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Julia Mead

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Academic Writing

“The 1970s Energy Crises and the Threat to Czechoslovak Consumer Socialism,” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 60 no. 2 (April 2025)

“The Kingdom of Antique Televisions: Reparability, Masculinity, and the Afterlives of Socialist Electronics,” Connexe: Exploring Post-Communist Spaces vol. 9 (2023)

“What Has Socialism Ever Done for Women? Reflections on Women’s Emancipation in the Eastern Bloc,” with Kristen Ghodsee, Catalyst vol. 2 no. 1 (Summer 2018)

“Debating Gender in State Socialist Women’s Magazines: The Cases of Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia,” with Kristen Ghodsee, History of Communism in Europe vol. 8 (2017)


Writing for a General Audience

The Nation

Demand for IUDs Has Skyrocketed Under Trump

Planned Parenthood Asked These Pro-Choice Activists Not to Rally Outside Its Clinic. Here’s Why They Did Anyway.

Why Millennials Aren’t Afraid of Socialism

The September Issues

From Me Too to #MeToo

No Gods, No Masters: Planned Parenthood's Century of Resistance

New York Magazine

NYC’s Best Beaches: Jones Beach, Rockaway Beach, Coney Island, and More

26 People Who've Been Blocked by Trump on Twitter

The New Yorkers Worrying about Puerto Rico, from Afar

Contributed research and reporting

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

Is Trump Inc. the President’s Greatest Vulnerability? by Andrew Rice