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Trinity U prof, Austinite, author, researcher, queer af. They/them. Www.amylstonephd.com
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris
7 days ago
NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.
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Federal health agency cancels most of its teen pregnancy prevention grants • Stateline
A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Progra...
https://stateline.org/2026/06/26/federal-health-agency-cancels-most-of-its-teen-pregnancy-prevention-grants/
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Andrew Coleman Francis
8 days ago
Happy
#PrideMonth
! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.
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Transgender World
7 days ago
New Louisiana law allows deadnaming trans people — and more disrespect — in the workplace
www.advocate.com/pol...
#transgender
#trans
#LGBTQ
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New Louisiana law allows deadnaming trans people — and more disrespect — in the workplace
The controversial act protects employees from being disciplined for using a person's previous name or misgendering them.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/new-louisiana-law-allows-deadnaming
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Gregg Gonsalves
8 days ago
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/
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Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/russell-vought-omb-grant-rule/
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
7 days ago
Quite a read abt antivax data app "Unjected." Lots here to ponder. Got me thinking as a sociologist. 🧵 Story gift-linked; Journalists: I'd be happy to chat for any story on this "scene." Some thoughts about elements that popped out to me. 🛟 1/
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Anti-vaxxers are coupling up on apps for ‘Unjected’ singles
Dating apps are pairing unvaccinated people across the country — and in some cases hosting controversial in-person events.
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
23 days ago
Happy
#Pride
month,
#LGBTQ
research style: Here, we feature
@mignonmoore.bsky.social
and Estela Diaz analyzing the way informal labor markets facilitated lesbian desire among African American women in Detroit in the 1950s and 60s.
#lesbian
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Liminality and Underground Economies Supporting Black, Sexual Minority Women in the Mid-Twentieth Century - Mignon R. Moore, Estela B. Diaz, 2026
In the mid-twentieth century, specific characteristics of informal labor markets facilitated the development of lesbian desire among African American women with...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/30333717261416947
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
23 days ago
Happy
#pride
month,
#LGBTQ
research style: Check out work by Hailey McGee on how LGBTQ+ Southerners define social space as safe or unsafe!
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
23 days ago
Happy
#pride
month,
#LGBTQ
research style: Check out this article by
@torinmonahan.bsky.social
, Maral Erol, and Jill A Fisher on how LGBTQ+
#academic
couples navigate experiences of visibility in
#highered
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
22 days ago
Happy
#pride
month,
#LGBTQ
research style: What are public opinions about
#sexeducation
that includes
#LGB
topics? Work by Tania Ravaei
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So excited to get the Murchison Term Professorship for three years. What a mid-career boost to help fund my work on the book on preventing
#lgbtq
homelessness with the
@drkittygirl.bsky.social
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Our first referred articles just dropped for the
@sexandsexualities.bsky.social
journal! More to come for our May issue!
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Our first referred articles just dropped for the
@sexandsexualities.bsky.social
journal! More to come for our May issue!
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Just found this great documentary on queer Mardi Gras and HIV grief, death, and ritual
bittersoutherner.com/take-them-to...
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Take Them to the River — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Happy Mardi Gras, y’all. Today we visit a little krewe that honors the memory of lost friends, family, and dogs by marching the ashes of the departed to the banks of the Mississippi River.
https://bittersoutherner.com/take-them-to-the-river-mardi-gras-new-orleans
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American Sociological Association
5 months ago
Wednesday's webinar from Sage
@journals.sagepub.com
on submitting and publishing your research in sociology journals is free and features ASA members Douglas Hartmann
@umncla.bsky.social
and Amy Stone
@amylstone1.bsky.social
@sexandsexualities.bsky.social
:
ow.ly/3GbY50XNnt5
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Transgender World
5 months ago
Transgender Rights in the Courts: A Year of Landmark Decisions and Pending Questions
www.jdsupra.com/lega...
#transgender
#trans
#LGBTQ
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Transgender Rights in the Courts: A Year of Landmark Decisions and Pending Questions | Husch Blackwell LLP - JDSupra
The legal landscape for transgender rights in the United States continues to evolve rapidly, with the U.S. Supreme Court (the “Court”) and federal courts
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/transgender-rights-in-the-courts-a-year-3243868/
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Amy L Stone
about 1 year ago
So excited about our inaugural issue. Writing this intro with
@amylstone1.bsky.social
was so refreshing. Check out our intro and the other articles at
journals.sagepub.com/home/SNS
. Super inspiring 🤩
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Eric Topol
about 1 year ago
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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✨🌯 jamie
about 1 year ago
Them: “This one’s different!” Their dating history:
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Then, Jennifer Denbow addresses the advances of
#reproductive
#technology
in these dystopian times. How is a "tech fix" not always a real fix of social problems.
doi.org/10.1177/3033...
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Then, stef shuster, Grant Bunn, and Celeste Campo-Castillo address how false information is used against sexual and gender minorities in the contemporary US and what we can do about it.
#LGBTQ
#Misinformation
@stefshuster.bsky.social
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Then, Alan Santinele Martino, Thomas Tri, Rachell Trung, and Oscar E. Hughes explore how to center
#disabled
people as experts in their own sexual lives and desire in
#research
and conversations about
#sexuality
.
@alansmartino.bsky.social
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
First, Brandon Robinson turns to the dating and sex lives of
#trans
women and
#femmes
to learn about trans sex and pleasure with an emphasis on
#t4t
relationships.
@brandonrobinson.bsky.social
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
How can we write about
#race
and the
#body
without centering whiteness? In this article, Cristina Khan and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz provide critical insight into how to write about racialized
#embodiment
and eroticism.
doi.org/10.1177/3033...
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
How should the
#sociology
of
#sexuality
incorporate
#race
into research in meaningful ways? And how should we also focus on pleasure, joy, and desire? Check out this work by Terrell J.A. Winder and Kendall Ota.
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Society for the Study of Evolution
about 1 year ago
With the news of NSF divisions being abolished and more grants terminated, we urge our community to continue communicating with Congress to
#SupportNSF
and
#SaveNSF
. Scripts and tools you can use:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
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Letter to scientists and organizations whose progress depends on NSF: We are facing an unprecedented political attack on science. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has begun directing NSF...
https://shorturl.at/i7WfU
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Trying to make sense of these political times? Check out these new articles from Sex & Sexualities about
#sex
#reproduction
,
#technology
, and
#LGBTQ
misinformation. All are free or open access! 🧵
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Check out the first issue of the new American Sociological Association (@ASAnews ) journal, Sex & Sexualities, where we consider questions about
#pleasure
,
#sexualcomfort
,
#t4t
,
#disability
, and
#methods
. All articles are free or open access!!
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Want to avoid reinforcing compulsory sexuality in your research? Catch up on asexualities and aromanticism research with Megan Carroll and Maya Wenzel in the newest ASA journal, Sex & Sexualities.
#asexual
@mcsociology.bsky.social
@acefeministmaya.bsky.social
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New Dimensions, New Directions: Asexualities and Aromanticism in the 21st Century - Megan Carroll, Maya Wenzel, 2025
This article offers an overview of the state of the field for asexualities and aromanticism and suggests new directions for research. Our goal is to inspire fem...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/3033371251332285
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
How is sexual normativity a key logic that undergirds the legal, political, and social processes that shape migration and cross-border mobility? Read all about it in Juhwan Seo's article in the new @ASAnews journal, Sex & Sexualities.
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Even the scholarship that weaves sexuality with race, class, or/and gender tends to operate disconnected from questions of the body. Read more about racialized embodiment in this work by Cristina Khan and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz.
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
What might the future of sex look like? Futurologists and sexologists are quick to embrace sex tech as the final frontier of pleasure, but sociologist
@kenhanson.bsky.social
argues we need to examine our past first to figure out where we're going.
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Whither A Sociology of Sex Toys? Contested Histories, Current Trends, and Potential Futures - Kenneth R. Hanson, Whitney E. Brooks, 2025
While being part of many people’s sexual lives, sex toys are rarely the focus of sociological research. To better understand the role sex toys might play in the...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/3033371251325266
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
“The time has come to think about sex. To some, sexuality may seem to be an unimportant topic, a frivolous diversion from the more critical problems...But sexuality should be treated with special respect in times of great social stress.” Gayle Rubin 1984.
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
“Leave it to academics to ruin sex! Too often, sociologists either ignore actual sex or, when sex is actually present, they discuss it in a clinical way... where we would legitimately expect to see some discussion of actual sex, it is absent.” Angela Jones, 2018
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Amy L Stone
Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
Check out the new
@asanews.bsky.social
journal, Sex & Sexualities, for the open access introduction by editors
@drklittlej.bsky.social
and
@amylstone1.bsky.social
about
#sex
,
#sexuality
,
#sociology
,
#reproduction
and the history of the study of sex in sociology.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽
about 1 year ago
"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪
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NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003
This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2832884
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Laurel Westbrook
about 1 year ago
Check out this excellent introduction to the inaugural issue of
@sexandsexualities.bsky.social
, edited by Krystale Littlejohn and
@amylstone1.bsky.social
. This piece provides a great history of the sociology of sexualities and a beautiful vision for the future.
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Nurturing a Sociology of Sex and Sexualities - Krystale E. Littlejohn, Amy L. Stone, 2025
Sex and sexuality are integral to social life. Sexuality intersects with major institutions such as family, law, religion, media, and education. Social norms re...
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Amy L Stone
American Sociological Association
about 1 year ago
Read the first article from the ASA Sex & Sexualities Section's new journal, in which editors Krystale E. Littlejohn
@drklittlej.bsky.social
, U of Oregon, & Amy L. Stone
@amylstone1.bsky.social
, Trinity University, consider the importance of nurturing a sociology of sex & sexualities.
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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH
about 1 year ago
Thank you to
@npr.org
for taking the time to talk with me (
@thesavir.bsky.social
) and other experts on these continued attacks on the nation’s public health infrastructure and workforce.
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Scott L Greer
about 1 year ago
“Older Black Americans are twice as likely as white patients to develop [dementia]. Just as it is not illegal to research breast cancer in women, Mezuk said, it should not be illegal to research dementia in Black and lower-income white Americans.”
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NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia
A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.
https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/nih-terminates-13-million-grant-on-dementia-risks-for-sole-nationally-representative-mental-health-sample-of-black-americans/
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Lymphedema runs in my family. The NIH has funded over 200 studies of this disorder that have changed the way it is identified and treated.
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about 1 year ago
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Nihil Dev 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸
about 1 year ago
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
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Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
https://www.ourhealthroi.com/
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So happy that the website is up!!! Check out the free access introduction by Krystale Littlejohn and myself!
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about 1 year ago
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
about 1 year ago
The website for the new
@asanews.bsky.social
journal, Sex & Sexualities is live!! It publishes cutting-edge sociological research on sexualities by fostering space for rigorous intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational, feminist, and critical research.
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Sex & Sexualities Journal
over 1 year ago
Welcome to the latest
@asanews.bsky.social
and SAGE journal, Sex & Sexualities, co-edited by
@amylstone1.bsky.social
and Krystale Littlejohn. Stay tuned for the launch of our website in mid-April and the first issue in May!
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Jyoti Puri
over 1 year ago
I am excited to be on the editorial board of the new journal, Sex & Sexualities (
@sexandsexualities.bsky.social
), co-edited by
@amylstone1.bsky.social
and Dr. Krystale Littlejohn. Stay tuned for the launch of the website in mid-April and the first issue in May!
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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️🌈
over 1 year ago
Thrilled to join the editorial board of the newest
@asanews.bsky.social
& SAGE journal, Sex & Sexualities
@sexandsexualities.bsky.social
💥 📚 Co-edited by
@amylstone1.bsky.social
& Dr. Krystale Littlejohn 🌐 Website launches mid-April 📖 1st issue drops May 👀✨
#SexAndSexualities
#Sociology
#NewJournal
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Daniel Laurison
over 1 year ago
Even if you aren't convinced trans people deserve to use the right bathrooms & participate in gendered sports, you should worry about the effects of trying to root out a few trans people on the much larger set of non-gender-standard cis people. Anti-trans folks think they can tell who's trans, but:
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Seth Abrutyn
over 1 year ago
A really humbling moment: our (
@annamueller.bsky.social
) book, life under pressure (Oxford press) was a finalist for the PROSE award! We tried hard to translate our work on
#suicide
to as broad an audience as possible. So this means a ton.
#sociology
@asanews.bsky.social
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It says something about 2025 that rereading West and Zimmerman’s 1980s classic work on “doing gender” feels radical.
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