@learnedfoote.bsky.social
College visiting assistant professor. Emphases in religion, Tibetan Buddhism, gender, queer theory
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Meeting the Lady of the Skies | QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion | Duke University Press
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Available open access: my article on Tibetan Buddhist life writing and trans / queer studies.
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
CFP: Queer & Trans Studies in Religion, Feb. 13-15!
Zoom or in-person. Deadline is Nov. 25.
(CFP: tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2)
I'm proposing a panel on trans/queer methods in Asian Studies (across India, Thailand & China so far). There's room for 1-2 more panelists, so let me know if you're interested!
Zoom or in-person. Deadline is Nov. 25.
(CFP: tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2)
I'm proposing a panel on trans/queer methods in Asian Studies (across India, Thailand & China so far). There's room for 1-2 more panelists, so let me know if you're interested!
QTSR 2026 CFP.pdf
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November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
CFP: Queer & Trans Studies in Religion, Feb. 13-15!
Zoom or in-person. Deadline is Nov. 25.
(CFP: tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2)
I'm proposing a panel on trans/queer methods in Asian Studies (across India, Thailand & China so far). There's room for 1-2 more panelists, so let me know if you're interested!
Zoom or in-person. Deadline is Nov. 25.
(CFP: tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2)
I'm proposing a panel on trans/queer methods in Asian Studies (across India, Thailand & China so far). There's room for 1-2 more panelists, so let me know if you're interested!
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friends, did you know that the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference, hosted by UC Riverside in mid-February, is still on?
the deadline for submissions has been extended to November 25!
Check out the CFP at this link:
tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2
the deadline for submissions has been extended to November 25!
Check out the CFP at this link:
tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2
QTSR 2026 CFP.pdf
tinyurl.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
friends, did you know that the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference, hosted by UC Riverside in mid-February, is still on?
the deadline for submissions has been extended to November 25!
Check out the CFP at this link:
tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2
the deadline for submissions has been extended to November 25!
Check out the CFP at this link:
tinyurl.com/3pwjz5c2
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Excited to see the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion come out today! I've got a co-authored chapter in it on trans ritual and so many of the other chapters look amazing! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion
This handbook offers a unique, high-quality resource for exploring queer and trans studies in religion, guiding readers through new insights
link.springer.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Excited to see the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion come out today! I've got a co-authored chapter in it on trans ritual and so many of the other chapters look amazing! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
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my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.
so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.
so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.
Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions
Abstract. Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature
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October 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.
so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.
so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.
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I’m excited to share that, together with Tim Thurston, I have translated 11 Amdo Tibetan comedic performances known as Khashag. The book has just been published by Open Book Publishers as part of their World Oral Literature series. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Careful Village and Other 'Khashag' from Tibet: The Amdo Comedies of Menla Jyab
This volume offers a unique glimpse into the world of khashag, a vibrant genre of Tibetan spoken comic dialogues from the area Tibetans call Amdo, with the first ever publication of 11 annotated trans...
www.openbookpublishers.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I’m excited to share that, together with Tim Thurston, I have translated 11 Amdo Tibetan comedic performances known as Khashag. The book has just been published by Open Book Publishers as part of their World Oral Literature series. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Minnesota shooting suspect had a list of dozens of potential Democratic targets, prosecutors say
All of the politicians named in his writing were Democrats, including more than 45 state and federal officials in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Another school shooting happened today, bringing the total to 47 school shootings in total this year. Will it ever end?
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Another school shooting happened today, bringing the total to 47 school shootings in total this year. Will it ever end?
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“Political violence” doesn’t just mean vigilantes shooting political candidates or activists (which, to be clear, I strongly oppose). ICE disappearing people is also political violence. Police shootings are also political violence. Bombings are political violence.
September 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“Political violence” doesn’t just mean vigilantes shooting political candidates or activists (which, to be clear, I strongly oppose). ICE disappearing people is also political violence. Police shootings are also political violence. Bombings are political violence.
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Some of you are about to find out what your fantasies of violent revolution are going to lead to.
This will lead to nothing but darkness, but too many people confuse hurting an enemy with actually achieving a goal and solving a problem. It's an issue that plagues all identities and communities.
This will lead to nothing but darkness, but too many people confuse hurting an enemy with actually achieving a goal and solving a problem. It's an issue that plagues all identities and communities.
September 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Some of you are about to find out what your fantasies of violent revolution are going to lead to.
This will lead to nothing but darkness, but too many people confuse hurting an enemy with actually achieving a goal and solving a problem. It's an issue that plagues all identities and communities.
This will lead to nothing but darkness, but too many people confuse hurting an enemy with actually achieving a goal and solving a problem. It's an issue that plagues all identities and communities.
Available open access: my article on Tibetan Buddhist life writing and trans / queer studies.
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
Meeting the Lady of the Skies | QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
September 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Available open access: my article on Tibetan Buddhist life writing and trans / queer studies.
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/article/...
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It’s here!
The latest issue of QTR just dropped!
What an incredible line-up of articles by @learnedfoote.bsky.social, El Ambrose, @chancebonar.bsky.social, plus…
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/issue/2/1
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The latest issue of QTR just dropped!
What an incredible line-up of articles by @learnedfoote.bsky.social, El Ambrose, @chancebonar.bsky.social, plus…
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/issue/2/1
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Volume 2 Issue 1 | QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
June 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It’s here!
The latest issue of QTR just dropped!
What an incredible line-up of articles by @learnedfoote.bsky.social, El Ambrose, @chancebonar.bsky.social, plus…
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/issue/2/1
1/3
The latest issue of QTR just dropped!
What an incredible line-up of articles by @learnedfoote.bsky.social, El Ambrose, @chancebonar.bsky.social, plus…
read.dukeupress.edu/qtr/issue/2/1
1/3
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check out this incredible conversation Katy Valentine had w/ Joy Ladin on the latest episode of the Trans Biblical podcast @katyvalentine.bsky.social + @joyladin.bsky.social
Joy’s essay in our collection is an indispensable entree into trans readings of biblical texts!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEK...
Joy’s essay in our collection is an indispensable entree into trans readings of biblical texts!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEK...
Rewriting the Binary: Joy Ladin’s Guide to Trans Biblical Reading #transgender #transbiblical
YouTube video by Katy Valentine
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May 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
check out this incredible conversation Katy Valentine had w/ Joy Ladin on the latest episode of the Trans Biblical podcast @katyvalentine.bsky.social + @joyladin.bsky.social
Joy’s essay in our collection is an indispensable entree into trans readings of biblical texts!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEK...
Joy’s essay in our collection is an indispensable entree into trans readings of biblical texts!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEK...
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And they keep telling me Gender Studies is a useless academic discipline: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Orthodox Christianity: Young US men joining 'masculine' Russian churches
A religion with traditions dating back centuries is attracting young American men.
www.bbc.com
May 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
And they keep telling me Gender Studies is a useless academic discipline: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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hey friends, you can now pre-order my element.
and if you don’t want to pre-order, don’t worry! it’ll be free for download for about two weeks after publication.
and if you don’t want to pre-order, don’t worry! it’ll be free for download for about two weeks after publication.
Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
May 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
hey friends, you can now pre-order my element.
and if you don’t want to pre-order, don’t worry! it’ll be free for download for about two weeks after publication.
and if you don’t want to pre-order, don’t worry! it’ll be free for download for about two weeks after publication.
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Heard of the Ḍākinīs' Great Dharma Treasury (མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ།), a 53-volume collection published in 2017 to showcase writing by and about female Buddhist masters?
Learn more in this introduction by Professors Sarah Jacoby & Padma 'tsho: www.lotsawahouse.org/topics/dakin...
Learn more in this introduction by Professors Sarah Jacoby & Padma 'tsho: www.lotsawahouse.org/topics/dakin...
April 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Heard of the Ḍākinīs' Great Dharma Treasury (མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ།), a 53-volume collection published in 2017 to showcase writing by and about female Buddhist masters?
Learn more in this introduction by Professors Sarah Jacoby & Padma 'tsho: www.lotsawahouse.org/topics/dakin...
Learn more in this introduction by Professors Sarah Jacoby & Padma 'tsho: www.lotsawahouse.org/topics/dakin...
Meeting the Lady of the Skies: Trans and Queer Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Life Writings
Proofs for my article, coming out open-access this May in A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion!
Proofs for my article, coming out open-access this May in A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion!
March 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Meeting the Lady of the Skies: Trans and Queer Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Life Writings
Proofs for my article, coming out open-access this May in A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion!
Proofs for my article, coming out open-access this May in A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion!
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Proofs time for QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion!
Check the table of contents for all of this fabulous forthcoming work from @learnedfoote.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @max3000.bsky.social, @melissamwilcox.bsky.social and so many others!
From @dukepress.bsky.social
Check the table of contents for all of this fabulous forthcoming work from @learnedfoote.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @max3000.bsky.social, @melissamwilcox.bsky.social and so many others!
From @dukepress.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Proofs time for QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion!
Check the table of contents for all of this fabulous forthcoming work from @learnedfoote.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @max3000.bsky.social, @melissamwilcox.bsky.social and so many others!
From @dukepress.bsky.social
Check the table of contents for all of this fabulous forthcoming work from @learnedfoote.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @max3000.bsky.social, @melissamwilcox.bsky.social and so many others!
From @dukepress.bsky.social
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“philosophy departments should own up to what they’re actually teaching. If they refuse to engage with non-Western traditions, the most honest thing they could do is stop pretending and rebrand as “Departments of European and American Philosophy.” 👏👏👏
APA members Bryan Van Norden and Jay Garfield are among the philosophers whose work is discussed in this @bigthink.com article challenging the Western focus of academic philosophy.
Is philosophy too Western for its own good?
Whether we should tear down philosophy’s Berlin Wall and let East and West finally merge depends entirely on what we think philosophy is.
bigthink.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“philosophy departments should own up to what they’re actually teaching. If they refuse to engage with non-Western traditions, the most honest thing they could do is stop pretending and rebrand as “Departments of European and American Philosophy.” 👏👏👏
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Lee Bollinger (Columbia's former president): "We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government."
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
‘We’re in the Midst of an Authoritarian Takeover’
Lee Bollinger on Trump, Columbia, and why capitulation won’t work.
www.chronicle.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Lee Bollinger (Columbia's former president): "We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government."
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Listen this IS in fact how it’s done.
Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum.
Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.
Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum.
Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
March 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Listen this IS in fact how it’s done.
Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum.
Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.
Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum.
Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.
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NEW: “For higher education to survive the current onslaught, it must fight,” writes PEN America’s @jeremycyoung.bsky.social. “Nothing on a college campus is more worth fighting for than the freedom of ideas from government control.” Read more @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/hand...
Opinion | Hands Off Higher Ed!
The sector is at war. It’s time to fight harder.
www.chronicle.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
NEW: “For higher education to survive the current onslaught, it must fight,” writes PEN America’s @jeremycyoung.bsky.social. “Nothing on a college campus is more worth fighting for than the freedom of ideas from government control.” Read more @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/hand...
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Woodworking, my debut novel about what happens when your 17-year-old student becomes your trans mom, much to her disgust, is out TOMORROW! You can order it at the link below!
But I thought I would shout out a few other books by the trans femmes I really love in this 🧵!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
But I thought I would shout out a few other books by the trans femmes I really love in this 🧵!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
Woodworking
Check out Woodworking - <p><b>"Big-hearted and hilarious, an ode to authenticity and a must-read in our current times." --Shelby Van Pelt, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Remarkably Bri...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Woodworking, my debut novel about what happens when your 17-year-old student becomes your trans mom, much to her disgust, is out TOMORROW! You can order it at the link below!
But I thought I would shout out a few other books by the trans femmes I really love in this 🧵!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
But I thought I would shout out a few other books by the trans femmes I really love in this 🧵!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
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![Blue and pink graphic that reads: YOU are invited to Resisting Anti-Trans & Anti-Queer
“Bible Bashing” in These Times
An online strategizing and resource-sharing session for LGBTQIA2S+
and affirming clergy, educators, and community leaders.
March 4 @ 4-5:30 pm (ET)
Facilitated by Karri Alldredge (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago) and
Lynn R. Huber (Elon University [no relation to the other Elon])
Bring an idea to share (e.g., social media resource, letter template, sermon
language, gathering idea) if you have one. Come if you need some!
We will have folx there prepared to share.
Included QR code but link will be in response.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ultefl2uf4af75jsmxunvjqm/bafkreif2sd2t4towo5qxafleebnpdmnbceqgwqujuqwfe3mrz6yt5hdaqy@jpeg)
February 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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