Jo DowlingSoka
@JDowlingSoka
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Trans (They/Them or She/Her). Neuroqueer. Studies militarization of religious culture in Eastern Mediterranean at Macquarie University.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined September 2012
https://t.co/yKkr01r415 My first published article is out! It's looking at a 7th century representation of a sex worker. I'm so happy to see it published! Thank you @ucpress and Studies in Late Antiquity for all the work that went in to getting it out!
online.ucpress.edu
The Life of Theodoros of Sykeon is a remarkable hagiographic text that is well known to contemporary scholarship as a source for information about rural life in Asia Minor in the sixth and seventh...
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I'll take this one Many of us feel that there is nothing that Black people can do to prevent white people from believing this nonsense A thread.
I've always wondered how Blacks and other POC who benefit from affirmative action feel about the perception some may have that their achievements — however fully earned — may be partially due to bias in favor of minorities. This is unhealthy for minorities and society at large.
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It's really nice to see people doing things with this material. It's such a neat set of evidence from a period of very limited sources.
invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk
Narges Nematollahi looks at the format and linguistic style of Middle Persian documentary letters exchanged between Sassanid state officials in Egypt
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Just finished the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (@SAChakrabooks). It was utterly delightful!
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Yep. I'm having the best time on social media I've had in years. I think it'll probably replace twitter for me completely.
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We had a lovely afternoon working on Capo Ferro and Fabris. :)
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So Zuckerberg didn’t just spent $15B and fail to get legs. He spent $15B to create a future where the mortal plane is riven by holy war, and fell short at creating legs.
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So Zuckerberg didn’t just spent $15B and fail to get legs. He spent $15B to create a future where the mortal plane is riven by holy war, and fell short at creating legs.
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Trans people are an attractive target for fascists because we're 1)socially isolated 2) easily mischaracterized and 3) violate societal norms by just existing, so movements hoping to deputize people against freedom are able to portray us as the evil of "too much" freedom
You shouldn’t need to be personally affected to care about trans people but it seems that’s where we are so let me be clear: Fascists are building their campaign by attacking trans people. But they’re not going to stop there.
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I find these repeated (I've heard of 3 now) art centered environment protests really offputting. It feels like they echo the quite conservative idea that public access art is an unneccessary waste of money and are a distraction from the issues causing climate change inaction.
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Thank you @hahellyer for this important piece, highlighting the prevalence of bullying in academia and the way that inaction perpetuates it. Speaks to my recent experience
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Academia is one of the most honourable professions, but its standards are being pushed aside by a toxic culture
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And the opportunity cost is insane. So many well trained people driven out. A collapse of diversity both of people and methods occurs wherever mean-spirited negativity is acceptable. It's clearly not "working", Humanities is in trouble. So maybe be kind and bolster eachother.
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Completely reasonable mistakes or issues with arguments get treated as fatal flaws and the idea that you aren't supposed to take criticism personally is weaponised. Needing to be on guard against it turns historical exploration into a paranoia inducing hell.
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I find myself getting really exhausted by how mean scholars can be to eachother when there is disagreement. It often feels like the goal is to so demoralise the "opposition" that they decide to give up. Not because they were "wrong", but because of bullying behaivior.
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I'm so glad for @ArkadyMartine ! I thought this was an incredibly good ballot for best novel. Both A Desolation Called Peace and Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun are novels I adore.
We are pleased to report the 2022 Hugo Award winners!
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THREAD: SURPRISE! Cranky "get off my lawn" conservative Anglo-Saxonist @MikeDrout wrote a NYTimes op-ed re: Rings of Power series. He asks if it is "fair" to the legacy of Tolkien to build franchises from his work without his "knowledge or permission?" #LOTR Clutch pearls much?
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