Katie R. Billings
@katierbillings.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Skidmore College studying med soc, mental health, and law & society. UMassAmherst and Dartmouth alum. #firstgen. Views my own. She/they.
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"Civil rights are usually understood to be about voting, education, and employment, not health care."
Kirkland asks, "What do civil rights look like when refracted through the lens of American healthcare, a massive and complex web of public and private relationships, laws, regulations...?"
Kirkland asks, "What do civil rights look like when refracted through the lens of American healthcare, a massive and complex web of public and private relationships, laws, regulations...?"
August 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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4 in 10 pregnant patients and 1 in 4 people use Medicaid. Shifting access among such a large population will have implications for the health of the entire population (and the HC institutions we rely upon). A major population health topic for demographers to prioritize. #ASA2025
August 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
4 in 10 pregnant patients and 1 in 4 people use Medicaid. Shifting access among such a large population will have implications for the health of the entire population (and the HC institutions we rely upon). A major population health topic for demographers to prioritize. #ASA2025
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Meet with publishers, companies, and organizations showcasing their products and services in the #ASA2025 Exhibit Hall, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Meet with publishers, companies, and organizations showcasing their products and services in the #ASA2025 Exhibit Hall, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Huge thanks to the @asasocpsych.bsky.social section for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! #ASA2025
August 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Huge thanks to the @asasocpsych.bsky.social section for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! #ASA2025
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Happy Sunday 🎉 Here is our session schedule for the day. Use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights!
August 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Happy Sunday 🎉 Here is our session schedule for the day. Use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights!
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My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access!
August 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access!
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This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.
With financial support in limbo, this UA cancer lab started crowdfunding
As federal funding changes hit universities, key research initiatives are scrambling to find cash. The Schroeder Lab at UA is one of them.
www.azcentral.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.
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Again NOTHING WAS BUNGLED. She’s speaking into existence what they want the law to be, this is the MO from the very beginning. This purposeful, deliberate distortion must be called out.
The NYTimes never ceases to play the fiddle for fascism.
The NYTimes never ceases to play the fiddle for fascism.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Again NOTHING WAS BUNGLED. She’s speaking into existence what they want the law to be, this is the MO from the very beginning. This purposeful, deliberate distortion must be called out.
The NYTimes never ceases to play the fiddle for fascism.
The NYTimes never ceases to play the fiddle for fascism.
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Washington state lawmakers just voted today for statewide rent control, and the bill heads now to the governor's desk. It's the third state to do so after California and Oregon in 2019
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...
Washington State Lawmakers Vote to Limit Rent Increases
Supporters say an annual cap of 10 percent, including inflation, will protect tenants. Critics worry it will reduce housing supply and discourage investors.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Washington state lawmakers just voted today for statewide rent control, and the bill heads now to the governor's desk. It's the third state to do so after California and Oregon in 2019
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...
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April 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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And we know that some of these interactions with law enforcement were things like domestic violence victims calling the police for help.
www.jezebel.com/trump-is-try...
www.jezebel.com/trump-is-try...
April 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
And we know that some of these interactions with law enforcement were things like domestic violence victims calling the police for help.
www.jezebel.com/trump-is-try...
www.jezebel.com/trump-is-try...
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This is a depraved collective punishment visited on the children of Maine because the president is a petulant narcissist who believes it's ok to hurt kids if the governor refuses to bow.
🚨 BREAKING: US Department of Education has started the process to TERMINATE all federal funding for Maine K-12 schools. This is in direct response to Maine Dept of Ed refusing to comply with Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Orders.
Full release here: www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Full release here: www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
April 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This is a depraved collective punishment visited on the children of Maine because the president is a petulant narcissist who believes it's ok to hurt kids if the governor refuses to bow.
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one interesting aspect about being a sociology professor is
you get used to saying "impolite" truths about how things work all the time, out loud, to virtual strangers (students, mostly)
when most adults' jobs involve intricate, collaboratively-developed ways of sustaining these polite fictions
you get used to saying "impolite" truths about how things work all the time, out loud, to virtual strangers (students, mostly)
when most adults' jobs involve intricate, collaboratively-developed ways of sustaining these polite fictions
April 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
one interesting aspect about being a sociology professor is
you get used to saying "impolite" truths about how things work all the time, out loud, to virtual strangers (students, mostly)
when most adults' jobs involve intricate, collaboratively-developed ways of sustaining these polite fictions
you get used to saying "impolite" truths about how things work all the time, out loud, to virtual strangers (students, mostly)
when most adults' jobs involve intricate, collaboratively-developed ways of sustaining these polite fictions
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my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI”
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI”
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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Science is political!
April 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Science is political!
I was honored to receive the Candace Rogers Award at ESS earlier this month for the best graduate student paper. ESS was my first conference in graduate school so I can’t describe how meaningful it is to receive this honor in my last semester as a graduate student. #ess25
March 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I was honored to receive the Candace Rogers Award at ESS earlier this month for the best graduate student paper. ESS was my first conference in graduate school so I can’t describe how meaningful it is to receive this honor in my last semester as a graduate student. #ess25
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Sometime very soon we’re going to have to have the conversation about how many so-called progressives also wanted “DEI” to die & what all that mainstream endorsement of the propaganda around what at their essence were integration efforts says about people who believe themselves to be the good guys.
March 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Sometime very soon we’re going to have to have the conversation about how many so-called progressives also wanted “DEI” to die & what all that mainstream endorsement of the propaganda around what at their essence were integration efforts says about people who believe themselves to be the good guys.
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Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot.
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
www.usatoday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot.
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools.
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov
Department of Education FormLock
enddei.ed.gov
February 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools.
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov