Joe Strong
@joestrong.bsky.social
Demographer, abortion nerd, research sexual and reproductive health and masculinities.
He/him 🏳️🌈
He/him 🏳️🌈
Thrilled to be at #ICFP in #Bogota to chat all things #SRHR #Gender #Abortion #Politics hit me up!
I'll be presenting on (1) the politics of data in male engagement, (2) how data tools construct gendered realities, and (3) how surveys can be more feminist in understanding effects. Come find me!
I'll be presenting on (1) the politics of data in male engagement, (2) how data tools construct gendered realities, and (3) how surveys can be more feminist in understanding effects. Come find me!
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
In Conversation: Feminist Joys, Magic Pills, and Decolonial Praxis in Latin America. Tickets - London - OutSavvy
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era when reactionary politics thrive on resentment? How do feminist movements across Latin America navigate these tensions while fighting for reprod...
www.outsavvy.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
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Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇
☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇
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"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue"
Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn
Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’
www.independent.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue"
Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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On #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, and as attacks escalate and mis/dis-information spreads, a reminder: this starter pack can help get you started in finding some excellent Bluesky accounts sharing data & information on sexual and reproductive health.
go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj
go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj
September 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
On #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, and as attacks escalate and mis/dis-information spreads, a reminder: this starter pack can help get you started in finding some excellent Bluesky accounts sharing data & information on sexual and reproductive health.
go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj
go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj
Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
Let’s stop asking why women aren’t having children and ask, for once: why aren’t men? | Rhiannon Lucy Coslett
On the whole, men I’ve spoken to – like women – want children. But a host of issues, from housing to mental health, is getting in the way, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
I'm going to be spending a lot more time in sunny(?) #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and would love to meet folks here for coffee. If you or someone you know is based here let me know and I would love to connect!
Especially any folks working in #SRHR #GlobalHealth or #Demography!
Especially any folks working in #SRHR #GlobalHealth or #Demography!
September 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I'm going to be spending a lot more time in sunny(?) #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and would love to meet folks here for coffee. If you or someone you know is based here let me know and I would love to connect!
Especially any folks working in #SRHR #GlobalHealth or #Demography!
Especially any folks working in #SRHR #GlobalHealth or #Demography!
Fantastic!! 😊
Sick of It has been nominated for the British Academy Book Prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am such a fan of this prize, that I've alternated between
a weird merry dance and 🙀 since I found out.
Congratulations to all of the authors on the shortlist
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-acad...
I am such a fan of this prize, that I've alternated between
a weird merry dance and 🙀 since I found out.
Congratulations to all of the authors on the shortlist
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-acad...
September 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Fantastic!! 😊
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Latest @femquant.bsky.social newsletter is out - packed with events listings, opportunities, calls for papers & calls for participants
September 2025
Events FemQuant—September Seminar: Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes: Uncovering Gender Biases in Quantitative Research on Older Adults September 18th, 2025 at 10:00 ET/15:00 GMT/16:00 CT: signup form here. Description: This presentation delineates gender-specific biases inherent…
Events FemQuant—September Seminar: Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes: Uncovering Gender Biases in Quantitative Research on Older Adults September 18th, 2025 at 10:00 ET/15:00 GMT/16:00 CT: signup form here. Description: This presentation delineates gender-specific biases inherent…
September 2025
Events FemQuant—September Seminar: Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes: Uncovering Gender Biases in Quantitative Research on Older Adults September 18th, 2025 at 10:00 ET/15:00 GMT/16:00 CT: signup form here. Description: This presentation delineates gender-specific biases inherent in research on inequalities among older adults with regard to two components of quantitative analyses: the sample definition and the methodological approach. First, I argue that prevalent sample definitions for the elderly, the self-reported retirement status and pension receipt, are conceptualized around the notion of idealized male-typical biographies, and that using such sample criteria leads to country-specific gender biases.
femquant.wordpress.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Latest @femquant.bsky.social newsletter is out - packed with events listings, opportunities, calls for papers & calls for participants
Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
September 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
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📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
September 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
One of my fave posters by one of my fave scientists!
At #BSPS2025 @bspsuk.bsky.social talking about how demography as a field has engaged with intersectionality as a critical framework.
📷 The fantastic @joestrong.bsky.social
📷 The fantastic @joestrong.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
One of my fave posters by one of my fave scientists!
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Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration.
Closing date 02 Oct 2025.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Closing date 02 Oct 2025.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration.
Closing date 02 Oct 2025.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Closing date 02 Oct 2025.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Abortion 'zines with my favourite abortion person, @rishie.bsky.social!
Check out the beautiful, moving, funny, creative 'zines from our @abortionbookclub.bsky.social workshops in the thread below. We're so in love with them, we think you will be too!
#Abortion #Zine
Check out the beautiful, moving, funny, creative 'zines from our @abortionbookclub.bsky.social workshops in the thread below. We're so in love with them, we think you will be too!
#Abortion #Zine
as part of @abortionbookclub.bsky.social, @joestrong.bsky.social & i have been running short creative workshops to produce 'zines/creative outputs to the broad prompt 'what's in an abortion, anyway?'.
check out some of the wonderful outputs 👇
www.otherabortionstories.space/abortion-zin... 1/
check out some of the wonderful outputs 👇
www.otherabortionstories.space/abortion-zin... 1/
Abortion 'Zines Project — abortion & other stories;
www.otherabortionstories.space
June 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Abortion 'zines with my favourite abortion person, @rishie.bsky.social!
Check out the beautiful, moving, funny, creative 'zines from our @abortionbookclub.bsky.social workshops in the thread below. We're so in love with them, we think you will be too!
#Abortion #Zine
Check out the beautiful, moving, funny, creative 'zines from our @abortionbookclub.bsky.social workshops in the thread below. We're so in love with them, we think you will be too!
#Abortion #Zine
Come to read a little bit about my new project on gender and the politics of sexual and reproductive health data, stay for all the other amazing work being funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
The Trust's 2024 Annual Review is now available online. The fantastic spread of projects featured provides a glimpse into the research we support across the disciplines.
Read now: leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review
Read now: leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review
June 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Come to read a little bit about my new project on gender and the politics of sexual and reproductive health data, stay for all the other amazing work being funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
Thank you @soc-misc.bsky.social for having me! It was a privilege to be in a space of incredible scholars to talk about #miscarriage measurement - an unbelievably untroubled space in our field given its importance for so many people!
The SOC-MISC project is hosting a workshop on miscarriage measurement in surveys and administrative data today. We are looking forward to discussing with our invited speakers Beth Sully, Joe Strong and Selin Köksal.
Follow this thread for updates throughout the day 👇
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Follow this thread for updates throughout the day 👇
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May 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Thank you @soc-misc.bsky.social for having me! It was a privilege to be in a space of incredible scholars to talk about #miscarriage measurement - an unbelievably untroubled space in our field given its importance for so many people!
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Tomorrow !! 👇
FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social
Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography
Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!
tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography
Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!
tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
May 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Tomorrow !! 👇
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Only three days left to submit @bspsuk.bsky.social paper in the Demography of health in conflict and crisis session! come along to the friendliest conference of the year www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... @thegargiulian.bsky.social
Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
www.lse.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Only three days left to submit @bspsuk.bsky.social paper in the Demography of health in conflict and crisis session! come along to the friendliest conference of the year www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... @thegargiulian.bsky.social
FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social
Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography
Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!
tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography
Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!
tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
May 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social
Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography
Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!
tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography
Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!
tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
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4 more days to go! Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to the Fertility and SRH strand at #BSPS2025 (@bspsuk.bsky.social). @joestrong.bsky.social and I will be reading them with care 🧡
📢 Spread the word! The call for papers for #BSPS2025 is now open.
I’m co-organising the Fertility and Sexual & Reproductive Health strand with @joestrong.bsky.social and we can't wait to read your fascinating work.
📝 Submit your abstracts by May 9, 5 PM (BST).
I’m co-organising the Fertility and Sexual & Reproductive Health strand with @joestrong.bsky.social and we can't wait to read your fascinating work.
📝 Submit your abstracts by May 9, 5 PM (BST).
Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
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May 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
4 more days to go! Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to the Fertility and SRH strand at #BSPS2025 (@bspsuk.bsky.social). @joestrong.bsky.social and I will be reading them with care 🧡
A fab article and perfect timing as I am about to talk all things #abortion #stigma with medical students in Malta
Make sure to sign up to the @supportabort.bsky.social newsletter for all the latest abortion happenings in Europe (and around the world): www.supportingabortions.eu
Make sure to sign up to the @supportabort.bsky.social newsletter for all the latest abortion happenings in Europe (and around the world): www.supportingabortions.eu
March 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A fab article and perfect timing as I am about to talk all things #abortion #stigma with medical students in Malta
Make sure to sign up to the @supportabort.bsky.social newsletter for all the latest abortion happenings in Europe (and around the world): www.supportingabortions.eu
Make sure to sign up to the @supportabort.bsky.social newsletter for all the latest abortion happenings in Europe (and around the world): www.supportingabortions.eu
Fabulous to see this work coming together - always inspired by the amazing @mireilleleguen.bsky.social
Thanks to @tizianaleone.bsky.social and @ericbschneider.bsky.social for their warm welcome to the LSE where I discussed how demographers collect and analyze men’s contraceptive use.
February 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Fabulous to see this work coming together - always inspired by the amazing @mireilleleguen.bsky.social
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📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK).
Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!
Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!
January 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK).
Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!
Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!