Public Scholarship

What Sociologists Can Tell Us About Americans’ Response to COVID-19, f magazine (interview), 2020

“If we look to past and present examples of mutual aid, we see that there is more than enough to go around as we wait in vain for a more competent and humanistic response from the U.S. government,”

What About Them: Gender-Based Violence and Prison Abolition, Center for the Study of Women, 2019

“Prison abolition through Black feminist analysis, then, does not just address how we can stop the construction of new prisons and jails, but instead begins well before that. The systems that enable gender-based violence are upheld on both sides of the bars, by those inside and outside these institutions.”

Why Black Women Organizers Need to Care for Themselves and Each Other — and How They Can Do It, Scholar Strategy Network, 2018

“To cope with routine problems and extra stressors, the Black women organizers I interviewed used ingenious forms of self-care and collective-care. Lessons from their efforts can inform the efforts of other organizers dealing with similar challenges.”

Who Teaches Academics to Theorize?, Inside Higher Ed, 2018

"In addition to racism, heterosexism, ableism and queer antagonism, we often ignore anyone without an academic credential."

Divestment from private prisons and fossil fuels can work, The Hill, 2016

"Two powerful student movements are joining forces with calls for divestment, focusing on two calamities that threaten their future security: mass incarceration and climate change."

#MasculinitySoFragile: An Essay (pdf), ASA Sex and Gender Newsletter, November 2015

"When I first started the hashtag #MasculinitySoFragile on Twitter in September, I was not thinking about public sociology. After reading a post from the Twitter user FeministaJones about the violence men inflict on women when their egos are bruised, the tweets flew."