Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, UIC. Co-Founder, the Writing Guides (thewritingguides.org). Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (Germany) in 2025. See more at www.barbararisman.com. Gender scholar .. more
Professor of Sociology, UIC. Co-Founder, the Writing Guides (thewritingguides.org). Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (Germany) in 2025. See more at www.barbararisman.com. Gender scholar
Barbara J. Risman is professor and head of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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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…
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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?
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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.
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
Fascism spreads…. Eliminate education… fight back Texas!
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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?
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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?
www.psychologytoday.com
#academicsky @academicsky.org . Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? | Psychology Today The answer is NO, not in America today....
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Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Sep 30
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.
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.
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.
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.
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Aug 28
Where Have All the Women Gone?
Personal Perspective: The women, at least those at the top, are disappearing.
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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...
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Jul 30
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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. .
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Jul 25
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...
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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
"Indiana University-Bloomington should not be turned into a trade school with Division One football and basketball."
The situation in Indiana is a red flag for all of higher ed. And I'm grateful to the @chicagotribune.com editorial board for taking a stand.
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The situation in Indiana is a red flag for all of higher ed. And I'm grateful to the @chicagotribune.com editorial board for taking a stand.
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Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought
Taking an axe to degree programs at Indiana University makes no sense.
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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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· Jul 8
Editorial: Indiana University, Ball State and Purdue are gutted without logic or thought
Taking an axe to degree programs at Indiana University makes no sense.
www.chicagotribune.com
"Indiana University-Bloomington should not be turned into a trade school with Division One football and basketball."
The situation in Indiana is a red flag for all of higher ed. And I'm grateful to the @chicagotribune.com editorial board for taking a stand.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
The situation in Indiana is a red flag for all of higher ed. And I'm grateful to the @chicagotribune.com editorial board for taking a stand.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/e...
Great. Thanks for letting me know!
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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!
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Jun 18
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
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No matter what the Supreme Court has to say, gender diversity is here to stay!
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Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Federal District Court Judge William G. Young delivered a win for science today, ruling that many recent NIH grant cancellations are "void and illegal".
“This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s L.G.B.T.Q. community,” he said. “That’s what this is.”
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“This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s L.G.B.T.Q. community,” he said. “That’s what this is.”
#Academicsky
Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules
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May democracy hold! Let’s ser what happens now…
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Trump’s Cuts to N.I.H. Grants Focused on Minority Groups Are Illegal, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com
Federal District Court Judge William G. Young delivered a win for science today, ruling that many recent NIH grant cancellations are "void and illegal".
“This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s L.G.B.T.Q. community,” he said. “That’s what this is.”
#Academicsky
“This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s L.G.B.T.Q. community,” he said. “That’s what this is.”
#Academicsky
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Jun 16
‘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
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We have desceneded into facism. The VA can now discriminate by political ideology, marital status and union activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· Jun 10
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...
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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
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· May 29
"The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change." www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
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All out ideological warfare. Chairman Mao comes to America in the body of Trump…
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Phaedra C. Pezzullo
@phaedra.bsky.social
· May 29
Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
www.insidehighered.com
"The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change." www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· May 29
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.
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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...
Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· May 27
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.
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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.
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Barbara J Risman
@drbjrisman.bsky.social
· May 27
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…
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Memorial Day has come and gone. is it summer yet? A new blog for graduate students and faculty..... from #Academicsky
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