fight back!

Note: the interviews for this episode were done in Spanish, so the interviewees you hear aren’t really them - it’s an English voiceover.

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In this bonus episode, we talk to Suzanne Cope about her new book, Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers who fought the Nazis. We get inspired to fight harder by looking back in time at the women who risked their lives to build a better world.

In this episode, Daisy and El ask whether or not the Trump regime is fascism and the answer is... Well you have to listen to hear all the expertise they bring to the question. And in the end, it doesn't matter whether Trump is technically a fascist or fascist adjacent, our rights and our worlds are at risk.

The sound quality is not as good as we like it to be because it was done on Zoom and El was out of the US- but we promise it's worth a listen.

In this episode we talk about some new, important research, namely the book Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attack featuring an interview with the authors, Tomás Ojeda, Billy Holzberg, and Aiko Holvikivi.

Links from the show:

• ​Open access chapter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-54223-7_1
• ​Beyond Oppositions project: https://beyondopposition.org/
• ​Imperfect Utopias project: https://imperfectutopias.eu/

As always, thank you to the FFF team and for YOU, beautiful human, for listening <3

In this episode we talk to Prof. Clare Hemmings of the London School of Economics. Prof. Hemmings, who helped to start an international research group on the anti-gender movement. Prof. Hemmings puts a lot of what's going on into historical perspective for us by linking white supremacy, transphobia and the colonial imagination together.

As another term under Tr*mp looms before us, let us turn to a Really Smart Person - none other than Professor JUDITH BUTLER! In this episode we hear about Butler's new book, Who's Afraid of Gender? and all the ways they offer hope, inspiration, and wisdom during these hard times. As fire spreads, literally and figuratively, we cannot give up! Take care of yourself, take care of each other, and keep dancing!

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