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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 15/09/2025

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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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/09/2025

“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...

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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Jesusland by @joellekidd.bsky.social is an August Spotify Editors' Pick! open.spotify.com/genre/0JQ5IM...

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ecw press @ecwpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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...

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

My favourite ritual is getting coffee and reading @thegrindto.bsky.social cover to cover. Amazing issue! Everyone pick it up and support local journalism!

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Upset that when I look at news headlines I keep seeing the words "blood worm moon"

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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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Access Copyright @accesscopyright.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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...

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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...

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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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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"The incoherence of this idea — that the middle of the road is located off the beaten path — should be obvious." 🙌

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Reading Edmund White's City Boy is healing me

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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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Not Strong Enough

A year (and change) in a song, and trying to find an ending.

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 19/11/2024

“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...

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

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...

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My Year In Books: Part Two

Apparently it is now 2024.

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Joelle Kidd @joellekidd.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

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)

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