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Anna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · Aug 10

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Civil rights are usually understood to be about voting, education, and employment, not health care."

Kirkland asks, "What do civil rights look like when refracted through the lens of American healthcare, a massive and complex web of public and private relationships, laws, regulations...?"

$HEALTH CARE CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AMERICAN RIGHTS TRADITION This book analyzes civil rights in health care in the contemporary United States. But civil rights are usually understood to be about voting, education, and employment, not health care. Scholars of civil rights have mostly studied them in the workplace, theorizing how rights can assist social movement mobilization but also reinscribe inequalities and ratify ineffective organizational practices that fail to produce much social change.5 What do civil rights look like when refracted through the lens of American healthcare, a massive and complex web of public and private relationships, laws, regulations, institutions, professions, norms, and financial arrangements that comprises one-fifth of the US economy? What rights are there in US healthcare, anyway? What would a nondiscriminatory health benefit plan look like? We are famously a country that lacks an explicit right to health. And yet our US healthcare and welfare systems offer a range of entitlements, protections, rules, and supports for health insurance, so much so that Christina Ho argues that we already have some rights to health that we fail to see as true rights.6 So then what is a civil right in health? It turns out that seeing rights through health is different in important ways than seeing them through other contexts like employment.$

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Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social · Aug 11

4 in 10 pregnant patients and 1 in 4 people use Medicaid. Shifting access among such a large population will have implications for the health of the entire population (and the HC institutions we rely upon). A major population health topic for demographers to prioritize. #ASA2025

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Aug 11

Meet with publishers, companies, and organizations showcasing their products and services in the #ASA2025 Exhibit Hall, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

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Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study @ffcws.bsky.social · Aug 11

#FFdata at #ASA2025: We’re here at our booth (539) in the Exhibit Hall at this year’s ASA meeting today from 9:00am-4:00pm. Stop by and say hello, ask your questions, and grab some swag!

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Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · Aug 9

“Without the impetus to go outside the box, I didn’t realize the box that I was in.” Patricia Hill Collins #asa2025

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Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · Aug 11

Huge thanks to the @asasocpsych.bsky.social section for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award! #ASA2025

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · Aug 10

Happy Sunday 🎉 Here is our session schedule for the day. Use #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth to show us your conference highlights!

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Anna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · Aug 9

My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 7

This is where we are, America. One of my old colleagues at the University of Arizona Cancer Center has set up a GoFundMe to help fund breast cancer research in the wake of massive cuts to NIH grants.

With financial support in limbo, this UA cancer lab started crowdfunding

As federal funding changes hit universities, key research initiatives are scrambling to find cash. The Schroeder Lab at UA is one of them.

www.azcentral.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · May 21

Again NOTHING WAS BUNGLED. She’s speaking into existence what they want the law to be, this is the MO from the very beginning. This purposeful, deliberate distortion must be called out.

The NYTimes never ceases to play the fiddle for fascism.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 20

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.

Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · Apr 28

Washington state lawmakers just voted today for statewide rent control, and the bill heads now to the governor's desk. It's the third state to do so after California and Oregon in 2019

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...

Washington State Lawmakers Vote to Limit Rent Increases

Supporters say an annual cap of 10 percent, including inflation, will protect tenants. Critics worry it will reduce housing supply and discourage investors.

www.nytimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Apr 17

People want institutions to stand up

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Apr 15

And we know that some of these interactions with law enforcement were things like domestic violence victims calling the police for help.

www.jezebel.com/trump-is-try...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Apr 12

This is a depraved collective punishment visited on the children of Maine because the president is a petulant narcissist who believes it's ok to hurt kids if the governor refuses to bow.

Allison Chapman @alli.gay · Apr 11

🚨 BREAKING: US Department of Education has started the process to TERMINATE all federal funding for Maine K-12 schools. This is in direct response to Maine Dept of Ed refusing to comply with Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Orders.

Full release here: www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

U.S. Department of Education Announces Consequences for
Maine's Title IX Noncompliance The Department of Education Is Referring the Case to the
Department of Justice; Initiating Federal Funding Termination
Proceeding
APRIL 11, 2025 Today, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) referred its Title IX investigation into the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for further enforcement action. Simultaneously, ED will initiate an administrative proceeding to adjudicate termination of MDOE's federal K-12 education funding.
including formula and discretionary grants. These actions are a direct result of MDOE's continued refusal to comply with Title IX. ED issued a noncompliance finding on March 19, and sent a final warning letter to the state
on March 31.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Apr 5

one interesting aspect about being a sociology professor is
you get used to saying "impolite" truths about how things work all the time, out loud, to virtual strangers (students, mostly)
when most adults' jobs involve intricate, collaboratively-developed ways of sustaining these polite fictions

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Apr 6

my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI”

Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · Apr 5

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

Judge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research Funding

The decision came as an initial win for a broad coalition of academic institutions that had argued the policy jeopardized ongoing research, but it set up an almost certain appeal.

www.nytimes.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Apr 1

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Apr 1

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie

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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · Apr 1

Science is political!

Screenshot of a post from @femknemi1y
" I stay out of politics" is such a weird way to spell "my rights as a human being aren't up in the air every 4 years and I have no problem with the fact that yours are"

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Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thank you so much, Andrew!

Katie R. Billings @katierbillings.bsky.social · Mar 30

I was honored to receive the Candace Rogers Award at ESS earlier this month for the best graduate student paper. ESS was my first conference in graduate school so I can’t describe how meaningful it is to receive this honor in my last semester as a graduate student. #ess25

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Mar 29

Sometime very soon we’re going to have to have the conversation about how many so-called progressives also wanted “DEI” to die & what all that mainstream endorsement of the propaganda around what at their essence were integration efforts says about people who believe themselves to be the good guys.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · Mar 16

Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 16

This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

www.usatoday.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 4

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Feb 27

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