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He, Him, His, She, Her, Hers, They, Their, Theirs, Zi, Zir, Hir…: Pronoun Use...
https://texaslynn.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/transgender-pronouns.jpg Have you read the recent New York Times article about Bruce Jenner and about their transition? While their gender identity is not...
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Generational Changes in a Time of Evolving LGBTQ Rights
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Demonstrations_and_protests_in_support_of_LGBT#/media/File:Russian_Embassy_in_Helsinki,_LGBT_pavement.jpg) In an age where millennials are starting...
View ArticleIntroduction: Graduate Student Advice Month
My first year of graduate school was rough. Really rough. I had a hard time transitioning and moving from an undergraduate institution that I loved to a school (though I love it now) that was no where...
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Inside the Black Box: How Publishing Works
Source: Shit Academics Say Twitter @AcademicsSay When I’m not busy working on my classwork, thesis or on Sociology Lens posts, I serve as the inaugural Managing Editor for the new American Sociological...
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Difference and Support: To be a (Queer) Scholar of Color
(Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AStudenti_ULBS.jpg) For many (Queer) scholars of color (Queer is in parentheses because not all scholars of color identify somewhere on the Queer...
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How I Survived My First Year of Graduate School (and you can too!)
Around this time last year, I had finally received that life-altering email that had prompted numerous hits of the refresh button by the minute: an acceptance into a doctoral program. At first it was...
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Technologies of Interviewing: Revamping Qualitative Methods Lessons
Source: “https://openclipart.org/download/173434/interview.svg” A couple of weeks ago, in my Social Issues in Qualitative Methodology course, I was assigned to give a presentation on the...
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How to Not Lose Your Sense of Self in a Graduate Program
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonial_Students_in_Great_Britain-_Students_at_the_City_of_London_College,_London,_England,_UK,_1946_D29304.jpg) So, you’re interested in pursuing a...
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10 Writing Tips for Student Sociologists
Source: www.phdcomics.com Good writing is crucial to sociology. For sociology to thrive as a discipline we sociologists have to be able to communicate our research effectively to a range of audiences....
View ArticleIt’s a wrap: Concluding Graduate Student Advice Month
And so here we are. Four weeks, 14 posts later. It never ceases to amaze me what we here at Sociology Lens have done here: we have created a space for graduate students to offer advice to other...
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The Art of Consent: Sexualities on the Periphery
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Handcuffs_in_BDSM#/media/File:Love_Hurts.jpg) For the past few months, I heard much criticism, and trepidation, about the Fifty Shades of Grey...
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Reconceptualizing Homonormativity: Color-Blind Racism’s Sibling?
Source: http://pixabay.com/en/law-justice-justizia-blind-scale-311363/ I know that I’ve written about my thesis a few times, but at last I have completed my research, written the formal document, and...
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Homosexuality and Anti-Colonialism: How Homosexual Frenchmen Are Actually...
(Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_history_in_France#/media/File:Miklos_Vadasz_-_L%27Assiettte_au_Beurre_-_Les_p%27tits_jeun%27_hommes_02.jpg) Before the conquest of the...
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The Rising Burden of Affording College and Undermatching
(Photo from Flickr user thisisbossi) I recently came across an article on my Facebook feed about high school senior Ronald Nelson, who was accepted into all 8 ivy league colleges (among other highly...
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The Division of Society into Two Classes Transforms into the Sexual...
(Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marxism#/media/File:Flickr_-_NewsPhoto!_-_Marxisme_festival_Amsterdam.jpg) The economist Karl Marx believed for society to change, there was a need...
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One History for All?: Pride
Photo owned by Megan Nanney I will never forget my first Pride. I was living in New York City for the summer working as an intern at the Human Rights Watch. The office, last minute, decided to join the...
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The Conception of the Closet
(Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Coming_out_of_the_closet.jpg) The concept of the “closet,” linguistically, served as the foundation, and means, to identify as a...
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Guest Post: Disability Accommodations
This is a guest post by Jenny Dick-Moser. Jenny is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech studying Sociology, Health, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Jenny just recently accepted a position as a...
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Sexual Harassment, Culture, and Gender Norms
(Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sexual_harassment#/media/File:Army_stock_photograph,_reenactment_shot_by_Pfc._Elizabeth_Fournier_140403-A-IY594-001.jpg) In patriarchal societies,...
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Teaching Month: Forever a Student
Photo Source: Sociology Lens Media Library When we here at Sociology Lens decided to dedicate July to posts about teaching, I had so much excitement. After all, graduate student advice month had gone...
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