"Queer Mormon Bodies, Belonging, and Identity" is a special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social 59.1. @katedavisphd.bsky.social @taylorpetrey.bsky.social @benjaminepark.bsky.social @historydavis.bsky.social @nkitchen.bsky.social @gileriodekel.com scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...

Dialogue presents "Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg.” For the complete experience of this article, please see the PDF/HTML version at dialoguejournal.com. And you will want to for the images alone. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/aud...

Slightly diminish a book Lord of the Rings: The Store Credit of the King

If you’re writing about the trad wife movement without writing about white supremacy…you’re not writing about the trad wife movement. You MIGHT be writing about a space that’s merely adjacent to the trad wife ~aesthetic. Maybe! But even then. Probably not.

don't judge me frog and toad bot!!

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

What started as a joke tweet became an AAR paper, and is now the most fun article I have ever written. Thank you @dialoguejournal.bsky.social for giving it a home, and elevating it with truly the most camp images. I am so excited to bring these glistening and brawny men to the queer studies issue!

Our Spring Issue is our first in FULL COLOR! “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg” by Kate Davis begins the issue exploring the queer experience in the Church. This is followed by an important roundtable and more. www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/sprin...

Religious studies people: I desperately want to show my class the 1980’s episode of To Tell The Truth with Michelle Smith (of Michelle Remembers fame) but I cannot find it anywhere! Does anyone have it?

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

it's actually the trolley problem's monster

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

I can't compete with this.

Judith Butler in Who's Afraid of Gender?: “The weaponization of this fearsome phantasm of ‘gender’ is authoritarian at its core.” Looks like we need a new category: ☑️ all of the above

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Why the strong link between tradwives and Latter-day Saints? Caroline Kline of the Center for Global Mormon Studies shared her theory with us.

If you're interested in contributing to the rebuilding fund: www.bethisraelms.org/rebuilding-u...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

Practice is so important. All the time I’ve spent drawing, painting, and crocheting has made me really good at not getting writing done.

I’m only going to be at AAR for one day, but if anyone is are around on Monday let me know! And also: come to our Mormon Studies panel at 5pm rm 105 in Hynes. It’s going to be a great discussion. I had way more to say about Lawrence Foster’s Religion and Sexuality than I thought I did!

I don’t feel like I do a notable amount of professing, relative to the other parts of my job.

Crowdsourcing here: if you had to introduce comedy podcasts to your students as a genre, what 5-10 minute clip would you play?

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts. www.popsci.com/environment/...

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

Is there anything more Sisyphian than checking the "keep me logged in on this device" box?

Staring wistfully out the window, wondering what my cat is up to right now.

When historians talk about the coming “archive apocalypse,” this is what they mean.

Major Dorimus Church's mother was formerly enslaved to his father. Born in Tennessee in 1869, in the aftermath of the Civil War, he and his mother and his siblings were listed in the 1870 census as Black. 1/6

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

In England they call it vocal chip

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

A.I. is just Spiritualist seances for the 21st century

A newly published revelation from the LDS Church's 3rd president raises interesting questions about history and canonization. We asked a historian about it.

Free to Access article until June 30: “Technologies of the Selfie: Mormon Influencers and the Performance of Gender Online” by @katedavisphd.bsky.social from Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 12. cc: @jstuart.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Free to Access article until June 30: “Technologies of the Selfie: Mormon Influencers and the Performance of Gender Online” by @katedavisphd.bsky.social from Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 12. cc: @jstuart.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...

"What influencers choose to share, and what they choose to conceal, contribute to the public perception of what it means to be a Mormon woman." @katedavisphd.bsky.social in a Mormon Studies Review Vol. 12 forum, "Mormon as Spectacle." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...

“Amassing authoritarian power depends in part on a willingness of the people to believe in the power exercised. In some cases, Trump’s declarations are meant to test the waters, but in other cases, the outrageous claim is its own accomplishment.” As always Butler cuts to the heart of the matter.

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So excited to have an article in the new issue of Mormon Studies Review!