PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
Wherein sociologists study issues of public concern, engage a wider audience, strive to write accessibly, and foreground issues of social change and justice. My practice of public sociology is deeply and unapologetically feminist and anti-racist.
"On the Tragic Inevitability of Stacking Corpses," with William Paul Simmons. The Edge, Park Center for Independent Media, August 30, 2023. To read, click here.
"Supreme Court Ruling in Stalking Case Hurts Victims," with Elise C. Lopez. The Edge, Park Center for Independent Media, July 17, 2023. To read, click here.
"Overturning Roe v. Wade is Immoral and Dangerous." The Edge, Park Center for Independent Media, July 21, 2022. To read, click here.
"Commentary: A rush back to campus is sowing distrust at universities." Chicago Tribune, July 10, 2020. To read, click here.
"Gassing Migrants is Immoral and Illegal." Arizona Daily Star, November 28, 2018. To read, click here.
"Survivors Who Disclose Need Empathy, Not Judgment," with Edna Meza Aguirre. Arizona Daily Star, November 8, 2017. To read, click here.
"An Open Letter to University Presidents, Provosts, and Governing Boards," with Adela C. Licona. The Feminist Wire, February 1, 2017. To read, click here.
"Why We Need Mother's Day, All Year Long." College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, May 8, 2016. To read, click here.
An Interview with Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist." The Feminist Wire, January 5, 2015. To read, click here. (Reposted in Truthout, January 6, 2015.)
"Black Lives Matter/Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore." The Feminist Wire, December 1, 2014. To read, click here.
"Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence," with David J. Leonard. The Feminist Wire, September 8, 2014. To read, click here.
"The Color of Infant Mortality." The Feminist Wire, September 3, 2014. To read, click here. (Reposted in Truthout, September 4, 2014.)
"Feminists We Love: Carol Anshaw." The Feminist Wire, May 16, 2014. To read, click here.
"Marge Piercy: On Feminism, Politics, and Writing." TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, Spring 2014. To read, click here.
"Expectations: Intimate Feminisms Embodied," with Erin Durban-Albrecht. The Feminist Wire, May 9, 2014. To read, click here.
"Women, Men, Horses, and the Wild, Wild West: An Interview with Deanne Stillman." The Feminist Wire, March 5, 2014. To read, click here.
"Feminists We Love: Amy Wheeler." The Feminist Wire, August 23, 2013. To read, click here.
"No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box." The Feminist Wire, July 17, 2013. To read, click here. (Reprinted in Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence, 2014.)
"Feminists We Love: Sandra Fluke." The Feminist Wire, July 5, 2013. To read, click here.
"Myths of Progress and Cartographies of Hate," with Darnell L. Moore. The Feminist Wire, May 30, 2013. To read, click here.
"On Guns, Fetuses, and 'Pro-Life' Hypocrisy." The Feminist Wire, April 15, 2013. To read, click here.
"Drunk On a Plane: Or, Why I Loved Flight." The Feminist Wire, February 23, 2013. To read, click here.
"Choosing Our Own Lives: Two 40-Something Feminists Reflect on Roe," with Aishah Shahidah Simmons. The Feminist Wire, January 22, 2013. To read, click here.
"What We Aren't Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control." The Feminist Wire, January 18, 2013. To read, click here.
"Out of the Shadows: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White." The Feminist Wire, November 1, 2012. To read, click here.
"Because Women Matter." The Feminist Wire, October 23, 2012. To read, click here.
"My Father's Daughter." The Feminist Wire, June 17, 2012. To read, click here.
"One Tough Mother." The Feminist Wire, May 13, 2012. To read, click here.
"When Injured Brains Speak," with Daniel R. Morrison. The Feminist Wire, May 12, 2012. To read, click here.
"On Race, Trauma, and 'Strange Fruit.'" The Feminist Wire, April 7, 2012. To read, click here.
"Sticks and Stones." The Feminist Wire, February 16, 2012. To read, click here.
"The Hunger Games," with Mason Casper-Milam. The Feminist Wire, February 1, 2012. To read, click here.
"The Intimacy of Mentoring." The Feminist Wire, December 23, 2011. To read, click here.
"Locating Paule Marshall." The Feminist Wire, November 25, 2011. To read, click here.
"Hypothetical Women, Real Violence," with Wanda Kolomyjec. The Feminist Wire, November 7, 2011. To read, click here.
"Begatting and Begetting: The Issue(s) of Men," with Lisa Jean Moore. The Feminist Wire, September 30, 2011. To read, click here.
"Revolt of the Little Grey Cells." The Feminist Wire, August 26, 2011. To read, click here.
"Sex, Parenting and Feminism." The Feminist Wire, July 25, 2011. To read, click here.
"'We Don't Just Litigate and Leave': A Conversation with NAPW." The Feminist Wire, June 27, 2011. To read, click here.
"Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?" with William Paul Simmons. The Feminist Wire, June 6, 2011. To read, click here.
"The United States of Incarceration," with LaToyyia Knight-Gonzales. The Feminist Wire, May 11, 2011. To read, click here.
"Reproductive Tourism." The Feminist Wire, April 13, 2011. To read, click here.
"Not Your Mother's Breast Milk." The Feminist Wire, March 20, 2011. To read, click here.
"Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?" The Feminist Wire, March 2, 2011. To read, click here.
"Less Is Not More." The Feminist Wire, February 11, 2011. To read, click here.
"Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?" with Dan Morrison. The Feminist Wire, February 2, 2011. To read, click here.
"Tucson Tragedy: Naming the Unspeakable." The Feminist Wire, January 8, 2011. To read, click here.
"Reproductive Rights in Black and White." The Feminist Wire, January 4, 2011. To read, click here.
"Fetal Surgery Then and Now." Conscience: The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion 28(3), 24-27, Autumn, 2007. To read, click here.
"What's Wrong with Treating Intersex in the Womb?" with Courtney Muse. American Sexuality, March 16, 2006.
"Constructing Fetal Citizens," with Lynn M. Morgan. Anthropology News, December, 2004. To read, click here.
"Fetus Shouldn't Rob Woman of Personhood," with Lynn M. Morgan. Sunday Republican, May 2, 2004. To read, click here.
"Chemical Weapons: Incineration Island." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 58(2): 17-19, March/April, 2002. To read, click here.