the one constant in mass shootings is the prevalence of misogyny/domestic violence/hatred toward women: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

I'm really excited to be convening the Hebrew Bible /Old Testament seminar this term. We have a brilliant line-up of international and national speakers coming to Oxford with research focused on the theme of Trauma and the Hebrew Bible!

Check out this online class by @alexianafry.bsky.social taking place Saturday, September 27, from 12–1:30pm ET. Registration: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

another set of department closures at another public flagship. i'm from WV; my heart breaks every time because i *know* what that means for students like me and my high school friends. full disclosure: i went to college out of state to a country club school with lots of money for scholarships. 1/?

Read "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" by Alexiana Fry in #JBL144.2 by logging in with your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

The day before we found out from the President himself that actually political violence is unacceptable the Supreme Court said it’s legal for masked men to bust your car window and snatch you away from your family for having the wrong skin color.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Thrilled to be the "teacher" for @theb4np.bsky.social's September class called "Shaped By Suffering: How Trauma Impacts the Bible and Its Readers." Join me on Saturday, September 27th at 12P EST: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

GOOD MONDAY MORNING! AVAR 3.2 has three articles, from @alexianafry.bsky.social, Jacob Dahl, Robert Miller II, and Jonathon Riley. avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

I'm not sorry that this is what I chose to do to begin my day.

Burn in Hell James Dobson, you complete fascist child abusing misogynist homophobic scumbag. Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...

University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

...and the book is off to its publisher (@scmpress.bsky.social)! Spring 2026 cannot come fast enough.

"Did the Department of Homeland Security Just Tweet Out a Nazi Dog Whistle?" It does seem to many, writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo, like a white supremacist is in control of the social media account of a major US government agency.

The deadline for submitting your article to Issue 4.2 is one week away (August 1)! We'd love to see your work featured with us. avarjournal.com/avar/announc...

Hi All: would love your help on identifying folks working at the intersection of migration and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament! MANY THANKS!

We're crowdsourcing here, ya'll! If you teach "religion" - yes, obnoxiously broadly speaking - and encounter trauma in some way, shape, or form, please interact and share!

If you... 📝Teach in #theology #religiousstudies #Biblicalstudies or a similar discipline 📝Encounter #trauma in your teaching (teach on trauma/related subjects, or have experience of it in your classroom/with your students) Please like or interact with this so we can see you + share widely!

Any thoughts on this folks? Brainstorming this morning with @alexianafry.bsky.social + @profchrismjones.bsky.social 👀 looking for a good platform to create networks, publish resources, host conversations etc...

Have we figured out options that are different than substack? Halp!

I'm running a little social experiment on TikTok, asking viewers to imagine if they were archaeologists in the year 3000 who are encountering specific objects - what would you speculate they were? www.tiktok.com/@alexianadfr...

"AI" bots bullshitting out Bible verses on twitter is one thing; how many times has this happened in purpose-specific apps people downloaded to their phones and are using for spiritual guidance? Because Holy— and I cannot stress this enough— shit. Literally the kind of shit we've been warning about

While this article may seem, on the surface, to be more of a literature review - I promise you it is not!

New Monday, New Article Feature! Today, we're featuring @alexianafry.bsky.social and Eric Trinka's article that helps readers see the relationality that the first four articles of the special issue highlight: (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

Submissions for our open call are due August 1, and I'm really fun to work with!

Good Morning from myself, the donkeys, and the wallabies here in Ravenstein! I'm going to be live "skeeting" this workshop hosted by @tdbiii.bsky.social and @siobhanjolley.bsky.social, "Liberating Biblical Women? Feminist Afterlives of the Bible in the 21st Century."

It's MONDAY, which means it is time to highlight another article from our recent issue. Allison Wolf shares in "A Feminist Account of Migration Justice: An Overview," how she has conceptualized the study of oppression in mobility: (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

Praise Kier! My article for JBL, "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" is live. I talk about how this traumatic effect is the point of the passage, in multiple, layered ways. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/sblpress/jbl...

Heads up, fellow academics! Academia sent me this lovely surprise via email today. If you have a page with them, check your settings - and opt out!

It's another Monday, but don't worry - we've got another article feature! Today we're highlighting Ipek Demir's article, "Diaspora Theorizing and the Diasporas of the Middle East": (1/3)🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

OKAY - some things changed and the schedule for the meeting that starts officially TOMORROW (@sblsite.bsky.social and EABS) has shifted. Here are the updates for the Intersectional Feminism(s) unit! (1/3)🧵

Every 5 years, the US wants to bomb a country to “save its women,” while stripping away rights from women across the US

No war with Iran, full stop. Absolutely psychotic seeing them run the exact same playbook from 20 years ago despite the fact that we are explicitly the aggressor here

incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

I’ve read this and if you haven’t, you’re missing out. @siobhanjolley.bsky.social is doing a giveaway!!!!

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too! 💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens) Let’s see where it ends up… #Giveaway

NOW IS THE TIME TO UPDATE YOUR PASSPORT IF YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR GENDER MARKER TO MATCH YOUR GENDER IDENTITY WE DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG THIS INJUNCTION WILL LAST OR IF IT WILL LATER BE EXPANDED. THE WINDOW IS OPEN, APPLY ASAP.

It is absolutely infuriating that the word "antisemitism" has been perverted to mean "anything that threatens a Christo-fascist ruling order" instead of something centered around, you know, actual Jews.

Happy Monday! We're featuring @meganjdaniels.bsky.social article today, "Archaeology and Migration: The Journey Towards a Relational World": (1/3) 🧵 avarjournal.com/avar/article...

So I am currently reading "Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible" by @alexianafry.bsky.social - and I am only through the introduction and first chapter but it is so incredibly good and you should check it out! Here's a link, www.bloomsbury.com/us/trauma-ta... and here's a taste:

The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved. Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.

My voice cracked and i wasn’t eloquent but i try to always be the person who says, “fighting fascism is not violence.”

I own eyeshadow older than ICE. Like, what is even the point.

oh will you be mad if anybody ruins your birthday party? do we all need to be nice to the little birthday boy? to the tiny toddler prince? should we clap when the cake comes out? should we put you in your special hat and let you pick your own balloon animal?

FINALLY my own article is out in the special issue! I write on being more precise about what we say when using words like "multicultural" and "tolerance" - and the numbing effect of those words in interpreting MT Esther: www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

You're invited to the sessions held by the Intersectional Feminism(s) unit at the upcoming International @sblsite.bsky.social and EABS meeting! 🧵(1/4)