Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️🌈
@aliciamwalker1.bsky.social
Sociology prof & author: Sexuality, relationships/behavior/identity gender; qual; Co-Chair CCF; editor CCF blog; Psych Today blogger🩷💜💙 #Resist #AcademicSky #Dateline #Sociology #sexresearch
E4 of The Challenge is live, and so are we! Tune in as we discuss all the drama and the really important questions, like: Is polidicking sex work? 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/25pw...
Season 42, Episode 4 - Is Polidicking Sex Work? | The Challenge Recap
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One of our listeners proclaimed us as one of their favorite Challenge podcasts. Check us out; maybe we'll be YOUR new favorite too! S42E3 This Ends Your Time on the Challenge open.spotify.com/episode/0wVB...
S42 of the Challenge is here, and our podcast is back in action! Give us a listen/follow! 🔗👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2u0e...
Season 42, Episode 1 - Fuck Yeah, Cutthroat II! (Zoomcast) | The Challenge Recap
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Okay everybody! It's official! New book comes out in December. It's about the value of sociology to science, with a case study following college students who return to school in person during Covid armed with top notch biomedical resources. Available for preorder! #asa2026 #newbook @wwnorton.com
I'm beyond pleased and humbled to have won the Early Career Scholar award from the Sexualities section of ASA. This award honors an exceptional early-career scholar for significant contributions to the sociological study of sexualities through research, teaching, service, and community building.
Any of my ASA friends leaving on Sunday around noon and want to split an Uber/cab to La Guardia? LMK #ASA2026
Any of my ASA friends leaving on Sunday around noon and want to split an Uber/cab to La Guardia? LMK #ASA2026
1. 3-4 2. When I can. 3. During my office hours, if no one shows up (most days); on weekends. I take W &F off to recover from teaching. 4. Time, energy 5. Practice self-care. I can't write if I haven't slept, eaten. Often get my best ideas while walking the dog. Do what works for YOU/your life.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦@kfduggan.bsky.social · 3w agoAcademics who write during term (i.e. while teaching): 1. How many classes do you teach per term? 2. How often do you write (e.g. once/wk, when you can, etc.)? 3. When do you write (e.g. weekend, morning, at night, etc.)? 4. What's the biggest barrier(s) to you writing? 5. Do you have any tips?
Terrific advice from @daniellaurison.bsky.social ! I'm also at ASA this year and happy to meet up.
Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 4w agoA part of the "hidden curriculum" of academia that was entirely unknown to me until fairly late in my career is the thing where people cold-email each other about meeting up at conferences. So here's general advice to junior scholars, and an offer: (1/n)
Today is World BDSM Day. Wanna a low-key celebration? Pick up Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life by yours truly & @ArielleKuperberg.bsky.social It's 20% off from the publisher today! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bound-by-...
Bound by BDSM
Why are BDSM practitioners so happy? It turns out, BDSM isn't just about whips and chains.With engaging stories and a warm, conversational tone, Bound by BDSM:…
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AI can feel validating during relationship conflicts, but that may come at a cost. Even brief AI conversations can increase certainty you're right while reducing openness to repair. Healthy relationships require working through conflict, not just escaping it.
Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️🌈@aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · last mo.Check this amazing piece written by @drcompton.bsky.social on @psychologytoday.com! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...
Check this amazing piece written by @drcompton.bsky.social on @psychologytoday.com! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...
When AI Becomes Your Relationship Advisor, You Might Lose
AI tends to validate us, reshaping how we interpret our conflicts and partners, and turning small tensions into perceived patterns that may nudge us toward ending things.
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This study asks a central question: Why do people cheat when divorce or consensual non-monogamy exist as more honest options? The infidelity trap offers a new way to understand infidelity as a response to constrained agency. bit.ly/43Gx8TQ @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social #Sociology
The Infidelity Trap: Constrained Agency and the Limits of Monogamous Marriage - Sexuality & Culture
Why do people cheat when divorce or consensual non-monogamy exist as more honest options? This article introduces the concept of the infidelity trap, a framework developed from interviews with men and women in long-term heterosexual marriages who engaged in infidelity. Participants described feeling caught between unmet needs and the emotional, financial, or social costs of leaving their marriages or the risks of suggesting renegotiation of them. Five interlocking constraints—compulsory monogamy, the overburdening of marriage, barriers to divorce, stigma surrounding consensual non-monogamy, and limited alternatives in the heterosexual dating market—converged to make infidelity appear as the only viable path. Infidelity, while morally uncomfortable, emerged as the only tolerable solution. The infidelity trap offers a new way to understand infidelity as a response to constrained agency, one shaped by monogamy’s cultural dominance, relational scripts, and the limited availability of viable alternatives.
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Who's going to #ASA in NYC? I'd love to meet up for coffee, lunch, dinner, or just saying hello between sessions. Only be in town Fri afternoon through early Sun afternoon, so my conference window is a little short.😬 But would love to connect. If you'll be there, lmk!
It’s so hot out I just opened my car door to air it out and some hobbit threw a ring in there
Just to be clear, if I ever ask you to cut me a small piece of cake, you're supposed to give me a big piece anyway but then it's your fault not mine
Been quiet lately bx my next book's kicking my tail. For months, I've wrestled & lost. Today, may be the turning point. W/previous books, writing's really hard until the click (moment when everything gets much easier/faster). Waited much longer for that w/this book. It *may* have happened today.
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New article now published: The Infidelity Trap: Constrained Agency and the Limits of Monogamous Marriage in Sexuality & Culture. "The infidelity trap offers a new way to understand infidelity as a response to constrained agency." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Infidelity Trap: Constrained Agency and the Limits of Monogamous Marriage - Sexuality & Culture
Why do people cheat when divorce or consensual non-monogamy exist as more honest options? This article introduces the concept of the infidelity trap, a framework developed from interviews with men and...
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Do we all have a "type"? Most people believe they do. Check out my new blog on @PsychToday 👉https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidden-desires/202606/are-you-attracted-to-a-person-or-a-pattern
New article w/ @ATKuperberg & Audrey Lutmer: “It’s at Odds W/How I Live My Life”: Masculinity, Gender, BDSM Roles, & Identity Disclosure. We find: BDSM functions as both a site of emotional liberation & covert conformity. 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/30333717261450983
Excited and honored to share that I’ve been elected to serve as a Council Member for the Sociology of Sexualities Section. Grateful to everyone who supported me, and looking forward to contributing to the important work this section does for the field and our community.
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Finished rough draft of new version of my book (letting that get cold before I edit), have 2 brand new datasets sitting untouched waiting for analysis, & what does my brain do? Immediately starts generating new study ideas. Absolutely no survival instinct in this organism.
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I'm so beyond pleased to announce that I've been awarded the 2026 Director’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Research. This is my second time winning this award, and I'm beyond humbled.
S50 E8 of Another Survivor Podcast Nobody Asked For: we talk about the twist of all twists and the double elim, Cirie's power to whip votes, and more. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Season 50, Episode 8 - Prepare for Trouble | Make it Double | Survivor Recap
Podcast Episode · Another Survivor Podcast Nobody Asked For · April 19 · 35m
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I’m on the ballot for ASA Sexualities Council this year. If you’ve ever appreciated my work on infidelity, BDSM, sexual identity, sexual relationships/behavior, etc., or you just enjoy my energy, I’d be honored to have your vote. #ASASexualities #ASAElection
S50E7 of Another Survivor Podcast Nobody Asked For: everyone is lying; Coach is haikuing; Rizo tries to school Coach; Cirie's Rizard of Oz makes their debut; Emily can't stop being messy; & the 1st Chinese takeout reward. 🎧 & follow: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Season 50, Episode 7 - There's Liars, and Then There's Bad Liars | Survivor Recap
Podcast Episode · Another Survivor Podcast Nobody Asked For · April 11 · 35m
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Just got word that both of my proposals were accepted as presentations at #ASA2026 Who else is going this year?? Let's meet up!
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Another Survivor Podcast Nobody Asked For (S50E6). Does an idol stop being an idol if literally everyone knows about it? Meanwhile, Rizo is fully drinking his own Kool-Aid, Jonathan's out here lying like a pro, & who saw this alliance coming? open.spotify.com/episode/70a8...
Season 50, Episode 6 - Cirie Is the Neck, Dee Is the Head | Survivor Is Broken: 3 Idols, 17 People & ZERO Secrets | Survivor Recap
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