Roberta S. Pamplona

My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.

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My book with @dukepress.bsky.social is now available for pre-order! Use coupon code E26JCMGZ to save 30%! www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...

In this collective conversation at @sexandsexualities.bsky.social, Jyoti Puri, Sa’ed Atshan, Zine Magubane, and I discussed the intersections of empire, race, sexuality, and gender in history and in the present.

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The Cannes prize for Best Director goes to Kleber Mendonça Filho for ‘THE SECRET AGENT’

Congrats to @robertaspamplona.bsky.social of @uoft.bsky.social ‪for co-winning LSA’s 2025 Graduate Student Paper Prize for “Reframing Feminist Ideas, Challenging State Incorporation: Activism Against Violence and the Feminicidio Law in Brazil”!

View all winners here: bit.ly/LSAAwards2025

The Culture of Censorship: State Intervention and Complicit Creativity in Global Film Production - Jun Fang, 2024 How does state censorship shape global creative production? To explore the merger of art and the state in a global context, I adopt a micro-sociological approac...

Excited to share that I’ve won the 2025 Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article from the ASA Sociology of Culture Section. I'm grateful to the award committee for this honor, and to my intellectual community whose constructive feedback helped shape the piece.

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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

FREE TO READ THROUGH APRIL 30

"Nepo Babies and the Myth of Meritocracy" by Jordan Foster and Michelle Maroto (@mmaroto.bsky.social) is free to read now through April 30.

Read the article at doi.org/10.1080/0038...

#OSCARS

I hope Brazil will make history tonight.

In Memoriam

Mala Htun (1969-2025)

Mala Htun made a major impact on the study of women, gender, and politics as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and advocate. To honor her contributions, we have ungated access to her articles until the end of February 2025.

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Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code Government plans to remove legal recognition of gender-based killings in latest attack on women’s rights

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sim, mas no filme que ele foi indicado é justamente para ser uma crítica a isso. não foi a mesma coisa

Ao assumir identidade de “homem trabalhador” desde cedo, jovens periféricos sacrificam parte da juventude Pesquisa demonstra como a construção das masculinidades nas periferias brasileiras se relaciona com questões familiares, econômicas e de segurança pública

Legal demais ver a tese circulando! Saiu ontem no Jornal da USP :)
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New research article out now — open-access — in Social Forces, co-authored with @tomasgold.bsky.social.

“A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013-2018)”

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thanks 🥹

@uoftsociology.bsky.social

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My article is out in Gender & Society (open access)! Through a case study of Brazil's #Feminicídio Law, I challenge the idea that institutionalization necessarily depoliticizes feminist ideas and show how activists reframed this category for new political goals:
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Fernanda Torres has won Best Actress in a Drama Film at the #GoldenGlobes  for ‘IM STILL HERE’

See the full winners list: bit.ly/GlobeWins25

lol i should have known

O MOMENTO EM QUE VIOLA DAVIS DIZ "FERNANDA TORRES"

#GoldenGlobes

yessss! a fernanda torres won a golden globe for I’m still here, the movie based on a book about the military dictatorship in brazil ✨

Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

"The study is impressive in its scale...cases and deaths dropped by more than 50% and in the Indigenous population the drop was even more dramatic: more than 60%."

Nature Medicine study shows the effects of Bolsa Familia strongest in Black and Indigenous populations

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After 50 successful years, Feminist Studies faculty vote to disestablish the formal department, making way for more wide-ranging feminist scholarship across campus Feminist Studies faculty and staff are committed to helping current students enrolled in the department's programs earn their degrees

For those of us who think about the institutional life of women's/gender/sexuality studies, this is interesting (and, I think, sad) news: news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/femi...

For the Children: Attitudes Toward Marriage and Divorce in the United States The deinstitutionalization of marriage suggests more support for divorce and the forgoing of marriage. In this study, we examine attitudes toward both marriage and divorce in the context of having ...

📣 New pub! With @drcompton.bsky.social and students Shuo Meng and Keya Zhou. Most Americans do not think people should get/stay married 'for the kids' and moreso among women and queer folks. Open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social #Sociology Read it here:
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