Thrilled to share I’ve been promoted to Full Professor! 🎉 Grateful to colleagues, students, mentors, friends—and to the everyday folks who let me travel with them & learn from their lives. Your stories shape my work and understanding of the world. #Sociology #Gratitude

It feels amazing to have your work recognized by your peers! Thanks to the Marxist Sociology section for recognizing our book and the role of feminist thought in imagining a fairer future @professorsmitha.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social @umbsociology.bsky.social

**I'll be at ASA if you'd like to chat about the position. Reach out by email.** The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston is hiring a TT assistant professor with strengths in the soc of gender/sexualities: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310899/...

I am honored that my peers have elected me to serve on Council for both the American Sociological Association’s Sex & Gender and the PEWS (Political Economy of the World-System) sections. I am looking forward to connecting with folks at the ASA meetings in Chicago!

We're hiring an assistant professor of sociology with strengths in gender & sexualities, with a preference for candidates who can teach Queer Theory & Methods. I'll be available at ASA to chat with interested candidates! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

As grad students, we teased Michael Burawoy for listing "capitalism on earth" as his research interest. We're thrilled that this deeply "Berkeley" feminist perspective on capitalism on earth has been recognized with the 2024 Immanuel Wallerstein Book Prize and now two 2025 awards.

Congratulations @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social: *The Gender Order of Neoliberalism* receives Honorable Mention from @asanews.bsky.social Sex & Gender Section’s Distinguished Book Award AND Marxist Sociology Section’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award! tinyurl.com/28fw5taz

I LOVE this! www.erininthemorning.com/p/defying-de...

1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use. Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...

Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

1. Today, young organizers held a huge rally in D.C. for Trans Day of Visibility. Dem leaders, activists, and allies spoke. “We are all standing together against the fascist lie that our bodies are not our own.” Our writer S. Baum was on the ground today. Subscribe to support our journalism.

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

📢 Huge shoutout to our amazing grad students presenting at #ESS2025! Today, we’re showing off Katsy Rivera Kientz, Jennifer Schweers & Scarlett Qian who will be presenting their research this weekend! 🌅🎓 Stay tuned as we spotlight more of our incredible grad students throughout the week! 👏✨

I was honored to speak as a parent and a researcher about my study with Sky Rathvon (they/them), which draws on interviews with trans and nonbinary students and their ideas for making school a more welcoming place. www.linkedin.com/posts/middle...

The fates of LGBTQ+ people and Ukraine are linked. Trump is following Putin into an oppositional modernity that uses misogyny, transphobia, and white supremacy as vehicles for recentering manliness in how we judge which nation-states are modern: www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...

Is the shift from #girlboss to #tradwife a step backward for feminism? Or are both these myths simply features of our stalled feminist imaginations? @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write @contexts.org → tinyurl.com/ycxn599k & don’t miss their book ↓ tinyurl.com/28fw5taz

The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Our article, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination," is in Contexts Magazine! This is an extension of our award-winning book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism. 📖 Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

I was honored to speak as a parent and a researcher about my study with Sky Rathvon (they/them), which draws on interviews with trans and nonbinary students and their ideas for making school a more welcoming place. www.linkedin.com/posts/middle...

Looking forward to sharing some new work on debt in India tomorrow. Link to the YouTube stream in the link below. watson.brown.edu/southasia/ev...

Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Sociology scholars @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write that hashtag feminism responds to White western women's binds, but overlooks global, utopic, liberatory feminist vision to help all struggling women tinyurl.com/FEAGirlboss

1. "Intellectually and Morally indefensible," that is what a Judge called a Montana law defining sex and ending legal recognition of transgender people today. That law is now struck down as facially unconstitutional. The latest from writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Thank you! And we love your article! Unpaywalled and free to read, download, and share: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Smitha and I are thrilled to have our piece, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination" in this issue of Contexts!

"Beyond #Girlboss & #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding Feminist Imagination"—new from @cinziasolari.bsky.social & Smitha Radhakrishnan in @contexts.org. The winter issue comes with a curated playlist for you to enjoy! 📖 Read: doi.org/10.1177/1536... 🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

DESE directs MA K-12 public school to uphold MA law which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. Schools must continue to protect all students, including trans and nonbinary students: www.doe.mass.edu/commissioner...

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

Has anyone seen the Massachusetts Dept of Education make a statement about Trump's attack on trans and nonbinary kids at school?

The Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement (MOLA) & the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) are hosting Know Your Rights trainings for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and community members. These sessions provide practical information about protections under MA anti-discrimination laws.

As parents worry about what the new administration will mean for their LGBTQ+ kids, please read this supportive letter from MA's Acting Commissioner of Education: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.doe.mass.edu/sfs/lgbtq/2024-1003commissioner-letter.pdf

Online Panel: "Seeing Like a Hiring Committee" Join the ASA IM Section on Jan. 31, 2025 at 12:00 PST/3:00 EST. Panel will offer insights into academic hiring. Register: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Smitha Radhakrishnan & Cinzia Solari – authors of The Gender Order of Neoliberalism – talk tradwives, empowerment, and why tradwives are not that different from girlbosses, with NPR ↓ @asanews.bsky.social @cinziasolari.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...

Quoted on NPR! Our book #GenderOrderOfNeoliberalism explains the embrace and disavowal of #tradwife #girlboss and lean-in feminism! @politybooks.bsky.social oks.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...

My family, like so many families, is feeling anxious about whether kids and parents get to make health care decisions with our doctors or if the state will be making those decisions for us: www.advocate.com/news/tenness...

Come learn more about UMass Boston's MA program in Sociology! Register for the Zoom information session here: go.umb.edu/portal/socio...

Congrats to Dr. Bianca Ortiz-Withe on defending her powerful dissertation: Tracked and Controlled: Examining the Criminalization of Asylum Seekers from Guatemala in Alternative to Detention bimi.berkeley.edu/people/bianc...

“Ambitious…essential…provides a compelling study of neoliberalism’s approach to gender & the impact of market-driven policies on collective efforts for women’s rights” Sociological Inquiry reviews Smitha Radhakrishnan & @cinziasolari.bsky.social The Gender Order of Neoliberalism tinyurl.com/47t7mpt8

Trans congresswoman Sarah McBride posts defiant response to bathroom ban

We should be worried. GPDs at UMass Boston should be worried....

Seeing the new inflow from the other place I made a small starter pack of some people working on gender &/OR sexuality, biased towards Sociology. Let me know if you or anyone else should be on it!

Winner of the Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award from the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the ASA! We hope the book provides a useful macro framework to help situate case studies, to think with transnationally, and to theorize feminist utopias. www.amazon.com/dp/150954490...

How does anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric help explain why Republicans suddenly like Russia and are willing to turn their backs on Ukraine? www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...

Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH

Starting the migration to Bluesky. Let's see if it sticks! Check out my book on Ukrainian transnational nation-state building: