This study offers the first national look at the perceived impact of same-sex marriage. Prior to this, we had no nationally representative data to assess attitudes of marriage across sexual and gender identities. (thread on findings) H/T to @gaylekaufman.bsky.social for getting us NSF funding.

I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!

Important note on #WGSS scholars and a "communal refusal to regret": "we were stunned to find that not one would say they regretted their decision to locate their academic career in the field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies" - Tracey Jean Boisseau and Heather Rellihan 💜

Wanna start really hot conversation on the beach this summer? ☀️🌊🔥 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/angel... #newbook #summer #summerreading #summerbooklist #books #booktok #sexuality #beach #pool #sun

"Cisgender, as a term, is young, barely 30 years old. What do you hope for its future?" Read my response in this interview with @dukepress.bsky.social! But I would also love to hear your response! dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/q...

Much has been written about increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, but we know less about what it’s like to grow up under it: “I’m Afraid for My Life”: Queer and Trans Youth’s Experiences of Surviving Far-Right Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Alberta, Canada. In Youth & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New open access article with Marie Lunau in Feminist Theory, in which we analyse multiple forces of love in queer asylum ❤️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Delighted to announce my publication with Sage on inclusive gender and sexuality research methodologies! This article cites my work on /QUEER- which has always focused on equitable, participant-led approaches to archiving ‘queer’ histories. Not bad for a project with 0 university affiliations.

My cool colleagues and I have just published a conversation in Feminist Legal Studies about the political, poetic, and pedagogic possibilities of writing legal judgments using critical (Indigenous, Feminist, Queer) perspectives. You can read our reflections here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Hey folks, I have a new article out in @flsjournal.bsky.social on how defense attorneys operationalize digital evidence in sexual assault trials. I find they rely heavily on rape myths (i.e., she asked for it, she's lying) to get around rape shield laws. Hope you check it out! rdcu.be/fqmcC

Pleased to see my new pub with Hiromi Taniguchi and @drcompton.bsky.social out today in Sexuality & Culture. We focus on how LGBTQ+ folks queer the engagement process and their weddings. It's #OpenAccess so click below to read more! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New brief report in @jmfncfr.bsky.social We follow earnings of male same-sex couples in 🇩🇰, 🇳🇱, and 🇸🇪 around the time they become parents. Main takeaway: not much changes for them! Also: no signs of long-lasting specialization based on pre-parenthood earnings or biological relatedness to the child.

New paper! 🌼🌷🪻 Happy to be published in 'Feminist Theory' (I take it as official permission to call myself a feminist theorist now) Link: doi.org/10.1177/1464...

🚨 New in Journal of Gender Studies: We consider how the concept of “backlash” can flatten and frame masculinist responses as merely reactive; we suggest “countermovement” better captures how masculinities are strategically organised www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

The universe was listening! @dukepress.bsky.social posted the intro to *Cisgender.* You get to read vignettes about my grandmother & Leslie Feinberg & Audre Lorde... & wrestle with what they do to the cis category. You also get a peak at why disorientation is my framework of choice. bit.ly/4vKd53u

Being a professor is just giving yourself homework for the rest of your life.

Excited to share my most recent co-authored publication! An article on Angel Reese and social media discourse, in Communication & Sport--led by two wonderful graduate students! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#TheMonogamousState: Monogamy is central to how states define citizenship and public order. Using France, it shows how colonial and racialized opposition to polygamy helped construct the state through the regulation of sexuality and family form.

Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.

It's been an exhausting couple of years, but I wanted to share some good news. I'll be a Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris for Fall 2026!

Hello, your local sociologist here with a reminder that laws are written by the powerful. Some are good ideas, that are sometimes poorly applied. Others— like those addressing immigrants, trans folks, abortion today — are tools of oppression. Legal or criminal =\= morality.

My book Courtroom Science and Trans Youth is out TODAY, just in time for Trans Day of Visibility! It’s about how courts treat science and scientific expertise in family law cases involving trans children, and how we need to do better and stop medicalizing and gatekeeping them.

I know I keep re-upping this but on TDoV we need to make sure the really serious harm being done to trans children by Streeting, Starmer, Cass & others that is being systematically ignored by mainstream media is visible. The ἀμαθία (amathia) of Streeting and Starmer is harming & killing children.

This PhD is absolutely thrilled that her latest publication is out in New Media & Society🔥 Ever came across dating platforms like Ashley Madison? My paper analyzes how such platforms discursively legitimize infidelity in contexts where such practices are widely stigmatized: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

I would like to thank QED for allowing me to write one of the most savage opening paragraphs of my academic career. My paper taking a rural LGBTQ+ perspective of Trump's (second) first ninety days is finally out and available. doi.org/10.14321/qed...

I found that U.S. white young men report feeling least close to their best friends compared to all women and Black and Latino men. And while this finding may seem unsurprising to many, it actually hadn't been demonstrated empirically with representative data before now.

I have a chapter in a lovely new book "Queer in a Wee Place", edited by Yvette Taylor, published by Bloomsbury. My chapter is on Scotland and queer rurality & you can read it for free here www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

New article out now with @clarestovell.bsky.social, which may be of interest to qualitative family researchers! 👇 We consider the idea of internal confidentiality in family research, and how we can protect participant confidentiality when interviewing more than one person in a couple or family.

We're hosting a webinar to walk you through our new guide on collecting reliable, inclusive data on LGBTQ communities. Register to join us on March 26 at 11:30 am (PT) at tinyurl.com/LGBTQsurveywebinar

Don’t forget to register for my book launch!

Household classification, family diversity and poverty risks in Europe: Addressing a North-Western bias New paper, by @wvlancker.bsky.social, @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social, @thaning.bsky.social and myself. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to share this new one w/ @chrisajulian.bsky.social @gaylekaufman.bsky.social @demresjournal.bsky.social. Its wild how much we dont know about living arrangements of American families! Here we compare rels status & living arrangements among het & noncishet adults. #SOGIData #LGBTQDemog

🧵 New paper out! Married couples have long been wealthier, on average, than cohabiting couples. But does this still hold as unmarried cohabitation becomes increasingly common? Find out in my latest paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social available in #OA: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

My new article out today! 🎉 Walking Sociologically, Teaching on the Move: Thinking with London’s Streets. It is part of a special issue of Sociology on teaching sociology in Higher Education. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New drop just in time for Mardi Gras day and the Fire Horse NEw Year!! #sogidata with @chrisajulian.bsky.social and @gaylekaufman.bsky.social

LGBTQ+ adults in the US have distinct partnership and living arrangements often missed in surveys: less often married, more likely to cohabit or have non-coresidential partners, and more likely to live alone, with roommates, or in smaller households. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

It took a hot minute, but I can finally share my new paper on evidentiary pragmatism in transgender health care! In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.

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...