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andréa becker

@andreabeckerphd.bsky.social

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sociology professor and reproductive health researcher @ Hunter College CUNY / bylines in NYT, Slate, The Nation, Vox etc 🇲🇽 my book Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy is out now!

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · Jan 21

got my book’s page proofs and she looks soooo good

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 1d

Yes assigned at birth! Not typically how I’d write a survey personally but we had to make some tactical decisions based on what the main demographic of our sample will be

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 19d

Recruiting for a new study on men’s sexual health experiences! Please share :)

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to announce that I, “Author,” have been selected for the prestigious “Best Researcher Award.”

An unbelievable honor.

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 13d

🚨New paper alert🚨we find that the option of telehealth is key for trans-affirming abortion care.

Now more than ever we need to protect telehealth abortion.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40983240/

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women do not lack for judgmental, frightening and dubiously factual instructions about their health. Everywhere, they are told that they risk the health of their fetus by partaking in a series of banal everyday activities – be it jogging or having coffee or eating a certain cheese – that they are told will lead, by obscure mechanisms that are never quite explained, to impossible and devastating health outcomes for their children-to-be. The admonishments are multiple and often contradictory, but they all tend to agree on one thing: that it is always good for women to deprive themselves of joy and relief – and to suffer more – for the sake of their fetuses.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15d

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 16d

📢 September Notice!

Have you visited the @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @thesocietypages.bsky.social this month? Make sure to check it out!

First up:
3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

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3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

thesocietypages.org

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 19d

Of course! go.wisc.edu/wh2rhk

Men's Sexual Health Care Study

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

go.wisc.edu

andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 19d

Recruiting for a new study on men’s sexual health experiences! Please share :)

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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · 21d

The Trump administration told The New York Times that IUDs, hormonal implants, and the Pill are actually abortions.

That’s objectively false. But it’s telling – they want to ban birth control.

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions

9.12.25

jessica.substack.com

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 22d

Having a president say the feminine words first means so much to me ¡Viva México!

andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 22d

Just cried watching the first woman president give el grito de independencia in Mexico AMA

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Ashley @oohgoodness.bsky.social · 22d

We take a break from your regularly scheduled doom scrolling to let you know that Labubus are pro abortion.

Peach labubu in a black T-shirt that says “abortion” in orange letters.

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 27d

Paper acceptance day!! Our paper on trans experiences with telehealth abortion will finally be out in the world!

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 28d

Pissed me off so much I had to say something

andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · 28d

This instagram influencer is pushing “camel toe concealers” on instagram. It’s unbreathable silicone you insert into your underwear while swimming and exercising to “avoid embarrassment.”

I’m getting a yeast infection just from looking at the product photos. Heinous!!

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · Sep 9

MOST RECENTLY: The Hunting Wives, mention of an emergency hysterectomy and her wondering if she is “less of a woman”

andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · Sep 9

When I’m watching something and someone mentions hysterectomy

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Sep 8

The president is pro-domestic violence

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 8

Trump: "Things that take place in the home they call crime....If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime."

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you!!

andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Don’t forget to rate and review GET IT OUT! Or mark it as “want to read” xoxo

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Burkely Hermann @historyhermann.bsky.social · Aug 29

In the newsletter, I incl. a quote from @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social in a recent interview w/ @thenation.com, saying "we no longer have formal eugenics boards, but we see trickles of this #eugenics logic continuing in #healthcare...the #carceral system...[& the] growing pro-natalist movement" (24/?)

"We no longer have formal eugenics boards, but we see trickles of this eugenics logic continuing in healthcare and in the carceral system. It’s eugenics logic at play when migrant women in detention centers aren’t seen as worthy of reproduction, and so forced hysterectomies were deemed acceptable. And then, when we see this growing pro-natalist movement, this growing movement among highly educated white billionaires to increase the birth rates of other white billionaires—abortion bans are fueled by eugenics—we’re continuing to see this desire to repopulate the earth with the “right” kinds of people and to reduce the birth rates of other types of people."

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andréa becker @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social · Aug 27

thank you for featuring Get It Out! :)

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Justin Lehmiller @justinlehmiller.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Get It Out" investigates the politics of hysterectomy in modern-day life and explores the broader state of healthcare and social inequality. In this post, @emmendelson.bsky.social interviews @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social about the books's key themes. www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2025/8/...

Understanding the Modern-Day Hysterectomy - Sex and Psychology

Get It Out, a new book by Dr. Andréa Becker, investigates the politics of hysterectomy in modern-day life.

www.sexandpsychology.com

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Jennifer Reich @jenniferreich.bsky.social · Aug 14

Six amazing books in the @nyupress.bsky.social series, Health, Society, and Inequality are out! And more are coming soon. So proud to be a part of this work. @ralmeling.bsky.social @katemasonsociology.bsky.social @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social
@ilenekalish.bsky.social

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