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Trans-feminisms, sociology, and the coalitional social justice work (that...
I remember, about a decade ago, meeting U.S. scholars at an international conference. In the period of an otherwise nice lunch, one particular colleague – a second wave (cisgender, straight) feminist...
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Honoring the Childfree Auntie
This piece originally appeared on the Ms. Magazine Blog. Susan, a 53 year old camp director, babysat from the time she was 12 years old. She always assumed she’d have kids one day—but during college,...
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Originally posted at Democratic Socialists of America In the 1950s, a collection of sociologists and psychologists (which included, among others, Theodor Adorno) wrote The Authoritarian Personality....
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Harry Brod, 1951-2017
Originally published in the USC Dornsife Gender Studies Program Newsletter, August 24, 2017. The USC Gender Studies Program mourns the loss of one of our founding colleagues Harry Brod, Professor of...
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Amplifying Girls’ Voices at Girls Rock Camp
At Girls Rock Camp, a week-long summer camp for girls and non-binary kids, volunteers plug instruments into amplifiers. Once “plugged in,” campers excitedly ask, “Is my amp on? Can I turn it up? How...
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Much Ado About Nothing?: The Story of an Erratum that Barely Was
Scholarly publications are not necessarily free from error. Researchers like Mark Regnerus have operational problems that skew their claims. Others publish with typos. And still others make mistakes in...
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The Rise and Fall of One Professor’s Penis Study
You don’t know me, but you likely know of me. I’m the female professor who dared to run a self-esteem study requesting photographic evidence confirming correct method and measure of penis size. Within...
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The Perils and the Possibilities of All-Black Male Schools
What do Louis Farrakhan, George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? They are examples of the strange political bedfellows who support separate, publicly funded schools for...
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What’s in a Label: The Lesbian Generational Divide
Does it matter how I identify my gender and sexuality? This question can spark contentious debate. While reading Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity by Arlene Stein, I began to think...
View ArticleDads and Diaper Ads: A Tough Gender Test
A new diaper commercial caught our eye this week. The Pampers Pure ad opens with John Legend changing his daughter’s diaper, smiling and singing a song. A toy piano accompaniment joins in as other...
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Pride & Queer Horror
Cross-posted from Office Hours with Dr. Horror: Horror with a Sociological Twist Horror is a genre that often feels as though it is not for queer people. When most people think of horror, they imagine...
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The “Beth Schneider Effect” on the Sociology of Sexualities
Beth Schneider was the chair of my department the year I was hired and retired last winter. During the time I have come to know Beth, she quickly became one the models of the kind of feminist mentor...
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A diverse cohort of women deploy to the front of the veterans’ peace movement
When she joined Veterans For Peace in 2015 it didn’t take Army veteran Monisha Ríos long to learn that there is a status hierarchy among vets—even those working for peace and justice. On meeting Ríos,...
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Queens Rule the World
Drag is political and can teach us many lessons about gender in our society. While my upcoming book, King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South, discusses myriad of these issues, in this essay I...
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