Bethany Mannon
@drbethany.bsky.social
Rhetoric & Writing professor in Appalachia, studying feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | academic who gets peer reviews done on time
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
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"I Grew Up in the Church" - Baylor University Press
In 'I Grew Up in the Church': How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who have inf...
www.baylorpress.com
I have some thoughts about women - of all ages - leaving evangelicalism. 🧵
First of all, of course they are! I wrote about how women have spent the last two decades (and really longer) calling out alienating, unbiblical evangelical rhetoric and politics. 1/x www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...
First of all, of course they are! I wrote about how women have spent the last two decades (and really longer) calling out alienating, unbiblical evangelical rhetoric and politics. 1/x www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...
Sometimes I feel the fear of
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Someone to hold you too close
Someone to hurt you too deep
Someone to hurt you too deep
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Sometimes I feel the fear of
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Whereas this is the female gaze
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Whereas this is the female gaze
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
Today at an event a friend perfectly and succinctly described ICE agents as "emotionally dysregulated man children living out their Call of Duty fantasies"
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today at an event a friend perfectly and succinctly described ICE agents as "emotionally dysregulated man children living out their Call of Duty fantasies"
Have Olivia Nuzzi and Larry Summers met? They seem made for each other.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Have Olivia Nuzzi and Larry Summers met? They seem made for each other.
"like the brothel had been loosed on the town square"!
Watch this whole thing, it's so good
Watch this whole thing, it's so good
The guy in the green sweater is hanging on for dear life.
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"like the brothel had been loosed on the town square"!
Watch this whole thing, it's so good
Watch this whole thing, it's so good
Email from a student: "I'm sorry I have to miss class today and Monday, I'm leaving early for Thanksgiving" 🤦♀️
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Email from a student: "I'm sorry I have to miss class today and Monday, I'm leaving early for Thanksgiving" 🤦♀️
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
Why do we keep hearing from the same half-dozen crusty old democrats when there are other bright and serious people like her?
Rep. Goodlander: "When the Sec Def came before the House Armed Services Committee, I asked him a simple question that has one answer only. I asked him, 'Will you abide by a decision of SCOTUS?' Sec. Hegseth refused to commit to doing so. This put our service members in an impossible position."
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Why do we keep hearing from the same half-dozen crusty old democrats when there are other bright and serious people like her?
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
NOV 19
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
Reports of ICE activity in Boone spur protest – The Appalachian
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived in North Carolina last weekend. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has launched Operation Charlotte’s Web, applying tactics used in Los ...
theappalachianonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
NOV 19
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
My book (which the awards committee called "fresh"!) is very cheap on Amazon right now
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My book (which the awards committee called "fresh"!) is very cheap on Amazon right now
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
My maga relatives, still: “trump just says that to drive the media (who hate him) crazy. He doesn’t mean most of the stuff he tweets (except when it’s something I agree with)”
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My maga relatives, still: “trump just says that to drive the media (who hate him) crazy. He doesn’t mean most of the stuff he tweets (except when it’s something I agree with)”
Patriarchy gives women points for being young and hot, but also for making a ghastly effort to simulate young and hot. Like, “bless her heart, she‘s not actually attractive but at least she’s punishing herself for not being good enough”
As of January, plastic surgeons in Washington DC have seen a “surge in ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ requests from Trump insiders”...Surgeons told the outlet that more Washingtonians want their procedures to be not unnoticed but obvious and overdone." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Patriarchy gives women points for being young and hot, but also for making a ghastly effort to simulate young and hot. Like, “bless her heart, she‘s not actually attractive but at least she’s punishing herself for not being good enough”
Adding this to my rhetoric syllabus
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Adding this to my rhetoric syllabus
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
(whispers)
I think any revival in this form is going to require at least the emancipation of folks from Evangelicalism to persist - much like there needs to be actual reckoning with MAGA on the macropolitical level, there needs to be reckoning with Ev.-fueled Christian nationalism
I think any revival in this form is going to require at least the emancipation of folks from Evangelicalism to persist - much like there needs to be actual reckoning with MAGA on the macropolitical level, there needs to be reckoning with Ev.-fueled Christian nationalism
NEW: For Rev. David Black, the pastor seen shot in the head w/pepper balls by DHS agents in a viral clip, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition.
“I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...
“I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...
For the Rev. David Black, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition
(RNS) — ‘I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,’ the Rev. David Black said.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
(whispers)
I think any revival in this form is going to require at least the emancipation of folks from Evangelicalism to persist - much like there needs to be actual reckoning with MAGA on the macropolitical level, there needs to be reckoning with Ev.-fueled Christian nationalism
I think any revival in this form is going to require at least the emancipation of folks from Evangelicalism to persist - much like there needs to be actual reckoning with MAGA on the macropolitical level, there needs to be reckoning with Ev.-fueled Christian nationalism
@jaymallow.bsky.social never shares his newsletter here so I will! This is a perceptive take on why evangelicals "treat underage persons (particularly women) like adults (especially when it comes to sex)." The ideology goes deep.
substack.com/@jaymallow/n...
substack.com/@jaymallow/n...
Demanding Moral Culpability and Being Blind to Coercion
Why Evangelicals often are Ok with underage rape
substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@jaymallow.bsky.social never shares his newsletter here so I will! This is a perceptive take on why evangelicals "treat underage persons (particularly women) like adults (especially when it comes to sex)." The ideology goes deep.
substack.com/@jaymallow/n...
substack.com/@jaymallow/n...
In Denver accepting the Religious Communication Association Book of the Year award!
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In Denver accepting the Religious Communication Association Book of the Year award!
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
Students, hark! This cfp is for you!
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Students, hark! This cfp is for you!
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"
Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference
#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Charlie Kirk purge: How 600 Americans were punished in a pro-Trump crackdown
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
🚨🚨 ICE ALERT 🚨🚨
ICE agents have been reported in the Boone (NC) and adjacent areas. They are targeting Christmas tree farms, conducting Kavanaugh stops, and are waiting outside certain stores.
Warn anyone who needs to be. Remember ICE can’t come on your private property w/o judicial warrants.
ICE agents have been reported in the Boone (NC) and adjacent areas. They are targeting Christmas tree farms, conducting Kavanaugh stops, and are waiting outside certain stores.
Warn anyone who needs to be. Remember ICE can’t come on your private property w/o judicial warrants.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🚨🚨 ICE ALERT 🚨🚨
ICE agents have been reported in the Boone (NC) and adjacent areas. They are targeting Christmas tree farms, conducting Kavanaugh stops, and are waiting outside certain stores.
Warn anyone who needs to be. Remember ICE can’t come on your private property w/o judicial warrants.
ICE agents have been reported in the Boone (NC) and adjacent areas. They are targeting Christmas tree farms, conducting Kavanaugh stops, and are waiting outside certain stores.
Warn anyone who needs to be. Remember ICE can’t come on your private property w/o judicial warrants.
More and more I appreciate people (Heather Cox Richardson is one, I think) who could cash in on a big platform and just . . . choose not to
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
More and more I appreciate people (Heather Cox Richardson is one, I think) who could cash in on a big platform and just . . . choose not to
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
A time of reckoning is approaching for evangelical Christians who supported Trump. How will they respond? Read Kristin du Mez's column: Epstein is the key open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
Epstein is the key
Exposing the plan
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A time of reckoning is approaching for evangelical Christians who supported Trump. How will they respond? Read Kristin du Mez's column: Epstein is the key open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
I think the real scandal is that both Lizza and Nuzzi were considered great journalists by U.S. legacy media.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I think the real scandal is that both Lizza and Nuzzi were considered great journalists by U.S. legacy media.
The number of stories I have heard from women who have had to tell nurses "I know what's happening here, and I am staying in this hospital"
The woman's family says hospital staff discharged the mother of multiple children, telling her to go home and wait for her labor to progress.
abc7chicago.com/post/mercede...
via abc7chicago App
abc7chicago.com/post/mercede...
via abc7chicago App
Mom gives birth on side of road after being discharged from NW Ind. hospital in active labor: family
The woman's family says hospital staff discharged the mother of multiple children, telling her to go home and wait for her labor to progress.
abc7chicago.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The number of stories I have heard from women who have had to tell nurses "I know what's happening here, and I am staying in this hospital"
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
Yes, if everyone stops buying stuff that would be the result.
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Yes, if everyone stops buying stuff that would be the result.
She's right
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
She's right
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
