Stephanie M. Ortiz

Y'all the political violence we are seeing isn't on some random posters. It's on the president. It's on his administration. Why do we have higher standards for random people online than we do the political elite?

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Lots to hate in this article. But the idea that the administration is attacking sociology because we are too woke is kinda silly when they are cutting NASA, vaccines, and climate science. This is what authoritarians do, Stop blaming the victim because you’re mad about your colleagues’ research.

I waived my right to know who my letter writers were, but if you are out here—THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for your care, attention, and advocacy

What a ride! Defended my dissertation in March 2020 and received the Chancellor’s recommendation to the Board of Trustees in March 2025.

The Board voted today and it’s official — tenured and promoted.

Let's remember today why they're trying to force women into motherhood.

As I wrote in Holding It Together:

"Resistance to motherhood... poses a problem for [them] because trapping girls and women in motherhood is the quickest way to conscript them into doing the work of the social safety net." 1/

Teaching and proximity to whiteness: a Black biracial and light-skinned Latina professor reflect In this critical reflection, a Black/white1 biracial woman professor and light-skinned Latina professor reflect on how their teaching experiences are shaped by their proximity to whiteness. Teachin...

Dr. Chandra Waring and I wrote about what it's like teaching the sociology of race ✨in a deeply blue state✨ when you have partial white ancestry (her) and are not racialized as white by students but directly benefit from colorism (me).

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Loretta Ross’s Calling In Meredith D. Clark, Jo Freeman, Stephanie M. Ortiz, and Carmen Perez-Jordan discuss Loretta J. Ross’s book Calling In, plus a response from Ross herself.

Meredith D. Clark, Jo Freeman, @smosaidso.bsky.social, and Carmen Perez-Jordan discuss Loretta J. Ross's Calling In! The latest Short Takes offers diverse perspectives on the movement-building strategies necessary for this moment. Check it out, free!

Still thinking about the viewpoint diversity stuff. They are saying faculty do not have viewpoint diversity, as if viewpoints are fixed. I have a colleague who is a lifelong moderate Republican who would now fail their viewpoint diversity test because the current Republican party is far-right.

Starting over trying to find my people on here is bootleg behavior.

May the sociologists, digital culture folks, and hilarious heauxs find me once again.