“The one-hour film examines bell’s childhood in Hopkinsville, her return to Kentucky in the early 2000s to join the faculty at Berea College, and how her connection to Kentucky’s ‘hillbilly culture’ informed her belief that feminism is for everybody.” hoptownchronicle.org/becoming-bell-…

Doug NeJaime (Yale Law School) and I are thrilled to share that our Article "Nonbinary Parenthood" is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review. We're sharing the abstract here. We'll be posting the full piece on SSRN soon.

A group of PIs on large national datasets has released this message bit.ly/3TvFlo9. ASA supports the message and Christina Cross.

ASA condemns unfounded accusations of plagiarism against sociologist Christina Cross and expresses concern about political actors misrepresenting the scientific process. Read our statement: bit.ly/4auxG0w

The American Sociological Association just published a report, written by me and Kathleen Hull, "Public Policy and the Well-Being of Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth in the United States: A Sociological Resource for Public Understanding." Please share! asanet.org/wp-content/upl…

I was a third-year college student before this genocide started, but I'll never be able to finish my studies because Israeli occupation forces bombed my university and every other university in Gaza. Thanks to the brave college students who are protesting and advocating for us,

I AM NOT A LAWYER, AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE if you're going to a protest where you expect to get arrested it's extremely important to have arrest training. this thread will not be as useful as a proper training, but i can offer a few tips:

Sending the state police in the quiet early morning to terrorize peaceful students after a senate mtg the night b4 in which Dr. Radenka Maric says safety is her goal is shameful. @uconn has betrayed students and faculty.

There is another way that does not require an army to arrest students

There’s something happening in Louisiana right now that should be setting off alarm bells for people all over the country - but it hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. 🧵

UT Austin professor arrested and fired after confronting police at pro-Palestinian protest bit.ly/3wtJe5M

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery” bloomberg.com/news/features/…

How abhorrent that the upper administrations of all these schools, who have called the cops on their students, face no consequences but are unyielding in their insistence that student protestors be punished, even beyond the letter of the law. Injustice compounded.

Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson grew up in DeKalb County wsbtv.com/news/local/mem…

Read more about the growing community of scholars combining historical comparative sociology and ethnography: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.20… Read this and all the great articles in Social Science History 48(2)! Damon Mayrl, Josh Pacewicz, Nicholas Hoover Wilson & Matthew Mahler, SSHA

have y’all noticed how Black women are collectively bracing themselves for the hate they’ll get during this election season now that Harris is running? this is what we mean when we speak of “chronic/anticipatory stressors w/ adverse health consequences” they regularly endure smh

This is going to be so dope. Congrats Melissa F. Lavin

Noah Bush, 8 years old, was found drowned in Jesup, Georgia in May 2024. He went out to play with neighborhood kids & never came home. After finding his body in a small body of water the sheriff’s office immediately announced it was accidental & for two months they did nothing.

I’m on the sociology job market + would really appreciate any leads for assistant prof positions and postdocs, esp in the areas of race and ethnicity, gender and sexualities, and family  I’m also already in Montreal for ASA. Would love to chat + connect! #AcademicTwitter