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Daniel Laurison
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Daniel Laurison
@Daniel_Laurison
Author of Producing Politics, Beacon Press
also: bsky.app/profile/daniel…
Sociologist.
Carnegie Fellow.
Trans, parent.
- Today I told my class that working class/poor students are less likely to know rules can be bent, and less likely to ask to bend them, or for other kinds of help, and I got an email from a sophomore saying that helped her make sense of why her first year was so hard.
- Dear US academics, if you're writing about something in the US context, please say that explicitly in your key sentences. How things work in US society is not necessarily universal, in fact it's frequently pretty weird compared to big swathes of the rest of the world.
- Replying to @Daniel_LaurisonI told them explicitly that they can ask for extensions on their papers, and how to do it, and that they can come to talk to me about their papers. Same student admitted they'd been overwhelmed about the paper, asked for an extension, and set up an office hours appointment. Win!
- Did everyone catch this story? Cops in my neighborhood stopped a family in their car, dragged the parents out of the car & beat them in front on their toddler, picked up the kid & snapped a picture, then posted the picture with an entirely false story about it.Replying to @ryanjreilly.@GLFOP has now deleted their propaganda posts on Facebook and Twitter, but offered a tremendously valuable lesson in why you always need to treat initial police narratives with intense skepticism.
- Here's why I don't like MANDATORY pronoun go-rounds: 1. I would have hated having to decide/out myself every time I went anywhere when I was deciding whether to transition or not. 2. reinforces the notion that gender is the most important feature of our selves.
- Hello students on the job market: many of your advisors don't think liberal arts colleges are good jobs for people who care about research. I'm here to tell you they can be GREAT for research, plus they also reward you for caring about teaching and your students.
- OK, I'm tenured!
- Hi Twitter, happy National Coming Out day. I'm a trans man! I would like for like for all queer and trans people to have at least as much support as I did from my family. And I really want all the politicians promoting transphobia to lose their elections.
- Replying to @jestomThis is possibly the most Twitter tweet I've ever read.
- Hello #soctwitter & etc, if you're planning a first-day-of-class (or etc) introductions, and you want to be inclusive of trans/non-binary folks, can I suggest (as a trans professor with a lot of trans & non-binary students) including pronouns as *optional* rather than required? +
- Replying to @Daniel_LaurisonIn many contexts, they matter far more. Black & Brown people too often don't get the benefit of the doubt, are made to adhere to rules not often enforced against white people. Women of all races too often are held to standards not applied to men. Etc etc.
- Replying to @Daniel_Laurison(I also mentioned that not all professors are as free with extensions as I am.) (Also this was Forms of Capital day so it was perfect timing.)
- Periodic reminder that the VAST majority of people who've been to college - something like 85% - do NOT attend the kinds of places that are frequently discussed in the NYTimes. They mostly go to regional commuter colleges, community colleges, etc, w/ acceptance rates >= 75%.
