It’s Non-binary Day, so hello from your friendly neighbourhood agender void who writes fantasy books full of folk like me We’ve got YA Gaelic fantasy romance! We’ve got urban fantasy! We’ve got epic fantasy! We’ve got spicy epic fantasy romance! We’ve got gothic why-choose dystopian fantasy!

For yesterday's book launch of Esther Keeps the Score, by @alexianafry.bsky.social, I wrote a piece of fiction that embodied her book’s brilliant insights about Queen Esther as a character shaped by cPTSD and the “fawn” trauma response. Check out the story here: archiveofourown.org/works/82743236

Just a teeny-tiny reminder that my book launch party is TOMORROW (with @brownsmith.bsky.social, Sarah Emanuel, and Katherine Gwyther)! See you there? www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...

As an undergrad, Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling was the single most (trans)formative book I read. This year, the last Sunday of Pride Month has the Binding of Isaac as its lectionary reading. Guess who is going to be giving a sermon about Kierkegaard and the sacredness of queer love?

I know I keep circling back to this, but I don't think k a lot of well-meaning people realise how much it rankles when the response to Harry Potter funding trans genocide is a focus on "what to read instead to be a Good Person" rather than, I dunno, more directly helping combat the trans genocide.

Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️@lhardingwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

While it's nice to see more noise about how terrible JKR is, as a trans woman I would appreciate it if there was less focus on "here's what you can read instead" and more "here's how you can materially help trans people". We're the victims here, please stop centring the purity of your bookshelves.

Inspired by @bethrevis.bsky.social’s post on Threads looking for pre-assembled Doctor Who scarf kits, I present screenshots from the late, lamented ThinkGeek’s product page for their Tom Baker scarf. The person that wrote this either was a knitter, lived with one, or loved one very dearly.

You should come to this, because: 1) I’ve read the book, and it’s WONDERFUL, and 2) Alexiana invited us to do something more creative than the usual standard book launch response, and I will be taking her up on that challenge. *mysterious smile*

Alexiana Fry@alexianafry.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You are invited! Join me and these lovely biblical scholars - Sarah Emanuel, @brownsmith.bsky.social, and Katherine Gwyther - on Tuesday, April 7th, to celebrate my forthcoming book. www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...

You are invited! Join me and these lovely biblical scholars - Sarah Emanuel, @brownsmith.bsky.social, and Katherine Gwyther - on Tuesday, April 7th, to celebrate my forthcoming book. www.eventbrite.com/e/esther-kee...

Named and unnamed women appear throughout the Bible, yet they are often understudied or easily missed by casual readers. Bible Odyssey has a new collection of articles that explore the fascinating and complex roles women play in the Bible. buff.ly/IiA3bep #WomensHistorySBL26

Who do I know who could beta/edit a short story about Queen Esther and cPTSD? @rikibeth.bsky.social says I should ask @crewgrrl.bsky.social, whom I don’t know but seems awesome.

It's so fun when I'm reviewing proofs, come across a line that I wrote, and have a moment of "damn, I love that."

This is a large part of why I learned nålbinding.

Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 5mo ago

I love this plan. What knowledge from the past do you have in your head to carry forward and teach? Now I'm tempted to go sign up for some of the more obscure lace making classes at the local lace museum, just out of AI spite. 🤔 #DHmakes

A wise man recently told me that hope is not an optimistic prediction that the future will be better; it is the fierce, flaring determination that things MUST change for the better. So anyway, I made a hat this weekend, and I put the pattern online here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... Fuck ICE.

This script is baffling me. Definitely not Neo-Assyrian, Old Persian, or Ugaritic, and I'm not able to pin it down to any other cuneiform system that I can identify. (For instance, the second sign on the second line is just not one that gets used.) Any ideas, Assyriologists?

Antijen@antijen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Help me out, smart people. I feel like the people who made this are the type to probably actually go in for the full joke and have those "cuneiform" (their term) symbols spell out something fun or meaningful. Any ideas?

ACADEMIC JOB ALERT: UD is hiring a tenure-track position in "transitional justice and human rights". They are looking for expertise in "human rights/global peacebuilding with an openness or knowledge about Christian social traditions." Come be my colleague! employment.udayton.edu/en-us/job/50...

Eek, I never announced my new book over here! Well, friends, I am very happy to share that “Sacred Unhappiness: Reading the Bible with Feminist Killjoys” is coming out with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social. It’ll be an accessible volume that you can share with undergrads, book clubs, and congregations.

I’m at #sblaar25, and so is our book!! Ping me if you want to meet up.

Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25

I am beyond excited to share that I am receiving this year’s Brooten Award from the Society of Biblical Literature for my paper, “The Monster at the End of This Essay: Incestuous Whores, Trans Monstrosity, and Genesis 38.” www.sbl-site.org/news/announc...

If you think antifascists are bad, it just might be because you’re a fascist

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New Executive Order just dropped

A man who ruled an empire of hate died today. He once said that empathy was “a made-up, New Age term” that “does a lot of damage.” (1/2)

The new issue of Religious Studies Review is live, featuring responses to Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion that include my own essay, "'She Laughs at the Future' (Prov. 31:24b): Reading Sarah's Queer Jouissance." It's available open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“She Laughs at the Future” (Prov. 31:24b): Reading Sarah's Queer Jouissance

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A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”

Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 11mo ago

Hell of a passage to read in twenty twenty five

Hey everyone, my interview with @gregsoden.bsky.social is live on the Classical Ideas Podcast! Listen up for discussion about my biblical studies journey, nonbinary readings of the Bible, and my exciting upcoming project on biblical killjoys. classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-332-nonbi...

The Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 332: Nonbinary Biblical Readings of Mordecai and Beyond w/Dr. Esther Brownsmith

Esther Brownsmith (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Dayton. Her first monograph, Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor (Routledge, 2024), ...

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Cool stuff!

On the one hand: I do not need to be writing a new article. Also, am not Assyriologist. On the other hand: I found an Akkadian passage that offers a fascinating new possibility for the Sotah laws of Numbers 5. Ugh, decisions.

This stanza from a 1937 Polish poem really spoke to me in these times.

So honored that the inimitable @qgpennyworth.com used a poem that I wrote as part of a mini-zine/pop card! Check it out and share it if you like.

Is the Bible fan fiction? A thread. 📜 ​​