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Dr. Canton Winer

@cantonwiner.bsky.social

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Asst. Prof of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies Follow me for thoughts about (a)sexuality, gender, and society Subscribe to my free asexuality research newsletter: https://substack.com/home/post/p-151034229?source=queue

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · Nov 15

I’m not on the asexuality spectrum. But as a queer, feminist researcher, I think we should all care about asexuality.

Why? Because asexual perspectives can help us better understand sexuality—and gender, race, disability, family, love, etc.

Here’s why:

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve written before about how slut politics and asexuality also share more resonance than is apparent at first glance.

You can read about that here: open.substack.com/pub/cantonwi...

But I’m eager to think more about aromanticism and the queer resources it offers us.

Sluts and Asexuals, Unite!

Reflecting on a slut-affirming night out

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 1h

And both aromanticism and relationship anarchy can push us toward centering autonomy, community, flexibility, and care in how we relate to one another.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 1h

Aromanticism and relationship anarchy both challenge amatonormativity, or the assumption that everyone does/should desire a central, exclusive, romantic relationship and that such a relationship is the most fulfilling path to a meaningful life.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 1h

Aromanticism and relationship anarchy share so much resonance with each other.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 1d

We can’t take you seriously if you think “wokeness” is a bigger threat than authoritarianism.

[cough cough Bari Weiss]

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

In today's @latimes.com, @georgianndavis.bsky.social writes about teaching statistics as an intersex scholar, and having to choose between lying to her students about the biological realities of sex and gender or teaching what the administration insists is true.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

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Amin Ghaziani @aminghaziani.bsky.social · 6d

My special issue of The Sociological Quarterly on queer nightlife is out! A real passion project, attempting to articulate what unique contributions sociologists can make to a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation. It’s all open access for 6 months. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6... #sociology

The Sociological Quarterly

Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 6d

What if gender isn’t something everyone has, but something we’re compelled to have?

My new Substack explores compulsory gender and how some people "detach" from gender.

Dive in: cantonwiner.substack.com/p/compulsory-gender-detachment

Compulsory Gender

Do We All Need a Gender? Challenging Compulsory Gender

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 12d

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David John Frank 🏳️‍🌈 @davidjohnfrank.bsky.social · 25d

New research from Canton Winer! Gender identity detachment: New term allows people to skip gender entirely. share.google/uoS3hFDjV2UR...

There’s a Shiny New Entry Into the Gender Lexicon. This One Changes the Ballgame.

Turns out there’s more to the gender spectrum than we’d imagined.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26d

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 26d

If you know much about authoritarians, you know that they pounce at the chance to exploit a crisis.

That’s one reason many people are fearful in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s shooting.

It's easy to feel hopeless right now.

But as a sociologist, I see some real reasons for hope.

Surviving the Kirk/MAGA Crisis

On Finding Hope Under Authoritarianism

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 26d

I don’t relish seeing anyone shot. It’s horrible.

But spare me the calls for empathy for a man who built a career railing against empathy.

Screenshot of a headline from Yahoo News: “Charlie Kirk once said empathy was a ‘made up, new age term’”

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 27d

Kirk’s own words in the moment he was shot were part of a project of political violence.

It would be poetic if it weren’t so deeply disturbing.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 27d

An ugly day in America.

Q: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?

Kirk: Too many [Cheers]...

Q: Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?

Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?

Gunshot.

Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 27d

Dehumanization is a form of political violence, one that Charlie Kirk knew well.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 29d

Respectfully, I think it’s problematic to medicalize this experience (especially since there’s no evidence of anything health related in my data). Your experience is valid—but it doesn’t invalidate the experiences of the dozens of people I’ve interviewed.

Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 29d

I agree that there could be some overlap in how these terms are defined. However, the people I interviewed explicitly said that they didn’t feel the agender label fit them very well. I take that seriously and I’m not placing that label on them.

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Social Psychology ASA Section @asasocpsych.bsky.social · 29d

UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender - Davis, California job with UC Davis | 1311028

Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for scholars conducting theoretically-driven, empirical research in the sociology of gender.

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Crissie Brown #🟦 @comicrissieb.bsky.social · 29d

As I learned in critical theory: "Law is the institution by which Power declares itself Virtue."

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29d

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 29d

It’s a topic I’m genuinely curious about. I’ll probably explore the relationships between agender and gender detachment in a future project. Always happy to hear others’ perspectives.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 29d

I briefly discuss the difference between agender and gender detachment here: contexts.org/blog/does-ev...

Does everyone <I>have</I> a gender? - Contexts

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 29d

I don’t, but maybe I should…

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 29d

I think they’re different but can overlap. Agender is a gender identity (albeit one that refers to not having a gender). Gender detachment reflects a sense that gender is unimportant.

I briefly discuss agender vs gender detachment here: contexts.org/blog/does-ev...

Does everyone <I>have</I> a gender? - Contexts

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.

contexts.org

Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 29d

I hope it’s useful for you!