Casey Johnston
@caseyjohnston.bsky.social
Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION, a Bookshop Best Seller!
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey-johnston/a-physical-education/9781538773253/
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https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey-johnston/a-physical-education/9781538773253/
science writer/author
Newsletter shesabeast.co
LIFTOFF couchtobarbell.com
instagram swolewoman
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Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
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Just listening to A Physical Education by @caseyjohnston.bsky.social and she has a chapter in the book about this!
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just listening to A Physical Education by @caseyjohnston.bsky.social and she has a chapter in the book about this!
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Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
Stopped reading NYT on purpose a year ago and my life has improved measurably lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Stopped reading NYT on purpose a year ago and my life has improved measurably lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
i rarely ever overhead-press 65 pounds and I've been lifting for over a decade. weights simply don't want to be lifted overhead and i've learned to respect their boundaries
dear @caseyjohnston.bsky.social :
I finally got to my first 100lb lift today (DL 🙄) but fear I will have a 65lb OHP forever.
I finally got to my first 100lb lift today (DL 🙄) but fear I will have a 65lb OHP forever.
October 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
i rarely ever overhead-press 65 pounds and I've been lifting for over a decade. weights simply don't want to be lifted overhead and i've learned to respect their boundaries
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Smart appliances aren't smart. They're skeevy little rats telling your secrets to giant corporations who sell your life to other giant corporations because they can. Your Roomba and Alexa are basically creepy stalkers. Don't let them into your home.
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Smart appliances aren't smart. They're skeevy little rats telling your secrets to giant corporations who sell your life to other giant corporations because they can. Your Roomba and Alexa are basically creepy stalkers. Don't let them into your home.
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ICE is tear gassing schools
October 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ICE is tear gassing schools
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Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
earnest question: was he drunk www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
earnest question: was he drunk www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
Excited to unpack this in the next newsletter
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Excited to unpack this in the next newsletter
I can’t recommend enough talking a walk or bike ride where you live and seeing who needs help right where you are
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I can’t recommend enough talking a walk or bike ride where you live and seeing who needs help right where you are
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I zipped thru @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's A Physical Education in two days. (I had planned on three, because I'm giving the book to my daughter for her birthday today!) I enjoyed this book a lot and it may even get me to go to the gym with my kid. LOL
October 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I zipped thru @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's A Physical Education in two days. (I had planned on three, because I'm giving the book to my daughter for her birthday today!) I enjoyed this book a lot and it may even get me to go to the gym with my kid. LOL
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Have never listened to @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast, but followed them on Bsky because of urbanist mutuals like @nerd4cities.bsky.social , @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social , etc.
After seeing 10,000,000 posts, I have finally broken down and preordered Life After Cars. Very much looking forward to it
After seeing 10,000,000 posts, I have finally broken down and preordered Life After Cars. Very much looking forward to it
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Have never listened to @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast, but followed them on Bsky because of urbanist mutuals like @nerd4cities.bsky.social , @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social , etc.
After seeing 10,000,000 posts, I have finally broken down and preordered Life After Cars. Very much looking forward to it
After seeing 10,000,000 posts, I have finally broken down and preordered Life After Cars. Very much looking forward to it
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I've read Casey Johnston's work for quite some time now, and I've always found her writing to be smart, engaging and worth my time. I'll be getting this book. Check it out. You may want to read it, too.
Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
October 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I've read Casey Johnston's work for quite some time now, and I've always found her writing to be smart, engaging and worth my time. I'll be getting this book. Check it out. You may want to read it, too.
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hell yeah. it is never wrong to be strong
October 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
hell yeah. it is never wrong to be strong
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I've had the pleasure of coaching dozens of female lifters in my life and more than a few talked about what a difference Caseys perspective made in their journeys
Can't wait to read this and I hope yall will give it a read too
Can't wait to read this and I hope yall will give it a read too
Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I've had the pleasure of coaching dozens of female lifters in my life and more than a few talked about what a difference Caseys perspective made in their journeys
Can't wait to read this and I hope yall will give it a read too
Can't wait to read this and I hope yall will give it a read too
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I don't know what I was expecting when I put on this audiobook. Maybe a standard bro-science success story? Maybe a fun story about "getting in shape"? This book is more. Maybe I just stumbled onto it at the right time for me, but I can't say enough about how impressed I am with this book. Read it!
Today is the day! My book is out in the world. It’s not a friendly world for writing about science or women or especially women’s bodies right now. But I’m so proud to be telling a story that makes a certain type of person very, very angry. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/casey...
October 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I don't know what I was expecting when I put on this audiobook. Maybe a standard bro-science success story? Maybe a fun story about "getting in shape"? This book is more. Maybe I just stumbled onto it at the right time for me, but I can't say enough about how impressed I am with this book. Read it!
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100% not my business as a non runner, non boob haver, but the recent iteration of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's newsletter re sports bras was wicked interesting. I remember when sports bras were introduced, naively... 🧵
www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory
In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!
www.shesabeast.co
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
100% not my business as a non runner, non boob haver, but the recent iteration of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's newsletter re sports bras was wicked interesting. I remember when sports bras were introduced, naively... 🧵
www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
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This was very informative and interesting!!
if you need a break from *gestures broadly* i wrote two thousand words about boobs www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory
In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!
www.shesabeast.co
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This was very informative and interesting!!
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"I submit there are a lot of sports bras out there that very likely make running more painful than running without a bra at all, especially if you have large breasts, because they turn what would otherwise be virtually painless 'swing' into all 'bounce'."
if you need a break from *gestures broadly* i wrote two thousand words about boobs www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory
In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!
www.shesabeast.co
September 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"I submit there are a lot of sports bras out there that very likely make running more painful than running without a bra at all, especially if you have large breasts, because they turn what would otherwise be virtually painless 'swing' into all 'bounce'."
if you need a break from *gestures broadly* i wrote two thousand words about boobs www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
running without a bra, part two: horseshoe theory
In the matter of "medium support" sports bras, we must ask, qui bene? Plus: baggy workout pants; a lift-and-run program; the last payphone before the forest. This is Link Letter 175!
www.shesabeast.co
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
if you need a break from *gestures broadly* i wrote two thousand words about boobs www.shesabeast.co/running-with...
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RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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lifting very heavy things on a regular basis is one of those things that make you feel capable of fighting fascism, and I just want everyone to know that
(I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)
(I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)
September 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
lifting very heavy things on a regular basis is one of those things that make you feel capable of fighting fascism, and I just want everyone to know that
(I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)
(I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)
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started reading casey last year> lifting > carried a bookshelf home by myself that i found on the nyc sidewalk and a passing construction guy said "girl you look STRONG"
read this book and that could be u
read this book and that could be u
my publisher reliably tells me that there is no such thing as selling enough books, and i have to keep going forever til i die. to that end, you should check out the book I wrote, A Physical Education, which inspired Cheryl Strayed to start powerlifting and costs only $5.42 if you ask ChatGPT
A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting
How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting
bookshop.org
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
started reading casey last year> lifting > carried a bookshelf home by myself that i found on the nyc sidewalk and a passing construction guy said "girl you look STRONG"
read this book and that could be u
read this book and that could be u