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Ray Buckner

@raymoishe.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at Northwestern University. Queer and Trans Studies of Contemporary Buddhism. Dissertation: “Sensual Materialities: Buddhist Art and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok”

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National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today (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...
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Thank you!! 😊
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I 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. 🥹💞✨
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Rodney 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.
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Recently engaged, beloved barber arrested by ICE | How his immigration story is questioning the system
Rodney 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.
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Jenny 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.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
University 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"
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Hi! 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Haha ok! So sorry you don’t approve of my topic :( 😭😭😭
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I 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! 🙏🌸🌷
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I 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! 🙏🌸🌷
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Newly tattooed!!! I love it so much ☺️✨🏳️‍⚧️💕 🥰
Trans man smiling while holding his hand up to his chin. He is showing his new black and grey rose hand tattooTrans man is smiling while wearing a green shirt. His left arm crosses over to his right shoulder to show off a new black and grey rose elbow tattooA white hand showing a new black rose tattoo Standing up and showing the back of an elbow. The elbow has a black rose tattoo on it
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Newly tattooed!!! I love it so much ☺️✨🏳️‍⚧️💕 🥰
Trans man smiling while holding his hand up to his chin. He is showing his new black and grey rose hand tattooTrans man is smiling while wearing a green shirt. His left arm crosses over to his right shoulder to show off a new black and grey rose elbow tattooA white hand showing a new black rose tattoo Standing up and showing the back of an elbow. The elbow has a black rose tattoo on it
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Oscar Isaac is so hot send post!!!
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
High and watching #Midsommar for the first time and this is INTENSE.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
He is soooo precious!!!
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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
For 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...
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After 50 successful years, Feminist Studies faculty vote to disestablish the formal department, making way for more wide-ranging feminist scholarship across campus
Feminist Studies faculty and staff are committed to helping current students enrolled in the department's programs earn their degrees
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/11/2024
i 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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I 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? ☺️
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This looks fantastic!! Can’t wait to read! 🌸
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Getting into Polish cinema for the first time in my life and this shit is GOOD!!!!
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @cofactorstrudel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The 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...
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OpenAI's Transcriptions Make Up Things You Never Said to Your Doctor
Let's hope your physician isn't transcribing your conversations with Whisper.
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Next 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
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/11/2024
not a big shock that a serial plagiarist is impressed by two dumb guys
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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We 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...
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Donate to Family of 5 lose everything in house fire, organized by Samantha Wade
Hi 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
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
and 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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hey 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!
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I 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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Actual 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Yeah 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...
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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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It'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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I 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” ….. 😅🙃😳
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a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a beard
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with blue eyes and a beard
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
hey everyone! look at this!! #sblaar24 #aarsbl24
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
💞💞💞
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Of 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
OK 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
20. 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
18. 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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
16. 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
14. 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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
13. Defining the scope of engaged Buddhism: debates, oversights, and missing pieces. Monday 9-11am Adding more soon!
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
11. 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
9. 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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
6. 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
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
3. 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.
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
1. 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!
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Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hey 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!
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