Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
@ikennedy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago; non-binary computational social scientist; pro-love; cries at the sad and happy parts of movies
Dark things are happening. But also, my partner and I are going to have a child and this morning we're preparing for a baby shower.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
October 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Dark things are happening. But also, my partner and I are going to have a child and this morning we're preparing for a baby shower.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
I'm downtown in beautiful downtown Chicago. All we need to be safe is to get ice and troops out of our city.
September 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm downtown in beautiful downtown Chicago. All we need to be safe is to get ice and troops out of our city.
It's great to be back in the classroom at UIC Sociology today! Excited to learn from a whole new group of students 🤓
August 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's great to be back in the classroom at UIC Sociology today! Excited to learn from a whole new group of students 🤓
Spent a few nights at this lake in the southern part of Glacier National Park as a break from the academic.
I'm back at work now and part of me wants to have stayed.
I'm back at work now and part of me wants to have stayed.
July 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Spent a few nights at this lake in the southern part of Glacier National Park as a break from the academic.
I'm back at work now and part of me wants to have stayed.
I'm back at work now and part of me wants to have stayed.
Throwback bike grocery trip: pausing on my way home in 2018. I got ortliebs in 2019 so now I can carry even more! #bikegroceries #bikecommute
July 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Throwback bike grocery trip: pausing on my way home in 2018. I got ortliebs in 2019 so now I can carry even more! #bikegroceries #bikecommute
I may be behind the curve here, but South Station in Boston really has a glow up! These arches are gorgeous!! #urbanism #publictransit #rail
July 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I may be behind the curve here, but South Station in Boston really has a glow up! These arches are gorgeous!! #urbanism #publictransit #rail
It's my first time on the LA metro and it's dope. #urbanism #publictransit
May 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It's my first time on the LA metro and it's dope. #urbanism #publictransit
I don't know who had Chicago dust storm on their great depression 2 bongo card, but here it is.
May 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I don't know who had Chicago dust storm on their great depression 2 bongo card, but here it is.
This is what the cutting edge of quantum computer research looks like at #UIC #computationalresearchsymposium2025
So excited to be here even if I don't understand all the quantum stuff yet! #learning #computationalsocialscience
So excited to be here even if I don't understand all the quantum stuff yet! #learning #computationalsocialscience
April 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is what the cutting edge of quantum computer research looks like at #UIC #computationalresearchsymposium2025
So excited to be here even if I don't understand all the quantum stuff yet! #learning #computationalsocialscience
So excited to be here even if I don't understand all the quantum stuff yet! #learning #computationalsocialscience
Took a bike ride to see some cherry blossoms 🌸🌸. Sometimes I need a break from #sociology, and I wish joy for all of you too~
April 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Took a bike ride to see some cherry blossoms 🌸🌸. Sometimes I need a break from #sociology, and I wish joy for all of you too~
"We're going to move into something different now that everything is broken. We don't want to go back to the way things were. So we have to start dreaming" -Katherine Franke
So let's start dreaming.
So let's start dreaming.
April 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We're going to move into something different now that everything is broken. We don't want to go back to the way things were. So we have to start dreaming" -Katherine Franke
So let's start dreaming.
So let's start dreaming.
I loved this new book by Shani Evans at Rice. It's an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of space and race within a detailed ethnographic account of change in a (formerly) Black neighborhood in Portland, OR. #socsky #academicsky @ricesocsci.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I loved this new book by Shani Evans at Rice. It's an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of space and race within a detailed ethnographic account of change in a (formerly) Black neighborhood in Portland, OR. #socsky #academicsky @ricesocsci.bsky.social
I'm really loving the D.C. metro. It's beautiful and fast and, so far for me, reliable. Oh! And it is quiet and smooth. I'm a born and raised New Yorker and happy Chicago transplant, but I gotta hand it to you D.C. #urbanism #publictransit #trains
April 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm really loving the D.C. metro. It's beautiful and fast and, so far for me, reliable. Oh! And it is quiet and smooth. I'm a born and raised New Yorker and happy Chicago transplant, but I gotta hand it to you D.C. #urbanism #publictransit #trains
I'm at this important session at #paa25 focused on the economic impacts of the criminal legal system. For more on this, come to the flash session "Demographic Consequences of Carceral Systems" tomorrow at 11 to see my teams' new work on how fines and fees may make neighborhoods poorer. #socsky
April 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Just being non-binary in front of the white house. They can't stop my existence. #transrights #paa2025 #socsky
April 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just being non-binary in front of the white house. They can't stop my existence. #transrights #paa2025 #socsky
April 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Bodily autonomy for all.
April 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Bodily autonomy for all.
There's a lot of talk today about how right wing pols/wonks/voters should have taken #macroecon cuz it tells you not to do tariffs. A reminder from #sociology: Those same pols and wonks think they know better than science in general?! Next is Trump at the beach telling the tide to pay a 20% fee.
April 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There's a lot of talk today about how right wing pols/wonks/voters should have taken #macroecon cuz it tells you not to do tariffs. A reminder from #sociology: Those same pols and wonks think they know better than science in general?! Next is Trump at the beach telling the tide to pay a 20% fee.
Got to see this cover of Robinson's Black Marxism at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social yesterday! One of Cauleen Smith's illustrations of her canon of contemporary Black thought. A book that shapes sociology decades later and forces us to see how capitalism and racism intertwine to serve domination.
March 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Got to see this cover of Robinson's Black Marxism at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social yesterday! One of Cauleen Smith's illustrations of her canon of contemporary Black thought. A book that shapes sociology decades later and forces us to see how capitalism and racism intertwine to serve domination.
Guess what? Fees from the criminal legal system are a form of state income extraction which targets poor places, per our @sociusjournal.bsky.social piece paper. I'll talk about new findings based on this data at #paa2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
March 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Guess what? Fees from the criminal legal system are a form of state income extraction which targets poor places, per our @sociusjournal.bsky.social piece paper. I'll talk about new findings based on this data at #paa2025 @popassocamerica.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Really excited to attend this book event at Diversey House brewery! Tonika Johnson and Maria Krysan's book _Don't Go_ tells stories of segregation in Chicago and points towards brighter futures.
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Really excited to attend this book event at Diversey House brewery! Tonika Johnson and Maria Krysan's book _Don't Go_ tells stories of segregation in Chicago and points towards brighter futures.
It was great to see over a thousand people show up in the snow in Chicago to fight for free expression and scholarship. #standupforsciece
March 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
It was great to see over a thousand people show up in the snow in Chicago to fight for free expression and scholarship. #standupforsciece