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C.J. Pascoe

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Sociology. Running. Banjos. Bikes. Books. Knitting. Would rather be on a trail. 📚Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High 📚Dude You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School www.cjpascoe.org

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Nov 11

Good morning to all the new followers here! By way of introduction, I’m a sociologist who studies young people, masculinity, sexuality and education. My new book is about what happens when schools ban political topics and instead tell everyone to just...be nice. www.ucpress.edu/books/nice-i...

Nice Is Not Enough by C. J. Pascoe - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 9d

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · 21d

Looking forward to talking with Mike Messner about his new book, The High School, tomorrow. Join us - it's a virtual event!
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Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!!!

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!!! (I hope you are settling in nicely in your new spot!)

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

As a sociologist, I obviously have the more depressing aspects of queer life covered...😳

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m getting to serve as a faculty advisor to a class of LGBTQIA+ first year students this year (so exciting!) and I need your help! I’d love to assign some inspirational/uplifting/ affirming essays, films, and poetry. I know that you folks must have some fabulous ideas, so please send them my way!

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Sep 3

I don't remember what the actual conversation was about. I just remember how mad he was that I didn't like Oasis. Wait till he finds out my opinion on Coldplay's music.

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Aug 21

Some of you may not know this, but Focus had a giant phone bank where anyone could get help - bills paid, referrals to christian therapists, food etc. Basically they were trying to replace the existing (paltry) gov safety net. They laid the groundwork for what we are now witnessing writ large.

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Aug 21

The damage he did to reproductive rights, to queer folks, to women in abusive situations is unfathomable.

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Aug 21

I listened to this man's tapes over and over and over again in car rides with my parents. He was their young married couples minister at their church in Pomona before he brought Focus to CSprings.

traumatized children of evangelicals are celebrating the death of Dr. James Dobson

focus on your own damn family

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Aug 21

All I have to say about Dobson's passing is that the public policy team at Focus on the Family sent me a going away gift basket when I moved away from CSprings. Even after I declined to star in a video for first year Christian college students about how to get along with their secular professors.

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Aug 21

I get that we can't self care our way out of this. But this morning message from the YMCA coffee counter is a little too on point for me and my colleagues at U of O who are facing unprecedented, unpredictable and unclear firings of staff, tenured and nontenured faculty.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jul 3

It's not surprising that the pastor gave this sermon during a "Men's Preaching Night" event. As @cjpascoe.bsky.social told us in her research almost 20 years ago, straight men use homophobia to police each other's masculinity.

The call was made during a recent sermon titled “Pray the Gay Away” inside Sure Foundation Baptist Church on the northwest side of the city.

“There’s nothing good to be proud about being a f*****. You ought to blow yourself in the head, in the back of the head. You’re so disgusting,” Stephen Falco said from the pulpit. He was speaking during the church’s “Men’s Preaching Night.” The event was streamed live on their Facebook page.

A bunch of f****** that want to come around, walk on our streets, and demand our children, and we should walk in the eye and say, ‘No, you’re not going to have our children,’” he said.

Falco continued to call for the death of the queer community.

Following the sermon, I-Team 8 reached out to the church about Falco’s message.

“He’s only calling for the death penalty and suicide for the actual sodomites (homosexuals),” the church said in an emailed statement. “The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Jun 5

Every time a misogynist calls another misogynist a rapist, I always think of @cjpascoe.bsky.social and Jocelyn Hollander’s article:

“Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape”

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · May 13

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · May 13

I'm so so so so happy for you!

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Apr 10

As I said in my blurb: The High School takes us on a compelling historical journey, offering a unique blend of sociology, history and personal memoir…A brilliant and insightful work that may have many of us digging out our own yearbooks and revisiting our own stories. Check it out!

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Apr 10

How cool is Mike Messner’s new book?! It looks like a yearbook and it’s based on 100+ years of yearbooks!

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Apr 10

How cool is Mike Messner’s new book?! It looks like a yearbook and it’s based on 100+ years of yearbooks!

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Chalkbeat @chalkbeat.org · Apr 9

Indiana plans to comply with Trump push to ban DEI from schools
https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/04/09/indiana-to-tell-trump-administration-there-is-no-dei-in-our-schools/

Indiana will promise the Trump administration there’s no DEI in the state’s schools

The U.S. Department of Education has asked states to certify there’s no DEI in schools in ways the Trump administration deems illegal. Indiana says it will comply.

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library

Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and books on the Holocaust were among the works removed in response to an order from the office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Apr 9

HA! I'll need them. 😂Quite frankly, I'm grateful to have a solvable problem to focus on.

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is all horrifying, so all my little peabrain can focus on is that I am absolutely not prepared to be suitably professorial in 80+ degree temps next week.

C.J. Pascoe @cjpascoe.bsky.social · Mar 31

www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

Faculty, administrators at the University of Oregon avoid strike with last minute deal

The University agreed to give tenured faculty gradual raises of roughly 10% over the next two years. Raises are higher for some other instructors.

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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · Mar 28

The funny thing is, I took a little walk before prepping for this class and saw a "Be Kind" graffiti 👀

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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · Mar 28

Somehow all the students who showed up to one of my Transforming Identities seminars yesterday were international students. So we did some close reading of a few ethnographic vignettes from @cjpascoe.bsky.social's Nice Is Not Enough together, as if it's an English class. It's such a fun experience!