Kelly Holob
@KellyHolob
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PhD candidate at UChicago | dissertating on executed people in early Christianity | apocrypha and magic | she/her
Joined March 2017
Genocidal liberalism will never defeat genocidal fascism.
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America is only coherent as an empire built on pillaging the ever shifting periphery, internal and external, which has slowly reduced the breadth of viable ideological positions to various visions of individualism. Trump is just an extremely expressive cultivar of the staple crop
dude is a barely coherent convicted sex predator whose only platform is wanting to do more crimes, what is fucking happening
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Book launch next week: "Erasure in Late Antiquity" 🗓️ Friday 20 September ⏰ 5.30-6.30pm (UK time) 📍 Virtual event Register for Zoom link: https://t.co/byNF0pZ1Ar Speakers include: @KellyHolob @DrUsherwood @MiriamAnnaHay @SeaMonsterGuy
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Quick presentations from authors, Q&A and wider discussion on studying Erasure in Late Antiquity.
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We're happy to announce that the Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education Frantz Fanon Dissertation Award nomination period is now open! Please share widely! https://t.co/XZ8sIGWQPe
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FRANTZ FANON DISSERTATION AWARD PURPOSE The Frantz Fanon Dissertation Award is named in honor of Frantz Fanon and his significant and enduring scholarship informing decolonial, postcolonial, and...
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I think my neighborhood is using AI art for these new banners. Gross!! We have an art center just blocks away from these.
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Peter: this might sound totally crazy but can we do it upside down? Roman soldiers: sure bud this job’s boring as fuck
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got nothing appropriate to say about this, other than to say that genocide is worse than any flag burning, and that what is or is not considered “violent” or “peaceful” by the political establishment and those in power will always prioritize maintaining the status quo.
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IMO, there are a lot of accounts on here that performatively worship tradition but know very little about tradition. The comments are less about traditions and more about how they hate certain things. Many also don't practice what they preach.
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A university with a $10 billion endowment and tuition nearing $70k can afford to treat its workers with respect and maintain appropriate staffing levels. Our statement on recent UChicago staff layoffs: https://t.co/nS4EVNgaWd
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Faculty Forward Statement on Recent Staff Layoffs July 16, 2024 Faculty Forward, the union of non-tenure track faculty at the University of Chicago, unequivocally condemns recent layoffs by managem...
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One of countless examples I’ve come across that early Christians (like Tertullian here) have no problem with Roman ideas of penalty, only who it’s directed against.
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If you are an American, you are paying for this.
6 Israeli soldiers who recently left Gaza "described being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, including civilians" + army hiding corpses from aid convoys "so that 'images of people in advanced stages of decay don’t come out.'" https://t.co/Q7aqj1hVFt
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Stories western media routinely ignore: 1. Israel’s use of Hannibal procedure on Oct. 7 2. Gaza death toll likely far higher than recorded (Lancet study) 3. Genocidal comments by Israeli officials and soldiers 4. Israeli soldiers’ obsession with Palestinian women’s underwear
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There is something quite eerily magical about these frescoes that decorate the wall around the peristyle garden in the House of Menander, #Pompeii in that it takes a while for your eyes to make out the ghostly presence of birds & animals amongst the painted foliage. #FrescoFriday
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