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# Marcie Bianco

Writer | Editor | Cultural Critic

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://marciebianco.com/blog/)
- [Securing Our Freedom of Privacy in Techno-Fascist Times](https://marciebianco.com/securing-our-freedom-of-privacy-in-techno-fascist-times/) - Below is the long-form, English language version of my article for Fett 2026/2. Privacy is an essential form of freedom. In this techno-fascist era, however, privacy has been commodified into a luxury item afforded by the few. As an affect of privacy, safety under the panoptic eyes of the state feels precarious at best. Fascism
- [Wow 2025 Was Terrible](https://marciebianco.com/wow-2025-was-terrible/) - Lez be honest. 2025 was terrible. I was never the greatest optimist about humanity, but, wow, humans really suck. People literally turning away from genocide and apartheid. People literally sucking the Earth dry and polluting low-income and racially marginalized communities plagued with data centers because they need AI to type a fucking email or to
- [The Lie of Apartheid](https://marciebianco.com/the-lie-of-apartheid/) - The lie of apartheid is that the oppressors are safe, secure, and free. As Simone de Beauvoir told us, in The Ethics of Ambiguity as well as various political writings, freedom is not manifest in any oppressive situation. The binary - the boundary - is an illusion. October 7th is case in point. Z*onists and
- [Editing as Quiet Firing](https://marciebianco.com/editing-as-quiet-firing/) - In my eight-plus years at Stanford, I experienced many forms of quiet firing, which, according to Michigan State University professors Ayalla Ruvio and Forrest Morgeson, describes the intentional creation of "a hostile work environment that encourages people to leave voluntarily." In their Harvard Business Review article, Ruvio and Morgeson identified a variety of indicators of
- [April 30 Update](https://marciebianco.com/april-30-update/) - I am adding My April 30, 2025, "News Update" to my blog page, for posterity: April was … not great. It began with burying my beloved grandfather, Michelangelo Bianco. He lived the American Dream - an Italian immigrant who built his family, home, and career from the ground up; literally, tilling the soil himself to
- [Progressives' Next Steps](https://marciebianco.com/progressives-next-steps/) - The next steps for progressives are obvious: First, give up the ghost of equality. EQUALITY WILL NOT FREE US. And policy, judicial, and cultural trends have proven how equality has served as an adept cudgel of conservatives, from overturning affirmative action based on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to asserting that "equality begins in
- [No Woman President](https://marciebianco.com/no-woman-president/) - No woman will be elected to the US presidency as long as the electoral college exists. And you can quote me on that.
- [Your Blue Bracelets Aren't Enough](https://marciebianco.com/your-blue-bracelets-arent-enough/) - The stranglehold of consumer capitalism on American minds is no more apparent than the current move to buy blue bracelets as a sign of solidarity with Kamala Harris and her campaign. This performative activism reflects our inability to grapple with and reconcile profound complexities in our society - the (largely, white liberal) feeling of "how could
- [2024 Election Thoughts](https://marciebianco.com/2024-election-thoughts/) - I am not disillusioned. If you're familiar with my work, and especially "Breaking Free," you'll have known that Kamala Harris was never going to win this election - the "democratic" institutions in this country, and specifically the electoral college, are not broken. They are working according to their design. (More from "Breaking Free," below.) "Voting equality"
- ["Childless" is an Idiotic Word](https://marciebianco.com/childless-is-an-idiotic-word/) - Even for those of us who choose to be childFREE are not without children — we live in a world with children. We are their aunts, uncles, cousins, teachers, etc. What an absolutely idiotic word.
- [Organizations Hate Transparency](https://marciebianco.com/organizations-hate-transparency/) - Transparency is a threat to organizations. People who claim otherwise are liars. Organizations will do anything to preserve unjust mechanisms and practices predicated on secrecy. This is why labor unions also post a threat.
- [Genocide is Wrong](https://marciebianco.com/genocide-is-wrong/) - Why is it controversial to say so?
- [My 3 Favorite Articles of 2020](https://marciebianco.com/my-3-best-articles-of-2020/) - My favorite articles of 2020 all coalesce thematically around "freedom," which I am currently writing about in book form. Threading through these articles, too, is my critique of "equality." Two articles specifically address "freedom" in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: In March 2020, I wrote about how the rhetoric of "freedom" is weaponized by
- ["Oh. THAT Lesbian." — Notes on "Ammonite"](https://marciebianco.com/oh-that-lesbian-notes-on-ammonite/) - "Borrid." That is, "boring meets torrid." Credit for this magnificent term goes to USC's Karen Tongson, who coined the word to describe the particular genre of lesbianish cinema, made for mainstream/straight consumption, which play out "long-simmering romances that are in many respects about repression and sidelong glances, the indirectness of desire." Tongson's commentary was directed
- [Happiest Season](https://marciebianco.com/happiest-season/) - Lesbians have been given a gift — a film by us, starring us, and for us. Clea DuVall's Happiest Season feels so necessary at a time of intersecting crises. And, I cannot express the absolute joy I felt upon seeing Kristen Stewart play a lesbian in a lesbian movie — a lesbian Christmas movie! Seeing
- [A Note About Those Tweets](https://marciebianco.com/a-note-about-those-tweets/) - Hi Readers, I just wanted to send a quick note about some cherrypicked tweets that have been circulating across social media. After being attacked on Twitter by a certain businessman's "gang," I have experienced some trolling and blowback after members/bots affiliated with the gang cherrypicked tweets from early in the aughts. When cherrypicked and situated
- [How Oppression Works](https://marciebianco.com/how-oppression-works/) - If the goal is liberation, “Who is Oppressed?” is not a particularly productive question, as even the most powerful of people can display that they, too, harbor some form of oppression, usually legible in acts of petulance. Righteous indignation, despite their power. Blistering red in the face, they yell "Victim!" repeatedly, any time accountability is
- [Citation is a Feminist Act](https://marciebianco.com/citation-is-a-feminist-act/) - A few years ago, I read a popular academic feminist book in which the popular feminist author said she was going to do something radical and not quote any white men. Which meant she plagiarized them, instead. She not only plagiarized white men, but she also plagiarized a certain lesbian feminist who was a mentor
- [The Cost of Acceptance: Reflections](https://marciebianco.com/the-cost-of-acceptance-reflections/) - NBC Think asked me to write a short, 200-word reflection on my recent article on Ellen, George W. Bush, and the cost of acceptance. Below is the full version, which was condensed for the newsletter. Central to my analysis of Ellen Degeneres’ defense of her friendship with former US president George W. Bush is the
- [Writing Revision](https://marciebianco.com/writing-revision/) - If reading was the most noble act, for Ellen, then writing was the most dangerous. This is why at the ripe age of 14, she decided to exchange tickling the ivories with writing in her journal. This is why she became a literature scholar. Teaching put both reading and writing into practice. Through teaching, she
- [About That "Fire Tweet"](https://marciebianco.com/about-that-fire-tweet/) - I'm tickled to have had a "fire tweet" on Buzzfeed's AM/DM — a simple tweet calling out the sexist double standards of the presidential candidate coverage and public perception. The 52K+ people who have liked this tweet fully understand that the political arena — from media coverage to $$ — has not made the space
- [Colonoscopy](https://marciebianco.com/429-2/) - Colonoscopy I am the opposite of someone who is crippled by anxiety. When I am anxious about something, I race toward it, sometimes heedlessly, sometimes without proper caution. The drive is one of impatience; positively, this trait could be perceived as bravery, but, realistically, I'll admit to being impatient. Because I had two young,
- [“A Tale of Two Bettes: Or, Why Women Need to Tell Stories About Women”](https://marciebianco.com/a-tale-of-two-bettes-or-why-women-need-to-tell-stories-about-women/) - The below is an excerpt from my paper delivered at the Bette Davis Conference on Oct 5, 2018, at Northwestern University: “No one understood my dreams the way she did. She had been with me as I matured from a young girl to a young woman, and she had witnessed me imagine the future I
- [August 10](https://marciebianco.com/august10/) - It's my birthday! If you know me, you know that I love Bette Davis. Fittingly, I received this gift—an autographed photo of the queen: A friend of mine also sent along this amazing image of Bette Davis, chomping on some birthday cake with her bare hands: Thanks to all my friends who sent me
- ["Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood"](https://marciebianco.com/scotty-and-the-secret-history-of-hollywood/) - Last night, I saw Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, a new documentary by Matt Tyrnauer about Scott Bowers, Hollywood's ultimate serviceman. The documentary, inspired by Bowers's tell-all memoir, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Lives of the Stars, is promising in its subject matter but ultimately fails to deliver. Bowers's

## Pages

- [Home](https://marciebianco.com/) - SCOTUS Reaffirms Sex BinaryAnd Solidifies Women's Second-Sex Status My breakdown of the logically egregious SCOTUS's decision in "West Virginia v. BPJ" CLICK TO READ Threats to Our PrivacyHow to Secure Our Freedom of Privacy The long-form, English version of my Fett article, about how technofascism threatens our privacy. CLICK TO READ Object FetishThe Ideal Woman
- [Publications](https://marciebianco.com/publications/) - Recent Publications "Librarians & Students Fight Book Bans," WMC, March 2026. "Kamala Harris' Glass Cliff," WMC, October 2025. "Fairness is the New Respectability Politics," The Advocate, Sept. 2025 "Reclaiming the Revolutionary Spirit of Pride," Flere, August 2025 "The Necessity of 'Heightened Scrutiny,'" WMC, July 2025. "Andrew Sullivan's Hot Take is a Hot Mess," The Advocate,
- [Media](https://marciebianco.com/media/) - - "The Best Woman is a Thing," WMC Talks (June 2026) - "Feminism Rebooted: What Women Do Now," Girl, Wake Up! (April 2026) - "Equality Will Not Free Us," USC lecture (April 2025) -"Then, Now & Tomorrow," interview with Rajkumari Neogy (March 2025) -"Equality is a fallacy with Marcie Bianco," Shannon Watts' Substack (November 2024)
- [About](https://marciebianco.com/about/) - Marcie Bianco, PhD, is a writer, editor, lecturer, and cultural critic. She is the author of Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom, published by PublicAffairs in September 2023. Her feminist and cultural criticism has been published widely, from mainstream outlets like Vanity Fair and CNN to independent, feminist and
- [Contact](https://marciebianco.com/contact/) - My contact form is currently (ok, still) under construction, so the easiest way to contact me is on LinkedIn, or Instagram.
- ["Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom"](https://marciebianco.com/breaking-free/) - A "bold and compelling" debut Kirkus Equality is a lie fed to women to keep us complacent with the patriarchy, to keep us content with the breadcrumbs of "diversity and inclusion." Equality does nothing but expand the very systems feminists claim they want to "smash." It is time for a new ideal to guide us:

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