Dr. Brandon Andrew Robinson
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Chair of Gender & Sexuality Studies @UCRiverside | Author of Coming Out to the Streets @ucpress | CoAuthor of Race & Sexuality @politybooks | They/Them
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My book has arrived!!!!!!! There are truly no words for this moment 😭😭😭 My heart is so full ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Thank you to so many people for all the love and support. This book would have been impossible without so many of you. 💗💗💗
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I canceled my students' final and just gave them all 100 on it. And I structured my winter classes around not having a final. I don't know, maybe we should just abandon the construct that is the final.
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A bisexual white woman today voted against raising the minimum wage, which would benefit thousands (if not millions) of LGBTQ people, especially LGBTQ people of color.
Representation is not liberation.
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Y’all do realize that biological and bodily variation isn’t the problem? The problem is we invented a sex binary that doesn’t capture the complexities of reality.
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I mean, is there any studies or proof that shows that finals are good? Or actually do something?
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STOP 👏 TEACHING 👏 THAT 👏 SEX 👏 IS 👏 BIOLOGICAL 👏 AND 👏 GENDER 👏 IS 👏 SOCIAL 👏
Sex is also a social construct. We assign meaning to certain things - hormones, chromosomes, genitals - because of dominant gender ideologies. Read Sexing the Body.
Thank you!
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The amount of accommodation letters I get from the disability center when I teach our 300 students intro class, I’m like maybe we should just restructure academia to not be ableist?
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Excited to watch The Chair. But we really need The Adjunct, if we want to capture the experiences of the majority of professors in academia.
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Y’all love to hide behind legality for your morality. And honey baby, the law is often violent and oppressive and not moral at all.
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On this first weekend of Pride 2021, I received news that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
As a 1st gen, non-binary queer person who does research on queer and trans people and lives, I am forever aware of the impact of this moment.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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@ajeanstevenson
Yea, my assumption is no. I hate grades and start every quarter telling my students that.
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A lot of people who have literally no clue what professors do – let alone how academia operates – wielding way too much power over higher ed right now.
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When I began at UCR, the university would give us around $1k a year for conference travel (a joke to begin with). It has been going down every year. This year it is $600. When I'm out of external funds, I'll stop going to conferences. I'm not paying to do my job.
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The large structural shift away from TT positions to contingent faculty positions as well as the now attack on tenure itself is deeply linked to more and more POC becoming professors.
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HIRE ACADEMICS IN THE WRITERS ROOM FOR SHOWS ABOUT ACADEMICS 👏👏👏
Not Jameson just telling Camille that this grant will beef up her RESUME!!
RESUME?!?! 🤡🤡🤡
#HarlemOnPrime
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🚨 New Pub Alert 🚨
"Beyond resilience: Resistance in the lives of LGBTQ youth" is officially out!
In this article, we question the use of resilience in research and call for a shift to focusing on resistance instead.
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Hello proofs!!!
Ready for this special issue on Gender, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge to be out in the world!
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Obviously, a lockdown is needed. But you know what else is needed? Canceling rent. Saving small businesses. Giving people money and food. Free healthcare for all. Just to name a few.
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🚨 Job Market / Please Share 🚨
If anyone is applying to the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, please feel free to reach out to me. I am a former postdoc. I can try to help and answer any questions. If we overlap in interests, I can now also mentor. Let's chat!
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🌈🏳️⚧️ NEW PUB ALERT 🏳️⚧️🌈
The first paper from the Family, Housing, and Me Project is officially out! And y'all, aunts are amazing!
Aunts are supporting their LGBTQ nibling, including providing housing support, and challenging cisheteronormativity.💗💗💗
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It is like really official now,
@AmyLStone1
and I are getting 300k each from NSF to study the role of non-parental relatives in providing housing and support for LGBTQ youth! 🎉🥳🍾
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LOL I got an email that my Department Chair nominated me to be on some campus panel.
Dear reader, I am the Department Chair. I did not nominate myself.
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visioning the woman: dreaming a gendered critique
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A weird and awful thing about academia is you often have to go on the job market to get a substantial raise, but then the uni risks losing you, when they could just give people substantial raises and make them feel valued to begin with and not have to go on the market. 🤡🤡🤡
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Universities love them a task force and a report. Wasting people's time and labor, as they never actually do anything afterwards.
Stop the task forces and the reports. Do something.
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To even ask the question, "how many qualitative interviews do I need?" already upholds quantitative logics and leaves you engaging with positivistic epistemologies and methodologies on their terms.
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Uh, some of us have known for quite awhile that “family values” has always meant maintaining white supremacy and the heteropatriarchy.
Obviously we are way way way past “family values” but it is worth remembering what a vicious cudgel that was used as and it was all a con.
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I mean I’ve felt for years that faculty need to accept that shared governance is a sham to stop us from truly organizing.
So far, Columbia, Indiana University and Northwestern have all had admin bypass faculty committees to unilaterally change codes in order to suspend and ban protesters.
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Coming Out to the Streets wins honorable mention for PSA Distinguished Scholarship Award!! 🎉🥳🎊🍾
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I woke up Chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at UCR.
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🌈🏳️⚧️ PLEASE SHARE 🏳️⚧️🌈
CALL FOR PAPERS: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
SPECIAL ISSUE: A QUEER AND TRANS SOCIOLOGY
EDITORS:
@sgbuggs
AND ME!
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS DUE: JAN 15TH!
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I am canceling my students' finals. These are awful times. I do not want to add to that harm nor proceed as if these times are normal. I want to practice the politics I teach.
I encourage you to use what little power you may have to make your students' lives better.
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Is sociology the most hypocritical discipline of them all? Studying inequality while constantly perpetuating it in so many evil ways?!
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Anxiously sitting around every June waiting to see what rights SCOTUS is going to gut is literally not a healthy or functioning democracy...
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When an ASR editor desk rejected this piece because “we believe the theoretical frame of the article is not sufficiently broad enough to appeal to a wide range of sociologists.” Welp, I guess it at least appeals to a general audience. 🤡🤡🤡
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First week as Chair and I can report academia more of a disaster than I already knew it was 🤡🤡🤡
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Researchers have found that aunts play a crucial role in supporting the well-being of their LGBTQ youth relatives, including preventing them from experiencing homelessness.
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@Redistrict
Doesn't matter what day of voting it is, why should anyone have to wait hours to vote?
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Y'all,
@AmyLStone1
and I just got another $400k NSF grant to extend
@FHAM_Project
. We are an officially one million dollar NSF-funded project 🙀💗🌈🏳️⚧️
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Gender Affirming Chair
Speaker pro-tempore Patrick McHenry, who is 5’5, has changed the chair behind him to not appear so short on camera.
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This article was a labor of trans love 🏳️⚧️🫶🏻
We (
@AmyLStone1
) are beyond excited to have this article on trans folks and families in JMFs Mid-Decade Special Issue on Theory and Methods.
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From the attacks on DEI to Palestine, one thing is for sure, higher ed admin are completely failing this moment.
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I been screaming this for months. Glad there is now a piece on it.
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The necropolitical state using Black and Brown people to die but not to be educated and to live.
Important caveat in a footnote of the majority opinion that Roberts previewed in the oral argument: the ban on considering race in admissions does NOT apply to military academies.
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In case y'all missed it in your emails,
@ASAnews
is going to entirely remote conference every 3rd year starting in 2028. And all ASA-wide committee meetings will be virtual and not held at the annual meetings.
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🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ NEW PUB ALERT 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
I turn to the super straights to document larger transphobic discursive strategies folks engage in to be seen as not transphobic.
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I don't know how these videos don't terrify every. single. person.
DPS appears to be prepping to disperse with a heavy, heavy showing of DPS troopers prepped in riot gear.
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As our Aunt paper seems to be making some media rounds (for which I am humbled and honored), I'd just like to say that I am happy to talk with any journalists, organizations, etc. about Aunts, LGBTQ Youth, and the larger Family, Housing, and Me Project. 🌈🏳️⚧️💗
🌈🏳️⚧️ NEW PUB ALERT 🏳️⚧️🌈
The first paper from the Family, Housing, and Me Project is officially out! And y'all, aunts are amazing!
Aunts are supporting their LGBTQ nibling, including providing housing support, and challenging cisheteronormativity.💗💗💗
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I build rest days into my syllabi/classes because I think rest is essential to learning and to challenge the grind culture of capitalism and academia.
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I still haven't fully gathered myself. But let me try to explain one way that the "opinion" out of Texas is terrifying and dangerous.
For me, this opinion is going to put on steroids the "queer control complex."
A thread🧵🧵🧵///
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A great way to end the interview I was coding today 🏳️⚧️
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Pride month commemorates the Stonewall riots - riots against police brutality, state violence, and the criminalization of LGBTQ people. There is no queer and trans liberation without police and prison abolition. Happy Pride y'all. 🌈
The struggle continues.
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Week 3 of the strike begins tomorrow. Many UC students only had 7 weeks of classes this quarter and many will also prob get grade delays – which is prob where the collapse really happens. It is almost like the people striking are essential to the university! Who knew?!?!
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If you give people housing, you end homelessness. Wow, who knew?
Finland ended homelessness. They provide a small apartment and counseling with no preconditions. 4/5 make their way back into a stable life and guess what - it was CHEAPER than allowing homelessness to continue.
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🌈🏳️⚧️NEW PUB ALERT - OPEN ACCESS🏳️⚧️🌈
"Non-Binary Embodiment, Queer Knowledge Production, and Disrupting the Cisnormative Field: Notes From a Trans Ethnographer"
My article is already online first - check it out now!
Happy Pride y'all 🌈🏳️⚧️
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Do most top sociology programs have no Black women faculty?!?
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The good news this week keeps on coming 💗😻
It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript entitled "THE NEW LAVENDER SCARE: Policing Gender, Sexuality, and LGBTQ Youth Homelessness in an Era of Hyperincarceration." for Gender & Society.
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My number one job as a professor (and to me, the goal of a liberal arts education) is to build empathy within my students and with myself. And I will die on this hill.
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Say it with me now: Self-reported survey data canNOT measure behavior. It measures what people SAY about their behavior.
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Y'all,
@AmyLStone1
and I are drowning in
@FHAM_Project
data.
If there are any grad students interested in using the data (for thesis, dissertation, etc.), please reach out. Or if a professor, please let your grad students know!
We have qual and quant data.
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NSF funds officially awarded this morning.
@FHAM_Project
is officially $1 million dollar NSF-funded project. What is life
@AmyLStone1
😱🌈🏳️⚧️
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🏳️⚧️🌈🏳️⚧️ NEW PUB ALERT!!! 🏳️⚧️🌈🏳️⚧️
Transamorous Misogyny is Online First and OPEN ACCESS!
Check it out. And have a fabulous holiday season.
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For my Critical Queer Politics class, the students could use any medium for the final assignment (imagining a world without prisons and police). One student made me a tote bag 😭💗😭💗
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Won UCR's Emory Elliott Book Award (along with another colleague!) that comes with $1k added to my research funds! 🥳🎉🍾
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I am honored and happy to announce that I am one of the recipients of the Early Career Award from the Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association.
I also was elected to council (3-year term) to the same section last week. Thanks for the love and support. <3
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Profs who take attendance (both before this pandemic and/or now during it), Why?
I've never taken attendance. I get paid the same whether students are there or not. But I get so many emails from stressed students when they can't make it, and I feel bad they feel this stress.
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Thanks y’all for electing me to ASA Pubs 💃✨💞
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Thinking today about how most papers that I’ve written are about discrimination, violence, inequality, etc. and that this paper may be one I love so dearly because of how positive it is 💗🌈🏳️⚧️
NEW
#OA
article out now! - "Aunties, Aunts, and Tías: The Forgotten Othermother Supporting and Housing LGBTQ Youth" by
@DrKittyGirl
,
@AmyLStone1
, and
@javaniamichelle
#openscience
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I taught our 300-student intro class this quarter. I know folks often don’t like teaching intro. But the lives changed. 💗🌈🏳️⚧️
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Sadly, most sociologists are not invested in imagining and creating and building a different world. They just like to study inequality for the sake of studying inequality.
“The way it ought to be I leave to the sociologists.” —Toni Morrison
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Got the official acceptance 🎉🥳 and already changed the title 🙃🤡
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I've had 3 students email me in the past 24 hours trying to get into my full classes. We desperately need more queer and trans scholars and classes at
@UCRiverside
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I tell my students all the time that universities are not going to get us anywhere close to liberation and indeed colleges maintain structures of oppression - and how universities have acted these past months make that case ever clearer.
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LOL Gaetz is supposedly going to change his vote and vote YES on round 15 tonight after he called McCarthy a squatter and other shit all week.
CLOWN SHIT. 🤡🤡🤡
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Today is *the* official release date of Coming Out to the Streets (
@ucpress
). This book was a labor of love that I hope truly leads to change in LGBTQ youth’s lives. Please help spread the word about the book, and then, let’s get to work to make a better world.❤️🧡💛💚💙
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This arrived while I was spending my morning with so many wonder sexualities folxs on zoom 💗💗💗
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Deeply honored for Coming Out to the Streets to win honorable mention for
@ASASexandGender
Distinguished Book Award.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Sociologists and social scientists not knowing that biological sex is also a social construct (one rooted in white supremacy at that). 🤡🤡🤡
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Around half my department is faculty who transferred from racist/sexist departments at UCR. Instead of admin addressing the racism and sexism in so many depts on campus, this is apparently their "solution."
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💗 The galley proofs to Coming Out to the Streets have arrived. No words to describe this moment of seeing my words and book in its final format. 🥰
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And the day starts turning around 🥳🎉🍾
The first paper from
@FHAM_Project
with
@AmyLStone1
and
@javaniamichelle
coming soon!!!
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FB memories reminded me of my writing cheat sheet I made and kept in front of me while writing my book.
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicWriting
#soctwitter
#amwriting
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In under 6 hours of launching, we have 48 interviews lined up. Ethical compensation is not only right but it works.
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A thing I have learned from serving on diss committees (and that I am sure I was guilty of as a grad student) is that students want to do WAY TOO MUCH for their diss project.
Focus, reel it in, you have a body that can only do so much, and you can do more later or others can.
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Sociologists must live in real nice neighborhoods and houses cause all their comments and tweets about poverty in LA has been real interesting to hear and see.
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@H_Wohl
I don't teach a class, but all students I mentor and supervise, I have them read the coding chapter of Charmaz's Constructing Grounded Theory and read this article:
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If you loved learning about aunts, well wait until you hear about grandparents! Coming soon to JMF...
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I can't believe people are out here making trailers for their courses. Like how much are y'all getting paid? Cause EYE am not getting paid nearly enough to be doing ALL that.
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