Barbara J Risman

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New column for academic writers: you will be more successful if you remind yourself why your topic is important.
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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.

Great. Thanks for letting me know!

Sorry not to get to meet you, We show up at universities around the country. And eventually will be running writing retreats. Join our mailing list at the thewritinguides.org to stay in touch!

can someone tell me how to post and get it listed on AcademicSky?

#AcademicSky Are you going to American Sociological Assoc meetings? Interested in talking about increased writing productivity & publishing? Come chat with us, The Writing Guides. Deborah Cohan and I started The Writing Guides. for just this purpose! PM what day/time frames work. No charge!

Anti-trans measures don’t just target transgender men and women – a sociologist explains how ‘male’ or ‘female’ categories miss the mark for nonbinary Americans Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content.

No matter what the Supreme Court has to say, gender diversity is here to stay!
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May democracy hold! Let’s ser what happens now…

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

We have desceneded into facism. The VA can now discriminate by political ideology, marital status and union activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Don't use attacks on Jewish community to violate American principles Even as I experience profound grief and fear at all of these events, including the the horrific murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, D.C., and the attack in Boulder, I am appal...

So glad the Rabbi of my congregation has gone public insisting that Jews are not behind Trump using anti-semitism as an excuse to trample human rights here in America. chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Thanks for re-posting

Opinion | Jews Are Afraid Right Now

Well said!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

All out ideological warfare. Chairman Mao comes to America in the body of Trump…

Anti-trans measures don’t just target transgender men and women – a sociologist explains how ‘male’ or ‘female’ categories miss the mark for nonbinary Americans The recent spate of executive orders around sex and gender impact nonbinary Americans, as well as trans Americans who identify as a man or a woman.

My new article published today in The Conversation. Why anti-trans policies are bad for non-binary people, and the rest of us. The goal of The Conversation is to publish ideas without copyright so they can be shared and re-published anywhere else... so do share! theconversation.com/anti-trans-m...

When "Family-Friendly" Really Means a Return to Patriarchy Personal Perspective: Don't be fooled. Many policies touted as "family-friendly" are anti-feminist, and bad for mothers and their children.

My new Psych Today article on MAGA "family friendly" proposals which are a return to patriachal families in disguise, pushing mothers out of the labor force. Read more below.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...

The Writing Guides Blog Is It Summer Yet? May 23, 2025 For many graduate students and faculty, summer evokes miraculous imagery during the academic year.  Many of us do not teach, or teach less in the summer, and the…

Memorial Day has come and gone. is it summer yet? A new blog for graduate students and faculty..... from #Academicsky

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May her memory always be a blessing. A feminist path-breaker…

First they came for trans youth, then trans adults and now with a ban on abortion care for those insured by the government, they have come for women too…democrats need to fight back!

First they come for the children, but it never stops there…

what a GREAT idea....anyone in Chicago interested?

Great point! Scholarship about democracy is not considered ‘biased’ because it is pro-democracy but scholarship on gender and race is considered biased if pro equality..