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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thrilled to share I’ve been promoted to Full Professor! 🎉

Grateful to colleagues, students, mentors, friends—and to the everyday folks who let me travel with them & learn from their lives. Your stories shape my work and understanding of the world.
#Sociology #Gratitude

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Aug 13

It feels amazing to have your work recognized by your peers! Thanks to the Marxist Sociology section for recognizing our book and the role of feminist thought in imagining a fairer future @professorsmitha.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social @umbsociology.bsky.social

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congrats Evan! We're so lucky to have you! You're a terrific colleague!

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Jul 31

**I'll be at ASA if you'd like to chat about the position. Reach out by email.**

The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston is hiring a TT assistant professor with strengths in the soc of gender/sexualities: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310899/...

Assistant Professor (Sociology) - Boston, Massachusetts job with University of Massachusetts Boston | 1310899

The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) invites qualified persons to apply for a tenure-track assistant profess...

careercenter.asanet.org

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Jul 25

I am honored that my peers have elected me to serve on Council for both the American Sociological Association’s Sex & Gender and the PEWS (Political Economy of the World-System) sections. I am looking forward to connecting with folks at the ASA meetings in Chicago!

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Jul 16

We're hiring an assistant professor of sociology with strengths in gender & sexualities, with a preference for candidates who can teach Queer Theory & Methods. I'll be available at ASA to chat with interested candidates! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Page Up - UMass Boston

employmentopportunities.umb.edu

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Jun 9

As grad students, we teased Michael Burawoy for listing "capitalism on earth" as his research interest. We're thrilled that this deeply "Berkeley" feminist perspective on capitalism on earth has been recognized with the 2024 Immanuel Wallerstein Book Prize and now two 2025 awards.

Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Congratulations @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social:
*The Gender Order of Neoliberalism* receives Honorable Mention from @asanews.bsky.social Sex & Gender Section’s Distinguished Book Award AND Marxist Sociology Section’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award!
tinyurl.com/28fw5taz

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...

www.politybooks.com

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Congratulations @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social:
*The Gender Order of Neoliberalism* receives Honorable Mention from @asanews.bsky.social Sex & Gender Section’s Distinguished Book Award AND Marxist Sociology Section’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award!
tinyurl.com/28fw5taz

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...

www.politybooks.com

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Jun 9

Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Congratulations @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social:
*The Gender Order of Neoliberalism* receives Honorable Mention from @asanews.bsky.social Sex & Gender Section’s Distinguished Book Award AND Marxist Sociology Section’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award!
tinyurl.com/28fw5taz

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...

www.politybooks.com

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Jun 3

I LOVE this! www.erininthemorning.com/p/defying-de...

Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors

LGBT Floridians demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · May 29

1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use.

Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so.

The latest from S. Baum.

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www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...

Trans Man Detained After Using Women’s Restroom in South Carolina

Anti-trans lawmakers want to force trans men to use the women's restroom. Here’s what happened when one did.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · May 30

Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thank you for this!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Apr 1

1. Today, young organizers held a huge rally in D.C. for Trans Day of Visibility.

Dem leaders, activists, and allies spoke.

“We are all standing together against the fascist lie that our bodies are not our own.”

Our writer S. Baum was on the ground today.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

“Bullsh*t … Fascist Lie”: Trans People, Dems Go on the Offensive at National TDOV Rally

“We are all standing together against the fascist lie that our bodies are not our own.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 19

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.

A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.

HAIRCUTS.

This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation

The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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UMass Boston Department of Sociology & Criminology @umbsociology.bsky.social · Mar 4

📢 Huge shoutout to our amazing grad students presenting at #ESS2025!

Today, we’re showing off Katsy Rivera Kientz, Jennifer Schweers & Scarlett Qian who will be presenting their research this weekend! 🌅🎓

Stay tuned as we spotlight more of our incredible grad students throughout the week! 👏✨

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Mar 4

I just can't...

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Feb 27

I was honored to speak as a parent and a researcher about my study with Sky Rathvon (they/them), which draws on interviews with trans and nonbinary students and their ideas for making school a more welcoming place. www.linkedin.com/posts/middle...

Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc on LinkedIn: #inclusiveeducation #safeschools #equityineducation #mpy #educationmatters…

🌈 Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments for LGBTQ+ Students 🌈 On February 25, 2025, MPY hosted an inspiring conference at Montachusett Regional…

www.linkedin.com

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Mar 1

The fates of LGBTQ+ people and Ukraine are linked. Trump is following Putin into an oppositional modernity that uses misogyny, transphobia, and white supremacy as vehicles for recentering manliness in how we judge which nation-states are modern: www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...

Gender, Modernity, and Russia’s War on Ukraine | American Sociological Association

In times of war, gendered analyses—already marginalized in geopolitical thinking—are often seen as superfluous. When I am asked as a feminist sociologist with

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Feb 28

Is the shift from #girlboss to #tradwife a step backward for feminism? Or are both these myths simply features of our stalled feminist imaginations?

@professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write @contexts.org → tinyurl.com/ycxn599k
& don’t miss their book ↓ tinyurl.com/28fw5taz

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...

tinyurl.com

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 25

The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Text: 59. For example, it is not clear which of the following activities OCR would consider
a violation of the Letter:
○ Teaching a college course on the history of the U.S. South and Jim Crow, urban
policy and planning, modern American history, or the history of housing and
segregation.
○ Leading a class discussion on the history of slavery in America or Japanese
internment during World War II.
○ Maintaining Departments of African American Studies, Arab American Studies,
Asian American Studies, or Jewish Studies.
○ Hosting a celebration for Black History Month, Holi, Eid, or Lunar New Year.
○ Hosting a Latin American culture club or a Japanese film club.
○ Counseling a student who was called a racial or ethnic slur and is upset about that
experience.
○ Maintaining a school mission built around advancing excellence and equity.
○ Telling students they cannot use a racial slur and explaining why other students
might find the slur hurtful.

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Feb 27

Our article, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination," is in Contexts Magazine! This is an extension of our award-winning book, The Gender Order of Neoliberalism.

📖 Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
🎶 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Feb 27

I was honored to speak as a parent and a researcher about my study with Sky Rathvon (they/them), which draws on interviews with trans and nonbinary students and their ideas for making school a more welcoming place. www.linkedin.com/posts/middle...

Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc on LinkedIn: #inclusiveeducation #safeschools #equityineducation #mpy #educationmatters…

🌈 Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments for LGBTQ+ Students 🌈 On February 25, 2025, MPY hosted an inspiring conference at Montachusett Regional…

www.linkedin.com

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Smitha Radhakrishnan @professorsmitha.bsky.social · Feb 27

Looking forward to sharing some new work on debt in India tomorrow. Link to the YouTube stream in the link below. watson.brown.edu/southasia/ev...

Smitha Radhakrishnan — Hidden Precarities: Indebtedness, Caste, and Breadwinning in Urban Uttarakhand, India | Center for Contemporary South Asia

The Center for Contemporary South Asia facilitates the study of South Asia from a multidisciplinary perspective. The center is based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Bro...

watson.brown.edu

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Feb 21

Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Sociology scholars @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write that hashtag feminism responds to White western women's binds, but overlooks global, utopic, liberatory feminist vision to help all struggling women tinyurl.com/FEAGirlboss

The title page of the article "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding Our Feminist Imagination," published in Contexts magazine.

A photo of multicultural women looking seriously at the camera. The caption reads: Collective, utopic thinking about women's empowerment has a long global history. Forgetting that history has impoverished feminist imaginations.

A chart divided into four quadrants along two axes: Having Less <--> "Having It All" and Doing Less <--> "Doing It All." The first quadrant, in the upper right, is labeled Lean-In and is US-Centric. It is high on the "Doing It All" and the "Having It All" axes. The second quadrant, in the lower left, is labeled Girlboss/Tradwife, and is closer to the high ends of the "Having Less" and "Doing Less" axes. Quadrant 3, upper left, is labeled Exhausted Global Women (most women's lived experience) and is high on the "Doing It All" and "Having Less" axes. And Quadrant 4, lower right, is labeled Transnational Feminism, is Global/transnational, and is high on the "Having It All" and "Doing Less" axes.

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