Dr. Jimmy Hoke

I hate word limits. #amwriting

Somehow missed the reply but now that I've actually read it, agree 💯💯💯.

Pretty sure the coolest profs are the ones who just genuinely try to connect with their students (meeting them where they are, as we say)--while being fully self-aware that no 18-22yo is ever going to mistake someone who gets overly excited about 1st-century Greek texts as "cool."

meme of Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, it reads "ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY REJECT MONOGAMY"

In his recent oversimplified misunderstanding of queer theory, Matthew Vines wrote, "a heterosexual person can be 'queer' in this configuration if they simply reject monogamy."

Pretty sure anyone who has come out as poly (especially in the church) can tell you about how...

Why I love brainstorming sessions: I now have a sticky note that just says “leather daddy church service.”

the difference between Dem politicians like Beshear & Walz (who say supportive things about LGBTQ ppl) and the Newsoms, Emanuels & other Dem politicians/pundits throwing trans ppl under the bus isn't "strategy", it's that the latter group is transphobic

I need to read it since I just found the piece after seeing your post, but we should chat about this. I am, generally, a big JGP stan. So much so that I had to make sure you were talking about the same Gill-Peterson...

Ugh, in this passage from the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Judah literally says, "I got drunk and fell into her [his wife]." 🙄🤮

Article on a clipboard with red pen. Title: “‘I can’t see my daughter anymore’: cure, agency, and resonance with a queer crop child in the gospels” Journal: Bible and critical theory

Proofs day! Really excited to have this piece come out in the next issue of Bible & Critical Theory (expected late July)

I think I’m going to start a definitive ranking of pain au chocolat in the Twin Cities.

Me wearing a purple MUSEUMS ARE NOT NEUTRAL tshirt holding up a pepper and tomato quiche

Everything is terrible and I’m angry and upset and tired.

But also, I spent the afternoon making this beautiful quiche that I’m going to go share with friends who are also angry, upset, and tired.

And tomorrow I’m going to keep working against the bullshit.

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast We Debunked the New York Times Anti-Trans Podcast (ft. Sandy Allen)

Go and watch this, we worked really hard on it and it is good www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrL...

Just resharing this in case anyone missed it...and to note that this is the first in a hopefully semi-regular thread series on #scifi and the study of religion. #acrel

"We are made to understand that if we vote, post on social media, donate to nonprofits, and perhaps go to a march, things will change. The thing is, the effectiveness of most of these actions hinges on convincing elites...to reconsider their positions in response to our advocacy and our pleas."

Frey is next.

YES!!! (I just finishing my fourth reread last weekend)

Aaaaaaaaaaand Vampire Weekend jumps to the top of my TBR!!!

Love this 🧵 because I thought a lot about religion and spirituality as I wrote this book. Sometimes, when lethal forces are against you, social movements must call on the power of metaphysical forces. What is intergenerational organizing, after all, but a connection to ancestral and future spirits?

YES!!! This thread drew from my experience reading with students in my Religion and SciFi class...now a couple years ago. It's one of my favorite books and I loved getting to lovingly dig into it with students--who so often feel powerless in classrooms and on campuses.

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@leemandelo.bsky.social wrote this great analysis of the novel: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Newitz’s book: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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My essay on biblical scifi: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/issues/vol-1...

a woman holding a sign that says resist Alt: a blond, white woman with a shirt with the sign for woman on it holding a sign that says resist, moving sign up and down

Newitz’s book is GREAT for thinking about religion.
It’s a profound book that offers resistant hope to those who believe the political IS personal. Change comes through collective action, community connection, and refusing to cede to anyone who thinks themself a Great Man!

5: The novel comments on history. We don’t need to literally edit a timeline: who tells history determines our present and future timelines. Newitz contrasts queer wo/men's “collective action” to a “Great Man” approach to time travel. This echoes academic biblical debates on historical criticism.

Image of Roman-era figurine of Isis Aphrodite (from the Met); statue is a of women, bare-chested with braided hair and a large fanning hat

4: There’s a sacrifice! The ritual echoes Christian baptism: “DIE AND LIVE AGAIN!” It is offered to a goddess al-Lat in ancient Nabatea. Women's leadership in this cult parallels texts we have from the Roman-era cult to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Newitz even notes al-Lat was elsewhere known as Isis!

3: Several major characters are Jewish. We see them connect experiences to Jewish rituals and celebrations, including Passover Haggadah or Shabbat dinners. We also see them facing anti-Semitism. Newitz’s novel represents lived Jewish experience as both a religious and cultural identity.

Image of feminist punk performers, imitating riot grrrrl and bringing to life one of the songs from Newitz's book.

2: “I write pamphlets about how I’m fucking an angel” (Soph).

Newitz’s depiction of Spiritualism shows how women have long made positive associations between sex and spirituality. Using religious language allows women, including queer women!, to share pleasure and hide it in plain sight.

Love the Sin Sex. Religion. There is no denying that these two subjects are among the most provocative in American public life. Even the constitutional principle of churc...

1: Newitz depicts Anthony Comstock’s 1890s morality crusades. In the novel, Comstock cries about “filth” and “corruption” that “assault womanhood.” He calls enemies “sinners.” As Pellegrini + Jakobson point out: Christian rhetoric frames Comstock’s obscenity laws.
nyupress.org/978081474264...

Image of book (black background, neon green + pink lettering): ANNALEE NEWITZ, THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE)

Wanna learn about religion by reading queer scifi?
🧵: Five things we learn about religion and resistance from Annalee Newitz’s (@annaleen.bsky.social) THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE, a novel about badass feminist time-travelers who "edit" history tο make abortion legal in the U.S.
#scifi #acrel

Why You Need to Hear the Speech That Sylvia Rivera Wasn’t Allowed To Give Sylvia Rivera was met with jeers and boos at one of the very first Pride Parades on this day in 1973. Here’s why that matters now.

On this day more than 50 years ago, Sylvia Rivera climbed onto a stage to advocate for incarcerated trans people at a Pride rally and demanded trans inclusion in the fight for rights.

Hearing her speech is important 50 years later.

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