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Anglican. Theatre person. Sacramental transfeminism. Work in progress. 🏳️‍⚧️ medium.com/@cdjtheology

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CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17h

This is drawing on an aesthetic which kind of by definition has a strained relationship with its context, while also making very clear that the relationship isn't strained, there's no conflict. A counter culture aesthetic which isn't really counter to anything

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17h

I think to do this well it would have to be more generative, and therefore contain the risk of actual desecration, which obviously a Cathedral is not going to allow!

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I think it doesn't quite work becuase it's an oddly 90s style of graffiti, and it's so obviously an installation that it feels incredibly removed from any actual kind of street art.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19h

This attempts the Charlie Kirk like 'I'm open to all views' but actually says 'I believe the philosophical foundations of the views of my opponents are more rigorous and worthy of engagement with than those of people on 'my side''.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19h

So you might have a deep and appreciative engagement with a deeply conservative thinker (Schmitt, say, or Ratzinger), which says 'I disagree with their conclusions but they have something important to say,' coupled with a shallow, dismissive engagement with a 'liberal' thinker (say Judith Butler)

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19h

The problem is, when 'liberal' journalists and thinkers try the same trick, it's not a performance - they seem to /really/ value the perspectives of those they appear to disagree with on policy issues more highly than the perspectives of those they claim to agree with.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19h

This is why Charlie Kirk is presented as a martyr for free speech and open dialogue - he appeared to take disagreement seriously, and so performed rigour and openness.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19h

In order to demonstrate that you are sensible and fair minded, it's seen as important to engage deeply with those you disagree with, and be critical of those you agree with. This is a performance of 'rigour' designed to show that you are fair minded and not doctrinaire.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 19h

Thoughts on the 'sensible liberal ratchet' brought to you by getting frustrated by certain theologians who do a similar thing:

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 4d

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the Church and for society, if we can only set ourselves free of our self-centeredness and open our ears to their cry." Pope Leo, Dilexi Te

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 4d

The real strangeness is the sudden allergy to weaponised 'guilt' from a political tendency which loves to assign guilt by association to people who aren't white men.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 5d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 13d

There are a whole lot of really weird ways this echoes with Chesterton's bizzare misogyny in 'What's Wrong With the World', too. And I do wonder whether the association between Plato and women is some kind of echo of the 'everyone I don't like is gnostic [feminine, immaterial, silly]' trope

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 14d

Argue with a particular kind of Xn and they start talking about 'God's plan'. So you argue natural theology and they shift to 'it's Gnosticism', so you argue heresy and they shift to 'but mental illness,' as though there's a consistent idea of humanity or gender that holds across those three areas.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 14d

And this is fine, we don't need one and definitely shouldn't impose our ideas of What It Is To Be Human on others. Which is why we should refuse to engage with people who demand an account of transness which is consistent with a whole variety of incompatible notions of fundamental humanness.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 14d

Seeing discourse on 'right to belief' and it's making me think of how many people seem to demand One Single Consistent Ontology of Transness before they'll accept it and, like, the whole history of philosophy shows we don't even have a single consistent ontology of humanness.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17d

Broke the 50k word barrier! Actually having a readable book by the Jan deadline feels somewhat doable now!

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, like, I'm not inherently against it but you absolutely know they're eventually going to include 'bio sex' and then be touted as the solution to how unworkable asking all service providers to police toilets is.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17d

Six draft chapters. None of them really end yet. Need to write a 'context and rationale' type intro. 2 days of study leave left before we're back to 'somehow write in "spare" time. Need to do So Much Editing.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 17d

I'm not saying Starmer wants Farage to be the next PM, I am saying that if he did want that this is the kind of thing he'd do.

Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 18d

Dire framing. Strategically and morally bankrupt.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 19d

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 19d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 20d

If you want a sense of the kind of nonsense that's in this book,I just cited Andrea Long Chu and Aquinas in the same paragraph, just after responding to Marquise Bey with the preface of a liturgical manual from the 1860s.

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 20d

Please God. Can some mainstream news outlet explain properly how long and how costly the immigration process in the UK is? And that there is NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS the whole time. And you PAY A SURCHARGE for the NHS. And you pay your taxes.

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 21d

4 chapters drafted, hitting the 'what if this is all nonsense' stage #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 25d

Possibly a ch2 draft completed now? Next task is to work out which chapter is chapter 3... #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 26d

Decent chunk of ch2 drafted today, from a starting point of 'ch2 exists entirely in my head and nowhere else' #amwriting

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 22d

But he's probably just saying what he thinks his audience want to hear because he doesn't believe people carry on existing when he can't see them

CDJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 22d

I wonder if he believes he's being even handed: 'I know you won't like being segregated and legally degendered, but I do feel bad about the waiting lists, so I'll arrange for some CBT you didn't ask for while you wait for the care I'm going to remove. See, this is balance'