Daniel Cueto-Villalobos
@dacuetovilla.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 phd candidate & teacher at UMN sociology | race, religion, culture, and institutional reckoning | loves trains, planes, a well-paved running path & mexican food | californian in the upper midwest
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Hello! I'm coming up from the dissertation bunker to say that if you will be at SSSR I'll be putting together some fun Bluesky content with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social for the @asareligion.bsky.social account. COME TELL US WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON. We'd love to amplify some voices.
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hello! I'm coming up from the dissertation bunker to say that if you will be at SSSR I'll be putting together some fun Bluesky content with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social for the @asareligion.bsky.social account. COME TELL US WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON. We'd love to amplify some voices.
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Today a street vendor I’ve seen every day for two years was abducted from our neighborhood by masked thugs too cowardly to identify themselves. Her crime? Selling Tamales. What are you doing to stand up to the Gestapo?
October 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Today a street vendor I’ve seen every day for two years was abducted from our neighborhood by masked thugs too cowardly to identify themselves. Her crime? Selling Tamales. What are you doing to stand up to the Gestapo?
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Please spread the word! 📢
My PhD student Kajal Patel is recruiting interviewees for her dissertation research on the children of Gujarati immigrant families.
If you grew up helping in your family’s business, please share your stories with Kajal: 📧 klucpatel@gmail.com
My PhD student Kajal Patel is recruiting interviewees for her dissertation research on the children of Gujarati immigrant families.
If you grew up helping in your family’s business, please share your stories with Kajal: 📧 klucpatel@gmail.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Please spread the word! 📢
My PhD student Kajal Patel is recruiting interviewees for her dissertation research on the children of Gujarati immigrant families.
If you grew up helping in your family’s business, please share your stories with Kajal: 📧 klucpatel@gmail.com
My PhD student Kajal Patel is recruiting interviewees for her dissertation research on the children of Gujarati immigrant families.
If you grew up helping in your family’s business, please share your stories with Kajal: 📧 klucpatel@gmail.com
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The full issue is finally out, thanks to the incomparable Enid Logan. Here is her great introduction!
The 2024 U.S. presidential election & the politics of race: responding to a moment of crisis with analysis, insight & action
This themed issue is on the 2024 election and the politics of race. And it is also necessarily about the racial dynamics unfolding under the Trump administration at present. The questions addressed...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The full issue is finally out, thanks to the incomparable Enid Logan. Here is her great introduction!
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Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org
White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice
Organizing White People for Racial Justice
bookshop.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org
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Our special issue on "Religion, Activism, & Community Action" is here!
Articles on religious leaders supporting immigrants, clergy paying for abortions, multifaith organizing, the Catholic Worker, queer religious activism, pro-Palestinian rabbis, a new TV series on religion & more! therevealer.org
Articles on religious leaders supporting immigrants, clergy paying for abortions, multifaith organizing, the Catholic Worker, queer religious activism, pro-Palestinian rabbis, a new TV series on religion & more! therevealer.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Our special issue on "Religion, Activism, & Community Action" is here!
Articles on religious leaders supporting immigrants, clergy paying for abortions, multifaith organizing, the Catholic Worker, queer religious activism, pro-Palestinian rabbis, a new TV series on religion & more! therevealer.org
Articles on religious leaders supporting immigrants, clergy paying for abortions, multifaith organizing, the Catholic Worker, queer religious activism, pro-Palestinian rabbis, a new TV series on religion & more! therevealer.org
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“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️
Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
I talked to him yesterday.
He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
October 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️
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This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
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Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.
New publication! 🚨 How do church leaders foster commitment + preserve organizational vitality in the face of crisis?
"There Wasn't A Playbook For This: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020," out today in Sociology of Religion, offers insight from MN academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...
"There Wasn't A Playbook For This: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020," out today in Sociology of Religion, offers insight from MN academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...
“There Wasn’t A Playbook For This”: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020
Abstract. Using 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, this paper highlights how religious congregations made se
academic.oup.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New publication! 🚨 How do church leaders foster commitment + preserve organizational vitality in the face of crisis?
"There Wasn't A Playbook For This: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020," out today in Sociology of Religion, offers insight from MN academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...
"There Wasn't A Playbook For This: Local Congregations and the Crises of 2020," out today in Sociology of Religion, offers insight from MN academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...
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Willow Creek became a new model of American religion, which replaced stained glass, hymns and robed clergy with pastors in jeans backed by bands, video screens and smoke machines.
religionnews.com/2025/10/08/w...
religionnews.com/2025/10/08/w...
What happens when the church of the future gets old?
(RNS) — In the mid-1970s, a group of high schoolers and their former youth pastor started a church in a movie theater and named it Willow Creek. American religion hasn’t been the same since. The…
religionnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Willow Creek became a new model of American religion, which replaced stained glass, hymns and robed clergy with pastors in jeans backed by bands, video screens and smoke machines.
religionnews.com/2025/10/08/w...
religionnews.com/2025/10/08/w...
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New in Social Problems: @michellesphelps.bsky.social & @dacuetovilla.bsky.social trace how Minneapolis activists debated public safety after George Floyd, showing how “racial demands” shape policy fights. doi.org/10.1093/socp...
Making racial demands: tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis
Abstract. In May 2020, the world erupted in protest after officers with the Minneapolis Police Department murdered George Floyd. In response, abolitionist
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September 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New in Social Problems: @michellesphelps.bsky.social & @dacuetovilla.bsky.social trace how Minneapolis activists debated public safety after George Floyd, showing how “racial demands” shape policy fights. doi.org/10.1093/socp...
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Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
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So grateful for the powerful way @adambonica.bsky.social is using his voice right now.
You should read his latest piece.
You should read his latest piece.
September 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
So grateful for the powerful way @adambonica.bsky.social is using his voice right now.
You should read his latest piece.
You should read his latest piece.
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What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
"We analyze 27 years of NIH extramural awards & their review scores to identify the bottom 40% of grants that would have been eliminated from 1980 to 2007... We then identify new molecular entity drugs, approved in the 21st century, that are linked to these grants"
"We analyze 27 years of NIH extramural awards & their review scores to identify the bottom 40% of grants that would have been eliminated from 1980 to 2007... We then identify new molecular entity drugs, approved in the 21st century, that are linked to these grants"
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
"We analyze 27 years of NIH extramural awards & their review scores to identify the bottom 40% of grants that would have been eliminated from 1980 to 2007... We then identify new molecular entity drugs, approved in the 21st century, that are linked to these grants"
"We analyze 27 years of NIH extramural awards & their review scores to identify the bottom 40% of grants that would have been eliminated from 1980 to 2007... We then identify new molecular entity drugs, approved in the 21st century, that are linked to these grants"
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Posting today @ 10:30am Eastern
Let’s talk about that Peter Thiel article in the WSJ…
Let’s talk about that Peter Thiel article in the WSJ…
AI and the End of the World
Peter Thiel's Exegesis, Techno-Eschatology, and the Recasting of the Apocalypse
gerardomarti.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Posting today @ 10:30am Eastern
Let’s talk about that Peter Thiel article in the WSJ…
Let’s talk about that Peter Thiel article in the WSJ…
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My argument: not everybody on the right is personally religious, but the right inspires religious thinking in its people.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.
September 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My argument: not everybody on the right is personally religious, but the right inspires religious thinking in its people.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.
In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.
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My latest op-ed, "The Market’s Judgment on OnlyFans Has Nothing to Do With Money," was just published in @barronsonline. I argue that the stigmatization of porn and other "sin stocks" has led investors to undervalue economically profitable assets. www.barrons.com/articles/onl...
The Market’s Judgment on OnlyFans Has Nothing to Do With Money
Any other company with these eye-popping revenue numbers would spark a bidding war, Hannah Wohl writes in a guest commentary.
www.barrons.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My latest op-ed, "The Market’s Judgment on OnlyFans Has Nothing to Do With Money," was just published in @barronsonline. I argue that the stigmatization of porn and other "sin stocks" has led investors to undervalue economically profitable assets. www.barrons.com/articles/onl...
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🚨 We’re HIRING! 🚨
The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026).
Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university!
📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669
The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026).
Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university!
📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669
September 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🚨 We’re HIRING! 🚨
The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026).
Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university!
📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669
The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026).
Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university!
📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669
new pub alert! 🚨
New paper out with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social today at
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social -- in it we build a model for understanding how competing movement orgs make racial demands, using the debates in Minneapolis over public safety in 2021.
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social -- in it we build a model for understanding how competing movement orgs make racial demands, using the debates in Minneapolis over public safety in 2021.
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
new pub alert! 🚨
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This is a great example of the need for us to collectively develop critical water media analysis:
a) Why was this segment produced
b) why now
c) who came up with the idea
d) who is the “bad guy” in this take
e) who does that make the “good guy” (extra points if the answer is same as c)
a) Why was this segment produced
b) why now
c) who came up with the idea
d) who is the “bad guy” in this take
e) who does that make the “good guy” (extra points if the answer is same as c)
A cheeseburger uses a lot more water than a ChatGPT request 🍔
Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water, explains @markgongloff.bsky.social 🎥
Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water, explains @markgongloff.bsky.social 🎥
June 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This is a great example of the need for us to collectively develop critical water media analysis:
a) Why was this segment produced
b) why now
c) who came up with the idea
d) who is the “bad guy” in this take
e) who does that make the “good guy” (extra points if the answer is same as c)
a) Why was this segment produced
b) why now
c) who came up with the idea
d) who is the “bad guy” in this take
e) who does that make the “good guy” (extra points if the answer is same as c)
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Reconstructing Critical Social Theory
University of California, Santa Cruz
April 23-24, 2026
SUBMISSION:
Please submit all papers and panels to: criticalsociologyworkshop@gmail.com
DEADLINE: Oct 15, 2025
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Reconstructing Critical Social Theory
University of California, Santa Cruz
April 23-24, 2026
SUBMISSION:
Please submit all papers and panels to: criticalsociologyworkshop@gmail.com
DEADLINE: Oct 15, 2025
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July 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Reconstructing Critical Social Theory
University of California, Santa Cruz
April 23-24, 2026
SUBMISSION:
Please submit all papers and panels to: criticalsociologyworkshop@gmail.com
DEADLINE: Oct 15, 2025
1/
Reconstructing Critical Social Theory
University of California, Santa Cruz
April 23-24, 2026
SUBMISSION:
Please submit all papers and panels to: criticalsociologyworkshop@gmail.com
DEADLINE: Oct 15, 2025
1/
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Today is the official publication day of *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*! Much gratitude to family, friends, students, and colleagues who engaged the project, and to librarians and foundations for support in the research process.
April 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Today is the official publication day of *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*! Much gratitude to family, friends, students, and colleagues who engaged the project, and to librarians and foundations for support in the research process.
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Just published with @jacquifrost.bsky.social and Mahala Miller
Check this out if you're interested in religion and well-being too.
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Expanding Understandings of Nonreligious Wellbeing - Frost/Edgell/Miller, Sociology of Health & Illness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Expanding Understandings of Nonreligious Wellbeing - Frost/Edgell/Miller, Sociology of Health & Illness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Expanding Understandings of Nonreligious Wellbeing
Religious commitment has long been associated with health and happiness in the United States. However, despite a period of drastic decline in religious affiliation among Americans, much less is known...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Just published with @jacquifrost.bsky.social and Mahala Miller