Sandra Joy Russell, PhD

Read Maria Sonevytsky’s incredible piece in The London Ukrainian Review:

www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/everyd...

Happy Dogtoberfest from my sweet pup 🩵🤍

Happy National sons day to my sweetest muppet

Did all the jobs get raptured this year because so far there are like 2 in my field.

Strange to see Texas A&M advertising a tt job in literary studies with an emphasis on literary rep of gender and sexuality just after they fired a faculty member for discussing “gender ideology.” (Obviously this wasn’t a departmental decision, but I can’t imagine who would want this job).

Ministry of Violence James Dobson is dead, leaving behind the legacy of poisoned politics he created, and countless children and adults who live with the pain of surviving the...

In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

An Anti-Eulogy for James Dobson. Read on my Substack! 👇

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An Anti-Eulogy for James Dobson dedicated to everyone who has had to unlearn Christian hate

I wrote an anti-eulogy for James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, who died this week at 89.

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what's so chilling, to me, in all the evangelical parenting manuals i read and the testimony i received from survivors, is the idea in evangelical circles that striking your child in a cool and ritualistic manner is somehow better than doing so in anger. it isn't. it really isn't

Someone tell me this is my year ffs.

🚨 Russia is attacking Dnipro and Kharkiv with ballistic missiles.

Explosions have been heard in both cities.

Let's not revive the "Ukr is super corrupt" narrative! Ukr's corruption is moderate (lower than Hungary, btw) and has declined since 2014. Backlash against anticorruption institutions isn't unusual; it happened in Italy in 1990s, in Romania in 2010s. Anticorruption inevitably gets politicized.

Protesters gathered in Ukrainian cities on July 22 in response to a bill passed by Ukraine's parliament that strips anti-corruption bodies of their independence.

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Wow, Florence, too. Seemingly right outside my house.

One emotion I feel a lot in the era of conflict-driven social media engagement is the secondhand embarrassment and vague disgust at the desperation of other people’s attempts to be shocking.

Maybe tangential* (these thumbs were built for typos)

This is so beautiful.

Maybe a tangential, but I love the way @swordsjew.bsky.social writes about Kyiv here. A city that holds a great big piece of my heart.

Damn, this is so beautiful, as always. Thank you for sharing.

They are unfailingly consistent at that.

Since when are communists republicans? lol what

You will be amazing no matter what path you take, Lily!!

Also- this job ad is likely a typo!! 😆 though adjunct salaries are typically very low regardless.

A PhD can be still be a good route, but I wouldn’t recommend doing one with the assumption that there are/will be tt jobs offering a living wage. Good to have backup plans and be open to how it can prepare you for a lot of different careers! I’m sure your dad has good insight on this :)

It’s nice to see the academic job market finally be honest ☺️

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

so many women who grew up in the church were told by Christian men that they’re the ones who can and will keep us safe.

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The Critical Interconnectedness of Immigration Rights and Abortion Rights remembering the precarious reality of the border and bearing witness to unjust death

Amidst horrific ICE raids and the death this week of Adriana Smith—I’m thinking about my experience 13 years ago on the Migrant Trail, and how immigration rights and justice is critically interconnected with abortion rights. Would love if you read and subscribe.

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