@maiakotro.bsky.social
https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
@greggiven.bsky.social I see your like, and I know your (more) catastrophic sleep loss better reasons!
Ugh yes
I really feel that it’s a privilege to get older, but I think I would be able to enjoy that privilege more if my sleep wasn’t so catastrophically disturbed by things like “it got a little warmer outside.”
It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025).
"Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells.
#OpenAccess
resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-2...
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
Yep, zero need for Religious Studies classes to help our students operate with a deeper understanding of our present world and how religious history and scriptures shape identities and actions
www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ABD and early-career)
Racing the Classics, a Mellon-funded initiative, invites applications for its second cohort. It involves a two-week in-person Summer Institute, and an academic-year practicum over Zoom (Sept ‘26-May ‘27)
See here: www.racingtheclassics.com
2. AG Paxton of Texas announced a new interpretation of state law that would extend the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors to mental health providers, declaring that any therapist who affirms a trans youth's identity is "facilitating" illegal treatment and committing child abuse.
Here's the recording for the book launch of our second 4T book. Hear Fabien Muller and Aaron Johnson discuss Porphyry, theology, theurgy, and more!
Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social
Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 34, No.1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56477 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.
transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
RtC Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend, travel, and lodging while in residence at the Summer Institute. For questions, please contact racingtheclassics@gmail.com.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ABD and early-career)
Racing the Classics, a Mellon-funded initiative, invites applications for its second cohort. It involves a two-week in-person Summer Institute, and an academic-year practicum over Zoom (Sept ‘26-May ‘27)
See here: www.racingtheclassics.com
This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.
Tenure decisions have been influenced by institutional finances for years now, unfortunately.
"Every fascism has its subhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans." -- Kelly Hayes
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Beyonce could do the funniest thing and release her album during the state of the union
Did I mention I am hiring? Yes, I’m going to repost this frequently
Thinking about attending the SCS in Boston? Love monks and Late Antiquity? Submit an abstract for this panel!
Both at the Clark Humanities Museum
Soon I'm giving two public lectures at Scripps College in CA as part of the O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship. LA-area friends, would love to see you there!
March 31, 4:30pm: Lyricism as Historiography of the Long Past
April 1, 4:15pm: Feminist Histories and the Problem of the Real
The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.
This case is insane:
ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*
The young man they killed had no criminal history.
All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.
We don't know officers' names.
We don't have footage.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
i'm only 14 pages into Susanna Elm's IMPORTANCE OF BEING GORGEOUS and it's sooooooo good
www.ucpress.edu/read/books/t...
(read for free!)
