Everyone always talks ABOUT trans kids, but they never talk TO trans kids
I interviewed Trans Kids Deserve Better. These kids are so brave. Check it out!
youtu.be/lQ-C4WqBf30
Everyone always talks ABOUT trans kids, but they never talk TO trans kids
I interviewed Trans Kids Deserve Better. These kids are so brave. Check it out!
youtu.be/lQ-C4WqBf30
Thank you so much!! Hope you are doing well!
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Here is my first installment of the Anti-Trans Tipping Point, a series where I seek to work through wtf has happened with the trans rights movement in the US and what comes next. I've got plenty more lined up, so stay tuned
open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...
Deadline next week! Applications for the Annual Meeting Travel Fund Award and the Student Forum Travel Award must be received by Monday, April 28! Applicants should not register for the meeting until funding decisions have been made. https://bit.ly/3EhNCbN
22.04.2025 18:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🏳️⚧️ "Let's lift up the joy and euphoria in our lives - we deserve that."
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/less-famous-transphobes-more-trans-joy-please/
Start your week off right & make sure you check out our latest Themed Issue on "LGBTQ+ Politics in Contentious Times" 📖 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
It's packed with work by stars 🌟 like @honoratabogusz.bsky.social @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social @alavizzari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social among others!
Tomorrow! Workshop for anyone wanting tips on navigating the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago!
09.04.2025 17:10 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Flyer for the ASA SFAB Spring Workshop titled “Making the Most out of the ASA Annual Meeting.” It includes date and time (April 10, 2025, 7–8 PM ET), notes it’s a virtual Zoom webinar, and provides a registration link. Text highlights that the event is for first-time ASA attendees, grad students, and anyone seeking tips on navigating ASA. The flyer features a purple and white color scheme with an image of a classroom-style audience listening to a speaker.
1 week away!
Join us for the SFAB Spring Workshop: Making the Most out of the ASA Annual Meeting
📅 Thursday, April 10
🕖 7–8 PM ET (4 PT / 5 MT / 6 CT)
💻 Register: tinyurl.com/SFAB-Webinar
What defines the transgender population?
We recently had a paper come out in SSM in which we explore this in Danish population data. We find that certain groups of transgender individuals, but not all, are disadvantaged in education, labour market outcomes, and health. Keen to hear your thoughts!
(Image of a google doc; first line is title & in larger font) Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher education in a democratic and free society, and to the values and practices that facilitate the production, advancement, and sharing of knowledge. Given the continuous and escalating attacks on higher education along with many other pillars of American democracy by the Trump administration and its allies, we call on colleges and universities to protect these values. We affirm that: The democratic ideals of free thought, free speech, free association, freedom of assembly and the right to dissent are worth fighting for. Democracy both honors our dignity as individuals and enables collective action on behalf of the common good.
2. Education is a fundamental pillar of a democratic society. People come from all over the world to take part in the free exchange of ideas and the depth of knowledge and expertise found in US colleges and universities. The capacity and tools these institutions provide to think carefully and deeply about politics, society, and the built and natural worlds produce scholars and world citizens whose contributions benefit us all. The value of American education has long been a consensus position across parties and ideologies; both Democratic and Republican administrations have supported our system of higher education. 3. Diversity is essential. Democracy requires that we invest fully in the rich array of our differences. We affirm the fundamental dignity and value of each person of every race, ethnicity, national origin, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, legal status, religion, identity, ideology and viewpoint. Bringing together people with different experiences, talents, and perspectives is critical to a successful learning environment and ultimately benefits society as a whole. 4. Education, knowledge, and science are intrinsically worthwhile. They improve both individual lives and the collective well-being of a democratic society. Cutting funding risks inflicting lasting damage on scholarly inquiry, from work in the arts to social policy to life-saving medical research and care.
5. Academic freedom is necessary to the pursuit of knowledge. Research must be conducted free from political threat if it is to identify and develop ideas serving the human race. These ideas, turned into action, are critical elements of any functioning society, including the rule of law, medical care, and scientific advancement. 6. No amount of accommodation or compliance will protect us. The current attacks on higher education amount to an assault on the foundational principles of democracy. If we abandon our commitments to equality, pluralism, and free scholarly inquiry we turn our backs on the most essential ingredients to our democracy: reflecting on our past, pooling our present talents, and investing in our future. As scholars, educators, and people who care about our students and our democracy, we believe it is our duty to speak out against the attacks on diversity and pluralism, on scholarship and learning, on academic freedom, and on democracy itself. We are doing so through this statement, and will continue to do so on our campuses and beyond. We urge the leaders of America’s colleges and universities, and every American who believes in democracy and education, to stand up for the values we share. We call on college and university leadership to refuse to comply with the unethical, irresponsible and frequently illegal demands of the Trump administration; to join together to speak out in defense of the values of academic freedom, scholarship and research; to protect their students and faculty from government reprisals; and to fight attacks on our institutions in the public sphere and the legal arena.
A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed.
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
That’s so interesting and so important!! I’d love to connect further!
13.03.2025 20:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congrats!!! Excited to give this a read!
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Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers.
Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback.
🔗 Read it here:
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This is intolerable.
Cancelling ACTIVE grants that salaries already depend on is a cruel tactic that aims, not at saving money, but at terrorizing the university system and beating us into submission.
#academicsky #edusky
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
The constant illegality is exhausting. And the extended nature of all this is going wear people down, as what was initially shocking becomes par for the course.
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everyone in your life talking about narcissists these days too? my co-author and i wrote a little article about it, out now! academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
14.02.2025 18:54 — 👍 40 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Anyone affiliated with a University in any way should start preparing for the National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17th, 2025. Go to the website for more info — They are doing lots of Zoom organizing calls beforehand too.
01.03.2025 02:34 — 👍 356 🔁 186 💬 3 📌 9
Right now, if I were to apply to renew my passport it would come back with an F.
I am happy to be out as trans, but traveling with an F would mean being outed every time I need my passport.
Please go register your opposition to this BS policy - (thanks @aclu.org)
action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...
Podcast! Former ASA President Joya Misra (UMass-Amherst) discusses her presidential address, “Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy," delivered at the ASA 2024 Annual Meeting in Montreal & published in the Feb 2025 American Sociological Review
05.03.2025 19:03 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Requiring that people use incorrect gender markers on their passports is dangerous!
The ACLU has set up a portal to help members of the public comment on these changes to U.S. passport policy. Please go register your opposition if you can.
action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...
BY: Oliverson H.B. No. 3817 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1 AN ACT 2 relating to creating the criminal offense of gender identity fraud. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 32, Penal Code, is amended 5 by adding Section 32.515 to read as follows: 6 Sec. 32.515. GENDER IDENTITY FRAUD. (a) A person commits 7 an offense if the person knowingly makes a false or misleading 8 verbal or written statement to a governmental entity or the 9 person's employer by identifying the person's biological sex as the 10 opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth. 11 (b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony. 12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
🚨Texas has introduced a bill that would make it felony fraud to say that your gender is anything except your gender assigned at birth.
This an extreme bill, which most likely won’t pass, but signals the intensity is continuing to increase against transgender people in the US.
🎊 Welcome, @sociottergy.bsky.social! 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛
05.03.2025 16:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0More simply put, this means gender-affirming care providers nationwide will continue to receive federal funding, pending further litigation. It's great news.
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OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue
A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
#palestine #gaza
Thank you so much!! :)
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“People are doing things.” Have you dropped in yet on the 24-hour livestream of Black leaders giving the “State of the People”? This is an extraordinary gathering of leaders, activists and journalists.
Will go on until midnight tonight. Get on it!
stateofthepeople.media
Beyond thankful for my family, friends, & mentors who have continuously supported this dream of mine. I would not even be dreaming of grad school if not for the community around me.
So excited to begin the next chapter of this journey! Go blue!!
I am immensely grateful & excited to share that I will begin my PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan this fall! I will also be joining @um-psc.bsky.social as a predoctoral trainee! 💙〽️
I am so honored to continue my work on nonbinary gender identities in such an amazing department.