anthony petro
@apetro.bsky.social
Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
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@apetro.bsky.social
· Jun 15
11 Questions: Provoking Religion by Anthony Petro - Killing the Buddha
Nerdy, queer, provocative.
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Answered "11 Questions" about *Provoking Religion* for the folks at KtB! (with thanks to @briallenhopper.bsky.social)
Humbled and thrilled about this upcoming roundtable on *Provoking Religion* at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin -- the provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center!
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Humbled and thrilled about this upcoming roundtable on *Provoking Religion* at AAR Boston! Can't wait to see and hear from Siobhan Kelly, Wendy Mallette, Drake Konow, Kris J. Trujillo, William Stell, and Sam Catilin -- the provocations start on Monday, 12:30 PM in Hynes Convention Center!
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As of twenty-nine minutes ago, I get to publicly share that "Disability Works" won the South Atlantic MLA Book Award!
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As of twenty-nine minutes ago, I get to publicly share that "Disability Works" won the South Atlantic MLA Book Award!
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Thrilled that my Theatre Journal essay on guide dogs and rehabilitation performance cultures is the subject of the first segment on the latest episode of On TAP! Many thanks for the hosts for taking the time to read and discuss this weird essay.
www.ontappod.com
www.ontappod.com
On Tap: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
This podcast looks at topics of current interest to professors and graduate students in the academic field of theatre and performance studies, including new ideas, theories, scholarly methodologies, t...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Thrilled that my Theatre Journal essay on guide dogs and rehabilitation performance cultures is the subject of the first segment on the latest episode of On TAP! Many thanks for the hosts for taking the time to read and discuss this weird essay.
www.ontappod.com
www.ontappod.com
This podcast series by Lynne Gerber and her team about a San Francisco church facing the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s is simply stunning. Check it out!
When We All Get To Heaven
A queer church faces AIDS in 1980s and '90s San Francisco.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This podcast series by Lynne Gerber and her team about a San Francisco church facing the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s is simply stunning. Check it out!
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Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts
September 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts
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It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It would seem that I missed an email and Disability Works ALSO won the Book of the Year Award for the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Communication Studies Division!!!!
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Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Over the moon to share that Disability Works received the National Communication Association’s Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies!
How have I only now discovered TJ's Chile Crackers. Wow.
September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How have I only now discovered TJ's Chile Crackers. Wow.
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Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday (Sept. 6), celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned and crediting Pope Francis with the change.
LGBTQ+ Catholics make Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome and celebrate a new sense of acceptance
"Brothers and sisters, I say this with emotion: It is time to restore dignity to everyone, especially to those who have been denied it," Bishop Franceseco Savino said at a Mass for the pilgrims.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday (Sept. 6), celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church after long feeling shunned and crediting Pope Francis with the change.
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Grateful to have Review # 6 of "Disability Works" out in H-Disability!
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Garratt on Mckelvey, 'Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation' | H-Net
Mckelvey, Patrick. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. : New York University Press, 2024. 336 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 9781479824878. Reviewed by Rachel Garratt (Independent Scholar) P...
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September 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Grateful to have Review # 6 of "Disability Works" out in H-Disability!
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy.
Applications due by Oct 15!
apply.interfolio.com/170389
Applications due by Oct 15!
apply.interfolio.com/170389
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September 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Notre Dame is running a search for the next Annenberg Chair in American Studies and Journalism (associate or full). Candidates will be expected to direct and teach courses for the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy.
Applications due by Oct 15!
apply.interfolio.com/170389
Applications due by Oct 15!
apply.interfolio.com/170389
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Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.
August 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.
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Author Q&A: Judith Weisenfeld on Black Religion in the Madhouse
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Author Q&A: Judith Weisenfeld on Religion in the Madhouse
We're thrilled to share a special Q&A with Judith Weisenfeld, who generously answered five questions about her groundbreaking book, Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wak...
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August 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Author Q&A: Judith Weisenfeld on Black Religion in the Madhouse
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“We need to talk about Truvy.”
August 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“We need to talk about Truvy.”
A decade ago today, Shelby bravely battled a tree branch at Amory park in Brookline
August 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A decade ago today, Shelby bravely battled a tree branch at Amory park in Brookline
Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts.
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Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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August 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very grateful to chat about *Provoking Religion* with Clayton Jarrard for the New Books Network! Now available on their site as well as Spotify and Apple podcasts.
newbooksnetwork.com/provoking-re...
newbooksnetwork.com/provoking-re...
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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
These two...
August 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
These two...
Good read.
What Happened When Their Art Was Banned
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Good read.
Today in floral drag... Blackberry lily, which is actually Iris domestica (so I have learned!)
July 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today in floral drag... Blackberry lily, which is actually Iris domestica (so I have learned!)
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Happy to share that "Disability Works" has been shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association's David Bradby Monograph Prize. Congrats to this stellar group of finalists!
July 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Happy to share that "Disability Works" has been shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association's David Bradby Monograph Prize. Congrats to this stellar group of finalists!