Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.
Men: What a scary time for men this is.
Fresh hamantaschen with plum jelly inside. Describing them could get me banned from this site. They are all on a plate on top of a white counter, you can see her brown socks and the wood floor.
Chag Purim Sameach, my friends who celebrate!
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
The Jewish festival of Purim is celebrated today, remembering the story of the Hebrew Bible's Book of Esther. In Esther Keeps the Score, @alexianafry.bsky.social offers a new interpretation of this book through the lens of trauma.
20% off orders during March:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
I'm also super thankful for @brownsmith.bsky.social's eyes on this one before I sent it out!
Grateful to share my thoughts on Purim, Esther, and trauma @baptistnews.com. baptistnews.com/article/reim...
On the massacres at the end of Esther:
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-end-of-e...
Thread of Purim stuff:
What if we think about Lilith and Vashti and Esther and Eve in terms of archetypes and what that can illuminate for us for making change:
I should do book promo—
*ICE murder several blocks from me*
*sheltering in place bc of racial profiling*
*mutual aid*
*mutual aid*
*a second ICE murder*
*mutual aid*
*Local kidnapped kids sent to Dilley*
*phone tree to Lawyers Guild for LO friend*
*more kidnappings*
*mutual aid*
*mutual aid*
*war*
Happy March - which is Esther Keeps the Score's publication month, and @scmpress.bsky.social is running a special where the book is 20% off for all 31 days! scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
A girls' elementary school. Dozens dead. Perhaps hundreds. Sitting with the profound evil and the mindfck and the knowledge that this war may well have been declared to distract us from the Epstein files and the conspicuously missing evidence that the president of this nation raped 13 year-old girls
💕💕💕 THANK YOU, Rabbi.
You can now read an insightful excerpt of @alexianafry.bsky.social's forthcoming ESTHER KEEPS THE SCORE: TRAUMA, BODY, AND POLITICS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE in the new LiST, specifically on Esther's "fawn" trauma impulse, and all the ways it might manifest..
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
Want to read a chapter where I talk about misconceptions of trauma and interpretations of Ezekiel - especially in relationship to his misogyny? Looking for a more holistic resource on masculinities and theology? HERE IT IS MY FRIENDS!
me: people probably don't want this long rant on the Book of Esther & child sex trafficking, not festive for this holiday
so I'll just... do this fun translation tangent and...
go on about ancient contraceptives and say "cervix" & "menstruation" again & again?
cannot be taken anywhere can i
It has been a JOY to email back and forth with @theradr.bsky.social (thank you, @brownsmith.bsky.social!), and Rabbi included a little snippet of my forthcoming book in her recent House of Study!
The Scriptures Everywhere episode live from the #ISS26 annual meeting is up, and please join us next week on March 6 at 10am PT when we complement our conversations about #scriptures and #diaspora with a discussion of #citizenship. signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/
This looks incredible!!
Concentration camps with a shooting range.
We would love to publish your work @avartnp.bsky.social! If you have any questions, let me know!
Hi, friends. An FYI for those interested: I've published an article in JSP about Esther as "American scripture." Includes analysis of the Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" (2024) and its strategies for regulating free speech, higher education, immigration, and foreign policy.
New thoughts by me for @religiondispatches.org, responding to a NYT piece that (I think really wrongly) characterizes the Trump administration as doing "pagan," pre-Christian, or un-Christian activities
religiondispatches.org/2026/02/18/b...
📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.
Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.
Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
Including Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Andrei Aioanei, Guillaume de Vaulx d’Arcy, Stéphanie Anthonioz, Tammi Schneider, @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social, Martina Weingärtner, Gaël Carriou, Leah Cech, Daniela Gelbrich, Evangelia G. Dafni, Geneviève Gobillot, Cătălin Vatamanu, and Danilo Verde.
Got to my email this morning to see news that the edited volume, which had been in the works for YEARS, has a page on the publisher's site! www.ugarit-verlag.com/products/unh...
