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Some of you may not know this, but Focus had a giant phone bank where anyone could get help - bills paid, referrals to christian therapists, food etc. Basically they were trying to replace the existing (paltry) gov safety net. They laid the groundwork for what we are now witnessing writ large.

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The damage he did to reproductive rights, to queer folks, to women in abusive situations is unfathomable.

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I listened to this man's tapes over and over and over again in car rides with my parents. He was their young married couples minister at their church in Pomona before he brought Focus to CSprings.

traumatized children of evangelicals are celebrating the death of Dr. James Dobson

focus on your own damn family

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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.

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

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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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 · 13/05/2025

I'm so so so so happy for you!

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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

HA! I'll need them. 😂Quite frankly, I'm grateful to have a solvable problem to focus on.

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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.

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

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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 · 31/03/2025

Wow - thank you for sharing! What a cool exercise!

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Don't worry, just about every version of Dude is included in the database. That will keep things a little more fun, right?

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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

Right. That was the first thing I thought about when I realized what they were looking at. And, quite frankly, I stopped teaching my 500 student class in person because of similar safety concerns.

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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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Exhortations to kindness make it look like we are confronting these topics, but really being individually nice can let us sidestep the much harder work of building systemic racial, gender, and sexual equality into our organizations, institutions and society. 3/n

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These calls for kindness are a way we avoid so called “political” topics – racism, sexism, homo/transphobia - by telling people to just be nice. 2/n

Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.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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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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