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Alexiana Fry

@alexianafry.bsky.social

OT PhD Stellenbosch University: Migration, Trauma, Feminism. Postdoc at København Uni: Divergent Views of Diaspora. Proud Pug Parent. RYT 200.

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Fresh hamantaschen with plum jelly inside. Describing them could get me banned from this site. They are all on a plate on top of a white counter, you can see her brown socks and the wood floor.

Fresh hamantaschen with plum jelly inside. Describing them could get me banned from this site. They are all on a plate on top of a white counter, you can see her brown socks and the wood floor.

Chag Purim Sameach, my friends who celebrate!

03.03.2026 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

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Esther Keeps the Score Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry - Paperback / softback - 9780334066866 Buy Esther Keeps the Score Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334066866

The Jewish festival of Purim is celebrated today, remembering the story of the Hebrew Bible's Book of Esther. In Esther Keeps the Score, @alexianafry.bsky.social offers a new interpretation of this book through the lens of trauma.

20% off orders during March:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

03.03.2026 10:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I'm also super thankful for @brownsmith.bsky.social's eyes on this one before I sent it out!

03.03.2026 08:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reimagining Esther: Purim amidst polarization – Baptist News Global This year, however, I’m thinking less about the more joyous and humorous tones Purim brings and more about trauma.

Grateful to share my thoughts on Purim, Esther, and trauma @baptistnews.com. baptistnews.com/article/reim...

03.03.2026 08:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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the queen's somatic map exclusive guest excerpt!! AND! BONUS post inside this post!

Esther's 'fawn' impulse, by @alexianafry.bsky.social

02.03.2026 20:34 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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on the other trafficked girls in Esther because the girls in the harem matter, too

Trafficking girls:

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/esthertraffi...

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Facing the Ending of Esther Truth, transformation, & collective liberation; ancient stories serve as mirrors & lights.

On the massacres at the end of Esther:
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-end-of-e...

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Wives and Archetypes This is Life as a Sacred Text, an expansive, loving, everybody-celebrating, nobody-diminished, justice-centered voyage into one of the world’s m…

Thread of Purim stuff:

What if we think about Lilith and Vashti and Esther and Eve in terms of archetypes and what that can illuminate for us for making change:

02.03.2026 20:26 — 👍 73    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1

I should do book promo—
*ICE murder several blocks from me*
*sheltering in place bc of racial profiling*
*mutual aid*
*mutual aid*
*a second ICE murder*
*mutual aid*
*Local kidnapped kids sent to Dilley*
*phone tree to Lawyers Guild for LO friend*
*more kidnappings*
*mutual aid*
*mutual aid*
*war*

02.03.2026 02:33 — 👍 1290    🔁 198    💬 11    📌 1
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Esther Keeps the Score Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry - Paperback / softback - 9780334066866 Buy Esther Keeps the Score Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334066866

Happy March - which is Esther Keeps the Score's publication month, and @scmpress.bsky.social is running a special where the book is 20% off for all 31 days! scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

02.03.2026 07:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A girls' elementary school. Dozens dead. Perhaps hundreds. Sitting with the profound evil and the mindfck and the knowledge that this war may well have been declared to distract us from the Epstein files and the conspicuously missing evidence that the president of this nation raped 13 year-old girls

01.03.2026 15:58 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

💕💕💕 THANK YOU, Rabbi.

26.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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the queen's somatic map exclusive guest excerpt!! AND! BONUS post inside this post!

You can now read an insightful excerpt of @alexianafry.bsky.social's forthcoming ESTHER KEEPS THE SCORE: TRAUMA, BODY, AND POLITICS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE in the new LiST, specifically on Esther's "fawn" trauma impulse, and all the ways it might manifest..

26.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

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Want to read a chapter where I talk about misconceptions of trauma and interpretations of Ezekiel - especially in relationship to his misogyny? Looking for a more holistic resource on masculinities and theology? HERE IT IS MY FRIENDS!

26.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

me: people probably don't want this long rant on the Book of Esther & child sex trafficking, not festive for this holiday

so I'll just... do this fun translation tangent and...
go on about ancient contraceptives and say "cervix" & "menstruation" again & again?

cannot be taken anywhere can i

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It has been a JOY to email back and forth with @theradr.bsky.social (thank you, @brownsmith.bsky.social!), and Rabbi included a little snippet of my forthcoming book in her recent House of Study!

26.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Podcast Visit the post for more.

The Scriptures Everywhere episode live from the #ISS26 annual meeting is up, and please join us next week on March 6 at 10am PT when we complement our conversations about #scriptures and #diaspora with a discussion of #citizenship. signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/

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This looks incredible!!

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Concentration camps with a shooting range.

23.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 90    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 2

We would love to publish your work @avartnp.bsky.social! If you have any questions, let me know!

23.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi, friends. An FYI for those interested: I've published an article in JSP about Esther as "American scripture." Includes analysis of the Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" (2024) and its strategies for regulating free speech, higher education, immigration, and foreign policy.

09.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Blaming 'Paganism' for Trump's Violence Fails Reckon with Christian History In a recent New York Times op-ed called “Donald Trump, Pagan King,” journalist and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse highlights the apparent contradiction between the Trump administration’s violent “might ...

New thoughts by me for @religiondispatches.org, responding to a NYT piece that (I think really wrongly) characterizes the Trump administration as doing "pagan," pre-Christian, or un-Christian activities

religiondispatches.org/2026/02/18/b...

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📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.

Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.

Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6

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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

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Including Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Andrei Aioanei, Guillaume de Vaulx d’Arcy, Stéphanie Anthonioz, Tammi Schneider, @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social, Martina Weingärtner, Gaël Carriou, Leah Cech, Daniela Gelbrich, Evangelia G. Dafni, Geneviève Gobillot, Cătălin Vatamanu, and Danilo Verde.

09.02.2026 09:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unheard Voices (AOAT 479) Régine Hunziker-Rodewald

Got to my email this morning to see news that the edited volume, which had been in the works for YEARS, has a page on the publisher's site! www.ugarit-verlag.com/products/unh...

09.02.2026 09:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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If you didn't know already, pre-orders for my second book, Esther Keeps the Score, are live! @scmpress.bsky.social
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

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