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Playing in the Dirt

I’m crouched down in a vegetable bed on one of the first true fall days of the 2023 growing season. The leaves have just started … Read More

What The Golden Bachelor Gets Right About Older Adult Dating

Caution: Spoilers ahead! I study the dating experiences of single older adults. In recent months, this has meant that every person I know has reached … Read More

Q&A with Drs. Gary Alan Fine and Fiona Greenland

Who has the right to claim color? In their new Contexts article, co-authors Gary Alan Fine and Fiona Greenland use three chromatic cases—International Klein … Read More

Q&A with Drs. Laurel Westbrook and stef m. shuster

Dr. Laurel Westbrook and Dr. stef m. shuster discuss their Fall 2023 article “Transgender Joy: Flipping the Script on Marginality,” telling Contexts grad … Read More

Intensive Motherwork: Racism and Black Women’s Mothering

As I chatted with Asia over a video call, it was evident how much she loved being a mother. Her face lit up as she … Read More

What it’s like to be the target of a book ban

In this post, Arlene Stein reflects on the experience of having her book, Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity, targeted for … Read More

Getting Both Sides of the Story: The Benefits of Dyadic Interviewing in Studies of Young Adulthood

In this post, blog editor Elena van Stee is joined by Gaby Flores, Ariel Chan, and Angelica Qin to discuss their … Read More

Q&A with Aldon Morris and Naomi Schneider

The following post is the second in a two-part series celebrating W.E.B. Du Bois and the ongoing efforts by contemporary scholars and activists to … Read More

The Scholar Denied and Du Bois’s Legacy in Ghana

The following post is the first in a two-part series celebrating W.E.B. Du Bois and the ongoing efforts by contemporary scholars and activists to preserve … Read More

Q&A with Dr. C.J. Pascoe

We are thrilled to welcome C.J. Pascoe to the Contexts Blog in celebration of C.J.’s new book, Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of … Read More