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Kayla Pritchard, PhD

@kpritchard.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology: gender | sexuality | history of sex | remarriage/blended families | motherhood. Lover of hiking and LEGOS.

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South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com · 02/01/2026
In response to legislation that would restrict the purchase of sugary drinks with SNAP benefits, Leslie Gerrish writes: "The path to meaningful assistance is through incentives and support, not punishment." Commentary: buff.ly/kquIJ6a
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Banning a 99-cent soda purchase won’t help families • South Dakota Searchlight
This type of legislation helps no one. It adds stigma. It won’t reduce poverty, it won’t improve educational outcomes, it won’t improve health.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I had only been out of my parents' house a couple of years. I called my grandma to get her famous pumpkin pie recipe that she made every year. She goes "Well, it's just on the can." I spent my whole life to that point thinking this was a family legacy. Nope. Just what was on the Libby's can.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is horrifying.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
To further explain, the student is a bio major and is interested in anatomical stuff. This is not nearly as creepy or weird as it sounds! 😁
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This week, a student who I've had before, gave me this - the baculumm (penis bone) and testicles of a weasel. I asked her how she got them. She found a dead weasel, dissected it, and dried the reproductive organs for me. It's one of the most thoughtful gifts ever. (I have a collection of baccula.)
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Class start Monday which means this is the last weekend of summer. So I am going to shut out all the thoughts of the work to come next week and ignore the looming obligations!
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Same! I don't have an answer; just want you to know that you're not alone.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Colbert skewed these products a while back. It's great. youtu.be/Uv1pSUZDbws?...
youtu.be
Stephen And Rob Riggle Are Tactical Dads
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I don't know that they do. Lots of folks thought this jag was a good idea.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Way to go! I am really intrigued by the "bad" mothers in lit - I am a sociologist who studies motherhoods. What texts are you assigning?
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Wait, it doesn't?!
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I also had my bra snapped and was called a 'feminazi' for suggesting that girls/women weren't weaker/dumber than boys/men. My hs boys brother even made a "feminazi spray" label and glued it to a can of lysol which he relentlessly tried to spray in my face. Everyone thought it was "funny" except me.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This thread and replies are dredging up a lot of memories. I was sexually harassed every day by the boy who sat behind me in civics in 9th grade. I didnt say a word to anyone. When I did report a different boy in 11th grade for harassment, admin just shrugged.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 02/07/2025
The GOP cutting essential services means a spike in crime and more public support to fund law enforcement.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The idea that War on Porn will only have positive outcomes! That it will only target "bad" stuff, that it doesn't require broad digital surveillance, or suppression of sexuality, or that it won't be turned against marginalized people. The same absolute hubris of these people.
nbcnews.com
The strange bedfellows driving — and winning — the war on porn
Feminists, religious crusaders and “alpha male” influencers have turned the tide in the decades-old battle over adult content.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My one cool trick: shower before bed at night. Then a shower after the gym in the morning. My body has learned to expect a shower about every 12 hours. 😆
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In reflecting on the weekend at my parent's house going through my late grandma's things, I realized that my family's legacy is photos (very nice) and textiles (nice, but with anxiety). Why *can't* I keep every knit/crocheted/embroidered/quilted thing 100+ years of my farm women ancestors made?
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I am deeply curious about commercial jump rope uses.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I think about this scene at least once a week.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
These are the kinds of historical facts that I really love. Battles and dates and "great men"? Nah. Give me 'boring' stuff like how Victorian women just bled into their underclothes.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Absolutely abhorrent.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A good ol' sociological analysis! I stress this idea to students (and anyone else who will listen) all the time - we've made up *everything.* By definition, it only stays the same because our actions make it so. @petersagal.bsky.social Want to give a guest lecture in my class? 😉
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Lather, rinse, repeat
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I wish I had this advice in grad school. My advisors would have supported me, too! As a professor, I've embraced my weirdness and filled my office with oddities: a crocheted uterus, a bowl of novelty condoms from different countries, antique speculums, antique ads for Kotex products....
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Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"bypassing traditional milestones" is a funny way of saying that most of us can't afford to buy a house with multiple jobs, won't have children because we can't afford them, most of our degrees are useless, and we are the poorest generation among all current living generations
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
All she needs now is for her healthcare to be denied for surgery and it will be a great illustration of the American experience.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I know I should be working on my syllabi. My brain knows this but my soul? My soul wants, nay demands, I lounge.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I went to the gym today for the first time in YEARS. It was amazing and hard and now everything hurts (in a good way). I hate having to acknowledge that it is good for my mind *and* body.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Merry Christmas to this foofy gremlin, her first. She enjoyed a new bone and squeaky toys along with the food she stole from the counter
A reddish-brown dog laying on her side with her back legs open revealing her pink bellly.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
All valid points. I like to make direct eye contact with my husband and repeat the thing the announcer just said that would be extremely sexual in any other context. What did they just say about that team's tight ends? Who got penetration in the backfield?
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
you have to watch this - just perfect for a last-minute christmas gift
youtu.be
Bologna Folder Presentation on QVC
YouTube video by QVC Originals
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Soon they'll bring back consumption and we can be pale, out of breath, and attractive to please our owners. They're just copying Victorianism. 🫠
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Organized sex work in Deadwood, SD began in 1876 and ended in 1980 when the last 4 brothels were raided for reasons that had nothing to do with the illegal sex trade.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I also regularly remind them that almost universally someone will take what they create and use it for war or sex. They laugh, but I'm serious. Hey, I don't make the rules.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I teach engineering undergrads and I am always pleading with them to think about FOR WHOM they are designing and WHY.
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Kayla Pritchard, PhD @kpritchard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I came back here to get off the other one but have been healed by this thread on lego grammar. Also - people get big feelings about LEGO v lego z Lego.
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