Gender Division SSSP Newsletter November 2022 ​ Letter from the Chair Greetings Gender Division Members! I hope everyone is doing great and your semesters are wrapping up well! I enjoyed seeing so many of you at the annual meeting in Los Angeles. We had several great sessions on the program that inspired exciting conversations and collaborations. We connected with existing friends and made new ones. I even got to celebrate my birthday in LA with an invigorating Division Chair meeting where we finalized our sessions for the 2023 meeting, followed by a quick walk on the beach and dinner in Santa Monica. It was a great meeting overall and I loved becoming more involved in SSSP! We are now gearing up for our next meeting in Philadelphia, August 18-20, 2023. This year’s theme Same Problem, Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems, with President Shirley A. Jackson, is sure to resonate with our gender division members, given ongoing problems of gender discrimination, racism, reproductive justice, and more. I hope that everyone who can travel to the meetings will attend! We have several sessions planned that we hope will bring together students, activists, academics, and others who are interested in working toward productive social change. We created different types of sessions – paper sessions, critical dialogues, and roundtables – to be sure to create a space for everyone. I hope you will join us! Finally, we are STILL in need of ONE MORE NOMINATION for Division Chair. My term ends at the 2023 meeting, and we need at least 2 candidates to hold an election, per SSSP bylaws. I can assure you that the work of the division chair is very clear and that the administrative staff are incredibly helpful and efficient. The organization itself is run very smoothly, making the role of Division Chair a rewarding experience! The roles and responsibilities of division chairs are clearly outlined on the website. I am also very happy to talk with anyone who is considering the role. Please feel free to self-nominate or to nominate someone who you think would do a great job! This is a great way to gain leadership experience while advancing gender justice. I look forward to working with everyone over the next year and hopefully connecting in person at the 2023 meeting in Philadelphia! Warm Regards, Shannon K. Carter She/her Professor and Associate Chair University of Central Florida Department of Sociology 2023 Annual Meeting Same Problem, Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems Led by Dr. Shirley A. Jackson, SSSP President 2022-2023, Portland State University The Call for Papers is now open here! There are a variety of sessions from both our committee and others that are open for proposals. We are also pleased to announce the 2023 Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards. Non-graduate students are encouraged to submit papers for the 2023 Outstanding Article Award. For the 2023 award, the division will consider peer-reviewed articles published between 2021-2023. Papers may be empirical and/or theoretical and may be on any aspect of gender, broadly defined. The winner will receive a cash award of $50 and will be featured in the division newsletter. Gender Sessions in the 2023 Meeting * Gender Surveillance and Drug Use * Are Bathrooms Enough: Addressing LGBTQIA Issues in Higher Education * Gender and the Environment * CRITICAL DIALOGUE: From Roe to Dobbs: The Far-Reaching Impacts of Gaining and Losing the Right to Sexual Privacy * Gendered Violence * PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Gender and Representations in Mass Media, Social Media, and Digital Media * PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Research on Gender, Sexuality, Sports, Leisure and/or the Body * Gender and Work * Gender, Sexuality, and the Law * Black Feminist Theory, Practice, and Activism: Connecting Past and Present-THEMATIC Member Accomplishments & Publications Dr. Diana Therese M. Veloso was reappointed as the Program Coordinator of the Master of Health Social Science program of De La Salle University in the Philippines, for the next two years. She was also elected Secretary of the Board of Directors of Philippine Sociological Society. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Digest. On November 22, 2022, Dr. Veloso gave a presentation titled "Gendered Pathways to Prison: The Experiences of Women Formerly on Death Row in the Philippines," at the Symposium on Prisons, Punishment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia in Bangkok, Thailand. Her talk was based on her book chapter bearing the same title in the book Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia (2022), edited by Andrew M. Jefferson and Samantha Jeffries and published by Emerald. Meghna Bhat, PhD, a SSSP member, has been awarded the 2022 Seeding Creativity Art Grant from the City of Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture. She is one of the 45 recipients of a $10,000 grant to create a multidisciplinary art project during the one year grant period. Inspired by gender, immigrant, and health justice-- Dr. Bhat will be launching a curated storytelling initiative about healing centered on those who identify as women, non-binary, transgender or gender fluid within the larger South Asian diaspora communities. She is an independent gender and social justice consultant, interdisciplinary scholar and trained storyteller, and a member of the SSSP Anti-Harassment Committee and the Gender Division. Stephanie M. House-Niamke (she/her) is a third year Ph.D. student at West Virginia University. She just completed her MA thesis titled, "'Where Does Your Christ Come From?' Exploring the Significance and Prevalence of the White Jesus Phenomenon Among Black Baptist Women and Men. She will be expanding on this topic for her dissertation. New Publications Gross, Nora. 2022. “#LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416221105869 Gross, Nora, Charlotte Jacobs, Rekha Marar, and Adam Lewis. 2022. “’This School is Too Diverse’: Fragile Feelings Among White Boys at Elite Independent Schools.” Whiteness and Education. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2022.2072758 Halpin, M. (2022). “Weaponized subordination: How incels discredit themselves to degrade women.” Gender & Society, 36, 813-837. For any future news, announcements, or to celebrate your accomplishments, please email Newsletter Editor, Isabel Geisler (geisler.i@northeastern.edu).