Sociologists for Trans Justice Trans, Intersex, and Non-Binary Related Programming at Annual Conferences August 2021
For your convenience, S4TJ has put together a list of trans, non-binary and intersex related events scheduled for the ASA, SSSP, SWS, and SSSI annual meetings and preconferences taking place in New York this August.
Whether you are attending the ASA annual meeting or another affair virtually, we hope that you will join us for these and other trans- and intersex-related events. (There are so many, and we are so very excited to share them with you!) Please be sure to bookmark this page and return for updates.
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Friday, August 6
Sociology of Gender & Sexuality Student Forum Roundtables 2:30-3:55p EDT/ 11:30-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 55
Session Organizer: Madelyn Diaz, University of Central Florida Table Presider: Christopher Persaud, University of Southern California
Girlhood in the Great Outdoors - Maria Ardeth Gregg
Masculinity in Wargaming - Christopher Sebastian Gage, University of Mississippi
The Battle for Athletic Autonomy: From Curt Flood to LeBron James - Maxwell Macort
The Push for Transgender Inclusion: Exploring Boundary Spanning in the Gay-Straight Alliance - D. Kyle Sutherland, University of British Columbia
Saturday, August 7
Intersectional Inequalities and Higher Education 12:45-2:10p EST/ 9:45-11:10a PDT | VAM Room 15
Session Organizer: Blake R. Silver, George Mason University Presider: Blake R. Silver, George Mason University
Creating Inclusive Department Climates in STEM Fields: Analyzing Multiple Perspectives on the Same Departments - Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Ethel L. Mickey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Ember Skye Willow Kanelee, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Laurel Smith-Doerr, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Twice as Good, Twice the College: Choosing Colleges in the Era of Racism and Rankings - Deborwah Faulk, James Madison University Made to Fit In, Made to Stick Out: How Queer Black College Students Negotiate Inclusion at Black and White Universities - TehQuin Forbes, Florida State University
Measuring the Impact of Elite Backgrounds on the Lives and Careers of Sociologists - Allison L. Hurst, Oregon State University
Do I Belong Here? Microaggression, Isolation, and Imposter Syndrome Among Women of Color in PhD Programs - Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, Virginia Tech; Kait M. Boyle, University of South Carolina-Columbia; Jennifer Turner, Hollins University
LGBTQ Social Change and Allyship 12:45-2:10p EST/ 9:45-11:10a PDT | VAM Room 30
Session Organizer: Terrell James Antonio Winder, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presider: Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College
Change in Health Over Time: Same-Sex Compared to Different-Sex Couples - Yiwen Wang, University of Texas at Austin
Early Labor Market Outcomes of Children in Same-Sex families: Evidence from Population Data - Silvia Palmaccio, KU Leuven; Deni Mazrekaj, Utrecht University; Kristof De Witte
Mind the Gap: Sexual Orientation Wage Gaps for Racialized and Immigrant Minorities in the United States - Shannon Mok, Western University
Superficial Allyship: Social and Value Similarity Between Heterosexist Allies and Those with Heightened Homophobia - Shahin Davoudpour, University of California, Irvine
Whose Movement Is It Anyway? Race, Class, & the Complexity of Allyship Politics in LGBTQ Activism - Jaime Hartless, SUNY Farmingdale
“Your comfort comes at the expense of our oppression.” Transgender Individuals and the Women’s March - Eli Williams Queering Social Life: LGBTQ Scenes 2:30-3:55p EST/ 11:30-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 30
Session Organizer: Terrell James Antonio Winder, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presider: Kendall Ota, University of California, Santa Barbara
Doing Diversity in the Queer Mainstream: the Case of QTMuslims in Toronto, Canada - Golshan Golriz, McGill University
"Floodgates" "at the breaking point": Anomie and Pandemic Endurance among Philadelphian CMSM - Zachary Babel; Caroline Voyles; Sofia Argibay, Drexel University; Jason Orne, Drexel University
“I am with my child”: Mothers of LGT Children in Turkey and Their Interlocking Transformations - Ecem E. Ece, University of Florida
"Queer Enough": Queer Encounters in the Pansexual BDSM Scene - Julie Lynn Fennell, Gallaudet University
The Exploration of Counterpublics in China: Lalas (Lesbians) Navigating Intimate and Family Lives through Cyberspace - Iris Po Yee Lo, University of Oxford
Table 7: Intersectional Inequalities II 4:45 to 5:40p EDT/ 1:45 to 2:40pm PDT | VAM Room 64
Session Organizer: Blake R. Silver, George Mason University
Presider: Michael Lotspeich-Yadau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I Love Wasians: Self-Perceptions of Mixed Race Women and Non-Binary People’s Desirability” - Julia Rose Chin
Spatial Autocorrelation, Heterogeneity, and Temporality in the Propensity of Rural Military Veterans to Identify as Self-Employed - Michael Lotspeich-Yadao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Charles M. Tolbert, Baylor University; Craig Carpenter, Michigan State University
The “B-Word,” The “C-Word,” and The Metaspace - Mary Amelia Caliendo Sunday, August 8
Insights from Ethnographic Studies of LGBTQ+ Populations and Communities 12:45-2:10p EDT/ 9:45-11:10p PDT | VAM Room 6
Session Organizers: Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University; Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
Presider: Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University
At the Margins of the Margins: Black Gay Identities in Los Angeles - Terrell James Antonio Winder, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wigs, Wingmen, and Whiskey: Ethnographic Opportunities and Dilemmas in the Study of LGBTQ festival life - Amy L. Stone, Trinity University
The Great Migration and the Development of Community among Black, Sexual Minority Women: Exploring and Locating Archival Material - Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
From Neighborhoods to Nights: The Institutional and Temporal Transformation of LGBTQ+ Urban Life - Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia
Capturing What is Lost: Ethnographic Strategies for Studying Nostalgia among LGBTQ+ Populations - Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University
Missing and Murdered: Women of Color, Transgender, and Indigenous People 2:30-3:55p EDT/ 11:30-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 3
Session Organizer: Annie Isabel Fukushima, University of Utah
Presider: Annie Isabel Fukushima, University of Utah
Missing from the count: Visualizing the invisible victim in fem[in]icide data - Myrna Dawson, University of Guelph
Intersectionality and Impunity: A comparative analysis of feminicidio in Mexico and the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada - Paulia Garcia del Moral, University of Guelph Guatemala and Mam indigenous refugee women, gender-based violence and feminicidio, and access to justice in Guatemala and in U.S. immigration courts - Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon
Unequal Risk: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Murders of Transgender People - Laurel Westbrook, Grand Valley State University
Bringing Our Whole Selves to the Sociology Classroom: Impacts of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Teaching 2:30-3:55p EDT/ 11:30-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 21
Session Organizers: Alison S. Better, CUNY Kingsborough Community College; Trenton M. Haltom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Deidre A. Tyler, Salt Lake Community College; Danielle Giffort, St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Presider: Jax J. Gonzalez, University of California, Boulder
More than Representation for Representation’s Sake: Navigating the Model-Mentor-Teacher Dynamic - Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Florida State University
Exchanging Horn-rimmed Glasses for Hoop Earrings: Why Representation Matters in the Classroom - Shirley Leyro, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Spreading the Gay + Trans Agenda: On Visibility in the Classroom - Simone Alexandra Kolysh, Hood College
Putting My Black Gay Stank on Mars: Using Subjectivity to Decolonize Sociology - Theo Greene, Bowdoin College
Sexual Violence and Harassment II 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40pm PDT | VAM Room 26
Session Organizer: Paige L. Sweet, University of Michigan
Presider: Paige L. Sweet, University of Michigan Femininity Anchors: Heterosexual Relationships and Pregnancy as Sites of Harassment for US Service Women - Stephanie Bonnes, University of New Haven
Gender Beliefs and the Response to Workplace Sexual Harassment - Julia A. Kmec, Washington State University; Lindsay Trimble O’Connor, California State University-Channel Islands; Shekinah Hoffman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Anatomy of Everyday Violence: Talking to Initiators - Simone Alexandra Kolysh, Hood College
Silencing Violence: Discourses of Power, Culture, and Sexual(izing) Violence against Jamaica’s Girl-Child - Sadiya Malcom, University of MIchigan
A Cold War Against Queer Contamination: Seuxal Harassment & LGBTQ Open Service in the US Military - Cati Connell, Boston University
The Resilience of Gender Ideology in Shaping Labor, Law, Policy, and Privilege 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40p PDT | VAM Room 22
Session Organizer: LaTonya Trotter, University of Washington
Presider: LaTonya Trotter, University of Washington
“Why Don’t They Just Use Cloth?”: Gender Policy Vacuums and the Inequalities of Diapering - Jennifer Randles, California State University- Fresno
Modernization, Traditionalization, or Both? Mapping Gender Ideology in China - Rujun Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Assumptive Rights of Maleness:” Stealth Transgender Men’s Accounts of [White] Male Privilege - Armani Beck-McField, Rutgers University
Legal "Locker Room Talk": Essentialist Discourses of Masculinity in Law - Erin E. Hatton, University of Buffalo
Group Processes 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40p EDT | VAM Room 24
Session Organizer: Jan E. Stets, University of California-Riverside
Presider: Jan E. Stets, University of California-Riverside Cooperation in Networked Collective Action Groups: The Role of Density, Group Size, and Sanctions - Thomas Wolff, Duke University; Ashley Harrell, Duke University
The Fragile Male: The Status-Dependence of Boundary Transgression and Reclassification - Katharine Khanna, Columbia University
Ticket inspection toolkit and group style: A qualitative study using interviews and video observation - Camilla Bank Friis, University of Copenhagen
Policing, Punishment, and Victimization of LGBTQ+ People 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40p EDT | VAM Room 23
Session Organizer: Amada Armenta, University of California- Los Angeles
Presider: Amada Armenta, University of California- Los Angeles
Queering the Study of Crime, Law and Deviance through the Lens of Criminology: Reflections on the Literature - Valerie Jenness, University of California-Irvine; Vanessa R. Panfil, Old Dominion University
Stigma, Prejudice and the Incarceration of LGBT People in the United States - Ilan H. Meyer, Williams Institute
Bullying as Gender Policing: Evidence from Queer Childhoods - Joel Mittleman, University of Notre Dame
Navigating Identity and Space Stigma Among Black Gay Men in LA and the Other LA - Terrell James Antonio Winder, University of California, Santa Barbara
Monday, August 9
Law, Medicine, and Claims-Making 11:00-12:25p EDT/ 8:00-9:25p PDT | VAM Room 12
Session Organizer: Jill Weinberg, Tufts University
Presider: Jill Weinberg, Tufts University “No Safe Zones”: Immigrant Health and Medical Legal Violence in the Nuevo South - Meredith Van Natta, University of California-Merced
Pain at the Intersection of Social Policy and Medicine: Why Lawmakers and Doctors Medicalized Suffering - Jane Pryma, University of Connecticut
Transgender Patient Access to Health Care: Barriers, Work-Arounds, and the Social Construction of Medical Necessity - Shauhin Ahmadi Talesh, University of California-Irvine; Anna Kirkland, University of Michican; Angela Perone, University of Michigan
Mental Health Across Genders and Sexualities 12:45-2:10p EDT/ 9:45-11:10a PDT | VAM Room 51
Session Organizer: Allison Daminger, Harvard University
Presider: Jennifer Tabler, University of Wyoming
An Analysis of LGB Mental Health: Democracy and LGB Rights as Predictors of Well-Being - Joseph M. Marchia, Stony Brook University
Gender Expression Among Contemporary American High School Students: New Population-Based Evidence - Joel Mittleman, University of Notre Dame; Elizabeth Moison, University of Notre Dame
Constructing “Global” Standards in Gender-Affirming Healthcare: Thailand and the U.S. - Alyssa A. Lynne, Northwestern University
Gender through the Eyes of the Beholder: External gender perceptions and mental health disparities in adulthood - Jennifer Tabler, University of Wyoming; Rachel M. Schmitz, Oklahoma State University; Claudia Geist, University of Utah
American Bareback Panic in the Time of PrEP - Benjamin Joseph Kampler, Boston University
Intersectional Approaches to Gender, Identity, and Sexuality 12:45-2:10p EDT/ 9:45-11:10a PDT | VAM Room 52
Session Organizer: Laura Adler, Harvard University Presider: Canton Winer, University of California, Irvine
Embrace, Rejection, and Gender Detachment: Framings of Femininity in Online Asexual Spaces - Canton Winer, University of California, Irvine
Astrology is for Girls? How Showing Disinterest in Looking to the Stars is a Gendered Performance - Ian Anthony Waller
From Criminals to Demigods: Status Recategorization of the Third Gender in India - Anupama Kondayya, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Dahlia Mani, HEC Paris
Whose Fantasy? A Feminist Analysis of Key West's Fantasy Fest - Rachel Douglas, Florida State College at Jacksonville; Anne E. Barrett, Florida State University
Intersectionality and Group Affiliation in the Job Application Process - Gretchen Petersen, University of Memphis; Kendra Murphy, University of Memphis; Benjamin Baker; Lewie Andrew Carmichael, University of Memphis; Octavian Jerel Moten
Gender in the Academic Labor Market and Beyond: Taking a Feminist Sociology Beyond the Academy 2:30-3:55p EDT/ 11:30-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 7
Session Organizer: Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Presider: Laura Adler, Harvard University
Panelists: Kiana Cox, Pew Research Center; Shengwei Sun, Institute for Women’s Policy Research; Lindsay A. Owens, Stanford University
Table 6: The Construction of Groups and Populations 3:00-3:55p EDT/ 12:00-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 61
Session Organizer: Torsten H. Voight, WRTH Aachen University
Presider: Cal Lee Garrett, University of Illinois at Chicago Rules at the Root: Genetic Definitions of Populations and the Evolutionary Synthesis - Elizabeth Carolina Mayes
No Differences: Debating Demographic Expertise in the Marriage Equality Cases - Jamie Louise Budnick, University of Michigan
Mainstreaming Misbehavior - Jeffrey W. Lockhart, University of Michigan
Gender Affirming Care: The Quantification of Livability in Trans Medicine - Cal Lee Garrett, University of Illinois at Chicago
Intimate Labor, Sex Work, and Queer Kinship 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40p PDT | VAM Room 12
Session Organizer: Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis University
Presider: Elena Shih, Brown University
Differentiated Intimacies: Intimate Labor, Exchange Practices, and Gendered Migration in Hong Kong - Maria Hwang, McGill University Genderplay: Reclaiming and Reconfiguring Femininity Through the Emotional Labor Practices of Trans Masculine Sex Workers - Elliot Noel Chudyk, Boston University
Intimate Labor and the Gendered Construction of Authenticity in Black South Africa - Annie Hikido, Colby College
Politics of Queer Responsbility & Circuits of Queer Care - Diya Bose, College of William and Mary
The Making of Transnational Care Workers - Andy Scott Chang, Singapore Management University
Trans Sexualities: Race, Power, Pleasure 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40p PDT | VAM Room 20
Session Organizers: Alithia Zamantakis, Georgia State University; Angela Jones, SUNY-Farmingdale
Presider: Tristen Kade, University of California, Santa Barbara “I am all the worlds colliding into one”: Black Trans Erotics and the Self - Alithia Zamantakis, Georgia State University
“I don’t fuck police”: Trans & Queer Sexual politics and the Practice of Reimagining Desire - Sarah M. Steele, University of Illinois, Chicago
Trans Erotics, Gender Euphoria, and Pleasure in Sex Industries - Angela Jones, SUNY-Farmingdale
Discussant: Blu Buchannan, UNC- Asheville
Tuesday, August 10
Feminist Health and Well-Being Research 11:00-12:25p EDT/ 8:00-9:25p PDT | VAM Room 16
Session Organizers: Barret Katuna, SWS; Marlese Durr, Wright State University Presider: Barret Katuna, SWS
Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Domestic Violence during the Pandemic - Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University
Intersectionality, Caregiving & COVID 19 - LaTonya Trotter, University of Washington
Reproductive Rights and Justice in the 21st Century - Krystale E. Littlejohn, University of Oregon
The Limits of Radical Feminist Research in Sociology: The Case of Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex Health - Georgiann Davis, University of New Mexico
Gender, Intersectionality and Disability - Heather E. Dillaway, Wayne State University
Rethinking Transnational Sexualities 11:00-12:25p EDT/ 8:00-9:25p PDT | VAM Room 21
Session Organizers: Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Oluwakemi M. Balogun, University of Oregon
Presider: Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign India, Africa, and Pandemic Imagination - Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis University
Queering & Decolonizing Domestic Violence - Diya Bose, College of William and Mary
Queering Gentrification in Greater Los Angeles: Latinx Artistic and Creative Communities as Forms of Transnational Space-Making - Jessennya Hernandez, University of Illinois
Discussant: Oluwakemi M. Balogun, University of Oregon
Reproductive Decisions and Embodied Outcomes 11:00-12:25p EDT/ 8:00-9:25p PDT | VAM Room 26
Session Organizer: Rene Almeling, Yale University
Presider: Rene Almeling, Yale University
Out of Body: Abortion Embodiment Experiences - Danielle Bessett, University of Cincinnati; Ayesha Casie Chetty, University of Chincinnati; Annie McGhee, University of Cincinnati; Kathryn LaRoche, Indiana University; Angel M. Foster, University of Ottowa
Choosing Abortion for a Serious Fetel Health Issue: From Medical Information to Values - Katrina E. Kimport, UC San Francisco
Health at the Margins: Self-Managed Abortion and the Role of Social Networks - Kathleen Broussard, University of Texas
Do Pregnancy Intentions Matter? Revisiting Relationships with Pregnancy, Infant, and Maternal Outcomes - Nicholas Mark, NYU; Sarah K. Cowan, NYU
Same Uterus, Different Paths: Examining Gendered Infertility Discourses Among Hysterectomy Patients - Andréa Becker, The Graduate Center at CUNY
#SayHerName: Attending to the gendered dynamics of racialized violence 11:00-12:25p EDT/ 8:00-9:25p PDT | VAM Room 11
Session Organizers: Emily Fairchild, New College of Florida; Queen Meccasia Zabriskie, New College of Florida
Presider: Emily Fairchild, New College of Florida "I Might Just Kill You": Cis-Het Men & Cis-Les/Bi Women's & Murders of Black Trans Women - Alithia Zamantakis, Georgia State University
Making Visible the Invisible: Intersectional black feminism and #SayHerName - Laura Grindstaff, University of California-Davis; Angelita Repetto, UC Davis; Larissa Carmel Saco, UC Davis; Colleen Sargent, UC Davis; Elizabeth Celene Lee Witcher, UC Davis
#NoJusticeNoSleep: Hashtagging the Unjust Murder of Breonna Taylor - Mi’Chael N Wright - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Visibility, Victimization, and Vulnerability: #MeTooBehindBars and the movement against police violence in women’s prisons - Jennifer Elyse James, University of California, San Francisco
“‘We Got Witnesses’: Black Women Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement” - Faith M Deckard, University of Texas at Austin; Shannon Malone Gonzalez, UNC Chapel Hill
Sociologies of Science, Knowledge, and Technology in “Revolting Times” 12:45-2:10p EDT/ 9:45-11:10 PDT | VAM Room 6
Session Organizer: Patrick Ryan Grzanka, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Presider: Kelly Moore, Loyola University-Chicago
Crashing the Gate: Consent-Driven Trans-Health Care and Self-Determination - Christoph Hanssmann, San Francisco State University
The Genealogy of Racialized Method: eGFR as Case Study - Louise Seamster, University of Iowa; Hannah Zadeh, University of Iowa
White Supremacist Trees in an Academic Forest: Does Anybody Hear Them? - Bernard Koch, University of California, Los Angeles; Kushan Dasgupta, University of California, Los Angeles; Aaron Panofsky, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Nathalia Hernandez Vidal
Transgender Movements, Rights, Violence, and Resistance 12:45-2:10p EDT/ 9:45-11:10 PDT | VAM Room 32 Session Organizer: Miriam J. Ableson, Portland State University
Presider: Miriam J. Ableson, Portland State University
“Judith Butler is not suitable for us”: Queer Capital in China's Transgender Activism - Thelma Wang, Brandeis University
“They kill us because they hate what it means to love us”: Desire and symbolic violence - Alithia Zamantakis, Georgia State University
Telling the Story Right: Explaining Support for Transgender and Non-Binary Rights - Kylar Schaad
Transnational Processes 12:45-2:10p EDT/ 9:45-11:10 PDT | VAM Room 28
Session Organizer: Jennifer L. Blair, University of Virginia
Presider: Jennifer L. Blair, University of Virginia
A Triangle: From Local to Global to National in the Onset of the Arab Spring - Mounira Maya Charrad, University of Texas at Austin
Institutionalization through Contestation: Transnational Circulation of “Transgender” - Tara Marie Gonsalves, University of California, Berkeley
Mapping the Middle: Evaluating How World Culture Shapes LGBT Issues in Domestic Media Coverage - Kristopher Velasco, Princeton University
The Sending State and Co-Enforcement: The Mexican Consulate’s Role in Brokering Immigrant Worker Claimsmaking - Shannon Marie Gleeson, Cornell University; Xochitl Bada, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sociologists for Women in Society: 50 Years of Feminist Research, Scholarship and Acvitism 12:45-2:10p EDT/ 9:45-11:10 PDT | VAM Room 3
Session Organizers: Marlese Durr, Wright State University; Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College Presider: Marlese Durr, Wright State University
The History of SWS and the Establishment of Gender & Society - Christine E Bose, University at Albany, SUNY
Women of Color to SWS: The Challenges of Incorporating Intersectionality - Denise A. Segura, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gaining Strength: ASA-SWS Relationship - Marlese Durr, Wright State University
The Future of SWS: Gender Non-Binaries, Intersectionality, and Class Consciousness - Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
The Limits and Promise of Trans Politics 2:30-3:55p EDT/ 11:30-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 3
Session Organizers: Travers, Simon Fraser University; Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
Presider: Travers, Simon Fraser University
Panelists: Travers, Simon Fraser University; Danya Lagos, University of California- Berkeley; Imara Jones, TransLash Media; Joss Taylor Greene, Columbia University; Tanya Saunders, University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies
Determining and Recognizing Transgender 2:30-3:55p EDT/ 11:30-12:55p PDT | VAM Room 27
Session Organizer: Miriam J. Ableson, Portland State University
Presider: Jay Sorensen, University of Iowa
Walking While Trans: Assessing Gender Presentation and Transgender Profiling in Sex Work-Related Arrest Reports - Kris Rosentel, Northeastern University
Persistence of Medicalization in Transgender Employment Rights Claims-Making - Kyla Bender-Baird, The Graduate Center at CUNY Transgender Disclosures: How Gender Determination and Social Contexts Mediate Disclosure Processes Among Trans Men - Tristen Kade, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gender as a Radial Category - Lilly Watermoon, University of Notre Dame
Preclusive Portals: The Spatial Stakes of "Determining Gender" in Binary-Gendered Restrooms and Locker Rooms - Ali Greey, University of Toronto
Prisons and Prisoners 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40p PDT | VAM Room 29
Session Organizer: Brittany Friedman, University of Southern California
Presider: Joshua Aaron Page, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Bourdieu and Prison: concepts, fields of application, perspectives - Andrea Borghini, University of Pisa
Prison Management of Gender Boundaries, 1941-2018 - Joss Taylor Greene, Columbia University
The “Curious Eclipse” of Carceral Ethnography Revisited - Ashley T. Rubin, University of Hawaii, Manoa
The Promise and Peril of ICE-funded Labor: A Case Study of the Dilley Detention Center - Marta Ascherio, University of Texas at Austin; Felipe Vargas
The Role of Perceived Attractiveness and Social Network Position in Women’s Prisons - Story Edison; Sadé Lindsay, Cornell University; Dana L. Haynie, Ohio State University
“They Need to Go in There”: Racialized Subjectivity among Formerly Incarcerated People - Lucius Couloute, Suffolk University
Discussant: Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Santa Clara University
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century 4:15-5:40p EDT/ 1:15-2:40p PDT | VAM Room 1 Session Organizer: Kate Henley Avarett, University at Albany, SUNY
Moderator: Kate Henley Avarett, University at Albany, SUNY
Panelists: JE Sumerau, University of Tampa; Freeden Blume Oeur, Tufts University; stef m. shuster, Michigan State University
Author: Tey Meadow, Columbia University
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Wednesday, August 4
Session 002: Women and Justice: Rehabilitation, Resistance, Reflexivity and the Self in Institutional Spaces 9:30-11:15a EDT/ 6:30-8:15a PDT
Organizers: Ebonie L. Cunningham Stringer, Penn State Berks Jayne Malenfant, McGill University Diana Therese Montejo Veloso, De La Salle University
“‘I’m Going to Whip Me an Officer’s A** before the Day is Over’: Black Female Resistance behind Bars,” Britany J. Gatewood, Albany State University
“Undergraduate Student Perspectives on Gender and Social Support for Criminal Justice Careers,” Ebonie L. Cunningham Stringer, Salvatore A. DeFeo and Genesis D. Munoz Arias, Penn State Berks
“Reimagining Access to Justice through the Eyes of Rural Domestic Violence Survivors,” Frank Donohue, University of California, Irvine and Amy M. Magnus, California State University, Chico
“Gendered Perceptions of the South African Police Service: An Application of Critical Race and Feminist Theory to South African Women’s Views of Ideal Police,” Alexandra Hiropoulos, California State University, Stanislaus
“Struggling for Safety: Survival Strategies of Incarcerated Transgender Women,” Joss T. Greene, Columbia University
“Studying Gendered Abuse while being Abused: Reflections on Exit, Emotions, and Responsibility,” Ashleigh E. McKinzie, Middle Tennessee State University Session 017: The Body in Global Perspective Sponsor: Sport, Leisure, and the Body 11:30-1:15p EDT/ 8:30-10:15a PDT
Organizer & Presider: Alicia Smith-Tran, Texas Christian University
“Not ‘Fair’ Anymore: Exploring Public Opinions about Globe Cosmetic Corporations’ Responses to the #BLM Movement,” Hsin-Yu Chen, Penn State University and Nina G. Jablonski, The Pennsylvania State University
“Flowers, White Women, and Hegemony: How Cosmetic Surgeons Market Vulvas and Sex,” Samantha Castonguay, Washington State University and R.F. Plante, Ithaca College
“Patient Problems: Adverse Event Reports on FDA-approved Female Sterilization Devices,” Valerie Leiter and Maude Elovitz, Simmons University
“My Body, Your Choice? Fetal Protection Policies and Racespecific Abortion Rates,” Chancey Herbolsheimer, Vanderbilt University
“Policing Queer and Trans Bodies: Formal and Informal Control over Marginalized Populations,” Meg Osborn, The Graduate Center, CUNY and John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Friday, August 6
Session 063: Revolution, Reconstruction, and the Human Right to Health: A Calling for Sociology 9:30-11:15a EDT/ 6:30-8:15a PDT
Organizer: Josephine T. V. Greenbrook, University of Edinburgh and University of Gothenburg Presider/ Discussant: Kathleen Abrahamson, Purdue University
“Challenge and Perspective on Abortion between Activism and Research in Italy and Beyond,” Elena Caruso, Kent Law School
“Minority Stress for Nonbinary Trans College Students,” C. V. Dolan, University of Vermont “Moving from Complicity and Inaction to Community Responsibility: An Invitation to Conversation Among Philosophy, Sociology, and Activism from the Time’s Up Ateneo Experience in the Philippines,” Danna Aduna, Time's Up Ateneo
“Becoming a Psychiatric Patient, Disappearing as a Person: An Anthropological Perspective from Norway,” Lena Gross, UiT
“Borders Bleed: Understanding Medicine as Hinterlands in Advancing the Right to Health for Undocumented Patients,” Josephine T. V. Greenbrook, University of Edinburgh and University of Gothenburg
Session 064: Queer, Trans*, and Gender(ed) Lived Realities 9:30-11:15a EDT/ 6:30-8:15a PDT
Organizer, Presider & Discussant: Ashley M. Green, University of South Florida
“Coercion and Heterosexual Rituals in Medicine,” Bertha A. Ben Khallouq, University of Central Florida
“Does Racial Homophily Increase Body Weight? Evidence from Sexual Minorities,” Philip J. Pettis, Vanderbilt University
“Harnessing Progress: Constructing Aging as a Process of Growth and Improvement in Midlife,” Harry N. Barbee, Vanderbilt University
“The Limits of Charity in Creating Trans Care: Inequalities in GoFundMe Top Surgery Campaigns,” Hayden J. Fulton, University of South Florida
Saturday, August 7
Session 111: A Theology of Hope: Religion, Justice, and Social Change in America 1:30-3:15p EDT/ 10:30-12:15p PDT
Organizers: Ebonie L. Cunningham Stringer, Penn State Berks Shaonta' Allen, Dartmouth College
“‘I’ve Got Nothing to Lose’: Exploring the Work Ethic of U.S. Muslim Professionals,” Salam Aboulhassan, Wayne State University “A Discursive Exploration of Provider Guides for Traumainformed HIV Preventative Care with Black Transgender Women,” Kay Heffernan, Vanderbilt University
“Entangled Realms: The Social Problem of Church and State in the U.S.,” Ryan C. Rose, Widener University
“I Was Raised That Way: Religion, Spirituality, and Transformation among Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men,” Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University
“The Prefigurative Religious Politics of Black Christian Millennials,” Shaonta' Allen, Dartmouth College
Session 121: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law II 3:30-5:15p EDT/ 12:30-2:15p PDT
Organizer & Presider: Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
“An Analysis of Title IX Policy and Trans Exclusionary Language,” Hannah Liebreich, Furman University
“Neutralizing Institutional Risk: A Case Study of Title IX Confusion & Sexual Violence Silence,” Lara H. Janson, University of Chicago
“Interrogating the Imagined Futurities of Bans on Trans Healthcare for Minors,” Ruben D. Caginalp, Fordham University
“A Whole Village: Polyamorous Families and the Best Interests of the Child Standard,” Kimberly Rhoten, Boston University, Elisabeth A. Sheff, Sheff Consulting and University of Tennessee and Jonathan Lane, JD Lane Law
“Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: Activists’ Implementation of the Transnational Human Rights Framework Against Sexual Violence in South Korea,” Laura L. Becker, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Wednesday, August 4
Paper Session #5: Interactionist Studies of Health Professions and Caregiving 12:00-1:30p EDT/ 9:00-10:30a PDT
Presider: Amanda Gengler, Wake Forest University
“An Interactionist Approach to the Professional Socialization of Work Devotion,” Alexandra Vinson, University of Michigan
“Anomalous Bereavement Patterns, Complicated Grief, and Family Organization in Caregivers of Terminally Ill Cancer Patients,” Lillian Platten, Loyola University Chicago
“Maintaining Cisnormative Accountability: Medical Providers’ Negotiation of Transgender Healthcare,” William C. Stallings, Nik M. Lampe, and Emily S. Mann