Guest posts
by Marci Cottingham and Ariana Rose
What types of digital humor emerge during an outbreak? And how does humor help negotiate themes of risk, contagion, and connections with others, particularly within Black Twitter?
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by Steven Lubet
Recent years have seen increased emphasis on fact-checking in journalism, politics, and academics. Ethnography presents a particular set of challenges that some scholars have …
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by Alyssa Lyons
Do you remember the first book you read that changed your life? I do. It was Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I was in an …
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by Joshua R. Hummel and Emily P. Estrada
As sociologists who study race as it relates to immigrant detention, we see White ignorance as different from ignorance in the more general sense. In …
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by Bahareh Sahebi
In many ways, Gen Z Iranians are a combination of the very best and the most important learning experiences of their previous generations. They are marked by their perseverance and their refusal to use old modes of protective denial in order to navigate the impact of the paradoxes of life in, as their parents and grandparents did before them. They will continue to form a collective self through their agentic, adversarial approach to effecting change. For all these reasons, “The Women of Iran” are the right choice for Time Magazine’s 2022 Heroes of The Year.
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by Faye L. Wachs
Finalizing my divorce, searching for a new place to live, re-evaluating the possibility of a family—I was stressed out in November of 2009. Then my …
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by Maryam Alemzadeh
On September 13, 2022, a 22-two-year-old Kurdish woman named Jina (Mahsa) Amini was arrested by “Morality Police” in Tehran, Iran, with the charge of defying …
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by Greggor Mattson
Journalists don’t contact me when new bars open, when they set new fundraising records, or when their events send queer joy spilling into the streets.
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by David Burley
Dilapidated homes, unoccupied with boarded windows. Overgrown patches of land, acres of empty parking lots with vines slowly reclaiming the space. Big box …
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by Hilary Silver
Working from home was on a long, downward slide until the 1980s, when sectoral shifts and information technologies triggered a reversal. For a couple of …
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