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!
The images in this article truly MUST be seen to be believed! I am so excited for everyone to see them!
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...
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?
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.
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.
it's actually the trolley problem's monster
Let me know if you ever want to set up a virtual class visit!
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.
Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
A welcome sign with a tabby cat and behind it are the ruins of Largo di Torre Argentina
A close up of the ruins
One of the cats who lives at the sanctuary hiding behind some bushes
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
I can't compete with this.
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
![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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:msauhqa34ckvoct4rsdoijsy/bafkreich6paj6mvf7f2qn744dpctmw7bmqhf54tp3tgfyuem646eepybeq)
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
Oh no! Ardis was such a kind soul and an amazing scholar, she will be sorely missed.
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...
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
Why the strong link between tradwives and Latter-day Saints? Caroline Kline of the Center for Global Mormon Studies shared her theory with us.
If you're interested in contributing to the rebuilding fund:
www.bethisraelms.org/rebuilding-u...
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
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.
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."
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
Practice is so important. All the time I’ve spent drawing, painting, and crocheting has made me really good at not getting writing done.
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!
I don’t feel like I do a notable amount of professing, relative to the other parts of my job.
This is AMAZING, please report back!
Crowdsourcing here: if you had to introduce comedy podcasts to your students as a genre, what 5-10 minute clip would you play?
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.
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
