Sarah Quinn

@sarahquinn

Sociologist who studies American politics, finance, and political economy. Broadly interested in cultural categories and power. Getting weirder by the day.

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Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· 10d

The law firm started working with Wall Street and that transformed its organizational identity and moral commitments. This is a case I would teach in an orgs or economic sociology course.

"The shift had begun when Mr. Karp decided years earlier to develop a more robust corporate practice alongside Paul Weiss’s litigation work. The wealthy firm became even wealthier, partly by riding the growth of private equity and the lucrative legal work generated by the rapid buying and selling of companies.

But the Times reporting, based on extensive interviews with current and former lawyers at the firm, access to internal documents and communications, and detailed accounts of firm meetings, shows there was a cost. The pursuit of Wall Street business in service of higher profits per partner — a key metric for law firms — was at odds with its social justice principles. When Mr. Trump took aim at Paul Weiss, in part because of its activist history, the firm’s long-simmering identity crisis became an existential crisis."

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jun 26

Ramona Quimby is currently dominating with a auction price of $1,150. People really want that Beverly Cleary signature.

A posted with the character Ramona Quimby holding and standing next to piles of books under a header that reads "libraries are forever" with a "Happy Reading! Beverly Clearly" signature on the side

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jun 1

A mentoring award voted on by the grad students and flowers from a graduating senior who is going to go on do good things in this world. Such a sweet way to end the academic year.

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· May 27

This workshop, facilitated with @whatashrinkthinks.com, is a peer space that provides support for anyone anyone who has been blown off their path, or anyone wondering if they want to stay the course or find a new one.

What does it mean to be reorganizing professional and academic careers in a time of multiple unfolding crises? Should one try to stick to one path, keep options open and responsive, or forge a new way forward? Does it make sense to change fields, or otherwise adjust your course? What does it mean to make these decisions when no one really knows what to expect or tell you? How might you manage your focus, time, and emotions in a turbulent era? What kinds of professional, social, and civic engagements do you want to cultivate? What kinds of support, back-up plans, community, and boundaries might serve you and serve the wider community?

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· May 20

For safety's sake, don't humiliate him!

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· May 20

Jokes aside, this article is cool af. I mean look at this illustration

Against a gold background, three lines of bees fly into three separate hives, one orange, one book, one white. "The illustration for bees in the Aberdeen Bestiary manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200. Aberdeen University Library Online Collections, CC BY-SA" from https://theconversation.com/why-early-medieval-ireland-had-laws-for-bees-283168

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Apr 14

All the cool popes are weak on crime

A picture of John Waters in a pink suit with a red tie

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Apr 13

Me, reading a really great manuscript written by one of my grad students.

A close up of Keith Brymer Jones from the Great Pottery Throwndown, red faced and crying because he's struck by the beauty of a piece of pottery just presented to him by a contestant

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Apr 7

When we all Get to Heaven has a Peabody nomination!! Congrats to @thislynne.bsky.social, @sjcolom.bsky.social, and Ariana Nedelman!

“When We All Get to Heaven” is a ten-part audio documentary that uncovers the powerful stories preserved in 1,200 cassette tapes from a queer church in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis, highlighting the resilience and creativity of LGBTQ Christians amid loss and isolation. Through a blend of archival recordings and contemporary interviews, the series illustrates how the church became a sanctuary for its community, honoring both their faith and queerness while fostering joy and connection during a time of profound grief.

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Feb 9

This year's contribution to the Super Bowl party: stroopwafel choco tacos

A blue plate holding homemade tacos made from stropwafel cookies filled with icee cream and topped with chocolate and peanuts

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jan 27

And methodists

A still from Blazing Saddles where the character of Hedley Lamarr lists who he wants rounded up: "I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists."

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jan 25

People want to romanticize resistance, but it is often a dull, boring, painful, awful, degrading fight for survival.

A black and white still from Shindler's List of a young boy hiding in a latrine.

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jan 4

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.” ― James Baldwin

The picture of Marco Rubio hunched over a lamp. from the Vanity Fair shoot by Christopher Anderson

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Dec 29

inside you there are two wolves

Black and white picture of an unfazed white woman in a suit next to a clown with wild upturned hair. "Bozo the Clown having a smoke with the mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne c 1980" via https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/1pxz8ep/bozo_the_clown_having_a_smoke_with_the_mayor_of/

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Nov 25

He keeps watch on the front door while I work.

A picture of a medium sized brindle dog from behind, sitting by the doorway of an office and facing the front door of a house

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Oct 14

During the AIDS epidemic a gay church in the Castro recoded its services for people too sick to attend. When We All Get to Heaven is a podcast that tells their story, and it drops Outward from @slate.com tomorrow (Oct 15th).

Title: OUTWARD presents WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN

The title is over a picture of a people in casual clothes at a choir practice, who are facing a choir director whose back is to the camera. The choir director is in jeans and chaps.

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Oct 5

Book cover for They Thought They Were Free" The Germans, 1933-45
by Milton Mayer

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter."

""You will understand me when I say that my Middle High German was my life. It was all I cared about. I was a scholar, a specialist. Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was ‘expected to’ participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."

"Those," I said, "are the words of my friend the baker. ‘One had no time to think. There was so much going on.’"

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Sep 21

What movie do you consider “perfect?”

Denzel Washington talks to a masked and hooded man in front of a bank vault

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Aug 24

Third runner up: someone/everyone takes the game too far

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Aug 23

Runner up: teen learns painful life lessons at a dance

Still from the Gilmore Girls, with a teenage girl crying in her mother's arm on an empty dance floor.

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Aug 23

Bonding over a late night snack

A picture of the golden girls sitting around a table eating cheesecake

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Aug 22

he was just hanging out like this

Brindle dog looks out the window from a sofa in a half crouched position

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jun 29

A little break

Portrait of a brindle mixed breed dog stretched out in a patch of green

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jun 26

Yes, and . . . here's a version of this where cold/bitchy/selfish women are humbled and then softened by childrearing. I remember this being a thing in the 80s.

Poster for the movie Baby Boom with Diane Keaton dressed in a suit with a briefcase holding a baby

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jun 24

close up picture of a man in glasses and a hat whose face is melting off , from Raiders of the Lost Arc

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Jun 18

This one needs its morning coffee

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· May 10

"Musk has clarified something once and for all: libertarianism doesn’t actually liberate anyone from the state. It simply destroys the last remnants of the social state, installing in its place an intensely autocratic, patrimonial form of state rule, in which personal subordination is enforced at every level of society." - Miranda Cooper, from https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/trumps-antisocial-state/

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· May 4

I don't know that one. But if we are collecting wonderful older children's books about liberation, may I suggest The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.

The cover of the Country Bunny and the Little Gold shoes, by Du Bose Heyward. A pink cover has a brown mother bunny in a line with 21 little kid bunnies, all of them dressed up.

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· May 2

The average American has three friends.

A screen shot of Susan Sarandon, Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer from the movie witches of Eastwick. They are drinking martinis and looking at a spellbook.

Sarah Quinn@sarahquinn· Apr 28

Self soothing as I watch the Canadian elections