I’m excited to share my new article in @socprobsjournal! I analyze why gay men often felt that it was difficult to socialize with gay others in Philly gay bars — how is social interaction thwarted in ostensibly social spaces? 1/

What’s a “stranger” in the digital age? If we’ve interacted online, do we know each other offline? Excited to share my latest research on how queer men wrestle with these questions in their everyday interactions in ⁦@qualsoc⁩

this 👏! I theorize these digital relationships as “acquainted strangers.” In work under review, i’m analyzing how they create “asymmetrical intimacies” - “I know so much about them but I also know nothing about them 😅🤡” https://t.co/l5QkpgA2dm

This looks like a fantastic week! 🔥👏

I passed my dissertation with distinction and am now Dr. Baldor! It’s surreal that my time at Penn is over, but I’m not leaving Philly just yet—I’m excited to announce that I will be a Postdoctoral Lecturer at @Princeton in their writing program this fall!

I got word today that I received the @PennGSWS 2021 Lynda S. Hart Teaching Award! I’m truly honored to be recognized for my teaching, and what a nice way to end my Intro to Queer Studies course this week 🥲

I’m excited to present a work-in-progress at @pennurban today, based on fieldwork I conducted in Santa Fe, NM with @JayOrne as my discussant! Open to all from 3-4pm; feel free to DM me for the meeting link!

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My dad likes to tell a story: In the early 2000s, he ran into a woman from *Match* in a rural New England grocery store. She pretended he didn’t exist. Clearly, that stuck w him. I offer that we all wrestle w acquainted strangers in our everyday lives. /fin

Gay patrons share their bodies & intimate desires on apps and then don’t say hi in bars. We risk affording “acquainted strangers” with too much familiarity—and possibly losing face—or with too little—and alienating/offending them. 5/ https://t.co/zB2OQYZUfI

3. Patrons struggled over how to interact w ppl with whom they “knew” from social media like hookup apps — a social tie I call “acquainted strangers.” 4/

2. Gay bars host competing frames for understanding social activity — as sexual fields and community outposts — and patrons lacked clear interaction codes for differentiating between frames. This made interaction particularly fraught. 3/

I engage in “ethnography of a negative case” by analyzing moments when interaction could have occurred but didn’t. What impeded interaction? 1. Men’s fear of appearing effeminate constrained their bodies and voices 2/

“The LGBTQ+ community has ‘very little iconography in our city, and this mural of Gloria is the most important mural in the LGBTQ and Latin[x] community. It has no business being moved.’”

I can’t believe we really used to gather in sweaty dark nightclubs like all the time. Music so loud we can’t hear eachother. Lights strobing so fast we could barely see.

How have COVID-19 relief responses failed to consider and address anti-LGBTQ+ biases?

This is a powerful short film on Grind-ing while Black. Highly recommend to new media/digital scholars and sexualities folks

today, co-star told me to “read something closely for once” #ouch

Fascinating research. From my own (forthcoming) work, the social organization of some gay spaces and the ambiguity of interacting with fellow mobile hookup users offline can exacerbate these pressures

Thank you @trevorhoppe for graciously “zooming in” to my Deviance class today—our first remote meeting no less—to discuss “Punishing Disease” and social control in the age of COVID-19