Daniel Laurison

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Sociologist interested in class, inequality, politics. Author of Producing Politics & co-author of The Class Ceiling. Carnegie Fellow. Trans man. Dad.
Bookbit.ly/ProducingPolitics
Websitedaniellaurison.com
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4FJPz8YAAAAJ&hl=en
Editor-in-Chiefhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14684446
I'll be at NYC's Institute for Public Knowledge tomorrow night in conversation with Lorenza Antonucci (& Sheri Berman). We'll be talking about Antonucci's new book, Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Popular Support. Come out if you can - RSVP
https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-talk-lorenza-antonucci-insecurity-politics-how-unstable-lives-lead-to-populist-support/

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something.

If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do.

If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at https://daniellaurison.com/national-coming-out-day/

I will be at the Philly No Kings March on Saturday, and I hope, again, millions of us are out. These big marches don't automatically make change, but they show how many people know that fascism is not OK - important for the bystanders to see and for the resisters to experience.

I wrote about how we talk about political "issues" and how that connects to political disconnection, and a chart I tell people about all the time - now I can just link to this post.

on both substack & my own blog:
https://daniellaurison.com/class-language-and-political-issues/
https://daniellaurison.substack.com/p/class-language-and-political-issues

I had a great conversation with Ben Joravsky. We talked about The Political Disconnect - why so many low-income and working-class people don't vote. PLUS you can hear me be very wrong about football (I confused the Dallas Cowboys and the Patriots I think?)
https://www.thebenjoravskyshow.com/daniel-laurison-the-non-voters/

If you were at the Eastern Sociological Society meeting today and you did not come to Tey Meadow's Robin M Williams lecture, you missed a brilliant, moving, engaging, important talk.

If you have a way to invite Tey to your campus or community, do it.

Swarthmore made my work on the Political Disconnect its lead news story on the home page - http://swarthmore.edu/news-events/tackling-political-disconnect-how-to-engage-people-who-feel-shut-out-political-system
And there are still a few spots - Thursday March 5th in DC - register here ASAP - https://www.peoplingpolitics.com/events/bringingthepeople26
We can announce three new speakers:
Kristen Clarke, Former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice
US Representative Greg Casar, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative
Amidst all that's happening with US democracy, this week we're bringing together an amazing crew of scholars and political professionals (many are both) to discuss where we are and where we go from here, and how academics can work with people in government, politics, and policy.