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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"One of the big gaps in Canadian health care, is that mental health care is not guaranteed for trauma victims." — @joojitsulee.bsky.social (@utoronto.ca) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social about the ripple effects gun violence can have on survivors, families, and communities. youtu.be/2h8cDZMIaRI?...

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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Acts of gun violence don't end when the shooting stops. @joojitsulee.bsky.social (@utoronto.ca) speaks with @jeyantvo.bsky.social about the lasting trauma for survivors and communities, and why victims in racialized neighbourhoods are often judged before they're understood. youtu.be/2h8cDZMIaRI?...

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Filming a new ep of The Rundown w/ Jeyan Jeganathan to promote my new book, The Walking Wounded, a book on the long term health of gunshot victims in Philly. Even though the book is based on Philly, the findings shed light on gun violence & health care gaps in 🇨🇦, too. New ep out on Monday. 🫡

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My newest in The Globe and Mail. On gun violence and the need for universal mental health care in 🇨🇦 . It’s paywalled, but here are some snippets. Hoping this stirs the conversation in Ottawa.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We need leaders in Ontario (and Canada) who really take climate change seriously. This is a live look at our province. Doug Ford has shown repeatedly that he is not the Premier for this moment.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Getting a revise & resubmit on a paper is an emotional roller coaster. There’s the exuberance when you first read the email saying you got an R&R. Then, the realization that peer reviewers are giving you mixed advice, followed by the doubt that you’re even competent enough to pull this off. 🫠

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today we get into Wacquant's Body & Soul in my Martial Arts class. I really like teaching this book. It's a fantastic way to get students thinking about the body and ethnography.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Ethics for my new study on creativity in judo and jiu jitsu got cleared today! Very excited for this new chapter.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sending out some promo copies of The Walking Wounded this week! 🥰

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The rape academy is abhorrent and an obvious target for outrage. But the harder conversation is reflecting on a culture that normalizes these kinds of attitudes toward women’s bodies. This is one of the themes in my course about mass shootings and sadly it’s an evergreen topic.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Not that this will surprise anyone, but 0/160 undergrads had ever heard of Melrose Place the tv show. I’m getting old 😂

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Surreal to hold the advance copy of my new book in my hand. It’s out next month!

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I have students tepidly asking for extensions on assignments as family shelter in Iran. I have a hard time imagining any faculty saying no, but their reactions (of surprise & gratitude) when I grant these extensions are a reminder of the neoliberal university in action. We gotta do better.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Teaching Harel Shapira's work tomorrow in my gun violence course. And he is such a good writer. Reading his book, Waiting for José, is like a breezy walk in the park. Who are your favorite ethnographers to read for their style?

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Riveting discussion today in my Soc of Gun Violence course about incels and how so many of Elliot Rodger’s ideas have found their way into the manosphere. It’s easy to point the finger at him and others who commit hateful violence, but harder to look at our culture at large. 🤔

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The promo book jacket arrived. Both blurb writers described my new ethnography as ‘haunting’. Thanks to Javier and Randol for writing these kind blurbs. I think this means I’ve done my job conveying the horrific nature of gunshot injuries.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Lecturing about Columbine tomorrow and what we still get wrong about school shootings. It's been almost 27 years and there's still so many misunderstandings about massacres.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Alright I’m back from Threads, what did I miss? Looking to connect with sociologists, violence, health scholars… I miss Academic Twitter and Threads ain’t scratching that itch 🥰

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Adventures in aging…Today I made a passing reference to Saved by the Bell and none of my 4th year university students knew what I was talking about. Just blank stares 😂. Excuse me while I go and have my soup with a side of mid afternoon existential crisis 🫠

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Just got the cover art from the press! Dropping in March 2026!

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"The Walking Wounded: Festering and Ricocheting Trauma after Gun Violence" is coming out in March 2026 on U of Chicago Press! Excited, relieved, and a bit anxious as one always feels whenever you wrap up a big project.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Got the best news today from my editor…My new book “Gunshot” got approval from the University of Chicago editorial and faculty committees and is now “forthcoming”! It’s been a long, long road. 10+ years coming to fruition 😌

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

There’s no coming back if a POTUS ignores a Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling. Different branches of federal government exist to check and balance against tyranny. Regardless of your politics, this is a pivotal moment with immense downstream effects.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Some 🦋 friends don’t know this, but I have published work on serial homicide investigations and have been in a number of serial killer documentaries. Just got a Google notification that CTV is showing Catching a Serial Killer, which originally debuted on Oxygen and is now streaming on CTV. 🎥

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sometimes flailing is progress. Channeling this mantra as I struggle with this new paper. 🫠

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Pretty cool reading a peer reviewed article by a former undergrad who is now a PhD candidate. You don't see them for years and then one day you come across their very helpful article. The teacher learning from the student. A true full circle. ☺️

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

One of my challenges as an academic is balancing the backlog of papers that are collecting dust on my hard drive with the pull of new ideas that appear in a flash of inspiration. This sabbatical has mostly been about catching up, but now I’m nerding out over a BJJ study that has me excited again.🙃

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Major research universities are already bending the knee to Trump’s anti-DEI crusade, which just exposes how silly and overblown the “Marxist brainwashing camp” narrative really is. That was always a red herring. Academics know that universities are neoliberal corporations chasing funding.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Just published a new article on using L.A. Noire to teach Sociology students about serial homicide investigations.This was a sneak peak into my teaching methods, which include video games and streaming on Twitch.Very stoked that the article includes hyperlinks to Twitch clips from my streams 👀🎮📚

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

There is an art to writing cover letters in response to academic reviewers (especially when they're harsh). It is one of the most sacred and challenging forms of scholarly combat. How many scholars feel like this was part of their training in their PhD program?

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My toxic academic trait is that I use Apple Pages and prefer it over MS Word by a long shot.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What are you all doing to maintain your mental health during these dystopian days? I have to almost intentionally tune out at times or else it negatively impacts my mood, how I parent, etc. Hoping you all have good self care on standby.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I recently read a Reddit post from a PhD candidate debating whether to attend their grandma’s funeral or their dissertation defense, and it perfectly encapsulates academia’s toxic grind culture to a T. The fact that this is even a question shows how academia can warp your priorities 😔

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Revisiting Interaction Ritual Chains by Randall Collins (2004) and blown away by this passage. He really foresaw how addicting social media would become. Sabbatical is all about returning to my microsociological roots, and it feels like I'm coming home.

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 05/02/2025

We know you're thinking about culture and society rightabout now -- why not write something up for @contexts.org's culture section? contexts.org/submission-g... Reach out to section editor @joojitsulee.bsky.social with your ideas, because the more sociology the better right now, eh?

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

About 75% of firearms used in Canadian crimes originate in the U.S. The Orange dude loves talking about border enforcement but why aren’t leaders up here also talking about how lax U.S. gun laws fuel violence beyond its borders including in Canada? The costs of this violence are paid by taxpayers 🤔

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Metaphor is such a fascinating tool in sociological theorizing. One more reason why social scientists should read more fiction.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Does anyone else completely forget about food when they’re deep in a writing or work session? I have home-cooked meals ready to go, but instead, I’m here eating a hastily made PB&J because I’ve gotta ride this productivity wave. ADHD folks, you get it 👀

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Rediscovering my love of reading and writing articles. Is this a mid-career crisis? 😂

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Now's the time to really double down on things that spark joy, because the world feels a lot darker after that inauguration. What a scary time this is.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Reading European Sociology reminds me how insular North American Sociology can be. We could learn a lot from their comparative approach.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

There’s an understated elegance to standalone research articles. I got into book writing for awhile, and was convinced I had found my lane, but I am enjoying a pivot back to articles during sabbatical. It’s been awhile, but I am enjoying the challenge of figuring out “What is this a case of?”

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received? Mine was to write rough drafts quickly and not obsess over phrasing or copy editing mistakes. I still struggle with it, but it’s become a mantra I repeat to myself (and my grad students).

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Has anyone ever used a sabbatical to crank out a bunch of one-off papers? I’ve got a few collecting dust on my hard drive, and I’m starting to think this might actually be a solid strategy. Just embrace the ADHD and let it guide the way 🤔

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Anybody use sabbatical to just read a lot? I’m feeling a little pressured to produce something, but wondered if anyone has just used it to let their ideas percolate?

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s striking how the Free Speech Movement began as a student-led protest to advance Civil Rights and critique U.S. imperialism in Vietnam… and now it’s morphed into a cultural rallying cry for using hateful words against marginalized groups. What a strange evolution.

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Alright, seems like Meta is trying to be like X...So I might just cozy up a bit more over here!

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

All shootings are tragic. Yet U.S. news coverage tends to focus on mass shootings in middle-class schools, which represent a small fraction of annual firearm homicides. The grief we feel for children lost in these tragedies should extend to all children affected by gun violence 💔

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Jooyoung Lee, PhD @joojitsulee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I can’t help but notice how many resources were thrown into finding the suspected CEO shooter. The communities I’ve worked in—South Central LA, Philly—rarely see that kind of effort. But the pain of losing someone is the same everywhere. Just another reminder of the unequal justice system.

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