Tyler Baldor

Sociologist researching culture, interaction, sexualities, & cities. Visiting Assistant Professor @BrynMawrCollege PhD @Penn. Views are my own.

[Tyler Baldor @tylerbaldor]

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/

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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 https://t.co/marwDDOtaX

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@tylerburgese @TiagoMacCosta thanks for the shout out! Beyond sociology, I'm thinking about Delany's "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue"

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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

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This looks like a fantastic week! 🔥👏

[Amy L Stone @AmyLStone1]

This week in my sexualities class. @tylerbaldor

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@theyoungjoo @12claire12 Similarly, my MA thesis cleaved to “No Girls Allowed?” in Ethnography and “Acquainted Strangers” in Social Problems—the latter was a distracting kernel in the MA that I further developed later. It was freeing to realize it could be more than 1 paper!

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@dawntesinferno Pls tell me I’m not the only one who succumbed quickly to “message in a bottle” tho !!

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@CalliopeWard @Princeton Callie! Hi! Thank you!

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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!

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@ReginaSBaker @Princeton Thank you!!

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@bshestakofsky @Princeton Thank you!

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@Amin_Ghaziani Thank you, Amin!!

[Tyler Baldor @tylerbaldor]

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 🥲

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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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@queerdievalist @chucksmithRTW @socprobsjournal It’s counterintuitive for sure! but that’s what Adam meant— he doesn’t think this gay bar is a safe space where he can be comfortable, and he goes anyway. Quotes like this motivated my analysis - why?

[Tyler Baldor @tylerbaldor]

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/

[Tyler Baldor @tylerbaldor]

@AJBlashill @socprobsjournal social organization really does matter here. Do some gay spaces engender more pressures than others? Does this vary by time of day? By where one physically is in the space (at the bar vs a dance floor)? etc.

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@AJBlashill @socprobsjournal Absolutely, I’d argue that the social organization of * some* gay spaces and the ambiguity of interacting with fellow mobile hookup users offline can exacerbate intraminority stress.

[Tyler Baldor @tylerbaldor]

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

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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