There are many, many blogs for and/or by scholars on the margins of academia. Below, you will find a general list of blogs, followed by those of particular social locations (e.g., women of color). Please note that we do not wish to (mis)place people into identity boxes; rather, we offer loose categories to guide particular interests of our readers.
This is a growing list, so please let us know of others that we have missed!
Critical Blogs:
- The Academic Activist
- Rebel Research Collective
- Dr. Sarah Kendzior’s blog
- Pan Kisses Kafka (Rebecca Schuman)
- Faculty Orientations
- Postadrianism (Glen Jankowski)
- The Homeless Adjunct
- Write Where It Hurts
Women of Color:
- Refuse the Silence
- the other class (Manya Whitaker)
- Fight the Tower
- Aware of Awareness (Crystal Fleming)
- Margaria Aziza, Reflections at the Intersection of Islam, Race, and Gender
- The Feminist Wire
- The Feminist Griote
- tressiemc (Tressie McMillan Cottom)
- No Extra Credit (Nyasha Junior)
- Crunk Feminist Collective
- 2 Dope Sistahs
- Isis the Scientist
- Latinas Completing Doctoral Degrees
Fat Women:
- The Fat Chick Sings
- Two Whole Cakes
- Dances With Fat
- Friend of Marilyn
- The Rotund (Marianne Kirby)
- Obesity Timebomb (Charlotte Cooper)
- Badass Fatass (Michaela A. Nowell)
Women:
- Jeana Jorgensen, Ph.D.
- College Ready Writing (Lee Skallerup)
- Tenure, She Wrote
- Female Science Professor
- Academic Jungle
- University of Venus
- Hook and Eye
- Thus Spake Zuska
- Feminist Philosophers
- TrowelBlazers
- Female Computer Scientist (also, here)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- Feministing
- Reassigned Time 2.0
- The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
- Rogue Cheerios
- Balancing Jane
- Scientist Mother
- Surviving Academia
- mitacoach (“Mothering In the Academy” Coach)
- feMOMhist
- #HopeJahrenSureCanWrite
- Blue Lab Coats
- The Tight Rope
- What is it Like to be a Woman in Philosophy?
- The Feminist Wire
- Gender and Society Journal blog
- Girl w/ a Pen (The Society Pages)
- Feimineach.com
- The Saucy Scholar (Meredith Heller)
- Women in Astronomy
People of Color:
- Racism Review
- The Color Line (The Society Pages)
- Mentoring Blog (ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities)
- Racialicious
- JAPAN Sociology
- Black In Blue (Tony Gaskew)
LGBT and Queer People:
- Social (In)Queery (CJ Pascoe, Jane Ward, Tey Meadows, and others)
- Queer Metropolis (Jason Orne)
- Queer(ing) Law (Jeff Kosbie)
- The Network for LGBT Health Equity
- Criticality (Michael Broder)
- Center of Gravitas
- The Lab and Field (Alex Bond)
- Denim and Tweed (Jeremy Yoder)
Trans* and Gender Non-Conforming People:
- The Intersex Roadshow (Cary Gabriel Costello)
- TransFusion (Cary Gabriel Costello)
- Trannysaurus Wrex (joe l. simonis)
- Gendertrash Cafe
LGBT and Queer People of Color:
- QueerBlackFemininst (Andreana Clay)
- Sista Outsider
- Voice of Consciousness (Abigail A. Sewell)
- Black Girl Dangerous
- blac (k) ademic (Kortney Ryan Ziegler)
Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women:
- Feminist Pigs (Jane Ward)
- Lesboprof (The Chronicle)
- The Madwoman With a Laptop (Marilee Lindemann)
- Tenured Radical (Claire Potter)
- Bricolage (Michelle Kweder)
- Balanced Instability
- Hunter of Justice (Nan Hunter)
- Autostraddle
- Your Queer Prof (D’Lane Compton)
- Marx In Drag (Mimi Schippers)
Disabled People/People with Disabilities:
- Disabled Philosophers
- Where’s Lulu?
- Lefty by Default (Laura Overstreet)
- Adventures of a Part-Time Wheeler
- Crip Confessions (Bethany Stevens)
- PhD(isabled)
- My New Kentucky Home (Erin Breedlove)
- Rolling with the Punches
Poor and Working-Class People:
- Working-Class Perspectives
- Sociology on the Margins (Karen Kendrick)
Liberal Arts Careers:
- Small Pond Science (Terry McGlynn)
- Memoirs of a SLACer
- Soc’ing Out Loud (Bradley Koch)
Alternative Careers:
- From PhD to Life
- #alt-ac
- Alt-Ac Liberation
- Escape the Ivory Tower
- From Grad School to Happiness
- A Post-Academic in NYC
- Another Academic Bites the Dust
- Chronicles of a Recovering Academic
- Doctor Outta Here
- Beyond the Tenure Track
Contingent Faculty:
- Pan Kisses Kafka (Rebecca Schuman)
- A Year of Living Academically
- The Smart Casual
- Fugitive Faculty (Miranda Merklein)
- The Adjunct Project blog (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The Adjunct Crisis
- Adjunct Purgatory
- Adjunctaurus
- As the Adjunctiverse Turns
Advice Blogs:
- GradHacker blog (Inside Higher Ed)
- The Professor is In (Karen Kelsky)
- Get a Life, PhD (Tanya Golash-Boza)
- Words Are My Game (Liana M. Silva-Ford)
- PhD Talk (Eva Lantsoght)
- The Early Career Blog (University of Cambridge Career Services)
- Nick Hopwood’s blog
- The Hidden Curriculum (ASA Sociology of Education Section)
- Daren C. Brabham, Ph.D.’s blog
- #ECRChat
General Academic Blogs:
- The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs
- Inside Higher Ed Blogs
- The Academe Blog (AAUP)
- University of Flies
- New Faculty
- Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega’s blog
- Grumpy rumblings of the (formerly!) untenured
- Overworked TA
- Surviving Grad School
- InBetween
- Not of General Interest
- Confessions of a Community College Dean
- The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar
- xykademiqz
- The Misadventures of Dr. Beech (Megan Beech)
- 27 and a PhD
- scatterplot
- orgtheory
- a (budding) sociologist’s commonplace book (Dan Hirschman)
- what is the what (Jenn Lena)
Educational Blogs:
- Sociological Images (The Society Pages)
- Inequality by (Interior) Design (Tristan Bridges)
- Family Inequality (Philip Cohen)
- The Sociological Cinema (U. Maryland Sociology)
- Sociology Source
- Everyday Sociology blog
- Creative Sociology (Todd Schoepflin)
- SOCIOLOGYtoolbox (Todd Beer)