Negotiating Your First Academic Job Offer: What to Ask For and How to Do It

It’s an exciting moment, but before you sign on the dotted line, there’s one crucial step left: negotiation.

The Hidden Curriculum: What They Don’t Tell You About Surviving Grad School

Post-Tenure Life, Entry 4 - Taking More Intellectual Risks: The Projects I’m Working on Now

One special gift of tenure? The freedom to explore new topics.

Being Called “Ugly” Multiple Times and My Reflections on Sexual Capital

These moments reveal the deep fragility and vulnerability that live inside so many of us.

Why Saying No Is Harder Than We Think — From Disability Workshops to Gay Bathhouses

I know this because I’m a people pleaser. I have been for most of my life.

The Beauty of Being a Sociologist in a School of Medicine

The beauty of being a sociologist in a school of medicine is precisely this: the chance to stand at a crossroads, to bring different worlds together.

The Challenges of Bringing Disability Scholarship Beyond Disability Studies Journals

It is important to bring our work to places where it is less expected.

Living Academia as a Mad Scholar: Embracing the Highs, the Lows, and Everything in Between

I love what I do, but my mind and body don’t always cooperate in the ways academia expects.

From Weird Warts to Freudian Slips: The Unfiltered Life of a Sexualities Scholar

Let's be honest: Being a sexualities scholar is also hilarious.

The Joys and Challenges of Editing a Book or Special Issue (and Why I Might’ve Waited to Start)

Let me be real: it’s also a lot of work.

The Beauty of Recognizing Each Other’s Work

Your words might be exactly what other scholars need to keep going.

Less Pressure, More Pleasure: “Cripping” the Ways We Think About Sex

I want us to talk about this pressure. The pressure to perform. The pressure to be and remain “hard.” The pressure to “finish.” The pressure to not “ruin the mood.” The pressure to be enough.