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Alexiana Fry

@alexianafry.bsky.social

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OT PhD Stellenbosch University: Migration, Trauma, Feminism. Postdoc at København Uni: Divergent Views of Diaspora. Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible out now with Lexington Books! Proud Pug Parent. RYT 200.

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Jan 20

I'm available for work! I have loved my time here in Copenhagen and would enjoy continuing to research, publish, and teach at the interplay of trauma, migration/diaspora, and feminism in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
www.alexianafry.com

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 1d

Had the best time on Thursday presenting for the Biblical Studies Research Seminar with some solid students and staff @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Thanks for the pic (where I blocked out some forthcoming news), @themattiemae.bsky.social! 💕

Students in front of laptops looking at a PowerPoint on the big screen in front, that says “golah, Golah, Golah, Golah” (2:6)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 6d

New issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55656 @sblpress.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 7d

IVE GOT NO TACO BELL BECAUSE DENMARK SO YEAH IM JUST DEPRIVED.

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 7d

Listen: there was a Taco Bell at the airport but it was closed when we arrived and I am devastated.

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 8d

Seoul was an absolute dream. Ten whole days of a full belly and heart with family in Korea 🇰🇷and I am beyond refreshed. Now to tackle the email inbox.

A facade of Gyeongbokgung palace, featuring Kelly green paint with bright colorful flowers and motifs.

A table full of Korean food prepared by family.

A small keychain of a Sanrio frog with glasses and an ice cream cone being held by a hand in front of a gacha machine

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13d

the one constant in mass shootings is the prevalence of misogyny/domestic violence/hatred toward women:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

The former Marine accused of killing four people in a fiery attack on a Michigan church held a deep grudge against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to two lifelong friends and other people who knew him.

The animosity, the friends said, stemmed from a breakup with a religious girlfriend over a decade ago and led the man to rant about the church at his best friend’s wedding, refer to it as the Antichrist and, just days before the attack, spew invective against Mormons to a canvassing politician.

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Katherine Southwood @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social · 17d

I'm really excited to be convening the Hebrew Bible /Old Testament seminar this term. We have a brilliant line-up of international and national speakers coming to Oxford with research focused on the theme of Trauma and the Hebrew Bible!

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Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 20d

Check out this online class by @alexianafry.bsky.social taking place Saturday, September 27, from 12–1:30pm ET. Registration: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 23d

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

www.cambridge.org

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 26d

another set of department closures at another public flagship. i'm from WV; my heart breaks every time because i *know* what that means for students like me and my high school friends.

full disclosure: i went to college out of state to a country club school with lots of money for scholarships. 1/?

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 11

Your outie plays the marimba for six month old Pygmy hippos.

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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 7

Read "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" by Alexiana Fry in #JBL144.2 by logging in with your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

"Scout’s story feels similar to discussions about dissociation by both trauma theorists and mental health practitioners as well as among biblical scholars, specifically regarding Ezek 24:15–27." Alexiana Fry

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 11

The day before we found out from the President himself that actually political violence is unacceptable the Supreme Court said it’s legal for masked men to bust your car window and snatch you away from your family for having the wrong skin color.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Sep 11

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 11

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 11

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 11

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l

Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 8

SpongeBob is looking yaasified with the text saying “me whenever I’m right about something”

Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thrilled to be the "teacher" for @theb4np.bsky.social's September class called "Shaped By Suffering: How Trauma Impacts the Bible and Its Readers." Join me on Saturday, September 27th at 12P EST: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...

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AVAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in ANE @avartnp.bsky.social · Sep 8

GOOD MONDAY MORNING! AVAR 3.2 has three articles, from
@alexianafry.bsky.social, Jacob Dahl, Robert Miller II, and Jonathon Riley. avarjournal.com/avar/issue/v...

a blue cartoon cat with sharp teeth is laying on a ledge

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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm not sorry that this is what I chose to do to begin my day.

a girl with reddish hair but definitely her roots are well grown out, hair messy, in a light blue green romper, in a chair with a green sheepskin jacket is sitting in front of her screens - one a laptop, the other a big ol' screen, with her hand on a pink mouse next to a pink and white keyboard. She has a printed out copy of her manuscript to her left on the desk, and her references section to her right. There are A TON of tchochkes on her desk because she likes them.