on #TDOV, dig into the wide range of trans & queer approaches to biblical & rabbinic texts, w @lhuber.bsky.social Eric Thomas, Gwynn Kessler, Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, @postrafelite.bsky.social & Erin Runions in the latest issue of QTR! @dukepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...

Many men are not psychologically equipped for a universe where potential mates are not entirely economically dependent on them. Nor can they handle the burden of freedom from prescribed gender-based expectations. The people least equipped for this are running the country. bsky.app/profile/drja...

so i don't live there now but i am From Philly, it's meaningfully part of me even 20+ years out and i'm not into hockey but this guy has transcended mere hockey mascot, imo. i've been thinking about this kind of treatment for him basically since go & especially since they doubled down on the flag-

fellas is it gay to have a war plan

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

The thousands of American kids we kill by cutting health care will die with smiles on their faces knowing that the money was used for missiles to kill Iranian kids. by Jodey Arrington

Google has an ad for Gemini about a student using AI to create a study guide and I cannot say more strongly: Students, PLEASE create your own study guides because that is what studying *IS*. If you outsource your studying to AI, you will likely fail your tests.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

Imagine seeing this and not understanding why Religious Studies is needed as a discipline at this moment in history.

Job ad for the Washington Center at WVU www.higheredjobs.com/region/detai...

Mark Watkins of the Chronicle of Higher Ed says faculty should spend 90 mins a week to teach ourselves about AI & unis are now sending out emails w his recommendation. I write here about the gift of having someone admit that automation intensifies labor sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2026/...

Andreesen: introspection is just a modern conceit Ancient greeks: what

In Intro LGBTQ+ I talk abt McRuer’s “central question of ableism”: “Wouldn’t you rather be more like me?” Parallel response to trans ppl is clear here: “Very few people in this world actually want there to be more trans people… …they ask: ‘Wouldn’t it be better if they just didn’t end up trans?’”

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...

Just published: "Reimagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia," a special issue of TSQ edited by Claire Pamment & Jeffrey A. Redding. View the TOC: buff.ly/88OB7Es Buy this issue: buff.ly/fwoMpZD

One thing we should be taking away from the fascist crisis is that careful research on the real world is extremely fucking important. Bare minimum that work needs to be funded & expanded for us to have the information & tools necessary to cast off this regime & create a livable world from its ashes.

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…

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i honestly didn't think it was possible for me to be harsher in my judgement of chatgpt users before today, but here we are if you still use this thieving, now murdering product to make silly little jokes or to write your emails or do your homework, you are complicit

When I say I'm tired of the entirety of my life being shaped by imperialist predators, this is what I mean.

Imagine telling kids: Listen, rich people made this somewhat crappy product they're going to make you use when you end up having to work for them, so we have to teach you how to try to use it and that's a lot of work for both of us because it's pretty crappy. That's called "AI literacy."

When I lived in Houston, I was represented by this man. It was an honor.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

It brings me an incredible sense of peace to imagine the fear and feeling of walls closing in for men who abused women and girls with elite impunity

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

So....the Fourth Reich?

< wrestling announcer voice > the BIBLE'S!! OOOOOOOOOORIGINAL!!!!!WOOOOOMAANNNNN!!!!!!! < airhorns >

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

#WebinAAR | Gender and religious studies are under attack in U.S.universities and colleges. Join us for a webinAAR where panelists in the field will discuss the current situation and all of its complexities in a roundtable discussion. Register now for February 20 at 12 PM: aarweb.org/event/religi...

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Snowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you’ve visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC, I don’t think you can look at this and not immediately think of the wall of children’s drawings from Theresienstadt

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

lots of things I don’t like about today, but reading Stephanie Burt on Richard Siken was not one of them. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Start-of-semester desk selfie! Cautionary cross-stitch by @arlierman.bsky.social, my beloved

Hope is the beloved dog of Amanda Graham & her family. Hope has surgery scheduled on January 29th at Pendleton Veterinary Clinic. She has tumors which will be removed and biopsied. Please call 541-276-3141 to donate over the phone and say your donation is for Hope Graham💗 #dogs

Today's pigeon is from a photo @musicologyduck.bsky.social took, of a pigeon eating an entire human size portion of spaghetti off the ground