Creative Sociology is a space for sociologists who are creative thinkers, artists, rule-breakers, and method innovators—a place to connect, collaborate, and support one another’s scholarly work and artistic passions. Creative Sociology embraces what we already know: sociology and sociologists have limitless potential. Many draw on creative products in their teaching—novels, poetry, podcasts, films, zines, journaling. Others use participatory and alternative methodological approaches in their research—drawing, photography, video, photo-voice, mapping, theater, social media, music, dance, storytelling. Some analyze literature, social media, art, movies, television, music, comics, and/or video games in their scholarship. Many of us are artist sociologists who, for example, write short stories, memoirs, graphic novels, and poetry; make art via mosaics, painting, drawing, glass, crafts, photography, and embroidery; contribute to media production with documentaries, films, podcasts, op-eds, and blogs. What unites us is that we go beyond what is expected of sociologists, using old and new methods and theories and approaches to study contemporary realities and build more inhabitable, thoughtful, and intersectional academic and social worlds.

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