@giuliaevolvi
Marie Curie fellow with project MERGE - on digital religion, social movements, and gender - at University of Bologna 🇮🇹 and University of Colorado Boulder 🇺🇲. She/her. Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
Listening suggestion:
Getting ready for international women's week with some humor: the podcast The Guilty Feminist @theguiltyfeminist.bsky.social
I've always listened to it for pleasure, but recently a lot of guests talk about Christian nationalism, faith-based activism, women in the church
This summarizes so well my thinking about AI… right now, AI improved my life and work exactly 0. But I do have AI-generated pictures of myself flying on a dragon
Yes for sure! The grant expert who told me this mentioned that this is relevant for those competing in more advanced schemes, as when you’re in academia for a long time you are more likely to have enemies. And I’m like no no, I’ve only been here ten years but I already have tons of enemies…
Ok I discovered that when you submit an ERC you can name three people you DON’T want to review your application and I LOVE that there’s a funding scheme that recognizes that academic have enemies
Grazie mille!
Want to know more? Check our article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#gender #meloni #giorgiameloni #fratelliditalia
- a fighter against gender chaos, someone who protects traditional gender roles and family values
- a gentler extremist, someone who leads a far-right party, but isn't perceived as too radical because she's a woman.
But how is she constructed as a woman?
We asked this question with @genderedform.bsky.social We analyze Instagram comments to Meloni and we discovered that she's described as:
- an exceptional woman, someone who is almost strong as a man
How to be a woman in politics:
While women are sometimes victims of misogyny in political circles, it can happen that in far-right parties, based on very patriarchal values, they can become leaders.
This is the case of Italian PM, Giorgia Meloni.
If you wonder how things are going in Italy, the Sanremo music competition (which is huge) was won by a guy singing about how great it is to get married in a church.
He’ll go to Eurovision
And I keep having stuff to write about even if I want to rest
Oh my… even if I would probably convince myself that they never copied my work and I’d feel terrible for even suggesting it. In the end, I’m the impostor here, am I not?
There’s two types of people in academia:
Those who never apologize, and those who recognize their mistakes and apologize for them.
And then there’s me, saying sorry for things I haven’t even done
Appena letto: “la vita sessuale dei nostri antenati”, il primo libro per adulti che ho letto di Bianca Pitzorno. Da bambina che si è sempre immedesimata nei suoi personaggi, ovviamente dovevo leggere la storia di una professoressa dell’università di Bologna alle soglie dei 40…
The U.S. department of state keeps sending me surveys to know if I liked being a visiting scholar in the U.S.
It’s kind of like when you order something on Amazon and the package arrives open and damaged but they still ask you how many stars you want to give them
Why is nobody talking about Rosalia?
Which leads to the second question, Americans know Rosalia, right?
The book doesn't talk about religion and that's why I'm reading it: I think it's time to explore how religious women can also be neoliberal feminist subjects, especially when they create business and communities online as influencers.
Today I'm re-reading "the rise of neoliberal feminism" by Catherine Rottenberg.
I want to apply for an ERC.
I tell people I want to develop my research idea, but maybe I want my own gang of postdocs and phds and even if they don’t exist yet I know they’d be the coolest gang in the department
Seems the link doesn't work, here's the working one: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How to be a woman in politics?
Very happy that my article with @genderedform.bsky.social , analyzing the responses to Italian PM Giorgia Meloni's posts, has been published by Critical Discourse Studies
www-tandfonline-com.colorado.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....
for some was a great hope of change; others regard it with nostalgia.
And you, what do you want? Women priests, or Latin mass?
More at: www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c... #Vatican #Church #Catholic #catholicfaith #catholicism
Other than the mass in vernacular, the Church became closer to the people and more open to other denominations.
I notice that Catholics may regard the Second Vatican Council in different ways:
What's the Second Vatican Council, and why it's important?
Before the 1960s, the mass used to be in Latin, and laypeople were less involved in the Church.
What changed? Between 1962 and 1965, the Catholic Church underwent an "aggiornamento", an update.
What’s written here?
The owner of the store gave me strawberries in this bag. He’s from Sri Lanka. Now I’m super curious to know what it says but Google Translate is no help
Do you want to submit a paper to the digital religion panel I’m co-organizing?
Let’s go to #EUARE2026 in Rome!
secure.onlinecongress.it/Olc/Client/P...
Daughter: “my doll is being mean to me”
Me: “we’ll ground her!”
Daughter: “no, you should kindly talk to her and make her understand what she did wrong”
This is what gentle parenting does, I cannot even get mad at a doll anymore.
Taking with other female academics it is still evident how strange it is to move to another country for research and have a male partner following …
the model is still that of the male academic doing fieldwork/visitings either leaving family behind or having a partner who’s a housewife
*Shameela. I hate when people get names wrong, sorry!
Join me for the Global South Network online seminar series: I will be one of the discussant for Shaamela Yoosuf Ali's work on Sri Lankan women on Facebook