Call for Papers:

• I’m looking for recommendations for fantastic blog posts addressing gender and its intersections for a book project.   Self-nominations are welcome!  Please send ideas to lwade@oxy.edu.

SocImages News:

• Happy birthday, little blog!  You’re 7!

Elsewhere on the Web:

• I spent an hour with Sex Nerd Sandra talking the history of hookup culture. Listen here.
• A post about racist color blind dress codes caught the attention of NPR. They interviewed me for a story about the phenomenon.
• New York Magazine wrote about our discussion of rural white men rollin’ coal.
• TV Guide picked up Sezin Koehler’s coverage of the failed coverage of female body parts at HBO.
• I appeared on Portland’s Carl in the Morning to talk about the decline of conformity in America.  Listen here.

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• Overweight Americans have the lowest risk of premature death (2,500+ likes)
• Gender-neutral bathrooms: Solving the sign problem (1,500+ likes)
• Cuteness-inspired aggression is actually a thing (1,300+ likes)
• “Trophy scarves”: Race, gender, and the woman-as-prop trope (1,100+ likes)
• Wall Street: The hidden culprit behind rising tuition (1000+ likes)
• Confirmation bias expert convinced everyone suffers from confirmation bias (800+ likes)
• Beyond the gender binary (700+ likes)
• Main, mean, and median streets (600+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s Pick!

• Newsflash: Facebook has always manipulated your emotions
• A reluctant defense of sunscreen for men

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.