Lauren Valentino and Evangeline Warren, “Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study,” American Journal of Sociology, 2025 An array of colors arranged in a shape of a thought bubble. Photo by author, Jordyn Wald. How do Americans define discrimination? Lauren Valentino and Evangeline Warren reveal that it’s […]

Woman In Black Shirt Holding Red Lipstick by cottonbro studio is licensed under CC BY 2.0 in pexels. There have long been debates around transgender inclusion within feminist movements. Although anti-transgender sentiments within feminism date back to the 1970s, these views were not prominent for much of feminist history. However, since the 2010s, anti-trans sentiment […]

Viktoria Cologna et al., “Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries,” Nature Human Behaviour, 2025 Image by Jordyn Wald. Is the public losing trust in scientists? No, according to a new survey of over 70,000 respondents around the world. Researchers found instead that most people still trust scientists—and want them involved […]

Jordyn is a first year PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota. Her interests lie on the perpetuation of gender inequality across intersecting dimensions of culture, media, race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and family.

Marcus A. Brooks, “Online discourse in the post- “new racism” era?: Toward a theory of colorblind nationalism,” Sociology Compass, 2024 Three social media message bubbles with blurred graphics. Image by author, Jordyn Wald. Racist talk among conservatives has long been divided by scholars into two main types: forms of which are “overt” (open and direct) […]