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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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El Pensador Sereno @elpensadorsereno.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sí, claro que se puede. Tenía una amiga bi, que en paz descanse, que sentía atracción romántica por hombres, pero sus parejas y relaciones siempre fueron con mujeres.

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Kitti 🎀 PINK CLOUDING ERA!!! @kittileecreates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a bi ace person, YES!!!

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can bisexual people use the split attraction model? I think the answer is yes—and that the question reveals something interesting about how we think about attraction.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My research on gender detachment and compulsory gender just won another award from the American Sociological Association! It’s the third ASA award this line of work has received. I’m honored and excited to see research on asexuality get such an enthusiastic reception.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/06/2026

NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "With qualitative research, the risks of data sharing can outweigh the rewards." June 5, 2026.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slate recently covered my research on “gender detachment,” or the idea that some people feel disconnected from identifying with any gender identity! I’m grateful for the opportunity to reflect on what this attention signifies—not just for my work but for how we collectively understand gender.

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When Gender Feels Irrelevant: Reflections on the Slate Feature

Maybe you saw the recent headline in Slate: “My Gender Is No Thank You.”

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”

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Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network @aroaceresearch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Our talk series will begin in only three weeks, and we‘re excited to share the amazing people we have lines up with you! The talks will be online, weekly on Fridays at 3 pm UK time! 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 There is no registration required, you can find the link to join at aroaceresearch.com/events

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Every bullet fired, every bomb dropped puts more $$ in someone’s pocket. Worth remembering as the Trump admin seems to be gearing up for an attack on Iran. War has a profit incentive for a small group of very wealthy people.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Nicki Minaj has a track record of defending sexual abusers and pedophiles, so her support of Trump is on brand.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

In a world where emerging sexualities are dismissed as “made up,” “online-only,” or “Western inventions,” seeing ace identities emerge across continents is a reminder of what so many asexual people already know: Asexuality is everywhere. Read more about the ace findings here:

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New Research Shows Asexuality’s Global Footprint

Asexuality is everywhere

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang doesn't want "well-respected people" like PhDs and CEOs to criticize AI, especially in front of governments.

He labeled concerns about the AI technology a "doomer narrative": https://80.lv/articles/nvidia-ceo-doesn-t-want-well-respected-people-to-criticize-ai

The screenshot includes a color photo of Jensen Huang wearing his typical leather jacket. He is an Asian man, with glasses and silver hair. His overall affect is smug.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Men will literally torpedo the stock market and threaten to annex Greenland instead of going to therapy.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

JK Rowling is an anti-queer gender fascist. So when you make Harry Potter references without even a nod to her oppressive views, you look sus.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Exciting to see my research with @francescorampazzo.com get so much attention! I also appreciate how this piece pushes against the misleading reporting from the Daily Mail that claimed our study shows that lesbians are “dying out.” As PinkNews points out, that’s a transphobic dog whistle.

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Francesco Rampazzo @francescorampazzo.com · 19/12/2025

New coverage of our global study on sexual identity and generational change, now on @pinknews.bsky.social. @cantonwiner.bsky.social

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Francesco Rampazzo @francescorampazzo.com · 16/12/2025

Our research with @cantonwiner.bsky.social and Milan Kovačič has also been reported by @advocate.com, providing another perspective on the findings. Work based in the @socialstats.bsky.social Department of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk.

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апрель! @staticavril.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"The term 'lesbian' is dying out" Well, I'm not sure if I, as an demiromantic asexual lesbian, would have even come to the conclusion to be a lesbian, rather than "just broken", if it weren't for the a-spec labels! 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The @dailymail.co.uk just reported on my research. But their framing is wrong. Lesbian identities aren’t “dying out.” So-called “new” identities (like pansexual, queer, asexual, etc.) aren’t “replacing” older ones. They’re adding to the ways people can plug into queerness.

Screenshot of Daily Mail headline: “The term lesbian is dying out: Gen Z are opting for more modern identities including queer, pansexual, or asexual, study finds.”

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Asexuality is a global identity. That’s a major finding in a study I recently published with @francescorampazzo.com in Demographic Research. Analyzing dating app data spanning 162 countries from over 900,000 users, we found that asexuality showed up in every age group and in every region.

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Francesco Rampazzo @francescorampazzo.com · 12/12/2025

An early Christmas gift from @demresjournal.bsky.social: new publication with @cantonwiner.bsky.social and Milan Kovačič on sexuality using dating app data. A great example of how social scientists and industry can collaborate to produce global, inclusive research.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

“[B]ecause sex positivity is about expanding our freedom to participate in sex—but it is also about enabling us to decline intimacy that we don’t want. Consent is core to sex positivity.” Wait also this wristband system sounds so genuinely helpful.

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MaraKellista @marakellista.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I knew I was poly before I knew I was aro (before aro as a term even existed). Relationship anarchy best describes my flavor of polyam. I used to think I was odd for considering myself poly, aro, AND acespec, but I’ve learned lots of people are; they’re fully compatible! Challenge amatonormativity!

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Aromanticism and relationship anarchy share so much resonance with each other.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We can’t take you seriously if you think “wokeness” is a bigger threat than authoritarianism. [cough cough Bari Weiss]

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2025

In today's @latimes.com, @georgianndavis.bsky.social writes about teaching statistics as an intersex scholar, and having to choose between lying to her students about the biological realities of sex and gender or teaching what the administration insists is true. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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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.

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Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My special issue of The Sociological Quarterly on queer nightlife is out! A real passion project, attempting to articulate what unique contributions sociologists can make to a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation. It’s all open access for 6 months. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6... #sociology

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The Sociological Quarterly

Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What if gender isn’t something everyone has, but something we’re compelled to have? My new Substack explores compulsory gender and how some people "detach" from gender. Dive in: cantonwiner.substack.com/p/compulsory-gender-detachment

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Compulsory Gender

Do We All Need a Gender? Challenging Compulsory Gender

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David John Frank 🏳️‍🌈 @davidjohnfrank.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

New research from Canton Winer! Gender identity detachment: New term allows people to skip gender entirely. share.google/uoS3hFDjV2UR...

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There’s a Shiny New Entry Into the Gender Lexicon. This One Changes the Ballgame.

Turns out there’s more to the gender spectrum than we’d imagined.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If you know much about authoritarians, you know that they pounce at the chance to exploit a crisis. That’s one reason many people are fearful in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s shooting. It's easy to feel hopeless right now. But as a sociologist, I see some real reasons for hope.

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Surviving the Kirk/MAGA Crisis

On Finding Hope Under Authoritarianism

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I don’t relish seeing anyone shot. It’s horrible. But spare me the calls for empathy for a man who built a career railing against empathy.

Screenshot of a headline from Yahoo News: “Charlie Kirk once said empathy was a ‘made up, new age term’”

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Dehumanization is a form of political violence, one that Charlie Kirk knew well.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

As I learned in critical theory: "Law is the institution by which Power declares itself Virtue."

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/09/2025

The lack of arms is so dehumanizing. And I think you could reasonably argue that the placement of the crescents suggests a chest that hasn't finished puberty yet.

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KatieC (she/her) @katiec1212.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Yessss let's get more recognition for this research!!!

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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When Gender Feels Irrelevant: Reflections on the Slate Feature

Maybe you saw the recent headline in Slate: “My Gender Is No Thank You.”

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voids bunny 🏳️‍⚧️ @voidsbunny.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I would love to know how many of the people mentioned are autistic or otherwise neurodivergent. This really sounds like autigender. Especially since this story came out of a study on asexuality, and the ace community also has a high percentage of autistic people.

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Meghan Wilson Duff 🦑 @mwduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

For those of us for whom gender is a junk drawer of rules that defy sense 🎶

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · 05/09/2025

Howdy! I’ve got a new @slate.com story, about some really fascinating work researcher @cantonwiner.bsky.social is doing around asexuality and a concept he coined called “gender detachment”

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A Researcher Was Studying How to Classify Gender—and Found a Startling New Answer

Turns out there’s more to the gender spectrum than we’d imagined.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

This article is an excellent guide to what you can and should be doing right now. Many people seem to think that fascism is a switch that gets flipped, but it's really a machine that the government needs to keep feeding quarters into. Your job is to exhaust the state until they quit.

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