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A profile of Brett Cooper, a conservative YouTuber who uses celebrity news to argue against feminism and abortion rights, as she becomes a Fox News contributor (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

Brett Cooper Is Spreading Conservatism, One Celebrity Drama at a Time
The YouTuber set out to reach young conservatives who felt alienated by mainstream culture. Now she is the newest face at Fox News, though dreaming of her own Goop.

Odd, I tried to get him and everyone else at Diem25 on the fediverse years ago but 🤷‍♂️
https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye/
Do as I say, not as I do, I guess.

🇰🇷 Why South Korean young men and women are more politically divided than ever
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-03/why-south-korean-young-men-and-women-are-more-politically-divided-than-ever…

Why South Korean young men and women are more politically divided than ever
In South Korea, right-leaning young men are less likely to focus on North Korea than feminism, which — for them — has become a dirty word.

Just read Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith, yet another semi-random venture into the currently-popular novels section of my library, rather than my recent YA staples. It's excellent. Fascinating and well-written just as fiction, but also empowering and perspective-upgrading (and I'm a married white cis man who is only beer-belly fat, plus already well into #BodyPositive thinking).
It bridges really well with Mama by Nikkya Hargrove, and with Does My Body Offend You by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt, both of which I went through recently. Yet another home fucking run for #OwnVoices, which felt extra good to read after Dream State was so disappointing. It really digs into and helps the reader explore body positivity just like Does My Body Offend You does with feminism.
#AmReading

Girlhood Feminism as Soft Resistance: Affective Counterpublics and Algorithmic Negotiation on RedNote
Meng Liang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Linqi Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07059

Girlhood Feminism as Soft Resistance: Affective Counterpublics and Algorithmic Negotiation on RedNote
This article explores how Chinese female users tactically mobilise platform features and hashtag practices to construct vernacular forms and an exclusive space of feminist resistance under algorithmic and cultural constraints. Focusing on the reappropriation of the hashtag Baby Supplementary Food (BSF), a female-dominated lifestyle app with over 300 million users, we analyse how users create a female-centered counterpublic through self-infantilisation, algorithmic play, and aesthetic withdrawal…

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