Associate Professor of Sociology, Drexel University. Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training (NYU Press 2020). Co-founder @soc_hpe.
Philadelphia, PA
Joined March 2017
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I'm going to make the switch over to the other place. Please find me there under the same username.
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My new piece in @TIME on why people still believe in the disproven vaccine-autism link.
Vaccine “injury” suggests autism “recovery” is possible. It’s misinformation that gives families hope.
The real problem: being disabled in the US fucking sucks.
time.com/7203351/trump-and-r…
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#December17 the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We will be hosting a digital event, but so many people don't know understand the history or the significance of the day. Here is more info:
thedecember17thproject.org/b…
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Some personal news. Thanks to @ianbonaparte, I will be working again with @KatyRODonnell at @haymarketbooks on an essay collection about "femmephilia," AND I will be working with @kfzbarrow at Penguin on a book about child liberation (building on @la_louve_rouge_'s work on this).
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Apparently this needs to be said: you can't keep cutting your academic mission and expect to be a successful university. #SaveUA
University of Akron faculty facing possible layoffs with $27M deficit this year beaconjournal.com/story/news…
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Robin Kelley: “We are witnessing a dangerous trend in #highered that extends beyond the question of academic freedom…Severely limiting campus protest and dramatically increasing the police presence is turning universities into miniature police states.” 🔥 academeblog.org/2024/11/07/c…
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Are you worried about the future of higher education? Join @AAUP for our campaign to Organize Every Campus! Sign up and build a strategy to fight for your students, your campus, your colleagues and higher education. aaup.org/news/organize-every… @AFTunion @ruaaup PLEASE SHARE
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I guess Devah Pager was right… a white guy with a criminal record has no issues getting hired.
We wrote an introduction for our @soc_hpe special issue! doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024… @ahvinson @TaniaMJenkins @laurendolsen @hirsheys
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Since Roe was overturned, anti-abortion groups have ramped up messaging that valorizes women who die for their pregnancies. We're going to see a lot more of this xitter.cf/lezscum/status/1849263…
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If everything is hard today, please look at this picture of Jean when she was extremely small
ALT an extremely small tortoiseshell kitten
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Book talk behind the scenes — thanks to Chester’s feedback I willllllll be sprucing things up and making it a little more exciting. Perhaps will add some treats
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CFP: Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology Focused Approach, conference at Yale Feb 28-Mar 1. If you do research on health technologies, submit an extended abstract by the end of the week! Email me with any questions! Details and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
This is your sign to host a Photo Booth in theme for your new academic book. @laurendolsen
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⏰Reminder!
We're advertising two professorial posts in our department. There's still time to apply!
More details: bit.ly/4cDygLh
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Hold Penn Accountable!
Sign this petition:
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@pennfjp @AbolitionSchool @pennfsp
