# gender & sexuality (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover gender & sexuality. Page: Feed: --- ## [Podcast: Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings by Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/20/podcast-detroit-never-left-black-space-white-borders-latino-crossings-by-nicole-e-trujillo-pagan/) _2026-08-20 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ Detroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped clean and the color line... READ MORE ## [The Art of Mothering Through Bars by Holly Foster-Talbot, author of We All Do The Time](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/17/the-art-of-mothering-through-bars-by-holly-foster-talbot-author-of-we-all-do-the-time/) _2026-08-17 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ For incarcerated mothers, sending handmade art to their children can help nurture vital connections—but often even this is hindered by prison officials. This excerpt was originally published in Inquest. Few... READ MORE ## [Podcast: Black Muslim Freedom Dreams by Samiha Rahman](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/13/podcast-black-muslim-freedom-dreams-by-samiha-rahman/) _2026-08-13 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ Samiha Rahman’s Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care (New York University Press, 2026) follows three generations of Black American Muslims as they pursue education through the Tijani Sufi... READ MORE ## [Analilia Mejía’s Historic Congressional Win Was No Surprise to the Authors of Politics in Our Veins](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/07/analilia-mejias-historic-congressional-win-was-no-surprise-to-the-authors-of-politics-in-our-veins/) _2026-08-07 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ by Yalidy Matos, Domingo Morel and Michelle Bueno Vásquez Politics has always been in our veins On April 16, 2026, Analilia Mejía won New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District special election by 41 points, becoming... READ MORE ## [Podcast: Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy by Ashlyn Hand](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/08/06/podcast-prioritizing-faith-international-religious-freedom-and-u-s-foreign-policy-by-ashlyn-hand/) _2026-08-06 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 formally established the promotion of religious freedom as a U.S. foreign policy and national security priority. Tracing its origins and passage, Prioritizing Faith:... READ MORE ## [On em-dashes and “AI detectors”](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dashes-and-ai-detectors) _2026-08-04 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMs ## [Podcast: On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State by Peter Mancina](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/30/podcast-on-the-side-of-ice-policing-immigrants-in-a-sanctuary-state-by-peter-mancina/) _2026-07-30 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ In the United States, local law enforcement agencies are legally and organizationally independent entities from federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and ICE. While local police enforce local, state... READ MORE ## [Federal Regulation and Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Q&A With Myrisha S. Lewis, author of “Regulating Conception”](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/27/federal-regulation-and-assisted-reproductive-technology-a-qa-with-myrisha-s-lewis-author-of-regulating-conception/) _2026-07-27 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ What led to your interest in the moral, political and social issues that influence the federal regulation of assisted reproductive technology (ART)? This topic combines my interests in assisted reproduction and my practice... READ MORE ## [Podcast: In God’s Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea by Tomer Persico](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/23/podcast-in-gods-image-how-western-civilization-was-shaped-by-a-revolutionary-idea-by-tomer-persico/) _2026-07-23 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ Dr. Tomer Persico is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a Rubinstein Fellow at Reichman University, and a Senior Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Middle... READ MORE ## [Forgotten Black Fenians – New Research Reveals Post-Civil War Solidarity by Patrick J. Mahoney, author of The Fenian Empire](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/20/forgotten-black-fenians-new-research-reveals-post-civil-war-solidarity-by-patrick-j-mahoney-author-of-the-fenian-empire/) _2026-07-20 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ This summer marks 160 years since the Battle of Ridgeway, the definitive event of the Fenian raids on Canada. Fought on June 2, 1866, near Ridgeway, Ontario, it pitted hundreds... READ MORE ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yFVRuGX5K3js) _2026-07-20 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [The Stigma-Contamination Mindset](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/the-stigma-contamination-mindset) _2026-07-16 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ and how it drives the transgender “social contagion” and “grooming” myths ## [Podcast: Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family by LiLi Johnson](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/16/podcast-technologies-of-kinship-asian-american-racialization-and-the-making-of-family-by-lili-johnson/) _2026-07-16 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ Delving into the complex interplay of race, kinship, and technology, Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family challenges conventional notions of racial identity in an era of... READ MORE ## [Fukushima and the New Governance of Nuclear Disasters by Maxime Polleri, author of Radioactive Governance](https://nyupress.org/blog/2026/07/14/fukushima-and-the-new-governance-of-nuclear-disasters-by-maxime-polleri/) _2026-07-14 · nyupintern · NYU Press_ March 11, 2026 marked the 15th year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s most devastating civilian nuclear tragedy. When the nuclear disaster happened vast quantities of radioactive pollutants were... READ MORE ## [Origins of the Anti-Trans “Groomer” Slur](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/origins-of-the-anti-trans-groomer) _2026-06-02 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ a timeline, plus historical context and future implications ## [Should Democrats Moderate on Transgender and LGBTQ Issues?](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/should-democrats-moderate-on-transgender) _2026-02-03 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ a Boston Review Forum essay and accompanying video ## [Prejudice and the Unmarked/Marked Mindset](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/prejudice-and-the-unmarkedmarked) _2026-01-28 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ This piece is being simultaneously released as both a video essay (which you can watch on YouTube via that link) and a written essay (which you can read here). ## [I’m not ill, I’m hurt](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/im-not-ill-im-hurt/56167) _2026-01-13 · Sarah Ritchie · Sociology Lens Insights_ By Laura Batstra & Sami Timimi More than 10 years ago, counselling psychologist Paul Moloney published his book The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn’t Work. “I’m not ill, I’m hurt”, words from Scottish mental health service user David Adam, is the title of chapter 5 about the hidden injuries of social inequality. In our article ‘Is more psychotherapy a… ## [Signed Books for Sale!](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/signed-books-for-sale) _2025-12-08 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ and other potential gifts ## [Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-transgender) _2025-11-19 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis ## [Green Against Greed? Why Pro-Environmental Views Flourish Among the Culturally Privileged](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/green-against-greed-why-pro-environmental-views-flourish-among-the-culturally-privileged/55500) _2025-11-17 · Magne Paalgard Flemmen · Sociology Lens Insights_ Climate change and environmental degradation affect us all. Yet concern about these issues is far from evenly distributed. People’s willingness to prioritize the environment, make sacrifices for sustainability, or even believe in climate change varies sharply by social class. Why is this the case? My new study, published in The British Journal of Sociology, uses detailed survey data to map how… ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MrsGdCnqcHyr) _2025-11-17 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [Behind Every Business: Smallholder Struggles and Shared Hope](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/research-brief/smallholder-struggles-and-shared-hope/55497) _2025-11-14 · Muhammad Khan, Karl Behrendt, Lydia Arnold, Dimitrios Papadas, Aneela Sultana · Sociology Lens Insights_ ‘Through fields of uneven fortune and lean harvests, untiring hands of the farming communities across the Global South cultivate life and hope against the odds.’ In agricultural societies of developing economies, small-scale farmers rise early to farm the lands that have sustained their families for generations. Their labour, however, extends far beyond local needs—these crops fuel regional… ## [Living With the Machine: How AI Shapes Our Everyday Choices](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/living-with-the-machine-how-ai-shapes-our-everyday-choices/55493) _2025-11-12 · Noor Rizvi; Gitanjaly Chhabra · Sociology Lens Insights_ It starts with the gentlest of prompts. A phone buzzes softly with a reminder: “Leave early to avoid traffic.” Then, a streaming service cues up a show before the viewer has even started to scroll. A grocery app nudges the user with a “smart list” of suggested items based on prior shopping. These little acts of attention slide so seamlessly into daily life that they commonly go unconsidered. But… ## [Bomb (a defusing bisexual stereotypes chapter)](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/bomb-a-defusing-bisexual-stereotypes) _2025-09-23 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ For Bisexual Visibility Day, I am sharing this excerpt from my award winning book, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel — a silly, surreal, sex-positive tale about an absurdist short fiction writer who dates ninety-nine different people named Eric for literature’s sake. ## [The Body in Extremist White Supremacy](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/the-body-in-extremist-white-supremacy/54616) _2025-08-18 · Mehr Latif, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, and Pete Simi · Sociology Lens Insights_ The Body in Extremist White Supremacy\[1\] Sociology has not taken bodies seriously. This is well documented.\[2\] But it’s especially so in scholarship of the far right – and that’s even more glaring given that bodies are implicated in the gruesome actions of its adherents.\[3\] There are two embodied practices that featured prominently in the narratives of the 47 former members of white supremacy… ## [Conversational Democracy: A Microsociological Look at Children’s Initiatives in Child and Family Social Work Dialogues](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/conversational-democracy-a-microsociological-look-at-childrens-initiatives-in-child-and-family-social-work-dialogues/54384) _2025-07-25 · Kristina Edman · Sociology Lens Insights_ Children who experience violence, adversity, or other forms of injustice often suffer in silence, hidden behind closed doors or silenced by fear and shame. To activate meaningful support systems, these experiences bust be brought to light and made visible to those in a position to help. When children interact with professionals who could provide support, their voices frequently encounter… ## [How Do We See Gender and Trans People?](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/how-do-we-see-gender-and-trans-people) _2025-07-16 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ a short essay and video ## [Examining possibilities for TVET among youth with care experience](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/examining-possibilities-for-tvet-among-youth-with-care-experience/54171) _2025-07-02 · Mary Elizabeth Collins, A.M., Ph.D. · Sociology Lens Insights_ There has been exciting and robust practice and policy attention aimed toward the population of young people have spent significant time in the care system and who may face life largely on their own when they reach adulthood. A range of negative circumstances may have led to their need for out-of-home care (e.g., abuse, neglect, abandonment) and while in care they may have faced additional… ## [What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common](https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid-lab-leak-and-rushing-kids) _2025-06-18 · Julia Serano · Switch Hitter_ and more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias ## [Refugee Professionals: What are the challenges to their professional reintegration?](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/refugee-professionals-what-are-the-challenges-to-their-professional-reintegration/53823) _2025-06-05 · Sanjar Botoon · Sociology Lens Insights_ Imagine being a doctor, an engineer, or a teacher—forced to leave behind not only your profession, but also your country, your family, and your friends. Then imagine crossing multiple borders and arriving in a host country with professional aspirations, only to discover that your qualifications no longer count, and that you are viewed not as a professional but as a humanitarian burden. This is the… ## [Between God and Ground: Invisible Chains Among Farming Communities](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/research-brief/between-god-and-ground-invisible-chains-among-farming-communities/53820) _2025-06-05 · Muhammad Khan (Correspondence Author), Professor Karl Behrendt, Professor Lydia Arnold, Dr Dimitrios Papadas and Dr Aneela Sultana · Sociology Lens Insights_ Slavery, in its modern guise, remains a pervasive issue. In South Asian countries, which are predominantly agricultural societies and home to nearly one-quarter of the world’s population, this issue often goes unseen and unnoticed (Bose & Jalal, 2022; Kara, 2017). The perspectives on slavery within these regions vary significantly compared to the modern world, featuring the hidden and complex… ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/n1wRCxMCXj3W) _2025-06-05 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [Welcome No More? Shifting Attitudes towards Ukrainian Refugees in Europe](https://www.sociologylens.net/article-types/opinion/welcome-no-more-shifting-attitudes-towards-ukrainian-refugees-in-europe/53731) _2025-05-20 · Juhyun Lee and Joshua Garland · Sociology Lens Insights_ Almost seven million Ukrainians have fled Ukraine since Russia’s large-scale invasion in February 2022. Seeking refuge in other European states, they were welcomed. However, recent analyses have emerged which point to an increasing discrimination against Ukrainian refugees who were displaced by Russia’s aggression, including in previously supportive nations like Poland. The shifting treatment and…