Cosy fascism: A critical approach to tradwives and AI-generated nostalgia

This two-page handout describes a work-in-progress paper that introduces the term cosy fascism to describe a feminised and digitally mediated fascist aesthetics that is promoted and generated by machine learning systems such as recommendation algorithms in social media and generative AI.

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2026-11-03
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https://doi.org/10.33767/osf.io/jmah2
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Gender, Feminism, and Media
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Cosy fascism: A critical approach to tradwives and AI-generated nostalgia

Zahra Rizvi, Jill Walker Rettberg, Elise Strand Hagen
Gender, Feminism, and Media
preprint

Cosy fascism: A critical approach to tradwives and AI-generated nostalgia

Zahra Rizvi, Jill Walker Rettberg, Elise Strand Hagen
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Abstract

This two-page handout describes a work-in-progress paper that introduces the term cosy fascism to describe a feminised and digitally mediated fascist aesthetics that is promoted and generated by machine learning systems such as recommendation algorithms in social media and generative AI.

Gender, Feminism, and Media
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Cosy fascism: A critical approach to tradwives and AI-generated nostalgia — Zahra Rizvi, Jill Walker Rettberg, et al. · (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS