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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · 11d

That one really was for the girls 💪🏻 Second highest attendance at a rugby world cup final, men or women. 🌹

Women's Rugby World Cup Final Canada 13 England 33

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · 13d

September is IIH awareness month.

Imagine your head feels as though it's been crushed by a vice, a headache unlike anything you've ever felt before, where every part of your head hurts, that pressure is unbearable and it's a pain no one can see. Imagine a world in permanent soft focus, where things come in twos, where things disappear momentarily, where you can't tell how deep a step is, where bright light is a pain you can't stand. Imagine a world that says around you, where you feel as though you're in the middle of a storm on a cross channel ferry, feeling dizzy and sick - yet you're standing still. Imagine you're so totally exhausted that your body doesn't want to move and all you want to do is sleep, yet an incessant roaring in your ears keeps you awake. Imagine feeling lost and fearful, confused in a place you used to know well. Welcome to the world of IIH.

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Feminist Theology Network @feministtheology.bsky.social · Sep 8

For an update of our upcoming events: mailchi.mp/cam/incredib...

Incredible line up of speakers at the next FTN events!

mailchi.mp

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ooh, I need to do mine 🤣🤣

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tickets acquired! This disabled-led conference on disability & church is the highlight of my year (& features prominently in my book with @emjric.bsky.social). Will be lovely to reunite with old friends for the first hybrid conference & first at St Martin’s since 2019. I’m preaching on the Sunday :)

Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-these-...

Can These Bones Live? Disability, wilderness, hope and God

Exploring experience of wilderness & how hope grows. With talks, workshops, groups, art, theology, liturgy. Hybrid event - on site & online

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Sep 3

@siobhanjolley.bsky.social Guess what I got given to read on the journey home from #BNTS

Book cover. Reimagining the Magdalene by Siobhan Jolly.

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Sep 2

When you get Eowyn's "I am no man" into a seminar question at #BNTS2025 😁

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Aug 29

Prepping the kiddos for back to school: "If anyone says there are no zombies in the Bible, they're lying..." Well, they did walk in as I was starting to pull together a conference workshop for October, so I am not sure what else they expected 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to be part of this. Do take a look -

Living Edge Conference @livingedgeconf.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-these-...

Can These Bones Live? Disability, wilderness, hope and God

Exploring experience of wilderness & how hope grows. With talks, workshops, groups, art, theology, liturgy. Hybrid event - on site & online

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Karen O’Donnell @karenod.bsky.social · Aug 12

Oh we’ve got a fun few months coming up in the @feministtheology.bsky.social

Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...

#feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am genuinely excited to be helping students ask innovative questions which challenge perspectives in our field.

Westcott House Cambridge @westcotthousecam.bsky.social · Aug 8

Dr Emma Swai is up next in our intro series. An educator for over two decades, her research interests look at the portrayal of disability in New Testament writings, linguistic analysis of ecclesiastical texts and positionality & interpretation. More info about Emma’s research in bio: buff.ly/kNk2CXB

Photo of Dr Emma Swai, Associate Supervisor at Westcott House.
Text: 'Disability, as embodied experience, is a lens not often factored into academic study. I believe that it should be and, therefore, I offer students the opportunity to consider research from a perspective that specifically aims to recognise potential embedded prejudice in the issues or area they are examining. I see my job as a supervisor as supporting my students to find confidence in their own voice. I will never tell students what to think, but I might challenge them: not necessarily because I disagree, but because I want them to strengthen their own position.'

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Aug 6

Add NT studies, disability studies, a bit of feminism together, to animal studies, stir and "ta da"...

Yep, I still get excited at seeing my name printed on actual paper pages 😁

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...

Book chapter first page. Chapter 7. The Choice to Untie a Donkey, Ox, or "Daughter of Abraham" in Luke 13:10-17.

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Aug 5

I saw a video on people getting excited over the fish and chips ones. Will get slated, but I don't even think they're cute. My niece also told me off because I said certain viral bag charms were pretty ugly...

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Aug 5

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An article by the lovely @mckasp.bsky.social.

www.tandfonline.com

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Karen O’Donnell @karenod.bsky.social · Aug 4

Just a reminder that if you haven’t already joined the Feminist Theology Network and want to be part of a supportive, inclusive, vibrant place for feminist & womanist research, you can do so here mailchi.mp/a5e743737064... @feministtheology.bsky.social #feminist #theology #womanist #community

Feminist Theology Network

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jul 28

When you turn up to your hospital appointment and realise you have accidentally coordinated your clothing and your reading... A hastily thrown on FTN t-shirt and the book you grabbed from the desk as the cab arrived...

Book cover, muted orange with white type. Feminist Theologies - A Companion. Edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Stephen Burns and Katharine Massam

Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jul 22

That's insane. Like, what exactly do they think the mobility scooter is substituting for?

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jul 22

Excited to share this upcoming volume. My perspective has changed somewhat with experience and David gave me space in this collection to write about it.

David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Jul 22

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...

@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social

Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...

www.routledge.com

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jul 17

An SCM sale is always "dangerous"... but the kiddos might have just got me these for my birthday 😉 Ordered Tuesday, arrived today - am set up for summer reading!

Three book covers. Preach It by Carol Tomlin, A Redemption Song by Delroy Hall and Bathsheba Survives by Sara M. Koenig.

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jul 3

Today was the first day I woke up with the knowledge that people are prepared to present your ideas as their own. Naive perhaps, but I had enjoyed the bubble of academic innocence for a while at least.

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jun 10

So Loose Women might get slated a lot, but I was reading Laura Bates' book at the GPs and this elderly lady struck up a conversation with me about AI and sexism on the back of her Loose Women interview: youtu.be/J8plVS73veA?...

The Shocking Reality of AI, Online Sexism, Deepfakes & More! | Loose Women

YouTube video by Loose Women

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jun 3

So my profile is now up and running for prospective postgraduate students wanting to study disability and biblical studies/theology, amongst other things 😁
www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...

Dr Emma Swai - Westcott House

Associate Supervisor

www.westcott.cam.ac.uk

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy Birthday! Hope Helen is spoiling you x

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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · May 30

Horrifying but incredibly powerful. Absolutely needs to be read by, like, everyone. Bates is sounding a warning call before it's too late... and we really, really need to listen.

Book cover. The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates.

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Feminist Theology Network @feministtheology.bsky.social · May 16

Date for your diary: 28th May 2025, 7pm BST

Reimagining the Magdalene: Feminism, Art, and the Counter-Reformation with Dr Siobhan Jolley

Siobhan is stood in the foreground of the picture, in front of a painting in a gold frame. The picture is hung on a muted red wall. The title overlays the picture in white lettering.

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