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

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

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Rieke Schröder @riekeschroeder.bsky.social · 6d
New article in the Journal of Homosexuality, foregrounding
queer refugees’ desires and pleasures and moving beyond the predominant focus on credibility, suffering, and borders.

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From Borders to Bodies: “Circlusion” and Desires Beyond Credibility in Queer Asylum
Borders and boundaries have long served as powerful metaphors in migration and queer studies, yet they risk reproducing heteronormative paradigms that equate (border) penetration with power, and mo...
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 21d
These tactics – which mirror the anti-trans politics of the Trump administration – is about changing something within trans people rather than changing the signage on toilets and changing rooms.

Read here (open access): doi.org/10.1080/0958...

#data #trans #gender #queer #research #LGBTQ #UK
Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK
In the UK, the design and management of sex and gender categories in data – including census questions, police and health records, and digital ID – has become a key focus of trans-exclusionary acti...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 25d
As protests continue across the US, it's worth re-reading this important paper by Olzak that analyzes the effects of protests against police violence. Although ICE works under the federal government this model from the paper is very useful:
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AJPH @amjpublichealth.bsky.social · 26d
Our February 2026 issue is now online!

It features a special section on LGBTQ+ health and well-being with select articles covering sex-positive disease prevention messaging, mental health of gender-diverse adolescents, and adoption in the LGBTQ+ community.

🔗: buff.ly/cEoL1EE
AJPH February issue cover includes an image of local cheer groups perform during the Gay Pride Parade on June 29, 2025, in San Francisco, California

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27d
I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.

It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 28d
Last week I had a new article published, comparing trans adolescent and family experiences in different UK healthcare services. 1/4

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“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · Jan 7
New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few.

Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Gayle Kaufman @gaylekaufman.bsky.social · Jan 6
Did you publish a sociological book about families in 2024 or 2025? You should nominate it for the ASA Goode Book Award! I'm on the committee and looking forward to reading nominated books 🤓

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Liana Sayer @lsayer.bsky.social · Jan 6
Family books published in 2024 and 2025 sought for the ASA Family Section William J. Goode Book Award. www.asanet.org/communities-...
Section Award Nomination Calls | American Sociological Association
Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest.  Following are the most recent calls for nominations
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · Dec 30
LGBTQ+ college students often adjust how openly they express sexual orientation and gender identity across contexts. #thesocialconstructionofidentification
Changes in LGBTQ+ college students’ sexual orientation and gender identity expression over academic breaks
Sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) expression are key elements of LGBTQ+ young adults’ identities. The ability to safely and authentically express SOGI is crucial to LGBTQ+ individuals’ ...
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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · Dec 18
Check out my latest article in Contexts: From Wonder Woman to Fifty Shades

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From Wonder Woman to Fifty Shades - Alicia M. Walker, Arielle Kuperberg, 2025
Mainstream media often plants seeds of curiosity. Challenging common notions about kink, BDSM practitioners share their media-fueled awakenings in their own wor...
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@Angela Jones @drjonessoc.bsky.social · Dec 16
Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives is now available for pre-order. #sex #sexuality #book #books #newbook #pleasure #freedom #erotic #eroticism #feminism #liberation #desire #relationships #identity #community

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/angel...
Sex in Public
A prize-winning sociologist’s radical vision of the social power of erotic life Whether we are contending with shame, healing from trauma, or experimenting...
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Laura Lindberg @lauralindberg.bsky.social · Dec 9
Just published w/ my @guttmacher.org colleagues: People are deeply confused about EC: how it works, when pregnancy starts, and whether EC is “an abortion.” That fog isn’t accidental; it fuels stigma and restrictions. Knowledge matters for autonomy + access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“You’re not necessarily pregnant”: Confusion about emergency contraception
Misconceptions about what emergency contraception does are common and have resulted in policy efforts to restrict access. Understanding the beliefs an…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Florian Schulz @flociologist.bsky.social · Dec 9
📣 Finally published: „A Research Note on the Cohabitation Gradient in Parents’ Childcare Time in Germany“, together with @soerentum.bsky.social, doi.org/10.32797/jtu... #sociology #demography

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · Dec 5
My Finland-Friday post this week is just more of the chapter that came out this week. I’m really proud of it and people have said nice things.

We’re having a ‘queer friendship’ coffee break next week to celebrate in the office 💚

Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social · Dec 5
What do you know about anti-gender movements? How do they communicate? Are they Catholic?

This, and much more, in my newest publication:

www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...
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Jenny Chanfreau @jenchanfreau.bsky.social · Dec 1
Our new paper: Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births? led by Laura Sochas is out now OA in @sfjournal.bsky.social
Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births?
Abstract. Large local government spending cuts in England, spanning over a decade of austerity policies, have severely restricted the universal services an
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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · Nov 6
⚡️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 · Oct 30
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 · Oct 30
💍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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@soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social
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 · Oct 28
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 · Oct 27
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 · Oct 24
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...
www.politybooks.com

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Oct 23
🆕📝 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...
doi.org

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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · Oct 23
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 · Oct 20
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 · Oct 14
"Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential for the survival of the subordinate."

~Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought
🌸🌸

Black feminism grounds me. Black feminism teaches me.

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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · Oct 13
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%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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.