imagine making the following two arguments in the same piece:
1. higher education can make students better people and citizens.
2. higher ed caters too much to marginalized people and perspectives.
you’re telling on yourself. what, precisely, constitutes the “good citizenship” we’re to inculcate?
One legend, Riki Wilchins, @rikiwilchins.bsky.social, interviews another legend, Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social !
I think we’ve begun to see this
terminal crisis of reproduction in scholarship, too: there’s a widening gulf between the type of work that can be done by appropriately resourced scholars w/ levels of support that were general 20 yrs ago, but which are now confined to a tiny sliver of elite schools
A drum I keep banging is that full training of an academic worker (from undergrad through tenure) is about 16 years. We may JUST NOW be beginning to feel the full first wave effects of the 2008 austerity. The ability of our fields to reproduce themselves has not been addressed as any point.
The three genders
This is underway and is amazing.... not too late to join!
Flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE BOOK PANEL Capitalism and the Future of Democracy Wednesday, April 22,4:30 p.m. Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium (online and in person) This panel asks: Is capitalism compatible with democracy? And how can we better understand the moral frameworks that sustain or challenge these systems? Drawing on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, panelists will explore how ethical ideals like charity, freedom, and justice, shape political and economic life through a religious studies lens. The panelists reflections examine how capitalism absorbs moral critique, often reframing inequality as ethical opportunity. The session features brief reflections from Religious Studies and DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program students, a response from Dr. Hulsether, and a moderated Q&A, inviting the community to engage some defining questions of our time. Panelists: • Zane Johnson, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Devyn Whitaker, Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Student Kirsten Dalquist, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Andrew Robb-Scott, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student David Kemp, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Candidate College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Live Stream Also Available RSVP
Hi friends! Join us on 4/22, 4/23 for 2 events @uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies is hosting! Both are in person/online (link sent after registration)
Join us Wed, 4/22 @430pm
#Capitalism & the Future of #Democracy
Book panel & discussion w/@lhulseth.bsky.social & DU RLGS MA, PHD students.
1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.
The judge also blocked "any similar policy."
Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.
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aside from C. Libby @libbylibby.bsky.social in their recent QTR article, linked below, who else has traced the way trans people have been labelled as a (new form of) "Gnostic" or "Gnosticism" ?
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
Sorry, you’re telling me that something that doesn’t feel pain, doesn’t have lactic acid build up, doesn’t need adequate hydration or electrolytes, doesn’t need to pee, and doesn’t get tired is only 6 minutes faster than humans?
you’ve fucked up a perfectly good Roomba.
Another casualty of AI in education: total collapse of the value of online course credits, let alone degrees.
gonzo the muppet wearing a suit. he is inside an ornate floral frame. below the frame is text that reads "gender failure". the image is textured to look grainy and printed.
gender failure gonzo
Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.
The booke of love ys long & boringe
No folk kan lyft the damned thinge
Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics
And ynstructiouns for daunsing -
But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me;
And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge.
("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)
Government and Media: AI is inevitable. It's the most amazing technological advancement of our lifetime!
The AI:
pretty fuckin' wild to have your basic rights voted on by other people
The funniest thing about this to me was that she suggested women were going to get “left behind” because fewer of us are using AI compared to men. I think it’s the men who can’t write their own emails who are getting left behind
great time for so many schools to be shutting down their religion programs.
yes, we religionists are clearly irrelevant. nothing to say here.
Congratulations!!!
Delighted to share that *Provoking Religion* got Honorable Mention for this year's Best Book Award from the British Association of American Studies. This book was a decade in the making, and it's lovely to hear it is being received well!
Max K. Strassfeld on the importance of religious studies:
"As a scholar of trans studies and religion, it is clear to me that the current moment demands nuanced, critical, and complex analyses about the role gender and religion are playing in our political lives."
#TalkAboutHumanities
As a biblical scholar who is facing employment precarity due to the changing landscape, like many of us in the humanities and social sciences, I’m grateful for organizations like @sblsite.bsky.social (1/4). 🧵
This is now just Bad Theology Bingo. We have, aside from all else, now ‘Demonizing Pharisees’ and ‘Casual Antisemitism/supercessonism’ so check your cards everyone.
For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA
Our #forum on Virginia Burrus' Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus continues with an essay from Robert Paul Seesengood
This would fix Harvard’s current viewpoint diversity, which ranges from “close friends of Epstein” to “defenders of close friends of Epstein”
SBL member Alexiana Fry on why we need biblical scholars. #TalkAboutBiblicalStudies #TalkAboutHumanities
Me: I spoke to the New York Times about the Trump triumphal arch plans today.
Husband: What did you tell them?
Me: That I am the structure’s Arch Nemesis.
Husband: Puns? To the NYT?
Me: It’s a good pun. 10/10 Cicero would support this.
Husband: *exasperated sigh*
