My latest article in American Sociological Review: “The Culture of Censorship.” It offers a rare window into how China’s state censorship shapes global film production. I developed a micro-sociological model of censorship and coined the term 'complicit creativity.' A🧵
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We are hosting a panel discussion on trans health & STS on April 12th! Feel free to drop by!

The world is a very ugly place these days and I question whether academic work has any impact at all. But, I wrote this piece hoping to understand and improve trans women's access to medical care, especially when they live with HIV. Soc Sci & Medicine sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out this Special Issue: Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 129, No 3 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… with: Raewyn Connell Raka Ray Dr. Rhacel Parrenas Maria Hwang Adia H Wingfield Celeste Watkins-Hayes Celene Reynolds Kathleen Gerson

Coming back here for a bit of shameless self-promotion, because I just learned my book is available for pre-order!! press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Check it out to learn how local contexts are shaping the rightward turn in postindustrial cities @princetonu

My article on jiashu 家属 in the Mao era is out. It explains what has changed and what has not regarding gendered “reproductive” labor under state socialism. I dedicated it to Xiaohong Xu, my friend and fellow researcher in critical studies of the Chinese Revolution.

Congratulations Heng! I look forward to reading it!

Excited to share that my article, “The Culture of Censorship,” was just accepted at American Sociological Review.

In it, I develop a micro-sociological model of censorship and coin the term “complicit creativity.” I’m so grateful to everyone who provided comments and helped me think it through.

(35) Happy to share a new paper where I suggest a typology for the different 'positions' education reformers take on.

I show a visual below and you can check it out open access at bit.ly/JET_035

I’m excited to share that my research on judicial interpretations of gender identity has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies! (Center for Applied Transgender Studies) I examine how judges are interpreting and constructing trans identity. Check it out: bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/2/3-4/…

So happy about this first major pub from our FHAM Project on lgbtq youth and housing stability!

Happy to share a book chapter published in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning today, where I discuss the sociotechnical condition of machine learning deployment in Chinese social credit systems.
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It's much much worse than the headline. It's catastrophic for Florida universities. Note that the law would block *anyone* including US citizens who have been employed in China for over 1 year. New Florida law blocks Chinese students from academic labs | Science | AAAS…

Rest in Peace, 晓宏😢