Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 008 – Sociology Studies with Lauren Sardi! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Sardi about her area of expertise, Sociology and Women & Gender Studies, and specifically about how those fields intersect. Please follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/quinnipiacswiftie Theme song: Lakal by Blue Dot Sessions Created, hosted, and produced by: Ari Perez Mejia Our guest today was Lauren Sardi, Professor of Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies, as well as the Director of the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary & Integrative Studies at Quinnipiac University https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/lauren-sardi/ In this episode we talked about the following: “TikTok, Twitter, and Platform-Specific Technocultural Discourse in Response to Taylor Swift’s LGBTQ+ Allyship in ‘You Need to Calm Down’” https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945225 Taylor Swift: The Rolling Stone Interview (2019) https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/taylor-swift-rolling-stone-interview-880794/ Taylor Swift: No Longer ‘Polite at All Costs’ (2020) https://variety.com/2020/music/features/taylor-swift-politics-sundance-documentary-miss-americana-1203471910/ She Pop: Taylor Swift Wants To Ban Access To Your Lady Bits (2009) https://web.archive.org/web/20230626161547/https://bitchmedia.org/post/taylor-swift-wants-to-ban-access-to-your-lady-bits