Joelle Kidd
@joellekidd.bsky.social
Writer and editor | Tkaronto | she/her
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For author @joellekidd.bsky.social, Christian pop was where the sacred met the commercial with a dash of the utterly mundane. “It was sugar-free candy: not bad for you, not particularly good either.” thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...
September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For author @joellekidd.bsky.social, Christian pop was where the sacred met the commercial with a dash of the utterly mundane. “It was sugar-free candy: not bad for you, not particularly good either.” thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...
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We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We have some wonderful authors signing books in our booth at The Word On The Street Toronto this year! We hope to see you there! 📚 @paulvermeersch.bsky.social @aaronkreuter.bsky.social @joellekidd.bsky.social @tonialaird.bsky.social @kjaiello.bsky.social
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“Christian pop is like the uncanny valley of music—almost, but unsettlingly not quite.”
Writer and editor @joellekidd.bsky.social reminisces on what it was like growing up in a world where pop culture and faith collided in strange ways: thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...
Writer and editor @joellekidd.bsky.social reminisces on what it was like growing up in a world where pop culture and faith collided in strange ways: thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“Christian pop is like the uncanny valley of music—almost, but unsettlingly not quite.”
Writer and editor @joellekidd.bsky.social reminisces on what it was like growing up in a world where pop culture and faith collided in strange ways: thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...
Writer and editor @joellekidd.bsky.social reminisces on what it was like growing up in a world where pop culture and faith collided in strange ways: thewalrus.ca/the-agony-and-th...
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Jesusland by @joellekidd.bsky.social is an August Spotify Editors' Pick! open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5IM...
August 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Jesusland by @joellekidd.bsky.social is an August Spotify Editors' Pick! open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5IM...
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The First Thousand Trees by @premeemohamed.com, Jesusland by @joellekidd.bsky.social and Reconciling by Larry Grant are all included in Indigo's Most Anticipated Canadian books!
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June 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The First Thousand Trees by @premeemohamed.com, Jesusland by @joellekidd.bsky.social and Reconciling by Larry Grant are all included in Indigo's Most Anticipated Canadian books!
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/b...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/b...
My favourite ritual is getting coffee and reading @thegrindto.bsky.social cover to cover. Amazing issue! Everyone pick it up and support local journalism!
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My favourite ritual is getting coffee and reading @thegrindto.bsky.social cover to cover. Amazing issue! Everyone pick it up and support local journalism!
Upset that when I look at news headlines I keep seeing the words "blood worm moon"
March 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Upset that when I look at news headlines I keep seeing the words "blood worm moon"
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Every episode of Between the Covers should be cherished. This one, feels like sitting down with the sacred and taking account.
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
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March 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Every episode of Between the Covers should be cherished. This one, feels like sitting down with the sacred and taking account.
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let me say it loud and clear: absolutely nobody wants this (and if you do, i’d love to talk to you)
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Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific
From the very first frames, you can tell there's something's off about Netflix's AI-powered remastering of "A Different World."
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March 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
let me say it loud and clear: absolutely nobody wants this (and if you do, i’d love to talk to you)
futurism.com/netflix-ai-u...
futurism.com/netflix-ai-u...
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what if i wanted to take a mental health year
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
what if i wanted to take a mental health year
In addition to the larger systemic issues ... It is so baffling that the rent allowance in the last TWENTY YEARS has gone up by $55.
You can't make rent in Ontario on $390 a month
Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance
Does any party in this election have a plan for real change?
My latest with @breachmedia.ca
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Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance
Does any party in this election have a plan for real change?
My latest with @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/ontarios-ren...
Ontario’s rent allowance isn’t a safety net—it’s a poverty trap ⋆ The Breach
With an election looming, none of the major political parties in Ontario have a plan to fix the starvation-level housing allowance
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February 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In addition to the larger systemic issues ... It is so baffling that the rent allowance in the last TWENTY YEARS has gone up by $55.
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We're always happy when Access Copyright Foundation grantees get in touch with us, like @joellekidd.bsky.social. We're thrilled to hear that the Research Grant she was awarded has resulted in her new book from @ecwpress.bsky.social on evangelical Christian pop culture. ecwpress.com/products/jes...
February 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We're always happy when Access Copyright Foundation grantees get in touch with us, like @joellekidd.bsky.social. We're thrilled to hear that the Research Grant she was awarded has resulted in her new book from @ecwpress.bsky.social on evangelical Christian pop culture. ecwpress.com/products/jes...
Help every time I see this "I could open a stoahr for red-headed girls to buy cosmetics. From somebody who understands!" Runs through my brain
Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.
Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN
Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Help every time I see this "I could open a stoahr for red-headed girls to buy cosmetics. From somebody who understands!" Runs through my brain
Sending out the second installment of this series tomorrow and I would love to hear what you're cooking in these hard times! ❤️🍲❤️ open.substack.com/pub/joelleki...
The Hard Times Cookbook Club: Honey Lentils and a Carrot Grilled Cheese
A new six-week project to keep me from spiraling (and an invitation to join me)
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February 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sending out the second installment of this series tomorrow and I would love to hear what you're cooking in these hard times! ❤️🍲❤️ open.substack.com/pub/joelleki...
"The incoherence of this idea — that the middle of the road is located off the beaten path — should be obvious." 🙌
February 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"The incoherence of this idea — that the middle of the road is located off the beaten path — should be obvious." 🙌
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After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.
The Giller Prize has (finally) cut ties with Scotiabank.
After fifteen months of protests, boycotts, and pressure campaigns (from Can Lit Responds, No Arms in the Arts, and other activist groups within the Canadian literary community), the Giller Prize&#…
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February 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.
Reflections on writing my book, and a link to preorder ✨ joellekidd.substack.com/p/my-book-is...
My book is so real, it's available for preorder
Writing news and a belated Happy New Year!
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January 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reflections on writing my book, and a link to preorder ✨ joellekidd.substack.com/p/my-book-is...
Reading Edmund White's City Boy is healing me
January 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reading Edmund White's City Boy is healing me
I briefly forgot Bluesky existed but I want to start sharing things on here again!! To that end: here's a recent newsletter that prompted a friend to gently suggest, "Maybe it's time to put down the Boygenius." joellekidd.substack.com/p/not-strong...
Not Strong Enough
A year (and change) in a song, and trying to find an ending.
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December 11, 2024 at 6:33 PM
I briefly forgot Bluesky existed but I want to start sharing things on here again!! To that end: here's a recent newsletter that prompted a friend to gently suggest, "Maybe it's time to put down the Boygenius." joellekidd.substack.com/p/not-strong...
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“Watching Taylor Swift is watching the self-consciousness of our age played out on an intensely public scale.”
Writer @joellekidd.bsky.social makes the case for why Swift has emerged as the prototypical millennial star: thewalrus.ca/taylor-swift...
Writer @joellekidd.bsky.social makes the case for why Swift has emerged as the prototypical millennial star: thewalrus.ca/taylor-swift...
November 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
“Watching Taylor Swift is watching the self-consciousness of our age played out on an intensely public scale.”
Writer @joellekidd.bsky.social makes the case for why Swift has emerged as the prototypical millennial star: thewalrus.ca/taylor-swift...
Writer @joellekidd.bsky.social makes the case for why Swift has emerged as the prototypical millennial star: thewalrus.ca/taylor-swift...
A newsletter, about maintenance and metaphor and all the books I read in the last half of 2023. joellekidd.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
My Year In Books: Part Two
Apparently it is now 2024.
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January 12, 2024 at 2:50 PM
A newsletter, about maintenance and metaphor and all the books I read in the last half of 2023. joellekidd.substack.com/p/my-year-in...
Visiting parents is weird. Spotify algo has pushed my dad into 2000s emo. He just asked me if I'd ever heard of a band called "effervescence" (evanescence)
December 29, 2023 at 4:03 AM
Visiting parents is weird. Spotify algo has pushed my dad into 2000s emo. He just asked me if I'd ever heard of a band called "effervescence" (evanescence)