'Masculinities and Trauma in Church and Theology' is the subtitle of this collection edited by @revdwillrm.bsky.social with contributions from @karenod.bsky.social, Andrew Graystone, @alexianafry.bsky.social and @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social 20% off during June: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Although it might seem as if “trauma” is something people know about, given its mass proliferation in the public, society is so vastly trauma illiterate and they see no reason to become informed because it would require significant change.

This is 14% of Lebanon's territory. Functionally indistinguishable from what Russia has done in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

Given how much completely justified disdain young people feel toward AI, it is remarkable that no struggling college has branded itself the radically anti-AI school. Instead, administrators are all pushing in the opposite direction, to forcibly integrating AI into teaching. A poverty of imagination.

In 1934 Hitler created a medal to give to everyone who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch, in case you want to know what's going to happen to all these people after Trump gives them a big check.

How the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health system — now at the center of the Ebola outbreak — changed after U.S. aid was cut, according to people who worked in the country:

Proud contributor to this volume as well! ✨✨✨

The Gideon-Abimelech cycle:

Was just informed by @katgelk.bsky.social that _From Slave to Saint: Onesimus Throughout Christian History_ now has a page on @fortresspress.bsky.social's website! Consider pre-ordering for Jan 2027 to learn more about Onesimus from the 1st–20th centuries www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

Don't forget about us this Summer. Publish your interdisciplinary article with Avar! avarjournal.com/avar/submiss...

Will Rose-Moore has spoken to the Shiloh Project about the edited collection out next month, For Nothing is Hidden (available to pre-order now): shilohproject.blog/new-book-an-...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Abolishing ICE is rape prevention

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Bluesky is the best platform for advertising academic books right now! After the death of Twitter, IG favors those who are skilled at short-form video content (see the amazing page of @alexianafry.bsky.social), but Bluesky spreads book news further than FB or LinkedIn ever could.

“A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.”

“Quieter methods of removal will look more like ordinary criminalization, which many people in the U.S. are conditioned to ignore. This moment is a test for our movements. Can we recognize criminalization as the primary means of human disposal under fascism and organize accordingly?”

We are thrilled with this gorgeous cover for our forthcoming book, Avoiding Antisemitism: A Guide for Christians! Thanks to the team at @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social for making it happen (again!) @evandeneykel.bsky.social @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social

More and more colleges and universities are cutting Religious Studies, just as current events make it more and more obvious how necessary Religious Studies education is to understand today's world.

Presenting a paper online today at 2:30pm for the centre of Muslim-Christian studies: “Renegotiating Armageddon: The Failure of Evangelical Apocalypticism During the Iraq War (2003-2011) and its Impact on the Iran War (2026–)” Sign up below for the link www.cmcsoxford.org.uk/cmcs-news/a-...

Reading Esther Keeps the Score in a group this Summer? Send me a message - I'd love to do Q&A for your crew!

Happy end-of-the-semester to those who are currently celebrating! Working on something you want to submit to Avar? Let us know how we can help.

If you've never been directly involved in Cuba solidarity you couldn't find a better time than right now. Cuba needs a lot of creativity, support, and care from abroad, more than ever. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

There is a direct correlation between the current "ICE is Nice" campaign and folks who love this cruelty (empathy is a sin crowd) who argued during the Minneapolis raids that they were losing "the media war."

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

I have learned the devastating news that a giant in biblical studies and beyond, Jione Havea, passed away suddenly. My heart goes out to his family and loved ones and a community of scholars. He made the world a better place. Rest in power. www.cwmission.org/news/spotlig...

Come listen to our (undergrad-friendly) discussion about Roman slavery!

AND further evidence of confusion about what teaching (and even knowledge) actually is. Knowledge is NOT a synonym for information. Teaching is not just communicating information.

If he does not want to be compared to Hitler, he should stop building concentration camps.

Esther Keeps the Score with @alexianafry.bsky.social

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

"The question isn’t whether we can preserve the world as it is and stop climate change, but whether we can plan for those changes to be as minimally destructive as possible." & doing this requires--for starters--letting go, at every level, of how you thought the future was going to go.

As a biblical scholar who is facing employment precarity due to the changing landscape, like many of us in the humanities and social sciences, I’m grateful for organizations like @sblsite.bsky.social (1/4). 🧵

SBL member Alexiana Fry on why we need biblical scholars. #TalkAboutBiblicalStudies #TalkAboutHumanities

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

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