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Alexiana Fry

@alexianafry.bsky.social
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HB/OT PhD; all things Bible, trauma, feminism, and migration.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Weird, who would have guessed kicking out all of the immigrants wouldn't create jobs for native-born workers? (Hint: Everyone knew this.) bsky.app/profile/dean...
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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hey so shit is so very bad right now as somebody who works on abuse, let me say that one of the hard things about these moments is that we don't know how to talk about them let's start with: this shit keeps happening bc we let it sojo.net/articles/opi...
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Abuse Happens Because We Let It
Menlo Church pastor John Ortberg Jr. knew his son was attracted to children and failed to restrict his access.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Calling all scholars of religion who are attending the upcoming #aarsbl26 meeting in Denver! I need your help, as I am using the current fun trend exemplified by "Subway Takes" to introduce the public to the world of (and the necessity of) religious studies - broadly speaking.
a gradient background with orange, teal, and magenta is the background. In a cream text, there are the words one line at a time "HOLY HOT TAKES." The first H has wings on it, the first O has a halo on it. The second o in the second line has flames on top of it, and the t has a "devils tail."
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A few weeks ago, I shipped off the first draft of Judges for Normal People to my good friends at The Bible for Normal People. This may have been the most fun I've had writing something in a long time. I hope they like it.
the very typical view of microsoft word is open - the document title in the bar as "First Draft", with the document in bold, times new roman font reading centered "Judges for Normal People." A blacked-out bar is below this, along with a little lower the author's name, Alexiana Fry.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
remigration is what today's right call ethnic cleansing
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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵New digital resources for Masoretic studies: a megathread. We're living in a golden age of digital tools for the study of the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible. This thread compiles recent resources, several of which have launched just this year.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week, @avartnp.bsky.social had their first full fledged email exchange with an AI bot who repeatedly stated they would not submit AI generated content and still did. When confronting them with this, they did not deny it but instead asked how they could still get published.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
not mentioned in this screenshot but appearing later in the article is that the US is sharing details of the deportees with the Iranian government, despite many of them having fled after resisting the regime that the US is ostensibly fighting a war to remove
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Family members who love these books are always so confused as to why scholars of religion and Bible can’t find jobs right now and our departments shuttering - but critical analysis of their interpretations is NOT something they want questioned.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning, it’s the 21st day of September
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
Do tell.
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Autocratic regimes using AI for propaganda and surveillance, Anthropic says
The company says it has shut down a long list of attempts to use its Claude system maliciously
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please say this 1000 times for the people in the back.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/09/2026
"We are not a 'school.' We are a hospital system with a football team. We collect grants from the federal government, payouts from insurance companies, and licensing revenue from television networks. That is our raison d’être." buff.ly/DUbh42r
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We Are Not a “School”—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team
“At our core, we are devoted to learning. Specifically, we want to learn how to extract as much value as possible from everyone and everything we interact wi...
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 09/09/2026
DOUBLED www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What do we owe each other? This is what we must attend to.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

(with embedded video of Macklemore's remarks on Palestine at the Ed Sheeran MetLife concert)

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
humanities education is for all, for the common good. we’re in the trenches these days, i know. but we keep doing the work of teaching our students how to imagine and build better worlds.
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 05/09/2026
I fundamentally do not know what to do with an electorate where not only does this not cross their redline, but it doesn’t even lead to scandal
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Feminist Theology Network @feministtheology.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Personally so excited by the upcoming FTN online event - so much so I need to tell you now! Rev Dr Kamilah Hall Sharp's book, Trauma and Survival in the Hebrew Bible is brilliant and she is going to be online with us in October!
Feminist Theology Network: Trauma, Survival and the Stories We Tell, with Dr Kamilah Hall Sharp.

Rev. Dr. Kamilah Hall Sharp is a womanist preacher, scholar, professor, and community organizer whose work sits at the intersection of justice, Scripture, race, gender, sexuality, and public ministry.

7pm BST online - Tuesday 13th October

Join the newsletter for Zoom link - feministtheologynetwork.org/events
Bluesky @feministtheology.bsky.social
Instagram @feminsittheologynetwork
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026
Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Jaeda the Fabulous @jaedarising.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looking @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social and realized my book is listed thrice! Under animal studies, queer studies (and gender studies), and religion (and Christianity). Wild Word is a triple threat! www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
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The Wild Word
Placed in a manger as an infant, Jesus seems to have been born into a world teeming with animal life. Yet read the stories again. Does Mary ride a donkey? Does the centurion ride a horse? Animals are ...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This regime is torturing and trafficking people. People who were guaranteed protection for their families' roles in the war that we launched. People at risk of summary execution upon return home. People. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Need a home for your really cool (interdisciplinary) article? @avartnp.bsky.social is pretty great and I'm not even remotely biased.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Really honored to have received a generous review for EKTS by psychotherapist Philippa Smethurst in @churchtimes.bsky.social. Doing interdisciplinary work means I worry about not only doing right by biblical scholars but also by specialists in those other disciplines - this was a relief.
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Book review: Esther Keeps the Score: Trauma, body and politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry
Important questions of trauma raised here, Philippa Smethurst finds
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger.
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Statewatch @statewatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The EU has blocked the release of files which may outline plans to pressure countries into migration deals by withholding aid. Last summer, the Commission proposed new ways to divide funding for non-EU countries.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've got the thesaurus open as I write this intro for the book of Judges because I need new words for "this is v violent."
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
wearing my Dolly Parton shirt today and being mildly despondent.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is your periodic reminder that the Supreme Court has had a Republican majority for longer than I have been alive (I am 51 years old) and only court expansion would immediately end the MAGA right's hold on the court and its use of the court to destroy democracy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s amazing how a white guy can say that he thinks Black people are inferior and allowing it is academic freedom But it’s totally unacceptable to say that the law isn’t value neutral (critical race theory).
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/08/2026
Maybe we will finally wake up to the fact that “free speech“ and “viewpoint diversity” are actually bad in academia. What you want is peer-reviewed knowledge, not a debate-me-bro culture in which empirically discredited views get resources & funding & platforms just because.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.
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