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Maia Kotrosits

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https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Soon: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke, 2025). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago, 2020).

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 23d

Duke UP has put the Introduction to my book online! See here: bit.ly/42yhObv

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 4d

So much loafing is necessary to have a really good thought.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Christopher B. Zeichmann @cbzeichmann.bsky.social · 7d

I had the pleasure of a really fun interview with
@lastbornpodcast.bsky.social
podcast last week and Patrick offers us a preview of the interview! If you're not sure whether you want to pick up my book or not, this will give you a taste of things. Patrick is a fantastic discussion partner!

Patrick Farnsworth @lastbornpodcast.bsky.social · 8d

New episode: Preview / Radical Antiquity / Christopher B. Zeichmann

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/lastborninthewilderness/preview-christopher-zeichmann

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 8d

I think about 30-60% of the time the words are irrelevant, it is just I who am embarrassing, in my existence :)

Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 8d

Is there a category for “least likely to set fire to its own credibility”?

Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 8d

Of all the incredulous business-as-usual stuff going on, the one that blows my mind the most is probably the “Best Colleges and Universities in the US” listicles.

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 9d

It is indeed very expressive! :)

Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent translation, loses nothing.

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 9d

There are no guarantees in this crazy world.

Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 9d

How did you survive that many prohibitions, did you stop speaking?

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 9d

A brief inventory of some things I’m not allowed to say to my 14 year old.

- The word “cool.”

- The word “amazing.”

- Calling him a “kid.”

- Calling him “my offspring.”

- Calling him an “adolescent.”

- “Great job.”

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Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social · 11d

Interested in learning Coptic? Check out my 8-week primer focused on Gospel of Thomas (Sahidic/Lycopolitan Mixed Dialect).

Part 1 Starts Oct. 27

Asynchronous and Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) via The Religion Department

Sign-up here: www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Learning Coptic Through the Gospel of Thomas (Level 1)

www.religiondepartment.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.

I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

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Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social · 12d

Rocky Horror was my first outlet and introduction into queer culture growing up in ultra-conservative Omaha, Nebraska. It was nothing short of a lifeline for so many of us at the time

ptklein @ptklein.com · 12d

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 15d

Letter to NYT by Elizabeth Castelli &
Hilary Callahan (via the former FB)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Opinion | Struggles for Free Expression on Campus

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social · 16d

Out now: New issue of MTSR featuring a symposium on @feelingtheory.bsky.social's WILD EXPERIMENT, in which @maiakotro.bsky.social and I take the opportunity to fire off some long-simmering hot takes on how J. Z. Smith is used in discussions about comparison as a method.
brill.com/view/journal...

Screenshot of a part of the table of contents for the issue of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion referenced in the post. The excerpt starts "Special Section: Symposium on Donovan Schaefer, Wild Experiment." The first articles that follow are, in order: "Queer(y)ing How We See" by Ellen T. Armour; "Ars Botanica: Art, Science, and Comparison in Religious Studies" by Maia Kotrosits and J. Gregory Given; "The Wildness of (Racialized) Experimentation" by Joseph Winters; and "Religious Studies in the Garden of Academic Delights" by Donovan O. Schaefer.

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 19d

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

www.cambridge.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19d

Gavin Newsom, Kristi Noem Nod Silently To Each Other In Plastic Surgeon’s Office

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 20d

finally had time today to sit down w the summer issue of JOURNAL OF EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES and friends do not miss this piece by Christine Luckritz Marquis

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Better Off Dead? : Violence, Women, and Late Ancient Asceticism

muse.jhu.edu

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 20d

white academics stop writing about power if you’re just going to cede yours at the slightest pressure challenge.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22d

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study

Report finds that 7% of Americans have been present at the scene of a mass shooting and 2% have been injured in one

www.theguardian.com

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