Stefan Vogler
@svogler.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Sociology @ U of Illinois, studying sexuality, gender, law, and knowledge. Author of Sorting Sexualities. he/him, queer, first-gen
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Stefan Vogler
@svogler.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Sorting Sexualities
In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices...
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Hi all! A quick intro to say hello here: I am a sociologist of gender, sexuality, law, crime, and knowledge. Currently studying LGBTQ people's experiences with police. Check out www.policingtherainbow.com. Also the author of Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification.
Guess the UC doesn't care about the promises it made to current and former fellows that we would be able to use this incentive throughout our entire careers. Very disappointing.
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UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Guess the UC doesn't care about the promises it made to current and former fellows that we would be able to use this incentive throughout our entire careers. Very disappointing.
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By all means, let's have a cishet, white, conservative man tell us about how women ruined the workplace. How novel. The @nytimes.com is such trash.
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
By all means, let's have a cishet, white, conservative man tell us about how women ruined the workplace. How novel. The @nytimes.com is such trash.
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Cass Sunstein?
a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show
ALT: a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show
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September 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Cass Sunstein?
How about we make police carry liability insurance so the city doesn't have to cover the millions a year ($100 million in 2024, I believe) in lawsuits against the CPD? Nah, let's just raise property taxes again.
A new report commissioned by Mayor Brandon Johnson presents options that could save the city up to $455.5 million and generate up to $1.65 billion in new revenue to address the city's $1.15 billion budget shortfall.
Mayor Johnson's task force rolls out road map to erase Chicago's $1.15B shortfall
Revenue ideas run the gamut — from raising taxes on bottled water, liquor, plastic bags, and retail deliveries to restoring the $4-a-month employee head tax. Cost-cutting options include flexible furlough days that Mayor Brandon Johnson has avoided for fear of alienating the labor unions that…
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September 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How about we make police carry liability insurance so the city doesn't have to cover the millions a year ($100 million in 2024, I believe) in lawsuits against the CPD? Nah, let's just raise property taxes again.
Really, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social? The guy who said gays should be stoned to death and Black women don't have the brain power of white men was practicing politics the right way? You're trash, Ezra. Be quiet. We don't have to respect a guy's bigotry just because he's dead.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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September 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Really, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social? The guy who said gays should be stoned to death and Black women don't have the brain power of white men was practicing politics the right way? You're trash, Ezra. Be quiet. We don't have to respect a guy's bigotry just because he's dead.
Fired for teaching facts…
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Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to removals
After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description.
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September 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Fired for teaching facts…
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So tired of being told that sexualities work is “better suited” for speciality journals. Do better, editors.
July 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So tired of being told that sexualities work is “better suited” for speciality journals. Do better, editors.
The existence of billionaires is a policy failure.
No, it's a simple recognition that massive wealth in the hands of individuals is often used to constrain the freedom of others, and a functioning society should have checks against unconstrained power. Like taxing billionaires out of existence.
Saying that billionaires shouldn’t “exist” is to say you don’t believe in freedom. In a free society, people should be free to try to be as successful & wealthy as they can. We can debate how much billionaires should be taxed, that’s fine, but to say they shouldn’t “exist” is anathema to freedom.
June 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The existence of billionaires is a policy failure.
New newest article "Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People" is now available open access in Critical Criminology. Check it out!
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Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People - Critical Criminology
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are disproportionately incarcerated. Nascent scholarship has begun to explore this phenomenon, but we lack a comprehensive theoretical acc...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
New newest article "Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People" is now available open access in Critical Criminology. Check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New piece from #PolicingTheRainbow out now in Criminology! We show that LGBTQ people have a much bigger appetite for police reform than non-LGBTQ people. Check it out (it's short!)
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June 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New piece from #PolicingTheRainbow out now in Criminology! We show that LGBTQ people have a much bigger appetite for police reform than non-LGBTQ people. Check it out (it's short!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Article acceptance to brighten up this dreary Wednesday!
May 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Article acceptance to brighten up this dreary Wednesday!
Very excited to finally get to announce that next spring I will be a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study at Uni of Illinois where I will start writing for my second book based on #PolicingtheRainbow. So grateful to those who helped me in this endeavor and excited to get started!
May 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Very excited to finally get to announce that next spring I will be a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study at Uni of Illinois where I will start writing for my second book based on #PolicingtheRainbow. So grateful to those who helped me in this endeavor and excited to get started!
One of my students just wrote me the best note a teacher can get, and I'm bawling. Amidst all the ChatGPT generated papers, sometimes students remind you exactly why you love teaching, so I couldn't resist sharing a little piece of what they wrote ❤️
May 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One of my students just wrote me the best note a teacher can get, and I'm bawling. Amidst all the ChatGPT generated papers, sometimes students remind you exactly why you love teaching, so I couldn't resist sharing a little piece of what they wrote ❤️
While I don't disagree, I also have a new paper coming out soon that shows that when you tell people what "defund the police" actually means (i.e., move money from police to social services), there is much higher support for it.
"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
"ICE is a rogue federal agency operating with impunity-destabilizing families, terrorizing neighborhoods, and eroding the very principles of justice it claims to defend. What happened yesterday ... is not an accident-it is the deliberate outcome of a system sliding deeper into authoritarianism."
April 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
While I don't disagree, I also have a new paper coming out soon that shows that when you tell people what "defund the police" actually means (i.e., move money from police to social services), there is much higher support for it.
The thing is, the reason we don't trust conservatives in sociology is because the empirical evidence rarely supports conservative viewpoints. The reason many sociologists are "liberal" is not because we are ideologues; it is because we follow the evidence.
Disciplines with the largest trust gap between conservatives and liberals in the US: Climate, Environment, Virology, Ecology, Sociology. Even the lowest gap disciplines (e.g., Math) show a trust gap. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (paywalled) ht @petersuber.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The thing is, the reason we don't trust conservatives in sociology is because the empirical evidence rarely supports conservative viewpoints. The reason many sociologists are "liberal" is not because we are ideologues; it is because we follow the evidence.
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out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
April 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
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There's a really fascinating thesis to be written on the far right's cooptation/weaponization of antisemitism
April 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
There's a really fascinating thesis to be written on the far right's cooptation/weaponization of antisemitism
What could have been the story of Trump if the US were sane.
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader and front-runner in the 2027 presidential election, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court and immediately barred from running for public office for five years. nyti.ms/4448XzW
March 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What could have been the story of Trump if the US were sane.
Thankful to have this guy as my governor right now and to see at least one Dem not seeking to appease Trump or find "common ground" with a fascist.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tries to chart a path for national Democrats to counter Trump
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is trying to chart a path for national Democrats to counter President Donald Trump.
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March 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thankful to have this guy as my governor right now and to see at least one Dem not seeking to appease Trump or find "common ground" with a fascist.
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