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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 18h

In the new issue of ASA's Contexts Magazine, Tristan Bridges @tristanbridges.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social & James W. Messerschmidt argue that Trump's AI-generated memes are more than digital curiosities. The entire issue is free to read until Oct 28 @contexts.org bit.ly/ASAContexts

Overhead view of hands typing on open laptop next to text: "See what's new! Contexts Magazine!"

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 07/10/2026

I think Reczek is right: estrangement is happening more now because the attitudes of children have changed. That doesn't mean children are the problem, even though that's what the story says.

Changing expectations of family relationships
"There is a culture clash happening right now between the meaning and dynamics of family," says Rin Reczek, a sociologist at Ohio State University and author of
"Families We Lose: A New Explanation for Family Estrangement®"
The parents of adult children grew up in a culture of "compulsory kinship," she says.
Families were supposed to be forever. Even when there were problems, adult children were expected to stay.
This idea is now increasingly challenged by a notion Reczek calls "democratized kinship"— the idea that maintaining family ties depends on their quality. Reczek's research found that people rely on accountability and growth, intentional connection, mutual respect and emotional safety to remain in a relationship.
"Think about how people started to think differently about marriage in the mid-20th century, that you could get out of it," Reczek says. "That is getting pushed out into other family relationships now."

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 29/09/2026

🔥Hot off the press!🔥 What political work is done when a president posts himself as Superman? Trump’s AI memes turn dissent into disorder and domination into leadership. Tristan Bridges and James Messerschmidt show how humor makes autocratic power feel ordinary. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

AI-generated three-panel image showing Donald Trump wearing a gold crown and oxygen mask while piloting a fighter jet. The jet flies over a city and releases a stream of brown material onto a crowd of protesters below.

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 02/10/2026

What if biology textbooks teach gender inequality through flowers? Pollen competes, penetrates, and succeeds. Female plant parts wait and nurture. Shuster, Wonderlin, and Masani show how cultural myths about gender become scientific “facts.” ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Opening page of the Contexts article “How Biology Textbooks Reflect Gender Inequality and Myth” by Stef M. Shuster, Nicole Wonderlin, and Shahnaz Masani. Above the orange title is a close-up photograph of a pale pink flower with vivid pink stamens against a soft green background.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My new article with Jim Messerschmidt just came out in @contexts.org: "President Trump's Masculine Memes." We look at how AI-generated memes are changing a long presidential tradition of projecting masculine power through images. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 28/09/2026

LGBTQ+ People’s Views of the Police: Friend or Foe? Stefan Vogler and Valerie Jenness find that LGBTQ+ respondents are more likely than non-LGBTQ+ respondents to see police as a foe, but this varies across gender identity and sexuality. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 23/09/2026

What happens when economic change feels like a threat to masculinity? In Contexts, Dan Cassino examines how men’s political preferences change when the traditional breadwinner role becomes less secure. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Sociology #Masculinity #Gender #PoliticalSociology

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally, we're receiving the recognition we so richly deserve. Hahhaa. Thanks for your work, @dr-yang.bsky.social!

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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Open-Access Publication in Men and Masculinities! This essay was originally prepared as a conference paper for the 2025 ASA Sex & Gender panel on the 30th Anniversary of Masculinities. It was subsequently expanded after very constructive review feedback. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the last day to comment on the Department of Education's proposed accreditation changes (until 11:59). This is a continuation of the administration's attempts to exert political control over univerities. Please take a minute to comment. The @alliancehighered.bsky.social has templates here:

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Public Comment Regarding the Education Department's Proposed Rules for Accreditation

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

ASA members get free teaching resources through TRAILS, a library of peer-reviewed sociology assignments, syllabi, activities, + more. Introduce students to the sociological study of men and masculinities with Emily Carian’s “Masculinities Syllabus.” bit.ly/4etDgDN #ASA #TRAILS #teaching

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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are excited to welcome Dr. Denise Hines as the incoming editor of Psychology of Men & Masculinities! An international expert on male intimate partner violence, Hines has 25+ years of experience researching men’s lives, mental health, relationships, and IPV victimization bit.ly/4i477pI

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Hines appointed first woman editor-in-chief of ‘Psychology of Men and Masculinities'

An international expert on male intimate partner violence, Denise Hines has more than 25 years of experience researching men’s lives, mental health, relationships, and intimate partner violence victim...

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Raewyn Connell @raewynconnell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"Nobody is searching for the truth, everybody is putting forward a 'case' with complete disregard for fairness or accuracy, and the most plainly obvious facts can be ignored by those who don't want to see them." Today's 'post-truth' world? No: Orwell on British pamphlets, 1944. Lying's not new.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New article theorizing the relational mechanisms that reproduce criminal legal inequalities. Come for the theory; stay for the review of cutting-edge research showing how social closure, exploitation, and claims-making drive inequality under the law compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A Relational Theory of Inequality in the Criminal Legal System

This article outlines a relational theory of legal inequality through a review of recent studies of crime, law, and deviance. I argue that three relational mechanisms—claims-making, social closure, a...

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Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At a time when masculinity is on the agenda more than ever, and some politicians are exploiting men & boys' insecurities, what does a more progressive approach to addressing issues they experience look like? @alistrathern.bsky.social shares his views on #NowandMen! www.nowandmen.net/episode/alis...

Episode 67 of the Now and Men podcast with Alistair Strathern MP

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'll again note that the folks willing to sign a letter supporting a raging eugenicist (purportedly in defense of his academic freedom to be racist) aren't nearly as motivated when it comes to *actual* threats to academic freedom, like this.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Introducing myself to classes today by explaining that I used to be an associate professor of Sociology & African American Studies, but that the university shut down the latter department.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S. Here’s what I found 🧵

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨 Excited to receive page proofs of this article on Trump’s AI memes with Jim Messerschmidt. It’ll be out in the summer issue of @contexts.org. So very soon. And we have a larger analysis building on this started.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 08/08/2026

Please -- it's late modern obscurantism.

Steven Pinker tweet
It's not just cultural anthropology: The politicization and postmodern
obscurantism of the field of sociology is running the discipline into the ground (though some those quoted in the article
- al Gharbi, Redstone, McAffree -- are fabulous). | The study of people has a people problem. wsj.com/us-
news/educat... via @WSJ

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I…try to stay out of famous white people’s business, I really do. But y’all have let this man pass as an intellectual for far too long.

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Raewyn Connell @raewynconnell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A useful account of the rhetoric of anti-trans propaganda. Strongly US-focussed. There's a larger international context to this propaganda and abuse, which I outline in "Trans Lives".

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New research on the gender pay gap from ASA member Catherine J. Taylor (UC Santa Barbara) suggests the issue may be rooted less in overt sexism and more in broader cultural assumptions about the value of women's work. @newsweek.com

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Researchers changed one detail about a job—then pay expectations fell

Even identical roles drew smaller salary estimates as more women filled them, hinting at a hidden bias shared by all.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Preparing my keynote on "Men, Masculinities, Far Right" for the “Masculinities under Debate: Feminist Responses to a New Era” course at El Escorial next week. Forgot about this piece I wrote on the topic 7 years ago.

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Why is the far right dominated by men? | Cas Mudde

It is time we take masculinity more seriously in discussions of the far right and rightwing politics

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Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology) @sociologylens.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🚨 NEW CALL FOR PAPERS — Sociology Lens Special Issue “Revisiting Masculinities: Digital Cultures and Historical Transformation” We invite contributions that rethink masculinities beyond fixed categories and explore how they are historically constructed, transformed, and circulated across media.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Exciting news! @raewynconnell.bsky.social and my new book, Gender: In World Perspective is officially out and fully available @politybooks.bsky.social. Request an exam or desk copy here. Paperbacks under $25 USD. We're so excited to share it with everyone. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Gender: In World Perspective

Gender: In World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And h...

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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism @irms.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

To improve access, IRMS will offer a limited number of partial scholarships for the summer intro to male supremacism course. Visit the course page on our website for information on applying for the scholarship: www.theirms.org/course-regis...

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Intro to Male Supremacism Course — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So many generations of Sociology at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social all in one place at our end of year gathering this year. Emeriti faculty, first year Assistant Profs, our grad students, and many UG honors students too. So proud to be a part of this history. @ucsbsocialsciences.bsky.social

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/06/2026

NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "With qualitative research, the risks of data sharing can outweigh the rewards." June 5, 2026.

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“The most terrifying question of Garcia’s book is a simple one: can we, how can we, live with men after the Pelicot trial?” Los Angeles Review of Books (@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social) review Manon Garcia's Living with Men lareviewofbooks.org/article/gise...

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Before and After the Pelicot Trial | Los Angeles Review of Books

On Manon Garcia’s new book about the recent case, and what it tells us about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and the complicity of men in general.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Guillaume Johnson and I wrote about apologies in racialized organizations being decoupled from actual anti-racist actions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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How do organizations reproduce racism while apologizing for it? We address this question using a racialized decoupling perspective, examining how organizational apologia discursively disconnects formal commitments to race neutrality from actual anti-racist actions. Analyzing a data set of apology statements issued in the United States, we show that beneath recurring apologetic narratives that acknowledge offense, deny intent, and signal diversity lie three key dynamics that (1) center racialized emotions, (2) preserve white ignorance, and (3) promote abstract liberalism. Through these dynamics, organizations, respectively, hierarchize reactions, deflect accountability, and project virtue—all in ways that distance themselves from the need for change. These apologies ultimately serve to neutralize the momentum of racial critique, functioning as myth and ceremony that allow organizations to appear good and non-racist while maintaining existing racial structures. We conclude by suggesting ways forward.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Michael Flood @michaelgflood.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The evolution and rise of the manosphere: Exploring technology-facilitated misogyny An op-ed by Laxman Belbase, MenEngage Alliance menengage.org/stories/the-...

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The evolution and rise of the manosphere: Exploring technology-facilitated misogyny

The evolution and rise of the manosphere: an op-ed by laxman belbase

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Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🚨 New in Journal of Gender Studies: We consider how the concept of “backlash” can flatten and frame masculinist responses as merely reactive; we suggest “countermovement” better captures how masculinities are strategically organised www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social

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The limits of ‘backlash’ masculinity: on the value of reframing gendered resistance as ‘countermovement’

This paper proposes a reconsideration of backlash as the dominant frame for analysing resistance to gender equality. Widely used to describe reactionary responses to feminist progress, the term oft...

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MultiMasc @masculinities.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography What does it mean to be a man? www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-l...

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Masculinities: Liberation through Photography | Barbican

We put manhood under the microscope in a series of videos, articles, playlists and podcasts.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Organizations are racial structures.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I feel like I can’t go 10 minutes online anymore without running into some watered down men’s rights concept being pushed into the mainstream. It’s everywhere. And half the people dropping these ideas have no idea where they came from—but you can watch the lurking misogyny radicalize them anyway.

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Allison Pugh @allisonpugh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

ICYMI "When people feel noticed by others, it strengthens mental health, community, and trust. Online networking rarely provides that. “There’s a very constrained emotional range,” Pugh says." www.mitsloanme.com/article/the-...

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The Visibility Paradox of LinkedIn: Connected, but Not Seen

This mismatch between what humans need and how the platform is designed helps explain why LinkedIn posts often share personal experiences in soulless, professional language.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Excited to see this book review forum published fully in @dialogueshg.bsky.social on @romitchowdhury.bsky.social's important book on public transportation in Kolkata - "City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport" journals.sagepub.com/toc/DHG/curr...

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Dialogues in Human Geography - Volume 16, Number 1

Table of contents for Dialogues in Human Geography, 16, 1

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UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

For the first time in the journal’s history, a #UCSB professor sits at the helm of Sociology of Race & Ethnicity: "UCSB has a long and important history of scholarship on race" said Professor Waverly Duck, "It feels fitting for the journal to be based here." Full story: ow.ly/fo6950YPuSb

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