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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleTeaching 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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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