The latest issue of @contexts.org is out! We've got hot sociological takes on everything from poverty and blood quantum to guns, plants, and underwater hotels! Find it all (paywall-free!) at contexts.org/articles/su2...

New publication by Amin Ghaziani (@aminghaziani.bsky.social) in (@socquarterly.bsky.social). “The Sociology of Queer Nightlife.” The Sociological Quarterly 66(4): 661-674. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6.... The article provides a sociological perspective on queer nightlife.

Was pleased to accept an invitation from the Editors of @contexts.org (@sethabrutyn.bsky.social @aminghaziani.bsky.social) to contribute to a special section on the Canada-USA relationship along with @dbtindall.bsky.social & @pallavib.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

🚨New Issue Out Now!! Open Access!! Navigate all the fresh #sociology with our clickable table of contents (contexts.org/articles/su2...), listen to the issue's companion playlist (open.spotify.com/playlist/5PB...), and read the "digest" (mailchi.mp/ea0c38553548...) to learn more!

"The Little Engine that Maybe Could" 🚂 Co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social interviews former editors Syed Ali and @philipncohen.com (univofmaryland.bsky.social) about overcoming challenges to deliver meaningful sociology to the public. Paywall-free! ➡️ contexts.org/articles/su2...

Delighted to be part of this special issue. My thanks to @aminghaziani.bsky.social for all his work in making it happen, and his considered and insightful editorial comments and advice. Not only is queer nightlife “having a moment”, it is “an intellectual movement that is impossible to ignore”.

The latest issue of TSQ is now live! Check out this very special issue on queer nightlife, edited by Amin Ghaziani (@aminghaziani.bsky.social), at www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6...

My special issue of The Sociological Quarterly on queer nightlife is out! A real passion project, attempting to articulate what unique contributions sociologists can make to a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation. It’s all open access for 6 months. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6... #sociology

Tomorrow, I'll be speaking at SESC in São Paulo for their "Queer Cartographies" project, which itself is part of their Actions for Citizenship lecture series. Will be great to connect with this intellectual community as we discuss queer nightlife. www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/... #sociology

Queer in Vancouver. Gay in Texas. LGBTQ+ identity labels aren’t fixed: they shift across geography, family, and community. Recent sociological research from Andy Holmes & @aminghaziani.bsky.social in @sociusjournal.bsky.social explores why. Check it out here: 🔗 bit.ly/46IZcIq 🔗

Congrats to my grad student @alyypatel.bsky.social on her article "Re-theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet" in Canadian Review of Sociology. How can the closet be a source of violence, esp. for multiply marginalized groups? Find out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #sociology

New in Sex&Sexualities by @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social ! "Color Outside the Lines" offers methodological tools - ethnography attuned to ephemerality and a palimpsestic approach - to study queer nightlife and changing social worlds. doi.org/10.1177/3033... #QueerMethods

UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

New in Sex & Sexualities: “Color Outside the Lines” by @amin.ghaziani and @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social This article offers methodological tools - ethnography attuned to ephemerality and a palimpsestic approach - to study queer nightlife and changing social worlds. doi.org/10.1177/3033... #QueerMethods

I'm filled with gratitude to see @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social and the local community in Santa Barbara both celebrate my book as a Lammy finalist for Best Book in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction. I could not have imagined a more generous and gracious welcome. Thank you! #sociology @princetonupress.bsky.social

The program for the 37th annual Van @queerfilmfestival.ca is live and tickets are on sale. VQFF 2025 features 100 films from 25 countries playing in-person from Sept 11-25. As our Indigiqueer artistic director says, "Stories are medicine." See you there! outonscreen.com/vqff/program...

Can you believe there are even more @contexts.org editors ready to talk to prospective authors? And while @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, @lettapage.bsky.social, and @aminghaziani.bsky.social are the “exiting team”, our incoming editor David Grazian is also at #ASA2025 and eager to meet you! #sociology

🚨New Blog from @cantonwiner.bsky.social: Does everyone *have* a #gender? "The concept of gender detachment resists the assumption that everyone does (and should) have a gender identity—an assumption I call compulsory gender." #sociology #ASA2025 #ASA25 contexts.org/blog/does-ev...

"From words on the page to bodies in the streets, let's pull together to protect the dolls," implore @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social in their latest letter from the editors. Read more and explore the full no-paywall issue at contexts.org/articles/eds...

"The War on Woke--and What It Means" 4 #sociology essays underscoring what we lose by abandoning #DEI efforts across business, healthcare, and academia. ↪️Intro @aminghaziani.bsky.social @sethabrutyn.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Calgary never formally delineated an urban gay district in the same way Vancouver or Toronto did. But did one exist unofficially? And where’s the #gaybourhood today? Read my interview with The Scene: thescenecalgary.com/lifestyle/wh... #sociology #gayborhood @arts.ubc.ca

CBC Books reports on Canadian authors shortlisted for Lambda Literary Awards celebrating 2SLGBTQ+ storytelling: www.cbc.ca/books/canadi... #sociology #publicsociology @princetonupress.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca

The @lambdaliterary.org Foundation compiled the (gorgeous) covers for all finalists. I clicked my category, LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, & read all the reviews. What a stunning collection of ideas! lambdaliterary.org/awards/curre... #sociology @princetonupress.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca @asanews.bsky.social

Each of the 5 finalists for a @lambdaliterary.org Award for Best Book in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction is intellectually generous & gorgeous. I'm both stunned and speechless to be included in this group. Huge honor. #sociology #publicfacingsociology @princetonupress.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards! lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...

Long Live Queer Nightlife is a Finalist in the LGBTQ+ Nonfiction category for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards! 1,339 submitted titles in total spanning 26 categories, evaluated by 80 judges over 6 months. #sociology @princetonupress.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca @ucsb.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

One of my faves this issue is @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social and @dcunningham-stl.bsky.social's piece, "TQ+: public memory, structural violence, and transgender erasure," on the indelible trans and queer community refusing erasure by Executive Order! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Friends who subscribe to @contexts.org: Have you received your copy yet? And if so, have you peeked at the back cover? #sociology

Delighted to talk publishing, public writing, and sociological R&D with @aminghaziani.bsky.social and Doug Hartmann in the new issue of @contexts.org. link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Heck yes! We've got sociology, we've got tunes, it's a whole vibe...

Time to hit the beach? Grab a copy of @contexts.org, pop in your airpods, and find us on Spotify. #sociology open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ka... @asanews.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca @ucsb.bsky.social

Our new issue is free to read, download, and share: contexts.org/articles/sp2... Peer-reviewed features include: ↪️@cantonwiner.bsky.social‬ on asexuality and queer gatekeeping ↪️‪@makchur.bsky.social‬ and JV Bastidas on environmental justice ↪️@avbsoc.bsky.social‬ on conservatorships #Sociology

It's here! Our latest issue takes up big social problems, from the multi-front assault on queer and trans people to the opioid epidemic, urban segregation, and environmental racism. #sociology Clickable table of contents: contexts.org/articles/sp25-toc/ Companion playlist: tinyurl.com/CTXsp25tunes

New issue just dropped | get it while it's hot 🔥 #sociology @asanews.bsky.social

Sneaks and peeks: Our latest issue is almost ready to bloom!

Coming soon, we've got @cantonwiner.bsky.social on asexuality and queer gatekeeping, @makchur.bsky.social and Juanita Vivas Bastidas on cumulative impact and environmental justice, William Burr et al. on medical school debt and the physician shortages, and Alex V. Barnard on conservatorships!

Great to chat with Erin Quinlan and provide "crucial context" for a story on the historic #gayborhood of Hell's Kitchen--in Architectural Digest! #sociology @ucsb.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca www.architecturaldigest.com/story/a-prid...

“[Long Live Queer Nightlife] reads almost like a New York Times Styles section of a hot new bar or club that you have to check out. . . . It’s not your standard academic book.” Listen to author @aminghaziani.bsky.social speak with @calebzakarin.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social:

“[Long Live Queer Nightlife] reads almost like a New York Times Styles section of a hot new bar or club that you have to check out. . . It’s not your standard academic book.” Listen to my interview with ‪Caleb Zakarin for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: hubs.ly/Q03tDMwV0 #sociology @arts.ubc.ca

A real treat to chat with @calebzakarin.bsky.social at @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, an academic audio library. Their podcasts reach half a million people every month! Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/long-live-qu... #sociology @arts.ubc.ca @princetonupress.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

Long Live Queer Nightlife is the review of the week! “Like the best pop-up parties, the book conveys the evanescent qualities of queer joy. In what could have been a dour litany of lament and loss, Ghaziani finds creativity, humor, and perseverance.”#sociology www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

For a limited time, the audiobook for Long Live Queer Nightlife is on SALE for only $2.99/£2.99 - immerse yourself in joyous underground scenes! #sociology @arts.ubc.ca @asanews.bsky.social

The contents, that cover...it's about to drop! Keep a lookout for the latest @contexts.org, where we stay true to our promise to keep things rigorous, relevant, readable, and rad. #sociology #protecthedolls @sethabrutyn.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

For @macleans.bsky.social, Long Live Queer Nightlife author @aminghaziani.bsky.social shows that in order to have more vibrant cities, we must protect queer nightlife spaces and treat them more like museums and heritage buildings:

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Sparking and shaping public conversations about social issues by making sociology and social science research clear, engaging, even vivacious? Co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social’s new piece in @macleans.bsky.social is a masterclass in @contexts.org’s 4 Rs: rigorous, readable, relevant, and rad!

Should gay bars be reclassified as cultural institutions rather than mere entertainment venues to prevent their decline? In Germany, that reclassification has come with real protections, writes @aminghaziani.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social. macleans.ca/society/how-...

Founded in 1905, @macleans.bsky.social is Canada's premier current affairs magazine, compared w/ The New Yorker, Atlantic, Newsweek. It's been a dream to publish in it--and I finally did! "Want Vibrant Cities? Save Gay Bars." macleans.ca/society/how-... #sociology @asanews.bsky.social @contexts.org

Denver has established its first #queer district, Lavender Hill! Delighted to speak with Bisnow about how the district transforms an iconic local corridor into a nationally recognized cultural destination. #sociology @contexts.org @asanews.bsky.social www.bisnow.com/denver/news/...