{"title":"(Dis) Empowering Trans People: Depathologization Through Treatment Guidelines and Provider Decision-Making","authors":"Jodie M. Dewey, Emma Oppenheim, D. Watson","doi":"10.1177/01605976231162341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231162341","url":null,"abstract":"To depathologize transgender (trans) healthcare, revisions have been made to two documents used in the treatment of trans people. First, the 7th Version of the Standards of Care (SOC-7) removed a lengthy therapeutic relationship and real-life experience (RLE), replacing these with a gender assessment. The second was a shift in language from Gender Identity Disorder to Gender Dysphoria in the 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), as well as its removal from the chapter on ‘sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias’. Despite changes, trans healthcare remains stigmatizing and gatekept. Through qualitative interviews with 20 U.S.-based health professionals, we expand current knowledge of the shifting treatment approaches for those seeking gender-affirming medical services. Data show that despite progressive document changes, providers continue to place the burden on patients to fit within a sex/gender dichotomous system and to prove mental stability and decision-making competency to access what are increasingly considered life-saving treatments. We illuminate resultant health disparities that can emerge when providers perceive trans people in need of their education and mental health support and advocate a move away from the current medicalized process towards a healthcare model situated in trans peoples' own lived experience.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"51 1","pages":"342 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91386354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Pedagogy of the Future","authors":"M. Strong","doi":"10.1177/01605976231159773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231159773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"34 1","pages":"244 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74002914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells","authors":"Shaonta’ E. Allen","doi":"10.1177/01605976231159547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231159547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"2 1","pages":"262 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83547842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizen, Subject, Human: For A Humanist Sociology at The End of The Eurocene","authors":"Heidi Nicholls","doi":"10.1177/01605976231160520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231160520","url":null,"abstract":"The history of humanism is intertwined with empire and racism. Many in sociology are aware of the significant contributions of Sylvia Wynter in our understanding of how modernity has shaped what it means to be human. ‘Man,’ Wynter argues, was never more that the European bourgeois man of the colonial world. Colonial conceptions of humanity have largely excluded ways of being and living that resist and refuse global empires. I argue that the differences between those who lived under state rule and those whose politics were illegible to European colonists became part of what we now think of as race. Colonists conflated the human with a certain kind of colonial subject, and later, the favored White citizen-subject and fellow colonist of an empire-state. In contemplating this journal’s title and mission for a humanist sociology, I argue that ‘society’ its 20th and 21st century articulations have often stood in for Man in the Wynterian sense. U.S. Sociology promoted ‘society’ as both an object of inquiry and a cognate for the colonial state. As such, sociology as the study of ‘society’ contained a specifically statist bent. Finally, this essay ends by offering examples of anticolonial humanist sociology that nurtures a more egalitarian genres of the human for the future.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"131 1","pages":"154 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90267107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcome to Your Home for Critical Humanist, Activist Scholarship","authors":"hephzibah v. strmic-pawl","doi":"10.1177/01605976231159755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231159755","url":null,"abstract":"As a young 20-something, I never dreamt I would be a “sociologist,” however sociologist might be defined in academia. Yet by the age of 26, I found myself in a PhD program and dedicated to graduate studies and, at the same time, involved with several social justice movements. I worked with undergraduates, other graduate students, and community members on a range of campaigns and programming such as demanding more transparency on issues of sexual assault on campus, fighting Virginia’s state constitutional marriage amendment that said marriage was “only a union between one man and one woman,”, organizing a course dedicated to queer theory and requesting more resources for the LGBTQ center, creating a non-profit to help community college students transfer to a 4-year college, and initiating the campaign to create an Ella Baker Day. Needless to say, faculty knew that I was involved in many other activities that they considered “outside” of sociology. Thus, I was told in various ways by various people that I had to forgo the activism and “be more serious” with my graduate studies, even though my grades were stellar, and I reached every department benchmark. As I neared graduation, I learned that I loved to teach and that students responded positively to my teaching, so I applied for professor positions. But when the reality of the academic job market started settling in, one professor told me that I should give up on the goal of being a professor as I was too much of an activist and would never fit in. While I think this professor meant this advice as a “harsh truth” that she felt compelled to say, it made no sense to me. How was it that a discipline that I saw as designed to study social problems and provide for pathways of change would not welcome someone who also considered herself an activist?","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"72 1","pages":"123 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79119391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimedia Review: Women of the Movement, Season 1","authors":"Shaonta’ E. Allen","doi":"10.1177/01605976231158963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231158963","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"32 1","pages":"269 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78870716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections and Lessons from an Activist","authors":"Jason M. Williams, Retha Onitiri","doi":"10.1177/01605976231158973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231158973","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript is an interview of a local activist in NJ, Ms. Retha Onitiri. We asked her a series of questions that caused her to reflect on her life and journey as an activist. She is a notable activist that has forged immense change in the NJ Juvenile Justice System. She is also an experienced community organizer and mobilizer. She has organized around issues pertaining to the criminal legal system, economic inequality, accessibility, and other social issues. In this paper, Retha unpacks her life story and how that journey has influenced her work today. Her experiences as an activist is revealed, and she closes the interview by foregrounding the need for elders to embrace and prepare the next generation of activists.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"23 1","pages":"210 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83558235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth","authors":"Maretta McDonald","doi":"10.1177/01605976231158986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231158986","url":null,"abstract":"Collins, Patricia H. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge. Luna, Zakiya and Pirtle, Whitney N. L. 2022. Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis. NY: Routledge. Tillman, Korey, Dickens, David R., and Herbison, C.C. 2023. Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins. MD: Lexington Books. Wright II, Earl. 2017. The First American School of Sociology: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. New York: Routledge. Feagin, Joe R., Hernan, Vera, and Ducey, Kimberley. Liberation Sociology. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2015.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"76 1","pages":"265 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79340910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Strong, Tanya Cook, Lilika A. Belet, Paul E. Calarco
{"title":"Changing The World: How Comics and Graphic Novels Can Shift Teaching","authors":"M. Strong, Tanya Cook, Lilika A. Belet, Paul E. Calarco","doi":"10.1177/01605976231158969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231158969","url":null,"abstract":"Comic books and graphic novels offer an excellent way to democratize the classroom and improve student learning by giving them the ability to understand social issues and social institutions in a relatable way. This article is a conversation exploring the validity of comics as tools to teach sociology. Specifically, the article does this through examining the effectiveness of comics as a way to analyze gender, the looking glass self, and the sociological imagination and exploring the use of graphic novels to replace traditional texts in the introductory sociology classroom. If one of our disciplinary goals is to change society for the better by boosting the development of sociological imaginations, looking at comics may give us the best format to do so.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"27 1","pages":"245 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78814317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistemologies of Struggle: Social Movement Theory and the Politics of Knowledge Production","authors":"Emily Brissette, Mike King","doi":"10.1177/01605976231158396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231158396","url":null,"abstract":"Within the field of US social movement studies, there is periodic concern that the work produced by scholars is not more widely read and used by activists and organizers, yet there is little attention given to how epistemological norms within the field produce and maintain the disconnect between mainstream US social movement studies and movements on the ground. In this paper we trace the major contours of the problem: the positivism that saturates the field’s tendency towards abstraction and model building; the implicit normative commitment to a liberal-pluralist social order which eclipses radical voices; and the refusal to engage seriously with the organic knowledge production that takes place within every movement. We also highlight exemplary theorizing that has emerged out of active struggles and argue that the humanistic study of social movements must begin from a place of intellectual humility, decentering academic expertise and recognizing that scholars have much to learn from organic intellectuals in movements today.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"47 1","pages":"139 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81524747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}