For all the hand wringing on the left about trans rights being difficult for democrat candidates, last night should be a lesson. The rep VA governor candidate ran on an anti trans platform (with constant and vile TV and radio ads) and lost in a landslide.

Out now! My new piece: "Against a Critical Quantitative Orthodoxy: Proliferation of Methodologies as a Liberatory Potential" is now available online! doi.org/10.5840/inqu...

Reminder - Next month, we'll host @kevinguyan.bsky.social at VCU for a virtual session! This is free and open to anyone to attend, but registration is required: vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking or graduating this yr? Ck out this Assistant Professor for Qualitative Research at UGA for Fall ‘26. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/450...

My tip as an editor for reviewers: If I've asked you to review a revision, all I really want is to know if you feel your prior comments have been addressed. You likely don't need a second extremely close read. This is also not the moment to raise new issues (unless the revision introduced them).

I'm at that stage of my writing process where I've organized my files, updated my whiteboard, and deep cleaned my office, and I got my syllabus in order for Fall.

Coming up this fall - our next Critical Quantitative Methodologies Series speaker! We'll be joined on October 14th by @kevinguyan.bsky.social for his talk on "Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories, and Who Counts?". Talk is via Zoom at 3PM EDT. Register at vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New publication! "QuantCrit at the intersections: A systematic review of gender and sexuality in QuantCrit research" is now published. In it, we review QuantCrit publications to examine how/whether authors took up gender and sexuality, and offer recommendations. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lIVL8MqMi...

We are looking for new Associate Editors (who handle manuscripts and assign reviewers) and Consulting Editors (who review manuscripts) for JQTSIE! Please consider applying for these roles to help us keep up the pace and rigor of the journal!

A little professional update: I’ve accepted a role here at VCU as Interim Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development starting next month. I’ll keep up my research allocation and some work with students, too. Excited to work to support and enhance faculty success!

🥳📣 Call for abstracts: Special Issue of JQTSIE: "Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education" edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social & @ftmathteacher.bsky.social! Abstracts are due SOON: May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.jqtsie.com @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

New publication out today: "LGBTQ+ Affirmative Care Training in Counselor Education: A Community-Based Inquiry" is available open access! doi.org/10.1002/ceas... This piece, with Nancy Thacker Darrow and Thea Racelis, draws from our Spencer-funded work with counselors-in-training and educators.

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social rescheduled our meet the editors session so that it now has conflicts for all of our editors. If you want to talk about the journal, though, please reach out! We’re around this week or can talk via Zoom later.

Today is Giving Day for VCU! You can help us support the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies, keeping us free and open access to support LGBTQ+ research! Please give what you can. Even $10 gets us closer to our fundraising goals and helps us compete in giving day challenges for bonus funds!

If you'll be at AERA this week, come see work by me and other faculty and students in our Research Assessment and Evaluation program! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Are you attending @aeraedresearch.bsky.social's Annual Meeting in Denver? Have an idea for an article or special issue? Want to talk w/ the editors about your research? Want to learn more about the journal? Come meet us! @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

It's almost Giving Day here at VCU! Consider supporting the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education with a donation! Help us keep the journal completely open-access and fee-free. Please consider making a gift today, and also consider sharing with your networks: give.vcu.edu/schools/Virg...

Coming soon, our manuscript on "A person-centered, multi-method examination of disclosure, campus experiences, and perceptions of campus climate for LGBTQ+ students in the Southeastern United States" was accepted! This one has been a couple of years in the making, and has amazing student authors!

In personal news, we recently adopted a new dog in our house. And I figured plenty of people scrolling these days might like some cuteness. Her name is Luma (after Super Mario Galaxy) and she’s 2/3 foxhound 1/3 beagle and she is both very cute and a total mess and we love her.

Reminder: Happening this week! Join us online or in person for this talk on critical quantitative methodologies!

Just a quick PSA that you can ask your doctor for measles (MMR) immunity testing amidst the new outbreaks. I had mine done and came back non-immune so will be getting a fresh shiny new vaccine this week. Something perhaps worth considering as public health measures are peeled back.

New tenure-track school psych job at Montclair State! montclair.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/JobOpp... You'd be working in the same college as @wcastillophd.bsky.social!

Join us on March 27th for the next installment in our Critical Quantitative Methodologies series! We'll hear from Darnell Leatherwood on the QuantCrit Triangulation. His talk will be at 3:00PM Eastern time. This event is free. To join via Zoom, please register here: vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Periodic reminder that if you have a book idea that centers queer and trans studies in education, reach out! @sashelton.bsky.social and I are happy to talk it through, and potentially publish in our book series, or help make connections to other publishers. Series page: brill.com/display/seri...

Excited to (finally) share that we've received a grant from AAAS to work on improving our faculty data infrastructure around sexual orientation and gender identity! This is a fraught time for doing LGBTQ+ affirming work but it makes it that much more urgent. www.aaas.org/news/five-po...

🥳📣 Call for abstracts for an upcoming Special Issue of JQTSIE: "Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education" edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social and @ftmathteacher.bsky.social! Abstracts due May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.jqtsie.com @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

Has anyone been approached by a university outside the US to write tenure review letters, and been offered payment for doing so? Trying to figure out if this is a legit request or a weird scam. I’ve never been offered pay for a tenure review letter before!

I am hiring a postdoctoral position in queer quantitative educational research! This is a two-year position. I am more than happy to provide more information or talk with interested applicants. Apply by March 1st for full consideration. Full info and application: vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Job opening! Advance Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure eligible) of Mathematics Education here at VCU. vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Final grades are posted and I’m officially done teaching until August, 2025!

Anyone on here really good with IPEDS things and willing to give me a quick refresher? I need to use it for an internal project and am very rusty with these data.

Sometimes, life doesn’t go according to plan! This week I was supposed to finish grading, and move toward finishing my manuscript due next week. But, instead, we had 9 hours taken by emergency home repairs one day, and five hours today at the emergency veterinarian. I’ll be late on all deadlines 🙃

Reminder for anyone looking for a PhD program who wants to do queer quantitative educational research: I’m recruiting for this coming year with full funding via a research assistantship! Reach out if interested - would love to talk about the program and the work!

@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social and I delighted to announce a *new book* in our Queer and Trans Studies in Education book series with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social: Juan A. Ríos Vega's _Voicing Vulnerable Bodies Living on the Edges: The Autoethnography of a Transnational Mariposa_. brill.com/display/titl...

Our book, How to QuantCrit, is now the #1 education research new release on Amazon! Feel free to buy physical copies, but the ebook is open access! Read it before it gets banned! If you buy a physical copy from Routledge, use code AFLY04 for 20% off. www.routledge.com/How-to-Quant...

Since I'm back here now... share this @jqtsie.bsky.social special issue call with your networks! I'm co-editing! "Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education" Abstracts due: May 30, 2025 Full call: QR code/in the replies

If you have a book idea related to queer and trans studies in education, @sashelton.bsky.social and I would love to connect! We edit the Queer Studies in Education book series for Brill (brill.com/display/seri...), but are also happy to talk ideas and recommend paths to publication.

Happening today! Registration is free.

Figuring out ways to build community as we transition to this app. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #QTSE go.bsky.app/VitwfUt

If you engage in queer and/or trans educational research, consider submitting your scholarship to #JQTSIE, a fee-free open-access academic journal! www.jqtsie.com Journal Editors: @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

Our new book, "How to QuantCrit: Applying Critical Race Theory to Quantitative Data in Education" is available now! Physical copies can be purchased from any bookseller, and the eBook is available for free using the open access link on the book page: www.routledge.com/How-to-Quant...

Join us tomorrow, November 13th, for the next installment in the Critical Quantitative Methodologies Series in the @VCU School of Education! Dr. Mario Suárez will be our featured speaker this Fall. Talk is free and open to anyone - register at vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

I am recruiting for a doctoral student interested in pursuing queer quantitative methodologies in education to start Summer or Fall 2025 - a multi-year, fully funded research assistantship is available! Come study at VCU with me!

Coming up in November, Wendy Castillo and I will be sharing insights from our new book, "How to QuantCrit". Registration for this webinar is free at sree.memberclicks.net/cpqm13#!/! (It's also free to download the full book open access at taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/…)

The School of Education at VCU is hiring a Dean! The Dean will lead our highly ranked, highly research-active, urban, minority-serving school of Education, located in the heart of Richmond, VA. More information in the packet at: drive.google.com/file/d/1AXyR...

New publication out today! “Identity development negotiation and navigation for LGBTQ + individuals in the Deep South”. This piece draws from our community engaged work with LGBTQ+ folx in Mississippi and Alabama. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/I8RTY...

Now published! "Queer Quantitative Methodologies in Educational Studies", a special issue of Educational Studies featuring 8 amazing pieces of queer and trans scholarship on how to engage quant methods and statistics in educational research. www.tandfonline.com/toc/heds20/6...

What role has educational psychology played in creating and perpetuating racial inequity? In an article for @edpsychjournal.bsky.social, @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social & Carey Andrzejewski explore how anti-Black racism has and continues to manifest in our field http://tinyurl.com/5... 1/8

Join us at the VCU School of Education next month for our Critical Quantitative Methodologies Series! On March 11th, we'll host Dr. Wendy Castillo for her talk on, "QuantCrit in Action." Available on campus or via Zoom.