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
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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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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November 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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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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...
The East Wing and Women's History Matter
Why does destroying the East Wing matter to women?
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October 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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...
Reposted by Barbara J Risman
New column for academic writers: you will be more successful if you remind yourself why your topic is important.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New column for academic writers: you will be more successful if you remind yourself why your topic is important.
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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
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The Writing Guides Blog
Visit the post for more.
thewritingguides.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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
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Fascism spreads…. Eliminate education… fight back Texas!
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/
October 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Fascism spreads…. Eliminate education… fight back Texas!
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?
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October 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Just so no suspense, the answer to my question is no, at least not in US now. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
#academicsky @academicsky.org . Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? | Psychology Today The answer is NO, not in America today....
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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
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#academicsky @academicsky.org . Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? | Psychology Today The answer is NO, not in America today....
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
So proud of my over and mayor. Resist federal presence policing cities!
Reposted by Barbara J Risman
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.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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.
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...
Where Have All the Women Gone?
Personal Perspective: The women, at least those at the top, are disappearing.
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August 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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. .
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July 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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. .
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
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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July 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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.
"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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July 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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.
#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!
July 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#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!
No matter what the Supreme Court has to say, gender diversity is here to stay!
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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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June 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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…
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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June 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
May democracy hold! Let’s ser what happens now…
We have desceneded into facism. The VA can now discriminate by political ideology, marital status and union activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘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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June 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We have desceneded into facism. The VA can now discriminate by political ideology, marital status and union activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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/...
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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June 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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/...
All out ideological warfare. Chairman Mao comes to America in the body of Trump…
"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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May 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
All out ideological warfare. Chairman Mao comes to America in the body of Trump…
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...
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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May 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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...
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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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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May 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
Memorial Day has come and gone. is it summer yet? A new blog for graduate students and faculty..... from #Academicsky
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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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May 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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…
Susan Brownmiller has died. AGAINST OUR WILL, published 50 years ago this fall, was a landmark book about rape and misogyny that shaped so much subsequent scholarship.
Susan Brownmiller, Who Reshaped Views About Rape, Dies at 90
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May 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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!
🚨Due to extreme 11th-hour additions, the reconciliation bill that was passed now seeks to ban Affordable Care Act health care plans from covering abortion and gender-affirming care for all Medicaid patients, including adults.🚨
Republicans snuck two devastating health care measures into Trump's megabill
“When this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this.”
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May 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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!