Dr Emma Swai
@emmajoyswai.bsky.social
PhD Theology (Biblical Studies/Disability Studies).
Researches New Testament presentations of disability and intersections of identity.
Researches New Testament presentations of disability and intersections of identity.
Reposted by Dr Emma Swai
FTN advent reading group! Asynchronous, i.e. whenever in the day/week you like, so we can join together over different time zones without me messing up the clock... Totally shouting out to our members across the various oceans 😊
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
FTN advent reading group! Asynchronous, i.e. whenever in the day/week you like, so we can join together over different time zones without me messing up the clock... Totally shouting out to our members across the various oceans 😊
Just finished speaking with the online crew at @sthild.org - what a welcoming learning group. Had a fabulous time and they let me get on my soap box a bit! By the end of the teaching session I was pulling book recommendations off my shelf....
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just finished speaking with the online crew at @sthild.org - what a welcoming learning group. Had a fabulous time and they let me get on my soap box a bit! By the end of the teaching session I was pulling book recommendations off my shelf....
Julia Watts Belser was so good at Disability and Church last weekend, I sort of had to...
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Julia Watts Belser was so good at Disability and Church last weekend, I sort of had to...
That one really was for the girls 💪🏻 Second highest attendance at a rugby world cup final, men or women. 🌹
September 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
That one really was for the girls 💪🏻 Second highest attendance at a rugby world cup final, men or women. 🌹
September is IIH awareness month.
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
September is IIH awareness month.
Reposted by Dr Emma Swai
For an update of our upcoming events: mailchi.mp/cam/incredib...
Incredible line up of speakers at the next FTN events!
mailchi.mp
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For an update of our upcoming events: mailchi.mp/cam/incredib...
Reposted by Dr Emma Swai
Tickets acquired! This disabled-led conference on disability & church is the highlight of my year (& features prominently in my book with @emjric.bsky.social). Will be lovely to reunite with old friends for the first hybrid conference & first at St Martin’s since 2019. I’m preaching on the Sunday :)
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Tickets acquired! This disabled-led conference on disability & church is the highlight of my year (& features prominently in my book with @emjric.bsky.social). Will be lovely to reunite with old friends for the first hybrid conference & first at St Martin’s since 2019. I’m preaching on the Sunday :)
@siobhanjolley.bsky.social Guess what I got given to read on the journey home from #BNTS
September 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@siobhanjolley.bsky.social Guess what I got given to read on the journey home from #BNTS
Prepping the kiddos for back to school: "If anyone says there are no zombies in the Bible, they're lying..." Well, they did walk in as I was starting to pull together a conference workshop for October, so I am not sure what else they expected 🤷🏼♀️
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Prepping the kiddos for back to school: "If anyone says there are no zombies in the Bible, they're lying..." Well, they did walk in as I was starting to pull together a conference workshop for October, so I am not sure what else they expected 🤷🏼♀️
Excited to be part of this. Do take a look -
August 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Excited to be part of this. Do take a look -
Reposted by Dr Emma Swai
Oh we’ve got a fun few months coming up in the @feministtheology.bsky.social
Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...
#feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity
Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...
#feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity
August 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Oh we’ve got a fun few months coming up in the @feministtheology.bsky.social
Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...
#feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity
Sign up to the mailing list to get links to these events and more! mailchi.mp/a5e743737064...
#feminist #womanist #theology #community #christianity
I am genuinely excited to be helping students ask innovative questions which challenge perspectives in our field.
Dr Emma Swai is up next in our intro series. An educator for over two decades, her research interests look at the portrayal of disability in New Testament writings, linguistic analysis of ecclesiastical texts and positionality & interpretation. More info about Emma’s research in bio: buff.ly/kNk2CXB
August 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I am genuinely excited to be helping students ask innovative questions which challenge perspectives in our field.
Add NT studies, disability studies, a bit of feminism together, to animal studies, stir and "ta da"...
Yep, I still get excited at seeing my name printed on actual paper pages 😁
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...
Yep, I still get excited at seeing my name printed on actual paper pages 😁
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Add NT studies, disability studies, a bit of feminism together, to animal studies, stir and "ta da"...
Yep, I still get excited at seeing my name printed on actual paper pages 😁
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...
Yep, I still get excited at seeing my name printed on actual paper pages 😁
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/animals-i...
Reposted by Dr Emma Swai
Just a reminder that if you haven’t already joined the Feminist Theology Network and want to be part of a supportive, inclusive, vibrant place for feminist & womanist research, you can do so here mailchi.mp/a5e743737064... @feministtheology.bsky.social #feminist #theology #womanist #community
Feminist Theology Network
mailchi.mp
August 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just a reminder that if you haven’t already joined the Feminist Theology Network and want to be part of a supportive, inclusive, vibrant place for feminist & womanist research, you can do so here mailchi.mp/a5e743737064... @feministtheology.bsky.social #feminist #theology #womanist #community
When you turn up to your hospital appointment and realise you have accidentally coordinated your clothing and your reading... A hastily thrown on FTN t-shirt and the book you grabbed from the desk as the cab arrived...
July 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When you turn up to your hospital appointment and realise you have accidentally coordinated your clothing and your reading... A hastily thrown on FTN t-shirt and the book you grabbed from the desk as the cab arrived...
Excited to share this upcoming volume. My perspective has changed somewhat with experience and David gave me space in this collection to write about it.
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...
@drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
www.routledge.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Excited to share this upcoming volume. My perspective has changed somewhat with experience and David gave me space in this collection to write about it.
An SCM sale is always "dangerous"... but the kiddos might have just got me these for my birthday 😉 Ordered Tuesday, arrived today - am set up for summer reading!
July 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
An SCM sale is always "dangerous"... but the kiddos might have just got me these for my birthday 😉 Ordered Tuesday, arrived today - am set up for summer reading!
Today was the first day I woke up with the knowledge that people are prepared to present your ideas as their own. Naive perhaps, but I had enjoyed the bubble of academic innocence for a while at least.
July 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Today was the first day I woke up with the knowledge that people are prepared to present your ideas as their own. Naive perhaps, but I had enjoyed the bubble of academic innocence for a while at least.
So Loose Women might get slated a lot, but I was reading Laura Bates' book at the GPs and this elderly lady struck up a conversation with me about AI and sexism on the back of her Loose Women interview: youtu.be/J8plVS73veA?...
The Shocking Reality of AI, Online Sexism, Deepfakes & More! | Loose Women
YouTube video by Loose Women
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So Loose Women might get slated a lot, but I was reading Laura Bates' book at the GPs and this elderly lady struck up a conversation with me about AI and sexism on the back of her Loose Women interview: youtu.be/J8plVS73veA?...
So my profile is now up and running for prospective postgraduate students wanting to study disability and biblical studies/theology, amongst other things 😁
www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...
www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...
Dr Emma Swai - Westcott House
Associate Supervisor
www.westcott.cam.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So my profile is now up and running for prospective postgraduate students wanting to study disability and biblical studies/theology, amongst other things 😁
www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...
www.westcott.cam.ac.uk/about-us/who...
Horrifying but incredibly powerful. Absolutely needs to be read by, like, everyone. Bates is sounding a warning call before it's too late... and we really, really need to listen.
May 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Horrifying but incredibly powerful. Absolutely needs to be read by, like, everyone. Bates is sounding a warning call before it's too late... and we really, really need to listen.
Reposted by Dr Emma Swai
Date for your diary: 28th May 2025, 7pm BST
May 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Date for your diary: 28th May 2025, 7pm BST
@melissacmtan.bsky.social , guess we best get writing that paper we proposed for BNTS in September 😉
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@melissacmtan.bsky.social , guess we best get writing that paper we proposed for BNTS in September 😉