Reposted by Ray BucknerNational Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals. Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund... 2129119
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I am so happy to share that I received a Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship will support the writing of my dissertation, which investigates how queer and trans Thai Buddhist artists in Bangkok are re-shaping their relationship to Buddhism through art-making. So grateful. 🥹💞✨ 170
Reposted by Ray BucknerKeith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Rodney Taylor is a beloved Georgia barber who came to the United States from Liberia with his mother when he was only two years old. He applied for citizenship but was denied. But this year, ICE arrested him, locked him up, and has scheduled him to be deported to a faraway country he's never known.11alive.comRecently engaged, beloved barber arrested by ICE | How his immigration story is questioning the systemRodney Taylor, a Georgia barber, has been pursuing permanent residency for years. Now, he faces deportation to Liberia despite being in the U.S. since childhood. 10441712068
Reposted by Ray BucknerJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”time.comWhat the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedExclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S. 14772375310973
Reposted by Ray BucknerSeth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025University presidents are "not going to go into resistance mode,” said former UNC chancellor “They have too much financial resources and people to protect to do that.” How are they "protecting people"? "initiating hiring freezes, rescinding graduate admissions offers and pausing construction" 152
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I study contemporary Buddhism, so I study the ways that current queer & trans people in Thailand take up Buddhism. So these people draw on Mahayana & Vajrayana Buddhism to craft their Buddhist practices. This is not a textual project. This is an ethnographic & lived study of contemporary Buddhists. 100
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Hi! That's actually not true at all. My research reveals the ways that these Thai Buddhists actually draw on Vajrayana and Mahayana Buddhism. So to say it's "not here" actually isn't reflected in what I'm seeing. Buddhism is something that is alive and changing. I'm tracing how that is the case. 100
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Haha ok! So sorry you don’t approve of my topic :( 😭😭😭 100
Reposted by Ray BucknerRay Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I know this is a very big question, and depends on the kind of grant, but for scholars who have been on grant committees before, what do committee members look for in "writing samples" of applicants? What kinds of qualities/skills? Would love to hear people's thoughts! 🙏🌸🌷 033
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I know this is a very big question, and depends on the kind of grant, but for scholars who have been on grant committees before, what do committee members look for in "writing samples" of applicants? What kinds of qualities/skills? Would love to hear people's thoughts! 🙏🌸🌷 033
Reposted by Ray BucknerRay Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Newly tattooed!!! I love it so much ☺️✨🏳️⚧️💕 🥰 091
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024High and watching #Midsommar for the first time and this is INTENSE. 010
Reposted by Ray BucknerJennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 26/11/2024For those of us who think about the institutional life of women's/gender/sexuality studies, this is interesting (and, I think, sad) news: news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/femi...news.ucsc.eduAfter 50 successful years, Feminist Studies faculty vote to disestablish the formal department, making way for more wide-ranging feminist scholarship across campusFeminist Studies faculty and staff are committed to helping current students enrolled in the department's programs earn their degrees 1717967
Reposted by Ray Bucknerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/11/2024i have been a dedicated libro.fm user for over a year now and at no point do i feel that i am missing out on anything from not using audible. also! if you subscribe you can direct a part of your subscription a local book shop 751990395
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I was watching this movie Ida from 2013 which was both absolutely remarkable and devastating. And then this lesbian/queer film called NINA from 2018! Do you have any recommendations for other Polish films? ☺️ 100
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Getting into Polish cinema for the first time in my life and this shit is GOOD!!!! 110
Reposted by Ray BucknerStone Cold Jane Austen @cofactorstrudel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024The doctor asked me today if I consented to him using an ai program to transcribe our appointment and I politely said absolutely not. au.lifehacker.com/ai/111719/ne...au.lifehacker.comOpenAI's Transcriptions Make Up Things You Never Said to Your DoctorLet's hope your physician isn't transcribing your conversations with Whisper. 612530
Reposted by Ray BucknerDr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Next up at #aarsbl24: standing room only (and just barely) to talk about US borders and borderlessness, particularly in US-Israel relations & the reification of US Christian nationalism 1202
Reposted by Ray Bucknerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/11/2024not a big shock that a serial plagiarist is impressed by two dumb guys 1113788359
Reposted by Ray BucknerVeronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024We have a GoFundMe running to help cover costs while we're homeless (because of course - it's not like actual charities work in this country) but you are absolutely NOT allowed to send money if you are in dire straits. www.gofundme.com/f/3ts69u-fam...gofundme.comDonate to Family of 5 lose everything in house fire, organized by Samantha WadeHi my name is Sam, I am the sister-in-law of Veronica and her beautiful family… Samantha Wade needs your support for Family of 5 lose everything in house fire 07557
Reposted by Ray BucknerClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024and none of those pieces are being written by people who understand how that level of constant abuse CHANGES you it’s not a mere tedious cleanup process, blocking today’s round of trolls just like sorting out the junk mail from the bills and birthday cards it does not live on you that lightly 533874661
Reposted by Ray BucknerRay Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Hey everyone! I’m putting together a thread of different #AAR #aarsbl panels that seem interesting to me, and may interest you too! These will focus largely on studies of Gender and Sexuality and Buddhism but will include other panels too! Feel free to tag people who are part of the panels I listed! 1154
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I feel bad because the panel actually seems interesting and is doing interesting work around religion in southeast Asia, but it's drawing on a reference that seems to have no place in it 020
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Actual colors in theology and ecotheology (using their terms this is not my field lolol). But even if you're playing on actual colors, the phrase is grounded in a much broader history that is not just Abt color but power and violence etc! So it is hard to believe this wasn't corrected. 120
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Yeah that's a very good point. There should have been a structure/safe-guards to address this. Or as you said at least friends! Clearly by calling attention to "blue lives matter" there is some kind of awareness about the phrase's larger history. Like the abstract is playing with meanings of... 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024😂😂😂 I feel bad for calling attention to it but it's hard not to lol. I'm not a perfect person haha 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024It's sooo bad lolol. I checked to make sure it wasn't like an intentional reference to police brutality and like connections between environmentalism and the police state etc and it wasn't. Just a play on the phrase lol 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I don’t mean to be mean but I saw a paper abstract that was about religion, environmentalism, and protecting the (blue) ocean. And the title of the paper started with “Blue Lives Matter” ….. 😅🙃😳media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a beardAlt: a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a beard 160
Reposted by Ray BucknerShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 22/11/2024hey everyone! look at this!! #sblaar24 #aarsbl24 1345
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Of course Ralph!!! So excited for you and so happy your work is being honored and discussed in such a fitting way. Hoping it brings you a lot of joy, friend. 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024OK I think that might be it for now!! I know I missed many, many interesting panels but just wanted to highlight these as ones I would have likely attended if I weren’t in Bangkok lol. Wishing everyone a fantastic #aarsbl2024 💕🌸✨ may it be a time of community, sunshine, & wonderful connection. 120
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/202420. Social media, the manosphere, and making masculinities online. Monday 3-4:30pm with @riccardiswartz.bsky.social 21. Entangled histories: mysticism, esotericism, and hybridity. Monday 9-11am. 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/202418. America and Israel/Palestine: Critical approaches. Sunday 3-4:30 with @bethhurd.bsky.social 19. Photography then and now: surveying the power of the still image to move, speak and yet live. Monday 9-11am with @jmayward.bsky.social 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/202416. Narratives of Emvodiment and corporeal control: constructing and performing APIA corporeality at the intersection of the sacred and the secular. Saturday 12:30-2:30 with @janehongphd.bsky.social 17. Religion, violence and Marian Devotion in south and Southeast Asia. Sunday 5-6:30. 100
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/202414. Queer Memories: Religion and the Politics of the Past. Saturday 12:30-2:30pm with @thislynne.bsky.social 15. Constitutive Absence? the cultural history of Palestine in religious studies. Sunday 12:30-2:30 with @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/202413. Defining the scope of engaged Buddhism: debates, oversights, and missing pieces. Monday 9-11am Adding more soon! 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/202411. Author meets critics roundtable: Ralph H. Craig III: Dancing in My Dreams: A spiritual biography of Tina Turner. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm with @rhcraig.bsky.social 12. The Anthropology of Buddhism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm. 242
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/20249. Diagnosing Digital Archives: New Theories and Methods for Studying Religion Online. Saturday 12:30-2:30pm with @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social 10. Buddhist Critical Phenomenology. Saturday 5-6:30pm with @joyb.bsky.social 131
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/20246. Queer Sacramentality. Monday 5-6:30pm with @apetro.bsky.social 7. Violent Bodies, Beautiful Bodies, Othered Bodies. Tuesday 9am-11am 8. Asian American Religious Formations and the Disciplinary Regimes of US Secularism. Saturday 12:30-2:30 with @sjkoh.bsky.social 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/20243. Sexual surveillance: purity, politics and porn. Saturday 12:30-2:30 with @saramoslener.bsky.social and others! 4. Teaching Against the State: Resisting Anti-CRT and Anti-LGBTQ Authoritarianism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm 5. Surfaces and The Study of Religion. Monday 9-11:30am. 100
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/20241. Melissa Wilcox: honoring a decades-long commitment to queer and trans studies in religion. Saturday 3-4:30 with @jamarchal.bsky.social and others! 2. The Embodied Artist and the Artist as Text. Sunday 9-11am with @c0nstantine.bsky.social and others! 110
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Hey everyone! I’m putting together a thread of different #AAR #aarsbl panels that seem interesting to me, and may interest you too! These will focus largely on studies of Gender and Sexuality and Buddhism but will include other panels too! Feel free to tag people who are part of the panels I listed! 1154