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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3h

This is a related aside because I agree with everything you are saying but I wish we could go back to using Butler’s performativity the way they intended. In Bodies that Matter, they are clear that performativity is when performance of gender and its reception align, the “performer” becomes more who

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2h

I get that at this point I’m working against how culture has picked up butler’s word. I just wish we had another way of pointing this out that wasn’t the opposite of what butler was trying to get at (and doesn’t subconsciously lend fuel to drag artists and trans people somehow being inauthentic.)

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3h

they are performing as. In drag, the more men perform and are received as women, they more they become women. It’s complicated but performativity is about the performance changing us. Which is always what I hope woke performativity might do - change the performer so they actually are more woke. But

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3h

This is a related aside because I agree with everything you are saying but I wish we could go back to using Butler’s performativity the way they intended. In Bodies that Matter, they are clear that performativity is when performance of gender and its reception align, the “performer” becomes more who

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 7h

“Accepting” is a bit of a spectrum - from tolerating to supporting to celebrating. But I really doubt the wapo 2023 results that said 66% were supportive. If that were the case, we would see a significant drop in the number of teens living on the streets.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13h

Pew poll finds just 31% of parents accept their trans kids. Crucial to dialog around GAC which focuses on affirming parents. This is directly _opposite_ a 2023 WashPo/KKF poll 2023 (tinyurl.com/ph5u6pnh) which found two-thirds of transppl said families were supportive. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied with their lives

The Post-KFF survey is the largest, nongovernmental survey of transgender Americans using randomized sampling methods.

tinyurl.com

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 7h

I will say that the younger gen Z and older Gen alphas I know are pretty disgusted with AI already and know it’s completely untrustworthy. That gives me some hope.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 1d

This is giving the same energy as a grades appeal. You think I was too harsh and you want me to regrade your paper? Are you suuuure?

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

“A court in southern France has increased by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

www.bbc.com

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 1d

King Henry II and Thomas Becket come to mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bacon: "The president was demanding her indictment 2 weeks ago and I think it really muddies the water. Normally, the president says out of this discussion, they let the attorney general and the process work. When you have a president ordering & demanding indictments, it will be used by the defense"

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 1d

The test will be designed so that a fail gets the highest grade so he can see he has the highest test results EVER.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, very true! Two popes in a row make me especially hopeful.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

I changed the printer paper and the printer dialog box asked if I had changed the paper and I said (out loud), "That's none of your business." So that's how my day is going.

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

I voted a few days ago and the poll workers were asking if wanted a school trustee ballot. It was a weird question. I was like uh yes! Maybe they were trying to save blank ballots from the box? It was still weird.

Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

What a change from fifty years ago!

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

Yes certainly I am not his intended audience. I couldn’t tell whether it was meant sarcastically or not - part of me thought yes and part no. I’m going to hope for sarcasm.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

The author only cares because now white men are targets? They weren’t right that govt will persecute Xians. What they got right is that people with power will always crush those who stand up for the powerless. He should be asking for forgiveness from the trampled that he never cared about before.

Timothy Leitzke @thatpastor.bsky.social · 2d

baptistnews.com/article/dear...

Dear white evangelicals, I was wrong – Baptist News Global

This use of force by the government against Christians is exactly what you’ve warned us about for years, Rick Pidcock says.

baptistnews.com

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes futility seems like the right word.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens

Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s water

www.theguardian.com

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I did - I saw that Neos is cancelling their flight to Toronto and that some American airlines are reconsidering flights to the Middle East. Did I miss something? There were a lot of ads in the middle and I might have missed in my scrolling.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

Poser syndrome. Love it.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

Feminist Study of Religion?

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not sure I would call it chaos. They fly to one city from one country and it looks like they have only been running those flights since 2023.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

Get ready for en masse declarations of certain denominations as anti-Christian and therefore terrorist organizations. Then the clergy will be targeted as terrorists. Pauline scholarship is about to get interesting when it comes to his relationship with the Empire and who’s interpreting him right.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

Does this mean gender-affirming surgeries will become available in Alberta instead of sending patients to Montreal? (Yeah, I thought not)

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 3d

In addition to being a good undergrad text, I would add that it is a fantastic text for pastors to update their seminary education. So much has changed in the development of the early church in the last few years. Pastors will want to catch up.

Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 3d

My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 3d

Sign the new House of Commons e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ people worldwide and reaffirm Canada’s role as a safe haven.

Thank you to MP Rob Oliphant for sponsoring this important petition.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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