Adora Svitak
@adorasv.bsky.social
Writer & PhD candidate in Sociology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale
Invasive “sex-testing” exams hurt all kids hoping to play school sports. www.thecut.com/article/wash...
The Push to Force Genital Exams on Student Athletes
In just a few months, Washington could become the first state to require sex-verification tests for girls playing sports in K–12 schools.
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If you're attending #SSSP2026 / #ASA2026 come to Anti-Capitalist Feminisms, co-sponsored by the ASA sections on Sex & Gender and Marxist Sociology. Aug. 8, 10:30am-12:10pm. Details on the Sex & Gender section site: asasexandgender.wordpress.com/asa/
If you'll be in New York this August, come check out my panel on Anti-Capitalist Feminisms, hosted at #SSSP2026 and co-sponsored by the ASA sections on Sex & Gender and Marxist Sociology. Aug. 8, 10:30am-12:10pm. Details on the Sex & Gender section site: asasexandgender.wordpress.com/asa/
“One year after my daughter’s birth, I still begin most days in a body I no longer fully recognize,” Sejal Hathi writes.
Opinion | The Medical System Abandons Women When They Are Most Vulnerable
One year after my daughter’s birth, I’m still experiencing health complications.
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“An internal West Point study from this time found that at least forty female cadets had been visited by late-night intruders. Brass responded to these numbers with relief. ‘I thought it was more than that!’”
The Last Class with Balls | Jasper Craven
The 1976 integration of women into the military service academy system landed a direct blow to the heart of America’s most elite masculine enterprise.
thebaffler.com
Summer workshop for undergraduates interested in promoting public intellectual life, application due Fri (no letter of rec required!) Tell your students - www.publicthinking.thepointmag.com/apply
Apply — Public Thinking
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
"The current anti-trans movement claims to defend women from trans people—but in practice it has begun to quietly dismantle the doctrinal edifice built to protect all women from discrimination." www.nybooks.com/articles/202... by @paisleycurrah.com
The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah
The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.
nybooks.com
I reviewed @lalouverouge.bsky.social 's excellent Solidarity With Children in Blind Field Journal. Please check it out and give this important book a read! blindfieldjournal.com/2025/11/18/r...
Review: Solidarity with Children
By Adora Svitak One of my keenest sensory memories from childhood is of having a sound technician’s hand between my waist and my pantyhose. The sound technician was always male, between 20-70, with…
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest. “If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?" She's calling for new measures to end harassment www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Mexico's president was groped on the street. Now she's waging war on rampant sexual harassment
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president, is pushing measures against sexual harassment after she was groped by a stranger on the street.
latimes.com
*CALL FOR PAPERS* Due Dec 1 Gametic Politics: Eggs, Sperm, and Gender/Sex in the 21st Century A Workshop for Early-Career Researchers organized by Rene Almeling & Sarah Richardson April 16-17, 2026 at Yale University Details and application form here: www.renealmeling.com/gametic-poli...
Gametic Politics Workshop
Call for papers for social science and humanities scholars studying eggs, sperm, and gender/sex in the 21st century
renealmeling.com
"A government that demands that we not recognize the complexity of sex stops academic inquiry in its tracks."
AAUP@aaup.org · 11mo ago“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.” — Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
“We can learn and adapt. We did so after the country shifted away from leaded gasoline and asbestos. Forever chemicals are no different, just the next line item in a long list of miracle materials that turned out to be more curse than cure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans
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Heteropessimism is having a pop culture moment. I wrote about it in my new paper out today in @culsoc.bsky.social ! Please give it a read: doi.org/10.1177/1749... Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!
Reading Heteropessimism: Painful Attachments in Contemporary Literary Fiction - Adora Svitak, 2025
From viral threads describing male partners’ incompetence at grocery shopping to TV shows like Fleabag, heteropessimism abounds in popular culture. Contemporary...
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