I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

New article in the Journal of Homosexuality, foregrounding queer refugees’ desires and pleasures and moving beyond the predominant focus on credibility, suffering, and borders. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

These tactics – which mirror the anti-trans politics of the Trump administration – is about changing something within trans people rather than changing the signage on toilets and changing rooms. Read here (open access): doi.org/10.1080/0958... #data #trans #gender #queer #research #LGBTQ #UK

I felt it was more important than ever to make sure we’re still talking about, thinking through, and reminding ourselves that micro-moments of joy and progress toward flourishing futures 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. So, let me introduce you to the Feb issue of AJPH. 1/

As protests continue across the US, it's worth re-reading this important paper by Olzak that analyzes the effects of protests against police violence. Although ICE works under the federal government this model from the paper is very useful: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Last week I had a new article published, comparing trans adolescent and family experiences in different UK healthcare services. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few. Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did you publish a sociological book about families in 2024 or 2025? You should nominate it for the ASA Goode Book Award! I'm on the committee and looking forward to reading nominated books 🤓

LGBTQ+ college students often adjust how openly they express sexual orientation and gender identity across contexts. #thesocialconstructionofidentification

Check out my latest article in Contexts: From Wonder Woman to Fifty Shades journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives is now available for pre-order. #sex #sexuality #book #books #newbook #pleasure #freedom #erotic #eroticism #feminism #liberation #desire #relationships #identity #community www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/angel...

Just published w/ my @guttmacher.org colleagues: People are deeply confused about EC: how it works, when pregnancy starts, and whether EC is “an abortion.” That fog isn’t accidental; it fuels stigma and restrictions. Knowledge matters for autonomy + access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Finally published: „A Research Note on the Cohabitation Gradient in Parents’ Childcare Time in Germany“, together with @soerentum.bsky.social, doi.org/10.32797/jtu... #sociology #demography

My Finland-Friday post this week is just more of the chapter that came out this week. I’m really proud of it and people have said nice things. We’re having a ‘queer friendship’ coffee break next week to celebrate in the office 💚 Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

What do you know about anti-gender movements? How do they communicate? Are they Catholic? This, and much more, in my newest publication: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

Our new paper: Austerity as reproductive injustice: did local government spending cuts unequally impact births? led by Laura Sochas is out now OA in @sfjournal.bsky.social

⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia. 🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social

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...

Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review doi-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0038... #bipolar #Sociology

Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

🆕📝 Excited to share our new article out today in Socius: “Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers” (with @helenkowalewska.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social)! Even when women earn more or have less time, the mental load of running a household still falls on them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2378...

We have a fantastic line-up of panel speakers - Christina Dragon, Fernanda Fortes de Lena, Onikepe Owolabi, and Kristopher Velasco - for our November FemQuant online event: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Sign up to join us on 5 Nov femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...

Now that #NoKings 2.0 is behind us, here's a quick 🧵 into the data we collected in DC on Saturday to start thinking about what the day-of-action can tell us about this wave of Resistance to Trump2.0 and its policies. The day turned out millions across the US in over 2700 locations across the US:

"Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential for the survival of the subordinate." ~Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought 🌸🌸 Black feminism grounds me. Black feminism teaches me.

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...