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Monica C. Bell

@monicacbell.bsky.social
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Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods. In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿

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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Beyond excited to be in community with these scholars and artists next year (and to finally finish this book manuscript)!
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Blurbs for Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing are in! I'm so grateful to the wonderful scholars who have written them, including this generous first blurb by Monica Bell (thanks @monicacbell.bsky.social!). The book is out in June: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It is amazing how well growing up in the Black Pentecostal tradition prepared me for these dastardly days. Some of us have been preparing for the End Times since the 1980s 🙌🏿
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 24/12/2024
[1/2] A favorite tradition, the Just Security year-end book recommendations, is here! Our editors recommend a mix of books to learn more about some of the issues we cover, and to unwind and recharge for the year ahead. With thanks to our readers and to ... www.justsecurity.org/105991/just-...
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The Just Security 2024 Year-End Book Recommendations
Just Security editors recommend books they read this year, including those that illuminated world issues and brought joy into their 2024.
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Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In our forthcoming book, @joesoss.bsky.social and I argue that corporations routinely find ways to profit off the needs, desires, and vulnerabilities of incarcerated people & their families. Tablets are a prime example. #LegalPlunder
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Here is a somber truth of creative life. If it goes well, people will begin to ask you for things. Each of those things, no matter how kind or flattering or genuine or even beneficial to your own career and finances as well as someone else's, will pull you from your true purpose.
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I have been quite vexed by all of this post-election analysis of “shift” that doesn’t report the baseline. Example: Couldn’t this Atlanta outcome be because white Atlantans were already relatively pro-Trump, thus there wasn’t as much *shift* as in other cities and among other groups?
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Carrying a nation on our backs #photography #streetphotography
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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Together with @jtsimes.bsky.social I'm organizing a panel on "Law and Environment" for the #Sociology of Law section at #ASA2025. Please spread the word to law-people working on environmental topics, and environment-people working on legal topics! CFP in the image below:
Law and Environment   

This panel invites papers that explore the relationships between law, society, and the environment, broadly conceived. Potential topics may include—but are certainly not limited to—the role of law and legal actors in environmental justice movements; adaptation to climate change; ecological preservation and conservation; sustainable governance of natural resources; responding to climate effects on conditions in prisons and the built environment; planning for resilience to natural disasters; and the role of scientific experts and expertise in legal and regulatory change. We welcome submissions that analyze connections between law, society, and the environment at any scale—from local to regional, national, and global.

(Session Organizer) Nate Ela, Temple University; Jessica T. Simes, Boston University
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just got home from Thanksgiving excursions and couldn’t help attempting the Cynthia Erivo version of that iconic last riff from “Defying Gravity”… The agitated barking from my neighbor’s dog tells me about all I need to know about how that sounded 😭 #wicked #holdingspace #defyinggravity
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Eve Brensike Primus @primuseve.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Do you know about social science that you think criminal defense attorneys should be incorporating into their arguments? Have you written a criminal defense motion incorporating social science? If so, please help us create a national network. Upload your studies and motions to datafordefenders.org
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Stephanie Didwania @didwanias.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
For my first post here: come work with us! Northwestern Law is hiring for our VAP program in the 2025-2026 academic year. This position is a fantastic opportunity for folks planning to enter legal academia. Please reach out with any questions. careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hr857prd...
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Extremely excited to sit with this paper!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Academics in their forties
guy pointing at himself in the mirror meme, saying "you are still an early career scholar"
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Sociologist of law: What’s important isn’t the cup on the books, but how it is used in the real world
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
By the way, #ToniMorrison recorded the audio versions for a lot of her books. And, of course, she was incandescent reader. Lately, I’ve been listening to her read “Beloved” on my walks to campus.
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A sweet family photo from Herbert Von King Park in Bed-Stuy, one of my favorite places to hang out in Brooklyn We will survive these crises by leaning and loving on each other #photography #streetphotography
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’ve taken up street photography to expand my work and force myself outdoors. I love it, but I underestimated the harassment aspect If I got paid for every time some strange man has yelled “Big Sexy!” and/or followed me muttering disgusting things, maybe I could get that Hasselblad X2D 100C
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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How to hope in a near-hopeless time?
Thoughts on our horrendous loss two weeks ago
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Sandile Hlatshwayo @femmeeconomics.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I believe in that too, @nikitagill.bsky.social.
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Fantastic news! Embry and I do not always agree—indeed, during law school he was one of my favorite sparring partners—but he is a fair-minded person and delightful friend. I am utterly thrilled to see him on the Eleventh Circuit.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A small but non-trivial hill I am willing to die on: The abstract of every empirical paper should include the core empirical findings--numbers included! Not "we find police reduce crime," but "we find that a 1% increase in police yields a 0.4% drop in crime." The abstract isn't clickbait.
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Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excited to finally be here on Bluesky! The other app had become so toxic that I pretty much stopped posting and engaging there altogether. I look forward to hopefully changing that here. First post is this interesting image I shot in Brooklyn yesterday
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