Gender and Sexuality Researchers
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@elystromberg.bsky.social
@antigonesdream.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology of Gender and Sexuality, University of Amsterdam | NWO VICI EnGendering Europe's 'Muslim Question' | Latest book: The Politics of Replacement https://tinyurl.com/5y6f6cbd
@margrietvanheesch.bsky.social
Scholar, University of Amsterdam, Queer & Gender Studies https://www.atlascontact.nl/boek/de-kleine-butler/
@a-sandberg.bsky.social
Economist at the Swedish Institute for Social Research. www.annasandberg.nu
@salvadorherrera.bsky.social
Writing a novel and another book; dog dad troubling humanity | Assistant Prof of Latinx Lit and Culture at UO | http://salvadorherrera.net
@floralashes.bsky.social
Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | www.florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch
@francescafeo.bsky.social
Political scientist interested in gender & LGBTI+ policies, parliaments, populism, Italian politics. I work as a postdoctoral fellow at UiB, for @gendersuccess.bsky.social.
@ecpayne.bsky.social
Director, Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI). Qual Research. Edu Policy. Soc of Ed. AAAS Congressional Fellow, 22-23. NYC/DC. New book 2025: Queer Kids & Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying, UMinn Press. @queeringedu.bsky.social
@shufflersunite.bsky.social
Clinical psych professor at the University of Windsor. Researching resilience as it relates to sex, sexuality, and gender. Author of "Lessons from an Early Career Therapist" and co-author of "Magnificent Sex." First wife of @trantteam.bsky.social
@matthewwaites.bsky.social
Reader, Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow. Global queer politics, sexualities & genders, human rights, decolonizing, international political sociology, genocide https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites/
@tvuckovicjuros.bsky.social
Sociologist (Culture & Politics, Sexualities & Families, Memory Studies); Practitioner & Teacher of Qualitative Methods; Associate Professor of Sociology @FFZG University of Zagreb. Project #SenseAGENDa, https://sites.google.com/site/vuckovicjuros
@annjiang.bsky.social
PhD Student @UCSanDiego | Networks, Culture, Politics, Immigration Attitude, and Global Sociology | Alum @UChicago www.annjiang.org
@balarag.bsky.social
Ethnomusicology, South Asia, Queerness, Translation, Caste and Spirituality. Santa Cruz, CA/ India SALT Chicago summer school
@dr-yang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | PhD from UChicago | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
@senthorun.bsky.social
A/Prof in Human Rights Law ✨ Professional Gay🦩 Books: 📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms 📕 Queer Judgments 📕 The Queer Outside in Law 📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun (He/Him)
@smrodriguez.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own www.smrodriguez.com
@anacristinasantos.bsky.social
Sociologist. Focus: queer ageing. Senior Researcher in LGBTQI+ Studies @ces-uc.bsky.social Centre for Social Studies (CES) 2× @ERC_Research winner🏆 Executive Committee @ESA_Sociology Co-Director of Feminist Studies PhD @ucoimbra 🇵🇹
@landonschnabel.bsky.social
Sociologist at Cornell studying inequality and writing a book on how religions are gender-typed. Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/u3FcHK
@louiserosario.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @National U of Singapore・Guest Scholar @Meiji U・Japan Foundation Research Fellow | Feminist Cultural & Media Studies | Gender History | Menstruation Culture in Japan 🇯🇵🩸生理に関する経験や関心について研究しています。生理に関するプロジェクト参加者募集中!↓↓↓ 🌐 louiserosario.com
@nicolekapelle.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @tcddublin.bsky.social | Sociologist & Social Demographer | family, gender, wealth, inequality, life course, health & much more | Prev. Humboldt-University Berlin, University of Oxford & University of Queensland https://nkapelle.github.io/
@nmackend.bsky.social
Sociologist at Rutgers University. Environmental Health, Gender, STS. Co-Editor of Nature, Culture, and Society Series at Rutgers University Press.
@jenlhook.bsky.social
Florence Everline Professor of #Sociology at USC. President @WFRN.bsky.social. Gender, Work, & Family • Inequality • Social Policy. #Firstgen. Mom.
@kattiid.bsky.social
social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality. https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
@dremmaturley.bsky.social
Chartered psychologist. Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Feminist. Social justice, sexualities, gender, online violence, inequalities. #FirstGen. Own views. She/her.
@amandaallenphd.bsky.social
English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
@binarythis.bsky.social
She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies researching femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, romance. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible 💅🏻🙇🏻♂️ www.hannahmccann.com.au
@libertychee.bsky.social
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (most recently) || International Relations || Domestic Work || Migration Governance || Feminist Theory || Taxes to the 🇳🇱, Remittances to the 🇵🇭 https://www.libertychee.nl https://pric.unive.it/projects/knowingdom
@turnbulldugarte.com
Political scientist 🇿🇦🏳️🌈 Associate Editor POQ, EJPG, and R&P he/him Far-right, social identities, & electoral behaviour Writing a book on LGBTQ voters for PUP 🏳️🌈🗳️ http://turnbulldugarte.com/ #ihadablackdog https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
@lauragraham86.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. Research sex work, human rights, regulation of sex, bodily autonomy, and feminisms. Trustee of National Ugly Mugs. Editor in Chief of International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law
@sharonannhyman.bsky.social
Called the unofficial ambassador of Montreal! Filmmaker, APARTNERS about “living apart together” relationships - featured on Nightline, New York Times, Wall Street Journal. Activist, we saved all the affordable housing in our town! #canada #film #apartners
@cinziasolari.bsky.social
Sociologist | Associate Professor UMass Boston | First Gen Scholar | Feminist | https://www.umb.edu/directory/cinziasolari/ Writings: https://um-boston.academia.edu/CinziaSolari
@ariellekuperberg.bsky.social
Sociologist / Demographer, Assoc. Prof @UMBC researching families, relationships, sex, gender, higher ed, and student loans in young adulthood. Co-Chair of Council on Contemporary Families. Banjolele player in a Grateful Dead Bluegrass band. 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙 🪕 💀
@kevinguyan.bsky.social
RAINBOW TRAP AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW 🌈 Author of Queer Data 📊 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 🌍 he/him/his linktr.ee/kevinguyan
@sergio-vbaselga.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. | Sexualities, gender, sexual health and media. | Voluntary researcher coordinator in NGO Stop. | I tend to laugh a lot. | Él/He. |🔻🍉🏳️🌈🇦🇶 More: https://linktr.ee/sergiovbaselga
@danielfountain.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ www.danielfountain.com https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
@drmitchtravis.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Housed in @lsjleeds.bsky.social at University of Leeds. Former Socio-Legal Studies Association trustee. Intersex Justice and Jurisprudential Futures. All views my own (he/him)
@masculinities.bsky.social
Research project on modern masculinities and gender ideologies. Here we will be disseminating key findings and interesting knowledge on these topics. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science (2024-2028)
@srburgess.bsky.social
Distinguished Prof. Emerita, Ohio University. Various books on Politics: law/courts, LGBTQ politics, social movements, radicals, pop culture. I edit a book series in LGBTQ politics at NYU Press. Also music, animal friends, nature. Chicago. Dublin.
@ryanscoatsphd.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at BCU. Research and writing around threesomes, consensual non-monogamy, gender, and board games. Read my work at ryanscoatsphd.com
@nickpoulin94.bsky.social
PhD Student McGill University // Research Inclusion, Gender Studies and 2SLGBTQIA+ Community
@transmediaportl.bsky.social
Discover films, videos made by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming artists. https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/ Director: @laurah.bsky.social
@laurah.bsky.social
Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: Girls Will Be Boys (2016). she/her (white cis queer)
@jilliansunderland.bsky.social
Sociology PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. Masculinities, violence, organizations. www.JillianSunderland.com
@sunnyx9.bsky.social
phd candidate @ stockholm uni sociology // computational social scientist // sociology // demography // life course // machine learning // AI // population register data // she/her
@kaitsims.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Public Policy @ University of Denver. SHAPE Lab director. Sweater knitter/oil painter/coffee needer. She/her Research: DV, crime, health, housing, welfare, Econ https://sites.google.com/view/kaitsims 🏳️🌈 BLM, protect trans kids
@hannahloney14.bsky.social
Visiting Prof in Gender Studies @ CEU, Vienna; women’s & gender history (esp. Timor-Leste & Indonesia), feminist theory, oral history; she/her.
@cambridgegender.bsky.social
World-leading research and teaching on all aspects of gender and sexuality across the disciplines at the University of Cambridge. MPhil and PhD degrees. www.gender.cam.ac.uk.
@katforrester.bsky.social
@publicpubics.bsky.social
Public health & porn OHS, working with PASS, ECP, and the SHaG Lab. They/them flavoured. Previously naked on the internet.
@reproutopia.bsky.social
Philadelphia immigrant writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
@jennifercnash.bsky.social
Professor (Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University); writer; black feminist; mother; WBB fan.
@teele.bsky.social
Gender Prof @SNF Agora @Johns Hopkins; Co-Founder of EGEN — The Empirical Study of Gender Research Network; editor of Comparative Political Studies. Mom of 2 tweens. www.dawnteele.com.
@jessicavanmeir.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts
@hankowings.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ UPenn / Political Theory, Religion, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Conservatism / First-gen from rural Ohio / Bahá’í
@hjfulton.bsky.social
Sociology PhD Candidate University of South Florida (USF) 🏳️⚧️ he/him
@lukebrunning.bsky.social
Academic philosopher interested in intimate relationships and emotions.
@laurel-westbrook.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at UCSB Studies gender, sexuality, violence, activism, and surveys Author of Unlivable Lives https://www.ucpress.edu/books/unlivable-lives/paper Pronouns: They/them
@lucyjones.bsky.social
She/her. Sociolinguist researching language, gender & sexuality - especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality. Associate Professor at University of Nottingham, UK. https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/ ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577 Views my own
@lauralindberg.bsky.social
Professor Rutgers School of Public Health. Counting sexual and reproductive health things. Demographer, theater lover, Guttmacher alum.
@lizziereed.bsky.social
Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity. Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
@sandraduffy.bsky.social
Law lecturer, dog parent, imported Bristolian, Irish. Using law for trans liberation, reproductive justice, post-/de-coloniality. They/she. AuDHD. Fond of penguins. Views personal. 🇵🇸 Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social https://ko-fi.com/sandraaduffy
@katjamoe.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, especially Family and Work | University of Bamberg / Germany | http://www.katjamoehring.de/ | https://www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa
@selinkoksal.bsky.social
Assistant professor in demography at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @psglshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social | Social demography, fertility, reproductive experiences 🧐
@julialeesch.bsky.social
Postdoc @mpidr.bsky.social | Previously @tcddublin | #SocialStratification#SocialDemography #Family
@dariatisch.bsky.social
Social Scientist @mpifg.bsky.social • Research: wealth inequality, family, gender, elites, justice, superrich, taxation • https://dariatisch.github.io/
@robertarutigliano.bsky.social
“Sig. Tabucchi, cosa le manca di più dell’Italia?” “L’italiano” Ikerbasque research fellow interested in sociology, inequality, extended family, childbearing.
@femquant.bsky.social
Network bringing together researchers from across the social sciences who explore the combination of feminist research & quantitative data/methods. Run by: Jenny Chanfreau, Youngcho Lee, Christina Pao, Heini Väisänen & Nadine Zwiener-Collins.
@aledinal.bsky.social
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research @mpidr.bsky.social
@bhuenteler.bsky.social
PostDoc in Demography and Sociology at @mpidr.bsky.social and ISS @unicologne.bsky.social studying Kinship and Social Inequality | own views | she
@flaviamazzeo.bsky.social
PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and University of Trento, research group Gender Inequalities and Fertility | EDSD 2022/23
@tomascano.bsky.social
Associate professor of sociology at UNED in Madrid studying gender, families, and social stratification. PI of masculinities.bsky.social http://www.tomascano.eu
@crowold.bsky.social
#StandWithUkraine Postdoc at MPIDR, previously Nuffield College, Uni Oxford. Interested in gender inequalities over the life course & in old age crowold.github.io #firstgen
@heinivaisanen.bsky.social
Social demography, sexual & reproductive health (#abortion, #miscarriage) at INED, France. PI of ERC Starting Grant "Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage (@soc-misc.bsky.social)". @FemQuant.bsky.social co-ordinator. She/elle
@nhiekel.bsky.social
Sociologist/Family demographer. Head of Max Planck Research Group on Gender Inequalities and Fertility at @mpidr.bsky.social
@jacasiegel.bsky.social
Research Scientist in Public Health • Gender, sexuality, and body image research • Crossword puzzle and Mamma Mia enthusiast • Views do not reflect my employer • She/her/hers
@kateclancy.bsky.social
Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Obsessed with the uterus, even when it's being shitty. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation, now out on paperback. Up next: PREGNANCY, INTERRUPTED. White, settler, queer. 🍉
@handle.invalid
social psych prof; studies gender; uses stats; bad at bio blurbs; she/her
@smoertelt.bsky.social
she/her • prof. of sex- and gender-sensitive medicine @radboudumc and @unibielefeld • mother • feminist • lifelong migrant • posts without typos are not mine
@genderscilab.bsky.social
Feminist research lab at Harvard University dedicated to generating concepts, methods, and theories for scientific research on sex and gender.
@aboutgender.bsky.social
An interdisciplinary, international, feminist, and peer-reviewed journal about gender studies. ✉️ aboutgender@unige.it 🌍 riviste.unige.it/aboutgender 🎙️ Listen to our podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7LYxLbaWac8IPPZQJz1WNO
@jhugenderequity.bsky.social
The Gender Equity Unit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health promotes #genderequity in global health and is primarily funded by @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social's Data for Health Initiative.
@sarabchadwick.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Gender & Women’s Studies & Psychology | UW-Madison | Research on coercion, sexuality/orgasm, gender/LGBTQ, sexual health | (she/her) 🌈
@sschmauk.bsky.social
Social demographer | Postdoc Einstein Center Population Diversity | PhD at DYNAMICS | life course, family, old-age & retirement
@ecneilsonphd.bsky.social
Assistant prof studying gender-based violence, substance use, and reproductive justice. Sex-positive, intersectional feminist. Fail early, fail often. Views are mine. www.superlabpsych.com
@cconrymurray.bsky.social
Associate Director of the Gender Equity Unit, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Past president of SIPS, https://improvingpsych.org/ ; https://clareconrymurray.com/
@drboothroyd.bsky.social
Cross-cultural and experimental psychologist / anthropologist. Working on: appearance ideals, body image, sexual selection, gender, social transmission. Working in: 🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇳🇮 🇿🇼 🇨🇳 (A veces posteo en español.) Prof @ Durham http://www.boothlab.org
@gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈 New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27) Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
@drshodgetts.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Durham University | They/them | Interested in sex, gender, hormones, PMDD, and neurodiversity | Views are my own. Fan of cats, vampires, horror, video games, and music. Staff page: https://www.dur.ac.uk/staff/sophie-hodgetts/
@britshmit.bsky.social
Epidemiologist 📊 • Associate Prof at Harvard Med School & School of Public Health • Founding Director of School's LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence • Views=own• Mom of 3 kiddos • she/her + 🏳️🌈
@jenchanfreau.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at Sussex. Interested in families, reproduction/fertility, work & care. Member of the FemQuant organising collective. She/her.
@anacweeks.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Bath, author of Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy bit.ly/3wzcTGM. Editor, LSQ. gender quotas, parties, gender & far right, mental load #academicmama https://anacweeks.github.io/
@bartovalzbeta.bsky.social
Senior researcher at the Center for Sociological Research at KU Leuven interested in comparative family policy, parental leave, childcare and gender equality. https://bartovalzbeta.com/
@rachelefish.bsky.social
Sociologist studying schools, disability, race, gender. Associate Prof at Smith College. Former elem teacher. Parent. Cycling enthusiast. She/her/hers.
@joeljm.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn. Studying gender, education and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him. https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel-mittleman
@patriciahamilton.bsky.social
Exploring the intersections between black feminist theory, reproduction and parenting. Committed procrastinator. I made a short explainer about Shared Parental Leave: https://youtu.be/Eju2uKx40C4?feature=shared
@elimelby.bsky.social
PhD fellow in sociology, University of Bergen Associated researcher, CRAPUL University of Lausanne Political Sociology, gender, social movements, grassroots organizing in the Yellow vests Currently Fulbright Fellow, UC Berkeley
@jansauermann.bsky.social
Labor economist at IFAU Uppsala and UCLS Uppsala University: labor, gender, education, @statatexblog.com @repec-nep-gen.bsky.social @ifau.bsky.social https://jansauermann.github.io
@soerentum.bsky.social
PhD student in Sociology @University of Groningen researching boardroom quotas & gender equality
@matteobotto.com
🎮 nintendo gaymer 🔥 socialist transfeminist (he/they) 🏛️ research fellow, University of Genoa 🔍 gender, masculinity, manosphere, gaming