Men and Masculinities special issue (co-edited w Jun Lei) on East Asian masculinities coming! Our intro proposes structural triangulation to examine how masculinities emerge where states, markets, and social obligations intersect. We also argue for theory to travel from East Asia, not just to it.

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - #Populism and Queer Masculinities: Hegemony, Hybridity, and Fake Subversion - https://cup.org/4qHQiBF - @hansasenbaum.bsky.social, Renato Duarte Caetano & @mendoncarf.bsky.social#OpenAccess#Populism #FirstView

🔔 FEBRUARY Issue is now available! 🔔 Explore cutting-edge scientific research on #Masculinities and #SocialTransformations in our latest #OpenAccess publication! 🌍📚 Check the full content here: hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/i...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Populism & #Queer #Masculinities: Hegemony, Hybridity, & Fake Subversion By Hans Asenbaum, Renato Duarte Caetano & Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça doi.org/10.1017/S153...

“The book is less a catalog of bad actors than a cultural autopsy of a political formation that thrives on moral panic about gender itself.” @tristanbridges.bsky.social on men’s gendered resentment in our new Short Takes:

How do patriarchal masculinities fuel the climate crisis? And what can we do about it? Join the Climate Justice Working Group as we work to bridge research and action on gender and climate justice from a men and masculinities lens. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/26FebMC #Masculinities #ClimateJustice #NORMA

“There are a whole lot of different political crises impacting on universities in a way that can only change them quite dramatically.” Karl von Holdt in conversation with journal editor Carin Runciman in The Sociological Review magazine’s February issue. buff.ly/kcJzLpc

Men and Masculinities special issue (co-edited w Jun Lei) on East Asian masculinities coming! Our intro proposes structural triangulation to examine how masculinities emerge where states, markets, and social obligations intersect. We also argue for theory to travel from East Asia, not just to it.

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forthcoming at Socius, but up at @socarxiv.bsky.social. We show shifts in the frequency and seasonality of mass shootings in the US over a 10-year period. The high-point was June 2020 (amongst the deadliest months for mass shootings on record).

Forthcoming at Socius, but up at @socarxiv.bsky.social. We show shifts in the frequency and seasonality of mass shootings in the US over a 10-year period. The high-point was June 2020 (amongst the deadliest months for mass shootings on record).

Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S. Here’s what I found 🧵

Today marks one year since the tragic loss of Michael Burawoy, ISA President (2010-2014). In his memory, we have compiled an e-book based on the commemorative online session held last February, preserving the messages, stories, and photos contributed by participants.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Femininities and the Making of Masculinities.” See full cfp for details.

Really excited for the next issue of Men and Masculinities. It’s a special issue on critical masculinities research is East Asia. And every article is amazing. We’re finalizing the introduction and I’m thrilled and can’t wait for it to be live.

Short Takes returns with reflections on @milleridriss.bsky.social’s Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism. Featuring @tristanbridges.bsky.social, Amy Farrell, @alexdibranco.bsky.social, and @jazzmyth.bsky.social. Available free on our website! signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...

Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

I review for a lot of journals. It's work I enjoy. This new thing publishers are doing where they send you year end "certificates" for serving as a review and Instagram social media images is so out of touch.

So gratifying to see this Signs Short Takes discussion on Man Up, w short essays on my book by @tristanbridges.bsky.social @amyfarrell617.bsky.social @jazzmyth.bsky.social & Alex DiBranco, along with a short response essay by me. Grateful. signsjournal.org/cynthia-mill...

Day 1 of Sociology of Popular Culture starts tomorrow. Co-teaching it with Tara Tober. Super excited, and just a week bit nervous about the mountain of new content we're creating. :)

Completely awful. Men’s need to open carry in public is about protecting their gender, not protecting society or those they care about. We’re all more at risk when we support this form of insecurity, including those openly carrying.

Open now: Nominations for the #editorship of Psychology of Men and Masculinities. Candidates should be available to start receiving manuscripts in early 2027 to prepare for issues published in 2028. Nominate yourself or a colleague by January 9, 2026! https://bit.ly/44HBw5W #Psychology #APA

New Online 1st Book Review “Masculinities on the move in Kolkata: Urban spaces, gendered places” by Tristan Bridges doi.org/10.1177/2043...

Contexts Magazine is closing out 2025 by celebrating outgoing co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social! Editor-elect David Grazian will take the helm in 2026, with @elenavanstee.bsky.social as managing editor.

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

Rich people threaten to leave of you raise taxes, but most won't. There's a great book on this from Cristobal Young that breaks this down.

This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.

“Kai Erikson, Who Studied the Collective Trauma Left by Disasters, Dies at 94 - He said Hurricane Katrina was ‘far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience’.” www.wsj.com/health/kai-e...

Two people were killed and nine were injured in a shooting on Saturday at Brown University. After determining that a man they had detained was not the killer, Rhode Island officials have searched for more evidence. Here's a timeline as the manhunt continues.

Students want Ai-proof pedagogy. “In a recent survey of college students by Inside Higher Ed… about 30 percent said colleges should design more AI-proof methods of assessment, including oral exams.” #ai #pedagogy #highered #teaching #oralexams @insidehighered.com h/t @tristanbridges.bsky.social

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

“The gray indicates the 4 states that have not had any school shootings since 2008, according to CNN's analysis.”🧪🛟

America is where it is statistically inevitable that many people will endure multiple gun massacres

My heart goes out to Brown. Also… it’s disgusting how responses to gun violence differ depending on who the victims are and how that squares with people’s politics. Watching elected officials be silent on incidents like this is deafening! And it’s sooo telling of who and what they care about.

Love to everyone at Brown today. Also: repeal the damned 2nd amendment and ban all the guns already. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation. My latest in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Really excited for the next issue of Men and Masculinities. It’s a special issue on critical masculinities research is East Asia. And every article is amazing. We’re finalizing the introduction and I’m thrilled and can’t wait for it to be live.

Here's my latest column, on the natural history of misinformation. Gift link: nyti.ms/3MkcbJ1

This is interesting: “I analyze the puzzling trajectory of Men’s Liberation, which went from an ally to liberal feminism in the 1970s to the crucible of the antifeminist Men’s Rights’ movement in the 1980s” US Men’s Liberation in the 1970s: Autopsy of a Movement

A new article out: “Flexible Masculinities: Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Global Asia.” I introduce the concept of “flexible masculinities” to understand how people navigate shifting gender norms across different cultural and geographic contexts. doi.org/10.1177/0011...

What a privilege to talk to @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social for #NowandMen. We discussed how men's violence impacts on *everyone*, but also the seeds of hope found in young working-class masculinities, and Steven's experiences of both - in his own life and his research: nowandmen.net/episode/stev...

Gary Barker on Redefining Manhood: How Equimundo Builds Gender Justice Worldwide Gary Barker reveals how healthier masculinities can reduce violence, empower families, and fuel global gender equality. A powerful roadmap for social transformation.

Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NEW PUBLICATION 📣 “Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers’: Exploring Affective and Embodied Discomfort and Dilemmas of Feminist & Queer Researchers” So proud of Betsy Milne & Idil Cambazoglu for leading on this article. 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’ve been writing about political polarization in U.S. baby names, but kept running into a possible ecological fallacy: Are these political patterns or just urban v. rural geography? So I tried to answer it definitively. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/w...

I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...