Barbara J Risman
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
- Unfortunately an accurate description…
- Reposted by Barbara J RismanIn solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
- If you know any UIC students, pass this on. The opportunity to study in Amsterdam this summer. 6 credits for barely more than it costs to earn them living in Chicago! Scholarships available...
- A interesting, important, blog by my friend and colleague sociologist Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. Increasing inequality, political instability.... and what comes next? blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
- A column from thewritingguides. Take time to reflect on success. What's your career goal? You can't get somewhere if you don't know the desired destination! @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @sociologymag.bsky.social @wrtrstat.bsky.social thewritingguides.org/the-writing-...
- My newest column from @thewritingguides.org for academic writers, students and faculty. Take time to reflect on your destination because you cannot get there if you don't know where you want to go..... thewritingguides.org/the-writing-... #Academicsky #sociology @sociology
- My toughts on what social policies we need for families in 2026 www.deseret.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Barbara J Risman‼️ Check out our new brief report: More Than Postpartum: Tracking Differences in the Arc of Maternal Depression Across Liberal Welfare Regimes New research shows that both national policies and personal resources shape postpartum depression recovery. 🔗 bit.ly/4aKzw0n
- Very smart essay by @philipncohen.com on why you needn’t worry about the dropping birth rate. newrepublic.com/article/2040...
- Come join me in my capacity as a Writing Guide at the Work/Family Research Network conference in Montreal next June. Ingo and registration below
- Register now for WFRN.bsky.social Conference Professional Development Writing Workshops on 6/17 at the WFRN 2026 conference - designed to help graduate students and early-career scholars develop the skills to be productive writers as well as researchers. wfrn.org/news/opportu... #WFRN2026
- My newest blig for @thewritingguides. What to do over winter vacation? Take a break. A real one. You deserve it. We all do! #academicsky thewritingguides.org/the-writing-...
- My new column in Psych Today. Watch out for the gray area of sexual consent. New book by Myers and Wallace, Exploiting, Enduring and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area: Taking It. Have a Merry, Consensual Christmas | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
- The Category X research Team speaking on our cross-national project on the realities of life for non-binary people in the US, Spain, Italy and Australia at the University of Valencia.
- 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 thewritingguides.org/the-writing-...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- #academicsky @academicsky.org . Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? | Psychology Today The answer is NO, not in America today.... www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
- So proud of my over and mayor. Resist federal presence policing cities!
- Reposted by Barbara J RismanPeople 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.
- 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. .
- 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.
- #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! www.seattlepi.com/news/article...
- 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...
- 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/...
- Well said! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...
- 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...
- 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...
- Memorial Day has come and gone. is it summer yet? A new blog for graduate students and faculty..... from #Academicsky thewritingguides.org/the-writing-...
- 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!
- First they come for the children, but it never stops there…
- what a GREAT idea....anyone in Chicago interested?
- As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th. Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know. Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡
- Great point! Scholarship about democracy is not considered ‘biased’ because it is pro-democracy but scholarship on gender and race is considered biased if pro equality..
- There goes peer reviewed science..
- US government crafting white Christian patriarchy www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/pentagon-hegseth-dei-library-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GE8.LJpM.aw-1Vu3a1RL4&smid=bs-share
- So true. The goal is to establish a white male patriarchy across all of America…
- When a government tries to ban scientists from competitive research funding because they teach at a university out of favor with the Executive Branch, we have descended into fascism
- New article by @JoshColeman on masculinity With quote from me suggesting better to focus on humanity then comparing masculinities …https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/boy-girl-nurture-gap-masculinity/682396/
- About time! free article …https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/trump-university-presidents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C08.rKrr.Jo4pAT7NOaRE&smid=bs-share
- The emergency is now
- Arresting judges? We have lost democracy….
