Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
@ikennedy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago; non-binary computational social scientist; pro-love; cries at the sad and happy parts of movies
Today, like all the days, you deserve love and care. May you be well~ ❤️🩹
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today, like all the days, you deserve love and care. May you be well~ ❤️🩹
Dark things are happening. But also, my partner and I are going to have a child and this morning we're preparing for a baby shower.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
October 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Dark things are happening. But also, my partner and I are going to have a child and this morning we're preparing for a baby shower.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.
I had an international student in my office hours yesterday and I ended up explaining the government shutdown to someone who hadn't imagined that governments could shut down.
He asked "why would this be a thing?", very reasonably
He asked "why would this be a thing?", very reasonably
October 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I had an international student in my office hours yesterday and I ended up explaining the government shutdown to someone who hadn't imagined that governments could shut down.
He asked "why would this be a thing?", very reasonably
He asked "why would this be a thing?", very reasonably
I'll follow anyone who makes this call today!
Comment that you've done it and why supporting higher Ed is important and I'll read all of your skeets forever ♾️
Comment that you've done it and why supporting higher Ed is important and I'll read all of your skeets forever ♾️
If you're serious about standing firm against attacks on academia, then now is the time to support one our most important allies: The TRIO McNair Program: helping underrepresented, first-gen, and low income enter research based gras programs. Call your reps #academicsky
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Protect the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program - Council for Opportunity in Education
We’re stronger together. Call your Member of Congress, send an email, post on social media, host a phone party, invite your Member to campus, and report your actions. Every voice protects students and...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'll follow anyone who makes this call today!
Comment that you've done it and why supporting higher Ed is important and I'll read all of your skeets forever ♾️
Comment that you've done it and why supporting higher Ed is important and I'll read all of your skeets forever ♾️
If you're serious about standing firm against attacks on academia, then now is the time to support one our most important allies: The TRIO McNair Program: helping underrepresented, first-gen, and low income enter research based gras programs. Call your reps #academicsky
coenet.org/protect-the-...
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Protect the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program - Council for Opportunity in Education
We’re stronger together. Call your Member of Congress, send an email, post on social media, host a phone party, invite your Member to campus, and report your actions. Every voice protects students and...
coenet.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If you're serious about standing firm against attacks on academia, then now is the time to support one our most important allies: The TRIO McNair Program: helping underrepresented, first-gen, and low income enter research based gras programs. Call your reps #academicsky
coenet.org/protect-the-...
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“It is a time to resist injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to bullying tactics of extortion at the expense of basic standards that govern shared governance" -Butler
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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September 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“It is a time to resist injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to bullying tactics of extortion at the expense of basic standards that govern shared governance" -Butler
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I'm downtown in beautiful downtown Chicago. All we need to be safe is to get ice and troops out of our city.
September 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm downtown in beautiful downtown Chicago. All we need to be safe is to get ice and troops out of our city.
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Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
September 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
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Are you a sociology doctoral student interested in applying for an ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant? Register for the FREE virtual Q&A on 9/4 at 1 p.m. Eastern. You must register to attend. In the meantime, check out our FAQs: www.asanet.org/ddrig
August 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Are you a sociology doctoral student interested in applying for an ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant? Register for the FREE virtual Q&A on 9/4 at 1 p.m. Eastern. You must register to attend. In the meantime, check out our FAQs: www.asanet.org/ddrig
It's great to be back in the classroom at UIC Sociology today! Excited to learn from a whole new group of students 🤓
August 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's great to be back in the classroom at UIC Sociology today! Excited to learn from a whole new group of students 🤓
Really excited to be working on _another_ incredible paper with @msoma.bsky.social
He's presenting it at this conference, check it out!
He's presenting it at this conference, check it out!
On Aug 28, as part of the conference below, I'll be presenting new work (co-authored w/ @ikennedy.bsky.social) on the geography of far-right retailers in the U.S.
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To virtually attend, and to get the full schedule, contact @lauradupin.bsky.social. Hope to see you there!
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To virtually attend, and to get the full schedule, contact @lauradupin.bsky.social. Hope to see you there!
Organizations and Urban Inequality - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
In this hybrid event prominent scholars from different disciplines (urban sociology, political science, management studies, geospatial studies, organizational studies) will discuss their upcoming contributions to an accepted forthcoming special issue of Urban Studies (eds. Floris Vermeulen, Laura Dupin and Mingshu Wang).
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August 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Really excited to be working on _another_ incredible paper with @msoma.bsky.social
He's presenting it at this conference, check it out!
He's presenting it at this conference, check it out!
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Balthazar is thinking about Structural sociology. It looks delighted.
August 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Balthazar is thinking about Structural sociology. It looks delighted.
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Threatening to criminalize one of Ireland's most successful writers for caring about Palestine pretty much guarantees that half of Ireland will find a way to shove this back in the face of the UK government. If they go through with it, they will face a level of piss-taking they've never seen before.
BREAKING: Downing Street has warned Sally Rooney risks committing a terrorist offence if she funds Palestine Action
It comes after the author said she would continue to support the group financially
It comes after the author said she would continue to support the group financially
August 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Threatening to criminalize one of Ireland's most successful writers for caring about Palestine pretty much guarantees that half of Ireland will find a way to shove this back in the face of the UK government. If they go through with it, they will face a level of piss-taking they've never seen before.
Wow, looks like a party! Maybe I'll have to stop by toda~
Can you believe there are even more @contexts.org editors ready to talk to prospective authors? And while @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, @lettapage.bsky.social, and @aminghaziani.bsky.social are the “exiting team”, our incoming editor David Grazian is also at #ASA2025 and eager to meet you! #sociology
August 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Wow, looks like a party! Maybe I'll have to stop by toda~
I know I'm a few days late here, but is it possible that going up on the roof is the best thing 47 has done in his second term?
August 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I know I'm a few days late here, but is it possible that going up on the roof is the best thing 47 has done in his second term?
This is one of the key reasons that democrat centrists trying to pivot away from identity politics (as if that were somehow an option) is so dangerous.
Yeah, if we’re frank, what we’re seeing is people probing how much overt support they can show for pushing Black people out of public life and making any mention of racism beyond the pale of polite conversation.
August 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is one of the key reasons that democrat centrists trying to pivot away from identity politics (as if that were somehow an option) is so dangerous.
Who's the fifth sociologist?! It's not me! I'm happy for other people to have their genders, especially if it makes their buttfucking hotter!
Yes, compulsory gender is wrong and should be beaten to death in an alley.
That said, I wouldn't want to rid the world of all gender, bc four out of five sociologists of sex agree that voluntary gender play makes buttfucking 88% hotter than buttfucking alone.
That said, I wouldn't want to rid the world of all gender, bc four out of five sociologists of sex agree that voluntary gender play makes buttfucking 88% hotter than buttfucking alone.
"And then we had gender for no reason"
Still one of the signs of all time. 😂
Still one of the signs of all time. 😂
August 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Who's the fifth sociologist?! It's not me! I'm happy for other people to have their genders, especially if it makes their buttfucking hotter!
