Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great point. Very much hope this sparks some methodology conversations-joy was an active praxis in this methodological context which facilitated brilliant rapport-building! 011
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Bring the research into your classroom: connect gender theory, lived experience, and qualitative methods through one study. Read S. M. Rodriguez’s #OpenAccess article in Sociological Inquiry: doi.org/10.1111/soin... #Sociology @smrodriguez.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There’s a methods lesson here, too. The study used both in-person and online focus groups, creating an opportunity to ask students how research settings shape group dynamics, participation, and qualitative data collection. 3/4 #FocusGroups #Sociology #ResearchMethods 211
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Undoing gender” isn’t only a theoretical possibility—it can also be understood as lived practice. This takeaway offers a starting point for discussing gendered accountability, legibility, and the rejection of fixed gendered endpoints. 2/4 @socwomen.bsky.social #sociology 121
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How might we teach gender transition beyond binary or linear models? This week’s Teaching Takeaway draws from @smrodriguez.bsky.social’s research on recognition, flexibility, safety, and nonbinary identity journeys. 🧵 1/4 #Sociology #GenderStudies 111
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This article shows how "unnatural" became a discursive tool, used to deposit anxieties about heterosexual sexual harms (esp against children) into a panic about homosexuality. Unnatural = gay and thus able to be policed; natural = hetero and inevitable. Important for queer life internationally 031
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026From years of collective work, Colonialisms and Queer Politics has been published! Presenting chapter analyses of 11 empires, and their colonial legacies, plus comparison of both legal and social regulation. #Colonialisms #Queer #LGBTIQ+ @uofgsociology.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro... 04221
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 01/06/2026@smrodriguez.bsky.social featured on Runway to Feminist Justice podcast by The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice! Listen now 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1BpZ...open.spotify.comEpisode 33: 10 Questions with Dr. SM RodriguezRunway to Feminist Justice · Episode 033
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)ISA LGBTQA Caucus @lgbtqa-isa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We are accepting nominations for 2 awards which recognise scholars/activists committed to advancing LGBTQ+ rights. If this is you/someone you know, consider nominating! Deadline 1 October. Outstanding Scholar Award docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Courage Award docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comLGBTQA Outstanding Scholar Award 2027Dear Nominator, Thank you for nominating someone for the ISA's LGBTQA Caucus Outstanding Scholar Award! Before submitting your nomination, please read the following information carefully: The Outsta... 132
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New publications! 🚨 ➡️ @smrodriguez.bsky.social ‘Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda': lnkd.in/eKKgtdfp ➡️ @aikoiiris.bsky.social 'The Institutional Politics of WPS: Three Lessons on Resistance from Feminist: lnkd.in/d-RxXBz2 001
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Happy #PrideMonth! This podcast was such a fantastic opportunity to review a decade of work to #queer liberation, especially as it speaks to racial justice around the world. Check it out now 🌈🌈 #pride #queertheory #justice #rights 030
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)theguardian.com‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UKThe long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt 03228
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Most recent article now out in Feminist Legal Studies ✨ 030
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comEnforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda - Feminist Legal StudiesThis article investigates the impact of the widespread characterisation of sodomy laws as “unenforced” or “unenforceable,” arguing that this presumed inactivity is a political fiction that obscures th... 112
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Happening now! Trans Lives: In conversation with Raewyn Connell joined by @smrodriguez.bsky.social and @hsw.bsky.social 🫶 031
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Join us for an evening with scholar Raewyn Connell, who will speak on her newly published book ’Trans Lives: Social Realities across the In-person and online event! Ticket holders will be informed of the location on the day of the event. ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event... @smrodriguez.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression 4384151
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025The asylum-seeking process before Trump was unfair, confusing, and evil. Obviously, his administration has been committed to making it worse since day 1. But the sheer maliciousness behind each and every step they take to doom some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting. 6/ 1434
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I witnessed this insanity today. 7 cases I observed in a row went as follows: 1) Russian Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 2) Pakistani Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 1/ 34428
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today 9534966614278
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency." 010540
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment. 131366384
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor RayIt’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim 151228432
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025A phenomenal event and speaker ✨ 020
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025❄️📖Looking for poc sci-fi, epic fantasy, or magical realism novel recommendations for winter 📖❄️ (no YA or marvel-vibes, but ++ if queer or disabled) Happy to exchange books 📚 010
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Fantastic write up of a recent collaborative event between LSE Gender and LSE Law 🔥 051
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Final event of the term! See you at Oxford? (Or online!) Very much looking forward to thinking with these two fantastic discussion groups 📖 Register here to attend: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even... @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us! 4651721101
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Our LSE Fellow R. Sánchez Rivera has published a new article in Oxford Intersections! 🥳 Read it now ➡️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 032
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I told profs at my phd program that I didn't want to work at an "R1" directly after grad because I cared deeply about teaching and was very concerned the incentives at certain institutions would push me to ignore my pedagogy practice in order to try and keep my job. Truly no regrets. 21705
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Starting now! 🥳 @lselaw.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social @smrodriguez.bsky.social 062
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Looking forward to presenting on this esteemed panel! The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda. 061
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)LSE Social Policy @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025📢 Still time to apply! We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor (Study of Crime/Criminal Justice and Social or Public Policy) whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in social or public policy. More info here: buff.ly/Nxdn9c0lse.ac.ukDepartment of Social Policy | Available positionsJobs available in the Department of Social Policy 001
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/10/2025"Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method" - Verryyy much looking forward to discussing my new work with Oxford Crim in December. See flyer for details and register here forms.office.com/pages/respon... ✨ @ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social ✨ 020
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/10/2025📢📢 Job advert 📢📢 LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026! 🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡 Applications due 2 November 2025 @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...jobs.lse.ac.ukAssistant ProfessorAssistant Professor, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><spa... 024
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share. 1194158
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 06/10/2025What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise? This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comRespatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic ImaginariesThis article critiques the global imaginary of LGBTQ rights, arguing that dominant metrics of state-based human rights frameworks, what I term the Gay Rights International Movement (GRIM), reproduc... 096
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comDispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politicsThe idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a... 12312
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025! On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded. #decolonialconference 11719
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025que descanse en paz y poder 🕊️🙏🏾✊🏾 So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking... 0146
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Many did and wrote about the insightful and incredible experiences. Keep reading, the evidence abounds. 020
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Very much looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing ✨ 000
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Really curious abt how other academics decide how many speaking & service engagements they accept per term. Does anyone have a strategy or do you just follow vibes? 🫣 (I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off) 020
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography networks.h-net.org/jobs/68992/u...networks.h-net.orgUniversity of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography | H-Net 012
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12/08/2025A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans. Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill. slate.com/life/2025/08...slate.comTrump Just Took a Major Step Toward a Nightmare Scenario for Trans Americans Under the Guise of “Public Safety.” Don’t Be Fooled.If we don’t change course soon, it will be too late. 26574311
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a gendered space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act we need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBTtinyurl.comHave you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual 07041
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 06/08/2025“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?” 0117
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Who on here will be in Chicago next weekend for #ASA2025? It's been about seven years since I was a regular attendee and I am a bit nervous I've become estranged from the US scene 🫣 (thankful for that in general, but if these meetings are as large as they were pre-COVID...😬) 020
Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 11/07/2025📘 "This study builds on and critiques theories of doing, redoing, and undoing gender by demonstrating how nonbinary transitioning disrupts dominant models of gender accountability, recognition, and self-determination." @lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology 132