All I wanted to learn tonight was who would finally be able to pay off their student loans with a million dollars after starving on an island for 26 days, because this is affordability in 2025.

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

this is what contrast buttonholes look like to me

Why can't they afford a better hand makeup artist?

I am very excited for Taylor Swift to get married. I am also very excited for her to get divorced! I’m not saying that it’s required, at all, I’m just saying I enjoy divorce albums and this one would be SUPREME ULTRA

Today's featured book: "Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism," by Suzanna Krivulskaya, Oxford University Press, 2025 @suzzzanna.bsky.social

Wrote about Carl Lentz for @therevealer.bsky.social! You should at least skim it for the pics alone. therevealer.org/how-to-monet...

Our Summer issue is here! With articles on Stephen Miller, Carl Lentz's scandal & rehabilitation, Sydney Sweeney's bathwater, Ivan Illich, religious conversion, & white Christian nationalist teens from @nberlat.bsky.social, @suzzzanna.bsky.social, @angeladenker.bsky.social & more! therevealer.org

NEW podcast episode! "Protestant Sex Scandals in America" Why have sex scandals been such a common feature of Protestant life in the US? @suzzzanna.bsky.social, author of Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, joins us. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

In case you missed the link earlier, I wrote an obituary (of sorts) for Jimmy Swaggart over at @religiondispatches.org. religiondispatches.org/the-lord-tol...

the latest from RD: @suzzzanna.bsky.social on Jimmy Swaggart's most enduring legacy -- getting away with it religiondispatches.org/the-lord-tol...

if you liked this piece, you'll love @suzzzanna.bsky.social's new book! check it out: www.amazon.com/Disgraced-Sc...

tbh I wish all mornings started with editing pieces like this @suzzzanna.bsky.social had me at "apparently insatiable affinity for sex workers"

We continue highlighting our LGBTQIA+ focused resources with a look at former Young Scholar, Suzanna Krivulskaya's Syllabus, Religion and Sexuality in the United States! Find it and more in our teaching resource library: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/resources/

funniest possible outcome

Had a delightful time presenting my work at the Religion and Sexual Abuse conference at UC Riverside. If fellow teacher friends are considering assigning my book, I'd be glad to chat with your students about it!

Anyway we all know that reality-TV is merely bread and circuses to distract us, and that understanding it will give you no insight into politics and the currents of history. Unrelated, here's what the host of The Apprentice did for the stars of Chrisley Knows Best www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

I missed the live discussion and am happy to be able to watch the recording of @suzzzanna.bsky.social's discussion of her book *Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism." #AmRel

I knew what was coming and I still wheeze-laughed

Tonight! Link to register for the webinar: lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/events/disgr...

my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide

I'm sure this webinar on @suzzzanna.bsky.social's recent book, *Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism,* will be great!

Grad students in queerness & religion: The CFP is out for the Holstein Dissertation Fellowship, the deadline is May 23, and if you are working on anything Protestant-adjacent, I'd be happy to serve as your mentor!

My copy is here! Congratulations, @judithweisenfeld.com!

Honored to be one of the keynote speakers at the 2025 Religion & Sexual Abuse Conference! Register for this hybrid event at UCR here: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...

Grateful for Taffy Brodesser-Akner's storytelling gifts—and her refusal of simple narratives.

If you want to learn how to podcast, I will do 45 minute consultations with you on zoom and go over a "how-to" checklist of things to consider. You can tip me via paypal or venmo an amount of your choosing. I consulted with someone today like that and it was honestly really fun. Please let me know!

Register to stream my conversation with Jim Mitulski on May 22 here: lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/disgraced

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

How much longer is this?

Educators (and everyone)! A reminder that even though PBS has removed content from PBS Learning Media, NYC has posted the materials connected to our Hidden Voices LGBTQ+ work here: sites.google.com/schools.nyc.... Please use, share, spread the word. Really fantastic videos and supporting resources.

What percentage of the wealthy tourist types who watch White Lotus realizes that it’s about them?

My book child and I have a favor to ask you 🙏 Would you kindly leave a review on Goodreads, Amazon, Bookshop, etc.? It would help with promotion, and I would be grateful. (And apologies for another promo post—I know these are tedious.)

imagine being upset by pronouns

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Have you heard of The Page 99 Test? I'm grateful to the Campaign for the American Reader for inviting me to experiment with my book! Read what I learned here: page99test.blogspot.com/2025/02/suza...

Great news, everyone: while the world burns and the humanities die, the CSU will let us use ChatGPT (which is already free) for research and teaching!

Thanks to my university's news center for running a story about the book! news.csusm.edu/professor-wr...

Attention writers and scholars (feel free to share/retweet): Here is a thread about pitching @therevealer.bsky.social, the online magazine about religion + society where I'm the Editor. We value your work & pay writers. Want to write for a broad audience interested in religion & society? (1/9)

What a fascinating chapter on a religious figure with whom I have long been intrigued, Aimee Semple McPherson.

Nonbinary, trans, and intersex people are real, even if the new administration insists on nonsensical "two genders" bullshit. Here is a compelling example from 1629 Virginia: wams.nyhistory.org/early-encoun...

Happy publication day to Disgraced! Here is a discount code for 30% off when you order from Oxford University Press: AUFLY30 bit.ly/disgraced30off

y’all, this is going to be great! @suzzzanna.bsky.social is so, so smart and awesome.

🗃️ My friend @suzzzanna.bsky.social has written a "scandalous" book, DISGRACED: HOW SEX SCANDALS TRANSFORMED AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM (see what I did there). Pub date is Jan 17, 2025, available for pre-order. Order discounted copy 30% off (code: AUFLY30)* Rd one chapter for FREE until Feb 13, 2025**

Great news! For a limited time, you can read a chapter of my book free of charge, thanks to Oxford University Press! It's about the charismatic Holywood celebrity evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and her mysterious disappearance in 1926. academic.oup.com/book/59042/c...