Same-Sex Marriage Is the Law of the Land. Some States Are Debating It Anyway. State efforts to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider same-sex marriage have not advanced, but they have reopened the issue.

We knew this was coming— it's in Project 2025.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

South bend, IN showing up today!

Send This John Oliver Segment to Anyone Still Confused About Trans Athletes It's the most thoughtful, fact-based explanation you'll find about what's really happening in women's sports

"This weekend, John Oliver did something surprisingly rare in mainstream media: he dedicated 42 minutes to a thoughtful, well-researched segment on transgender athletes in sports that cut through the hysteria and political opportunism dominating this conversation.
www.readtpa.com/p/send-this-...

Hands Off! South Bend rally making USA Today news!

'We need to raise our voices': Thousands protest Trump actions in local 'Hands Off!' rally The protest was one of 1,200 similar rallies taking place around the country on Saturday, April 5.

Wow! So many people marching in South Bend. We're not used to this. It's usually 20 people milling around at an anti-abortion rally.
www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/2...

Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the…

This weekend will see the largest protest day of Trump's second term with hundreds of marches in neighborhoods across the country. #HandsOff #April5
Finds yours here: handsoff2025.com

What American views of marriage and divorce in the context of having children?
@gaylekaufman.bsky.social & @drcompton.bsky.social tell us @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @thesocietypages.bsky.social

Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/03/...

Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium Guildhall School of Music and Drama is delighted to announced that on the 8th July, in collaboration with the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence [TVCE], the De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice an...

The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...
Deadline for submissions 28th April

#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT

More ND postdoc opportunities!
The Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focusing on multiracial democracy. See below for detail and link to apply

apply.interfolio.com/164233

Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships Resources, guides, and key information for Art & Letters faculty and staff

Very nice new postdoctoral gigs just posted at ND! $75K + research funds, low teaching. This year they're running it in Art, Art History, & Design; Film, Television, & Theatre; Sociology; History; German, Slavic, & Eurasian Studies; and the Medieval Institute. alresources.nd.edu/resources/pr...

Check out this coverage of our colleague @abiocobock.bsky.social's new book, Marriage Material, on The Society Pages: thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/02/...

Today is the day. Yes it’s just a small act but it’s a start. Money is power. Don’t spend yours today.

Educators Sue to Challenge Trump Administration's Efforts to Weaponize Civil Rights Laws, Attack Educational Programs and Student Opportunities - Democracy Forward

The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Yes, so many myths and stereotypes!

Shifts in Gender and Sexual Identities in the U.S., 2024 Update Every year since 2013, Gallup has released new data on the size and composition of the LGBTQ+ identifying population in the U.S. As in previous years, the 2024 data continue to reveal interesting t…

@tristanbridges.bsky.social has written on recent sexual identity data from Gallup. Again we see bisexuals (esp. young women) leading the growth in LGBTQ identification. I’m starting a new qualitative project on bisexuality. Would love to connect/collaborate w. others! Who else is working on this?!

Abigail Ocobock's "Marriage Material" Abigail Ocobock is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” to her new book, Mar...

I was invited to take part in the P. 99 test for my book. “Open the book to p.99 and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” Check it out!

When filmed this, I was in the thick of book writing. Now, here we are, just months out from publication. I totally manifested that 2025 release date 🙌🏾

Idaho Republicans file resolution to repeal marriage equality They want to return to a so-called “natural definition” of marriage as between one man and one woman.

"Idaho Republican legislators have introduced a resolution on Tuesday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 decision that established marriage equality nationwide."

Did you register for the next WFRN.bsky.social Virtual Plenary? Coming soon! Going Back? Gender, Work, and Family in 2025 focuses on the stalled/unfinished gender revolution in the public and private spheres. Held on January 24 or 25, depending on your time zone. wfrn.org/news/registe...

Well, that didn’t take long.

Republicans in Idaho want to go back to a time before marriage equality, filing a resolution challenging Obergefell.
www.advocate.com/politics/ida...

Thanks to Chris Julian for this graphic and our latest on how (unsurprisingly) queer folks are not that different from everyone else and want same and similar things out of life and family. Data is from the American Marriage Survey with @gaylekaufman.bsky.social. Image inspired by Reviewer 2.

Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships – review Marriage Material by Abigail Ocobock explores the transformative impact of same-sex couples on the institution of marriage in 21st-century America. Drawing on interviews and survey data, Ocobock ef…

Appreciate this review of my book from the LSE.

Prince William’s Chat With Trump Shows Why Royals May Be Potent Diplomatic Tool President-elect Donald J. Trump has a reverence, bordering on awe, for the royal family. British diplomats hope that will help safeguard relations with Washington in a fractious political climate.

Is this what it’s come to? The royalty as soft power?! I might have to become a royalist after all 🤪

In which the rate of social change outpaces social legibility. Keep up people!!

The Problem With the Government’s Pansexual Pride Day Post Federal agencies should address the public in language that most Americans understand.

“However broadly one defines the ambit of HHS, Americans should at least agree on this much: The state should address the public in words that are legible to most citizens, rather than using the obscure jargon of any subculture,” Conor Friedersdorf writes:

Michigan GOP lawmaker insists banning gay marriage is ‘not remotely controversial’ Public polling suggests about 70 percent of Americans agree same-sex marriage should be legally protected

He is plain stupid. But public opinion, law & legitimacy are not neatly connected. When same-sex marriage became legal in MA a majority still opposed it. I found LGBTQ people leveraged the legitimacy of law to change opinion. Now they could lose legal rights even with public opinion support.

Check out my awesome colleagues and their new pub in ASR on racial inequality and math. @ndsociology.bsky.social
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Hi! I’m a sociologist of sexualities, gender, and families at the University of Notre Dame. Recently published book on how access to legal marriage has changed same-sex relationships. Launching new longitudinal study on growth of bisexual identification among young women.