That one really was for the girls 💪🏻 Second highest attendance at a rugby world cup final, men or women. 🌹

September is IIH awareness month.

For an update of our upcoming events: mailchi.mp/cam/incredib...

Tickets acquired! This disabled-led conference on disability & church is the highlight of my year (& features prominently in my book with @emjric.bsky.social). Will be lovely to reunite with old friends for the first hybrid conference & first at St Martin’s since 2019. I’m preaching on the Sunday :)

@siobhanjolley.bsky.social Guess what I got given to read on the journey home from #BNTS

When you get Eowyn's "I am no man" into a seminar question at #BNTS2025 😁

Prepping the kiddos for back to school: "If anyone says there are no zombies in the Bible, they're lying..." Well, they did walk in as I was starting to pull together a conference workshop for October, so I am not sure what else they expected 🤷🏼‍♀️

Excited to be part of this. Do take a look -

Oh we’ve got a fun few months coming up in the @feministtheology.bsky.social Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064... #feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity

I am genuinely excited to be helping students ask innovative questions which challenge perspectives in our field.

Add NT studies, disability studies, a bit of feminism together, to animal studies, stir and "ta da"... Yep, I still get excited at seeing my name printed on actual paper pages 😁 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... An article by the lovely @mckasp.bsky.social.

Just a reminder that if you haven’t already joined the Feminist Theology Network and want to be part of a supportive, inclusive, vibrant place for feminist & womanist research, you can do so here mailchi.mp/a5e743737064... @feministtheology.bsky.social #feminist #theology #womanist #community

When you turn up to your hospital appointment and realise you have accidentally coordinated your clothing and your reading... A hastily thrown on FTN t-shirt and the book you grabbed from the desk as the cab arrived...

Excited to share this upcoming volume. My perspective has changed somewhat with experience and David gave me space in this collection to write about it.

An SCM sale is always "dangerous"... but the kiddos might have just got me these for my birthday 😉 Ordered Tuesday, arrived today - am set up for summer reading!

Today was the first day I woke up with the knowledge that people are prepared to present your ideas as their own. Naive perhaps, but I had enjoyed the bubble of academic innocence for a while at least.

So Loose Women might get slated a lot, but I was reading Laura Bates' book at the GPs and this elderly lady struck up a conversation with me about AI and sexism on the back of her Loose Women interview: youtu.be/J8plVS73veA?...

So my profile is now up and running for prospective postgraduate students wanting to study disability and biblical studies/theology, amongst other things 😁 www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...

Horrifying but incredibly powerful. Absolutely needs to be read by, like, everyone. Bates is sounding a warning call before it's too late... and we really, really need to listen.

Date for your diary: 28th May 2025, 7pm BST

@melissacmtan.bsky.social , guess we best get writing that paper we proposed for BNTS in September 😉

Apologies, I forgot to add the time on the previous reminder 🙈 On Monday (14th April) we have the wonderful Dr Selina Stone speaking on "A Womanist Loves the Spirit: Womanism, Theology, and Liberation." ⏰ 7pm UK/8pm CEST/2pm EDT ⏰

Just sending this round again in case you haven't seen it.

"Don't fight back. Fight forward."

When you're presenting online and the slide sharing doesn't work... On the plus side, no one had to stare at my face either 🤣

And we're off 😁 Wish I was there in person, but I do get to listen to the fabulous @naomijacobs.bsky.social first up.

All the best to everyone attending the SocRel Chair's Response Day - Religion, Disability and Neurodivergence. FTN will be representing in-person and online today!

**Giveaway Alert** We have a sample of our brand new FTN t-shirt (only 3 currently in existence) and a copy of 'When God Became White'! Just like and follow. For an extra entry give us a re-post. Deadline 10th April 7pm GMT. Winner announced 12th April. (We can only post to a UK address though).

When checking proofs, are you supposed to let people know they are about to get cited in an encyclopedia ... 😜 @candidamoss.bsky.social and @isaactsoon.bsky.social , I couldn't not include you.(Sorry @meghanhenning.bsky.social , you are on the other page, but you are in there).

Awesome podcast episode alert: "There are these social constructs to oppress and marginalise and make certain groups invisible" - Grace Ji-Sun Kim [19:38] We also get a shout out at 22:49! Thank you @mchlmorelli.bsky.social for your kind words x

📢 Proposals for papers are invited for the British New Testament Society Meeting 2025 to be hosted by the University of Manchester from Monday 1 September to Wednesday 3 September 2025. 📅 CfP Closes 21 April 2025 🔗 bnts.org.uk/bnts-call-fo...

This was so good, especially the post-book discussion. Cannot recommend @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social's writing enough.

Going to be soooo good. I have a preview copy....

So excited that @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social is joining us for February. (Have a cheeky pre-release copy which has just leapfrogged to the top of my TBR list, as in starting in about 5 minutes 🥰) If you are not already a member of the Feminist Theology Network, sign up - mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...

Obviously all the articles are important, but Nina Worthington's paper on theatre practice and disability is a must read (I will confess to hearing it live...)

Proud of this chapter and venturing out of my comfort zone a bit, but now I need to review the proofs... The other place wouldn't let me post the link, but here it is www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...

Starting the new year by wading into one of my Christmas presents @karenod.bsky.social - it's really good 😊

Post-Christmas journey home is taking just a touch longer than planned (currently at 8 hours and at least 2.5 more). Any suggestions for podcasts to ease the boredom?

Just finished 'She Says' on Netflix. Definitely a must watch. Quiet but powerful.

Managed to "organise" a three month part-time teaching contract at the same time as being a visiting scholar in a different country. What would we do without the internet?

Feels good to have some submissions out of the way. Now to tidy up overdue book proposals... Finally starting to catch up after health-related delays, ready for some exciting projects after Christmas 😁

Currently updating this for Monday. It's hybrid if anyone hasn't heard me get on my soapbox already 😜

Had to order from the US (long irrelevant story) but it's arrived in time for my next project in December @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social! Told myself it was a necessary incentive to finish the current disability encyclopedia chapter... the one where I try to condense my entire field into 8,000 words 😫

Shout out to those who work on biblical portrayals of disability: what is the one/most important "fact" you want students to know? Currently writing a summary piece and wondering about how my criteria of what is essential compares to other peoples'...

So excited that this special issue is now out and for the opportunity to get on my soapbox about nondisabled interpretations of John 5.

So my little side project for #bnts24 is out in the world. I am continuing to "scratch the academic itch" but in the meantime you can read a bit on the CSBV blog. www.csbvbristol.org.uk/2024/09/17/b...