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Rhiannon Graybill

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I’m interested in feminist and queer responses to biblical sexual violence.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Jun 11

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · May 10

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis

The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

www.politico.com

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Rhiannon Graybill @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social · Mar 21

Obviously I would crush this

Rhiannon Graybill @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social · Feb 5

All Quiet on the Western Front is the book you need to read now (in this new translation!)

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Modern Voice of War Writing

In ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

www.theatlantic.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 3

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · Nov 19

Happy Birthday Bible and Critical Theory!
So excited for this special issue!
Congratulations and thanks to Rhiannon Graybill, Rob Seesengood, and all of the amazing contributors!
@rhiannongraybill.bsky.social

bibleandcriticaltheory.com/issues/volum...

VOLUME 20, NO. 1 (2024)

bibleandcriticaltheory.com

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Sari Fein, PhD @sarifein.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hey y'all! I'm excited to be celebrating the 🎉 20th anniversary 🎂 of the journal the Bible and Critical Theory at #sblaar24 this weekend. Come join us! @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social

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Rhiannon Graybill @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social · Jun 22

OMG YAY!!!! Neighbors!!!!

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · May 7

Faculty members of Georgetown’s history department have released the following statement about the brutal assault of one of our distinguished alum, Professor Steve Tamari, by the police. Please share. 🗃️

OPEN LETTER FOR PUBLIC CIRCULATION

We, faculty members of the Department of History at Georgetown University, write to express our outrage and sorrow about the appalling assault on Professor Steve Tamari, faculty member at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, perpetrated by police officers at Washington University in St. Louis this past Saturday, April 27, 2024. The assault left Professor Tamari, at the age of sixty-five, hospitalized with multiple broken ribs and a broken hand. It was perpetrated in front of colleagues and friends, including a ten-year old child who begged the officers to leave her parent’s friend alone. The situation would sicken even those with no connection to Professor Tamari; for us, as members of the department that granted Professor Tamari his doctoral degree, thus beginning his distinguished career as a scholar and teacher, the horror is only magnified.
Professor Tamari’s career aligns with Georgetown’s most cherished value: cura personalis.

As a Palestinian who has watched the slaughter of his people in agony over the past several months, as a lifelong pacifist, as a Quaker, as an alum of Georgetown University, Professor Tamari was thus acting entirely in character when he came to peaceably participate in the protest at Washington University. His brutal assault was not merely the enactment of violence on the body of a single human being; rather, it was an assault on the values and principles that all of us cherish and aspire to live by as scholars and teachers.

Over the past few years, the US has witnessed a politically orchestrated assault on the basic freedoms that undergird all academic inquiry and learning: the freedom to read and learn, and the freedom to think and speak and write without fear of reprisal. For historians in particular, as the past is increasingly weaponized in service of narrow political interests, we have found ourselves in the crosshairs of the guns trained, sometimes literally, on universities.

as faculty, we hold strong to the belief that the university is not merely a site of credentialing: it is where we produce the knowledge that expands the possibilities of our collective future and where we shape responsible
young members of the civic society upon which a just democracy depends.

In the face of these systematic assaults on our work, faculty have striven to do what we have always done: impart to our students, to the best of our ability, what we know; teach them the skills to expand the boundaries of knowledge; instill in them a love of knowledge and a desire for a world made better through the act of learning. Too many of the leaders of our most powerful institutions have failed to defend this basic activity, without which there is no university. Steve Tamari represents the tenacity it takes these days to stand by our students and to stand by the basic principles of academic freedom and inquiry, of expression and of the right to peaceful dissent. We thus stand with him

We thus stand with him and condemn in the strongest possible terms the appalling police brutality to which he, and so many of our colleagues and students, are now routinely subject across the country.

Signed,

Osama Abi-Mershed
Gregory Afinogenov
Mustafa Aksakal
Mike Amezcua
Ananya Chakravarti
James B. Collins
Elizabeth Cross
Dagomar Degroot
Toshihiro Higuchi
Maurice Jackson
Michael Kazin
Erick D. Langer
Amy Leonard
Crystal Luo
Bryan McCann
John McNeill
James Millward
Jo Ann Moran Cruz
Susan Pinkard
Howard Spendelow
James Shedel
Nefertiti Takla
Judith Tucker
John Tutino

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · Dec 10

we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested

NYT OPINIONS
To fight antisemitism on campuses, we
must restrict speech

Free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses. That was a mistake
By Claire O. Finkelstein.December 10, 2023

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Dr Sophia R.C. Johnson @letsgosojo.bsky.social · Oct 5

SBL Women Authors! It's that time of year again when we get to celebrate your books that have been published since last November! Drop the title/author of new books in bib studies and adjacent fields from female-IDing authors below 👇

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