Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

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tired professor, podcaster, parent. enthusiastic killjoy. decent friend. drama & drag & bad movie fan. she/her.

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We need the higher ed media to better describe what's at stake here. These are not "reforms," they're an authoritarian takeover. They're not "bold" or "sweeping," they're undemocratic and fascist. These aren't normal policy recommendations, they're a dismantling of higher education!

How Project 2025 could radically reshape higher edwww.insidehighered.com The sweeping conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration would dismantle the Education Department, privatize student loans and end all ongoing Title IX investigations. Critics say it’s a ...

if, like me, you need breaks so we can keep fighting may I recommend Broomgate a delightfully Canadian sports scandal open.spotify.com/show/4CK0YyE...

Broomgate: A Curling Scandalopen.spotify.com Listen to Broomgate: A Curling Scandal on Spotify. For years, players have been too afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth about a broom that almost destroyed curling is finally coming out.Over t...

if you’re shocked by project 2025, Mazel tov You’ve been benefiting from religious illiteracy a thing some of us* have been arguing is a deep privilege for white mostly Xtian folks for some time now read up, pay attention: white Xtian nationalism is and has always been the threat of our time

one hot look around will tell you insufficiently understanding religion is dangerous grab our book—fittingly (?) out on Guy Fawkes Day, 5 November!!—wherever you get books (but @mpgphd.bsky.social & I suggest your local shop!) bookshop.org/p/books/reli...

Religion Is Not Done with You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law a book by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Megan Goodwinbookshop.org A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us -and why you need to understand the work it's doing Religion lurks in the ...

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@profirmf.bsky.social and I had our first meeting with the marketing and promotion team and we are SO STOKED for y'all to see this book #RINDWY is available for pre-order wherever fine books are sold (and also Amazon et al, sigh) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...

Religion Is Not Done with You by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Megan Goodwin: 9780807012758 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Bookswww.penguinrandomhouse.com A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us –and why you need to understand the work it's doing Religion...

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we all understand that it's not if but when a cop kills a student protester, right?

What. The. Fuck.

hey religion nerds please check out and sign if you -are against genocide -are against definitions of antisemitism that are inherently antisemitic -think our guild orgs should be the leading voices when we have crucial expertise to correct public discourse docs.google.com/forms/d/1WGY...

Scholars of Religion Against Genocide and the Weaponization of Antisemitismdocs.google.com We, scholars and educators of Religion, Religious Studies, and adjacent fields, write to express our support and solidarity with students, faculty, and staff peacefully protesting the Israeli governme...

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Oh my God it’s some sort of Indoctrination Machine

real over The Discourse™️ insisting the history doesn’t matter since we need solutions now careful histories do not *fix* our current contexts they help us cultivate facts, empathy, and a sense that we, too, can shape our futures — that these are not predestined outcomes thx, an historian

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I am thrilled to share that the incredible @ddelgadovive.bsky.social has written an extraordinary guest post over at Life is a Sacred Text on the claim we hear sometimes about Jews being Indigenous. It’s one of the most thoughtful things I’ve read in a while—and so worth your time.

"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs Inwww.lifeisasacredtext.com Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

if you’re not with students, bye

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Spent the day writing about the overlap between local cops and white supremacists who together tried to crush civil rights activism in 1960s Mississippi, and then I came on social media to enjoy all the progress we’ve made since then

At every single protest I’ve been to, the police have, without exception, lined up with the neo-Nazis at their backs, and only advanced on the protestors.

some of our colleagues are out getting arrested to protect free speech and their students & some of them are unwilling to mention a single current event in a classroom be the colleague I want

this is a trash statement

NEWS The White House has issued a statement on the situation at Columbia University:

showing up with many matzah balls to our family-centered, antizionist Seder tomorrow the freedom of some cannot rely on the unfreedom of others dayenu

kicked off my three week unit on reproductive healthcare and religion with a BANGER this week

Houston? We have a cover. www.beacon.org/Religion-Is-...

Beacon Press: Religion Is Not Done With You www.beacon.org

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Same, sister.

I am so goddamn exhausted with living through history.

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It would be so easy for universities not to be fascist shitbags but here we are, they keep making that choice

maybe the organization responsible for pedo rings & the baby trade & native residential schools should watch its mouth on “human dignity”

The Vatican has released a new document on human dignity in which it says surrogacy, gender theory and abortion are among the "grave threats" to the human condition.

The Vatican says surrogacy and gender theory are 'grave threats' to human dignitywww.npr.org A document called

totality = the birds did stop singing and the mosquitos did come out and people did set off fireworks bc if the sun is gonna get a shadow on it, surely we also need to explode stuff

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Me watching the news: the carceral state is a disgusting blight on human kind Me watching Face/Off: I Want To Go To Magnet Prison

teaching kids two truths and a lie is a+ comedy

before y’all crack open the Megillah, crack into this jewishcurrents.org/facing-amale...

Facing Amalekjewishcurrents.org Reading the biblical injunction to genocide amid a genocide

I will never remember if “pitted” means “we took those pits out” or “look out! pits!”

nowruz mubarak!

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1,800 cops charged with child sexual abuse in the last two decades, targeting mainly teen girls they encountered as a part of their work, according to the Washington Post. The Post leads with the story of a teen girl assaulted by a cop who was processing her rape kit from a different assault.

www.mynbc5.com/article/verm...

Vermont communities celebrate Ramadan while reflecting on the war in the Middle Eastwww.mynbc5.com As the war continues, recent ceasefire negotiations to avoid violence during the holy month have stalled, with Israeli strikes continuing to hit Gaza.

do people outside of the NY metro order coffee light and sweet? asking for a deeply important group chat