The thing giving my anxiety is I truly don’t know how our institution would handle it if asked. I think it’s probably a tough decision for any. But tough decision and enthusiastic excitement are different.

Reminder - Next month, we'll host @kevinguyan.bsky.social at VCU for a virtual session! This is free and open to anyone to attend, but registration is required: vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking or graduating this yr? Ck out this Assistant Professor for Qualitative Research at UGA for Fall ‘26. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/450...

Lately I feel like I spent most of the day responding to and working through emails, only to see the number of emails be higher at the end of the day than it was in the morning. Truly Sisyphean and kind of torturous.

Generator for alternative image text seems good. I’d like to turn off the rest (because asking to burn it in the fires of hell seems like a reach at this point).

My tip as an editor for reviewers: If I've asked you to review a revision, all I really want is to know if you feel your prior comments have been addressed. You likely don't need a second extremely close read. This is also not the moment to raise new issues (unless the revision introduced them).

I'm at that stage of my writing process where I've organized my files, updated my whiteboard, and deep cleaned my office, and I got my syllabus in order for Fall.

Coming up this fall - our next Critical Quantitative Methodologies Series speaker! We'll be joined on October 14th by @kevinguyan.bsky.social for his talk on "Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories, and Who Counts?". Talk is via Zoom at 3PM EDT. Register at vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Three international students we admitted declined and two of them aren’t coming to any US institution. For context, that means we have zero new international students in my program.

New publication! "QuantCrit at the intersections: A systematic review of gender and sexuality in QuantCrit research" is now published. In it, we review QuantCrit publications to examine how/whether authors took up gender and sexuality, and offer recommendations. authors.elsevier.com/a/1lIVL8MqMi...

Very. But I fear my budget will not meet the demands.

We are looking for new Associate Editors (who handle manuscripts and assign reviewers) and Consulting Editors (who review manuscripts) for JQTSIE! Please consider applying for these roles to help us keep up the pace and rigor of the journal!

A little professional update: I’ve accepted a role here at VCU as Interim Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development starting next month. I’ll keep up my research allocation and some work with students, too. Excited to work to support and enhance faculty success!

🥳📣 Call for abstracts: Special Issue of JQTSIE:
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social & @ftmathteacher.bsky.social!
Abstracts are due SOON: May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
www.jqtsie.com
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

Super common conflation even in critical work!

Just a friendly note that male and female describe legal sex or sex assigned at birth and are not really genders.

New publication out today: "LGBTQ+ Affirmative Care Training in Counselor Education: A Community-Based Inquiry" is available open access! doi.org/10.1002/ceas...
This piece, with Nancy Thacker Darrow and Thea Racelis, draws from our Spencer-funded work with counselors-in-training and educators.

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social rescheduled our meet the editors session so that it now has conflicts for all of our editors. If you want to talk about the journal, though, please reach out! We’re around this week or can talk via Zoom later.

Today is Giving Day for VCU! You can help us support the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies, keeping us free and open access to support LGBTQ+ research! Please give what you can. Even $10 gets us closer to our fundraising goals and helps us compete in giving day challenges for bonus funds!

If you'll be at AERA this week, come see work by me and other faculty and students in our Research Assessment and Evaluation program! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Are you attending @aeraedresearch.bsky.social's Annual Meeting in Denver? Have an idea for an article or special issue? Want to talk w/ the editors about your research? Want to learn more about the journal? Come meet us!

@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

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Coming soon, our manuscript on "A person-centered, multi-method examination of disclosure, campus experiences, and perceptions of campus climate for LGBTQ+ students in the Southeastern United States" was accepted! This one has been a couple of years in the making, and has amazing student authors!

In personal news, we recently adopted a new dog in our house. And I figured plenty of people scrolling these days might like some cuteness. Her name is Luma (after Super Mario Galaxy) and she’s 2/3 foxhound 1/3 beagle and she is both very cute and a total mess and we love her.