Sociology: do anything and call it work

The internet helps Egyptian women get jobs, but the law doesn't care and they still need to learn how to use a computer.

Digital tools make running a business way easier for women in Turkey, but being a girlboss doesn't magically fix sexism or the fact that she still has to do all the housework.

Lebanese women selling stuff online are exhausted because being your own boss just means you never stop working and still have to do all the housework.

Indonesian officials and religious leaders can't agree on whether vaccines are "holy" enough, so everyone is just confused and nobody wants the shot.

Trans people in Thailand and the US both get screwed over by the same imperialist bullshit, just in slightly different flavors.

Trans health research is usually a depressing mess written by cis people who think they're broken; we should probably try actually talking to trans people and focusing on something other than just how much life sucks.

Thai trans women are stressed because society is a mess, but they're dealing with it.

Trans people in southern New Mexico can't get decent healthcare because the system is a mess, so maybe we should actually listen to them for once.

The healthcare system in the Philippines is so cisnormative and inaccessible that trans people have to build their own DIY medical networks on social media just to survive, and honestly, the government should probably take notes.

The Philippine healthcare system is so transphobic and colonial that trans people basically don't exist in medicine, so we need to stop ignoring them and actually fix this shit.

Trans people in the Philippines have to choose between their healthcare and literally everything else because the system is rigged, so we should probably fix that.

The author put GoPros on kids in gardens to see if Deleuze and Haraway could help us survive COVID, and all they got was some trippy video art about posthumanism.

Geography class is basically just organizing a box of toys, so we should probably mention that how we build stuff literally ruins life for anyone who isn't "normal."

McLuhan wrote a textbook for kids because they're tech-obsessed zombies who forgot how to use their actual eyeballs and ears.

The author made students walk around and sniff things so they'd actually care about sociology.

Gentrification in Beirut makes people feel like crap, so activists tried to get them to ask the government for help, even though the government is the one screwing them over.