What if being trans is about pursuing gender euphoria? – Gender & Society
Figure 1 – woman holding a trans flag. Photograph by Flickr user Ted Eytan. By Kai W. McKinney with David G. Ortiz When I came out as transgender in 2012, …
Attending Church Encourages Acceptance of Atheists? No, It’s a Suppression Effect
iStockPhoto // DanHenson1 by Paul A. Djupe, Amanda J. Friesen, Anand E. Sokhey, and Jacob R. Neiheisel | September 2, 2025 Does attending church encourage greater acceptance of atheists? In …
Conflict Theory and the Design of Migrant Housing
Migrant labor sustains U.S. agriculture. It is essential and constant. Yet the people who do the work remain hidden. That invisibility is not just social. It is spatial. Employers tuck …
The Body in Extremist White Supremacy
The Body in Extremist White Supremacy[1] Sociology has not taken bodies seriously. This is well documented.[2] But it’s especially so in scholarship of the far right – and that’s even …
HBCU Women’s Gender Strategies for Heterosexuality – Gender & Society
By Mercedez Dunn-Gallier At Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the emerging Black middle class is schooled in respectability. These are codes of conduct for “acceptable” behavior that HBCUs expect …
Hidden viruses in our DNA could be medicine’s next big breakthrough
You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8 percent of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a …
Steroids are everywhere on social media – but how dangerous are they?
South_agency/Getty Images If you have swiped through fitness-related content on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok lately, chances are that an influencer on your feed has taken steroids. A recent global meta-study …
Human ancestors braved England’s ice-covered northlands 440,000 years ago
How exactly ancient toolmakers survived the harsh conditions remains a mystery
A bioengineered protein may someday treat carbon monoxide poisoning
An antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning could come from bacteria. Mice treated with a tweaked version of a bacterial protein rapidly cleared carbon monoxide from their blood, safely eliminating it …
Overworked neurons burn out and fuel Parkinson’s disease
Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are constantly overactivated for weeks on end, they degenerate and ultimately die. This …