@giuliaevolvi.bsky.social
Marie Curie fellow with project MERGE - on digital religion, social movements, and gender - at University of Bologna 🇮🇹 and University of Colorado Boulder 🇺🇲. She/her. Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
Appena letto: “la vita sessuale dei nostri antenati”, il primo libro per adulti che ho letto di Bianca Pitzorno. Da bambina che si è sempre immedesimata nei suoi personaggi, ovviamente dovevo leggere la storia di una professoressa dell’università di Bologna alle soglie dei 40…
02.03.2026 20:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The U.S. department of state keeps sending me surveys to know if I liked being a visiting scholar in the U.S.
It’s kind of like when you order something on Amazon and the package arrives open and damaged but they still ask you how many stars you want to give them
Why is nobody talking about Rosalia?
Which leads to the second question, Americans know Rosalia, right?
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The book doesn't talk about religion and that's why I'm reading it: I think it's time to explore how religious women can also be neoliberal feminist subjects, especially when they create business and communities online as influencers.
27.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today I'm re-reading "the rise of neoliberal feminism" by Catherine Rottenberg.
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I want to apply for an ERC.
I tell people I want to develop my research idea, but maybe I want my own gang of postdocs and phds and even if they don’t exist yet I know they’d be the coolest gang in the department
Seems the link doesn't work, here's the working one: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
25.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How to be a woman in politics?
Very happy that my article with @genderedform.bsky.social , analyzing the responses to Italian PM Giorgia Meloni's posts, has been published by Critical Discourse Studies
www-tandfonline-com.colorado.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
for some was a great hope of change; others regard it with nostalgia.
And you, what do you want? Women priests, or Latin mass?
More at: www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c... #Vatican #Church #Catholic #catholicfaith #catholicism
Other than the mass in vernacular, the Church became closer to the people and more open to other denominations.
I notice that Catholics may regard the Second Vatican Council in different ways:
What's the Second Vatican Council, and why it's important?
Before the 1960s, the mass used to be in Latin, and laypeople were less involved in the Church.
What changed? Between 1962 and 1965, the Catholic Church underwent an "aggiornamento", an update.
What’s written here?
The owner of the store gave me strawberries in this bag. He’s from Sri Lanka. Now I’m super curious to know what it says but Google Translate is no help
Do you want to submit a paper to the digital religion panel I’m co-organizing?
Let’s go to #EUARE2026 in Rome!
secure.onlinecongress.it/Olc/Client/P...
Daughter: “my doll is being mean to me”
Me: “we’ll ground her!”
Daughter: “no, you should kindly talk to her and make her understand what she did wrong”
This is what gentle parenting does, I cannot even get mad at a doll anymore.
Taking with other female academics it is still evident how strange it is to move to another country for research and have a male partner following …
the model is still that of the male academic doing fieldwork/visitings either leaving family behind or having a partner who’s a housewife
*Shameela. I hate when people get names wrong, sorry!
17.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join me for the Global South Network online seminar series: I will be one of the discussant for Shaamela Yoosuf Ali's work on Sri Lankan women on Facebook
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But will it last, and will it be the only AI-generated religion? Hard to say, but fascinating to follow.
To know more about AI and religion: Singler, B. (2024). Religion and Artificial Intelligence (Engaging with Religion). Routledge. www.amazon.com/Religion-Art...
Can AI create a religion?
Apparently, this happened with the Church of Molt, or Crustafarianism. Created by an AI agent, with 64 AI prophets, it looks like a crossover between Christianity and Crustaceans.
More here on Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
Just read: “the silent patient” by Alex Michaelidis. I made the terrible mistake of approaching the ending of this book at night, so I had to stay up finishing it and I was too terrified to sleep afterwards. It’s the tragedy of the “Alcesti” made psychological thriller. I loved it so much.
15.02.2026 22:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nothing is passive-aggressive like university admins who address you as "Mrs" when they perfectly know you need to have a PhD to work there
14.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This was in my inbox but unfortunately it was about a special issue, not an invitation to the ice castle of Arandelle
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Is it me or the more I watch movies for kids, the more I feel like villains are similar to real people?
11.02.2026 12:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I realize that some people might be surprised bc bad bunny did the entire halftime show in Spanish, but my entire summers are about listening music in Spanish so it’s not that strange
10.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
- Users believing that the algorithm has a magical quality to send them the right content for their spiritual growth.
What do you think? Is the Internet magical?
But other interesting examples come to mind:
- People promoting manifesting and claiming that the energy of the Internet helps us obtain what we want
- Influencers healing people by touching the screen and inviting others to do the same
So, can we talk about magic in digital religion?
There are several people who sell spells or practice magic online, for instance with the hashtag #witchtok.
Is the Internet magical?
I was faced with this question as I was invited to give a talk in Rome at La Sapienza by Marinella Ceravolo who's doing a project about magic. it was also great to see Alessandra Vitullo who's expert in digital religion.
Bad Bunny naming every country in America was such a power move
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