Kelsy Burke, sociology, and Emily Kazyak, sociology and women’s and gender studies, co-wrote a July 3 piece for The Conversation on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and other recent federal cases involving religious beliefs and LGBTQ+ people’s rights. “The latest Supreme Court rulings make it seem as if cases that deal with plaintiffs’ faith are usually successful in federal courts,” they wrote. “More broadly, however, the opposite is true.”
Burke co-wrote a July 7 opinion piece for Religion News Service titled “LGBTQ+ Americans are more religious than our Supreme Court battles let on.” In early June, Burke and colleagues surveyed 1,255 LGBTQ+ adults in the United States to explore and compare their beliefs, attitudes and experiences. “Our findings suggest that the relationships LGBTQ+ people have with religion are more complicated than most media headlines portray,” they wrote. MSN.com and a few other media outlets picked up the story.
Burke also wrote a July 27 guest column for The Washington Post titled “Feminists have long supported trans rights.” “Feminists have debated over time whether and how to support LGBTQ rights, but they have never as a whole — neither today, nor in the past — discriminated in large measure against trans people and their allies,” she wrote. (This article requires a subscription.)
An academic article by Rose Holz, women’s and gender studies, was featured in a July 24 Smithsonian Magazine article on Robert Latou Dickinson’s Birth Series sculptures, which drew large crowds at the 1939-1940 World’s Fair in New York City. “The installation attracted long lines every day from 10 in the morning to 10 at night,” she wrote. “Neither rain nor shine stopped the crowds from coming; nor did the occasional stampede. … By one account, 700,000 people had viewed it in 1939 alone.”
