Symposium on Joseph Blankholm’s The Secular Paradox in the April 2025 issue of Critical Research on Religion: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Tyler Baldor examines how some queer nightlife spaces straighten in clientele while retaining their queer reputations. Read more at bit.ly/4iLxWvO

We are excited to announce a new partnership with nationally recognized civil and victim rights attorney Laura L. Dunn. To find out more about the work we plan to do together, follow the link and read the full press release. @LLDunn_NYC thereap.org/post/laura-dun…

Updated version now out Sociological Methods & Research Paper link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Preprint link: osf.io/preprints/soca…

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ONLINE FIRST In this TSQ article, Blaine Smith draws on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and archival data to show how drag has scaled from a pathologized subculture to one of the most popular strategies for sustaining queer nightlife. Read more at bit.ly/4jGqIud

The majority of United Methodists voted for Trump. So did the majority of Evangelical Lutherans. And Presbyterian Church USA. As far as I can tell, the only majority white "major" Protestant denomination that clearly leans Democratic: The Episcopal Church.

REMINDER "Colorblind Cops in Christian America: Christian Nationalism, Race, Politics, and Beliefs About Racist Policing" by Christopher Seto , Darci Schmidgall, and Samuel Perry is free to read through May 31! Read it at bit.ly/3ZyPu6A

So excited that this important piece by longtime peace activist, David Cortright, just dropped. It covers how and how much antiwar and peace movements matter. For just two weeks, it's available FREE--and it's really indispensable. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Want to request that your elected officials fund sociological research? Protect access to federal data? New tool from ⁦ASA Sociology⁩ allows you to contact your reps quickly & easily. See below. congressweb.com/americansociol…

Because this makes sense… Christian Nightmares christianpost.com/news/liberty-t…

📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Open until filled. sssreligion.org/announcement/p…

It’s the 1st day of Pride Month🌈 & I'm proud to share my new JOP article. Using a survey experiment, I show: Republicans still penalize gay candidates. Democrats do not—but they do penalize even subtle gender nonconformity, demanding that gay candidates look & sound “straight"

I'll be discussing my book Gray Areas in this free seminar from Instats on June 16. The talk will examine why companies still struggle with diversity (and it's not just bc they've recently changed course). Tune in for more! instats.org/seminar/gray-a…

Congratulations to the new editor of ASA’s Contexts Magazine Contexts Magazine: David Grazian Penn! His term runs from January 1, 2026, to December 31, 2028.

In their study on #ChristianNationalism and the #2024Election, Whitehead & Perry say "findings suggest state-level support for Christian nationalism was particularly influential in states with greater working-class populations..." #OpenAccess Wiley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/na…

FREE TO READ "The Preparedness Paradox in Climate Attitudes: Democrats Worry, Republicans Prepare" by Katsyris Rivera-Kientz and Evan Stewart (Evan Stewart) is free to read now until June 30. Read it at bit.ly/4kqJtSK

The contents, that gorgeous cover...it's all about to drop! That's how we always roll at Contexts Magazine, where #sociology is rigorous, relevant, readable, and rad. ASA Sociology UBC Sociology UBC Media Relations

ONLINE FIRST Drawing on ethnographic data from Buenos Aires and Dubai, Ryan Centner examines how gay expatriates engage in "everynight politics" in the places where they settle. Read more at bit.ly/3SXhBtw

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)