SocImages News:

Phew. What a month.

• Thanks to The Conversation for asking me to expand a post I wrote about the sexism and xenophobia behind Dylann Roof’s murders. Their version was picked up by the Washington Post, where it was re-posted, attracting over 500 comments.
• June’s roller coaster of events inspired two new SocImages Collections on the fight for same-sex marriage and white men’s violence. See them all on our Instructors Page.
• We got to put up this beautiful map.

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

• I am a white woman. No more murder in my name (1,500+ likes)
• Millennials are no less racist than Generation X (and hardly less racist than Boomers) (1,200+ likes)
• Why it was easy for Rachel Dolezal to pass as black (1,000+ likes)
• Powerful people are sensitive to injustice, but mostly when they are its victims (700+ likes)
• Child pageants and the performance of gender (700+ likes)
• The iron cage in binary code: How Facebook shapes your life chances (650+ likes)
• Buy a Joe Strummer replica guitar with your Sex Pistols credit card because layers upon layers of irony (550+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• Animal cultures and new questions of conservation

Top post on Tumblr this month:

With over 15,000 likes and shares, I’m so happy to be helping bring awareness to this issue. At Tumblr, this month’s top post: Defensive architecture aimed at the homeless as a deliberate, considered kind of cruelty.

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.

Finally…

Bye-bye June 2015; we’ll remember you forever.