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Adora Svitak
@adorasv.bsky.social
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Writer & PhD candidate in Sociology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale
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Adora Svitak @adorasv.bsky.social · 1h
"A government that demands that we not recognize the complexity of sex stops academic inquiry in its tracks."
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“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
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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 4h
New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/14/h...

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Adora Svitak @adorasv.bsky.social · 6d
“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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Adora Svitak @adorasv.bsky.social · 25d
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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