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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

who do you think most often suffers the trauma that Buttigieg and his family went through? I can tell you: it's not affluent white national political figures.

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

What Buttigieg went through here was awful, and he is right to call out the terrible practice of making a false CPS report for political purposes. But as you read, consider this: why can any report lead to a parent being separated from his kid for even a day without any judicial oversight, and...

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Eos Trinidad @eostrinidad.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Really happy that my book, Subtle Webs: How Local Orgs Shape US Education, was celebrated with other books by first-time Asian and Asian-Am authors! It's a real honor for it to be alongside other books and authors I admire. And we even had a cake with all our book covers!

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hopping back on bluesky because I had to share my excitement at seeing amazing new @princetonupress.bsky.social books at #ASA2025! From brilliant friends and colleagues @bail3y.bsky.social @lizchiarello.bsky.social @hopeharvey.bsky.social Irene Vega 🤩📚🎉

smiling holding four books: Kindergarten Panic, Policing Patients, Doubled Up, and Bordering on Indifference

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello social work friends! I will be at #SSWR2025 this week (my first time!) and would love to meet/see you if you'll be there ✨ I'll be sharing research on material support provision through CPS in CT and NYC, done in collaboration with Nora McCarthy @familypolicynyc.bsky.social

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If police encounters are a nightmare for unhoused individuals, imagine how much worse they are for families w/ kids. In my book, one family is terrified of cops finding them in their car and calling CPS. This fear is justified: "inadequate housing" drives a vast number of child removals in the U.S.

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Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

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Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)

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The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood a book by Kristen Martin

The real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream. The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Long lines are a modern poll tax

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I am organizing a session on Social Welfare Programs for ASA 2024! If you have new/in-progress research in this area, submit your extended abstract or paper by Mon 2/26 ✨ Call for submissions here: www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...

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Thad Domina @t-h-a-d.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Free lunch for everybody! New work from me, @leahclark.bsky.social, Vitaly Radsky, and Renuka Bhaskar demonstrates that universal free school meals substantially reduce school suspensions, particularly for kids from low-income families. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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Mary Waters @marywaters.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I have not seen posts from Harvard faculty weighing in on Claudine Gay so for what it is worth, here is one faculty opinion. I have been a professor here since 1986. She was, by far, the very best dean of Arts and Sciences we have ever had. She was fair, collaborative and yet decisive. 1/n

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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

I'm glad to share this Q&A with sociologist Neil Gong about his research & forthcoming book We talked about homeless tent encampments, psychiatric institutions, Housing First and our country's dramatically bifurcated systems for treating severe mental illness www.vox.com/24011278/men...

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:

A girl saying on Al Jazeera: “I hope in the new year life will go back to normal. I want to live in my house in Gaza and to walk around everywhere.”

The same girl saying on Al Jazeera: “I hope to see the sea again. Please Allah let our life go back to normal in the new year.”

A boy saying: “I hope in the new year to go back to school.”

A girl saying: “I wish for the war to stop. I hope to go back to my house and to my school. My name is Haya.”

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

How it started*/how it's going: (*I came very late to this legislative effort and merely bleep bloop blopped some numbers out of my computer to assist advocates who did the real work, but it's an honor to have played a small role)

Times Union article headline: "Racial disparities in denials of victims compensation benefits, researchers finds."

Screenshot of statement from NY Governor Hochul: "Governor Hochul Signs Legislation to Support Victims and Survivors of Crime."

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 16/11/2023

great to hear @kelleyfong.bsky.social speak on her work tonight! her book focuses on the welfare-criminalization nexus (family policing and poverty governance)

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Kelly Fong, author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, explains the cascading consequences of a Child Protective Services call in her PUP Ideas essay. press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ca... @kelleyfong.bsky.social

Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services by Kelley Fong

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

🙏It was an incredible night celebrating The Struggle for the People’s King and the visionaries it’s dedicated to. I am so grateful.

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I did a Q&A on my book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (officially out next week!), with Heather Ashbach, UCI Social Sciences: www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

important new work from Mia Brantley in Social Problems, identifying the intensive motherwork ("laborious and exhaustive strategies to shield their children from racism") taken on by Black mothers: academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

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Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood

Abstract. Race and racism play an integral role in shaping mothering practices. Specifically, motherwork examines how Black mothers use strategies and practices

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Orioles magic number to clinch AL East down to 1!! Things are v busy this coming month but impending MLB playoffs are occupying a huge share of my attention I know I have a book coming out but I honestly can't say which I'm more excited about 😂 I mean, I know which I've been waiting for longer...

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Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Hi! I'm Sarah. I'm a postdoc at U. of Pennsylvania. I'm working on 2 projects: my book about immigrant motherhood, schools & gentrification and a co-authored book about place & immigrant young adults. I'm a mom. I live in Somerville. I'm from RI. Coffee, mountains, oceans, & friends make me happy.

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Daphne Penn @daphnempenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Hey Y’all! Since most of us are new here, it seems like a good time to introduce myself. I’m Daphne—a sociologist and assistant professor embracing my dream of becoming a writer. My research on race, immigration, and stratification in schools is at the center of my writing. 1/

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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Hi everyone! I'm an ed policy researcher, currently a postdoc at Michigan State (and on the job market, eek!). I focus on how social and economic inequality shapes educational opportunity and the extent to which schools can (and can't) meet students' and families' needs. Some research I'm proud of:

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

This piece by @rtraister.bsky.social is fabulous and cites scholars who understand how racism, sexism, and capitalism are inextricably linked to marriage and family structure. www.thecut.com/article/why-...

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Hello Bluesky! 👋 I don't know if I can manage another platform but giving it a try. I'm a sociologist studying families and the state systems/policies that affect them. Here is a picture of my cat 😻

tortoiseshell cat on her side in the sun

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