C.J. Pascoe

The call was made during a recent sermon titled “Pray the Gay Away” inside Sure Foundation Baptist Church on the northwest side of the city. “There’s nothing good to be proud about being a f*****. You ought to blow yourself in the head, in the back of the head. You’re so disgusting,” Stephen Falco said from the pulpit. He was speaking during the church’s “Men’s Preaching Night.” The event was streamed live on their Facebook page. A bunch of f****** that want to come around, walk on our streets, and demand our children, and we should walk in the eye and say, ‘No, you’re not going to have our children,’” he said. Falco continued to call for the death of the queer community.

Following the sermon, I-Team 8 reached out to the church about Falco’s message. “He’s only calling for the death penalty and suicide for the actual sodomites (homosexuals),” the church said in an emailed statement. “The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands.”

It's not surprising that the pastor gave this sermon during a "Men's Preaching Night" event. As @cjpascoe.bsky.social told us in her research almost 20 years ago, straight men use homophobia to police each other's masculinity.

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Every time a misogynist calls another misogynist a rapist, I always think of @cjpascoe.bsky.social and Jocelyn Hollander’s article:

“Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape”

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I'm so so so so happy for you!

As I said in my blurb: The High School takes us on a compelling historical journey, offering a unique blend of sociology, history and personal memoir…A brilliant and insightful work that may have many of us digging out our own yearbooks and revisiting our own stories. Check it out!

How cool is Mike Messner’s new book?! It looks like a yearbook and it’s based on 100+ years of yearbooks!

Indiana will promise the Trump administration there’s no DEI in the state’s schools The U.S. Department of Education has asked states to certify there’s no DEI in schools in ways the Trump administration deems illegal. Indiana says it will comply.

Indiana plans to comply with Trump push to ban DEI from schools
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/04/09/indiana-to-tell-trump-administration-there-is-no-dei-in-our-schools/

These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and books on the Holocaust were among the works removed in response to an order from the office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

HA! I'll need them. 😂Quite frankly, I'm grateful to have a solvable problem to focus on.

This is all horrifying, so all my little peabrain can focus on is that I am absolutely not prepared to be suitably professorial in 80+ degree temps next week.

Faculty, administrators at the University of Oregon avoid strike with last minute deal The University agreed to give tenured faculty gradual raises of roughly 10% over the next two years. Raises are higher for some other instructors.

www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

The funny thing is, I took a little walk before prepping for this class and saw a "Be Kind" graffiti 👀

Somehow all the students who showed up to one of my Transforming Identities seminars yesterday were international students. So we did some close reading of a few ethnographic vignettes from @cjpascoe.bsky.social's Nice Is Not Enough together, as if it's an English class. It's such a fun experience!

Wow - thank you for sharing! What a cool exercise!

Don't worry, just about every version of Dude is included in the database. That will keep things a little more fun, right?

For a more recent analysis of gender, sexuality and educational outcomes check out Nice Is Not Enough, which provides updates on a lot of the dynamics I documented in Dude - which can feel a little far from some students' lived experiences these days :). www.ucpress.edu/books/nice-i...

Thank you!

Right. That was the first thing I thought about when I realized what they were looking at. And, quite frankly, I stopped teaching my 500 student class in person because of similar safety concerns.

Today I learned that some buildings on campus post signs noting the name & time of each course taught outside the classroom in which they are taught. I learned this because five or so men gathered around/pointed at said sign during the middle of my Sex & Society class.

Oregon Universities Respond to Federal Command to Eliminate Race-Based Programs

"(The University of Oregon did not return a request for comment by our deadline.)" www.wweek.com/news/schools...

What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must there be tension between advancing along an academic career path and taking part in public conversations, or can these goals reinforce each other? Cohen will present his new book, Citizen Scholar, a practitioner’s guide to civic engagement today, showing current and aspiring social scientists how to build a career in the public sphere. Drawing from personal experience and in-depth research, Cohen gives straightforward advice that acknowledges professional risks as well as rewards. He calls on readers to embrace the reciprocal relationship between professional scholarship and active citizenship, arguing that aligning personal and vocational identities can enhance both public and academic contributions. Citizen Scholar explores intellectual work on social media, communication on topical issues, the role of political activism, and how to build trust while developing a public intellectual identity. It features lively examples from Cohen’s own work, from data-visualization principles to his experience suing President Trump for blocking him on Twitter—and winning.

Hey, I'm giving a zoom talk on my book, Citizen Scholar, at University of Wisconsin Sociology's Politics, Culture, and Society Workshop, tomorrow at 1:30pm Eastern US time. @uwsoc.bsky.social It's open to the public at: uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9571632480...

Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy - Joya Misra, 2025 In her ASA presidential address, Misra calls for making solution-oriented, community-engaged, and participatory research more central in the discipline. She arg...

So refreshing to read this call for “solution-oriented” research in sociology from @asanews.bsky.social president @joyamisra.bsky.social. Yes! Sociology can make a difference in the real world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

have kids so they can study sociology in college and then come home and tell you all the things that you did wrong

Kindness forever display at Target.

Target.

Exhortations to kindness make it look like we are confronting these topics, but really being individually nice can let us sidestep the much harder work of building systemic racial, gender, and sexual equality into our organizations, institutions and society. 3/n

These calls for kindness are a way we avoid so called “political” topics – racism, sexism, homo/transphobia - by telling people to just be nice. 2/n

We are going to see increasing calls for kindness, civility & love in the coming days. From superbowl ads to the "kindness forever" signs that seem to have taken place of the pride displays at Target. 1/n

Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High

I heard about @cjpascoe.bsky.social's book Nice is Not Enough on here and finally had the chance to read this fabulous piece of work. So many smart things to say about the limits (& I'd say dangers) of kindness as a framework for addressing inequity. 📚💙
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Wow - thank you! I really appreciate your generous words!

Inequality in measuring scholarly success: Variation in the h-index within and between disciplines Scholars and university administrators have a vested interest in building equitable valuation systems of academic work for both practical (e.g., resource distribution) and more lofty purposes (e.g., w...

"Like other forms of quantification, academic metrics simplify complex processes at a cost. This cost can reinforce existing inequalities and even generate new 'automated inequalities.'"
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