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Sarah Stein Lubrano

@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social
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Writer and broadcaster. Thinking at the intersection of critical theory and cognitive science. Book coming out May 2025. she/her

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MorganHPhillips @morganhphillips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have a letter in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today on the importance of 'third spaces': observer.co.uk/opinion-and-... highlights the work @themiracleinn.bsky.social is doing to help combat what @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social calls 'social atrophy' all inspired by @willhutton.bsky.social 'we' work
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Without ‘third places’ like sports clubs, we can’t come t...
Plus readers’ views on protest songs, pensions, palliative care, Alice Coltrane and the creators of Gruffalo Granny
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Starting soon!
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Marc Auerbach @pugetopia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I've been reading and listening to @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and I think she is really on to something when she tells us, "Don't TALK about politics." www.bloomsbury.com/us/dont-talk...
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're offering open registration to individual sessions of our super popular course, Fighting Fascist Feelings, this time around as it's likely the last time we'll run it for a little while. I'll put links below :) Price is flexible. With @maxhaiven.bsky.social
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Speaking at this in Berlin in October with Catherine Liu www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/en/series-an...
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Berlin Review x Volksbühne: Fire From All Sides
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join @kojokoram.bsky.social and @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social to discuss who wins and who loses as Britain's relationship with drugs is remade and, as cannabis and psychedelics move towards commercialisation, who really owns the emerging drug economy. luma.com/c672tszx
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High Society: Winners and Losers in the New Drug Economy with Kojo Koram · Luma
High Society: Winners and Losers in the New Drug Economy Britain is in the grip of a drug crisis. We have one of the highest drug death rates in Europe. More…
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think @maxhaiven.bsky.social’s work is incredibly smart, engaging, & utterly unique. If I were in the UK, I would absolutely be signing up for this workshop he’s doing with @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social
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Communicating Radical Ideas (London workshop, October 17-18)
Two days for rewilding critical theory, with Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano (and friends)
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm giving this lecture for free tomorrow online :)
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Kevin Sanchez @captswing.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"It's important never to moralize at the individual level when you can solve a problem at a big structural level." youtu.be/Cb7ev0KuE9M via @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social & @racheldonald.bsky.social
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How to Change People's Minds | Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“I’d like to have a book for the public, but I don’t know where to start” “I know I should be more on social media but ughhh” Let me help! You don’t need to be an academic to take this course and you can watch any part of it later if you can’t attend at the time.  luma.com/ml1hx6hx
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Reaching The Public for Academics · Zoom · Luma
Reaching the Public For Academics Are you an academic who is being constantly asked to “show impact” or “reach the public”? Would you like some ideas and help…
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m giving a lecture that is a preview of my new book on the 19th, online. It’s free, please come :) luma.com/2l6ogwxf
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What are Human Relationships Good For? · Zoom · Luma
In a world of with a (supposed) loneliness crisis, where people have started dating their AI chat bots, what are human relationships for anyway? This lecture…
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is so so good lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Folks have already started signing up for my first fall course, Reaching the Public for Academics. It was popular last time too - over four shortish sessions, we we look at how to draft a book proposal for a book aimed at the public... luma.com/ml1hx6hx
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Reaching The Public for Academics · Zoom · Luma
Reaching the Public For Academics Are you an academic who is being constantly asked to “show impact” or “reach the public”? Would you like some ideas and help…
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JBE POLITICS @jbepolitics.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New books to be read! @gabrielzucman.bsky.social @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social @liambyrnemp.bsky.social
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Interview with Jacob Bessen, anthropologist and student of David Graeber! The topic is incredibly close to my heart—both because I’m deeply attached to questions of neighbouring and political sociality, and because it relates to my own Sicilian roots. sarahsteinlubrano.substack.com/p/jacob-bess...
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Jacob Bessen on How Sicilians are Neighbouring with Migrants
(and the practices we can all learn!)
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Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My new book THE PLAYER AND THE PLAYED is out this September with @mitpress.bsky.social and it will be open access! Meanwhile, if you would like an advanced reader copy for the purposes of writing a review etc please get in touch. Also please share it with your favorite podcasts and publications.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/06/2026
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
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Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Really looking forward to this newly launched online event, where I will interview Sam Pressler and Soren Duggan about their unique research on isolated men. I hope to see many of you there! luma.com/uh0zn2t8
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Speaking to Isolated Men · Zoom · Luma
While we would prefer people to attend live, a recording is available for a short period following the event. Popular media loves to speak of a “male…
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Nathan Hart @yallcaps.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Big fan of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social using parentheses in "Don't Talk About Politics" "Adapting with enthusiasm may make us feel more like we have some control over our lives ('I'm not being forced to work super long hours! I'm a girl-boss!')" There are so many delightful asides in this book
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Do you make art and hope it will change the world? If so, what’s your exact strategy for this? And if you don’t have one, want to come make one with me next week? luma.com/lkx8rcwx
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5 Ways Art Could Change the World (and many reasons it might not) · Zoom · Luma
While synchronous attendance is encouraged, a ticket also entitles you to a recording of the session. In a world overflowing with both grave political problems…
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 05/06/2026
‘The troubling speed with which the protest was organised caught the city’s small but diligent antifa and its broad coalition of anti-racists by surprise. The march came within a couple of hundred metres of my house.’ Tom Williams on the Southampton riots. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Tom Williams | In Southampton
Out-of-towners, including Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox, merged with locals outside Southampton police station to form...
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“One’s online audience is often more charmed by coolness and edgy hot takes. Those may constitute a fun game for a while, but it will realistically feel hollow when the nearby city in Kent has run out of water and there are marches to deport all immigrants happening nearby.“
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Social Theory From the Mic
What, and therefore who, is social theory for?
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Really looking forward to this newly launched online event, where I will interview Sam Pressler and Soren Duggan about their unique research on isolated men. I hope to see many of you there! luma.com/uh0zn2t8
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Speaking to Isolated Men · Zoom · Luma
While we would prefer people to attend live, a recording is available for a short period following the event. Popular media loves to speak of a “male…
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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 30/05/2026
highly recommend @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book on this, which really aligns with this belief
the cover of don't talk about politics by stein-lubrano
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New episode (1259), with Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano (@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social). We talk about her great book, Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds. #Politics #Psychology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/J19yhNrCvio Podcast: bit.ly/4uxPuC5
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#1259 Sarah Stein Lubrano: Why Political Debate Does Not Work
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I didn’t know about some of the funky background of William Miller, the guy who invented motivational interviewing, which later became the political technique of deep canvassing. Readers may find it interesting.
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Next week we will discuss THERAPY: luma.com/id7o8hy1
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What Does Therapy Actually Do? · Zoom · Luma
A Critical Lecture and Discussion with (Yes) a Therapist A recording will be available for ticketholders who cannot attend synchronously. Today, it seems like…
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New event :) “In a world overflowing with both grave political problems and algorithmically-generated images, can art change the world? Or is that a romantic myth?” luma.com/lkx8rcwx
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5 Ways Art Could Change the World (and many reasons it might not) · Zoom · Luma
While synchronous attendance is encouraged, a ticket also entitles you to a recording of the session. In a world overflowing with both grave political problems…
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Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Join @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in June and July for 6 online sessions on how fascism organizes itself around foul feelings, misunderstood crises, and revenge. senseandsolidarity.org/summer2026/
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Back by popular demand, and because the Fascist Feelings are ongoing on planet earth! Join us this summer.... senseandsolidarity.org/summer2026/
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Fighting Fascist Feelings online workshop (Summer 2026) - Sense & Solidarity
Mondays and Thursdays, June 29th – July 16th A Three-Week Workshop on the Confronting the Political Psychology of the Far Right Fascism is on the rise thanks to scheming billionaires, capitalist crisi...
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Something interesting that came out of this today is how many of the interviewees said that, because women tend not to pursue or tell me they’re hot, sleeping with a lot of women felt like the only way to be sure they were desirable…
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Lars Kramhøft @larskramhoft.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Sommerlæsning: Hvis du, som mig, har tænkt tanken "hvis bare jeg har de helt rigtige argumenter og formuleringer kan jeg overbevise den eller den person om X... " er Don' talk about politics, om hvad der i virkeligheden former holdninger, af @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social en øjenåbner. Anbefales!
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Caroline Bingley does not fail to remind me of those in the tech world especially, who make a (rare) upward trajectory due to changes in the economy, often by doing something relatively technical, but then seek to prove they are also valid...as “intellectuals” and “thought leaders” and so on."
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Time for me and Raul to discuss whether people are going to therapy too much, or for the wrong reasons. Let’s discuss the immense cultural influence of psychotherapy!
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What Does Therapy Actually Do? · Zoom · Luma
A Critical Lecture and Discussion with (Yes) a Therapist A recording will be available for ticketholders who cannot attend synchronously. Today, it seems like…
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I wrote about some paradoxes of domestic life, including why humans with technology are so bad at creating leisure time, especially for women.
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Some Paradoxes of Domestic Life
You might think you "couldn't" live another way. But you could, and would likely be happier.
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I’m looking forward to running this, and thinking through what it means when we ghost people, sexually or otherwise. Plus, my interviews brought up some interesting themes about self-worth, fungibility, regret and shame… luma.com/xo3x5d5l
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Why Do Fuckboys Do What They Do? A Theoretical Intervention · Zoom · Luma
In the course of ongoing research, Dr. Stein Lubrano heard from dozens of former “fuckboys” who have led on sexual partners and/or ghosted them. Many were…
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Loved this book
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Event in Norwich :)
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Ryan Davis @ryannewyork.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
On this episode of Influencer Impact, I sat down with @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social to unpack her recent book, Don’t Talk About Politics: Changing 21st Century Minds, and what the science actually says about political persuasion. people1st.substack.com/p/dont-talk-...
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Don't Talk About Politics + Creator Content is AI Search Infrastructure
Ryan sits down with Sarah Stein Lubrano, author of Don’t Talk About Politics: Changing 21st Century Minds, to break down what drives persuasion. Plus, how creators get you into chatbot responses.
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Maxine Violeta Violentia Nomadica Kansas @perceival.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I did, of course, read this with my ND lenses on and I choose to be a Loner, because, experientially speaking, asking for care or help has often been an offense to my autonomy, bootstrap "solutions" or more social labor than I am able to perform. I highly recommend this one.
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Archie 🇨🇦 @junkycosmonaut.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"We have a world where, unless you’re fairly rich, being together is rarer, and caring for each other and ourselves is harder."
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Sarah Stein Lubrano @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Come to chat social reproduction with me and other interesting people: luma.com/5lm01i2u
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Why Adulting is So Hard (using social science) · Zoom · Luma
People are doing fewer and fewer of the “adult” things they used to, from getting married and having kids to getting out of the house instead of doom…
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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I reposted this a few days ago, but in case you missed it, it’s really good. The men’s loneliness crisis is also capitalism!
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