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Rebecca Bratten Weiss

@rbratten.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, and scholar residing in the Appalachian region of Ohio. Writes about religion, culture, justice issues.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Maybe today’s MAGA Christians didn’t start out by gleefully defending murder. But at some point, each of them was shown a shabby, taunting little devil in the corner, and said “yes, I choose that.” rebeccabrattenweiss.substack.com/p/why-the-mo...
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I've been meaning to write for years about how anti-LGBTQ ideology predisposes people to become extremists. Historically, extremist movements have often been queerphobic. And the "moderates" I knew who got sucked into MAGA were the queerphobic ones. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccab...
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
MAGA is a refuge for people who hate institutions because institutions hold them to standards like “don’t be racist,” or "consult the building inspector so the church you’re building won’t collapse and kill people.” open.substack.com/pub/rebeccab...
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Millions in this nation have given themselves over to evil so completely, that they consider the pain and suffering of others reward enough. No need to give them health care or housing. rebeccabrattenweiss.substack.com/publish/post...
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Kind of on the nose, this particular round of Ransom Notes:
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
'The Books That Made Us' comes out in a week. If you are recovering from having been "educated" in a conservative academic subculture, you may find it relatable. Link to order below.
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
'The Books That Made Us' is available for pre-order. Part memoir, part literary criticism, part theological analysis, it's a journey of religious deconstruction through the modern Christian classics: the writings of Chesterton, Eliot, Lewis, Tolkien, O'Connor, etc. Links to order below.
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Also the art in question:
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I have a rule about not trash-talking other writers by name unless they did something genuinely nasty (Neil Gaiman, JKR, etc) but this guy was throwing a tantrum in a bookstore and harassing the staff, all women of color, because he thought they had hidden his book.
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Actual grave marker down the road from me seems singularly appropriate for rural America in the MAGA era.
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Excited to have three poems in this lovely issue of Channel.
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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The Blob is judging us all. She finds us inadequate. The Shrimp is simply pleased with his tail tip.
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