Debby Sneed

This week, I sent in full manuscript drafts to the publishers for both _A Workshop of Eloquence: A Collection of Gazan Literature from Late Antiquity_ and _From Slave to Saint: Onesimus Throughout Christian History_ 🎉

Black and white picture of a blonde woman wearing a black top smiling with the caption "Candida Moss wins 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Religion"

I am thrilled (and a little overwhelmed) to share that my book God's Ghostwriters was award the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in religion. I am deeply honored to join this group of distinguished award winners.
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I love being in my late 30s so much. I love not giving a shit about being famous or successful anymore. I love prioritizing being comfortable, and being around people who love me.

Could do without the aching joints and looming perimenopause, but everything else? Golden.

Did the ancient Romans really abandon people with disabilities? New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

My latest for National Geographic on the pervasive myth that everyone in the ancient world was ableist and eugenist. Featuring the work of @debscavator.bsky.social

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Aah, I'm so excited to read this! Thanks for the shout-out, Candida!

Incredible news for ASU!

Welcome to ASU @platanoclassics.bsky.social!
“Dan-el Padilla Peralta is in the vanguard of scholars working to ensure that the complexities of the past are not flattened in service to the monochrome myths of our day,” said Jeffrey Cohen, dean of humanities at ASU.
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Sorry for your loss, Sarah. This is a great way to honor and also perpetuate his legacy

A guy's sitting at a bar, alone. He hears, "You've got beautiful eyes." Strange, but he ignores it. Then he hears, "That shirt looks good on you." Still, he's alone. He asks the bartender who's saying nice things about him and the bartender says, "Oh, that's just the peanuts, they're complimentary."

A tragedy! Your content is great!

I'm obviously shadowbanned because this is gold and yet? No engagement

I have taken the half bottle of Magnesia and if it does not purify the blood, it will certainly clean the stomach for hte dose to-day has given me four stools and a half--the half stool was an insain attempt to break wind without letting my breetches down--it was a "breach of confidence"--however I shall continue to follow the prescription "come weal, come wo."

In the U.S. Civil War, Colonel Charles F. Johnson was a commander in the so-called Invalid Corps, later renamed the Veteran Reserve Corps. We have his letters to his wife and he shares interesting things, including on July 18, 1863 that he sharted after taking a new medication. What a pun!

For those presenting at SBL, please do consider making your presentations accessible for a wide range of attendees. It really does make a difference and helps make the meeting a more inclusive space: www.sbl-site.org/wp-content/u...

A lot of people who look like me will have a lot to say about Alice in coming days and I stand by this: We take up too much space, something Alice and I talked about a lot. I'm focusing on letting Alice speak for herself, and uplifting those she asked to represent her.

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Curtis Dozier, author of this forthcoming book on white supremacist engagement with Greece and Rome, has argued that it isn’t “misappropriation.” Sometimes white supremacists actually see the violence in classical texts which liberal readers conveniently gloss over bsky.app/profile/opie...

An important article discussing the challenges faced by young African archaeologists, in a wonderful example of collaboration by archaeologists from Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph...

These are the words that come to mind when I think of where Alice is now (written either by Rumi or Guillermo Del Toro): “Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love, It humbles my heat, for you are everywhere.” Image description; the above poem above a picture of Alice and her memoir

These are the words that come to mind when I think of where Alice is now (written either by Rumi or Guillermo Del Toro):

“Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with your love,
it humbles
my heart,
for you are everywhere.”

The loss of Alice is huge, but what she started, what she fought for, will continue. Be the person you could be.

Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.

Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
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Oh hell yeah

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

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I want to tell a story about this. I was at the Acropolis Museum in Athens showing some esteemed scholars the statue in question and discussing its features when a woman approached and said, "Can I ask you a question about this sculpture? You seem to know about it." I said, of course!

Thank youuuu! I'm stoked!

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

Podcast Season 3, Episode 12: How do you Solve a Problem like Cleopatra? : Shelley Haley and the last Egyptian Pharoah On the last episode of our podcast season on ancient women, we are joined by Dr. Shelley Haley, the recently retired Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton Col…

I don't know how you feel assigning podcasts, but @peoplingthepast.bsky.social did an interview with Shelley Haley about Cleopatra: peoplingthepast.com/2024/03/19/p...

I was too stunned to get her name or contact information, but if you're out there, this interaction meant a lot to me and I still think about it a lot.