The Trump administration demanding that UCLA screen international students for their political opinions and deny the existence of trans people is a fascist move plain and simple

The British New Testament Society conference is taking place in Manchester. Tonight, we have a panel on decolonising New Testament Studies. #bnts25 @bntsoc.bsky.social

We're off to a great start in the new Reception, Critical Theory, and Interdisciplinary Studies seminar at #BNTS2025. @tdbiii.bsky.social chaired our first session, which featured papers on decolonising hospitality, positionally and applying Bakhtin to Romans.

In-person booking for the conference may have closed, but online registration remains open until 31st August, at the lower rate of £60. estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...

🚨Booking closes tomorrow for in-person attendance. Don’t miss out!🚨

There are just ten days left to book your in-person place for #BNTS2025 - booking will close Friday 15th August.

My chapter on Christian fans of My Little Pony and their fan texts is now open access via my university! Really happy with how Dutch copyright works for academia! [link in first comment] #fanfic #MLP #fanstudies #fan #fanfiction #fanfic #MLP #fanstudies

We’ve managed to secure some more en-suite rooms! Based on the first round these are likely to sell out quickly, so don’t delay.

En-suite residential packages are already sold out - time to book your place!

Ten days left to enter my book giveaway! Tell your friend to enter, (and tell your librarians to buy one please and thanks).

📣 Booking is now open for our 2025 meeting, hosted by @uomreligion.bsky.social - online and in person options available now. estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-...

So excited to see everyone in Manchester in September. I’ve already registrered!!!

Last week @tdbiii.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop in Soeterbeeck about contemporary feminist biblical reception. It was also the eighth hottest day since Dutch records began. Feeling very grateful for friends and colleagues able to be brilliant in extreme conditions and for what’s coming next!

Britain has an especially rigid class structure which roughly breaks down into a very small number of people who actually matter and a vast rabble of inferior people who don’t matter at all. When the latter harshly criticise the former, the real people go *absolutely apeshit*.

Het vertrouwen van de medezeggenschap in het college van bestuur staat ernstig onder druk. Dat schrijft de Universitaire Gemeenschappelijke Vergadering (UGV) in een open brief. Het ontbreekt aan transparantie, zelfreflectie, visie en zorgplicht.

After a lovely lunch, @tdbiii.bsky.social talks about how fans of The Chosen series believe the women characters are “liberated,” even as they are most certainly… not.

#ForBibleNerds and #Booksky, this might be for you.

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

Holland is great for academia, all articles are Open Access after 6 months. Freely accessible today is my: 'My Body Made Me Do It: Noninvasive Possession in Early Christianity' in *Ideas of Possession: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives* (OUP 2024) hdl.handle.net/2066/309371

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We're hosting the 2025 meeting of the Bible, Critical Theory and Reception Seminar here at @uomreligion.bsky.social today, with some great papers ahead. If you're interested in joining us next year, drop @tdbiii.bsky.social, @drrebekah.bsky.social or me a line!

Our second and third sessions are on Thursday, June 26th, featuring papers on HB/OT and reception, as well as female characters ( @jackiewyse.bsky.social; @tdbiii.bsky.social; @onikaprincess.bsky.social)! (3/4)

Study: 83% Of Web Content Unfit For Human Consumption theonion.com/study-8...

Curious? @tdbiii.bsky.social writes brilliantly on fanfic and early Christian writings, and @annapwilson.bsky.social does amazing work on fanfic and premodern writing. podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/i... journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

Now published! Sarah F. Porter (@portersf.bsky.social), “Writing to Paul: Using Interactive Fiction to Explore Early Christian Worlds.” tinyurl.com/PorterWritin...

Awesome way to start the day! My article on nonhumans (animals and demons) in an early Christian text has been published in the Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha! It’s open access, so free for all to read! Get it here: doi.org/10.1177/0951...

Had my first major cancellation of a speaking opportunity based on my gender identity since coming out. And hoo boy, it stings.

This is so ridiculously harmful and has nothing to do with protecting women. It is about social hygiene and the fact that some people think sex work is gross. And it has massive knock on effects.

Details on what is required for ICE to enter your home or car, or take you into custody in photos.

Trans Kids Deserve Better has just covered the front of the NHS England with bloody handprints with the words "release the trans suicides report"

Several staff members at Radboud University are outraged at the violence inflicted on students last Wednesday at the hands of the university and police. They ​​call on the Executive Board to apologise, stop calling police onto campus and cut the ties with universities complicit in genocide.

Proofs day! Coming soon in open access to Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha.

Honestly, I wish criteria for promotion were this clear. We seem to have regressed to be “based on vibes.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...

I’ve loved being able to recommend @tdbiii.bsky.social’s ‘Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings’ to stretch some of my final year undergrads with an interest in media and texts beyond canon. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fan-ficti...

Author copies of Reimaging the Magdalene have arrived! Tell your librarian it’s available now from @tandtclark.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, but watch this space for a giveaway.

Cry me a river. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Open access is such a scam. Glad my uni covers it…

Had a really fun time talking about my fanfiction and early Christian literature book on @itmeanswhatitmeans.bsky.social podcast. It’s a real deep dive in what the book is about, and some more theology-y questions that derive from it. Check out the episode here: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/i...

Listen to the full audio of my conversation with @tdbiii.bsky.social wherever you get podcasts! You can also watch the full episode for $5 a month by using the Patreon link in my bio. Thanks to @tandtclark.bsky.social for the copy of Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings!

If you’ve not found a good fit for your paper, you can also submit to simultaneous short papers. Though not a seminar group, this session includes 20–25 minute papers which showcase research that does not easily fit into one of the established seminar groups.

Ugh. Fucking bigots. Sending love to all my trans fam in the UK.

The chairs (@siobhanjolley.bsky.social and @tdbiii.bsky.social) particularly welcome perspectives that are often marginalized, silenced, or elided within traditional biblical scholarship.

After seminar surfing at @bntsoc.bsky.social for the last 6 years or so, I’m very excited to be launching this with @tdbiii.bsky.social! My DMs are open if you have questions or want to see if your work is a good fit. We especially want to hear from folks at the margins (in every sense).

📣 Seminar Spotlight: Paul For 2025, the Paul seminar (chaired by Andy Boakye and @ryancollman.bsky.social) will host three sessions - two on gender and sexuality and a third open call.

My conversation with @tdbiii.bsky.social will be available everywhere next Wednesday, but you can use the Patreon link in my bio to watch and listen now for $5/month! Head Canon in the Manger #biblepodcast #earlychristianity #fanfiction youtu.be/sIiU3pTveJ0

Manuscripts are the worst.

Here’s a short post on the Eerdmans blog about @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social, @drmjcwarren.bsky.social, and my forthcoming book on Judeophobia and the New Testament. Available for preorder and shipping soon!

Ugh. I hate jet lag so much.

I’m very happy to share that my book ‘Reimaging the Magdalene: Feminism, Art, and the Counter-Reformation’ is now available to buy at all good booksellers (and the dodgy ones too).