This spring @pewresearch.org asked people if they were happy with how democracy is working in their country. In the US, just 37% were satisfied. Countries with higher #s: Sweden 75% India 74% Indonesia 66% Australia 61% Germany 61% Canada 60% Mexico 51% UK 48% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

It’s here: the absolute coolest thing I have done all year, and that is saying something! “Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age” is an original podcast produced by Long Story Short Media featuring leading extremism expert Cynthia 1/ linktr.ee/manuppodcast

After 3 years, 14 drafts, and 3 paper awards, I finally published this paper on the semiotics of (un)doing gender in my favorite journal—Sociological Theory! @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0735...

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

New open access article out in Gender, Place & Culture: Particularly vulnerable. Negotiating intersections within the ‘Berlin model’ of queer refugee support. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨New Publication✨Excited to share my paper in the International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies! We ask: What if queer joy was the key to dismantling rape culture? LGBTQ+ communities offer vital lessons for preventing violence + building joyful sexual cultures www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2PWGV...

OutHistory is beginning to compile a bibliography on the war on LGBTQ+ history, featuring government directives, media stories, and organizational responses. We welcome suggestions for additional items to include at [email protected]. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

Reading bell hooks, 'Theory as Liberatory Practice," and came across this gem: “Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as "natural," and so insist on posing to those practices the most embarrassingly general /1

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication alert. We used mixed methods and a socioecological framework to explore LGBTQ+ young people's coping strategies in conservative environments. Something we really enjoyed was discussion of green space, being in nature, and companion animals. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out! I look at how stay-at-home fathers understand, experience and express emotions - and how these emotions evolve in caregiving and intimate relationships - to show how gendered power is sustained and what it takes to disrupt it. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Okay, here is a finished draft of the syllabus for my Fall graduate seminar on social theory. Reading list is at the bottom. drive.google.com/file/d/1Yqy9...

Hi friends! I'm super happy that we have an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. Job ad just posted (link below). Please share widely. fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📢Hybrid launch for #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️co-sponsored by Rutgers University Women's #Gender and #Sexuality Studies and CLAGS @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social🌈special thanks to Martin Manalansan and @mattbrim.bsky.social! 📅Sept 17 (Wed) ⏰4-5:10pm ET 🔗 tinyurl.com/rutgersclags...

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

10.9% couples include at least one sexually diverse partner—twice+ rate seen when only one partner’s identity is counted. Most bi & multi-identity individuals have het partners; g/l & straight adults often partner within their identity. #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social

Is it me or does the whole month of August feel like Sunday? #AcademicLife

“Without the impetus to go outside the box, I didn’t realize the box that I was in.” Patricia Hill Collins #asa2025

“If you are in the masters house, did you honestly think you would live there comfortably?”- PHC on resistance within the academy… 🫢🥴🫠 #ASA2025 #BlackFemSoc

Safe travels and happy conferencing to all those attending #ASA2025! I'm sat here prepping syllabi on Sociology of Sport and Sex, Love, and Relationships 🤓

Reposting my list of the 11 peer-reviewed critiques published to date of the Cass Review, plus two other VERY authoritative ones also... Chapeau @notrightruth.bsky.social uncommon-scents.blogspot.com/2025/07/peer...

How does child marriage alter women's work-family life courses? How do key interventions fare? Mariam Abouelenin & I look into these Qs – we highlight accelerated transition into adulthood as a key feature of life course transitions in the Global South: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

Look what came in the post! What a joy it was to work on this with an amazing set of colleagues. Will be available open access from Thursday 24th July. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/caring-fathe...

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social Details: ✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST ✳️Informal enquiries: [email protected] ✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j... @lexnetwork.bsky.social

New open access pub! Anna Kurowska, Agnieszka Kaperska, and I found that working from home during the pandemic improved work-life balance but not as much for mothers whose kids were out of daycare for over a month journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Call for Essays! 🚨 Oxford Intersections' Gender Justice is a new project spotlighting gender expansion & liberation across global contexts. Check it out: #GenderJustice #CallForPapers #soci #anth #comm #crim #global #socialwork #psyc #econ #polsci #educ #familystudies #queerstudies

New publication alert-pleased to share my new article on misogyny and in game chats in online gaming- a review article that is part of a phenomenal special issue on gaming & extremism. Open access, thanks to american university library support for faculty authors www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

I am THRILLED to have a new article with Emma Kirby in @societyandspace.bsky.social Focused on Queering the Map, we analyse how people contribute to this queer mapping of life – and become cartographic queers 📍💜 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 We use Eurobarometer data to explore how strongly people across the EU reject the “no means yes” rape myth. Gender gaps persist, but shrink with higher gender equality and “only yes means yes” laws. w/ @saraalice.bsky.social l (@unibe.ch) 👉 doi.org/10.1177/23780231251351676

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time? I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

Excited to be at #ISAforum25 in Rabat!

In honor of today, check out this #freshout grand review of the demographic LGBT family lit. From data gains to persistent gaps, we trace how family structures, identities, and outcomes are (and aren’t) captured in mainstream research. #LGBTQ #Demography #FamilyStudies w/ @chrisajulian.bsky.social

Happy 10th anniversary to marriage equality in the US! 🌈 Working on a paper with @drcompton.bsky.social about the perceived impact of same-sex marriage. Based on a national sample, almost half say it has no impact on society while 30% say it's good for society #Pride

🌈 New Publication !!! I'm excited to share our latest article, “A Marriage Premium for Whom? Sexual Identity, Relationship Status and Earnings”, co-authored with Diederik Boertien: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... You can find some of the main results in the thread.

The sheer level of logical contortion required to say that banning trans care “doesn’t exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status” is truly mind-blowing.

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

⚠️ New article out in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social🎙️ How does #Amber, an "androgynous tomboy with tattoos," challenge not only norms of #gender and #sexuality in #SouthKorea, but also those of #race and #ethnicity in #Kpop? Find out more ▶️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AmberLiu #엠버 #에프엑스 #刘逸云

Excited to collaborate with my amazing coauthors Kara Joyner and Wendy Manning on studying social isolation by sexual orientation! Our research shows that sexual minority adults face higher levels of isolation and experience a faster rise in isolation as they age journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New piece from #PolicingTheRainbow out now in Criminology! We show that LGBTQ people have a much bigger appetite for police reform than non-LGBTQ people. Check it out (it's short!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

My article on gender detachment is published in @sociusjournal.bsky.social! We often assume that everyone has a gender. But some people feel detached from gender. Based on 30 interviews with asexual individuals, I argue that gender categorization is compulsory--but it doesn't need to be.

Anyone have a syllabus on Family Policy (any discipline, but especially sociology, HDFS, psychology, economics, health) they'd be willing to share? #CoursePrep #AcademicSky

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

🚨‼️🔔 Just received this @columbiaup.bsky.social my book is now a REAL! I can’t believe I did it — a daughter of child brides from Nepal. Breaking generational constraints, I share all my wisdom with the annals of history. I hope it’s moving and healing. 💕 Preorder cup.columbia.edu/book/attenti...

I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, Not Sex Work, will be published as part of Routledge's Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale series in August. If you are interested in the intersection of #SexWork and #Queer studies, add this to your reading list! 📖 www.routledge.com/Not-Sex-Work...

Today we released a major @pewresearch.org survey of LGBTQ adults looking at: ▶️ Views of social acceptance for LGBTQ people ▶️ Personal experiences with acceptance, discrimination ▶️ Experiences with coming out ▶️ Identity ▶️ Community, friends and LGBTQ spaces Read on for findings from each section.

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages. As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New piece out in Punishment & Society: "Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care." doi.org/10.1177/1462...

*New Pub* In Sex & Sexualities, a new @asanews.bsky.social journal, @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social and I use queer nightlife as a case to rethink what counts as evidence and how to study social change. Read it here, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #sociology #sexualities #queernightlife