Kayla Pritchard, PhD
@kpritchard.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology: gender | sexuality | history of sex | remarriage/blended families | motherhood. Lover of hiking and LEGOS.
This is horrifying.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is horrifying.
This week, a student who I've had before, gave me this - the baculumm (penis bone) and testicles of a weasel. I asked her how she got them. She found a dead weasel, dissected it, and dried the reproductive organs for me. It's one of the most thoughtful gifts ever. (I have a collection of baccula.)
August 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This week, a student who I've had before, gave me this - the baculumm (penis bone) and testicles of a weasel. I asked her how she got them. She found a dead weasel, dissected it, and dried the reproductive organs for me. It's one of the most thoughtful gifts ever. (I have a collection of baccula.)
Class start Monday which means this is the last weekend of summer. So I am going to shut out all the thoughts of the work to come next week and ignore the looming obligations!
August 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Class start Monday which means this is the last weekend of summer. So I am going to shut out all the thoughts of the work to come next week and ignore the looming obligations!
Wait, it doesn't?!
August 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Wait, it doesn't?!
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The GOP cutting essential services means a spike in crime and more public support to fund law enforcement.
July 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The GOP cutting essential services means a spike in crime and more public support to fund law enforcement.
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The idea that War on Porn will only have positive outcomes! That it will only target "bad" stuff, that it doesn't require broad digital surveillance, or suppression of sexuality, or that it won't be turned against marginalized people.
The same absolute hubris of these people.
The same absolute hubris of these people.
The strange bedfellows driving — and winning — the war on porn
Feminists, religious crusaders and “alpha male” influencers have turned the tide in the decades-old battle over adult content.
www.nbcnews.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The idea that War on Porn will only have positive outcomes! That it will only target "bad" stuff, that it doesn't require broad digital surveillance, or suppression of sexuality, or that it won't be turned against marginalized people.
The same absolute hubris of these people.
The same absolute hubris of these people.
In reflecting on the weekend at my parent's house going through my late grandma's things, I realized that my family's legacy is photos (very nice) and textiles (nice, but with anxiety). Why *can't* I keep every knit/crocheted/embroidered/quilted thing 100+ years of my farm women ancestors made?
May 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In reflecting on the weekend at my parent's house going through my late grandma's things, I realized that my family's legacy is photos (very nice) and textiles (nice, but with anxiety). Why *can't* I keep every knit/crocheted/embroidered/quilted thing 100+ years of my farm women ancestors made?
I think about this scene at least once a week.
May 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I think about this scene at least once a week.
These are the kinds of historical facts that I really love. Battles and dates and "great men"? Nah. Give me 'boring' stuff like how Victorian women just bled into their underclothes.
Sometimes I think of those guys who think about the Roman Empire every day and I hope they’re thinking what I’m thinking: how they all pooped communally and used the same stick with a sponge on it to wipe their butts.
They did stick the sponge in a bucket in between.
They did stick the sponge in a bucket in between.
May 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
These are the kinds of historical facts that I really love. Battles and dates and "great men"? Nah. Give me 'boring' stuff like how Victorian women just bled into their underclothes.
Absolutely abhorrent.
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Absolutely abhorrent.
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Honestly, I thought by now I’d be used to being anxious
February 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Honestly, I thought by now I’d be used to being anxious
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Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
February 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
A good ol' sociological analysis! I stress this idea to students (and anyone else who will listen) all the time - we've made up *everything.* By definition, it only stays the same because our actions make it so.
@petersagal.bsky.social Want to give a guest lecture in my class? 😉
@petersagal.bsky.social Want to give a guest lecture in my class? 😉
"We talk about America’s system of government as if it is a solid thing, bound by the Constitution and institutions the way a belt cinches around a waist. But much of it is just a pile of norms in a trench coat: Knock down the norms, and everything changes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
Opinion | The New Rules of the Trump Era (Gift Article)
Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss the oligarchic power dynamics of the second Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A good ol' sociological analysis! I stress this idea to students (and anyone else who will listen) all the time - we've made up *everything.* By definition, it only stays the same because our actions make it so.
@petersagal.bsky.social Want to give a guest lecture in my class? 😉
@petersagal.bsky.social Want to give a guest lecture in my class? 😉
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Lather, rinse, repeat
January 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Lather, rinse, repeat
I wish I had this advice in grad school. My advisors would have supported me, too! As a professor, I've embraced my weirdness and filled my office with oddities: a crocheted uterus, a bowl of novelty condoms from different countries, antique speculums, antique ads for Kotex products....
i keep telling students they should use grad school to get weirder, to go out as far on their intellectual limbs as they can & trust that their professors will pull them back if they go too far, & they keep sighing + telling me they can't take those risks and it breaks my heart in half every time
January 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I wish I had this advice in grad school. My advisors would have supported me, too! As a professor, I've embraced my weirdness and filled my office with oddities: a crocheted uterus, a bowl of novelty condoms from different countries, antique speculums, antique ads for Kotex products....
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"bypassing traditional milestones" is a funny way of saying that most of us can't afford to buy a house with multiple jobs, won't have children because we can't afford them, most of our degrees are useless, and we are the poorest generation among all current living generations
January 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
"bypassing traditional milestones" is a funny way of saying that most of us can't afford to buy a house with multiple jobs, won't have children because we can't afford them, most of our degrees are useless, and we are the poorest generation among all current living generations
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All she needs now is for her healthcare to be denied for surgery and it will be a great illustration of the American experience.
An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foot, told a @nolanews.bsky.social reporter that the Amazon warehouse where she works denied her request for a leave of absence.
Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to
www.nola.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
All she needs now is for her healthcare to be denied for surgery and it will be a great illustration of the American experience.
I know I should be working on my syllabi. My brain knows this but my soul? My soul wants, nay demands, I lounge.
January 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I know I should be working on my syllabi. My brain knows this but my soul? My soul wants, nay demands, I lounge.
I went to the gym today for the first time in YEARS. It was amazing and hard and now everything hurts (in a good way). I hate having to acknowledge that it is good for my mind *and* body.
December 28, 2024 at 12:05 AM
I went to the gym today for the first time in YEARS. It was amazing and hard and now everything hurts (in a good way). I hate having to acknowledge that it is good for my mind *and* body.
Merry Christmas to this foofy gremlin, her first. She enjoyed a new bone and squeaky toys along with the food she stole from the counter
December 26, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Merry Christmas to this foofy gremlin, her first. She enjoyed a new bone and squeaky toys along with the food she stole from the counter
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you have to watch this - just perfect for a last-minute christmas gift
Bologna Folder Presentation on QVC
YouTube video by QVC Originals
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December 21, 2024 at 5:19 AM
you have to watch this - just perfect for a last-minute christmas gift
I came back here to get off the other one but have been healed by this thread on lego grammar.
Also - people get big feelings about LEGO v lego z Lego.
Also - people get big feelings about LEGO v lego z Lego.
"Legos" is as correct a plural as "Lego". The bricks are not actually Lego. Lego is the brand. The bricks are Lego brand toy building bricks. If you use "Lego" as a noun to refer to the individual toys, you are off-brand, colloquial, and vernacular. "The official page says..." It says you're wrong.
What's your hottest take that you feel shouldn't be controversial?
personally, mine is that peanut butter and hot sauce belong on the same sandwich.
personally, mine is that peanut butter and hot sauce belong on the same sandwich.
November 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
I came back here to get off the other one but have been healed by this thread on lego grammar.
Also - people get big feelings about LEGO v lego z Lego.
Also - people get big feelings about LEGO v lego z Lego.