New study in Nature shows that suicide attempts in trans youth increased up to 72% after the enactment of anti trans laws with the biggest increase in the second and third years after enactment. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/09/anti...
Proofs day is best day! This one's been in the pipeline for a while, so I'm very excited to see it nearing release.
Hi new friends! I don't post often, but when I do, it's probably about Hebrew Bible, baking, or social justice. My first book (www.routledge.com/Gendered-Vio...hcommons.org/deposits/ite...) is about dick jokes in the book of Esther.
This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wide...
On hold with an insurance company, which felt like an ideal time to make a starter pack for ancient religion folks (sorry if I forgot someone!): go.bsky.app/9y592Bk
There's something really wonderful about going through proofs and thinking, you know, these ideas are actually pretty darn good. Past-Esther might just have been onto something. (Less obliquely: preorder our Unruly Books volume today! www.bloomsbury.com/us/unruly-bo...)
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
Substitute âbiologyâ with âliterary criticism,â and this is a good recap of why Iâm in biblical studies: to fight stupid cartoon versions of the subject that get weaponized to fuel bigotry.
âEnemies of gloryâ is the new epithet for transphobes, I donât make the rules
I quit Xitter months ago, but I only check here irregularly; every time I do, it feels like sticking my head into a fire hose of snark-infused bleakness. And I can only take so much bleakness before I curl up and shut down, which helps no one. How do yâall taper the fire hose to something drinkable?