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emilyjoyallison.bsky.social
Writer & scholar of religion, gender & sexuality, focusing on Christianity in the US, sexual violence & reproductive health care. Author of #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse & How to Find Healing. I work in politics so views & swears my own 🌈
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One of my friends invited me out tonight but I have a lot of stuff to do and I heard myself say “no I can’t because I have a lot of things to do tonight and if I have two glasses of wine I will come home and get nothing done” and that is how I realized I am Two Glasses Of Wine Years Old

Worth noting that Republicans have poured $ into a WI Supreme Court race like this before only to lose. Losing againin April would be a very important blow to Musk & his entire belief that he can just buy whatever government he wants.

Belle Gibson, Ruby Franke, and Amanda Riley will all have their lies, scams, and abusive actions dissected in television series and documentaries over the next several years, and I fear we won’t meaningfully address how whiteness works in this, and why they were able to get away with it for so long.

I know people say “why is no one talking about this” about stuff everyone is talking about a lot but for real though why is no one talking about this

We need to push back really hard against this rapidly coalescing “backlash” narrative that places the agency solely with traditionally marginalized and "activist" groups who are therefore ultimately at fault for causing a supposedly inevitable reaction, a predictable, near-automatic response.

There needs to be a term for when the rain coming down is the exact amount where it’s too much for one windshield wiper speed and too little for the next one up

Just reading up on history so I can learn whether “let’s all be reasonable” is usually a winning response to coups

World: is on fire Church of England: no communion for celiacs

We need to banish the phrase "claimed without evidence" from journalism. Because 100% of the time it means "This public figure told this lie, but my news organization's conventions prevent me from saying it's a lie, even though it's an obvious lie." Calling a lie a lie ought to be the convention.

We’re getting ready to interview @emilyjoyallison.bsky.social and I have had her book on my shelf for two years without reading it. I sat down today and read the first 150 pages (out of 200) in one sitting. Some thoughts: 1/

Does anyone have a Facebook Dating success story?? Asking for a friend and that friend is not even me I’m just really, genuinely curious

Top 5 reasons to get an abortion: 1. Because you want one 2. Because you want one 3. Because you want one 4. Because you want one 5. Because you want one

We don’t have to and imo we should come up with a different way to refer to it. Words have meaning and while this is a real group of people doing things with horrifying material consequences it is not in fact a department and calling it such legitimizes it

This post was not an invitation to rant about how all religion and religiously devout people are inherently harmful and stupid for believing in sky daddy or whatever, your whiteness is showing honey

I understand that the National Prayer Breakfast in the year of our lord 2025 is the intersection of all that I write and comment about I just don’t want to do it

There’s an easy answer to this question RELEVANT does NOT have the range to give which is that we spent a couple generations building an entire para-realty alternative-facts infrastructure of media & institutions so Christians are primed to distrust real experts relevantmagazine.com/current/nati...

White evangelicals are marinated in a foundational theology that sacralizes authoritarian male power unchecked by accountability. This explains a lot about where we're at. Theology has consequences.

“But what are you going to do with a religion degree Emily?????” 😒

Almost responded to an annoying person but drank water instead.

Talk about #ChurchToo without sharing J*lie R*ys website challenge

Does it not occur to folks that using “DOGE” in the media, talking about it like it is a real department, and not something completely made up and illegitimate, gives it power and legitimacy? 🙄

Don't fight misinformation and chaos with misinformation and chaos. That's not how we survive this thing.

Really would love to see more “why don’t you make me” energy from our institutions

I was talking to someone who works in politics this morning and they said “I just kind of took for granted how Joe Biden kept regular working hours” and I felt that

Well how are you supposed to hold resources over people’s heads like a carrot on a stick so they get dependent on you and manipulated into converting to your religion if the government is out here giving them resources without you hmmm