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Kate Davis

@katedavisphd.bsky.social
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PhD in Religion and Gender focusing on religion in North America and writing about gender performance. Currently doing a post-doc in Ohio.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are you near Xenia, OH? You can help dismantle a dam on the Little Miami River! The article has a link to sign up, the event takes place on 12 October. Also leave rocks alone when out enjoying nature. They provide important habitat! daytondailynews.com share.google/aNiOfDtjYK1w...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
wtf kind of pets they got in there
SMOKING
BARE FOOT
PETS
PROHIBITED IN BUILDING
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
3 hikers who say they used AI to plan their trip were rescued after becoming stranded on California's Mount Shasta 'They were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required,' the sheriff’s office said
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3 hikers who say they used AI to plan trip rescued after becoming stranded on Mount Shasta
Three hikers were rescued on Monday after they became stranded on Mount Shasta near Clear Creek Route.
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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A strangely poetic statement of faith somehow
Big bird saying my muppeteer walks inside me
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca
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Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'm thrilled to say that we are hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor of Religion in the Islam subfield at Denison University! Please share widely among your networks. apply.interfolio.com/188984
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨MEMBERS OF THE ORDER WHO STAY IN THE ORDER ARE *ALL* EXCOMMUNICATED🚨🚨🚨
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's decree establishes that, in the act of carrying out the consecration, both the consecrators and those consecrated incurred the prescribed excommunication.

The painful epilogue was the consequence of the decision taken by the Lefebvrists against the will repeatedly expressed by Pope Leo XIV.

The excommunication newly separates the bishops and priests of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X from the Church of Rome.

As for the lay faithful, those who formally adhere to the Fraternity are to be considered
excommunicated.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
"God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles" — Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'
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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I will believe AI can operate at a PhD level when AI develops imposter syndrome.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 03/06/2026
Fish as fluid as the ocean. 🌊 All California sheephead start life as female and move through an array of colors and body shapes as they mature. Some female adults may transition to male as social and environmental factors shift, balancing the delicate ratio of individuals in their population.
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Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
With Arnold Friberg in the news, check out this deep dive with co-editor Caroline Kline speaking with Kate Davis about her provocative Spring 2026 article, “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/hom...
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
An excellent thread (It’s super fascinating! I learned things!) that also demonstrates quite well what is missed when people try to replace actual expertise with AI.
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
From the latest special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social Vol. 59, Iss. 1, check out the #OpenAccess article "Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg" by @katedavisphd.bsky.social. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/art...
Cover of Dialogue, Volume 59, Issue 1, Spring 2026
On the covers: Angela Ellsworth, Seer Bonnets (2009–2010), nine bonnets, corsage pins, fabric, steel, and white oak, dimensions variable
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" Me:
Illustration by Lily Seika Jones depicting a wizard bunny in the woods.
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Queer Mormon Bodies, Belonging, and Identity" is a special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social 59.1. @katedavisphd.bsky.social @taylorpetrey.bsky.social @benjaminepark.bsky.social @historydavis.bsky.social @nkitchen.bsky.social @gileriodekel.com scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/iss...
Cover of Dialogue, Volume 59, Issue 1, Spring 2026
On the covers: Angela Ellsworth, Seer Bonnets (2009–2010), nine bonnets, corsage pins, fabric, steel, and white oak, dimensions variable
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Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dialogue presents "Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg.” For the complete experience of this article, please see the PDF/HTML version at dialoguejournal.com. And you will want to for the images alone. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/aud...
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book Lord of the Rings: The Store Credit of the King
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 29/04/2026
If you’re writing about the trad wife movement without writing about white supremacy…you’re not writing about the trad wife movement. You MIGHT be writing about a space that’s merely adjacent to the trad wife ~aesthetic. Maybe! But even then. Probably not.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
don't judge me frog and toad bot!!
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"
A photo of a cat biting a dog's neck with magnificent lighting worthy of Caravaggio
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What started as a joke tweet became an AAR paper, and is now the most fun article I have ever written. Thank you @dialoguejournal.bsky.social for giving it a home, and elevating it with truly the most camp images. I am so excited to bring these glistening and brawny men to the queer studies issue!
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Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg - Dialogue Journal
A tan, bare-chested man stands in the foreground to the right, half turned away from the viewer. His right foot is perched on a rock, causing his studded leather kilt to hike up, exposing a…
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Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Our Spring Issue is our first in FULL COLOR! “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg” by Kate Davis begins the issue exploring the queer experience in the Church. This is followed by an important roundtable and more. www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/sprin...
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Religious studies people: I desperately want to show my class the 1980’s episode of To Tell The Truth with Michelle Smith (of Michelle Remembers fame) but I cannot find it anywhere! Does anyone have it?
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
it's actually the trolley problem's monster
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.
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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
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“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous
An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...
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Whit EM @whittyrem.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there
A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre ArgentinaA close up of the ruins One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I can't compete with this.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Judith Butler in Who's Afraid of Gender?: “The weaponization of this fearsome phantasm of ‘gender’ is authoritarian at its core.” Looks like we need a new category: ☑️ all of the above
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 05/03/2026
Judith Butler Apology Form:

From: Date:

Reason for behaviour:

[ ] The media convinced me that feminism was solved in the 1980s
[ ] I never actually read their work
[ ] I miss not thinking about gender
[ ] I didn’t realize how much of society is built on gender
[ ] I was jealous of their nonbinary swag
[ ] Mercury was in retrograde

[ ] I will hereby respect JUDITH BUTLER and I will not talk down on the best feminist thinker of our lifetimes
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
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"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army
Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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KUER @kuer.org · 15/01/2026
Why the strong link between tradwives and Latter-day Saints? Caroline Kline of the Center for Global Mormon Studies shared her theory with us.
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Are tradwives and feminists two sides of the same coin on women’s labor?
The online tradwife movement highlights traditional women’s roles, including homemaking and childrearing. It has also garnered feminist critique. But a Mormon studies researcher believes that…
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If you're interested in contributing to the rebuilding fund: www.bethisraelms.org/rebuilding-u...
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Rebuilding News and Updates — Beth Israel Congregation
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
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Carson Olshansky @carsonolshansky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Practice is so important. All the time I’ve spent drawing, painting, and crocheting has made me really good at not getting writing done.
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I’m only going to be at AAR for one day, but if anyone is are around on Monday let me know! And also: come to our Mormon Studies panel at 5pm rm 105 in Hynes. It’s going to be a great discussion. I had way more to say about Lawrence Foster’s Religion and Sexuality than I thought I did!
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I don’t feel like I do a notable amount of professing, relative to the other parts of my job.
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Crowdsourcing here: if you had to introduce comedy podcasts to your students as a genre, what 5-10 minute clip would you play?
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 08/10/2025
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
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