Jenn Taylor-Skinner
@jtaylorskinner.bsky.social
Created @Electorette | Pushcart Nominee | Essayist in Southern Humanities Review, The Nation, The Today Show, River Teeth | ex-Microsoft & Cincinnati Conservatory Alum | Player of Chopin, quad espresso stan | I write about loneliness
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I wrote about this! "The disenfranchisement of marginalized voters is a feature, not a bug, of the American reality. Denying these groups full & free participation in democracy isn’t breaking news—in fact, it’s a problem as old as journalistic myopia itself." electorette.substack.com/p/from-econo...
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Will we still have elections? The fear of cancelled elections won’t go away—mostly bc the admin wants us to be afraid. They keep that fear alive through chaos & disinformation campaigns. Check out my convo with Rebekah Caruthers on why we should vote anyway. electorette.substack.com/p/they-want-...
I don’t believe Trump’s locker-room antics with the hockey team were just his usual off-the-cuff misogyny—they were a deliberate attempt to redirect male anger toward women & place fresh targets on our backs, at a time when the culture wars are already aimed at us. electorette.substack.com
It’s time to talk about Michael Wolff. What do those emails reveal about wealth, power & the layers of complicity that keep it all going? Is Wolff acting as heroic truth-teller or is he part of the same machinery that protects problematic men? Let’s talk about it… open.substack.com/pub/electore...
The Supreme Court is back in session 🫤 — and one of the first major cases on its docket could gut what’s left of the Voting Rights Act. Callais v. Landry (Oct 15) targets Section 2, which protects voters from racial discrimination. I spoke with Sophia Lin Lakin of @aclu.org about what’s at stake.
If people are going to frame Charlie Kirk’s positions in a political light, we should be clear that he wasn’t just politically conservative or a Republican — his views are clearly and firmly in the realm of white supremacy. He embraced radical white nationalism and an unapologetic brand of misogyny.