Trigger warning: this post discusses tactics used by sexual harassers to evade justice and the impact on survivors. Today is International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is a day of protest that began with women’s workplace rights (United Nations Women Australia 2019). Today’s post covers the lack of accountability by institutions to uphold women’s safety … Continue reading Institutional Action on Sexual Harassment
Trigger warning sexual harassment and assault: let’s talk about intersectionality, policy and practice in dealing with sexual harassment. There seem to be endless cases of sexual harassment coming to light, but these are the tip of the iceberg. In Australia, 575 cases of harassment and rape have been reported in higher education in the past … Continue reading Using Intersectionality in Collective Responses to Sexual Harassment
In case you missed this on my other social media, in January 2019, Lady Science published a podcast about my career and feminism. I was interviewed in late 2018 by Leila McNeill, one of the editors-in-chief. Below is an excerpt where you can learn a little about my professional history. I discuss how racial minority … Continue reading Interview: Talking Feminist Sociology
On the 8 August 2018, only four days after I published my last post on the social construction of migrant youth deviance in public spaces (Zevallos 2018a), there was an incident whipping up racist fear of ‘Sudanese gangs’ in the area where I went to school as a youngster. I had flown home for a workshop … Continue reading Racist Scaremongering as Social and Political Control
On 13 February 2018, I participated in the Tech Inclusion Melbourne conference. Bill Nicholson, Wurundjeri elder gave the Welcome to Country (below). He talked about using treaty to build economic capacity and sovereignty amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. My overview of the conference starts with the panel discussion that I took part in. … Continue reading Tech Inclusion
The history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice activism to destabilise and overcome colonial practices in Australia began with the British invasion in 1788 and has continued to the present-day. These acts of social and political organisation have strong sociological resonance that should centrally inform sociological inquiry in Australia. Yet Indigenous knowledges are … Continue reading Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact
Excuse me while I migrate various content to a central place on my blog! This post was first published on 11 July 2017. I was interviewed by Buzzfeed, about a new study by Professor Kate Clancy and colleagues, showing women of colour scientists are more likely to experience race and gender harassment. Women of colour scientists … Continue reading Interview: Many Women Of Colour Feel Unsafe Working In Science
This article describes the sociology of race and related concepts.* Race; The social construction of racial identities; Colonialism; Colonialism in Australia; Colonialism in Latin America; Racism; Whiteness; White fragility; White privilege; White supremacy; and Intersectionality.
This week, on 11 May 2017, a bill two-years-in-the-making to decriminalise abortion in the state of New South Wales, Australia, was defeated 14 to 25, meaning abortion remains a crime under the Criminal Act. Greens MP and Spokesperson for the Status of Women, Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC, who led the campaign to decriminalise said: “This … Continue reading Sociology of Abortion Politics
This is an evolving summary of my various sociological analyses of diversity and the March for Science. I provide an overview of my articles on the global march (Washington DC) as well as Australia. As the majority of these conversations happen on social media, I compile them into a series of ‘Moments’ on Twitter, or annotated articles … Continue reading Sociology of the March for Science
The Other Sociologist 