Dr. Canton Winer

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Interesting! I haven’t come across people describing the feelings I noticed in my research as dysphoric (in fact many explicitly said they weren’t dysphoric), but I really see where you’re coming from.

I’m so glad you were able to make it and that the discussion connected with your personal experience!

“[B]ecause sex positivity is about expanding our freedom to participate in sex—but it is also about enabling us to decline intimacy that we don’t want. Consent is core to sex positivity.”

Wait also this wristband system sounds so genuinely helpful.

I knew I was poly before I knew I was aro (before aro as a term even existed). Relationship anarchy best describes my flavor of polyam. I used to think I was odd for considering myself poly, aro, AND acespec, but I’ve learned lots of people are; they’re fully compatible! Challenge amatonormativity!

Sluts and Asexuals, Unite! Reflecting on a slut-affirming night out

I’ve written before about how slut politics and asexuality also share more resonance than is apparent at first glance.

You can read about that here: open.substack.com/pub/cantonwi...

But I’m eager to think more about aromanticism and the queer resources it offers us.

And both aromanticism and relationship anarchy can push us toward centering autonomy, community, flexibility, and care in how we relate to one another.

Aromanticism and relationship anarchy both challenge amatonormativity, or the assumption that everyone does/should desire a central, exclusive, romantic relationship and that such a relationship is the most fulfilling path to a meaningful life.

Aromanticism and relationship anarchy share so much resonance with each other.

We can’t take you seriously if you think “wokeness” is a bigger threat than authoritarianism.

[cough cough Bari Weiss]

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'? A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

In today's @latimes.com, @georgianndavis.bsky.social writes about teaching statistics as an intersex scholar, and having to choose between lying to her students about the biological realities of sex and gender or teaching what the administration insists is true.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The Sociological Quarterly Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly

My special issue of The Sociological Quarterly on queer nightlife is out! A real passion project, attempting to articulate what unique contributions sociologists can make to a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation. It’s all open access for 6 months. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6... #sociology

Compulsory Gender Do We All Need a Gender? Challenging Compulsory Gender

What if gender isn’t something everyone has, but something we’re compelled to have?

My new Substack explores compulsory gender and how some people "detach" from gender.

Dive in: cantonwiner.substack.com/p/compulsory-gender-detachment

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There’s a Shiny New Entry Into the Gender Lexicon. This One Changes the Ballgame. Turns out there’s more to the gender spectrum than we’d imagined.

New research from Canton Winer! Gender identity detachment: New term allows people to skip gender entirely. share.google/uoS3hFDjV2UR...

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

Surviving the Kirk/MAGA Crisis On Finding Hope Under Authoritarianism

If you know much about authoritarians, you know that they pounce at the chance to exploit a crisis.

That’s one reason many people are fearful in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s shooting.

It's easy to feel hopeless right now.

But as a sociologist, I see some real reasons for hope.

Screenshot of a headline from Yahoo News: “Charlie Kirk once said empathy was a ‘made up, new age term’”

I don’t relish seeing anyone shot. It’s horrible.

But spare me the calls for empathy for a man who built a career railing against empathy.

Kirk’s own words in the moment he was shot were part of a project of political violence.

It would be poetic if it weren’t so deeply disturbing.

Dehumanization is a form of political violence, one that Charlie Kirk knew well.

Respectfully, I think it’s problematic to medicalize this experience (especially since there’s no evidence of anything health related in my data). Your experience is valid—but it doesn’t invalidate the experiences of the dozens of people I’ve interviewed.

I agree that there could be some overlap in how these terms are defined. However, the people I interviewed explicitly said that they didn’t feel the agender label fit them very well. I take that seriously and I’m not placing that label on them.

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As I learned in critical theory: "Law is the institution by which Power declares itself Virtue."

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

It’s a topic I’m genuinely curious about. I’ll probably explore the relationships between agender and gender detachment in a future project. Always happy to hear others’ perspectives.

I briefly discuss the difference between agender and gender detachment here: contexts.org/blog/does-ev...

I don’t, but maybe I should…

I think they’re different but can overlap. Agender is a gender identity (albeit one that refers to not having a gender). Gender detachment reflects a sense that gender is unimportant.

I briefly discuss agender vs gender detachment here: contexts.org/blog/does-ev...

I hope it’s useful for you!