Barbara J Risman

Sociology is being banned In Florida!

Unfortunately an accurate description…

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

If you know any UIC students, pass this on. The opportunity to study in Amsterdam this summer. 6 credits for barely more than it costs to earn them living in Chicago! Scholarships available...

Let’s just face it, big firms got us into this mess Rising income inequality has ravaged working class families in the US. Political parties are partly to blame. But what about the role of big firms?

A interesting, important, blog by my friend and colleague sociologist Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. Increasing inequality, political instability.... and what comes next?

blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

The Writing Guides Blog Kicking off the New Year & New Semester With a Field Goal: Or At Least a Reflection On Your Goals! January 19, 2026 January is not only the start of a new semester, but it’s the start of a New …

A column from thewritingguides. Take time to reflect on success. What's your career goal? You can't get somewhere if you don't know the desired destination! @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @sociologymag.bsky.social @wrtrstat.bsky.social

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The Writing Guides Blog Kicking off the New Year & New Semester With a Field Goal: Or At Least a Reflection On Your Goals! January 19, 2026 January is not only the start of a new semester, but it’s the start of a New …

My newest column from @thewritingguides.org for academic writers, students and faculty. Take time to reflect on your destination because you cannot get there if you don't know where you want to go.....
thewritingguides.org/the-writing-... #Academicsky #sociology @sociology

Family-friendly policies for 2026? Many would put money in family pockets Deseret News asked a variety of family experts for suggestions on policies to help families.

My toughts on what social policies we need for families in 2026
www.deseret.com/politics/202...

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More Than Postpartum: Tracking Differences in the Arc of Maternal Depression Across Liberal Welfare Regimes

New research shows that both national policies and personal resources shape postpartum depression recovery.

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What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong? The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.

Very smart essay by @philipncohen.com on why you needn’t worry about the dropping birth rate. newrepublic.com/article/2040...

Come join me in my capacity as a Writing Guide at the Work/Family Research Network conference in Montreal next June. Ingo and registration below

#AcademicChatter #writingsky

The Writing Guides Blog Winding Down Writing (and Everything Else) for 2025 December 2, 2025 It’s that time of year again.  Thanksgiving break is behind us, and a marathon of grading is just beginning. And for many o…

My newest blig for @thewritingguides. What to do over winter vacation? Take a break. A real one. You deserve it. We all do! #academicsky

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Have a Merry, Consensual Christmas Personal Perspective: Even during the holidays, it's not always clear when sexual activity is unwanted. Sometimes it isn't black and white but grey.

My new column in Psych Today. Watch out for the gray area of sexual consent. New book by Myers and Wallace, Exploiting, Enduring and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area: Taking It.
Have a Merry, Consensual Christmas | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...

The Category X research Team speaking on our cross-national project on the realities of life for non-binary people in the US, Spain, Italy and Australia at the University of Valencia.

The Writing Guides Blog Writing as Resistance November 3, 2025 We live in unprecedented times.  A good friend and colleague once strongly advised me to keep my writing blogs entirely apolitical.  After all, ther…

My newest blog from The Writing Guides. Your writing, your science, matters! Keep it up, no matter what. Writing is resistance. #AcademicChatter #Phdchat #academicsky #phdsky

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The East Wing and Women's History Matter Why does destroying the East Wing matter to women?

My newest column in Psychology Today. The East Wing and Women's History Matter | @academic-chatter.bsky.social #Academicsky www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...

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New column for academic writers: you will be more successful if you remind yourself why your topic is important.
thewritingguides.org/the-writing-... #AcademicSky @thephdplace.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @ccfamilies.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social

The Writing Guides Blog Visit the post for more.

New column for academic writers: you will be more successful if you remind yourself why your topic is important.
thewritingguides.org/the-writing-... #AcademicSky @thephdplace.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @ccfamilies.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Fascism spreads…. Eliminate education… fight back Texas!

Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? Personal Perspective: Gender matters for teaching about families, workplaces, and even children's literature, but when social science is censored, where does that leave students?

Just so no suspense, the answer to my question is no, at least not in US now. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...

Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? Personal Perspective: Gender matters for teaching about families, workplaces, and even children's literature, but when social science is censored, where does that leave students?

#academicsky @academicsky.org . Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? | Psychology Today The answer is NO, not in America today....
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...

So proud of my over and mayor. Resist federal presence policing cities!

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Where Have All the Women Gone? Personal Perspective: The women, at least those at the top, are disappearing.

My newest article in Psychology Today. Te Trump administration fires all the top women in the military and many in the rest of government. One of s many strategies to return us to a white male patriachy..... Where Have All the Women Gone? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...

pod.link/1823280529Now featured on Apple Podcasts in the New Trailers Swoosh (whatever that is).... a very interesting podcast about current gender politics, especially in heterosexual marriage. How we got here, and some solutions.. Yours truly interviewed in Episodes 2 and 3. .

The Work Behind the Work The Work Behind the Work is a WorkingNation podcast about why raising children in America has become so difficult, and what that reveals about our entire economy. Hosted by WorkingNation executive pro...

A podcast about how our economy depends on women but is a structural impediment to our success. You can hear me on Episode 2 and 3.... Great for use in the classroom! pod.link/1823280529/episode/f58934641baa28a5dd352edfc97710db @academicsky.org

Scary times. As the Atlantic has written, republicans have found their class warfare-destroy the educated class. 4 strategies: defund science, scare away foreign students, tax endorsements, muzzle free speech under the fiction of fighting antisemitism.

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