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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick

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Assistant Prof of Gender & Women’s Studies & Psychology | UW-Madison | Research on coercion, sexuality/orgasm, gender/LGBTQ, sexual health | (she/her) 🌈

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · Jan 25

Do narratives that prioritize women's orgasm during heterosex benefit or constrain women's sexuality? My new article in the Annual Review of Sex Research, covers research supporting...both! Thrilled to finally share this with the world! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Prioritization of Women’s Orgasms During Heterosex: A Critical Feminist Review of the Implications for Women’s Sexual Liberation

Orgasm is considered by many to be an essential part of women’s ideal sexual experiences. As a result, sexual liberation narratives have often advocated for the prioritization of women’s orgasms – ...

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · 9d

Very touched that my students submitted for me to get this UW-Madison Distinguished Honors Faculty Award!! Love to feel that teaching on gender & sexuality topics matters to & inspires our undergrads!

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · Sep 10

It is time!!! The submission portal is open for the SPSP Sexuality Preconference, which will take place in Chicago on Feb 26, 2026! This year’s theme is “The State of Sex,” & submissions for presentations are open until October 23rd! We hope to see you there! www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2025/9/...

Announcing the 13th Annual SPSP Sexuality Pre-Conference! - Sex and Psychology

Join us for the 13th annual SPSP Sexuality Pre-Conference, which will take place in Chicago on Thursday, February 26, 2026.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Jul 2

Pew earlier this month: "In 34 states and D.C., more people say abortion generally should be legal than say it generally should be illegal...Arkansas is the only state where the balance of public opinion is against abortion by a statistically significant margin."

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · Jun 30

Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to give one of this year’s plenary talks at the International Academy of Sex Research in Portland, Maine!! This community of scholars has always been so supportive of my work, and it was a joy to share it on the big stage!

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · Jun 9

Woohoo! Our Feminist/Queer Science article was selected as an Editor's Choice paper(!), which is offered to those that "represent the best science that is exceptionally important, impactful, & deserves visibility for the whole field!" Read it here! psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 31

Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.

Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · May 23

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · May 1

"You may recall that we used to issue heartfelt, strategically worded statements affirming our unshakable commitment to DEI—usually right after a national tragedy...we are now fully prepared to replace those sentiments with constitutionally sanitized synonyms"

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Our University Is Replacing DEI with Vibes and Vaguely Diverse Stock Photos

“President Trump signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and un...

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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · Apr 23

Any measure to “persuade” young women to get married and get pregnant that isn’t “because it makes them happy” is a measure to coerce, entrap, and control. It’s rape culture, and it’s dehumanizing as fuck.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Apr 21

The Pope literally used one of his last moments on Earth to scold JD Vance for his unchristian policies towards migrants and refugees. This lapsed catholic appreciates that more than I can verbalize.

The people running our country are evil.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Apr 21

Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 21

One idea I have is not turning the country where the putative child would be raised into an authoritarian hellscape. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning (Gift Article)

The White House is soliciting policy proposals designed to give women incentives to have more children, a priority for many social conservatives.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Apr 20

"the government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder for elected officials or others to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of solutions being deployed against them."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Oct 26

'academia is a calling' i whisper to myself as I reply to the 34th email concerning a reimbursement of a $160 flight to Detroit

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Apr 9

There are notable gender differences in the way people view AI, but these gaps are more pronounced among experts we surveyed: 63% of men in this group say AI’s impact on the U.S. over the next two decades will be very or somewhat positive, compared with 36% of women.

A green dot plot showing that among AI experts, men are far more optimistic and excited than women about AI’s impact

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · Apr 9

Buy an external hard-drive right now & back up your data. Back up your papers. BACK EVERYTHING UP. Password-protect it & keep it in a drawer at home. One click from any university & your login is suddenly invalid, your data is blocked/deleted, & your research ceases to exist.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Apr 9

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today

The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · Apr 9

Omg thank you for this! I would watch 1000% and would laugh/cry through it all. Too real! ❤️😭😂

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · Apr 5

"We are the guardrails now" – the Raging Grannies (including my mom!) - at Hands Off protest in Madison

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Mar 31

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred.

As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

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Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz @profcarlos.bsky.social · Mar 23

The NIH have terminated hundreds of HIV-related research projects. The damage is irreparable. Soon, we will see delays in scientific progress and difficulties in training the next generation of scientists. Even worse, hundreds of thousands of people will die. youtu.be/q9icRYpLIbY?...

The Consequences of Federal Funding Cuts to HIV/AIDS Research

YouTube video by Boston University School of Public Health

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Eric Layland, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @ericlayland.bsky.social · Mar 23

These and so so many other grants terminated. So much knowledge blocked. Many jobs eliminated instantly. I’m angry and sad. Sending love and solidarity to colleagues and strangers across the country grappling with nonsense actions of this regime.

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Mar 23

I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.

First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · Mar 21

My grants were terminated.

Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · Mar 21

I have heard of so many LGBTQ+ grants terminated today. I am so sorry to everyone affected. This is devastating to our communities and to us as researchers. I have nothing more eloquent, comforting, or helpful to say. This is all just immeasurably horrible.

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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick @sarabchadwick.bsky.social · Mar 18

I haven’t worked with focus groups in a lonnnnng time, so can’t help with a rec for a recorder, but still responding to say: make sure you run two separate recorders at the same time! At some point one will do something weird & delete itself or won’t upload or something else!!

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GenderSci Lab @genderscilab.bsky.social · Mar 18

This powerful excerpt from last week's salon hosted by the Intersectionality Training Institute with Dr. Elle Lett and GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson offers valuable insights on their hopes and dreams for the future of sex and gender science 🌟
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What is there to be hopeful abut in the science of gender and sex?

YouTube video by Intersectionality Training Institute

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · Mar 14

Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Mar 14

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

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