Gayle Kaufman

@gaylekaufman.bsky.social

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Sociologist and Gender & Sexuality Studies scholar at Davidson College, They/Them, Photo by Katie Rainbow 🏳️‍🌈

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · 4d

⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:

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Trish Homan @pahoman.bsky.social · 11d

New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov

In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…

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Dominika Perdoch Sladka @dominikasladka.bsky.social · 11d

💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia.
🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional.

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Is Marriage Still Outdated? Changing Views on Marriage and Cohabitation in Five European Countries - Population Research and Policy Review

This study aimed to examine how views on marriage and cohabitation changed between 2004–2009 and 2020–2023 in Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, and Norway. Cross-sectional data from the first round ...

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Minwoo Jung @minwoojung.bsky.social · 13d

A new article out: “Flexible Masculinities: Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Global Asia.” I introduce the concept of “flexible masculinities” to understand how people navigate shifting gender norms across different cultural and geographic contexts.

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Flexible masculinities: Negotiating gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in global Asia - Minwoo Jung, 2025

How do individuals navigate various forms of hegemonic masculinity as they traverse different geographic and cultural boundaries? This article introduces the co...

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 14d

Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review

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#bipolar #Sociology

Bipolar time is a metaphor for the complexities of times as we variously experience them, and as it intersects with other times and demands. It provides a way to index the components of time, of illness, of accelerating contexts, which construct the experience of failure. Bipolar time describes the non-rhythmic space where failure is everywhere and nowhere, personal-affective, contextual and structural. It is not just a metaphor for personal struggle; we offer it as a critical tool to analyse how times move – and how (or whether) we move against/with time – in ways which reinforce inequalities. Bipolar time offers a mechanism to explore how failure is attached to certain bodies and why ‘reasonable adjustments’ or accommodations for disability do not preclude the painful affective experience of delivering work on time, slowly, or not at all

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 17d

Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Gender: In A World Perspective

Gender: In A World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And...

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 18d

🆕📝 Excited to share our new article out today in Socius: “Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers” (with @helenkowalewska.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social)!

Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them.

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Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers: Gender, Cognitive Labor, and the Limits of Time and Money - Ana Catalano Weeks, Helen Kowalewska, Leah Ruppanner, 2025

Globally, women perform the lion’s share of domestic labor. Research indicates that gender disparities in cognitive labor—the “thinking work” required to antici...

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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · 18d

We have a fantastic line-up of panel speakers - Christina Dragon, Fernanda Fortes de Lena, Onikepe Owolabi, and Kristopher Velasco - for our November FemQuant online event: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Sign up to join us on 5 Nov femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Seminar listing on pink background and in the top rigt corner two speech bubbles in matching pink on a background of grey swirls. Panel discussion: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Speakers: Onikepe Owolabi, Kristopher Velasco, Christina Dragon & Fernanda Fortes de Lena. Wednesday 5 November 2025 11:30am EST/ 4:30pm GMT/ 5:30pm CET

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 21d

Now that #NoKings 2.0 is behind us, here's a quick 🧵 into the data we collected in DC on Saturday to start thinking about what the day-of-action can tell us about this wave of Resistance to Trump2.0 and its policies. The day turned out millions across the US in over 2700 locations across the US:

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 27d

"Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential for the survival of the subordinate."

~Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought
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Black feminism grounds me. Black feminism teaches me.

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 28d

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 21

This spring @pewresearch.org asked people if they were happy with how democracy is working in their country.

In the US, just 37% were satisfied.

Countries with higher #s:
Sweden 75%
India 74%
Indonesia 66%
Australia 61%
Germany 61%
Canada 60%
Mexico 51%
UK 48%
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Across all 23 countries surveyed, a median of 58% of adults are dissatisfied with how their democracy is working, while 42% are satisfied.

Satisfaction with democracy varies widely in Europe, from 75% in Sweden to just 19% in Greece. There is a similarly broad range of views in the five Asia-Pacific nations polled (Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea).

In Israel, as well as the African and Latin American nations surveyed, assessments of how democracy is working tend to be more negative than positive. For example, 63% of adults in South Africa are dissatisfied with their democracy, while 36% are satisfied.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · Sep 19

It’s here: the absolute coolest thing I have done all year, and that is saying something!

“Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age” is an original podcast produced by Long Story Short Media featuring leading extremism expert Cynthia 1/

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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · Sep 11

After 3 years, 14 drafts, and 3 paper awards, I finally published this paper on the semiotics of (un)doing gender in my favorite journal—Sociological Theory! @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social
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Sociological Theory - Original Article
Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender
Yuchen Yang
Abstract
“Doing Gender” is often read as a theory of how people signify femininity/masculinity via expressive “performances.” This prevailing interpretation falls short of what the theory calls for—an ethnomethodologically informed analysis of gender’s emergent “naturalness.” To further this agenda, I theorize the audience’s “gender uptake” as a central component of doing gender by elaborating ethnomethodology’s attention to interpretive acts. Integrating Dorothy Smith’s intellectual legacy for feminist interpretive sociology, ethnomethodology’s neglected insight on categorization, and cultural sociology’s recent rediscovery of Peircean semiotics, I argue the facticity of gender’s “naturalness” remains underdetermined until the audience makes a series of ideological moves that cannot be predetermined by the performer. With case studies of how feminist parents account for their children’s gender-stereotypical interests, I illustrate how this audience-centered approach helps us unpack the interactional production/naturalization of categorical differences processually as open-ended negotiation of sign relations, where meaning emerges from selective attention.
Keywords
accounts, categorization, childhood, doing gender, ethnomethodology, pragmatist semiotics

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Rieke Schröder @riekeschroeder.bsky.social · Sep 8

New open access article out in Gender, Place & Culture: Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support.

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Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support

Since 2015, the ‘Berlin model for support of LGBTI refugees’ organises funding and support for those individuals coming to Berlin because they are fleeing persecution due to their sexuality and/or ...

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Sep 8

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

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JJ Wright, Ph.D. @drjjwright.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨New Publication✨Excited to share my paper in the International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies!
We ask: What if queer joy was the key to dismantling rape culture?
LGBTQ+ communities offer vital lessons for preventing violence + building joyful sexual cultures www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2PWGV...

Queer joy, centred sexuality, education: offering a novel framework for gender based violence prevention by JJ Wright, Jay Fallon, and Ella's Greenberg in the international Journal of LGBTQ plus youth. A new publication!

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OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social · Aug 28

OutHistory is beginning to compile a bibliography on the war on LGBTQ+ history, featuring government directives, media stories, and organizational responses. We welcome suggestions for additional items to include at outhistory@gmail.com.
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The War on LGBTQ+ History · LGBTQ+ People Have Been Here Before: The Power of Our History, by Marc Stein and the OutHistory Advisory Board · OutHistory

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · Aug 22

Reading bell hooks, 'Theory as Liberatory Practice," and came across this gem:

“Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as "natural," and so insist on posing to those practices the most embarrassingly general /1

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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · Aug 22

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations! 🎉

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · Aug 19

New publication alert. We used mixed methods and a socioecological framework to explore LGBTQ+ young people's coping strategies in conservative environments.

Something we really enjoyed was discussion of green space, being in nature, and companion animals.
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Communities of caring and coping: An exploration of resilience among LGBTQA2S + young adults in resource-deficit regions

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQA2S+) young adults (18-30 years) living in politically conservative regions (i.e., “red states”) face stigmas and stressors...

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Fei Huang @fei-huang.bsky.social · Aug 18

New article out! I look at how stay-at-home fathers understand, experience and express emotions - and how these emotions evolve in caregiving and intimate relationships - to show how gendered power is sustained and what it takes to disrupt it.
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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · Aug 16

Congratulations! 🎉 I'm looking forwarding to discussing this award-winning article in my class this semester 🤓

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · Aug 15

Okay, here is a finished draft of the syllabus for my Fall graduate seminar on social theory. Reading list is at the bottom.

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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hi friends! I'm super happy that we have an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. Job ad just posted (link below). Please share widely.

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Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies

The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) at Davidson College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting July 1, 2026. This position is open to candidates from all...

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load

📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

The political consequences of the mental load

Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic

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Michelle Ho @michellehsho.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢Hybrid launch for #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️co-sponsored by Rutgers University Women's #Gender and #Sexuality Studies and CLAGS @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social🌈special thanks to Martin Manalansan and @mattbrim.bsky.social!

📅Sept 17 (Wed)
⏰4-5:10pm ET
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · Aug 14

10.9% couples include at least one sexually diverse partner—twice+ rate seen when only one partner’s identity is counted. Most bi & multi-identity individuals have het partners; g/l & straight adults often partner within their identity. #SOGIData
@chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social

Half of the Picture: A Research Note on Measuring the Sexual Identity Composition of Couples | Demography | Duke University Press

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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · Aug 11

Is it me or does the whole month of August feel like Sunday? #AcademicLife

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