Emily Joy Allison
@emilyjoyallison.bsky.social
Writer on religion, gender and sexuality, focusing on Christianity in the US, sexual violence and evangelicalism. Author of #ChurchToo and In The Beginning (William Morrow 2027). Views & swears my own 🌈
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#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
Sexual abuse is utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might find in the #MeToo stories coming out of Hollywood or Washington. #ChurchT...
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Author of #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing 👇🏼
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Slowly rebuilding over here.
@ emilyjoypoetry on The Bad Place
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Author of #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing 👇🏼
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Slowly rebuilding over here.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Ds don't seem to be getting what they need out of Nashville. But if the margin lands at R+3, that's a D+19 shift from 2024 -- we're not talking a wave, we're talking tsunami
again @gelliottmorris.com says behn still has a chance but damn 3 points in this district is 🦇💩
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Ds don't seem to be getting what they need out of Nashville. But if the margin lands at R+3, that's a D+19 shift from 2024 -- we're not talking a wave, we're talking tsunami
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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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This race is close and, given how much Democrats outperformed the polls a few weeks ago, a win is actually possible.
But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.
But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.
Emerson poll | 11/22-11/24 LV
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
Tennessee 7th District 2025 Special Election Poll: Republican Van Epps and Democrat Behn Locked In Tight Race - Emerson Polling
Voters Split on Trump’s Job Performance as Economic Issues Top Voters’ Concerns A new Emerson…Full Release & Results
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November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This race is close and, given how much Democrats outperformed the polls a few weeks ago, a win is actually possible.
But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.
But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.
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Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.
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Centrism is not reasonable. It stands in limbo between the view that all humans should be treated well as citizens of planet Earth and the view that only a tiny few powerful people matter.
When you stand in that limbo, you're actually just floating, lost.
It's not "reasonable." It's delusion.
When you stand in that limbo, you're actually just floating, lost.
It's not "reasonable." It's delusion.
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Centrism is not reasonable. It stands in limbo between the view that all humans should be treated well as citizens of planet Earth and the view that only a tiny few powerful people matter.
When you stand in that limbo, you're actually just floating, lost.
It's not "reasonable." It's delusion.
When you stand in that limbo, you're actually just floating, lost.
It's not "reasonable." It's delusion.
Republican projection is wild because what do you mean you think there are people on the left who don’t want the files released because we’re afraid politicians we like will be in them
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Republican projection is wild because what do you mean you think there are people on the left who don’t want the files released because we’re afraid politicians we like will be in them
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what the world needs now are statements of the obvious
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
what the world needs now are statements of the obvious
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
AFTYN BEHN NEXT @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
AFTYN BEHN NEXT @aftynbehn.bsky.social
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Democrats not only kept control of the NJ governor's mansion for three terms in a row -- something that hasn't happened since the 1960s -- but went from winning by 3 points last time to winning by *13*
This is how Fox News has that story headlined, in small print, buried on the home page
This is how Fox News has that story headlined, in small print, buried on the home page
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Democrats not only kept control of the NJ governor's mansion for three terms in a row -- something that hasn't happened since the 1960s -- but went from winning by 3 points last time to winning by *13*
This is how Fox News has that story headlined, in small print, buried on the home page
This is how Fox News has that story headlined, in small print, buried on the home page
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Woah, it’s happening in the South. Let’s go, Tennessee, and vote soon for @aftynbehn.bsky.social for Congress!
Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Woah, it’s happening in the South. Let’s go, Tennessee, and vote soon for @aftynbehn.bsky.social for Congress!
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Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
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Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices.
California passes prop 50.
This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
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Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed
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It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
How are we in the timeline where the vice president of the United States is missionary dating his wife
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How are we in the timeline where the vice president of the United States is missionary dating his wife
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We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.
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I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
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conspiracy to make a cop go slow
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
conspiracy to make a cop go slow
Thinking about the time my ex was trying to get music to play out of her parents’ bluetooth speaker and it started coming out of their thermostat instead
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thinking about the time my ex was trying to get music to play out of her parents’ bluetooth speaker and it started coming out of their thermostat instead
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If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social