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Billie

@billieiswriting.bsky.social

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🌗 She/Her I am a history teacher, philosophy student, Jesus obsessive, AnarchoPacifist, wife, and father. I am also a writer and blogger. billieiswriting.substack.com

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life", the book I wrote with @paulhoard.bsky.social is out now!

Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life is out now!

Our book is available now!

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
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Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

This is the essential context for understanding how Qatar is getting an air force base in Idaho. bsky.app/profile/razz...

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 17h

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 18h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 23h

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSS PREACH

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
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Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 1d

“They call our ace siblings, sisters, and brothers frigid and failures; they call our gay sisters and brothers “abomination” and “degenerate”; and they call our trans siblings, sisters, and brothers “contagion” and “perverts”…We are to them, all that they cannot bear to let themselves be.” 🔥

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
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Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Elizabeth Hopkinson @hidden-grove.bsky.social · 1d

This is a brilliant essay. Read it, my siblings, and take heart!

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

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Zoë, a humorless transsexual @dahlingzoe.bsky.social · 1d

This is more Christian than I am, but this is worth reading.

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

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Allison scares the Whits-ney out of you 🎃 @allisonwhitney.bsky.social · 1d

It’s great. Love Billie’s work. Will always be a blessing to know that LGBTQIA+ folk work past the bigotries of our institutions because God loves us and affirms us.

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

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joules Pass The Equality Act! 🩷💜💙 @joules542.bsky.social · 1d

ALL of this!

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

This essay is a product of so much of my work over the last 5 years or so and I hope people will read it.

For years I have repeated that queerness is a blessing. Here I talk about why that is.

I maintain that respectability is a trap and that respectability politics are immoral. Here I explain why

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

In all likelihood what’s happening all over the country is ICE getting a list of names and running a data broker search then scooping up every random Frank Miranda or Maria Lopez who might fit the details close enough. And that’s why they’re supposed to get fucking warrants.

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 2d

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Jennifer Lee 🎃 @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 2d

He’s saying he’s pro Nazi, right?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

I so wish this hadn't remained so entirely relevant.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, look where we were 10 months ago! from @billieiswriting.bsky.social

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Yes, "Reasonable Compromises" on Trans Rights are Transphobic

On what is not being said beneath the debate over Democrat backpedaling on trans rights.

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Cis-het-allo people I cannot emphasize how thoroughly queer folks have given up on the possibility that you would do the right thing for the right reasons and are resorting to appeals to your self-interest.

Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · 2d

This is why one of my recurring themes is that fascism is bad for the economy. If the “median experience of tyranny” is “well, I’m doing okay, shame about those people in the tenement” That’s one thing. But “Trump took over and things got really expensive and I lost my job” is something else

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Relatedly, this @brianbeutler.bsky.social idea of the "median experience of tyranny" is a good way to say that while majorities oppose the lawbreaking/abuses of power, Miller is banking on the middle lacking deep conviction about all of it (as I suggest)

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2d

"Go now into this world my blessedly, gloriously queer siblings, sisters, and brothers.
Go in the strength of your illegibility
Go and frustrate Power with your love"

Read the whole beautiful thing 💜

Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

open.substack.com

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Billie @billieiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

Read this.
Queerness is a blessing; queerphobia is a curse; respectability is a trap.
open.substack.com/pub/billieis...

Queerness is a Blessing

Queerphobia is the curse and respectability politics are a trap.

open.substack.com

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