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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

Friends, I couldn't retrieve my guidelines for writing a personal statement for applicants to PhDs, specifically in sociology (though I've been told this is also applicable to other social sciences) so I made a new doc. Hope it's helpful for folks applying!

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Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School

Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School For PhDs in Social Sciences, and specifically sociology* Each question is about 1 paragraph response 3-4 sentences. This should be abo...

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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · Feb 13

New Online 1st Book Review “Masculinities on the move in Kolkata: Urban spaces, gendered places” by Tristan Bridges

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 3d

What does “lesbian” do — as identity, politics, analytic — in the 21st century? Signs’ fall issue, “Lesbian Studies, Now,” stages the debates shaping feminism’s past, present, and future. Read it here (sub. req’d): www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...

Cover of the Signs Special Issue "Lesbian Studies Now" featuring Nicole Eisenman's "Lesbian Recruitment Booth."

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 6d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 6d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 7d

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 9d

The first of our colloquium series this year. Standing room only for @victorerikray.bsky.social!!!! An incredible talk by a scholar I have long admired. So wonderful to see him speak now of all moments.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 14d

Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.

Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Trans Lives

Trans Lives, In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups ...

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 13d

My new article with James Messerschmidt just came out in @femininities.bsky.social building on Raewyn Connell's theorization of "emphasized femininity."

I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 13d

My new article with James Messerschmidt just came out in @femininities.bsky.social building on Raewyn Connell's theorization of "emphasized femininity."

I'm including a link here and quoting the @socarxiv.bsky.social's bot sharing our preprint online as well.

brill.com/view/journal...

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 14d

Raewyn and I are about 3/4 through another book. She has also been working on this book. I read a draft that I found fascinating in part b/c of how global it is.

Congratulations to a scholar I have read half my life. Very excited she’s still teaching me things.

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Trans Lives

Trans Lives, In this book, Raewyn Connell, a world-leading sociologist and gender researcher, gathers the evidence and writes about the lives of trans women and men, hijra, travesti, and other groups ...

www.politybooks.com

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 15d

New in Social Forces: @profsamperry.bsky.social new article Secularism, Sorting, and Americans’ Political Knowledge shows secular Americans score highest on civics & politics, especially liberals/Democrats. Evangelicals trend opposite with conservatism. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Secularism, sorting, and Americans’ political knowledge

Abstract. Political knowledge, including knowledge of basic civics and current political conditions, is associated with a host of pro-democratic outcomes i

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 15d

I was so disappointed in Ezra Klein’s decision to platform hate in the aftermath of the Kirk shooting.

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social captures just what I found so awful about his decision in much better words than I would have had.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 22d

Interesting and important new research project just published examining how different forms of privilege moderate reactions to feminine gender expression exhibited by men. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How privilege affects reactions to men’s femininity

This research aimed to explore social responses to men’s femininity, with particular attention paid to the impact of privilege as detailed in the framework of hybrid masculinities. Generally, men’s...

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Paula England @paulaengland.bsky.social · 23d

Raewyn Connell is indeed a lovely and creative scholar. Interesting to read her view of her career intersecting with the personal.

TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 23d

Really lovely tribute to Raewyn Connell, her work, and her enduring legacy in The Sydney Morning Herald.

(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)

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Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal

Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 23d

Really lovely tribute to Raewyn Connell, her work, and her enduring legacy in The Sydney Morning Herald.

(h/t @mam52.bsky.social)

www.smh.com.au/national/rae...

Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal

Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

www.smh.com.au

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · Sep 9

I unpacked Trump’s AI-generated meme of militarized masculinity to show how patriarchal authoritarian authority is crafted through digital spectacle: AI aesthetics coopted to remake masculinities and reinforce violent political fantasies.

Chipocalypse Now: Hard Bodies, Soft Lies, and the Multiple Masculinities of Trump’s AI Politics

On September 6, 2025, Donald Trump posted a meme developed by his social media team to Truth Social more ridiculous than his Superman post I wrote about previously. In the AI generated image, helic…

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · Sep 7

[email protected] shared a reel about how discourses of "crisis" frame men's private troubles. It's connected to something I wrote with @sociananthony.bsky.social. So, I put together a short piece engaging with Tressie's smart take.
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/t...

The Cultural Work of “Crisis Talk”

Last year, I coauthored a piece with Ian Anthony, “On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity: Victimization Discourse and Transformations in Racialized Forms of Gender Inequality” (HERE for a PDF on Soc…

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump's most recent meme again builds on mediated portrayals of masculinity - this time a truly hateful character from Apocalypse Now. I wrote a post about the patriarchal authoritarian gendered politics of this meme if you're interested. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...

Chipocalypse Now: Hard Bodies, Soft Lies, and the Multiple Masculinities of Trump’s AI Politics

On September 6, 2025, Donald Trump posted a meme developed by his social media team to Truth Social more ridiculous than his Superman post I wrote about previously. In the AI generated image, helic…

inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump's most recent meme again builds on mediated portrayals of masculinity - this time a truly hateful character from Apocalypse Now. I wrote a post about the patriarchal authoritarian gendered politics of this meme if you're interested. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...

Chipocalypse Now: Hard Bodies, Soft Lies, and the Multiple Masculinities of Trump’s AI Politics

On September 6, 2025, Donald Trump posted a meme developed by his social media team to Truth Social more ridiculous than his Superman post I wrote about previously. In the AI generated image, helic…

inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · Sep 7

[email protected] shared a reel about how discourses of "crisis" frame men's private troubles. It's connected to something I wrote with @sociananthony.bsky.social. So, I put together a short piece engaging with Tressie's smart take.
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/t...

The Cultural Work of “Crisis Talk”

Last year, I coauthored a piece with Ian Anthony, “On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity: Victimization Discourse and Transformations in Racialized Forms of Gender Inequality” (HERE for a PDF on Soc…

inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 7

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Photos capture Chicagoans’ protest against ICE and Trump’s intervention plans

CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

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Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com · Sep 5

Howdy! I’ve got a new @slate.com story, about some really fascinating work researcher @cantonwiner.bsky.social is doing around asexuality and a concept he coined called “gender detachment”

A Researcher Was Studying How to Classify Gender—and Found a Startling New Answer

Turns out there’s more to the gender spectrum than we’d imagined.

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · Sep 5

That's quite a paragraph from the WSJ editorial page editors.
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