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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Using data from 7 years of ethnographic fieldwork and 200 in-depth interviews, ASA member Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social investigates how Sesame Street spread around the world and navigated cultural differences to create programs that resonated with local audiences.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I was interviewed about my book "Sesame Street Around the World Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" for a podcast. It was a lot of fun. Please share! newbooksnetwork.com/sesame-stree...

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

When your friend can't give a talk at her institution for fear of getting harassed, you invite her to University of Pittsburgh and she knocks it out of the park. Those of us at institutions w academic freedom, support scholars who aren't by providing venues where they can safely present their work.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We're glad so many want to read the 11 op-eds that Susan Ostermann and I wrote about reproductive health policy as faculty @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social They are all available here where anyone can read them in full (note: op-ed titles chosen by publishers, not us): www.tamarakay.org/new-page-1

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Reproductive Health Policy and Justice — Tamara Kay

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 20/02/2026

@tamkay.bsky.social (University of Pittsburgh) works on issues of trade, labor, social movements, globalization, culture, organizations, and global health. Her work engages two primary areas: transnational political economy and transnational culture. Connect: scholars.org/scholar/tama...

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Tamara Kay | Scholars Strategy Network

Kay’s research examines the political and legal implications of regional economic integration; transnationalism; and global governance. She is interested in understanding how civil society organizatio...

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Excited to announce that my NEW BOOK "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" has been published and is now available. I'll be giving book talks in person & remotely. Please DM me to arrange. www.amazon.com/dp/019784092...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Gender studies on the ground in Minnesota.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Thrilled that "ICPD at Thirty: Critical Perspectives on Global Reproductive Health" is out in @scidjournal.bsky.social . Please share far and wide. Five articles are open access, including the brilliant introduction by Profs Siri Suh & Cora Fernandez Anderson: link.springer.com/journal/1211...

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Great work @jonshaffer.bsky.social. This kind of research is so critical.

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Transnational activist exchange 🌐 C. Anderson, @acalasanti.bsky.social, & @tamkay.bsky.social's new #Socius article conceptualizes “circular diffusion” to explain the strategic & symbolic exchange between #abortionrights #socialmovements in the #US and #LatinAmerica Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Our article "Diffusing Strategies North-South and South-North: Circular Diffusion and the Case of Abortion Rights Movements in the United States and Latin America" now open access @sociusjournal.bsky.social. New theory of circular diffusion & a compelling case. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

NEW BOOK "Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" is now on Amazon with a January release date. I am SO THRILLED! lnkd.in/gDSuziAe

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Well this is a first. My 2004 ASR article with Nicola Beisel on abortion in the 19th century was cited in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision striking down the state's 1849 abortion ban! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am delighted to announce my appointment to an endowed chair as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. The icing on the cake is that I am also a member of the Union of Pitt Faculty (United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1088-04).

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Today would have been #MichaelBurawoy's 78th birthday. I know all of us who loved him miss him very, very much. Ana Villarreal took this photo of him, which I love (as do many others). I'm so glad she did and that she shares it with us all.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#MichaelBurawoy, Audrey Singer & I nominated the great photographer Sebastião Salgado (who passed away Friday) for the 2010 @asanews.bsky.social ASA Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award. He won. To celebrate, I wrote this analysis @soc-forum.bsky.social tinyurl.com/43e8vuew ‬

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Hmmm, I wonder who is behind the scenes asking the feds and IN to target Notre Dame's DEI policies? Could the call possibly be coming from inside the house? Nah, what group would do that? www.wboi.org/government/2...

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Rokita threatens to sue Notre Dame over DEI efforts

Rokita's move comes two months after President Trump's Department of Education publicly called on Notre Dame to defend the legality of recruiting non-white students to apply for doctoral studies.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Abortion bans kill women. Abortion bans torture women. Abortion bans are about control, power & attempt to thwart the mind blowing success of women (particularly women of color) who excel at everything they do. If you weren’t a threat they’d just ignore you.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If your "Poverty Initiative" pretends some of the key variables linked to poverty in the US and around the world—lack of access to birth control and reproductive health care—don't exist or matter, it isn't really a poverty initiative at all.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congress could change this and take back tariff authority.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Wow! So many people marching in South Bend. We're not used to this. It's usually 20 people milling around at an anti-abortion rally. www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/2...

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'We need to raise our voices': Thousands protest Trump actions in local 'Hands Off!' rally

The protest was one of 1,200 similar rallies taking place around the country on Saturday, April 5.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

You have to have a malignant loathing of women to pass an abortion ban. It is torture of women and makes pregnancy less safe for everyone.

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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 27/03/2025

@tamkay.bsky.social's (@ndsociology.bsky.social) works on issues of trade, labor, social movements, globalization, culture, organizations, and global health. Her work engages two primary areas: transnational political economy & transnational culture. Connect with Kay: scholars.org/scholar/tama...

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My book "Coproducing Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" will drop soon. I was in Amman & Ramallah to interview Mr. Kuttab & Palestinian team, & observe their workshops & meetings w NY-based Sesame Workshop staff. Incredible team.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

So why do we have to call it what they want us to call it? Theirs sounds too benign, so I'm calling it DODGY. AI defines it as: "British slang term that means something is suspicious, unreliable, or of low quality." Sounds about right.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

📢New #PAG20 Notes from the Field 📝 @acalasanti.bsky.social, Cora Fernández Anderson & @tamkay.bsky.social outline how field research on abortion rights movements has changed in and outside of the U.S. post-Dobbs in "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates" buff.ly/4gvJgLo

Notes from the field article: "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America" by Anna Calasanti, Cora Fernández Anderson and Tamara Kay.
Introduction begins: We have spent the last two years conducting fieldwork on abortion rights movements in the United States and Latin America, building from our previous work on abortion policies, movements, organizations, and activists across the Americas (Beisel and Kay 2004; Calasanti 2015; Calasanti, Kay, and Ostermann 2023; Fernández Anderson 2017, 2020, 2022; Ruibal and Fernández Anderson 2018). In the wake of the 2022 US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we have noted a palpable shift in the dynamics between organizations, new challenges in establishing contacts, and a heightened need to safeguard participants’ identity.
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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Eren took this beautiful photo of Michael Burawoy with his great friend Erik Olin Wright in 2002. Every Thursday night after our weekly TA meeting, Michael treated the seven of us to a REALLY nice dinner (wine always included). Erik joined one night @ Yoshi's for dinner and music.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's too upsetting to repost the article. So I'll focus on the things that those of us who loved Michael Burawoy loved so much about him, including that he was SO much fun and SO hysterically funny. A thread....

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Abortion bans make pregnancy less safe for everyone. I already know faculty at Notre Dame @notredame.bsky.social who are giving birth @ University of Chicago (which our insurance covers) because they are afraid that if something goes wrong, they will DIE in Indiana. www.reuters.com/legal/indian...

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Indiana judge refuses to broaden medical exception to abortion ban

An Indiana judge on Wednesday refused to broaden the medical exception to the state's near-total abortion ban, ruling against a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Abortion bans make pregnancy less safe for everyone. I already know faculty at @notredame.bsky.social who are giving birth at the University of Chicago (which our insurance covers) because they are afraid that if something goes wrong, they will DIE in Indiana.

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Who’s This “We?” @wecandohardthings.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat’s “Sugarcane” joins podcasts by @duncanmccue.bsky.social (“Kuper Island”) and @conniewalker.bsky.social (“Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s”) in showing who and what Indian residential / boarding schools failed to obliterate, and the unfathomable damage they did.

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“Denial of a wanted abortion…increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months…Tracking outcomes up to 15 years later… women denied an abortion experience more health issues, lower educational attainment, reduced labor-force participation, and higher rates of poverty.”

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thanks to @notredame.bsky.social "Transformative Open Access Agreement" our article "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America" is available to everyone, so please share: tinyurl.com/26t6dzxp

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Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America - Volume 20 Issue 4

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

So grateful 4 labor mvmt colleagues, especially @rolanderne.bsky.social who's supported me thru 2 years of harassment at Notre Dame, & always includes me on his team. We need more allies like him. Thank you, Roland. Check out our new pub w/ great labor scholars: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 09/01/2025

Because of how Indiana law defines "abortion inducing drugs," this bill would ban not just mifepristone but also misoprostol—a drug used to prevent and treat postpartum hemorrhage. # of co-sponsors unclear. Guy who filed it resigned from the Republican caucus because it wasn't conservative *enough*

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Proposal would outlaw use of abortion pills and tighten rape exception • Indiana Capital Chronicle

A new bill would further clamp down on abortions in Indiana by banning procedures using pills and requiring women to file an affidavit of rape

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/01/2025

I guess Meta figured that if the government is going to deny women's rights, the least they can do to help is let their users get away with dehumanizing women online.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Scenes from a pro-life country

a woman's risk of being killed grows when she becomes pregnant and after given birth, by about 20%

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/12/2024

Trump’s return to the White House, accompanied by allies deeply hostile to anything related to reproductive and sexual health and rights, has sparked panic. newrepublic.com/article/1895...

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Abortion Prepping for the Trump Era

Preserving access to Plan B, misoprostol, and more isn’t just about stockpiling doses. It’s about building circles of trust.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Book #4, about Project ECHO (@projectechohq.bsky.social) written with @jasonspicer.bsky.social is officially under contract with Stanford University Press, for their Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) book series in their Stanford Business Books imprint. Coming in 2026.

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Here's a brief history of trade liberalization, tariffs (including the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930), and how the President ended up with so much power over them—from our book "Trade Battles"

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