Sadie Dempsey
@sadiemdempsey.bsky.social
Sociology PhD Candidate at UW-Madison studying social movements, civic life, political inequality, and democracy.
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Will you be at #ESS next week in Boston? Looking for a brilliant group of people to think about US politics with? If so, please join us for the People-ing Politics Mini-conference!
@daniellaurison.bsky.social @blackcapitol.bsky.social @kadiaz428.bsky.social
@daniellaurison.bsky.social @blackcapitol.bsky.social @kadiaz428.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Will you be at #ESS next week in Boston? Looking for a brilliant group of people to think about US politics with? If so, please join us for the People-ing Politics Mini-conference!
@daniellaurison.bsky.social @blackcapitol.bsky.social @kadiaz428.bsky.social
@daniellaurison.bsky.social @blackcapitol.bsky.social @kadiaz428.bsky.social
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This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...
www.science.org/content/blog...
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Wisconsin's nonpartisan election season officially begins today! Here are three things I'll be watching for as local candidates manage this new moment in partisan politics: bennywitkovsky.com/2025/01/06/t...
Three Questions For Wisconsin’s 2025 Nonpartisan Elections
Today, the deadline for candidates to file nomination papers, marks the official start of Wisconsin’s nonpartisan election season. The Supreme Court race at the top of the ticket has already …
bennywitkovsky.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wisconsin's nonpartisan election season officially begins today! Here are three things I'll be watching for as local candidates manage this new moment in partisan politics: bennywitkovsky.com/2025/01/06/t...
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As we reflect on January 6th, re-upping this piece my coauthors (led by @sadiemdempsey.bsky.social) and I published last year on the role of local political parties in building the StopTheSteal movement, an infrastructure that remains almost entirely intact: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As we reflect on January 6th, re-upping this piece my coauthors (led by @sadiemdempsey.bsky.social) and I published last year on the role of local political parties in building the StopTheSteal movement, an infrastructure that remains almost entirely intact: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
My new workplace is throwing a little party to celebrate my work 🥹
I feel so lucky to be a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow with my local League of Women Voters. Community-engaged scholarship and the deep relationships that come from it really nourish my soul.
I feel so lucky to be a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow with my local League of Women Voters. Community-engaged scholarship and the deep relationships that come from it really nourish my soul.
December 1, 2023 at 3:38 PM
My new workplace is throwing a little party to celebrate my work 🥹
I feel so lucky to be a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow with my local League of Women Voters. Community-engaged scholarship and the deep relationships that come from it really nourish my soul.
I feel so lucky to be a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow with my local League of Women Voters. Community-engaged scholarship and the deep relationships that come from it really nourish my soul.
Member checks can be one of the most nerve-racking parts of doing qualitative research for me. But feedback like this (from a high schooler featured in my latest paper) is one of the most rewarding parts of doing this work.
(Shared with permission, of course.)
(Shared with permission, of course.)
November 9, 2023 at 12:25 AM
Member checks can be one of the most nerve-racking parts of doing qualitative research for me. But feedback like this (from a high schooler featured in my latest paper) is one of the most rewarding parts of doing this work.
(Shared with permission, of course.)
(Shared with permission, of course.)
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NEWS: Morehouse College—an HBCU in Georgia—took every dime of debt they had in collections and transferred it to us.
Today, we're announced that we've canceled all of it.
Now, nearly 3,000 people—mostly Black men—can access transcripts and move on with their lives.
www.reckon.news/news/2023/10...
Today, we're announced that we've canceled all of it.
Now, nearly 3,000 people—mostly Black men—can access transcripts and move on with their lives.
www.reckon.news/news/2023/10...
Morehouse students get $10M of student debt wiped out, thanks to the Debt Collective
Today, the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtor’s union, canceled close to $10 million in student debt for Morehouse College students, a private men’s HBCU in Atlanta.
www.reckon.news
October 23, 2023 at 8:58 PM
NEWS: Morehouse College—an HBCU in Georgia—took every dime of debt they had in collections and transferred it to us.
Today, we're announced that we've canceled all of it.
Now, nearly 3,000 people—mostly Black men—can access transcripts and move on with their lives.
www.reckon.news/news/2023/10...
Today, we're announced that we've canceled all of it.
Now, nearly 3,000 people—mostly Black men—can access transcripts and move on with their lives.
www.reckon.news/news/2023/10...