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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again, everything is gender studies.

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📎Hope🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🪬🟦 @crickettehkm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I went to CVS today for vaccines. The RX tech, female Muslim, was very gentle with my care. Her eyes and her touch were soft. Didn’t hurt at all. My phone alert showed another Cornell story after. We locked eyes. I said I wished I believed in hell. Her now strong voice said “I do.”

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today’s accomplishment: hollering “The penis is a social construct!” loud enough to jumpscare people walking by my open classroom door.

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mo 🐀 @ranyart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had the chilling thought recently that a lot of teens are probably trying to get sex ed from chatgpt. I imagined the horrors of someone asking it if they could be pregnant. Young folks NEED access to accurate information & advice about sexuality, orientation, relationships, etc!!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the postwar university for all its problems worked according to a pretty complex balance of cultural and economic capital with other kinds thrown in, but it looks like we can simplify our Bourdieu for the phase of neoliberal higher ed we’re in now, where the only thing that matters, ever, is money

Diagram of Bourdieu’s four fold grid of forms of capital — Economic, Cultural, Social, and Symbolic, showing all of them crossed out except for Economic, which is now the only form recognized by the neoliberal university

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

When I was younger I thought removing criminal penalties for weed would lead to a more sensible and equitable approach to policing and a popular culture that wasn’t gripped by a particular vision of purity stemming from colonial frameworks. I was wrong.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dave Barry: still goated 🐐

Michelle has been a sportswriter for four decades. For most of her career, she has written more than 400 stories a year. So we’re talking thousands of stories, containing tens of thousands of names and statistics, and I’m guessing that in all that time she got maybe a dozen facts wrong. She had to be accurate, because she was — in fact still is — a woman, which means that every time she writes a story, she has to prove that she knows what she’s talking about. Men do not have to prove this, because men have penises, which give men a natural ability, from birth, to speak authoritatively about all sports, all the time. This is why a casual male sports fan can watch three minutes of a football game between two teams he has never seen before and declare, with complete confidence, that the coaches — who have been coaching for years, and whose jobs depend on their teams’ performance, and who have been up late night after night preparing for this game — have NO IDEA what they’re doing. The casual male sports fan can tell this at a glance, thanks to his penis.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 18/09/2026

My suspicion is that if AI saves anyone time, it is usually because it has redistributed workload to someone else. Someone less lazy and more competent. LLMs are a tool that creates work for skilled, conscientious people & reduces for annoying, useless tossers.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 18/09/2026

AI everything has also forced us to have so many meetings, discussions, policies, and changes. LLMs have wasted more of my time than any other anything. How such a wasteful, annoying, product is being successfully marketed as one that saves time & creates efficiencies I will never know.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

cis people HRT is wild

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Petitioning DuckDuckGo and other well-meaning search engines to install a prelapsarian setting that will only return results from before 2024.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I got the Pfizer/comirnaty at a CVS yesterday. Really recommend getting it done, because with the maniacs in charge of HHS, you never know if they’re going to find some absurd grounds to make it harder to get them.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/09/2026

"Our modern Western understanding of 'religion' views it primarily as an interiorized discourse—that is, concerned with personal beliefs rather than with community or society. We are living in the world that 19th-century Europeans made by…defining 'religion' in terms of their own Protestantism."

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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s what the Sermon on the Mount gets wrong.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/08/2026

In a new analysis by HRC, a whopping 1/3 of all young adults identify as LBTQ+. One in 43 are transgender. The queerest states are Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, and California. LGBTQ+ people continue to come out like never before. Subscribe to support our journalism

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Nearly 1/3 Of Young Adults Identify As LGBTQ+ According To New Report

The queerest states are Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, and California.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“I have to be blunt here: Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy. We need to stop taking their trolling in good faith, and we need to stop apologizing for our work”

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Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've added a section to my syllabus to address students recording their peers or class with their Meta glasses. I would love to know how other folks are handling this issue in their courses.

- To protect student privacy and maintain an open, respectful learning environment, students may not record, photograph, or otherwise capture audio or video of class without the prior consent of the instructor and all students who may be recorded.

- This policy applies to recordings made with phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches, or
any other device.

- Respecting the privacy and participation of classmates is an essential part of our classroom expectations. Unauthorized recordings may not be shared, posted, or distributed in any form.

-Any recording for an academic accommodation must be approved in advance by the instructor and handled according to school policy.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

again, the danger from AI is not that it will attain sentience and destroy us. the danger is that it's a mindless flattery machine and being mindlessly flattered literally drives people insane.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

as an ambulatory wheelchair user and faculty member, the dissonance between the hard push for Title II digital compliance and the reality of navigating campus spaces is sometimes difficult to manage. especially when people complain "why do we need to do this work for just a few people?"

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I need at least four more months, one of which must be devoted entirely to writing smutty fanfiction. Are these not valid scholarly needs? Why isn’t my union on top of this?

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

How is the summer almost gone already. So little of my to-do checklist has gotten to-done!

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

hey! you! almost 1000 folks have read/downloaded Virginia Burrus's new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity, isn't it time you joined them? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026

WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...

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An Odyssey Through Testimonial Injustice

On reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properly

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Folks, after two days of searching the only foster I have found is willing to take only the babies and not the mother. I could make this happen, but it makes me sad. Do I do this? Do I leave them as they are? These are the only two choices.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

hey Baltimore/DC (and environs) folks: the adoption countdown is at SIX WEEKS surely one of you needs a pair of kittens who are being socialized from practically day one, and someone who needs an incredibly sweet and gentle one-year-old mother who just wants constant belly rubs and head scritches

A slender tabby cat lies on her back getting tummy pets and looking up blissfully while two tiny kittens sleep by her side

Slender tabby cat stands up on her hind legs to get head scritches. Her eyes are closed.

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

don't miss out! the deadline for proposals to the ever amazing, annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference is ONE MONTH from today, August 15! studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...

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UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion

UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion - February 12-14,2027. The UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion (UCR-QTSR) is proudly celebrating its ninth year as the leading i...

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Ed Kazarian @kazedkaz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

To channel Judith Butler for a minute, the whole point of the trans panic has always been to institute the fantasy of a restored patriarchy.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Students whose teachers had access to the AI tool rated their classes as less enjoyable, less interesting and less important than students in the control group." 👀 This seems...important? hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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Teachers save time with AI. Their students may pay the price

Students say AI-assisted classes feel less interesting, less enjoyable and less important

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

AI Refusal Statement
I did not use generative AI at any point in the production of this book or presentation, including the literature review, writing, editing, translation, organization, or any other task (e.g. brainstorming). To the extent that it is possible to know, I did not cite any studies that used generative AI.
Justification: GenAI technology is based on stolen labor, anti-solidarity between workers, class exploitation, structural racism, misogyny, environmental injustice, and climate destabilization.

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Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I finally read The Widening of God’s Mercy by Christopher and Richard Hays. I went in skeptical. I came out with more questions and a few thoughts. Have a look if that’s your thing. open.substack.com/pub/vandeney...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Flavor Flav and Paris Hilton teaming up to handle the US women's hockey team travel for an awards show is the crossover event I didn't know I needed

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

librarians. 💜

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Everything from toxicfemme.net is glorious. I like the confusion toxicfemme.net/collections/... causes people, and they don't seem to have the Vonnegut one in a shirt anymore, but there are patches at www.etsy.com/listing/8899...

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The oldest story we have is of a maniacal demi-god king named Gilgamesh who wants to best death and live forever, only to realize he’s mortal like everyone else. Literally the oldest human story recorded. Just came to mind for some reason.

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ASAP/Review @asapjournal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Check out Gabriel Chazan's review of Provoking Religion: "Ultimately, the strongest argument of the book is that the historian of American culture ignores the significance of Christianity...for an exclusive focus on queer history or politics at their peril." asapjournal.com/review/queer...

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Queer Religious Forms: Review of Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion - ASAP/Review

Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars brings forward a significant counternarrative of the role of religion in American art during the 1980s and 1990s. This period is freq...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

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Jaeda the Fabulous @jaedarising.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Benediction: on this final day of pride, may you be blessed by being or knowing a queer or trans person, who reflect the image of god not despite being queer or trans but because they are queer and trans. In the name of the Nonbinary Parent, the Transgender Son, and the Genderfluid Spirit. Amen.

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Dr. Whitney Cox @drcox.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

My niece ADORES the Millicent Quibb books. She loves audiobooks, and Kate McKinnon absolutely kills at those.

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