I'm looking forward to teaching Feminist Theology for Quakers again - last time we had some great discussions about the Bible, women's roles in society and religion, and intersectionality, among other things.

How does the social structure of patriarchy, in which men and masculinity are valued above women and femininity, affect our religion and spirituality? Explore this question with ideas from Christian, Jewish, and Pagan feminist and womanist theologians. Book your place: https://ow.ly/yEKQ50XqCqQ

This (and the rest of the thread). In my experience the main barrier between me and the next book is a shortage of writing time, not a shortage of ideas.

If you’re an early Christmas shopper, don’t forget to support small businesses! Like self-published authors! Everyone likes getting books for Christmas, especially books they’ve never heard of that are right up their alley! Also you can gift copies on itch and elsewhere & send them on Xmas Eve 🎄

This new proposed UK refugee policy (turfing refugees out after a few years) is bollocks on several levels and I will explain each of them.

A dramatic recreation of Medmenham Camp hillfort #Buckinghamshire, its Iron Age inhabitants seeking shelter as snow sets in Produced for @chilternsnl.bsky.social © Jennie Anderson 2022 www.chilterns.org.uk/map_marker/m... For more see: www.jennieanderson.co.uk #HillfortsWednesday #WinterIsComing

An idea for your Christmas tree this year - stacks of Celtic gold torcs! Known as the Ipswitch Torcs after the location where their hoard was found, the terminals are decorated in the swirly La Tène style (Tène II), save the top one which is unadorned. 🎄🏺 1/ 150-50 BCE. 📸 me #BritishMuseum

It's #StandingStoneSunday 🥳 The triple stone alignment of Harold's Stones, Trellech, is depicted as a relief carving on Lady Probert's sundial of 1689, now in the local church This shows the stones have barely changed in 3 centuries 😮 @stoneclub.bsky.social 👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/221159

I did make some progress this #OcTBR. I also decided not to read a few, but... more arrived as well!

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

A new study shows the impact of Neanderthals and later hunter-gatherer peoples on nature turns out to have had a far greater influence on shaping the landscape of what we now know as Europe. www.bajr.org/neanderthals...

Mên-an-Tol is probably from the Bronze Age, making it around 3,500 years old (little evidence has been found). It consists of four stones, the most unusual being the circular and pierced upright stone. The other three stones are more regular granite pillars. #StandingStoneSunday

Proposition: You become a writer the moment you write, a musician the moment you make music, a painter the moment you paint, etc. You become an artist the moment you find your own voice as a writer/musician/painter/etc. Yes? No?

Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis. We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.

We saw Barrier(s) last night - highly recommended. A play about falling in love, about learning another culture, about equality and dignity, about being Deaf and lesbian and needing benefits and the NHS and adaptive technology, and ultimately about justified anger and protecting what we cherish.

A Weddell seal mom wearing a hat* and taking a snooze next to her wonderfully-fed pup. They will continue to chill here together until mid-December when the pups wean and mom heads to the ocean to forage and regain mass. *satellite tracking device AMLR permit to LaRue 2024 🧪🌎🦑🦊

Good morning to everyone especially academics who have just had a journal article rejected and journal editors who have to write rejection letters. But I withhold my greetings from anyone who used AI to generate parts of a paper then ticked a box on the submission page to say they didn't use AI.

I do something like this with emails - every time I get an email that's neither interesting nor useful, I take two minutes to check if I can unsubscribe, and in the long run it probably saves me hours and hours.

By the pricking of my thumbs something Woodbrooke this way comes.

Today is the International Day of the Girl Child!! Celebrating the little Black girl I once was, and all the little Black girls moving through the world today. We aren't always allowed to remain children. Our childhoods aren't always cherished. So today I remind us that we are worthy of both 🌸🌸🌸

I see we have a likeable populist attacking the elites and addressing popular concerns, and his party is soaring in the polls, so we'll see a lot more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social on the BBC et al, won't we?

The huge sarsen stones guarding the entrance to West Kennet Long Barrow, with a glimpse of Silbury Hill beyond. Pic from a couple of years ago. #StandingStoneSunday

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 4 of #ClassicsTober25: shroud. Greek women weaving a cloth. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), black-figured pottery, Amasis Painter, c. 550–530 BC. #ClassicsTober

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

OcTBR update: finished this. I think I've been returning to it periodically for about a year, stalled by several changes to the project I thought it might help with and in life in general, but today I was off sick but awake enough to amble through the last sixty pages. @octbrchallenge.bsky.social

In our new blog, Rhiannon discusses the meanings behind this year's Quaker Week theme and explores how different Quakers might think about its Biblical origins.

Here's my complete TBR pile at the moment (including several items on the Kindle). I think there are two reservations at the library which I will also count! Stone Lands is no longer on the shelf because I finished it today - very good. #OcTBR

On #Halloween night I'm offering a session exploring #Quaker attitudes to the supernatural, then and now. You can sign up here. 🎃

🌈 Hi #QueerWriters! #QueerPrompts is your chance to talk about your WIP/story/book, meet other queer authors, and have fun! 🏳️‍🌈 📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1. Quaker theology 2. British prehistory 3. Religious feminism 4. Multiple religious belonging 5. Fictionalism regarding mathematics (and time)

🚨BREAKING: Last night the Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked by drones - again. British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu was aboard one of the ships. Despite these attacks the flotilla sails on, because the mission is too important.

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour. Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

the answer to autism is 42

Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people. 🧵1/3

Had a lovely day with Watford Quakers talking about a Quaker approach to Christianity. It's so invigorating to talk theology with enthusiastic Friends 🥰

A goddess for #FindsFriday In 1882 antiquary Edward Cunnington dug at the #Roman temple at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset Sadly his excavations were never published although one important find was this copper alloy plaque with repoussée figure, possibly Minerva Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

In London, hate will never win.

'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' aims to spread messages of unity throughout Birmingham. Every donation helps print more posters and stickers, making a real impact in our community, promoting positivity, standing against hate. Please donate and share gofund.me/58596205b

What are some of my autistic comrades’ favourite books?

“I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.” ― Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life🌸🌸

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Some fascinating US survey data. Initial comment: If the secularisation process is real, its bloody complicated!

Hivemind, anyone know any Leeds/Yorkshire based comic writers? It's for a fantastic project that the British Library has been working on with care experienced and looked after children in Leeds, making a comic about their experiences. I would love to get some people down to support the launch.

Why are Quakers always at protests? From campaigns for climate justice to protests against war, @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social Grant takes a look at why it's quite common to see Quakers marching with a banner. www.quaker.org.uk/blog/why-are...

Luther spittin' straight fire is the medicine I needed this week: "It is not we who can sustain the Church, nor was it our forefathers, nor will it be our descendants. It was and is and will be the One who says: "I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."

And thanks to @scmbritain.bsky.social who first shared the diagram!

My review of Zachary Moon's "Goatwalking: A #Quaker Pastoral #Theology" (Brill, 2021) has been published in the journal Quaker Studies. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Looks fabulous! 💚

Looks like a great issue!

New issue of Quaker Studies! (it's still summer, right?) Featuring peer reviewed articles on Quaker schools, religious authority, allegations of Roman Catholicism, emotions in minutes, and Virginia Quakers moving towards antislavery. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/issue/1330/i...