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Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

A mere four months later he instead bestowed upon us an entirely fresh 16k words—offered, poignantly, in memory of Elizabeth Clark. Folks, you will not be surprised to hear that it's really good. Available now in advance access. brill.com/view/journal...

Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 34, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56813 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Religious studies folks! Check out this late-breaking postdoc (start date: mid-August 2026) at Columbia's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life www.ircpl.columbia.edu/postdoctoral...

coming soon from @adeler.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Rinaldo Walcott cuts to the chase:"The ongoing canard that universities have been taken over by the left has been useful to deploy so that the conservative institution of the university can continue,w/minimal changes, its ongoing sorting, ranking,& ordering of peoples in service of dominant forces."

Why Ric Esther Bienstock’s ‘Speechless’ left me speechless – Canadian Dimension Sharing again. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Paperback of my book on the Polis is now out. Link in next post.

none of these headlines are reporting that this is the stripped down bill that doesn't fund ICE or border patrol; if the situation were reversed the headlines would be screaming DEMOCRATS CAVE ON FUNDING BILL

Because there is surely no lede more buried than post 16 in a Bluesky 🧵, here’s the point:

our history of the present issue is now out from @dukepress.bsky.social ! on multiple registers of the "incapacitation" of tradition read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t... hooray

“When Professors like June Jordan. Toni Cade Bambara, and Angela Davis Mistake Themselves for Revolutionaries” By Len Gutkin #chroniclepitchbot

Is there a Chronicle of Higher Ed pitchbot?

Imagine the delusion or denial required to propose that — as they’re building triumphal arches, waging wars of choice to defend Western civilization, and looksmaxing to approximate Greek statuary — it’s somehow pathetically “radical” to acknowledge the inherent politics of classics as a field

@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!

Migration, Borders, and Solidarity in Transatlantic Perspective April 20, 6pm Join our panel debate with Ananya Roy (UCLA), Veronika Zablotsky (FU), Manuela Bojadžjiev (HU) & @vethompson.bsky.social (Queen‘s) at Refugio Berlin (Lenaustr. 3) www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/events/20...

Audre Lorde

LATER THIS MONTH!!!

Join Madeline Vosch and me for this discussion about our books. “The Uneasy Lives of Saints: A Conversation on After Transformation and Undead.” April 29th at Harvard’s CSWR and by zoom. Register here for zoom: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/...

Simcha Gross shares insights into Talmud scholarship and the shift toward historical considerations. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...

🗣️ new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity! 🗣️ @monikaamsler.bsky.social's EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF LATE ANTIQUITY ⚡⚡⚡ free through April 8! ⚡⚡⚡ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The goal is the annihilation of history, identity, human dignity.

Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

Come listen to me and @antiquitypod.bsky.social talk about ancient Palestine & the Levant for an hour! Key topics: - What does the word "Palestine" refer to? - How do we deal with the complexity of west Asian history & empires vying for the region? - What's "biblical archaeology" doing?

I really feel that it’s a privilege to get older, but I think I would be able to enjoy that privilege more if my sleep wasn’t so catastrophically disturbed by things like “it got a little warmer outside.”

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025). "Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells. #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-2...

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Yep, zero need for Religious Studies classes to help our students operate with a deeper understanding of our present world and how religious history and scriptures shape identities and actions www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

2. AG Paxton of Texas announced a new interpretation of state law that would extend the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors to mental health providers, declaring that any therapist who affirms a trans youth's identity is "facilitating" illegal treatment and committing child abuse.

Here's the recording for the book launch of our second 4T book. Hear Fabien Muller and Aaron Johnson discuss Porphyry, theology, theurgy, and more!

Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social

Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 34, No.1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56477 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

They killed 36 girls today. www.news18.com/world/36-stu...

"Every fascism has its subhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans." -- Kelly Hayes

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Excellent fellowship opportunity for animal ethics & animal studies scholars.

Beyonce could do the funniest thing and release her album during the state of the union

Did I mention I am hiring? Yes, I’m going to repost this frequently

Thinking about attending the SCS in Boston? Love monks and Late Antiquity? Submit an abstract for this panel!

Soon I'm giving two public lectures at Scripps College in CA as part of the O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship. LA-area friends, would love to see you there! March 31, 4:30pm: Lyricism as Historiography of the Long Past April 1, 4:15pm: Feminist Histories and the Problem of the Real

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

i'm only 14 pages into Susanna Elm's IMPORTANCE OF BEING GORGEOUS and it's sooooooo good www.ucpress.edu/read/books/t... (read for free!)

The second volume in our series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T): Fabien Muller's /Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy/