Gender & Society Impact Factor Increase! Highest Impact Factor Ever For The Journal!

Congratulations to Barbara Risman, Gender & Society Editor and to the Gender & Society Editorial Team and Editorial Board! Special thanks to the Reviewers, Readers, and All Supporters!

We are proud to share that Gender & Society’s Impact Factor has increased to 5.5, as compared to last year’s 4.314. This is the journal’s highest Impact Factor ever for the Journal!

This means that now Gender & Society is ranked 7/149 in the Sociology category and 2/44 in Women’s Studies! This moves the journal up thirteen spots in rank in Sociology and up one rank  position in Women’s Studies.

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About G&SGender & Society, the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, is a top-ranked journal in sociology and women’s studies and publishes less than 10% of all papers submitted to it. Articles analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal publishes empirical articles, along with reviews of books.

SWS Celebrates Dr. Ochy Curiel,  SWS 2022 Honorary Feminist Sociologist  

The Honorary Feminist Sociologist Distinction is presented annually to a feminist who is not a sociologist by training but has contributed significantly to the development of the field of feminist sociology. Established in 2021 under the leadership of then President-Elect Roberta Villalón, this initiative recognizes how the inherent interdisciplinary character of feminist theory and praxis has been fundamental to the development of feminist sociology.  The work by feminists like bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldúa, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Maria Lugones, to name just a few, has been of great influence to our field by revealing nuances and complexities of social processes from angles that sometimes escape sociological research. 

The President-Elect selects the annual recipient of the Honorary Feminist Sociologist Distinction and invites the awardee to participate at the SWS Winter Meeting to foster constructive interdisciplinary relationships among feminists who are devoted to advancing gender and sexual justice as well as dismantling intersecting systems of oppression.   

The Inaugural SWS Honorary Feminist Sociologist Distinction was awarded to Dr. Ochy Curiel in 2022. Dr. Curiel is an Afro-Dominican feminist scholar activist who has been at the forefront of decolonial movements against heteropatriarchy, racism and capitalism. During her first years as a feminist, Dr. Curiel defined herself as a feminista negra lesbiana autónoma (autonomous black lesbian feminist). She has been very critical of the role that feminism emanating from the Global North as well as within Latin America has had in reproducing racial and colonial structures within the movement by silencing the voices of feministas negras.  An anthropologist and singer songwriter, she teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia where she leads the program on Gender Studies and the Universidad Javeriana, and is part of the Batucada Feminista de Bogotá. Dr. Curiel is one of the founders of the Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formación y Acción Feminista (GLEFAS, Latin-American group of study, formation, and feminist action) born out of the necessity to articulate feminist theory with praxis and center Latin American and Caribbean feminism against hegemonic feminist narratives.  

She has numerous publications in various languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French and English, such as “Identidades esencialistas o construcción de identitdades políticas: El dilema de las feministas afrodescendientes” (Essentialist identities or the construction of political identities: The dilemma of afro descendent feminists) (2005); “Critique postcoloniale et pratiques politiques du féminisme antiraciste” (Postcolonial Critique and Political Practices of Anti Racist Feminism) (2010); La Nación Heterosexual: Análisis del discurso jurídico y al régimen heterosexual desde la antropología de la dominación (The Heterosexual Nation: Analysis of the Juridical Discourse and the Heterosexual Regime from the Anthropology of Domination) (2013); Descolonización y despatriarcalización de y desde los feminismos del Abya Yala (Decolonization and Depatriarchalization of and from the Abya Yala´s feminisms) (with Maria Galindo) (2015); “Crítica Pós-colonial a partir das práticas políticas do feminismo antiracista” (Postcolonial Critique from the political practice of antiracist feminism) (2019); The Contributions of Afro-descendant Women to Feminist Theory and Practice: Deuniversalizing the Subject “Women”” (with Ruth Pión) (2022); and “Constructing Feminist Methodologies from Decolonial Feminism” (2022), to name just a few (for more see, for example: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/browse?type=author&value=Curiel%20 Pichardo,%20Rosa%20Yn%C3%A9s%20Ochy).   

When Dr. Curiel was awarded the Inaugural Honorary Feminist Sociology Distinction at the 2022 SWS Winter Meeting, she gave a keynote that can be viewed on the SWS YouTube channel at Inaugural Honorary Feminist Sociology Distinction-Winter 2022 (in Spanish with English subtitles).Because she had been unable to travel for the 2022 meeting due to the Covid-related schedule change, Dr. Curiel joined the 2023 SWS Winter Meeting in New Orleans. Her session, “Decolonial Feminisms: An Interview with Ochy Curiel, Inaugural SWS Honorary Feminist Sociology Distinction Recipient,” was moderated by then Past President Roberta Villalón and can also be viewed at the SWS YouTube Channel at https://youtu.be/jC8xuBUj2S0 (in Spanish with English subtitles).  

SWS is honored to have been able to establish this transnational and interdisciplinary connection with Dr. Ochy Curiel, one of the most important decolonial feminists of our times.

Announcing the 2023 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Winner and Honorable Mention Awardee!

2023 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship
Award Winners Announced

Torisha Khonach is the 2023 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Award Recipient.

Tia M. Dickerson is the 2023 Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Honorable
Mention Awardee.

The Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship Award was established in 2005 to support first generation college students who began their academic careers in a community college, have faced significant obstacles, are committed to teaching, and mentoring other less privileged students, and exemplify Beth’s commitment to professional service and social justice work through activism. Beth B. Hess was a President of SWS and one of our mentoring award winners; she was also the President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and Secretary Treasurer of the American Sociological Association (ASA). These organizations join SWS in supporting the Beth B. Hess Scholar each year. Advanced graduate students in sociology at the dissertation writing stage are invited to apply. In 2023, the subcommittee, Mairead Moloney (chair), Myra Marx Ferree, Nancy Naples, Gul Aldikacti Marshall, and Sarah Bruch faced the challenge of selecting the winner. When there is more than one exceptionally strong candidate, an Honorable Mention Awardee is also selected. 

Photo of Torisha Khonach
Photo of Torisha Khonach

Learning is truly a communal experience, and Torisha has found the most encouraging and dedicated academic community. She would like to recognize her mentors, especially Drs. Dana Maher, Elizabeth Lawrence, Cassaundra Rodriguez, Barb Brents, and Fatima Suarez who have shown such earnest and passionate support. 

Torisha Khonach is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with an expected defense date in Spring 2024. Her research highlights the importance of body and embodiment in sociological analysis, which is too often overlooked, focusing on how bodies are expected to present and perform in various institutions. Torisha began her academic journey as a first-generation college student at College of the Redwoods, where she earned her A.A. in Behavioral and Social Sciences. Torisha, like many it seems, thought she was going to be a psychologist, but after taking (every) sociology course taught by Dr. Dana Maher, her trajectory in academia changed forever. 

Through her work at College of Redwoods, where she organized and coordinated safe sex workshops and sexualized violence prevention dialogues with fellow students, she was awarded the Student Leadership Award. She took her passion for social justice with her as she transferred to Cal Poly Humboldt, where she would earn her B.A. and M.A. in Sociology. She became a peer health educator focusing on consent education, a bystander intervention trainer, and a student Title IX advocate. She was also active in local queer and feminist organizations, Humboldt Pride and Humboldt Roller Derby. Her campus and community work at Cal Poly Humboldt was recognized by her department, where she earned the Sarah and James Turner award which is awarded to exemplary public sociology students. 

Torisha did not slow down after relocating to Las Vegas for graduate school at UNLV. She quickly began teaching courses and becoming involved on campus, earning various teaching and research awards and fellowships, including first place for the UNLV Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award and the UNLV Graduate Finishing Fellowship. Her teaching hinges on ensuring students feel “seen” in the classroom, where she carefully constructs her syllabus to have not only diverse content, but also diverse authors. She wants all students to feel like they belong in academia, that their voices and experiences matter. Additionally, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she once again began spending her time in the community, volunteering in the health clinic for the LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, where they offer STI testing, safe sex supplies, and supplies for safer drug use. 

Torisha’s work and activism has always centered on bodies, examining the ways bodies are central sites for technologies of power and control. Topics included sexualized violence and sports, and she now focuses on the embodiment of parenthood. 

Her dissertation examines contemporary parents’ experiences with their bodies through 40 in-depth interviews. Her participants encapsulate a range of experiences, including biological and adoptive parents, parents of all genders, and have purposefully recruited parents of diverse body sizes. Torisha argues that parents provide a unique view into how our bodies are shaped in a health-centric society through her theorization of liminal embodiment, where the identity of “parent” allows for a relaxation of body ideals for some parents and only for brief periods of time. Torisha’s goal is to emphasize how the body is an often overlooked but important axis of social control and inequality. 

Photo of Tia M. Dickerson
Photo of Tia M. Dickerson

The subcommittee is delighted to recognize Tia M. Dickerson as the 2023 Honorable Mention Awardee. Tia is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Howard University. Tia has balanced many personal challenges while also working on behalf of her peers at Howard University and while providing service to the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). The subcommittee was impressed by her important research on Black families and social inequality that is grounded and informed by her own experiences.

Tia’s dissertation research is on “mental health declines in Black people during the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest of 2020.” It draws on the theory of “vicarious racism” and “explores whether marital status provided a protective advantage for mental health declines in Black people during the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest of 2020.” 

Tia has benefited from numerous opportunities to develop her research skills outside of the university as is evident in her Internship at the Marriage Strengthening and Research Dissemination Center and training at the Columbia Population Research Center. It is especially noteworthy that she was invited to review conference proposals on minority families for the National Council on Family Relations (NCRF) and to contribute to the National Women’s Month Series for The Today Show. She has also presented her research at diverse conferences including the annual meetings of NCRF, the American Sociological Association, SSSP, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Law Enforcement and Public Health, and the Eastern Sociological Society. In addition to these significant accomplishments, she has also been invited to speak by the National Association of Counsel for Children, the National Institute of Health, Randolph-Macon College, and Alpha Kappa Delta, Beta Chapter of D.C.

One of her presentations, posted on The Sociologist’s website, featured Howard University’s “Panels of Race Relations,” and described her talk for the first colloquium entitled “Race, Pandemics and Social Response.” Her panel addressed the key questions: “How has racism affected current and prior responses to pandemics?” “What are the particular psychological as well as physical effects of the current Covid-19 crisis on people of color?” “What cultural factors affect treatment and recovery?” “What new approaches might be tried?” 

In her co-authored article on “When Crises Collide – Policing a Pandemic During Social Unrest,” she finds that differences in race, gender, and marital status impact attitudes towards “policing during periods of social unrest” offer “meaningful insights to the current discourse on police legitimacy in America.” In other papers, she addresses the important relationship between incarcerated Black mothers and the child welfare system and the ways in which race contributes to the termination of parental rights. 

The subcommittee is very excited to celebrate Torisha and Tia and look forward to following their work. 

The scholarship carries a stipend of $18,000 from SWS with travel assistance, $500 from SWS and $300 from SSSP, to be used to support future academic meeting travel, as well as one-year memberships in SWS and SSSP. SSSP will celebrate the awardees at their Annual Meeting. Recognizing Beth B. Hess’s significant contributions to the ASA, ASA joins SWS and SSSP in supporting and celebrating the awardee. ASA provides an annual membership, complimentary meeting registration and a $500 travel award to travel to the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting. As our Honorable Mention Awardee, Tia will receive a $3,500 scholarship from SWS in addition to a complimentary one-year membership and registration for the SSSP Annual Meeting. 

SWS will honor Torisha Khonach and Tia M. Dickerson and all our 2023 Summer Award recipients during our Awards Banquet which is scheduled to take place on Sunday, August 20 from 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. 

If you are interested in making a gift to support the Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship, please contact Barret Katuna, Executive Officer, at swseo.barretkatuna@outlook.com, or make a gift via this form: https://sws.memberclicks.net/donation-form.

Tackling an Accumulation of Inequities by Mindy Fried

“One thing I know is that, if we had a federal universal childcare policy in the United States, we could tackle the crisis of poverty among women across the age spectrum.
Thirty years ago, I brought my infant daughter to a meeting at the Massachusetts State House. My childcare arrangements had fallen through, so I had no choice. She snuggled against my chest as I walked from the subway up a steep hill to the meeting. In one arm, I lugged her diaper bag, with a few work papers and pen tossed inside; in the other, I held an empty bouncy chair. I felt like a parody of the woman who thinks she can do it all. But when I placed my daughter in the bouncy chair on top of the conference table, she was encircled by a group of legislators and activists. As we discussed a paid parental leave bill, my daughter reminded us what our work was about.”

Mindy Fried, SWS member and Career Development Committee Co-Chair, research article titled Tackling an Accumulation of Inequities was recently published with SAGE.

To view the full article, please visit: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042231172476

SWS Congratulates the newly elected members of the ASA leadership team and highlights SWS members in new ASA leadership roles.

ASA has announced the results of the 2023 ASA elections. 

Congratulations to the newly elected members
of the ASA leadership team.

Adia Harvey Wingfield, past SWS President and past SWS Vice President, is the 2024 President-Elect of ASA. Allison J. Pugh, University of Virginia is the 2024 Vice President-Elect of ASA. 

SWS also highlights and congratulates the following
SWS members on their new ASA roles! 

  • President-Elect: Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Committee on Committees: Sadie Pendaz-Foster, Inver Hills Community College
  • Nominating Committee: Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University
  • Publications Committee: Zakiya Luna, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Retirement Network Advisory Board: Judith A. Howard, University of Washington
  • Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity (Council Member):Candice C. Robinson, University of North Carolina Wilmington
  • Asia and Asian America (Council Members): Olivia Y. Hu, University of Pennsylvania
  • Collective Behavior and Social Movements (Council): Didem Turkoglu, Kadir Has University
  • Collective Behavior and Social Movements (Council Member, Student): Jalia Joseph, Texas A&M University
  • Collective Behavior and Social Movements (Membership, Diversity, and Inclusion): Soma Chaudhuri, Michigan State University
  • Comparative-Historical Sociology (Chair-Elect): Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Comparative-Historical Sociology (Council Members): Marisela Martinez-Cola, Morehouse College
  • Family (Chair-Elect): Liana Sayer, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Global and Transnational Sociology (Council): Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago
  • Latina/o Sociology (Chair-Elect): Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University
  • Medical Sociology (Student Representative): J’Mauri Jackson, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Organizations, Occupations, and Work (Council Members): Aliya Rao, London School of Economics
  • Peace, War, and Social Conflict (Chair-Elect): Selina Gallo-Cruz, Syracuse University
  • Race, Gender, and Class (Chair-Elect): Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Race, Gender, and Class (Council Members): Marisela Martinez-Cola, Morehouse College
  • Race, Gender, and Class (Student Council Members): Carla Salazar Gonzalez, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Student Member): Melissa Villarreal, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Science, Knowledge, and Technology (Student Representatives): Hayden Fulton, University of South Florida
  • Sociological Practice and Public Sociology (Secretary/Treasurer): Carrie Smith, Millersville University
  • Sociology of Body and Embodiment (Council Member, Student): Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon
  • Sociology of Consumers and Consumption (Chair-Elect): Amanda Koontz, University of Central Florida
  • Sociology of Education (Chair-Elect): Simone Ispa-Landa, Northwestern University
  • Sociology of Human Rights (Council): Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago
  • Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations (Secretary/Treasurer): Sofia Locklear, Western University
  • Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations (At Large Council Member): Carmela Roybal, University of New Mexico
  • Sociology of Sex and Gender (Chair-Elect): Carla A. Pfeffer, Michigan State University
  • Sociology of Sex and Gender (Secretary/Treasurer): Soma Chaudhuri, Michigan State University
  • Sociology of Sexualities (Student Representatives): Alex Eleazar, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Teaching and Learning in Sociology (Council Members): Sadie Pendaz-Foster, Inver Hills Community College

To view all the new members of the ASA leadership team, please visit: https://www.asanet.org/about/governance-and-leadership/election/.

SWS Celebrates $20,000 Gift from the Late Esther Ngan-ling Chow to Support the SWS Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Dissertation Scholarship.

Sociologists for Women in Society is pleased to announce that we received a generous donation of $20,000 from the late Dr. Esther Ngan-ling Chow. Esther’s contribution will go toward the Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Dissertation Scholarship that SWS awards on an annual basis to a woman or non-binary scholar of color who is from an underrepresented group and who is studying concerns that women of color face domestically and/or internationally or transnationally. The award aims to increase the network and participation of students and professionals of color in SWS and beyond. To read more about this award and our past awardees, please visit our website: https://socwomen.org/awards/chowgreenscholarship/

Esther Ngan-ling Chow was a well-known sociologist and professor emeritus at American University, who passed away on April 11, 2022. Esther is survived by her beloved husband, Dr. Norman Chang, her son and daughter, Paul Chang and Dr. Jennifer Grizenko, and two grandsons. She dedicated 37 years of her life to studying gender and development, work and family, social inequality, migration, and policy studies. Dr. Chow was a pioneer in the field of sociology and was recognized for her work on the intersectionality of race, class, and gender in the case of Asian American women and Asian immigrant communities. Esther was deeply devoted to her family and passionate about making a difference. She founded the True Light Foundation, which is an organization aimed at reducing poverty and increasing educational opportunities for young women in rural China.

Esther received many awards, including the SWS Feminist Activism Award (2008), SWS Mentoring Award (2000), and the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Jesse Bernard Award (2014) and published numerous works in her career as an educator, mentor, and researcher. Esther was also a Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2004, an award she personally considered her highest honor. Esther conducted field research in China and served as the Chairperson of the Asia and Asian-America Section of the ASA. She earned her degrees from universities in both Hong Kong and the United States, culminating with the receipt of her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1973.  Esther  taught in a broad range of areas at American University including gender, work and family; intersectionality of gender, race/ethnicity, class and sexuality; global migration and transnationalism and feminist methodology. .

We are incredibly grateful for this support and would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Esther Ngan-ling Chow for her generosity and commitment to our cause. With this donation, we will be able to further support the Esther Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship Fund. SWS thanks Esther’s husband, Norman Chang, for expressing to family, friends, and colleagues, how much SWS meant to Esther, and we have received numerous gifts from many who wish to honor and celebrate Esther.

If you are interested in making a gift to support the Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Dissertation Scholarship, please contact Barret Katuna, Executive Officer,
at swseo.barretkatuna@outlook.com, or make a gift via this form:
https://sws.memberclicks.net/donation-form.

Baker Rogers, SWS Member, Seeks Support for New Business, Queer Haven Books

Recently, SWS Intern, Kejsi Ruka, spoke with Baker A. Rogers about their new business: Queer Haven Books, an independent, queer bookstore in Columbia, South Carolina. Baker is a past SWS-South President and presently serves as an elected member of the SWS Nominations Committee.

Currently, there is a Kickstarter campaign to help Queer Haven Books get to their fundraising goal of $50,000. To participate in the Kickstarter campaign, please visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/queerhavenbooks/queer-haven-books.

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background?

I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of our Masters and Social Sciences program at Georgia Southern University. I live in Columbia, South Carolina. I moved here twelve years ago and I saw the need for more space for queer communities. Especially in the South, there’s a need for more spaces, but I was young and couldn’t really do anything. I wanted to open a gay bar, but now that I’m back here and a little older, there’s even more of a need for queer space, and actually a lot of lesbian bars have closed down. There are two gay bars now that are left, so I wanted to open a more inclusive queer space and I didn’t want it to be a bar because queer people need other places to hang out. Based on my background in education and sociology and inequality, I decided this would be where I could use my skills to provide education and books and things like that to the community, but also to create a queer space in the South.

What inspired you to open this business? Can you tell us a little bit about Queer Haven Books and how you got things started? 

What inspired me is I grew up in South Carolina and have always felt that there weren’t any queer spaces. It’s getting better in South Carolina, like we’re now getting physicians and surgeons who focus on trans people, but that’s very recent and we still are lacking queer space. I decided to start Queer Haven Books and I incorporated it and wrote a business plan the first week in April. I have just been promoting it as much as possible and we have the online store up and running. We’re doing events, there’s a local NoMa Flea where they have a warehouse where local artists do a lot of their work and sell their work, and every Friday night they have an event, a flea market and so we’re selling there. We’re going to the South Carolina Pride Outfest, and will be at Prides in Rock Hill, South Carolina and Asheville, North Carolina, and we’re going to be at some other things in Charleston and Greenville.

So we’re all around the South right now, selling and trying to raise money. But most importantly what we’re doing now is our Kickstarter Campaign. We’re trying to raise $50,000 and that’s a lot. A Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing platform, so if we don’t make it to $50,000 we don’t get any of it. Right now, we’re a little over $9,000 so we have a long way to go. So we really need as many donors as possible and hopefully some big donors will come through. The Kickstarter would be enough to get us off the ground, get us in a brick-and-mortar building, and get us started for the first year until we can make some profit to get the business running. That’s kind of where we are. It’s mid-May and it’s been a month and a half of crazy, but I’m really excited about it.

What are your aspirations for the bookstore? What types of programming are you hoping to have?

A big part of it is education and selling books, but then a big part of it is community and helping and giving back to the community. So right now, we’re selling books. We’re going to have a coffee shop so it will be more communal. And in the evenings, we are going to use that space for programming and things. Right now, we’re thinking about queer book clubs, sex positive education classes, and any other support groups that really need a space to meet. The Harriet Hancock Center in Columbia is a great resource and they have a lot of support groups, so we don’t want to be overlapping services, we just want to create extra space because one place is just not enough space. I’ve talked with some people trying to open a nonprofit in Atlanta that would provide trans and queer counseling services, so eventually I would love to have counselors, HIV testing, even physicians or nurses to provide care surrounding the business. I would like to partner with different people to have certain services, as well, which would be further down the road. That’s an aspiration for sure.

How have you curated your book collection?

Right now it’s small, because it’s all in my house and we don’t have a budget, so we’ve been curating largely through a lot of things I’ve read that I love, some classic books, some academic books that I know of because of what I do. Also, I have a young daughter and so the books that I read to her are kind of where my curation of my children’s section comes from. We have lots of queer children’s books around the house so that’s where I started. Also, people are now emailing me, asking if we can carry their books. People are emailing me telling me books we should carry. Lots of people have sent me lists they think we should carry, so I have a very long list for once we get funding, and I’m sure we’ll keep growing. It’s really interesting because people are surprised, even some queer people are like, “How could you open a queer bookstore?” and they saw us at the NoMa flea last Friday and they’re like, “I thought there would only be five or ten queer books.” I said, “Yes, we still need a lot more, but there are thousands of queer books out there.” So, just spreading the word that this literature is there; we just need to read it and support queer authors.

Is there anything else you would like the SWS membership to know about you and this project/business?

We need support. I know that SWS members understand that feminist and queer spaces have been lacking, and we’d appreciate any support to get this business up and running, in the South especially. To think, in 2023 alone there have been over 540 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills proposed. So, it’s a time when this space and resource is needed more than ever, and we need the feminist community’s support.

Donate to the Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/queerhavenbooks/queer-haven-books.

For more information on Queer Haven Books, please visit: https://queerhavenbooks.com.

On social media, follow @queerhavenbooks on Instagram and Facebook.

To learn more about Baker Rogers, visit their website: https://bakerarogers.com/.

Virtual Social Hour – Tri-Sponsored by SWS, SSSP, ABS

VIRTUAL SOCIAL HOUR

Date:  July 12, 2023

Time: 1:30 – 3:00 pm EDT

Registration Link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuceiurj8jH9FnKFQjVvkT_9J5O0maF7gE

Our goal for the conversation is to highlight the synergy/collaborative spirit across the three organizations to set the path for future collaborations. This event will serve as a space for members from our organizations to get to know each other, learn more about the organizations, and make some connections before getting together in Philadelphia for the August meetings.

Hosted by:

Association of Black Sociologists – Loren Henderson, Executive Officer

Society for the Study of Social Problems – Elroi J. Windsor, Executive Officer

Sociologists for Women in Society- Barret Katuna, Executive Officer

Registration link: https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuceiurj8jH9FnKFQjVvkT_9J5O0maF7gE#/registration