{"id":7457,"date":"2025-04-08T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:24:19","slug":"tsp-tuesdays-april-8th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2025\/04\/08\/tsp-tuesdays-april-8th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TSP Tuesdays | April 8th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/04\/Untitled-design-1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/04\/Untitled-design-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/04\/Untitled-design-1.png 1333w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/04\/Untitled-design-1-220x330.png 220w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/04\/Untitled-design-1-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/04\/Untitled-design-1-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/04\/Untitled-design-1-1024x1536.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New &amp; Noteworthy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>April 1st, 2025 marks the official launch date of TSP&#8217;s official journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ajus\/\">The American Journal of Unfinished Sociology<\/a>. We have several submissions that we will be sharing in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2025\/03\/27\/gender-affirming-care-and-gender-stereotypes\/\">Gender-Affirming Care and Gender Stereotypes<\/a>, our latest Discovery my Mallory Harrington, \u200bcovers research by <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.columbia.edu\/content\/tara-gonsalves\">Tara Gonsalves<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/10.1086\/729505\">research<\/a> reveals that insurance coverage for gender-affirming healthcare has expanded over the past two decades, but insurers often rely on gender stereotypes to determine which procedures are deemed medically necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2025\/04\/07\/clippings-april-7th-2025-tsp-media-report\/\">Clippings<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/cla.umn.edu\/about\/directory\/profile\/harr3077\">Mallory Harrington<\/a> includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccahansonsoc.com\/about-me\">Rebecca Hanson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.tulane.edu\/sociology\/people\/david-smilde\">David Smilde<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lals.uic.edu\/profiles\/zubillaga-veronica\/\">Ver\u00f3nica Zubillaga<\/a> argue that deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador echo the authoritarian practices they fled, warning that criminalizing these individuals based on exaggerated fears of gang mobility undermines both justice and U.S. credibility.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchdirectory.uc.edu\/p\/okuwobof\">Oneya Fennell Okuwobi<\/a> critiques corporate diversity programs that prioritize optics over equity, showing how they often burden employees of color with performative expectations while corporations reap the reputational rewards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/internet3.trincoll.edu\/FacProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1481170\">Lucius Couloute<\/a> shares how parole, once meant to support reentry, now functions as a carceral extension\u2014trapping individuals in cycles of surveillance and punishment that undermine rehabilitation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/sbm\/staff\/academic\/profiles\/perrottam.html\">Manuela Perrotta<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/internet3.trincoll.edu\/FacProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1481170\">Lucius Couloute<\/a> explores how I.V.F. technologies are reshaping emotional relationships to embryos, as patients develop profound attachments to time-lapse videos of developing cells\u2014perceiving them not as potential life, but as life already unfolding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/sociology\/faculty\/clwillia\">Christine L. William<\/a>\u2019s concept of the \u201cglass escalator,\u201d describing how men in female-dominated professions are often fast-tracked to leadership, gained national recognition this week when it appeared as a clue on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/asanews.bsky.social\/post\/3llvzqyh4rc2p\">Jeopardy<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the Archives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Severe storms and tornadoes have recently devastated parts of the South and Midwest, resulting in at least seven fatalities and widespread destruction. But what makes something a natural disaster? In <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2018\/09\/19\/not-so-natural-disasters\/\">this 2018 piece<\/a>, such events become disasters not just because of nature, but because of how society shapes people\u2019s risk and ability to respond. Things like poor infrastructure, uneven government response, and economic inequality all play a role in who gets hurt the most. This reminds us that behind every weather event, there\u2019s a social story about who is most vulnerable and why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With nationalist rhetoric escalating and reshaping policies in unprecedented ways, it\u2019s crucial to understand why nationalism can also escalate tensions. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/12\/26\/why-is-nationalism-dangerous\/\">This piece<\/a> from the Sociological Images breaks down some of the dangers of nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More from our Partners &amp; Community Pages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/contexts.org\/\">Contexts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/contexts.org\/blog\/after-cfa\/\">after college for all: the expectations of struggling college graduates<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elenaayalahurtado.com\/\">Elena Ayala-Hurtado<\/a> on how many young college graduates, despite believing in the promise of higher education, find themselves stuck in a state of &#8220;expectational liminality&#8221;\u2014caught between high post-college expectations and the realities of economic insecurity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/\">Council on Contemporary Families<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/2025\/04\/08\/the-war-never-ends-mothers-continue-an-uphill-battle-against-postpartum-depression\/\">The War Never Ends: Mothers Continue an Uphill Battle Against Postpartum Depression<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wampler_sawyer\">Sawyer Wampler<\/a> unpacks the rising prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) over the past decade, highlighting significant increases across all racial and ethnic groups, with Asian\/Pacific Islander and non-Hispanic Black individuals experiencing the most pronounced upticks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/firstpublics\/\">First Publics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/firstpublics\/2025\/03\/20\/fearing-the-future-reconsidering-the-role-of-ai\/\">Fearing the Future: Reconsidering the Role of AI<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/alyssalyons.net\/\">Alyssa Lyons<\/a> reflects on the challenges and ethical considerations of integrating generative AI into her digital sociology curriculum and the need to prepare students for a future where AI literacy is crucial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New &amp; Noteworthy April 1st, 2025 marks the official launch date of TSP&#8217;s official journal, The American Journal of Unfinished Sociology. 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