TristanBridges.bsky.social
@tristanbridges.bsky.social
Sociologist @ UC Santa Barbara. Co-editor of Men and Masculinities (Sage journal) and Exploring Masculinities (Oxford UP). he/him
Also: @TristanBridges@mastodon.social
Also: @TristanBridges@mastodon.social
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Come join me @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social new BRES Program (hiring 2 senior profs) - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Come join me @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social new BRES Program (hiring 2 senior profs) - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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just got this in the mail yesterday, looking forward to reading it
Fatima Suàrez’s book is officially out with @nyupress.bsky.social. It is an amazing project and evidence of how amazing our intellectual community is at UCSB. Congrats Fatima!!!
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
just got this in the mail yesterday, looking forward to reading it
Fatima Suàrez’s book is officially out with @nyupress.bsky.social. It is an amazing project and evidence of how amazing our intellectual community is at UCSB. Congrats Fatima!!!
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fatima Suàrez’s book is officially out with @nyupress.bsky.social. It is an amazing project and evidence of how amazing our intellectual community is at UCSB. Congrats Fatima!!!
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
Available here: nyupress.org/978147982628...
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Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Gender: In A World Perspective
Gender: In A World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And...
www.politybooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Gender: In A World Perspective
Gender: In A World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And...
www.politybooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science
On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Friends, I couldn't retrieve my guidelines for writing a personal statement for applicants to PhDs, specifically in sociology (though I've been told this is also applicable to other social sciences) so I made a new doc. Hope it's helpful for folks applying!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School
Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School For PhDs in Social Sciences, and specifically sociology* Each question is about 1 paragraph response 3-4 sentences. This should be abo...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Friends, I couldn't retrieve my guidelines for writing a personal statement for applicants to PhDs, specifically in sociology (though I've been told this is also applicable to other social sciences) so I made a new doc. Hope it's helpful for folks applying!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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What does “lesbian” do — as identity, politics, analytic — in the 21st century? Signs’ fall issue, “Lesbian Studies, Now,” stages the debates shaping feminism’s past, present, and future. Read it here (sub. req’d): www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What does “lesbian” do — as identity, politics, analytic — in the 21st century? Signs’ fall issue, “Lesbian Studies, Now,” stages the debates shaping feminism’s past, present, and future. Read it here (sub. req’d): www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...
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This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
Amplify amplify amplify please.
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This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.
Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?
A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.
www.latimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.
The first of our colloquium series this year. Standing room only for @victorerikray.bsky.social!!!! An incredible talk by a scholar I have long admired. So wonderful to see him speak now of all moments.
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The first of our colloquium series this year. Standing room only for @victorerikray.bsky.social!!!! An incredible talk by a scholar I have long admired. So wonderful to see him speak now of all moments.
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Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Trans Lives
Trans Lives, In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups ...
www.politybooks.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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My new article with James Messerschmidt just came out in @femininities.bsky.social building on Raewyn Connell's theorization of "emphasized femininity."
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
September 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My new article with James Messerschmidt just came out in @femininities.bsky.social building on Raewyn Connell's theorization of "emphasized femininity."
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
My new article with James Messerschmidt just came out in @femininities.bsky.social building on Raewyn Connell's theorization of "emphasized femininity."
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
September 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My new article with James Messerschmidt just came out in @femininities.bsky.social building on Raewyn Connell's theorization of "emphasized femininity."
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.
brill.com/view/journal...
Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Trans Lives
Trans Lives, In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups ...
www.politybooks.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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New in Social Forces: @profsamperry.bsky.social new article Secularism, Sorting, and Americans’ Political Knowledge shows secular Americans score highest on civics & politics, especially liberals/Democrats. Evangelicals trend opposite with conservatism. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Secularism, sorting, and Americans’ political knowledge
Abstract. Political knowledge, including knowledge of basic civics and current political conditions, is associated with a host of pro-democratic outcomes i
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September 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New in Social Forces: @profsamperry.bsky.social new article Secularism, Sorting, and Americans’ Political Knowledge shows secular Americans score highest on civics & politics, especially liberals/Democrats. Evangelicals trend opposite with conservatism. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
I was so disappointed in Ezra Klein’s decision to platform hate in the aftermath of the Kirk shooting.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social captures just what I found so awful about his decision in much better words than I would have had.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social captures just what I found so awful about his decision in much better words than I would have had.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I was so disappointed in Ezra Klein’s decision to platform hate in the aftermath of the Kirk shooting.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social captures just what I found so awful about his decision in much better words than I would have had.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social captures just what I found so awful about his decision in much better words than I would have had.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Interesting and important new research project just published examining how different forms of privilege moderate reactions to feminine gender expression exhibited by men. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How privilege affects reactions to men’s femininity
This research aimed to explore social responses to men’s femininity, with particular attention paid to the impact of privilege as detailed in the framework of hybrid masculinities. Generally, men’s...
www.tandfonline.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Interesting and important new research project just published examining how different forms of privilege moderate reactions to feminine gender expression exhibited by men. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Raewyn Connell is indeed a lovely and creative scholar. Interesting to read her view of her career intersecting with the personal.
Really lovely tribute to Raewyn Connell, her work, and her enduring legacy in The Sydney Morning Herald.
(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)
www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)
www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal
Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.
www.smh.com.au
September 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Raewyn Connell is indeed a lovely and creative scholar. Interesting to read her view of her career intersecting with the personal.
Really lovely tribute to Raewyn Connell, her work, and her enduring legacy in The Sydney Morning Herald.
(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)
www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)
www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal
Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.
www.smh.com.au
September 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Really lovely tribute to Raewyn Connell, her work, and her enduring legacy in The Sydney Morning Herald.
(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)
www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)
www.smh.com.au/national/rae...
I unpacked Trump’s AI-generated meme of militarized masculinity to show how patriarchal authoritarian authority is crafted through digital spectacle: AI aesthetics coopted to remake masculinities and reinforce violent political fantasies.
Chipocalypse Now: Hard Bodies, Soft Lies, and the Multiple Masculinities of Trump’s AI Politics
On September 6, 2025, Donald Trump posted a meme developed by his social media team to Truth Social more ridiculous than his Superman post I wrote about previously. In the AI generated image, helic…
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I unpacked Trump’s AI-generated meme of militarized masculinity to show how patriarchal authoritarian authority is crafted through digital spectacle: AI aesthetics coopted to remake masculinities and reinforce violent political fantasies.
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.@tressiemcphd.bsky.social shared a reel about how discourses of "crisis" frame men's private troubles. It's connected to something I wrote with @sociananthony.bsky.social. So, I put together a short piece engaging with Tressie's smart take.
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/t...
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The Cultural Work of “Crisis Talk”
Last year, I coauthored a piece with Ian Anthony, “On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity: Victimization Discourse and Transformations in Racialized Forms of Gender Inequality” (HERE for a PDF on Soc…
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September 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
.@tressiemcphd.bsky.social shared a reel about how discourses of "crisis" frame men's private troubles. It's connected to something I wrote with @sociananthony.bsky.social. So, I put together a short piece engaging with Tressie's smart take.
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/t...
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/t...
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Trump's most recent meme again builds on mediated portrayals of masculinity - this time a truly hateful character from Apocalypse Now. I wrote a post about the patriarchal authoritarian gendered politics of this meme if you're interested. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
Chipocalypse Now: Hard Bodies, Soft Lies, and the Multiple Masculinities of Trump’s AI Politics
On September 6, 2025, Donald Trump posted a meme developed by his social media team to Truth Social more ridiculous than his Superman post I wrote about previously. In the AI generated image, helic…
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Trump's most recent meme again builds on mediated portrayals of masculinity - this time a truly hateful character from Apocalypse Now. I wrote a post about the patriarchal authoritarian gendered politics of this meme if you're interested. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...