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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

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Assistant Professor of New Testament and Judaic Studies. HBCU Stan. Theoryhead. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.🌹🥢🏳️‍🌈 #FlyEaglesFly #NotMeUs she/היא

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

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“Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possesses revolutionary force.” — Foucault

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@MAdryaelTong

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Look, I’m an old queer. So, I’m about to say something not everyone is gonna like. But I was literally in the room when HRC struck gender identity from the ENDA we were lobbying on the Hill. We sold trans people out for acceptability of the “good gays” and now chickens, roost.

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There was a conscious decision that was made in the aughts to focus on gay and lesbian acceptance especially for wealthy, white gender-conforming people. Incrementalism, people said. I said back then it was BS and I said back then we’d pay for it. And lo and behold.

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Because the fact of the matter is the right wing either can’t tell the difference between a drag queen and a trans woman—or, more likely, they don’t care. The queer community didn’t do enough to protect trans people and there’s STILL TERFy crap going on in LGB spaces.

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And now we’re paying for it. Because we thought that we’d be safe as long as we were “one of the good gays,” but that ain’t how this works. We have to show up for the members of our community that are trans, poor, BIPOC, addicts, disabled, etc.

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@kevinmnye1 I’m married to someone who overdosed and was revived. I hope one day I have the chance to thank those who administered him Narcan and saved his life the way I say now to you, on behalf of those who love and will love this person in the future—thank you.

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We didn’t do it in the early aughts. It’s time we get it right. This time we have to hang together. We have to be really freaking loud about members of our own community that continue to push transphobia etc. No more “good gays” nonsense. It never works.

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So, I hear it’s possible to get random right wing dudes to proofread your dissertation for free. How do I get on this list? Is there an application process?

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Ok very quick life update: as y’all know, I left my husband and fled the state of Georgia. I am going to be private about where I’ve landed because this account is public, but let me assure everyone that I am safe and protected by a powerful network.

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@LauraRbnsn Correct. The trad wife never existed. She was ALWAYS being helped by her unmarried or widowed sister or aunt.

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I told y’all that any social institution becomes socially devalued when women and PoC begin entering it in significant numbers. The doctorate is no exception. Stop being petty and start fighting racism and sexism. This isn’t just one dude. This is an entire culture.

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I am so lucky. I basically won the job market lottery by getting a TT job as I was finishing up my dissertation—and yet, I’m still working a retail job so I can pay rent and save up for moving expenses and I can’t afford the doctoral regalia that I need for commencement.

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I’m holding myself accountable as a TT Professor. Dear Grad Students: There are not enough jobs. The amount of jobs is dismal. In no way, shape, or form have any of the last five years (i.e. since I’ve been on the market) been “good years.” You are not imagining it. This sucks.

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The nexus of academia’s racism and sexism is being more shocked and appalled by a scholar twerking on stage than numerous white male professors sexually assaulting their own students.

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I also rebuke the notion that my shaking my ass in public somehow diminishes my work as a scholar or my potential as an educator. I am excellent at my job. I am good at twerking. I do not need to hide either of these things. I am allowed to have pleasure.

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I hate everything about the Discourse™️ about Israel/Palestine because “Zionist” can mean anything from “I believe Israel should exist” all the way to “I support genocide,” while “Antizionist” can mean anything from “I feel sorry for the Palestinians” to “I support genocide”.

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You know what’s wild? I’m on sex worker Twitter and evangelical feminist Twitter and it doesn’t matter if these men are talking to married Christian women or literal sex workers, they treat women exactly the same. It will never matter how “good” we are, we’re all whores to them.

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BREAKING: Jorts is a cat.

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My veterinarian was asked if my alleged shoe-biting means I need a vitamin or something. She said no, I’m “just being an asshole”

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@LauraRbnsn Yeah the trad wife is a kink and should treated as a kink. I’m glad some people are happy doing their kink, but it’s a kink and not for everyone. Just like sucking toes isn’t for everyone.

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Jews have lived in the Levant since before Christianity and Islam ever existed because that’s how history works. I’m happy to have a debate about who should be in charge, but you will never convinced me that Jews aren’t indigenous to the Levant. Sorry. You really won’t. Ever.

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But I’m also saying this because I want the straight men reading this to understand—really understand—just how terrifying y’all are to women and how those small “insignificant” outbursts of anger and violence over time can paint a picture for us you might not intend.

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I have lost so many friends this weekend—not to the violence—but because they saw my pain and sorrow and worry as I desperately tried to track down people I love to see if they were alive—and celebrated Hamas as “decolonization” to my face.

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Look, I know that I’m probably overreacting and he’s already implied that I’m immature for behaving the way I am, but I have been down this road before and there’s a lot of dead women who didn’t think it was better to play it safe than sorry. I’m not going to be a statistic.

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As my gay male friend said, “my best friend is a straight man—but straight men are terrifying.” So, please, take this thread as a warning to deal with your anger issues and the way you process your emotions NOW. Get into therapy NOW. Or one day, it’ll be your wife writing this.

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As I’ve been explaining a lot recently: every man says he’ll never hit you until he does. You may believe that you would never raise a hand to a woman, but believe me—none of us believe you.

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Hi! I’m a New Testament scholar and I can tell you that the New Testament is NOT an accurate representation of Judaism as it is practiced today, nor is it an accurate representation of how Judaism was practiced by the majority of Jews when it was written.

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Like I fucking hate Bibi and cutting off water and electricity is a freaking war crime and I wanna kick Yoav Gallant right in the testicles, but Hamas is literally posting gloating vids of babies screaming for their mothers. What the hell people?! At least don’t celebrate Hamas!

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It’s so weird to me how much academics vehemently affirm the humanity of sex workers, i.e., “sex work is work,” etc., and yet, there’s no way in hell one can be out as a sex worker in academia.

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I’m not saying this to overdramatize my life, even though I’m sure some people will think that’s what I’m doing. I’m saying this because this is what feels real to me right now. Perhaps when I feel more secure, I will be able to reopen lines of communication with him.

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Hey, hey, I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the New Testament is NOT a reliable text on what Judaism is. Try reading the Mishnah, Talmudim, or better yet, just listen to your Jewish friends! Need Jewish friends? Reply below and I’m sure we can connect you to cool people.

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Just walked past a protest that includes a very large “it doesn’t end with a ceasefire” sign and a smaller “globalize the intifada” sign and I’m not down with any of this wtf is going on???

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Quick reminder: I’m a Zionist. I want Israel to continue to exist and I care about its future because I have many dear friends in Israel and I want a future for them and their families. So if you’re on team “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” you’re saying I don’t deserve to live.

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BREAKING: Orange cat orange catted.

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Accidentally jumped on the table and then when everyone reminded me I wasn’t supposed to do that, I panicked and stomped in everyone’s plates trying to get down. Sauce everywhere, utter chaos

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I am really fucking tired of people saying that the reason they’re anti-Zionist is because Jews are white because it just proves to me that you know so little about Israel as a country that you really have no idea what you’re talking about.

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@MdSheryl My parents never fail to mention what a bad ROI I am every time I talk to them. Lol. Losers.

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My students are starting a petition to get me hired full-time at the school where I adjunct. And I just…

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@BondageLand I was so young at the time so I didn’t really get what was going on, but I remember saying I thought this was a bad idea but the attitude from the more experienced lobbyists was this is just how it goes. So I just figured they should know so I went along with it.

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I legitimately have no idea how to explain to American non-Jews of every political ideology that American Jews don’t vote in Israeli elections.

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Most Christians literally believe that the only Jewish text Jews read is the Old Testament. I’m not exaggerating. They don’t know Toledot Yeshu even exists. And they will believe what the New Testament says (lies) about Jews over what Jews tell them about Judaism.

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This...uh...this very much is a dispute among Jewish scholars. It is very famously something we don't recognize.

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If your first response to a Jew calling out supersessionism is “but Israel,” you are both an antisemite and I get to slap you in the face with a whole raw fish. Those are the rules.

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they’ll be discriminated against on the academic job market for “not being a serious academic.” That’s what’s happening, friends. Right here and right now. For all the DEI discussions we’re having in academia, the biggest conversation missing is about CLASS.

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Christianity IS antisemitic. Where people go wrong is assuming that Christianity will *always* be antisemitic. As long as Christians refuse to learn their own history and listen to Jews (+women, First Nations, PoC, etc), Christianity will stay a religion of oppressors forever.

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Because if so, they are calling Christianity antisemitic. Like this is so stupid. Fake ass outrage

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I’m talking about this because I. Am. Lucky. I have a TT job. I have a first book contract and a robust publication record. By all objective measures, I’m “winning,” and yet the reality is that without generational or partner wealth, or an R-1 position, I can’t make ends meet.

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Reminder: You don’t have to be morally supportive of abortion to believe it should be legal. I am extremely uncomfortable with abortion (sorry), but I know that making it illegal just leads to unsafe abortions, not less abortions. Sex ed and birth control lead to less abortions.

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Hold up. So a MILLION Americans died and people think learning loss during the pandemic was just because schools were closed??

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@3Lions22 @kevinmnye1 My husband stopped using for 3 years now! I’m so proud of him every single day. Also I’m happy to see you don’t say “clean”. I don’t let people use that word in our home cuz “baby, you were never dirty. Using heroin doesn’t make people dirty” I said to him on our 3rd date ☺️

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Hello men of the world, did you do the laundry this week or did you just leave it for the woman in your life who also pays half the rent?

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Because you can’t be an academic if you don’t have generational wealth. You just can’t. Even if you publish and work hard and get a TT job, unless you land one of maybe-one-per-year R-1 positions (where we all know the most discrimination shows up), forget about it.

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I legitimately wish people cared at ALL about stuff like Taiwan, Uighurs, or Tibetans, but because the West’s “anti colonial” aesthetic is rigid af, white Americans show up for Palestinians, but don’t give 2 shits about other oppressed people. It’s infinitely frustrating.

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There’s something truly Orientalist about treating Israelis and Palestinians as a pair of homogenous monoliths rather than a bunch of fractious and diverse people, just like Americans. Just like we have our “woke” vs “patriot” divisiveness, so do they!

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Can I be honest? The last time I remember feeling like this was 9/11. That’s how bad this feels. That’s what my body is doing. It honestly feels like that.

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Lolll. I’m adjuncting a class and this is on my chair’s door.

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Now me, I wouldn’t put it past Bibi to have concocted this whole cluster of f*cks just to avoid jail time, but everyone wants to make it about a “Clash of Civilizations” rather than about two super corrupt (semi-)governmental entities screwing over everybody.

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@dieworkwear @jmhenner Put simply, any version of “Jesus saves Jews from being awful” is always antisemitic because it’s almost always a later Christian interpretation of the Bible that was meant to disparage (the very real) Jews (who were alive at the time).

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I did not think “the Jewish people have pretty much always had less political power than Christianity” was going to be a controversial statement to say in class, but hey it’s 2023, amirite?!

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The Book of Jonah is supposed to be funny and it’s so sad how many Christians don’t get the joke.

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@ChrisAlvino I think the problem is they don’t actually want partners. They want domestic sex slaves. And sure, there’s some women that are into that, but they’re so few in number they can pick the wealthiest, hottest redpilled misogynist they want, which leaves the rest of them very angry.

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@HarperKeenan I remember feeling kinda queasy but I was 19 and newly out and really Christian still and tbh just kinda naive. I wish I could do things differently now.

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I did not have a single article in a peer-reviewed journal before I got my TT job. Yes, this is a subtweet.

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I am overjoyed to announce that I will be joining the faculty as Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA. I am so honored to be joining the #HBCU family & uplifting black theological education #ITC

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It’s really bothering me how many of my Jewish friends are telling me that absolutely none of their non-Jewish friends have reached out to them or checked in on them. That’s really fucked up. Even my loudly leftist/anti-occupation/BDS-supporting Jewish friends are saying this.

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And that’s the situation got a TT Professor. Adjuncts are making poverty-level wages without job security, health insurance, or course releases to get time to publish. A friend of mine is waiting tables but is too afraid to talk about it in public because they’re afraid

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My friend in Jerusalem said that the Jews are being made to pay for the Western Christian sin of colonialism, and I hate how true this is.

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I’ve met you in person. You’re not a bad person but you are a grifter. I don’t judge you for that, though. As they say, “girl, get that bread.” My problem is that instead of leaning in, you continue to insist that you’re on the side of students, not profiting off a broken system.

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@CraigGaIIagher @MenryWY @tlecaque @Lady_Historian The common link is that all 3 of you came after me calling me a “grifter”. As you know. After quietly tolerating those attacks for 10 years I have decided I will not any longer. You come at me w “grifter” mishigas, you get called out on my blog. Don’t want that? Then don’t do it.

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In an alternate universe, there’s a version of post-10/7 Discourse where the world rallied behind the Israeli Left and democratic Palestinian liberationist orgs, brokered a ceasefire & hostage exchange, and toppled both Bibi AND Hamas from power. But no, we did THIS instead… 🙄

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@profsamperry I like how they just assume their kids will just naturally support them cuz I have some news for these folks about all my friends who grew up in conservative Christian families.

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@profsamperry The conservative to fascism pipeline. When you can’t convince people to agree with you, force them.

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So, I’m really happy people are pushing Kamala, especially Palestinians and sex workers. She needs to do better on BOTH issues, but some perspective: 1) from the POV of internal Israeli politics, inviting the families of hostages is a huge “fuck you” to Netanyahu.

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Unsurprised by Uncommitted endorsing Harris despite not getting anything at all at the DNC. What else they gonna do - endorse Trump? (endorsing Stein would be the same as endorsing Trump, irl.) In some ways, it's the reality lack of real leverage, especially...

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There’s something horribly misanthropic about wanting to frame this as war and genocide—as if Palestinians “as a people” hate Israelis (or worse “all Jews”) “as a people”—instead of a bunch of rich, corrupt, ethnic-nationalist politicians taking advantage of literally everyone.

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One of my more controversial takes is that if Jews can be expected to learn Hebrew and Muslims can be expected to learn Arabic in order to read their Scriptures, Christians AT THE VERY MINIMUM should be expected to learn Greek to read the New Testament. WE 👏ARE 👏SLACKING👏

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One of my more controversial takes is that if you’re one of those people who reads through the Bible (in English) on a regular/annual basis and you are reading the same translation every time, then you are reading the Bible irresponsibly.

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One of the things re-reading Jane Eyre has brought up for me is that every reader of the Bible should be forced to take a literature course—because the “judge people by the standards of their time” folks have a point, the problem is they never say when to do it. Let me explain 🧵

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I will say it louder, Christianity is the ONLY Abrahamic religion that does not include an EXPLICIT doctrine on the primacy of the mother’s life over the life of the fetus. This is Christianity’s fault and ONLY Christianity. All Christians need to sit with this.

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Israelis and Palestinians work side-by-side all the time. Your average person doesn’t want another war! Hamas does not represent all Palestinians and neither does Likud! There’s so much BS shenanigans in the Knesset every damn year—it makes Trump’s election fraud crap seem tame.

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Btw, any PhD in Bible from any accredited PhD program will tell you this is not only accurate, it’s not even a controversial statement.

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Hi! I’m a New Testament scholar and I can tell you that the New Testament is NOT an accurate representation of Judaism as it is practiced today, nor is it an accurate representation of how Judaism was practiced by the majority of Jews when it was written.

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Just like us, they have religious fanatics. They have terrorists. They have fascists. They also have people who want to work together and find peace. AND IT DOESN’T HELP THOSE PEOPLE when people from other countries butt in and tell them that they could do a better job than them.

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This is basically the most accurate description of what academic research is actually like—for all y’all considering a PhD (don’t).

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Let me make it very clear to my American friends and followers what this is—and specifically to my leftist Christian friends who have been flatly crappy towards Israelis: ISRAELIS ARE WILLING ACTING AS HUMAN SHIELDS to send food to Gaza. These people are fucking HEROES.

@AmiDar

Ami Dar

4 months

We all know that good news get less traction than the other kind. So let’s give this a boost. Today Standing Together’s first Humanitarian Guard succeeded in ensuring that the aid convoy traveled safely from Jordan to Gaza. Tomorrow they go out again. More power to them.

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2 years

Oh. I just realized something. I wonder if teachers can use prayer in school as a way of getting around a CRT ban. As long as their lesson starts and ends like a prayer, they can say whatever they want, yeah?

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I legitimately cannot believe people are being apologists for those filming and boasting about raping and murdering kids, women, and the elderly. Like, you can totally fight for liberation without posting gloating videos of torturing people like wtf is wrong with some of you???

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3 years

The problem is that people aren’t being careful with their words and they’re not being careful with distinctions. Worse, so many people are labeling any appeal to complexity as “genocide apology,” e.g., “Hamas Rockets/IDF Airstrikes might be separate from the Jerusalem unrest.”

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3 years

Because I can damn well tell you one thing: I, an American, do NOT understand the situation over there better than the people over there do. So, the best thing I can do—is to stfu and listen to people, especially those organizations that are trying to work together.

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3 years

And if my desire to listen to—rather than talk over—the people who live in Israel/Palestine loses me friends or followers, then so be it. Because I’m done talking now. I’m going to go back to listening. Thanks.

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3 months

I truly hope that the generation of lgbtq+ people who buried scores of their friends and lovers don’t see y’all shaming people for taking PrEP.

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

1 year

@tony_zy Aunties will always auntie

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

5 months

Fun fact: I studied Greek for a decade before I was considered proficient enough in the language to translate the Bible for an official publisher but apparently I didn’t need to get a PhD after all!

@naomirwolf

Dr. Naomi Wolf

6 months

Hi all -- so. I skipped ahead to the New Testament, with a Koine Greek - English side-by-side literal translation, and what am I to do -- so much of the NT has been mistranslated, or, shall I say, creatively translated, in addition to the OT having often been mistranslated. Is it

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2 years

I would go a bit further than this. I would say that if you’re not well read in literature, poetry, philosophy, history (including medieval, early modern, and modern), art history, and science, you shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the Bible because you can’t be trusted.

@AKMA

AKMA — modulating to bluer skies

2 years

@MAdryaelTong @ekaputrat Just in general, biblical scholars should spend more time reading in other interpretive fields. Our discipline(s) is/are so insular (to our detriment) — one reason students have a difficult time catching the axioms and processes of ‘exegesis’.

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2 years

Thank you @ChanceBonar for reminding those of us lucky enough to be in TT jobs of our accountability to our friends and colleagues.

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

2 years

Tenured and tenure-track professors who do not loudly advocate for unionization are scabs.

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KHAN'✨

@khanofkhans11_

2 years

What Academic Opinion will have you like this?

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

5 months

Having gone to a school with a superbly shitty Hillel, I’m really not ok with these demands that Universities divest from them. Sometimes it’s the ONLY place to get a kosher meal for miles, which means it ALSO serves observant Muslim students, especially on rural campuses.

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4 months

Gateway Judaism tweet

@KatinOxford

Kat Coffin Head of the Tortured Scholars Dept.

4 months

I do believe in God. But I’m so fucking angry at God I can’t breathe.

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PhD

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1 year

@bfhermann @colleenawilson @jfitzgeraldMD Lol, did you seriously just dismiss a woman describing her own experiences in order to claim that doctors dismissing women’s descriptions of their own experience isn’t common?

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

2 years

OK NEW RULE FOR WHITE SCHOLARS WRITING ABOUT RACE: You are not allowed to shove all your citations to scholars of color in one footnote, but spend the majority of the chapter discussing the work of white scholars writing about race.

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

9 months

Sooooo I like pushing Dan on this, but even “objective”/“historical critical” scholarship on the Bible is theological. It just proceeds from a different set of priors than Christian orthodoxy (to some extent, and to others it’s steeped in it). Liberation theology points this out.

@maklelan

Dan McClellan

9 months

I'm not a theologian. I'm a scholar of the Bible. You are so clearly out of your depth trying to engage actual scholarship rather than just pander to people who already agree with you, are equally as naive as you & just want to feel validated in their dogmas.

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

2 years

If a professor says they could teach a certain subject in their sleep, you should always believe them because it means that, at the very least, they have taught said subject very, very hungover.

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

4 years

Decolonization Checklist for Teachers of Pre-Modern History: ✅ 1 assigned reading by a black woman ✅ 1 assigned reading by a black man ✅ 1 assigned reading by a non-black woman of color ✅ 1 assigned reading by a non-black man of color ✅ At least 2 assigned readings by women

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1 year

Ok I need to log off this hellshite (typo but I’m keeping it) before I lose it. Good morning to everyone except the Christians talking over Jews instead of listening. Super rich to be mad at Jews for being “Chosen” when y’all think everyone except Christians are going to hell.

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

1 year

The Bible ain’t “clearly” jack shit. The Bible means whatever a community makes it mean—something Jews figured out a really long time ago, but Christians are apparently too stupid* to catch up. * or obsessed with wielding the power of so-called “objectivity”

@LittleMammith

Finnegans Take

1 year

Unfortunately, the Bible is clearly a supersessionist text. I don't know how people read Hebrews 8 or Romans 9 and argue otherwise. That's why supersessionism (and antisemitism) has been the mainstream position for most Christians throughout history.

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M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. 🥥

2 years

Right here. This is it. I’ve been talking about this with my students all week.

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Steven Goffman

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