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Laurie Essig

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teach White People, Heteros and Men. write about why it only gets worse. create feminist chaos as often as possible.
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Why Authoritarians Always Come for Gender Studies First

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By Laurie Essig
| Ms. Magazine Verified
We all know that Trump and the Republican Party are coming for higher education. But, what many don’t know is that in this century, authoritarians come for gender studies first. In Hungary, Viktor Orban declared gender studies illegal, then refused accreditation of the Central European University in Budapest if they continued their program. The Putin regime slowly destroyed all the gender studies programs in Russia (one of which I taught in until 2020).
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Forward: “Feminist and Queer resistance to Neo-Fascism’s anti-‘Gender Ideology’ movements”

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By Wen Liu, Laurie Essig, Ella Ben Hagai, Munia Bhaumik
| Taylor & Francis Online
It may be difficult to make the connections between banning drag queen story hour, making laws against trans women and girls playing sports, and preventing pregnant people from safe and legal abortions, yet they are all connected by a global, often fascistic political movement against “gender ideology.” The anti-“gender ideology” movement is spreading like wildfire around the world from the Republican Party in the US to Law and Justice in Poland.
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Employees deserve a cost-of-living adjustment

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By Laurie Essig
| Middlebury Campus Verified
When the Middlebury Association of University Professors, which has more than 220 members both faculty and staff, asked for a minimum 10% cost-of-living pay adjustment for all employees, we were being more than reasonable. At the faculty meeting last April, 87% of faculty agreed and supported a Sense of Faculty Motion. To get paid the same as we were in 2019 adjusted for inflation, we would have had to ask for nearly a 16% raise. Any increase less than inflation is actually a pay cut, not a raise.
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