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Only “Real” Women Need Apply: Defining Womanhood and Trans Inclusion at...
By Nicolás Espinosa (De mi computador) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsIf you read my...
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Tech companies should employ more social scientists: here’s why.
Source: http://wearablesarena.com/tag/google-glass/ I don’t want to stereotype computer scientists. I still cringe when I remember clumsily insulting a room of (mainly) computer scientists at a...
View Article“F” is for Feminism: FCKH8′s Feminism Video isn’t so Fabulous
Click here to view the embedded video. It’s all over my newsfeed: Little girls swearing up a storm in the name of feminism. On Tuesday, October 21st, tee-shirt company FCKH8 released the newest online...
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“No one likes being reduced to their genitals!” Positive discrimination,...
www.tinyography.com/ “Scarlett?” My PhD compatriot, Jens* leans over to me, a glint in his eye and a bemused smile on his face that makes it difficult to work out whether this will be a joke, a...
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The Unachievable Body Ideal Revisited: Fitspiration and “Everyone is...
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Introducing the Facet Methodology
(An alternative to mixed methods especially within the sociology of digital technology) Mixed methods in practice usually involves using quantitative and qualitative methods to allow researchers to...
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How RAD is Cultural Appropriation?: Color Run Capitalizing Indian Culture
Photo of my Color Me RAD team before and after the race. (I’m second from the left in the top photo). Photo source: mine. Recently, I ran a 5k called “Color Me Rad” with a group of friends from my...
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Cancer is Not a Pink Ribbon (part 1)
http://ideborah.com/ As a belated nod to ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’ (October, in the USA), and the plethora of pink, breast-cancer-sponsored items now on sale, I want to talk about the rise of...
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Putting the “Homo” in the Organization: Making the Case for Expanding...
It is that time of year when theses, dissertations, and proposals are being prepared for defense. My thesis intends to examine the scripting of a normative student identity with special attention to...
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What’s the true meaning of the 1914 Christmas Truce?
Source:http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/media/latest-stories/2014/1112-sainsburys-and-the-royal-british-legion-partner-to-bring-first-world-war-christmas-truce-story-to-life/ Since August in the UK we’ve...
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Most “Insert List Here” of 2014: Ratings and hierarchies
http://thesocietypages.org/sociologylens/files/2008/11/feminist-fist.jpg Happy new year! I hope that this year finds you with accepted publications, good grades, and time for sleep. Each year, starting...
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Into the Woods to Grandmother’s House: Justifying Plot Twists through...
On Christmas, my family decided to spend some time at the movies watching the newly released movie Into the Woods, a movie rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s infamous operetta/musical by the same name....
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Meritocracy: neoliberalism’s fig leaf?
Meritocracy: a universally available golden escalator to a life of high status and luxury? When Young (1970) conceived of the meritocracy it was a satirical device to draw attention to a possible...
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The Queer Life: Surrounding Myself in Queer Culture and Queer Spaces
Over the past few months, I have been deep in the throes of my thesis- conducting, transcribing, coding, and analyzing interviews- on homonationalism and scripting of student identities in study...
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Will the LGBTQ Community Ever Become Ubiquitous?
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_rights#mediaviewer/File:Demonstration,_with_Gay_Liberation_Front_Banner.jpg, via Wikimedia Commons) During the trials of Eric Garner, Michael...
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Knit Happens: Doing Masculinity in a Female Knitting Space
“Purl3″. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purl3.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Purl3.jpg In college, I double majored in both women and gender studies as...
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Ubiquity and Privilege Checking
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unity#mediaviewer/File:3D_Full_Spectrum_Unity_Holding_Hands_Concept.jpg) In my last post I discussed the problems with juridical changes and...
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Why are we obsessed with what teens are doing on social media?
Source: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/files/2011/08/FBteen.jpg ‘They’ are prime movers we can observe to spot future trends; like rejecting Facebook. ‘They’ are doing something problematically or...
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Sexual Microaggressions: The New (Covert) Oppression
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lilithvf1998/22505798/ In 2007, Sue introduced the idea of microaggressions- small remarks or statements that carry harmful, derogatory, and/ or discriminatory...
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Love and Homonormativity: One in the Same?
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gay_wedding_a_by_Stefano_Bolognini.JPG) What is love? Does everyone understand love as how Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines it? Starting from birth,...
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