Everyone always talks ABOUT trans kids, but they never talk TO trans kids I interviewed Trans Kids Deserve Better. These kids are so brave. Check it out! youtu.be/lQ-C4WqBf30

Here is my first installment of the Anti-Trans Tipping Point, a series where I seek to work through wtf has happened with the trans rights movement in the US and what comes next. I've got plenty more lined up, so stay tuned open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...

Deadline next week! Applications for the Annual Meeting Travel Fund Award and the Student Forum Travel Award must be received by Monday, April 28! Applicants should not register for the meeting until funding decisions have been made.  https://bit.ly/3EhNCbN

🏳️‍⚧️ "Let's lift up the joy and euphoria in our lives - we deserve that." https://www.wearequeeraf.com/less-famous-transphobes-more-trans-joy-please/

Start your week off right & make sure you check out our latest Themed Issue on "LGBTQ+ Politics in Contentious Times" 📖 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 It's packed with work by stars 🌟 like @honoratabogusz.bsky.social @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social @alavizzari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social among others!

Tomorrow! Workshop for anyone wanting tips on navigating the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago!

1 week away! Join us for the SFAB Spring Workshop: Making the Most out of the ASA Annual Meeting 📅 Thursday, April 10 🕖 7–8 PM ET (4 PT / 5 MT / 6 CT) 💻 Register: tinyurl.com/SFAB-Webinar

What defines the transgender population? We recently had a paper come out in SSM in which we explore this in Danish population data. We find that certain groups of transgender individuals, but not all, are disadvantaged in education, labour market outcomes, and health. Keen to hear your thoughts!

A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed. You can do that here: bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers. Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback. 🔗 Read it here: 🧵 (1/4)

This is intolerable. Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission. #academicsky #edusky

“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”

The constant illegality is exhausting. And the extended nature of all this is going wear people down, as what was initially shocking becomes par for the course.

everyone in your life talking about narcissists these days too? my co-author and i wrote a little article about it, out now! academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Anyone affiliated with a University in any way should start preparing for the National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17th, 2025. Go to the website for more info — They are doing lots of Zoom organizing calls beforehand too.

Right now, if I were to apply to renew my passport it would come back with an F. I am happy to be out as trans, but traveling with an F would mean being outed every time I need my passport. Please go register your opposition to this BS policy - (thanks @aclu.org) action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...

Podcast! Former ASA President Joya Misra (UMass-Amherst) discusses her presidential address, “Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy," delivered at the ASA 2024 Annual Meeting in Montreal & published in the Feb 2025 American Sociological Review

Requiring that people use incorrect gender markers on their passports is dangerous! The ACLU has set up a portal to help members of the public comment on these changes to U.S. passport policy. Please go register your opposition if you can. action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...

🚨Texas has introduced a bill that would make it felony fraud to say that your gender is anything except your gender assigned at birth. This an extreme bill, which most likely won’t pass, but signals the intensity is continuing to increase against transgender people in the US.

🎊 Welcome, @sociottergy.bsky.social! 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛

More simply put, this means gender-affirming care providers nationwide will continue to receive federal funding, pending further litigation. It's great news.

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #palestine #gaza

“People are doing things.” Have you dropped in yet on the 24-hour livestream of Black leaders giving the “State of the People”? This is an extraordinary gathering of leaders, activists and journalists. Will go on until midnight tonight. Get on it! stateofthepeople.media

I am immensely grateful & excited to share that I will begin my PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan this fall! I will also be joining @um-psc.bsky.social as a predoctoral trainee! 💙〽️ I am so honored to continue my work on nonbinary gender identities in such an amazing department.

1. The far right is falsely spreading that a new study shows that surgery "doubles depression" for transgender people. This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery. Subscribe to support my journalism. Lets dig in.

The 2025 Trans+ history workbook has taken 80+ hours of research by a team of researchers 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/queeraf-and-trans-history-week-launch-2025-workbook-to-champion-hidden-trans-stories/

18-year-old Jude on laws banning gender-affirming care: "On the more extreme end, for a lot of kids it's the possibility of severe mental-health struggles and suicidal ideation - but I also think on a smaller scale, kids, because they cannot be themselves, would rather choose to not be anyone."

Hey demographers! Instructions here about how to register for PAA advocacy day on Capitol Hill. It's super easy and conveniently coordinated with our annual meeting. ✊

📣New Pub! How are art, artmaking practices, & event-based nightlife scenes related? More than just an art form, I argue that queer nightlife is a cultural field. Available online in the @socquarterly.bsky.social for a special issue on queer nightlife. #sociology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The point of sudden mass layoffs isn't just to shrink the federal budget. It's to create a climate of fear that makes workers across the economy too scared to speak out.

A horrifying, but unfortunately not surprising, development from Texas. It was never about the kids.

Texas Rep. Brent Money (R–Greenville) introduces HB 3399. It would amend SB 14 (which outlawed hormones and puberty blockers for minors) to apply to all adults as well, barring public money from being used for any gender affirming care. Text link: capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...

It was so great to talk with @chadibenedetto.bsky.social for this @mashableofficial.bsky.social article about trans tech as a form of resistance. "This moment for trans technology is so important. It's so vital to have these alternative technologies, because we can't rely on mainstream platforms."

✨Honoured to contribute to this timely volume edited by @krheyam.bsky.social & Jon Ward! I reflect on my experiences researching zhongxing (the middle gender) in Sinophone Asia, exploring how geopolitics shaped gender/sex knowledge. Now available for pre-order🛒 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

Absolutely buzzing for this collection to be in the world soon! It's both all the things Jon & I needed to say about doing decolonial work on gender nonconformity right now, & a snapshot of some of the people who are doing that work most brilliantly. I'm so excited & so honoured to have all of them.

The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

For more on what quantitative scholars can learn from (and about) qualitative research, I'd recommend checking out Qualitative Literacy (coauthored with @marioluissmall.bsky.social). www.ucpress.edu/books/qualit...

Gallup [Feb 20] -- Pretty striking graphic from Gallup poll. LGBTQ+ population up 100% just since the Obama years. shorturl.at/EaMbd [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

I wonder how long these signs are actually going to survive at the University.

It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.

These restrooms were formerly designated as gender neutral. Further, RA's are being told to report any student they suspect of being trans, non-binary, intersex, or gender non-conforming so that the University can reassign and force the student to move to a different dorm in a different building.

ErinReed [Feb 20] -- Despite ferocious govt assault the US is queerer than ever. Gallup finds nearly 1-in-ten adults are LGBTQ+ (9.3%), nearly double 2020. Trans is up 50% to 1.3% in just 2 yrs from 0.9% in 2023. And among Gen Z, nearly 1-in-4 (23%) are LGBTQ+! [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

Calling all sociology students! ASA SFAB is accepting submissions for the 2025 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago! Deadline: February 26, 2025 More info & submission details: asanet.org/2025-annual-... #Sociology #ASASFAB #ASA

I have a new book out! Approaches to Mixed Methods Research (coauthored with @lisapearce.bsky.social ) is the newest contribution to the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (little green books) series! tinyurl.com/4xpbbbt8.

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

🏳️‍⚧️ "Many gender identities are inherently linked to culture. Before colonisation, māhū were thriving and celebrated. Their history shows the endurance of genderdiverse communities because, despite colonisation, māhū identity endures to this day." www.wearequeeraf.com/weve-always-...

#MorningReads Results show that SB 14 and SB 17 were believed to be the most structurally oppressive bills, and interviewees reported a general fear of the impact that these bills would have in their local community. #transcalls #lawsmatter #lgbtresearch

1. NEW: Not Just Stonewall: LGBTQ+ history webpages, mental health hotlines, and resources for the victims of CSAM and hate crimes are among the thousands of censored webpages identified by a custom tool I developed. I hope to document all .gov LGBTQ+ erasure. www.madycast.com/p/not-just-s...