Kelley Fong

so great to meet you! Congrats on the book!

Really happy that my book, Subtle Webs: How Local Orgs Shape US Education, was celebrated with other books by first-time Asian and Asian-Am authors!

It's a real honor for it to be alongside other books and authors I admire. And we even had a cake with all our book covers!

smiling holding four books: Kindergarten Panic, Policing Patients, Doubled Up, and Bordering on Indifference

Hopping back on bluesky because I had to share my excitement at seeing amazing new @princetonupress.bsky.social books at #ASA2025! From brilliant friends and colleagues @bail3y.bsky.social @lizchiarello.bsky.social @hopeharvey.bsky.social Irene Vega 🤩📚🎉

oh yay! I'll text you ☺️

Hello social work friends! I will be at #SSWR2025 this week (my first time!) and would love to meet/see you if you'll be there ✨

I'll be sharing research on material support provision through CPS in CT and NYC, done in collaboration with Nora McCarthy @familypolicynyc.bsky.social

If police encounters are a nightmare for unhoused individuals, imagine how much worse they are for families w/ kids.

In my book, one family is terrified of cops finding them in their car and calling CPS. This fear is justified: "inadequate housing" drives a vast number of child removals in the U.S.

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

I haven't seen one! (but it would be super helpful--I think that community was what I personally appreciated most about old twitter)

Thanks so much for putting this together! I’d
love to join the list to find other sociology-interested folks 😊

The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood a book by Kristen Martin The real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream. The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo...

Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)

Long lines are a modern poll tax

I am organizing a session on Social Welfare Programs for ASA 2024! If you have new/in-progress research in this area, submit your extended abstract or paper by Mon 2/26 ✨

Call for submissions here: www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...

Free lunch for everybody!

New work from me, @leahclark.bsky.social, Vitaly Radsky, and Renuka Bhaskar demonstrates that universal free school meals substantially reduce school suspensions, particularly for kids from low-income families. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

I have not seen posts from Harvard faculty weighing in on Claudine Gay so for what it is worth, here is one faculty opinion. I have been a professor here since 1986. She was, by far, the very best dean of Arts and Sciences we have ever had. She was fair, collaborative and yet decisive. 1/n

I'm glad to share this Q&A with sociologist Neil Gong about his research & forthcoming book

We talked about homeless tent encampments, psychiatric institutions, Housing First and our country's dramatically bifurcated systems for treating severe mental illness

www.vox.com/24011278/men...

A girl saying on Al Jazeera: “I hope in the new year life will go back to normal. I want to live in my house in Gaza and to walk around everywhere.”

The same girl saying on Al Jazeera: “I hope to see the sea again. Please Allah let our life go back to normal in the new year.”

A boy saying: “I hope in the new year to go back to school.”

A girl saying: “I wish for the war to stop. I hope to go back to my house and to my school. My name is Haya.”

Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:

Times Union article headline: "Racial disparities in denials of victims compensation benefits, researchers finds."

Screenshot of statement from NY Governor Hochul: "Governor Hochul Signs Legislation to Support Victims and Survivors of Crime."

How it started*/how it's going:

(*I came very late to this legislative effort and merely bleep bloop blopped some numbers out of my computer to assist advocates who did the real work, but it's an honor to have played a small role)

‘No matter what I do, I’m not in control’: what happens when the state takes your child After a US mother’s brief spat with a shop clerk, child protective services took her son. Getting him back was harder then she could ever imagined

Heart wrenching piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social showing how child protective services steals years of children’s lives with their parents w/ a series of pointless and arbitrary burdens https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/us-child-protective-services-family-mother

(a belated) thank you so much for reading and sharing -- absolutely heart wrenching.

great to hear @kelleyfong.bsky.social speak on her work tonight! her book focuses on the welfare-criminalization nexus (family policing and poverty governance)

thank you for sharing, and for coming!! 🙏 (and apologies I am just now seeing this...)

Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services by Kelley Fong

Kelly Fong, author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, explains the cascading consequences of a Child Protective Services call in her PUP Ideas essay.

press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ca... @kelleyfong.bsky.social

‘No matter what I do, I’m not in control’: what happens when the state takes your child After a US mother’s brief spat with a shop clerk, child protective services took her son. Getting him back was harder then she could ever imagined

great piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social on how awful it can be to be investigated by CPS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

🙏It was an incredible night celebrating The Struggle for the People’s King and the visionaries it’s dedicated to. I am so grateful.

I did a Q&A on my book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (officially out next week!), with Heather Ashbach, UCI Social Sciences:
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood Abstract. Race and racism play an integral role in shaping mothering practices. Specifically, motherwork examines how Black mothers use strategies and practices

important new work from Mia Brantley in Social Problems, identifying the intensive motherwork ("laborious and exhaustive strategies to shield their children from racism") taken on by Black mothers: academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

woohoo, congrats!!! and welcome!

Orioles magic number to clinch AL East down to 1!!

Things are v busy this coming month but impending MLB playoffs are occupying a huge share of my attention

I know I have a book coming out but I honestly can't say which I'm more excited about 😂

I mean, I know which I've been waiting for longer...

recommendation letters?!?! I swear, we just create more work for ourselves... 😭
my n of 1 but I haven't heard of this!

Hi! I'm Sarah. I'm a postdoc at U. of Pennsylvania. I'm working on 2 projects: my book about immigrant motherhood, schools & gentrification and a co-authored book about place & immigrant young adults. I'm a mom. I live in Somerville. I'm from RI. Coffee, mountains, oceans, & friends make me happy.