Kyle Green

31 July

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

15 July

new Give Theory a Chance! A discussion with @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social about her excellent and timely new book Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right (@wwnorton.com). thesocietypages.org/theory/2026/... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... @thesocietypages.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com“A lot of fight fandom is STILL really nerdy” with Laura JedeedPodcast Episode · I Have Questions Podcast · June 27 · 1h 22m

1 July

New episode of the I Have Questions podcast w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social. We were lucky enough to talk to @laurajedeed.bsky.social and get her insights into MMA fandom, shifts in marketing/promotion, and what really went down at the UFC 250 fan fest! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Laura Jedeed

@laurajedeed.bsky.social

21 June

It is wild how, across the board, our overlords are like "what if we made the bread and circuses more expensive"

youtube.comJoon LeeIndependent Sports Journalist • Formerly: ESPN, B/R, The Washington Post • Born in Seoul 🇰🇷 Bred in Boston • workwith@joon.me New York City via Boston & Seoul My bio: I'm an award-winning sports j...

18 June

Highly recommended!

Joon Lee@joon.bsky.social

Three years ago I got laid off from ESPN. Now I'm running a YouTube channel: profitable, 175K views a video, closing in on 60K subs. Goal: 100K by end of summer. If you believe sports journalism can be more — with no gambling ads — I'd love to take this journey together. ⬇️

16 June

This is the danger of prioritizing the I don't like the aesthetic as the critique. For people who like fighting, the show was good + the military was celebrated. Sport is magical at hiding the politics even when it seems unhideable and washing away the corruption even when it seems unwashable.

motherjones.comThe UFC's despicable night at the White HouseJosh Hokit's slur against Michelle Obama concluded an evening already teeming with vulgarity.

The UFC won't punish him. The UFC's incentive structure will reward him. The White House will share images of Hokit draping his NFT chain on Trump's neck. And apologists will say it is just an act. Following the Colby, Sean, Conor, and even Chael precedent. @motherjones.com @inaeoh.bsky.social

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Josh Hokit’s slur against Michelle Obama concluded an evening already teeming with vulgarity. "Let reminders of it attach itself to every oligarch, Republican, Trump family member, and corporation that went along with this cage fight."

really insightful take as always from @dieworkwear.bsky.social (+ the reason why it is dangerous to lean to far into a critique of the aesthetics and dismissing the sport rather than focusing on all the corruption and money being wasted)

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services

This is the story. Questions of taste is interesting and useful, but not where the focus needs to be.

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The % of ads featuring Dana White is really something - trucks, crypto, insurance, the United States. 0 featuring fighters. Can't think of another major, or even minor, sport where you see the CEO of the company and not the athletes making money off commercials. Same with the pre-event promotion.

This could be seen all the way back during the TUF days. And was amplified during the start of COVID with the self-promotion of Dana White as the hero guiding the company through the storm. This is another big step up. One of the many reasons that it makes sense that White and Trump get along.

ft.trib.alTrump stages show of political domination with UFC bout on White House lawnUS president hosts a Maga mixed martial arts spectacle inside a temporary Colosseum on his 80th birthday

14 June

Great talking to Joe Miller @financialtimes.com about the less than subtle intersection of sports & politics/intersection of Trump & the UFC that is playing out on the White House lawn tonight.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

Trump stages show of political domination with UFC bout on White House lawn ft.trib.al/EBCQUjY

sportspolitika.newsA UFC-Powered Vision of WarAnduril, the UFC’s new defense tech partner, wants to transform warfare & surveillance with AI—and host military-themed boxing events.

13 June

One critique of the White House fights is an aesthetic one. And I think that critique matters. But the more significant one in my mind is the amount of money exchanging hands and pockets being filled (+ those hands generally being quite dirty and those pockets quite corrupt).

Karim Zidan@karimzidan.com

Anduril, the UFC’s new (and highly controversial) defense tech partner, wants to transform warfare & surveillance with AI—and host military-themed boxing events in the process www.sportspolitika.news/p/ufc-white-...

13 June

Also, without a doubt, @karimzidan.com is the person to follow if you want to understand the intersection of combat sport and politics.

12 June

Loving @inaeoh.bsky.social's turn towards the @motherjones.com combat sports journalist! Also, @juliekedzie.bsky.social and @jennmcclearen.bsky.social say a bunch of smart stuff about the about the absence of women fighters at the UFC White House event!

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open.substack.comGrant Wahl Should Be Covering this World CupThe 2026 World Cup has no public health command. The Ebola outbreak has reached 350 cases. And the journalist who would have asked the hardest questions isn’t here.

8 June

This piece by Dr. Gounder both reminds us of the courage and value of Grant Wahl’s sports writing (and what we have lost) by covering the many public health failures surrounding the current ebola outbreak right as travel ramps up for the World Cup. Reminder to self to read everything Céline writes.

Anthony DiCicco@adicicco.bsky.social

Dr. Céline Gounder (wife of the late Grant Wahl) just shared this piece: Grant Wahl Should Be Covering this World Cup. It touches on the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and reminds us, no one was better at juxtaposing the world & soccer than Grant. Give it a read. open.substack.com/pub/grantwah...

4 June

I had a great time talking to @inaeoh.bsky.social about the Dana White Donald Trump alliance. If sport is, as sociologists contend, a highly visible platform where society tells the story about what we are and who we could be, the event on the White House lawn deserves a lot of analysis because…—>

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sports.yahoo.comAs UFC White House nears, Dana White is suddenly everywhere, making the case for Trump — and himselfWhite is charging ahead on a full-scale media blitz to promote the upcoming UFC event on the White House lawn, but the fighters who'll compete on the card are little more than an afterthought in the c...

29 May

sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/... - Very smart observation from @benfowlkes.bsky.social - amplifying a trend that we saw way back in TUF and that rose to extreme levels during covid. Also such a stark contrast to every single other major and semi-major sport. Highly recommended read!

12 Apr

Listen to @tsingleton.bsky.social and I talk with adventurer, jiu-jitsu expert, and firefighter @stephankesting.bsky.social as a reminder of the cool people who still exist in martial arts combat sport. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

thehandbasket.coRefusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'Humans, however flawed, are

7 Apr

*academics too.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

6 Apr

I had the honor of talking with MMA legend @juliekedzie.bsky.social about combat sport culture and the hypocrisy of UFC fighters clamoring to fight at the White House. Thanks to @tsingleton.bsky.social for having me as a co-host.* podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... *art courtesy of Claudia Fung

1 Apr

A new episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, writer, life long baller, and creator of the Spirit of Hoops project (spiritofhoops.com) talks about his essay “WILL BASKETBALL IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAKE YOU TO ACTION?” - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

spiritofhoops.comPlaybook — SacredPhotos, videos, and blogs exploring the game of basketball and the culture of the game from around the globe.

1 Apr

I also recommend checking out some of Blake’s other writing including my personal favorites “A Battle for Basketball Paradise” (for Oxford American) and “ON WOMEN DUNKING AND BASKETBALL AS A HUMAN POTENTIAL ACCELERANT” (presented in partnership with the Black Womens Basketball Museum).

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@alexip718.com

27 Mar

Replying to @alexip718.com

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dlvr.it1000 WOMEN IN HORROR Review: An Overdue Conversation StarterShudder calls the corners — and some of the smartest minds in horror — to conjure a tale that needs telling.

20 Mar

new podcast project talking combat sports, culture, and politics w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social! The first three guests - Julie Kedzie, Stephan Kesting, Nate Quarry - are a dream lineup for me and I'm hoping some listeners will agree! pod.link/1531590204/e...

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FANGORIA

@fangoria.bsky.social

18 Mar

Shudder calls the corners — and some of the smartest minds in horror — to conjure a tale that needs telling.

22 Feb

New Dear Adam Silver! Rafi Kohan, author of Trash Talk, shares his experience giving the keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and why the petition that followed demonstrated a misunderstanding of talking trash. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

tunishasingleton.comDr. Tunisha Singleton | Media Psychology & Fan EngagementElevate your brand-to-fan experience with Dr. Tunisha Singleton. Leverage media psychology and cultural insights to drive engagement and loyalty.

23 Feb

*this episode features Tunisha Singleton (www.tunishasingleton.com) as an additional guest host/discussant.

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Seth Abrutyn

@sethabrutyn.bsky.social

19 Feb

#sociology peeps: I am organizing a section at ASA called neuroscience, cognition, and sociology. Please submit. Please pass around. Papers need not do both neuroscience and cognition...

3 Feb

new GTaC! A discussion with Dr. Chris Connor about his research on the electronic music scene and gay dating apps + life lessons that can be taken from the respective projects. thesocietypages.org/theory/2026/...

3 Feb

This conversation is part of the Spring 2026 Sociological Life Lessons class @sunybrockport.bsky.social. An experiment that I will be writing about soon for @firstpublics.bsky.social! *posting this with the goal of upping the accountability...

31 Jan

MASA Winter Webinar: “On Community in Martial Arts" 4 February, 9:00AM-10:30AM - Online via MS Teams www.eventbrite.com/e/masa-winte... feat. panellists Lyn Jehu, University of South Wales and Jack Sugden, Liverpool John Moores University, discussion led by Kyle Green, SUNY Brockport.

storage.courtlistener.com#109 in Tincher v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:25-cv-04669) – CourtListener.comDECLARATION of Witness No. 2 re 108 Declaration in Support by John Biestman, Alan Crenshaw, Janet Lee, Abdikadir Noor, Susan Tincher, Lucia Webb . (Fisher, Caitlinrose) (Entered: 01/24/2026)

31 Jan

and, perhaps most importantly, organized and chaired by Alex Channon, University of Brighton.

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David Sirota

@davidsirota.com

25 Jan

A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.

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Julia Carrie Wong

@joolia.bsky.social

25 Jan

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social

And another declaration from a medical doctor who was on scene and attempted to treat the man who was shot. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Carrie Brown

@brizzyc.bsky.social

mprnews.orgMinneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at RooseveltMinneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.

This is INSANE. A SCHOOL. “The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.

Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social

“The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.” — www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

So ends an era of ASA’s public facing journal as @contexts.org officially leaves print behind and moves completely online. I've somehow spent 1/3 of my life w/ @contexts.org starting on the grad board under the leadership of @chrisuggen.bsky.social, Douglas Hartmann, and @lettapage.bsky.social

Contexts Magazine@contexts.org

Contexts Magazine is closing out 2025 by celebrating outgoing co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social! Editor-elect David Grazian will take the helm in 2026, with @elenavanstee.bsky.social as managing editor.

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and then again with Kelsey Berry to write about emergence of a new type of final girl in horror movies - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

and then returning one more time as the book reviews editor where I had the honor of working with a series of scholars who I admire including Ryanne Pilgeram, Stefano Bloch, @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social, @dsilver432.bsky.social, and @kaareeenah.bsky.social

Contexts Magazine@contexts.org

@hownottodraw.bsky.social

then recording the official @contexts.org podcast with @sarahlageson.bsky.social before returning a few years later as an author to write about masculinity in the surf and on the mats with Clifton Evers - contexts.org/articles/int...

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Kate Gray

1 Jan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

Check out @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social's excellent review of @mlamont.bsky.social's Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World & @ruha9.bsky.social's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want in the newest issue of @contexts.org - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Also worth noting that this is the concluding issue under the amazing editorial leadership of @sethabrutyn.bsky.social @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @lettapage.bsky.social. I feel lucky/honored to have been invited to tag along as the books editor for the final stretch.

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"They remind us that the work of seeing and valuing others begins not with abstract policy but everyday acts of recognition. This vision offers important possibilities, inspiring ongoing effort and collective care."

"While we face an era marked by rising authoritarianism, entrenched racism, and a culture of hyper-individualism, the hope for a more livable society remains real and worth striving for." @mlamont.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social

"And yet, scholars like Michèle Lamont and Ruha Benjamin urge us to imagine a different society. Their books challenge us to consider how a more just and livable world might be built, how it emerges and fails, and how it might be reclaimed in moments when justice is endangered."