My book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

So was Jan. 6 actually just a job fair?

If you're in the Gainesville area on January 28, come hear me speak about my research on the International Space Station!

The only way through this is together. 'Together' covers a lot of activities.

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Stop Israel’s takeover of the Palestinian village of Sebastia - Tell Congress: Urge the State Department to stop Israel’s illegal seizure of Sebastia #savesebastia afsc.org/action/stop-...

Reading these incredibly theory-dense books has me thinking a lot of thoughts about whether you want to write to be understood and communicate to culture at large or if you want to signify how smart you are to three people who never leave the ivory tower.

Good morning to everyone especially everyone who knows that legitimating ethnonationalist claims to antiquity = genocidal complicity! everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/t...

BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

the fascism isn’t a distraction, it is the main event, and i am so tired of dems insisting otherwise

Wonder what Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars did (or not) about Palestine in 2025? Here's a 80-item timeline! everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...

A new and open-access book, "Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece" by Marie-Louise Bech Nosch: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

Everyday Orientalism turns 10 in 2026 and we have some news everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/e...

I think we won’t really free up the space to imagine a way out of American fascism until people grasp this: most of what the “opposition party” has to offer them is their preferred actors for state violence

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

It is a blessing to have someone who will check you when you say something wrong, miss context, lack nuance. Those interactions are hard. Someone willing to risk the balance of your relationship to hold you accountable? The least you can do is be open to the fact that you'll miss the mark sometimes.

The shooter calls her a "fucking bitch" right after shooting her three times. He shot because he was pissed off, not because he reasonably believed he was in danger. Also, he is filming while handling his weapon at the same time?!? Was he even looking at where he was shooting?

UNREAL. katu.com/news/local/i...

white people are erasing Black women from a movement we created to *prevent* our erasure. that irony doesn't make you even a little ashamed? that's not enough for you to respect our boundaries and actually be in solidarity with us? this shit is so vile man, I'm close to tears. we can't have NOTHING?

I'm trying so hard to stay out of the say her name discourse because I don't want to spend all day depressed about the defensive reactions from white liberals.

Say Her Name is not for white women.

🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy

I gotta ask, where do I get the nerve

Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota: Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good. States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it. Here's the legal analysis www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

There's been some confusion, and this is important, so let me say there's no paywall, there's no patreon account required, anyone you send this to just has to click the link to open the page and read the post

ICYMI: Texas A&M admin is requiring a faculty member to either remove *Plato* from their syllabus for being too woke or be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am

Wyoming (my home state) doesn't often surprise me, but sometimes it does

I'm thinking today about Nirmala Erevelles' article, "Thinking With Disability Studies" and her emphasis on accountability, where she writes that to do disability studies is to "come-in" to an accountable community, where membership is not a noun, but an active verb. dsq-sds.org/article/id/76/

This is some of the work of Dr. Katelyn Jo Biship (UIUC) and you can find the research paper here (with a paywall, unfortch) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diary date! "The Southern Mani Archaeological Project: Fieldwork at the End of the World." (2;00 pm, 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University), Jan 18, 2;00 pm, 303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University. An in-person lecture by Drs. Chelsea Gardner and Bill Parkinson. #AncientBluesky #AncientGreece #Mani

it might be in my mistakes that I'm most recognizably human

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Happy New Year! Free Palestine

May 2026 be the year of a Free Palestine, and the free world that will go with it. 🤲🏻

New year, new Rhea! Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.

Y'all, I am beyond excited about this non-profit status, which opens so many doors for us! Our immediate goal is to pay our reviewers because writing book reviews is academic labor, but we dream bigger. Please consider donating to support our mission (you'll get a sweet "Children of Rhea" sticker)!

Academics. One of the best and most radical things you can do is to live authetically. Live your truths, live your principles. Don't just say them, don't just publish them, but be them, do them, that does more than any CV line can ever.

In this article, I talk about Hephaistos and how arguments about how the Athenians had an ambivalent relationship with him as their progenitor are unfounded: they picked him! They were happy to have him! They thought he was great! They knew he was disabled and that didn't change anything for them!

New article proofs! This is due out in Greece & Rome sometime around March. It's the last one for a while probably, but it's one I'm excited about. Thanks to Alaya Palamidis, my friend and colleague from the CHS for first telling me about this vase! Hephaistos is hot, y'all.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya refused to leave his patients. He was the last to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital. A year later, he is still imprisoned. We, the world, failed this brave man.

Congratulations to the Everyday Orientalism team on a brilliant year (it’s a pleasure to be in this “most-viewed” round up with so many legends!) 📚

As 2025 comes to an end, we are sharing our 15 most-viewed publications of the year. Huge thanks to all the guest contributors for their trust and voices, as well as to all who read, watched, taught and engaged with us! everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/e...

Grateful to be on the list (multiple times!) of EO’s most read contributions this year + I hope it’ll encourage other scholars who have PhDs that focus on ancient West Asia to use their expertise to help nuance the public conversation and dispel misconceptions

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Very excited to share that my podcast Ancient Office Hours (and I, as its host) have been awarded the 2025 Forum Prize by the Society for Classical Studies! www.classicalstudies.org/scs-news/202...

The solution to the AI crisis in higher education is not for faculty to turn against our students. Students are not our enemies in this fight.