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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her)

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Sociologist | Professor UMass Boston | First Gen Scholar | Feminist | www.umb.edu/directory/cinziasolari Writings: um-boston.academia.edu/CinziaSolari

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New publication with @professorsmitha.bsky.social in Fast Capitalism! We revisit overlooked histories of women's organizing across the former Soviet and postcolonial worlds to recover social reproduction feminism for imagining a fairer future. Please download: mavmatrix.uta.edu/fastcapitali...
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What Is to Be Done?: Expanding Our Feminist Imaginations
Reflecting on their recent book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, the authors call for sociologists to urgently engage in the work of imagining a fairer future amid intersecting local and global cri...
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
ASA members Smitha Radhakrishnan @professorsmitha.bsky.social @wellesley.edu + Cinzia D. Solari @cinziasolari.bsky.social @uofmass.bsky.social discuss the trad wife trend, some of the female archetypes it reinforces/challenges, + what it means for feminism in the US. @npr.org
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What the 'tradwife' trend means for modern feminism
What does it tell us about the pressures women are facing today?
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I was honored to share findings from my study on trans and nonbinary high school students to help teachers better understand their students’ experiences—and turn that understanding into meaningful action to support TNB students’ learning. massachusettspartnershipsforyouth.com/course/inclu...
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Inclusive Classrooms, Connected Communities: Uplifting LGBTQ+ Student Voices and Well-Being (Series Begins Jan. 15, 2026) – The Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc.
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Please submit a public comment to support trans and nonbinary kids' access to needed healthcare. There is a sample public comment and an option to submit anonymously. You can submit as an ally/parent/caregiver. You have until Feb 17. Thank you! web-extract.constantcontact.com/v1/social_an...
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ACTION ALERT! Protect Trans Youth Healthcare
Email from Greater Boston PFLAG Submit your comments now January Action Alert Protect Health Care for Transgender Youth Submit comments by February 17, 2026 SUBMIT COMMENTS HERE At Greater Boston PFL
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Check out our amazing PhD students!! @umbsociology.bsky.social
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A feminist call for creating a fairer world beyond capitalism in the name of love! I am a huge Ghodsee fan! jacobin.com/2025/12/love...
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The Political Economy of Love in Capitalism
Love requires attention, affection, and reciprocal flow — a natural cycle of giving and receiving. Capitalism can easily commodify the first two, but the third resists the market. That’s precisely why...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous. (video) snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@politybooks.bsky.social @asapolisoc.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @umbsociology.bsky.social @wellesley.edu
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thrilled to share I’ve been promoted to Full Professor! 🎉 Grateful to colleagues, students, mentors, friends—and to the everyday folks who let me travel with them & learn from their lives. Your stories shape my work and understanding of the world. #Sociology #Gratitude
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It feels amazing to have your work recognized by your peers! Thanks to the Marxist Sociology section for recognizing our book and the role of feminist thought in imagining a fairer future @professorsmitha.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social @umbsociology.bsky.social
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
**I'll be at ASA if you'd like to chat about the position. Reach out by email.** The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston is hiring a TT assistant professor with strengths in the soc of gender/sexualities: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310899/...
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Assistant Professor (Sociology) - Boston, Massachusetts job with University of Massachusetts Boston | 1310899
The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) invites qualified persons to apply for a tenure-track assistant profess...
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I am honored that my peers have elected me to serve on Council for both the American Sociological Association’s Sex & Gender and the PEWS (Political Economy of the World-System) sections. I am looking forward to connecting with folks at the ASA meetings in Chicago!
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We're hiring an assistant professor of sociology with strengths in gender & sexualities, with a preference for candidates who can teach Queer Theory & Methods. I'll be available at ASA to chat with interested candidates! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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Page Up - UMass Boston
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
As grad students, we teased Michael Burawoy for listing "capitalism on earth" as his research interest. We're thrilled that this deeply "Berkeley" feminist perspective on capitalism on earth has been recognized with the 2024 Immanuel Wallerstein Book Prize and now two 2025 awards.
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Congratulations @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social: *The Gender Order of Neoliberalism* receives Honorable Mention from @asanews.bsky.social Sex & Gender Section’s Distinguished Book Award AND Marxist Sociology Section’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award! tinyurl.com/28fw5taz
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The Gender Order of Neoliberalism
The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I LOVE this! www.erininthemorning.com/p/defying-de...
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors
LGBT Floridians demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/05/2025
1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use. Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...
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Trans Man Detained After Using Women’s Restroom in South Carolina
Anti-trans lawmakers want to force trans men to use the women's restroom. Here’s what happened when one did.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/05/2025
Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/04/2025
1. Today, young organizers held a huge rally in D.C. for Trans Day of Visibility. Dem leaders, activists, and allies spoke. “We are all standing together against the fascist lie that our bodies are not our own.” Our writer S. Baum was on the ground today. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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“Bullsh*t … Fascist Lie”: Trans People, Dems Go on the Offensive at National TDOV Rally
“We are all standing together against the fascist lie that our bodies are not our own.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/03/2025
We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
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GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation
The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.
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UMass Boston Department of Sociology & Criminology @umbsociology.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📢 Huge shoutout to our amazing grad students presenting at #ESS2025! Today, we’re showing off Katsy Rivera Kientz, Jennifer Schweers & Scarlett Qian who will be presenting their research this weekend! 🌅🎓 Stay tuned as we spotlight more of our incredible grad students throughout the week! 👏✨
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I was honored to speak as a parent and a researcher about my study with Sky Rathvon (they/them), which draws on interviews with trans and nonbinary students and their ideas for making school a more welcoming place. www.linkedin.com/posts/middle...
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Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc on LinkedIn: #inclusiveeducation #safeschools #equityineducation #mpy #educationmatters…
🌈 Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments for LGBTQ+ Students 🌈 On February 25, 2025, MPY hosted an inspiring conference at Montachusett Regional…
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The fates of LGBTQ+ people and Ukraine are linked. Trump is following Putin into an oppositional modernity that uses misogyny, transphobia, and white supremacy as vehicles for recentering manliness in how we judge which nation-states are modern: www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...
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Gender, Modernity, and Russia’s War on Ukraine | American Sociological Association
In times of war, gendered analyses—already marginalized in geopolitical thinking—are often seen as superfluous. When I am asked as a feminist sociologist with
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Is the shift from #girlboss to #tradwife a step backward for feminism? Or are both these myths simply features of our stalled feminist imaginations? @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write @contexts.org → tinyurl.com/ycxn599k & don’t miss their book ↓ tinyurl.com/28fw5taz
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The Gender Order of Neoliberalism
The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
Text: 59. For example, it is not clear which of the following activities OCR would consider
a violation of the Letter:
○ Teaching a college course on the history of the U.S. South and Jim Crow, urban
policy and planning, modern American history, or the history of housing and
segregation.
○ Leading a class discussion on the history of slavery in America or Japanese
internment during World War II.
○ Maintaining Departments of African American Studies, Arab American Studies,
Asian American Studies, or Jewish Studies.
○ Hosting a celebration for Black History Month, Holi, Eid, or Lunar New Year.
○ Hosting a Latin American culture club or a Japanese film club.
○ Counseling a student who was called a racial or ethnic slur and is upset about that
experience.
○ Maintaining a school mission built around advancing excellence and equity.
○ Telling students they cannot use a racial slur and explaining why other students
might find the slur hurtful.
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our article, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination," is in Contexts Magazine! This is an extension of our award-winning book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism. 📖 Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I was honored to speak as a parent and a researcher about my study with Sky Rathvon (they/them), which draws on interviews with trans and nonbinary students and their ideas for making school a more welcoming place. www.linkedin.com/posts/middle...
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Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc on LinkedIn: #inclusiveeducation #safeschools #equityineducation #mpy #educationmatters…
🌈 Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments for LGBTQ+ Students 🌈 On February 25, 2025, MPY hosted an inspiring conference at Montachusett Regional…
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Smitha Radhakrishnan @professorsmitha.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Looking forward to sharing some new work on debt in India tomorrow. Link to the YouTube stream in the link below. watson.brown.edu/southasia/ev...
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Smitha Radhakrishnan — Hidden Precarities: Indebtedness, Caste, and Breadwinning in Urban Uttarakhand, India | Center for Contemporary South Asia
The Center for Contemporary South Asia facilitates the study of South Asia from a multidisciplinary perspective. The center is based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Bro...
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 21/02/2025
Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Sociology scholars @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write that hashtag feminism responds to White western women's binds, but overlooks global, utopic, liberatory feminist vision to help all struggling women tinyurl.com/FEAGirlboss
The title page of the article "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding Our Feminist Imagination," published in Contexts magazine.A photo of multicultural women looking seriously at the camera. The caption reads: Collective, utopic thinking about women's empowerment has a long global history. Forgetting that history has impoverished feminist imaginations.A chart divided into four quadrants along two axes: Having Less <--> "Having It All" and Doing Less <--> "Doing It All." The first quadrant, in the upper right, is labeled Lean-In and is US-Centric. It is high on the "Doing It All" and the "Having It All" axes. The second quadrant, in the lower left, is labeled Girlboss/Tradwife, and is closer to the high ends of the "Having Less" and "Doing Less" axes. Quadrant 3, upper left, is labeled Exhausted Global Women (most women's lived experience) and is high on the "Doing It All" and "Having Less" axes. And Quadrant 4, lower right, is labeled Transnational Feminism, is Global/transnational, and is high on the "Having It All" and "Doing Less" axes.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025
1. "Intellectually and Morally indefensible," that is what a Judge called a Montana law defining sex and ending legal recognition of transgender people today. That law is now struck down as facially unconstitutional. The latest from writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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"Intellectually and Morally Indefensible": Montana Court Blocks Trans-Exclusionary Law Defining Sex
“It is the right decision, not only for us Plaintiffs but for every Montanan’s right to privacy.”
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 19/02/2025
Thank you! And we love your article! Unpaywalled and free to read, download, and share: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Smitha and I are thrilled to have our piece, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination" in this issue of Contexts!
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UMass Boston Department of Sociology & Criminology @umbsociology.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Beyond #Girlboss & #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding Feminist Imagination"—new from @cinziasolari.bsky.social & Smitha Radhakrishnan in @contexts.org. The winter issue comes with a curated playlist for you to enjoy! 📖 Read: doi.org/10.1177/1536... 🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...
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Contexts Winter 2025
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
DESE directs MA K-12 public school to uphold MA law which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. Schools must continue to protect all students, including trans and nonbinary students: www.doe.mass.edu/commissioner...
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Supporting All Students, Including LGBTQ Students - Office of the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education
The goal of the Massachusetts public K-12 education system is to prepare all students for success after high school. Massachusetts public school students are leading the nation in reading and math and...
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/01/2025
Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Has anyone seen the Massachusetts Dept of Education make a statement about Trump's attack on trans and nonbinary kids at school?
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement (MOLA) & the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) are hosting Know Your Rights trainings for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and community members. These sessions provide practical information about protections under MA anti-discrimination laws.
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
As parents worry about what the new administration will mean for their LGBTQ+ kids, please read this supportive letter from MA's Acting Commissioner of Education: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.doe.mass.edu/sfs/lgbtq/2024-1003commissioner-letter.pdf
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Online Panel: "Seeing Like a Hiring Committee" Join the ASA IM Section on Jan. 31, 2025 at 12:00 PST/3:00 EST. Panel will offer insights into academic hiring. Register: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The ASA International Migration Section's Professionalization and Mentoring Panel: Seeing Like a Hiring Committee. After registering, you will receive a con...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The ASA International Migration Section's Professionalization and Mentoring Panel: Seeing Like a Hiring Committee. After registering, you will receive a con...
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Smitha Radhakrishnan & Cinzia Solari – authors of The Gender Order of Neoliberalism – talk tradwives, empowerment, and why tradwives are not that different from girlbosses, with NPR ↓ @asanews.bsky.social @cinziasolari.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...
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Tradwife life isn't as good as it looks on TikTok – just ask former tradwives
Tradwives make it look glamorous to quit the workforce to stay home with the kids. But women who have tried the lifestyle themselves say there's a lot you're not seeing on TikTok.
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Quoted on NPR! Our book #GenderOrderOfNeoliberalism explains the embrace and disavowal of #tradwife #girlboss and lean-in feminism! @politybooks.bsky.social oks.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...
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Tradwife life isn't as good as it looks on TikTok – just ask former tradwives
Tradwives make it look glamorous to quit the workforce to stay home with the kids. But women who have tried the lifestyle themselves say there's a lot you're not seeing on TikTok.
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My family, like so many families, is feeling anxious about whether kids and parents get to make health care decisions with our doctors or if the state will be making those decisions for us: www.advocate.com/news/tenness...
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What LGBTQ+ groups are saying before Supreme Court justices hear gender-affirming care case
The case, U.S. v. Skrmetti, will have far-reaching implications for gender-affirming care and other issues of bodily autonomy.
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Come learn more about UMass Boston's MA program in Sociology! Register for the Zoom information session here: go.umb.edu/portal/socio...
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Congrats to Dr. Bianca Ortiz-Withe on defending her powerful dissertation: Tracked and Controlled: Examining the Criminalization of Asylum Seekers from Guatemala in Alternative to Detention bimi.berkeley.edu/people/bianc...
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Bianca Ortiz-Wythe | Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“Ambitious…essential…provides a compelling study of neoliberalism’s approach to gender & the impact of market-driven policies on collective efforts for women’s rights” Sociological Inquiry reviews Smitha Radhakrishnan & @cinziasolari.bsky.social The Gender Order of Neoliberalism tinyurl.com/47t7mpt8
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/11/2024
Trans congresswoman Sarah McBride posts defiant response to bathroom ban
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Trans congresswoman Sarah McBride posts defiant response to bathroom ban
First trans member of Congress ‘just trying to pee in peace’ after Mike Johnson says trans women cannot use women’s bathrooms Incoming congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to the US House of Representatives, on…
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We should be worried. GPDs at UMass Boston should be worried....
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