User:Fernmyne

Hi! I'm Fernmyne. I'm autistic and a member of the LGBT community. Some of my interests include plants, environmentalism, astrology, drugs, and languages. I'm currently a sociology major in the US in my final year of my undergraduate degree; my areas of interest are social movements, environmental sociology, and disability studies. I’m a native English speaker with intermediate knowledge of Spanish.

Most of the work I am currently focusing on is minor things like copy-editing, link rot prevention, content translation, categorization, quality assessment, etc. while I familiarize myself with the platform. If there is an article pertaining to one of my main interests/projects (see below) that you would like me to check out, feel free to post about it on my talk page.

Article drafts
Here is a list of drafts I am currently working on. Please feel free to help out if they are of any interest to you!


 * Draft:2017 Ecuadorian presidential election (content translation from article in Spanish)
 * Draft:2024 Legislative and Municipal Elections of El Salvador (content translation from article in Spanish)

Published articles

 * Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference

Contributions

 * The Managed Heart
 * Arlie Russell Hochschild

Academic career
At some point in the indefinite future I'd like to go to graduate school, but until then I don't plan on doing any formal research work. That being said, here is a bit about my past work (undergrad):

I completed a senior thesis in sociology looking at the mechanisms of emotion management in youth climate activists, drawing from the theoretical perspectives of Arlie Hochschild and Theodore Kemper as well as the social movement theory of James Jasper, Robert Benford, and David Snow.

I also conducted a pilot research methods project on the experiences of neurodivergent faculty and staff working in a selective liberal arts institution.

I'm looking to explore my interests more casually now, which I would say are:


 * Social movements, particularly the ongoing 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses and 2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States, more historically the The Troubles, HIV/AIDS activism in the 1980s-90s, the climate movement, and the disability rights movement.
 * Writers including Murray Bookchin, Erving Goffman, Ulrich Beck, and Anthony Giddens.