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How About “Just Don’t Rape?”: On the Invention of Date Rape Nail Polish,...
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Cosmo’s 28 Not-So-Sexy Tips for “Lady-Lovers”
**Please note that this post has illustrations of sexual acts.** Recently, and for the first time ever, Cosmopolitan Magazine published a list of sex tips and positions for “lesbians, bisexuals,...
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Who Needs the Boys?: On How Women’s Colleges Still Matter
By Clara S. [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsAs I received the invitation to join the Sociology Lens team as a News Editor, I spent a great deal of time...
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Only “Real” Women Need Apply: Defining Womanhood and Trans Inclusion at...
By Nicolás Espinosa (De mi computador) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsIf you read my...
View Article“F” is for Feminism: FCKH8′s Feminism Video isn’t so Fabulous
Click here to view the embedded video. It’s all over my newsfeed: Little girls swearing up a storm in the name of feminism. On Tuesday, October 21st, tee-shirt company FCKH8 released the newest online...
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The Unachievable Body Ideal Revisited: Fitspiration and “Everyone is...
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How RAD is Cultural Appropriation?: Color Run Capitalizing Indian Culture
Photo of my Color Me RAD team before and after the race. (I’m second from the left in the top photo). Photo source: mine. Recently, I ran a 5k called “Color Me Rad” with a group of friends from my...
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Putting the “Homo” in the Organization: Making the Case for Expanding...
It is that time of year when theses, dissertations, and proposals are being prepared for defense. My thesis intends to examine the scripting of a normative student identity with special attention to...
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Most “Insert List Here” of 2014: Ratings and hierarchies
http://thesocietypages.org/sociologylens/files/2008/11/feminist-fist.jpg Happy new year! I hope that this year finds you with accepted publications, good grades, and time for sleep. Each year, starting...
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Into the Woods to Grandmother’s House: Justifying Plot Twists through...
On Christmas, my family decided to spend some time at the movies watching the newly released movie Into the Woods, a movie rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s infamous operetta/musical by the same name....
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The Queer Life: Surrounding Myself in Queer Culture and Queer Spaces
Over the past few months, I have been deep in the throes of my thesis- conducting, transcribing, coding, and analyzing interviews- on homonationalism and scripting of student identities in study...
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Knit Happens: Doing Masculinity in a Female Knitting Space
“Purl3″. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purl3.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Purl3.jpg In college, I double majored in both women and gender studies as...
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Sexual Microaggressions: The New (Covert) Oppression
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lilithvf1998/22505798/ In 2007, Sue introduced the idea of microaggressions- small remarks or statements that carry harmful, derogatory, and/ or discriminatory...
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He, Him, His, She, Her, Hers, They, Their, Theirs, Zi, Zir, Hir…: Pronoun Use...
https://texaslynn.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/transgender-pronouns.jpg Have you read the recent New York Times article about Bruce Jenner and about their transition? While their gender identity is not...
View ArticleIntroduction: Graduate Student Advice Month
My first year of graduate school was rough. Really rough. I had a hard time transitioning and moving from an undergraduate institution that I loved to a school (though I love it now) that was no where...
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Inside the Black Box: How Publishing Works
Source: Shit Academics Say Twitter @AcademicsSay When I’m not busy working on my classwork, thesis or on Sociology Lens posts, I serve as the inaugural Managing Editor for the new American Sociological...
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Technologies of Interviewing: Revamping Qualitative Methods Lessons
Source: “https://openclipart.org/download/173434/interview.svg” A couple of weeks ago, in my Social Issues in Qualitative Methodology course, I was assigned to give a presentation on the...
View ArticleIt’s a wrap: Concluding Graduate Student Advice Month
And so here we are. Four weeks, 14 posts later. It never ceases to amaze me what we here at Sociology Lens have done here: we have created a space for graduate students to offer advice to other...
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Reconceptualizing Homonormativity: Color-Blind Racism’s Sibling?
Source: http://pixabay.com/en/law-justice-justizia-blind-scale-311363/ I know that I’ve written about my thesis a few times, but at last I have completed my research, written the formal document, and...
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The Rising Burden of Affording College and Undermatching
(Photo from Flickr user thisisbossi) I recently came across an article on my Facebook feed about high school senior Ronald Nelson, who was accepted into all 8 ivy league colleges (among other highly...
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One History for All?: Pride
Photo owned by Megan Nanney I will never forget my first Pride. I was living in New York City for the summer working as an intern at the Human Rights Watch. The office, last minute, decided to join the...
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Guest Post: Disability Accommodations
This is a guest post by Jenny Dick-Moser. Jenny is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech studying Sociology, Health, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Jenny just recently accepted a position as a...
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Teaching Month: Forever a Student
Photo Source: Sociology Lens Media Library When we here at Sociology Lens decided to dedicate July to posts about teaching, I had so much excitement. After all, graduate student advice month had gone...
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The Sociology of Sickness: On Feeling Bad
Source: Claus Rebler via Flickr, CC-BY-SA 3.0 At the time in which I write this, I have been sick for eight days. I’ve gone through 5 boxes of tissues. Two packs of medicines. Had a fever. Called off a...
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The detriments of “Sex Ed” in its current state
Source: thesociologicalcinema.com Do you remember your sex education during your youth? Did you even have sex education? My school district (a local, public school district composing of four small...
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