J Barts, PhD (he/him/his)
@jbartashius.bsky.social
religion & film/gender/migration. pubs on stranger things/lady bird/fight club. bylines: @japantimes@kyotojournal@civilbeat
@religiondispatches@deepkyoto
https://buymeacoffee.com/jbartashius
@religiondispatches@deepkyoto
https://buymeacoffee.com/jbartashius
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Here is another org that can desperately use your help. If a non-citizen get kidnapped by ICE here, regardless of status, they are flying them out of the state as soon as the can. Legal representation can be the difference between seeing your family again, or, given conditions in TX, life and death.
I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
www.ilcm.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Here is another org that can desperately use your help. If a non-citizen get kidnapped by ICE here, regardless of status, they are flying them out of the state as soon as the can. Legal representation can be the difference between seeing your family again, or, given conditions in TX, life and death.
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Jason is a city councilperson in Minneapolis. Help this community out.
The Powderhorn Park neighborhood has been the biggest target of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. It’s home to a large immigrant community who is now struggling to pay rent. Kidnappings are on the rise because people cannot stay home. Please help us out. Link is in my bio.
gofund.me/350c67697
gofund.me/350c67697
Donate to Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief, organized by Powderhorn Neighbors
We are a small group of Powderhorn neighbors, and we have cre… Powderhorn Neighbors needs your support for Support Powderhorn Families with Urgent Rent Relief
gofund.me
January 14, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Jason is a city councilperson in Minneapolis. Help this community out.
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Folks, here is another local place that works with a lot of vulnerable kids and their families that could use your help.
January 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Folks, here is another local place that works with a lot of vulnerable kids and their families that could use your help.
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A family was taken two days ago from Hopkins, a very diverse suburb just west of Minneapolis. The local education fund is raising money for mutual aid for the community.
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong
Hopkins Strong Relief Fund — Hopkins Education Foundation
In response to urgent community needs, the Hopkins Education Foundation and Hopkins School District have partnered for the #HopkinsStrong Emergency Relief Fund to help students and families in this ti...
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A family was taken two days ago from Hopkins, a very diverse suburb just west of Minneapolis. The local education fund is raising money for mutual aid for the community.
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong
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Ok need to crowdsource something-is there a list of orgs in Minneapolis/St. Paul that need assistance with $$$ to help support giving out food, bail, etc? If you can send these my way, I'd appreciate it! And I'll share these out.
January 25, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Ok need to crowdsource something-is there a list of orgs in Minneapolis/St. Paul that need assistance with $$$ to help support giving out food, bail, etc? If you can send these my way, I'd appreciate it! And I'll share these out.
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I'm reupping this so that folks can see the various orgs in Minnesota/Minneapolis that you can help.. will also be posted to my Substack later today! Thanks to everyone who sent a source!
Ok need to crowdsource something-is there a list of orgs in Minneapolis/St. Paul that need assistance with $$$ to help support giving out food, bail, etc? If you can send these my way, I'd appreciate it! And I'll share these out.
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I'm reupping this so that folks can see the various orgs in Minnesota/Minneapolis that you can help.. will also be posted to my Substack later today! Thanks to everyone who sent a source!
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CFP for Vietnam-US relations History Conference
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Conference Call for Papers and Panels “History, Archives, and U.S.-Vietnam Relations” | H-Net
Conference Call for Papers and Panels “History, Archives, and U.S.-Vietnam Relations”June 5-6, 2026, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
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January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
CFP for Vietnam-US relations History Conference
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 AM
CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
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PhD here. Your product is trash. I don’t use it, won’t use it, forbid my students from using it (with copious evidence-based rationales provided), and use whatever other influence I have to counteract its dehumanizing effects.
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 AM
PhD here. Your product is trash. I don’t use it, won’t use it, forbid my students from using it (with copious evidence-based rationales provided), and use whatever other influence I have to counteract its dehumanizing effects.
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Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS
In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...
bit.ly
January 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians
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As the rain and winds continue, my heart aches for my 5 kids and my wife, who suffers from mitral valve prolapse. We are sinking into mud after the tent collapsed. Please embrace my kids with $200, with compassion— We need tent🥹urgent
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
January 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM
As the rain and winds continue, my heart aches for my 5 kids and my wife, who suffers from mitral valve prolapse. We are sinking into mud after the tent collapsed. Please embrace my kids with $200, with compassion— We need tent🥹urgent
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
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V important! Where I always get my cookies!
January 17, 2026 at 3:20 AM
V important! Where I always get my cookies!
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I am glad to see more and more people talking about this, even in newspapers here in Sweden the talk about finding alternatives to US tech have started.
You dont really realise how much we rely on it until now, when they went from being an ally to an enemy.
I just hope we have time to change
You dont really realise how much we rely on it until now, when they went from being an ally to an enemy.
I just hope we have time to change
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers
disconnect.blog
January 17, 2026 at 7:03 AM
I am glad to see more and more people talking about this, even in newspapers here in Sweden the talk about finding alternatives to US tech have started.
You dont really realise how much we rely on it until now, when they went from being an ally to an enemy.
I just hope we have time to change
You dont really realise how much we rely on it until now, when they went from being an ally to an enemy.
I just hope we have time to change
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Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN
Help us respond to urgent community needs
www.givemn.org
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out.
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
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My department at Princeton is hiring a full-time lecturer in Asian Religions. Deadline: February 18.
Expertise in Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia and ability to teach undergraudate courses on Chinese religions and on Great Books in Buddhism of interest.
apply.interfolio.com/180148
Expertise in Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia and ability to teach undergraudate courses on Chinese religions and on Great Books in Buddhism of interest.
apply.interfolio.com/180148
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM
My department at Princeton is hiring a full-time lecturer in Asian Religions. Deadline: February 18.
Expertise in Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia and ability to teach undergraudate courses on Chinese religions and on Great Books in Buddhism of interest.
apply.interfolio.com/180148
Expertise in Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia and ability to teach undergraudate courses on Chinese religions and on Great Books in Buddhism of interest.
apply.interfolio.com/180148
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As ICE operations begin in Maine, local organizers are raising money for rapid response via the Solidarity Fund. Donations urgently needed, starting to hear of arrests as of last night www.mainesolidarity.org
Maine Solidarity Fund
www.mainesolidarity.org
January 16, 2026 at 11:26 AM
As ICE operations begin in Maine, local organizers are raising money for rapid response via the Solidarity Fund. Donations urgently needed, starting to hear of arrests as of last night www.mainesolidarity.org
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My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
Pow Wow Grounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-
Venmo @powwowgrounds
www.powwowgrounds.com
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Just a reminder that the JJRS is always open for manuscript submissions. See our website for details on how to submit your manuscript.
nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6
nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6
NIRC
nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Just a reminder that the JJRS is always open for manuscript submissions. See our website for details on how to submit your manuscript.
nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6
nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6
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For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
docs.google.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
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Postdoc at Wesleyan Center for the Study of Guns and Society focused on "religion and firearms as part of a pilot project titled 'Moving Past God and Guns: Strengthening Scholarly and Public Understanding of the Intersection of Guns and Religion'.”
Deadline: March 1. 2026
Deadline: March 1. 2026
CSGS Hiring Postdoctoral Faculty Researcher - CSGS | Center for the Study of Guns & Society
CSGS Seeks Postdoctoral PhD with Expertise in Religion and Firearms CSGS is honored to be awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to hire a postdoctoral faculty researcher with...
gunsandsocietycenter.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Postdoc at Wesleyan Center for the Study of Guns and Society focused on "religion and firearms as part of a pilot project titled 'Moving Past God and Guns: Strengthening Scholarly and Public Understanding of the Intersection of Guns and Religion'.”
Deadline: March 1. 2026
Deadline: March 1. 2026
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@parismarx.com hi Paris, we are a group of Vancouver parents that have started a petition to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board
Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms.
As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...
actionnetwork.org
January 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
@parismarx.com hi Paris, we are a group of Vancouver parents that have started a petition to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...
It would help so much if you could share it 🙏
actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...