Dr. Sara B. Chadwick
@sarabchadwick.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Gender & Women’s Studies & Psychology | UW-Madison | Research on coercion, sexuality/orgasm, gender/LGBTQ, sexual health | (she/her) 🌈
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The Prioritization of Women’s Orgasms During Heterosex: A Critical Feminist Review of the Implications for Women’s Sexual Liberation
Orgasm is considered by many to be an essential part of women’s ideal sexual experiences. As a result, sexual liberation narratives have often advocated for the prioritization of women’s orgasms – ...
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Do narratives that prioritize women's orgasm during heterosex benefit or constrain women's sexuality? My new article in the Annual Review of Sex Research, covers research supporting...both! Thrilled to finally share this with the world! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A systematic review of the association between women’s morphological traits and fertility
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November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”
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👀 With this brief visual overview, take a look at the recently completed ANCHRR project that will continue to serve as a model for decolonizing research-- centering Indigenous leadership and shifting the narrative in youth suicide prevention from risk to resilience. 💓
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ANCHRR: A Visual History of the Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research on Resilience
Research efforts to address suicide have historically focused on prevention and treatment for individuals at high risk, addressing mental health and deficits that fail to address systemic problem and ...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
👀 With this brief visual overview, take a look at the recently completed ANCHRR project that will continue to serve as a model for decolonizing research-- centering Indigenous leadership and shifting the narrative in youth suicide prevention from risk to resilience. 💓
myumi.ch/y1PkW
myumi.ch/y1PkW
The Chadwick Lab survived the Haunted Forest at Schuster’s Farm!! We also survived eating donuts and drinking cider along the way… Not sure we’ll ever be able to top this lab social gathering, but we shall try!!
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The Chadwick Lab survived the Haunted Forest at Schuster’s Farm!! We also survived eating donuts and drinking cider along the way… Not sure we’ll ever be able to top this lab social gathering, but we shall try!!
Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
There is still time to submit an abstract to the SPSP Sexuality pre-conference! The deadline is October 23rd. Can’t wait to see you all there! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There is still time to submit an abstract to the SPSP Sexuality pre-conference! The deadline is October 23rd. Can’t wait to see you all there! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Very touched that my students submitted for me to get this UW-Madison Distinguished Honors Faculty Award!! Love to feel that teaching on gender & sexuality topics matters to & inspires our undergrads!
October 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Very touched that my students submitted for me to get this UW-Madison Distinguished Honors Faculty Award!! Love to feel that teaching on gender & sexuality topics matters to & inspires our undergrads!
It is time!!! The submission portal is open for the SPSP Sexuality Preconference, which will take place in Chicago on Feb 26, 2026! This year’s theme is “The State of Sex,” & submissions for presentations are open until October 23rd! We hope to see you there! www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2025/9/...
Announcing the 13th Annual SPSP Sexuality Pre-Conference! - Sex and Psychology
Join us for the 13th annual SPSP Sexuality Pre-Conference, which will take place in Chicago on Thursday, February 26, 2026.
www.sexandpsychology.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It is time!!! The submission portal is open for the SPSP Sexuality Preconference, which will take place in Chicago on Feb 26, 2026! This year’s theme is “The State of Sex,” & submissions for presentations are open until October 23rd! We hope to see you there! www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2025/9/...
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Pew earlier this month: "In 34 states and D.C., more people say abortion generally should be legal than say it generally should be illegal...Arkansas is the only state where the balance of public opinion is against abortion by a statistically significant margin."
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July 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Pew earlier this month: "In 34 states and D.C., more people say abortion generally should be legal than say it generally should be illegal...Arkansas is the only state where the balance of public opinion is against abortion by a statistically significant margin."
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to give one of this year’s plenary talks at the International Academy of Sex Research in Portland, Maine!! This community of scholars has always been so supportive of my work, and it was a joy to share it on the big stage!
June 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to give one of this year’s plenary talks at the International Academy of Sex Research in Portland, Maine!! This community of scholars has always been so supportive of my work, and it was a joy to share it on the big stage!
Woohoo! Our Feminist/Queer Science article was selected as an Editor's Choice paper(!), which is offered to those that "represent the best science that is exceptionally important, impactful, & deserves visibility for the whole field!" Read it here! psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...
APA PsycNet
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June 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Woohoo! Our Feminist/Queer Science article was selected as an Editor's Choice paper(!), which is offered to those that "represent the best science that is exceptionally important, impactful, & deserves visibility for the whole field!" Read it here! psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...
Reposted by Dr. Sara B. Chadwick
Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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"You may recall that we used to issue heartfelt, strategically worded statements affirming our unshakable commitment to DEI—usually right after a national tragedy...we are now fully prepared to replace those sentiments with constitutionally sanitized synonyms"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
Our University Is Replacing DEI with Vibes and Vaguely Diverse Stock Photos
“President Trump signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and un...
www.mcsweeneys.net
May 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"You may recall that we used to issue heartfelt, strategically worded statements affirming our unshakable commitment to DEI—usually right after a national tragedy...we are now fully prepared to replace those sentiments with constitutionally sanitized synonyms"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
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Any measure to “persuade” young women to get married and get pregnant that isn’t “because it makes them happy” is a measure to coerce, entrap, and control. It’s rape culture, and it’s dehumanizing as fuck.
April 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Any measure to “persuade” young women to get married and get pregnant that isn’t “because it makes them happy” is a measure to coerce, entrap, and control. It’s rape culture, and it’s dehumanizing as fuck.
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The Pope literally used one of his last moments on Earth to scold JD Vance for his unchristian policies towards migrants and refugees. This lapsed catholic appreciates that more than I can verbalize.
The people running our country are evil.
The people running our country are evil.
April 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Pope literally used one of his last moments on Earth to scold JD Vance for his unchristian policies towards migrants and refugees. This lapsed catholic appreciates that more than I can verbalize.
The people running our country are evil.
The people running our country are evil.
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Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)
One idea I have is not turning the country where the putative child would be raised into an authoritarian hellscape. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning (Gift Article)
The White House is soliciting policy proposals designed to give women incentives to have more children, a priority for many social conservatives.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)
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"the government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder for elected officials or others to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of solutions being deployed against them."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
www.propublica.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"the government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder for elected officials or others to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of solutions being deployed against them."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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'academia is a calling' i whisper to myself as I reply to the 34th email concerning a reimbursement of a $160 flight to Detroit
October 26, 2022 at 5:58 PM
'academia is a calling' i whisper to myself as I reply to the 34th email concerning a reimbursement of a $160 flight to Detroit
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There are notable gender differences in the way people view AI, but these gaps are more pronounced among experts we surveyed: 63% of men in this group say AI’s impact on the U.S. over the next two decades will be very or somewhat positive, compared with 36% of women.
April 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There are notable gender differences in the way people view AI, but these gaps are more pronounced among experts we surveyed: 63% of men in this group say AI’s impact on the U.S. over the next two decades will be very or somewhat positive, compared with 36% of women.
Buy an external hard-drive right now & back up your data. Back up your papers. BACK EVERYTHING UP. Password-protect it & keep it in a drawer at home. One click from any university & your login is suddenly invalid, your data is blocked/deleted, & your research ceases to exist.
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Buy an external hard-drive right now & back up your data. Back up your papers. BACK EVERYTHING UP. Password-protect it & keep it in a drawer at home. One click from any university & your login is suddenly invalid, your data is blocked/deleted, & your research ceases to exist.
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"We are the guardrails now" – the Raging Grannies (including my mom!) - at Hands Off protest in Madison
April 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"We are the guardrails now" – the Raging Grannies (including my mom!) - at Hands Off protest in Madison
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.
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The NIH have terminated hundreds of HIV-related research projects. The damage is irreparable. Soon, we will see delays in scientific progress and difficulties in training the next generation of scientists. Even worse, hundreds of thousands of people will die. youtu.be/q9icRYpLIbY?...
The Consequences of Federal Funding Cuts to HIV/AIDS Research
YouTube video by Boston University School of Public Health
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March 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The NIH have terminated hundreds of HIV-related research projects. The damage is irreparable. Soon, we will see delays in scientific progress and difficulties in training the next generation of scientists. Even worse, hundreds of thousands of people will die. youtu.be/q9icRYpLIbY?...
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These and so so many other grants terminated. So much knowledge blocked. Many jobs eliminated instantly. I’m angry and sad. Sending love and solidarity to colleagues and strangers across the country grappling with nonsense actions of this regime.
I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.
First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)
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First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
These and so so many other grants terminated. So much knowledge blocked. Many jobs eliminated instantly. I’m angry and sad. Sending love and solidarity to colleagues and strangers across the country grappling with nonsense actions of this regime.