Everyone should read this fantastic piece. This hit close to home as we just spent the last few weeks covering the gender wage gap, motherhood penalty, and comparative work-family policies. Neither my students nor I can imagine this material being banned.

The most senior Republican woman in the Senate leading the charge to make it harder for Republican women to vote.
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A daughter reexamines her own family story in 'The Mixed Marriage Project' Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records.

Hear Dorothy E. Roberts @upenn.edu dive into her new memoir in this episode of Fresh Air. Roberts explores her parents' research and her surprise at learning that she was included as participant number 224 in the files. @nprfreshair.bsky.social @npr.org n.pr/4ayU0ZN

So exciting!

6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wisdom.

What is conventional wisdom getting wrong about rural America? ASA member Shannon M. Monnat @smonnat.bsky.social @syracuseu.bsky.social, w/ Tim Slack (LSU), highlights some common misconceptions and why correcting them matters. @us.theconversation.com

“What Was my Catalyst?” Narratives and Biographical Connectivity in Public Education Activism - Qualitative Sociology Drawing on in-depth interviews with 33 women involved in public education activism in the Deep South, this article explores the formation of personal, emotional, and ideological ties to an activist ca...

Really excited to have my first article from my thesis published today in one of my favorite journals❤️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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Friends and colleagues,
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I remember flipping through teen vogue growing up in the middle of no where Mississippi, and I was planning on having my Sociology of Gender students write an op-ed style piece designed for Teen Vogue readers as their final assignment next semester. This is a major loss for young women.

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Showing a film on racial inequality today. Which would be unlawful in Mississippi had we not fought back against the state’s anti-DEI bill.

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'? A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

Honestly, this is why we need a qualitative data lab. People are dunking on these folks or calling them stupid but they are *reasoning about politics* and in similar ways, it’s just really difficult to decipher & we don’t have the long form interview data at scale that we would need to get insight.

Hey, happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day everyone.

I am celebrating with the traditional bisexual beverage: iced-coffee.

Why Dems Keep Screwing Up Media Efforts Wired has a story by Taylor Lorenz about Chorus, which is a Dem backed influencer agency, attempting to recruit influencers with $8000 a month retainers and contracts that stipulate that they not disc...

Every word of this. 👇🏾

Despite what some Democratic consultants suggest, the pro-democracy party’s first question shouldn’t be, “Does stopping fascism poll well?”

A 🧵 I hope inspires:

In April, Mississippi passed HB 1193, one of the most Draconian anti-DEI laws in the country.

The law aims to prevent public schools, colleges, and their employees from “engaging” in divisive concepts.

This is amazing news!

Obsessed with this thread/substack. A must read for anyone studying campaign finance/electoral politics.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Whenever I think of Putnam, I think of a quote from a mom I interviewed, who told me: "The last thing I need is another email from my employer, telling me to invest in a little self-care."

A quote from the article that states “As public sociologists, part of our job is to encourage critical thinking and clear writing. The tips for providing feedback I offer here promote students’ agency in the writing process and encourage deep thinking throughout the revision process. Students can often feel resistant to receiving feedback on assignments often preferring to turn in one draft, this feedback encourages them to lean into the revision process. The goal is to emphasize writing as communication and part of a collaborative process.” Also pictured is a photograph of the author, a woman with brown hair and a red sweater as well as a cartoon drawing of a hand writing.

How can instructors provide effective feedback to students to help them become better writers? This Class Notes article by Emily Tingle discusses some strategies you might find useful!

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Democracy Is Awkward | Michael Rosino | University of North Carolina Press In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and wield ...

Starting off People-ing Politics Day 2 with panel on Racism in Politics. @michaelrosino.bsky.social of Molloy U presents rich ethnographic research on participants grappling with racism within progressive grassroots orgs. His book w @uncpress.bsky.social is out now! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

My 10-year-old told me she wants to start getting more "first-hand news." So, we signed her up for @teenvogue.com's newsletters, because I can't imagine a better source for young people trying to navigate the world right now.

We are excited to announce the addition of 3 new faculty members - Julia Thomas, Dr. Gillian Slee and Dr. Derick S. Baum. Please give them a warm welcome and a hearty "Go Dawgs!"

I often feel proud to be a sociologist. Today I'm extra proud. @asanews.bsky.social

Our Winter '25 issue is now live and unpaywalled at journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTX/current! Want a clickable table of contents? Go here: contexts.org/articles/w25-toc/. Want a playlist for all this sociology, with songs inspired by the articles in this issue? Go here: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...