Neighborhood chalk art

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History repeats.

Thank you @markpocan.bsky.social for standing up for free speech. Wisconsinites, please keep calling your district representatives and urging them to vote against AB446/SN445. And ask @govevers.wisconsin.gov to veto it.

Words to live by

Library book booty #BookSky

Lulu and the new rug (aptly named Zen Coffee)

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

Good morning, blue jay. #BirdSky

Blue skies over Dodgeville. It was like this yesterday.

Retreat time

A new comic is up from my brilliant friend @sallypirie.bsky.social “Fuck you. Make me.” open.substack.com/pub/sallyann...

🎉New Issue Available!🎉 Signs and Society 13:2 is now LIVE! 🙌 Dive into a wide-ranging collection of new articles, spanning topics from Fanfa bands to Artificial Intelligence! LINK: bit.ly/41jDFD0

“May I know that my peace and the world’s peace are not separate; that our peace in the world is a result of our work for justice.” www.lionsroar.com/seeking-budd...

13 hours left 🚨 please share! We’ve been able to help SIX FAMILIES flee from siege & bombardment in Gaza City—only because of YOU. But we’re losing momentum, while time runs out for the remaining two families. Don’t break the bank. We chip away and share to reach those who can give. 195/1000 😥

During my Language and Religion class this morning, the clock in our classroom—which has not shown the correct time since the semester began—started clicking loudly, and more than one student yelled out, "It's the Rapture!" #ReligousStudies

RNS, Sep 23, 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟦🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 rns.newsword.ai/share

Here is your Tuesday reminder!! 8 days until the deadline!! PLEASE TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC REPS THAT YOU GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TRANS RIGHTS. This is not a drill. They are moving quickly.

It’s like this now #autumn #wisconsin

Specific rules were articulated on occasion, but it was more of an ethos. Do good things, don't do bad things. Drink coffee, not booze. — early sobrieties, michael deagler

*Wisconsinites!

Wisconites! Learn more about why you should urge your representatives to vote no on the IHRA bill and urge @govevers.wisconsin.gov to veto it. #Wisconsin #FreeSpeech

It was like this for about a minute before the mosquitoes found me.

Today I learned about Sister Cindy from my Religious Studies students. www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...

I’ve already noticed the impact of this pipeline on the environment in Tanga. In 2023, I used to hear frogs in the evenings, and by 2024, they were silent.

Just out: my new piece in Signs and Society looks at Swahili Islamic marital booklets and how they weave together gender, time, and religious longing. From pre-Islamic “ignorance” to the afterlife, these texts imagine marriage as a moral journey across eras. doi.org/10.1017/ #LingAnth #AcRel

Last night I had my first dream where I was using (one word of) Arabic.

Been working with colleagues on this interactive piece for several months. Ranks all 50 states+DC on key measures of religiousness. I love tools like this that allow us to see how the contexts we are most familiar with might differ from others.Gives perspective. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

A smart Judith Butler response to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Israeli-American Holocaust and genocide professor Raz Segal will be a guest on WORT, 89.9 FM, www.wortfm.org on 9/26 at noon CT to talk about what's wrong with the IHRA. Please spread the word.

Work version. Things deans say that make me feel seen: “What program are you directing now? You’re always directing something.”

“the irrational hatred surrounding your community … is proof of its—your—inherent divinity. The very act of being yourself strikes a spiritual blow." — A Jewish scholar’s advice to a trans teen in A World Worth Saving by @kylelukoff.bsky.social #WIBookFest

This correction is going to reach many fewer people than the initial claim reached, and this will become part of the mythologized narrative about this event, which is all exactly as they intended.

Call for chapters! How are queerness, postsocialism, and environments entangled – when the term ‘environment’ is used broadly to include human-made environments, more-than-human ecologies, and the multiplicity of entanglements between the two?

this is beautiful and moving

On 8 October, I'll be having a public conversation w/ @kylelukoff.bsky.social at the #WIBookFest about his YA novel A World Worth Saving, which was just longlisted for the National Book Award. Join us?

Wisconsinites who care about free speech! Please join me in urging @govevers.wisconsin.gov to veto a bill adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism. resist.bot/petitions/PM...

Rashid Khalidi's course at the People's Forum! Don't live in NYC? You can still take it. "This course starts from the premise that this is . . . a systematic, if intermittent, war that has lasted for over a century, aimed at dispossessing the Palestinian people." peoplesforum.org/events/guest...

Received this bad news today.

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Another company pre-complying - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

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If you don't have time or expertise to review something, say no. AI-written reviews are a waste of everyone's time.

“You are in the midst of your own creation, which gives you strength beyond imagining. And like the twilight, like the shore, like every littoral edge, one in the process of becoming is imbued with holiness." - A World Worth Saving, Kyle Lukoff