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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I'm revising my field methods class and I'm looking to include a list of compelling methodological appendices. Do you have a favorite sociology methods chapter? Send it my way! Self promotion encouraged!

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

@cjpascoe.bsky.social I'm sure your dance card is full, but you are the right person to write a book accounting for the post-2016 use of this word (in public settings) to do gender and race boundary work.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I worked for a bit in a district where “nice” was one of the top characteristics parents wanted students to have. It was often code for conformity.

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Looking forward to talking with Mike Messner about his new book, The High School, tomorrow. Join us - it's a virtual event! calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...

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Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I’m getting to serve as a faculty advisor to a class of LGBTQIA+ first year students this year (so exciting!) and I need your help! I’d love to assign some inspirational/uplifting/ affirming essays, films, and poetry. I know that you folks must have some fabulous ideas, so please send them my way!

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

All I have to say about Dobson's passing is that the public policy team at Focus on the Family sent me a going away gift basket when I moved away from CSprings. Even after I declined to star in a video for first year Christian college students about how to get along with their secular professors.

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I get that we can't self care our way out of this. But this morning message from the YMCA coffee counter is a little too on point for me and my colleagues at U of O who are facing unprecedented, unpredictable and unclear firings of staff, tenured and nontenured faculty.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/07/2025

It's not surprising that the pastor gave this sermon during a "Men's Preaching Night" event. As @cjpascoe.bsky.social told us in her research almost 20 years ago, straight men use homophobia to police each other's masculinity.

The call was made during a recent sermon titled “Pray the Gay Away” inside Sure Foundation Baptist Church on the northwest side of the city.

“There’s nothing good to be proud about being a f*****. You ought to blow yourself in the head, in the back of the head. You’re so disgusting,” Stephen Falco said from the pulpit. He was speaking during the church’s “Men’s Preaching Night.” The event was streamed live on their Facebook page.

A bunch of f****** that want to come around, walk on our streets, and demand our children, and we should walk in the eye and say, ‘No, you’re not going to have our children,’” he said.

Falco continued to call for the death of the queer community.

Following the sermon, I-Team 8 reached out to the church about Falco’s message.

“He’s only calling for the death penalty and suicide for the actual sodomites (homosexuals),” the church said in an emailed statement. “The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Every time a misogynist calls another misogynist a rapist, I always think of @cjpascoe.bsky.social and Jocelyn Hollander’s article: “Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape”

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

As I said in my blurb: The High School takes us on a compelling historical journey, offering a unique blend of sociology, history and personal memoir…A brilliant and insightful work that may have many of us digging out our own yearbooks and revisiting our own stories. Check it out!

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

How cool is Mike Messner’s new book?! It looks like a yearbook and it’s based on 100+ years of yearbooks!

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is all horrifying, so all my little peabrain can focus on is that I am absolutely not prepared to be suitably professorial in 80+ degree temps next week.

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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The funny thing is, I took a little walk before prepping for this class and saw a "Be Kind" graffiti 👀

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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Somehow all the students who showed up to one of my Transforming Identities seminars yesterday were international students. So we did some close reading of a few ethnographic vignettes from @cjpascoe.bsky.social's Nice Is Not Enough together, as if it's an English class. It's such a fun experience!

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

For a more recent analysis of gender, sexuality and educational outcomes check out Nice Is Not Enough, which provides updates on a lot of the dynamics I documented in Dude - which can feel a little far from some students' lived experiences these days :). www.ucpress.edu/books/nice-i...

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Today I learned that some buildings on campus post signs noting the name & time of each course taught outside the classroom in which they are taught. I learned this because five or so men gathered around/pointed at said sign during the middle of my Sex & Society class.

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"(The University of Oregon did not return a request for comment by our deadline.)" www.wweek.com/news/schools...

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Oregon Universities Respond to Federal Command to Eliminate Race-Based Programs

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 24/02/2025

Hey, I'm giving a zoom talk on my book, Citizen Scholar, at University of Wisconsin Sociology's Politics, Culture, and Society Workshop, tomorrow at 1:30pm Eastern US time. @uwsoc.bsky.social It's open to the public at: uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9571632480...

What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must there be tension between advancing along an academic career path and taking part in public conversations, or can these goals reinforce each other? Cohen will present his new book, Citizen Scholar, a practitioner’s guide to civic engagement today, showing current and aspiring social scientists how to build a career in the public sphere. Drawing from personal experience and in-depth research, Cohen gives straightforward advice that acknowledges professional risks as well as rewards. He calls on readers to embrace the reciprocal relationship between professional scholarship and active citizenship, arguing that aligning personal and vocational identities can enhance both public and academic contributions. Citizen Scholar explores intellectual work on social media, communication on topical issues, the role of political activism, and how to build trust while developing a public intellectual identity. It features lively examples from Cohen’s own work, from data-visualization principles to his experience suing President Trump for blocking him on Twitter—and winning.

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🌘 Dad Moon Rising🌒 @dadmoonrising.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

have kids so they can study sociology in college and then come home and tell you all the things that you did wrong

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We are going to see increasing calls for kindness, civility & love in the coming days. From superbowl ads to the "kindness forever" signs that seem to have taken place of the pride displays at Target. 1/n

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I heard about @cjpascoe.bsky.social's book Nice is Not Enough on here and finally had the chance to read this fabulous piece of work. So many smart things to say about the limits (& I'd say dangers) of kindness as a framework for addressing inequity. 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/nice...

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Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High

Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High

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Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My campus was recently peppered with "choose kindness" lawn signs (hug emojis 🤗 included). I'm down for kindness, but it's been very jarring to see them pop up at exactly the same time as the state legislature introducing a bill to dismantle academic freedom at our institution.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If you are of a mind, I would love any recommendations you have for essays about physical pleasure (not just sex).

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Responding to social problems with exhortations to kindness is a way we make systemic inequalities look like individual ones, ones that can be changed if we are just nice enough, not ones that require fundamental shifts in how our institutions, organizations and society are arranged.

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Someone should really write a book about how we use exhortations to kindness to avoid "political" discussions about racial, gender, sexual and class inequalities...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One thing we've learned since 1/20 with painful clarity is that our institutions are far more fragile than we could have ever imagined.

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Letta Page @lettapage.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Volunteered at the food bank today because we need to strengthen mutual aid networks of all kinds and all sizes. And because everyone deserves a sammich. Now to go sign things with my pronouns and a harrumph!

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’ve now posted the national data, 2015-2023, in Stata format here. I will add state and district data when I’m able. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

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CDC National Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2023

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I have these (evidently censured) data and am happy to share with anyone. Just email me jmittlem@sas.upenn.edu

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/01/2025

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

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Angela Baggetta @angelabaggetta.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Just re-upping for media covering #school #vouchers and #Trump : you must talk to @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social, author of THE PRIVATEERS (out fall 2024). He knows everything about how they became "a thing" & why the Right desperately wants them to become the norm...

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I note that www.glad.org is providing legal services here. They have a donate button at the top right of their website.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

@victorerikray.bsky.social has a new piece in @theemancipator.org! "Couching bigotry in concern about “qualifications” (which only seems to apply to non-White people) is just the socially acceptable way to launder racist disdain." theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

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Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist

New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Great piece by @leahsottile.bsky.social on an old school far right, anti-LGBTQ from the late 1980s and early 1990s who is now publishing/editing a local newspaper that shows up for free in the mailboxes of 14,000 people in Clackamas County in the outskirts of Portland. www.opb.org/article/2025...

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In Oregon’s strained local news ecosystem, a longtime far-right political figure has found opportunity

In one of the fastest-growing areas of Oregon, the emergence of a locally-owned print newspaper seems like good news. But a close examination of Hoodview News shows something more complex.

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm trying to understand the scope of the NSF panel cancelations for C&EN and understand which research disciplines have been affected. If you were on a review panel that got canceled, are being impacted by any grant review pauses or know anyone who is, please reach out.

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