Category Archives: Gender and Sexuality

Out of My Habitus – “I’m Just Saying”: Students who “debate you” and undermine you through racial and gendered performances of “smartness”

Posted on May 2, 2013 by khsu

By Juan Portillo If you’re a TA or professor, this has probably happened to you: a student in class challenges something you are teaching and ends their spiel by saying: “I’m just saying…,” leaving the ball in your court. For … Continue reading →

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Feeling the Body: Embodying Sociology at the CWGS Conference

Posted on March 25, 2013 by amias

Recently, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies hosted a productive and stimulating academic conference entitled “The Feeling Body.”  With the emerging attention the body and affect are receiving in research, this was a great chance for graduate students across disciplines … Continue reading →

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Scouting and Homosexuality : A Case for the Gender Police?

Posted on February 7, 2013 by amias

  Over the past few weeks, the Boy Scouts of America’s policy on gay Scouts and Scoutmasters has been featured heavily in the news.  I am an Eagle Scout who studies masculinity here at the Sociology department and thus feel … Continue reading →

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Opening the Blinds: A Convesation with Juan Portillo

Posted on November 30, 2012 by amias

In the final part of our series looking at the “Opening the Blinds” panel – dealing with the experiences of students of color here at UT and previously highlighted here and here – we offer a conversation between Juan Portillo, … Continue reading →

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Clips from Opening the Blinds: Talking Race, Sex and Class at UT-Austin

Posted on November 20, 2012 by khsu

by Kevin Hsu and Evelyn Porter Panelists: Marianna Anaya, Mexican American Studies and Radio, Television and Film junior, member of La Colectiva Femenil Marleen Villanueva, Spanish senior, member of La Colectiva Femenil Juan Portillo, PhD student in Sociology Rocio Villalobos, … Continue reading →

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Better Know A Sociologist: 10 Questions with Christine Williams

Posted on October 23, 2012 by amias

Here at the UT Sociology Blog, we strive to find new and interesting ways to expose the people and research in our department.  To that end, we present to you “Better Know A Sociologist,” where we ask 10 general questions … Continue reading →

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Timely Sociology: Gay Rights at the Ballot Box

Posted on October 3, 2012 by amias

On Tuesday evening, Dr. Amy L. Stone, assistant professor of sociology at Trinity University, gave a reading and discussion of her recently released book Gay Rights at the Ballot Box at Bookwoman, one of the many vibrant independent bookstores here … Continue reading →

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ASA 2012 Visions of Graduate Student Utopias

Posted on September 17, 2012 by porterem

UT Austin citizens past and present: Dana Britton (Professor, Rutgers), Christine Williams, (Chair, UT Sociology), Kirsten Dellinger (Chair, Univ of Mississippi), Jeff Jackson (Assoc Prof, Univ of Mississippi), Kumiko Nemoto (Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University), and Patti Giuffre (Professor, Texas … Continue reading →

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Sociology of Ghosts

Posted on August 18, 2012 by khsu

ASA Session on Visual Sociology. ‘Representing Social Invisibility: Aesthetics of the Ghostly in Rebecca Belmore’s Named and Unnamed’ (Margaret Tate, The University of Texas at Austin); ‘Visual Representations of Abu Ghraib: Fashionable Torture, Gender and Images of Homoerotic Power’ (Ryan … Continue reading →

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UT Sociology graduate students talk research and ASA

Posted on August 17, 2012 by porterem

By Jessica Sinn, College of Liberal Arts Published: Aug. 16 More than 80 professors, students and alumni will showcase their work at the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) annual meeting Aug. 17-20 in Denver, Colorado. This year’s conference theme, “Real Utopias,” will … Continue reading →

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