June Updates

• I am speaking tomorrow (Saturday, June 15) to Palouse Democratic Socialists of America at the Washington State University campus and on zoom: 1pm in CUB room 406 at WSU or on Zoom: https://dsausa.zoom.us/j/86454345816
  Facebook event here for more details: Addressing Far-right Mobilization and Resurgence | Facebook. I’m sorry for the short notice—if there’s a shareable recording, will share.
• Recent podcast interview on my book, this time with left books podcast Bibliocracy: Joan Braune on Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements — Bibliocracy Radio
• In May I helped organize and spoke at a Nakba Day vigil/protest sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Spokane and Muslims for Community Action and Support (MCAS). Coverage here, from Spokane Faith and Values (FAVs): Nakba Day Vigil: Honoring the Palestinian Experience – FāVS News (favs.news)

Work on the new co-edited volume against Christian nationalism is proceeding nicely, and we’ve already received most of the contributors’ chapters. I got to meet my co-editor David Gides in person for the first time at the Westar Institute conference in Utah, where I got to meet some cool people, including Rev. Liz Theoharris from the Poor People’s Campaign (!). My talk at Westar, based on my chapter in the book on Christian nationalism, looked at the spectrum of sincerity (from faking it to fanatical embrace) involved in uptake of Catholicism by some fascists in the U.S. 

The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (coedited by Vaughn, Braune, Tinsley, Mondon) is out now through Manchester University Press. I received my own beautiful complimentary copy in the mail last week and am so proud of what we’ve accomplished. We’d love to get some book reviews published—let me know if you need a review copy to publish a book review. The book contains advice for researchers as well as critical and reflexive interventions into the field.