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Ethnographer, Reproductive Laborer, and Student of the Syriac World

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · Nov 15

For people who don't know me yet, my research is as much about race, gender, and the politics of (im)migration in Europe as it is about the Syriac world and Middle Eastern Christianity. This article is an example of how I bring these themes together: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

A Racial-Religious Imagination: Syriac Christians, Iconic Bodies, and the Sensory Politics of Ethical Difference in the Netherlands | Cultural Anthropology

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · 1d

Someone asked me what my research might say about conversion into an ethnic church. The question prompted a reflection on Christianity, culture, and political life that turned into a three part series!

The next installments will be published throughout October.

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Being vs. Becoming Christian: Letters to a Convert in an Ethnic Church (#1)

One of the many beauties of Orthodox Christianity is the insight that this world is not spiritually debased....rather, this world is filled to the brim with divine love.

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · 4d

No words.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s video of the incident

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · 8d

Immense gratitude to Anna Hager for her review of Sonic Icons in Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies.

She called it a "must-read"! 😁

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#migration #middleeast #europe #syriac @fordhampress.bsky.social

SARAH BAKKER KELLOGG, Sonic Icons: Relation, Recognition, and Revival in a Syriac World (New York: Fordham University Press, 2025) | Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African ...

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Truthout @truthout.org · 9d

A California bill awaiting Newsom’s signature would set a pathway to eliminate the state’s trailblazing moratorium on pipelines used to transport carbon dioxide. The fossil fuel industry lobbied to shape the legislation, which could allow pipelines to be built without strict distance requirements.

California Bill Could Set Dangerous Precedent Around Carbon Dioxide Pipelines

If industry continues to dictate the terms of legislation, more communities could see such pipelines in their backyards.

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · 10d

Brilliant.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 12d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Anthrodiva La Chatte @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 12d

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 13d

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time

Klein:
"Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic."

They lynched a kid last week.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 13d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17d

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22d

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well:

AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT

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Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25d

An effort to force the release of the files on child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein failed in a close vote in the U.S. Senate on Friday as Mississippi’s two Republican senators, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, voted to block it.

Epstein Files Release Blocked as Wicker and Hyde-Smith Vote No

An effort to force the release of the Epstein files failed as Mississippi’s Republican senators, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, voted to block it.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 27d

People are mobilizing in #California to demand the release of a woman who is has lived in the US for 30 years and was recently abducted at a routine check-in at an ICE office in San Francisco. www.financialexpress.com/world-news/u...

‘Bring grandma home’: ICE detains 73-yr-old Indian origin Harjit Kaur from Bay Area; locals and family stage protests

Family members said Kaur has not received full access to her medications at the detention centre.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Sep 8

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..."

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Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations

New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · Aug 20

Coming soon!

I'm so proud to be part of this incredible collection. The essays are NEXT LEVEL. This book casts the relationship between Christianity and anthropology in a whole new light.

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Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians.Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants a...

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · Jul 30

What a delight to receive such a generous reading and review of Sonic Icons from a colleague I respect so much!
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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · Jul 30

I had the opportunity to review this valuable book recently and I learned a lot from thinking across disciplines.

Governing religious diversity in global comparative perspective: Politics, Religion & Ideology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www-tandfonline-com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/doi/full/10....

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jul 6

New rule: no criticizing the way others choose to resist unless you have a better, actionable idea and kind, constructive feedback. New ideas are good! Performative contrarianism is useless.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jul 5

The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force.

Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!

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neilpunkdafunk.bsky.social @neilpunkdafunk.bsky.social · Jun 15

The fact that Indivisible took the approach that empowered people to work together to start protests where they live rather than travel to a central location/big city to protest is a game changer. It mixes convenience with pride in your hometown, and the great benefit is building communities.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 12

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾

MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”

ICE: “The whole country is our property.”

No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social · Jun 12

This is madness.

Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · Jun 12

Serious question, America. What. The. Fuck?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jun 12

FULL clip of agents throwing Sen. Alex Padilla to the ground and handcuffing him.

Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting.

Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 18

and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!

Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Apr 18

Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador is a form of embodied protest and helped put Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Gracia on the front page of the NYT two days in a row.

As Bayard Rustin once said, “The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.”

Alt-text: Screenshot of The New York Times homepage from April 17, 2025. The lead story headline reads: “Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador,” reporting that Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia after previously being denied access to the prison where Abrego Garcia is held. A photo shows the two men sitting at a table in conversation, with water glasses and coffee cups in front of them. Van Hollen is leaning forward, speaking seriously. Below the main story is a secondary headline: “Dual Orders From Judges Edge Courts Closer to Confrontation With White House."

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · Apr 5

It really helps when you remember that, in order to build a mass movement, you need to have as many points of entry as possible and as many different ways as possible for people to contribute.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 5

I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned.

Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 5

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

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Jaime Montana Cook is at
Sackets Harbor Central School.
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Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Apr 3

9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry.

As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.

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