The European Parliament, led by a conservative far-right alliance, endorses a drastic expansion of deportations. In effect, the far-right has used migration to break into the European political centre.

dear literally anybody with tenure: please, for the love of Marx, do not lecture the rest of us about how "the guild" needs to undercompensate us for our time, labor, and expertise the academy runs on a different economy! one whose currency isn't just cash, I get it! but also: I'm out

For those based in the US, Esther Keeps the Score is now available to order Print On Demand from our distribution partners @wjkbooks.com here: www.wjkbooks.com/bookproduct/... @alexianafry.bsky.social

If you want to read a thing that left me breathless, READ THIS RIGHT NOW.

For yesterday's book launch of Esther Keeps the Score, by @alexianafry.bsky.social, I wrote a piece of fiction that embodied her book’s brilliant insights about Queen Esther as a character shaped by cPTSD and the “fawn” trauma response. Check out the story here: archiveofourown.org/works/82743236

as we should there’s a reason we say “there’s no such thing as a good Nazi” and it’s because, actually, there’s a lot of reasons someone might’ve been one and none of it—not one understandable rationale—*justifies* it you did what you did it means what it means your consequences are yours

Yesterday was the official Esther Keeps the Score book launch party, and I am truly at a loss for words. For those of you who missed it, it is officially available to view on the YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvb...

If you missed this (or would like to watch/listen again), it is captured for posterity on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvb... @alexianafry.bsky.social

Ebook now available for Esther Keeps the Score by @alexianafry.bsky.social

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

So he's just openly announcing a genocide on social media.

my kingdom for schools to realize that religious literacy is a critical skill given, well, all the things. but that would require schools to care about teaching and learning, not only about turning their students into good neoliberal cogs for industry.

Just a teeny-tiny reminder that my book launch party is TOMORROW (with @brownsmith.bsky.social, Sarah Emanuel, and Katherine Gwyther)! See you there? www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...

There is no future for humanity in which the basic conditions for life for millions of people can be destroyed on one person’s whim.

It’s me, hi. 👋

In honor of today’s discourse: consider reading God, Slavery, and Early Christianity! Ch. 3 is esp. meaningful for showing how Paul’s language of slavery and the Holy Spirit gets read as “God the enslaver dwells within you & surveils you” www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Ah you see, I—with my PhD in the humanities—don’t qualify to be an AP reader because I haven’t taught a relevant survey course in the last 3 years. But Claude? Perfectly acceptable reader

The other thing you can make a lot of hay with, as a scholar, is going back and reading the scholarship that supposedly establishes a point---not always, but a lot of time, it doesn't! Pull out that one cinder block and the house starts to crumble

Come and join @alexianafry.bsky.social and others to celebrate the publication of Esther Keeps the Score! Online Tuesday at 5pm (UK time) - see link below to register:

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

I really don't love that on the verge of Passover this year, we are facing the US government claiming the right to demand lists of Jews. Happy Passover, everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Yesterday was the "official" release day for Esther Keeps the Score, and I am anxious and excited to share my words with you all. Many thanks to @scmpress.bsky.social for making this process so enjoyable. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

I got to hang out and get very upset about bad teaching on Esther with @themattiemae.bsky.social and Meghan Tschanz on the Faith and Feminism podcast. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/1jC7...

Our offer of 20% off March's new titles ends tomorrow!

Do you want to write for a mainstream religion publication? Join us on April 8 at 6pm ET on Zoom as editors from Religion Dispatches (@religiondispatches.org), Arc, & The Revealer share tips on pitching & writing. An audience Q & A will follow. More info and register here: wp.nyu.edu/crm/events/

Crickets from many circles I won't bother naming, because there's still time to care about Palestinian kids who suffered in occupation prisons. Talk is not enough. Takes are meaningless. Power a mental health project for the social fabric of Gaza. chuffed.org/project/hmg

Basically Esther 1:10-22.

You are invited! Join me and these lovely biblical scholars - Sarah Emanuel, @brownsmith.bsky.social, and Katherine Gwyther - on Tuesday, April 7th, to celebrate my forthcoming book. www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...

the latest from RD: @profirmf.bsky.social on what Buber has to teach us about collective action, resistance, and survival religiondispatches.org/2026/03/17/f...

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prolife party strikes again

statement from Dolores Huerta: "I have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences."

ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity

Freedom for Immigrants is launching an interactive map designed to help families locate detained loved ones, find legal and community resources, and better understand the expanding U.S. immigration detention system.

While dropping off his kids, federal agents detained an Afghan refugee who served alongside U.S. special forces. He died less than 24 hours later. This is the 43rd death in ICE custody since Trump retook office. We need accountability and justice for all those who’ve died under their watch.

I want to say that if this dragnet snags enough white people, we might finally get meaningful action. But I am pretty sure the elites have already called off even the pretense of caring about poor white people AND they’re actively making middle class white people poor. Sooooo…

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

NEW on the SCM Press blog: @alexianafry.bsky.social talks us through the cover of her new book scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/behind-...

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My website got a much-needed refresh! Thankful for a talented partner. www.alexianafry.com

I recast Trump's next alleged girl victim's testimony first-personally based on four formal FBI interviews that were just released in the Epstein files (having been previously mysteriously missing). It's time for anyone who can afford to do so to listen katemanne.substack.com/p/the-story-...

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories. Men: What a scary time for men this is.

Chag Purim Sameach, my friends who celebrate!

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

The Jewish festival of Purim is celebrated today, remembering the story of the Hebrew Bible's Book of Esther. In Esther Keeps the Score, @alexianafry.bsky.social offers a new interpretation of this book through the lens of trauma. 20% off orders during March: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Grateful to share my thoughts on Purim, Esther, and trauma @baptistnews.com. baptistnews.com/article/reim...