conservatives will never stop feeling angry and aggrieved that for roughly 20 seconds during a pandemic we got them to grudgingly sign on to projects of gender and racial justice

Feminists have long been scared of looking mean, and as a result we’ve been way too nice to antifeminist women. Sorry no, you’re not submissive, servile, and dependent because you’re a woman and that’s just your feminine nature. You’re submissive, servile,and dependent because you lack self respect.

Undeniably yes

The Text and Transmission Research Seminar hosts a Youtube channel, so you can see past lectures--- here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...

I think it's live---I just downloaded a chapter from my new book, Things Unseen, to test the OA link, and it worked deprime, lege luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...

Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.

<Sue Sylvester face> I am going to create a workplace that is so ruined

Every post 2024 op ed: “Has wokeness gone to far?” By Women Are Things

I'm going to need everyone here to take a minute and read some Rawls

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

Like, legitimately, if you are a colleague of mine and you read anything that man writes and think "yeah, this is good" don't ever tell me because I will laugh in your face, then chase you down the hall to laugh in your face while pointing

Should women be allowed in public, y/n?

Oh I am not linking that amazingly misogynistic thing by that predictably misogynistic man, but good lord---why does anyone, anywhere, take him seriously? If you do, or you're like, "oh, he's got some good points, he's just conservative" please know that I judge you an absolutely unserious person

Working on some aspect of clothing in #LateAntiquity? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the @catacombsociety.bsky.social organized panel!

A stereotype is NOT a generalization of how some population differs from human universals but a way to demonize members of that population precisely WHEN they act according to human universals.

Thinking about this Mary Oliver poem this morning. Don't hesitate.

chatting with a friend who does historical role-playing games with his students, and in the midst of a Nicaea game, he reports that Arius is doing very well---"she's got spreadsheets"🤓

today’s the day!!

shiny and new and all mine! thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social! get yours (open access link!) luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...

E-bikes and scooters are truly great, but they let riders skip over the whole part where you have to ride the bike long enough to get fit enough to go that fast, and during that long build-up, you're learning how to handle the bike at speed skip that you're literally taking your life in your hands

Another thing (and so they should consider leaving me alone) is that this “we need to forgive people for what they said in the past to grow the party” owes a significant discursive debt to the MeToo backlash that has unilaterally sold the idea that “woke feminism” went too far.

I'm legitimately wondering if anyone flying is going to be able to get to AAR/SBL

How's your writing going today? Me, I'm at "I have housed a sleeve of saltines"

Again, perfect world, but I would issue a “new age for cultural institutions.” Don’t just bring them back to pre-Trump funding. Earmark grants around political education. Reinvigorate them with clear purpose + resources to build institutional infrastructure

Great chat with Dr. @jennisifire.bsky.social about her latest book, Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination (Univ Cali Press). It’s on Broadcast Seeding now! sowingtheseed.org/podcast/epis...

The other thing about this is that whatever AI can do, if it could remotely do what they're describing ALL of us would be having a fundamentally different experience. If AI were helping students do the reading, for example, they would seem more like they've done the reading rather than way less

And IT help

It's been three hours and I'm still thinking about this:

“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”

"History will tell you that negotiating with racism or fascism or authoritarianism never ends well." Tressie McMillan Cottom www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.

I’m often…. Troubled when people , who choose for a life’s work, to think critically chose not to

this is my shit, right here

You know, there *is* such a thing as a Chotiner interview that isn't cringe upon cringe---you just need to be a consistent, clear-eyed thinker like Kate Manne: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Coming up this Thursday, October 30, 6:30PM at the PSCO: A (👻seasonally-appropriate👻) talk by me: "Haunting Houses: Property as Evidence for the Unseen in Late Ancient Christianity" There's a Zoom if you're interested---write me at emuehlbe at umich.edu and I'll shoot you the link!

well, friends, it's about that time. if you're planning your #aarsbl25 dance card, i hope you'll join inventing christianity this year. we have an amazing set of panels, all-star panelists, and our leadership team is committed to creating an intellectual hub for 2nd/3rd century folks. check us out:

are you sick of the "does a 40 yo man's Nazi tattoo mean something about him" discourse? guess what, there's a way out! next time, you just need to think that comments blaming women for their own assault are disqualifying on their own

love to get a "new in X from Y Press" announcement in which 16 of 19 featured authors are men and yes, they all are

I'm gearing up to record on @mikemotia.bsky.social's New Book Network podcast, and people, if you want to catch up on what's been going on in ancient Mediterranean studies lately, you should go look at his catalog! newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profil...

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

One tactic these data guys use online is to dismiss academic work they don’t like by calling it “overly complex” or “disconnected from reality.” I call this anti-rigor propaganda. It’s a move to sour people on serious scholarship when you don’t have better evidence. Adam addresses it in the piece.

Bring back earnestness and sincerity as virtues...

The Ted Talk and the Splashy Article Confessing How Dirty I Keep My House/My Self may seem, to the casual media consumer, like two genres, when in reality, they are iterations of the same genre; they are also at once harbingers of and catalysts for the downfall of society. In this essay I will

We need an entire analysis of the epidemic of moral claims made by proxy---that is, taking something or more often someone not at face value but at the value it could have as an counterexample in an argument worse than whataboutism is whoaboutism

Apropos of nothing: It is vitally important to always have a person in your life that will not hesitate to, honestly and kindly, tell you when you are completely full of shit.

but also: I just want a time machine to go back to 2015, full stop

I want a time machine, to take everyone back ten years and show those 2015 people what their 2025 selves are saying

Just absolute trash---the dimmest, nastiest trash

Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...

I say all of the time that sincerity is a virtue and it is. I like earnestness.