Bringing back all the vibes of joining twitter in 2014, here’s an intro: I’m a medieval historian who studies gender in 15th century sermons & a Baptist pastor’s wife. In 2021 my 2 lives collided when I wrote a surprise national bestseller #MakingBiblicalWomanhood www.newyorker.com/news/on-reli...

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You’ll be shocked - <shocked> - that when the NYT finally bothered to get around to covering the most important higher education story in the country, that they framed it entirely around the stale Narrative™️ of what majors/degrees are vocationally useful.

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How important is the care and feeding of the #imagination! Imagination is a world as real and as unavoidable as the physical world around us. The quality of our individual imagination affects how we encounter the world. The quality of our collective imagination determines the world we encounter.

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Other countries have safety nets. The US has women. Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net. Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

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Re-upping this story on how Tulane has affirmative action admissions criteria for male applicants. Edward Blum has not launched any lawsuits against them yet to my knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/m...

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