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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Aug 12

so great to meet you! Congrats on the book!

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Eos Trinidad @eostrinidad.bsky.social · Aug 12

Really happy that my book, Subtle Webs: How Local Orgs Shape US Education, was celebrated with other books by first-time Asian and Asian-Am authors!

It's a real honor for it to be alongside other books and authors I admire. And we even had a cake with all our book covers!

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hopping back on bluesky because I had to share my excitement at seeing amazing new @princetonupress.bsky.social books at #ASA2025! From brilliant friends and colleagues @bail3y.bsky.social @lizchiarello.bsky.social @hopeharvey.bsky.social Irene Vega 🤩📚🎉

smiling holding four books: Kindergarten Panic, Policing Patients, Doubled Up, and Bordering on Indifference

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Jan 15

oh yay! I'll text you ☺️

Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hello social work friends! I will be at #SSWR2025 this week (my first time!) and would love to meet/see you if you'll be there ✨

I'll be sharing research on material support provision through CPS in CT and NYC, done in collaboration with Nora McCarthy @familypolicynyc.bsky.social

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Nov 29

If police encounters are a nightmare for unhoused individuals, imagine how much worse they are for families w/ kids.

In my book, one family is terrified of cops finding them in their car and calling CPS. This fear is justified: "inadequate housing" drives a vast number of child removals in the U.S.

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Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social · Nov 22

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Nov 20

I haven't seen one! (but it would be super helpful--I think that community was what I personally appreciated most about old twitter)

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thanks so much for putting this together! I’d
love to join the list to find other sociology-interested folks 😊

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Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)

The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood a book by Kristen Martin

The real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream. The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo...

bookshop.org

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Nov 5

Long lines are a modern poll tax

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Feb 22

I am organizing a session on Social Welfare Programs for ASA 2024! If you have new/in-progress research in this area, submit your extended abstract or paper by Mon 2/26 ✨

Call for submissions here: www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...

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Thad Domina @t-h-a-d.bsky.social · Jan 9

Free lunch for everybody!

New work from me, @leahclark.bsky.social, Vitaly Radsky, and Renuka Bhaskar demonstrates that universal free school meals substantially reduce school suspensions, particularly for kids from low-income families. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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Mary Waters @marywaters.bsky.social · Jan 5

I have not seen posts from Harvard faculty weighing in on Claudine Gay so for what it is worth, here is one faculty opinion. I have been a professor here since 1986. She was, by far, the very best dean of Arts and Sciences we have ever had. She was fair, collaborative and yet decisive. 1/n

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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · Dec 29

I'm glad to share this Q&A with sociologist Neil Gong about his research & forthcoming book

We talked about homeless tent encampments, psychiatric institutions, Housing First and our country's dramatically bifurcated systems for treating severe mental illness

www.vox.com/24011278/men...

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · Dec 31

Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:

A girl saying on Al Jazeera: “I hope in the new year life will go back to normal. I want to live in my house in Gaza and to walk around everywhere.”

The same girl saying on Al Jazeera: “I hope to see the sea again. Please Allah let our life go back to normal in the new year.”

A boy saying: “I hope in the new year to go back to school.”

A girl saying: “I wish for the war to stop. I hope to go back to my house and to my school. My name is Haya.”

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · Dec 11

How it started*/how it's going:

(*I came very late to this legislative effort and merely bleep bloop blopped some numbers out of my computer to assist advocates who did the real work, but it's an honor to have played a small role)

Times Union article headline: "Racial disparities in denials of victims compensation benefits, researchers finds."

Screenshot of statement from NY Governor Hochul: "Governor Hochul Signs Legislation to Support Victims and Survivors of Crime."

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Nov 28

Heart wrenching piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social showing how child protective services steals years of children’s lives with their parents w/ a series of pointless and arbitrary burdens https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/us-child-protective-services-family-mother

‘No matter what I do, I’m not in control’: what happens when the state takes your child

After a US mother’s brief spat with a shop clerk, child protective services took her son. Getting him back was harder then she could ever imagined

www.theguardian.com

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Dec 11

(a belated) thank you so much for reading and sharing -- absolutely heart wrenching.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Nov 16

great to hear @kelleyfong.bsky.social speak on her work tonight! her book focuses on the welfare-criminalization nexus (family policing and poverty governance)

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Nov 28

thank you for sharing, and for coming!! 🙏 (and apologies I am just now seeing this...)

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Oct 16

Kelly Fong, author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, explains the cascading consequences of a Child Protective Services call in her PUP Ideas essay.

press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ca... @kelleyfong.bsky.social

Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services by Kelley Fong

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · Oct 11

great piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social on how awful it can be to be investigated by CPS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

‘No matter what I do, I’m not in control’: what happens when the state takes your child

After a US mother’s brief spat with a shop clerk, child protective services took her son. Getting him back was harder then she could ever imagined

www.theguardian.com

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · Oct 7

🙏It was an incredible night celebrating The Struggle for the People’s King and the visionaries it’s dedicated to. I am so grateful.

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Kelley Fong @kelleyfong.bsky.social · Oct 4

I did a Q&A on my book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (officially out next week!), with Heather Ashbach, UCI Social Sciences:
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

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