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Kathleen Broussard
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Sociologist | sexual and reproductive health, fertility, medicine, and policy | proud Texan 🤠
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You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean???

Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)
September 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm on a quest to find great (and I suppose, not so great) examples of interviews to share with my students for a class on interviewing methods. Please share your favorites! #sociology #interviewing
August 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Just discovered this amazing resource for teaching about redlining and racial inequality in the US. Planning to show my students redlining maps and language from their own city in SC this year. dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
Mapping Inequality
Redlining in New Deal America
dsl.richmond.edu
August 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
TWO AP positions in Women's and Gender Studies at UofSC! Expertise in global social movements; Latina/o, Asian American, and/or Indigenous activism in the US; or girlhood studies. Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/192...
Assistant Professor
uscjobs.sc.edu
August 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Important new @prbdata.bsky.social report on access to birth control across the U.S. Wide variation, unfortunately, showing that where you live matters for contraceptive options. stateofaccess.prb.org
Home - State of Access : A Contraceptive Policy Scorecard
stateofaccess.prb.org
July 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Tehran is 380 square miles. It has a population of 10 million people.

If you cannot imagine that then imagine evacuating New York population just 8.5 million. Imagine the logistics, the roads— pregnant women? Children? Elderly?

This is just an announcement of a mass execution of innocents.
June 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
WAT
Whoa!!! This blew up! All credit goes to this TikTok post that crossed my feed:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjDQvPCc/

Please transfer all the fake internet points to them.
Ronald Grump redevelops Sesame Street 1994
TikTok video by Steven B
www.tiktok.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.
March 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.
February 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...
Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says
Louisiana's Bill Cassidy said the state's maternal death rate isn't so high if you "correct our population for race," Politico reported.
www.businessinsider.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just called my elected officials in South Carolina.
This is an amazing website that offers a list of current issues and provides some basic suggestions for what to say when you call your elected representatives.

5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
February 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Has anybody conducted an interview study of how academics are thinking about/grappling with AI? I feel like there is so much there to unpack.
January 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Me when I find out all my friends get their recipes from the NYT cooking section
Today's student paper quote: "Societal forces have been shaping my individual behavior for the past 18 years and I had no idea."
December 12, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Calling all poetic sociologists and sociological poets! What are your favorite poems about knowledge, science, gender, and/or sexuality? I'll start the list with one of my new favorites, read by Padraig O Tuama: "A word on statistics" #sociology #poetry onbeing.org/poetry/a-wor...
A Word on Statistics | The On Being Project
Out of every hundred people those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: nearly all the rest. Ready to help, as long as it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they ca...
onbeing.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.
November 24, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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Finally it’s today!

The WIC conference on delayed reproduction: challenges and prospects
is taking place in Vienna and is also online.

Jacky Boivin , Anna Rotkirch and Lucy van de Wiel will be our keynote speakers.

Great forthcoming two days!
Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects
www.oeaw.ac.at
November 21, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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The Meaning and Measurement of Unrealized Fertility @kbroussard.bsky.social proposes a conceptual framework that accounts for biological, social, and
psychological factors that contribute to unrealized fertility
November 21, 2024 at 2:10 PM
conferencing in Vienna 🤩
November 20, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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October 18, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Dr. Tomlin-featured in a video here-provided compassionate care for me when I had a miscarriage a couple of years ago. Local police harassed her after she provided abortion to a 13 year-old rape victim. She (understandably) decided to leave the state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Abortion Stories in Post-Roe America
In text messages, videos, voice memos and pictures, we hear from the people at the frontlines of abortion access about how their worlds have changed.
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Anthropologists are so cool. Anais Martin made a comic book about the experiences of gamete donors who were contacted by their offspring (check out more of her work @chairprocreation on IG) crcppa.uqo.ca/en/our-proje...
Contact Project : The experience of gamete donors contacted by their donor offspring | Chaire de recherche du Canada
The Contact project aims to examine situations in which a gamete donor is directly contacted by a donor offspring, whom they did not previously know. The study will help better understand the conseque...
crcppa.uqo.ca
October 17, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Love spotting the incredible work of colleagues in the Harper’s Index!
@ansirh.bsky.social
September 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM