This is the third of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1 and Reflection #2). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to have their thoughts shared publicly. By GabiContinue reading ““I Wasn’t Aware That Most of My Classmates Hadn’t Interacted with Firearms Before” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #3)”
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Sociology of Guns Module 7: Gender, Sexuality, and Guns
Module 6 is not covered in these posts because it is a work week for students as I will be presenting on Gun Culture 2.0 at the Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference in Vermont that week. Recognizing that the four parts of the Holy Quaternity of sociology (race, class, gender, and sexuality) intersect,Continue reading “Sociology of Guns Module 7: Gender, Sexuality, and Guns”
Queers with Guns? Against the LGBT Grain
For the past 18 months, I have been co-editing, with Trent Steidley of the University of Denver, a special issue of the scholarly journal, Sociological Perspectives. The theme is “A Sociology of Firearms for the 21st Century.” A major goal we had in soliciting and selecting articles for the special issue was to expand theContinue reading “Queers with Guns? Against the LGBT Grain”
Gun Curious 