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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

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Jun 15

Answered "11 Questions" about *Provoking Religion* for the folks at KtB! (with thanks to @briallenhopper.bsky.social)

11 Questions: Provoking Religion by Anthony Petro - Killing the Buddha

Nerdy, queer, provocative.

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 18h

no concrete solutions that haven't been offered, but commiserating as someone who is also very bad about this. i even moved to the midwest in hopes that no one would find me.

anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 8d

I wear an ND hat while mowing the lawn and carry an ND American Studies water bottle to the gym!

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 11d

Playtime With Truvy in Four Acts

Truvy the whippet approaches catching a ball while her sister ignores her

Truvy looks very snoopy like as she runs toward a ball still far above her

Truvy waits for the ball to fall closer to her snoot

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 14d

no way!

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 19d

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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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 20d

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!

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 23d

How have I only now discovered TJ's Chile Crackers. Wow.

anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · 29d

this is me every time I accidentally glimpse Patrick's inbox... like, HOW???

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · Sep 6

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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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Sep 1

two alphabet songs!

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Sep 1

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...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Sep 1

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!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Joseph Stuart @jstuart.bsky.social · Aug 12

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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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · Aug 9

Shelburday

Sunny picture of a perky but skeptical white whippet named Shelby in my arms

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · Aug 6

“We need to talk about Truvy.”

Shelby the white whippet sprawled on the carpet but looking VERY stern

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Aug 5

Love this! Our whippets have daily battles with pillows

anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Aug 5

A decade ago today, Shelby bravely battled a tree branch at Amory park in Brookline

Shelby, a white whippet, holding a fairly large tree branch in her mouth.

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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Aug 4

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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 1

“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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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Aug 3

These two...

Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sundays are for Celebrating Shelby

Shelby the white whippet and me, a white homosexual stare in the same direction in front of a colorful backdrop. Blues and greens abound .

Same scene as in the previous picture, but now with kisses from Shelby and visible cold brew

anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social · Aug 1

Good read.

What Happened When Their Art Was Banned

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