Suzanna Walters

Why our girlboss era is OVER

“Desires are something that can be tapped into, but they’re also something that are manufactured,” said Suzanna Danuta Walters, a sociology professor at Northeastern. Part of the work of pop culture is to tell us what we want, whether that’s a water bottle, a red light mask, or a whole ideology. “The thing about forms of dominance […]

‘His way has to be the model’: Team Trump turns to Hungarian strongman for inspiration on higher ed

“It is very much a McCarthy period,” said Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University.

The Nation

Put Elizabeth Warren in Charge of Writing the Democratic Platform

As Suzanna Danuta Walters, the director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, so wisely observed last month in the pages of The Nation, “Elizabeth Warren Is Running an Unapologetically Intersectional Campaign.”

Haaretz

What it’s like to discover you’re non-binary

The generational disparity is very clear to Prof. Suzanna Walters, director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston, whose research work encompasses queer identity.

A defense of ‘transracial’ identity roils philosophy world

Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University and the editor of Signs, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, called the call for retraction “an attack on scholarly peer review.” Ms. Tuvel’s critics had attacked her citations and conclusions, Ms. Walters said, without engaging her reasoning. “Could Tuvel have cited different people, or made different […]

Academe’s poisonous call-out culture

We are in the midst of the Trumpian apocalypse, writes Suzanna Danuta Walters, professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Actual bigoted provocateurs like Charles Murray and Ann Coulter throw flames in the academy. Hate crimes against trans people and people of color and Muslims are on the rise; women’s reproductive rights are on the line, […]

Fusion

Why the ‘born this way’ approach to sexual orientation is failing

Suzanna Walters, the director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and the author of the book The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality, agrees—and believes our culture is at a tipping point, in which the “born this way” argument may even start to do more harm […]

The Nation

Why this socialist feminist is for Hillary

At first glance, you’d likely guess that I would proudly don a “Feel the Bern” T-shirt and make a generous donation to the democratic socialist firing up the Democratic Party. Born to leftists themselves born to leftists, I am what is known in some circles as a “red-diaper baby”: progeny of left-wing activists, often but […]

Feminist ire in all the wrong places

Indeed, feminism, in both its theoretical and its practical applications, is well known for vicious infighting. As early as 1976, the pioneer activist Jo Freeman wrote about this phenomenon in an incendiary article in Ms. Magazine calling out “trashing” or, as she put it, the “dark side of sisterhood.” And when Ti-Grace Atkinson resigned from […]

Inclusive dialogues

Suzanna Walters is an alumna of Mount Holyoke and a professor of sociology and the director of the women’s, gender and sexuality studies program at Northeastern University. She said that she expects that there was a lot of intelligent debate among students about whether to retire The Vagina Monologues, and she respects their right to produce […]