Paul Hoard
@paulhoard.bsky.social
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Today I am dropping the first of my brother @paulhoard.bsky.social 's Essay in his Lacanian Virtue Ethics Series. I plan to post Paul's essays (with a little additional commentary from me at the end) as my Friday posts for a while.
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Freedom to Want: Desire and the Self-Help Illusion
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November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Today I am dropping the first of my brother @paulhoard.bsky.social 's Essay in his Lacanian Virtue Ethics Series. I plan to post Paul's essays (with a little additional commentary from me at the end) as my Friday posts for a while.
open.spotify.com/episode/798d...
open.spotify.com/episode/798d...
paulhoard.substack.com/p/not-whole-...
A short essay on Lacan and humility
A short essay on Lacan and humility
Not Whole, Not Seen: Humility Beyond the Other’s Gaze
A Short Essay
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October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A short essay on Lacan and humility
A short essay on Lacan and humility
New essay on fidelity and friendship just dropped.
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Stabbing the Image: Hegel, Lacan, and the Virtue of Fidelity
A Short Essay
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October 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New essay on fidelity and friendship just dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar...
open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar...
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Had a couple of really good conversations now with @paulhoard.bsky.social and @billieiswriting.bsky.social regarding their new book, Eucontamination. This one is focused more on the Bible and theology.
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SPECIAL: Eucontamination and Disgust Theology: Billie Hoard and Dr. Paul Hoard
Podcast Episode · Does the Bible say THAT?!? · 10/14/2025 · 1h 13m
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October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Had a couple of really good conversations now with @paulhoard.bsky.social and @billieiswriting.bsky.social regarding their new book, Eucontamination. This one is focused more on the Bible and theology.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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“For if we ever fully belonged—if we were completed—we would lose the very condition that makes love possible.”
A thoughtful, provocative essay.
It prompted this in me: loving my community is sorta like loving my own body — it isn’t perfect; it’s mine & I accept it even as I try to improve it.
A thoughtful, provocative essay.
It prompted this in me: loving my community is sorta like loving my own body — it isn’t perfect; it’s mine & I accept it even as I try to improve it.
October 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“For if we ever fully belonged—if we were completed—we would lose the very condition that makes love possible.”
A thoughtful, provocative essay.
It prompted this in me: loving my community is sorta like loving my own body — it isn’t perfect; it’s mine & I accept it even as I try to improve it.
A thoughtful, provocative essay.
It prompted this in me: loving my community is sorta like loving my own body — it isn’t perfect; it’s mine & I accept it even as I try to improve it.
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As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
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Eucontamination Ch. 2
(because this is apparently what I'm doing this weekend 😄)
"Disgust is not so much about inherent qualities of an object, person, or group but about the concern they create around contamination. Nothing is *inherently* disgusting."
(because this is apparently what I'm doing this weekend 😄)
"Disgust is not so much about inherent qualities of an object, person, or group but about the concern they create around contamination. Nothing is *inherently* disgusting."
Eucontamination Ch. 1
Very smart. Many words. Much dense. overheated-brain.gif
[Inserts "I'm joking" disclaimer before @billieiswriting.bsky.social throws me out for immediately complaining about her book. I will write some about the actual chapter.]
Very smart. Many words. Much dense. overheated-brain.gif
[Inserts "I'm joking" disclaimer before @billieiswriting.bsky.social throws me out for immediately complaining about her book. I will write some about the actual chapter.]
Eucontamination Intro
"Our liminal position left us in a near-permanent tension between us and them...
What we found most impactful in this space of being the other was our friendships and not our arguments...
This all began to make more sense once we started exploring the psychology of disgust..."
"Our liminal position left us in a near-permanent tension between us and them...
What we found most impactful in this space of being the other was our friendships and not our arguments...
This all began to make more sense once we started exploring the psychology of disgust..."
September 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Eucontamination Ch. 2
(because this is apparently what I'm doing this weekend 😄)
"Disgust is not so much about inherent qualities of an object, person, or group but about the concern they create around contamination. Nothing is *inherently* disgusting."
(because this is apparently what I'm doing this weekend 😄)
"Disgust is not so much about inherent qualities of an object, person, or group but about the concern they create around contamination. Nothing is *inherently* disgusting."
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All that to say, yeah. Disgust doesn't care about logic, and it is a powerful motivator. To deal with any of these messes we're in, we're going to have to undermine the disgust reaction, so thank you to Paul and Billie for jumping into the work.
September 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
All that to say, yeah. Disgust doesn't care about logic, and it is a powerful motivator. To deal with any of these messes we're in, we're going to have to undermine the disgust reaction, so thank you to Paul and Billie for jumping into the work.
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Oh my gosh I love this so much!
Eucontamination Ch. 1
Very smart. Many words. Much dense. overheated-brain.gif
[Inserts "I'm joking" disclaimer before @billieiswriting.bsky.social throws me out for immediately complaining about her book. I will write some about the actual chapter.]
Very smart. Many words. Much dense. overheated-brain.gif
[Inserts "I'm joking" disclaimer before @billieiswriting.bsky.social throws me out for immediately complaining about her book. I will write some about the actual chapter.]
Eucontamination Intro
"Our liminal position left us in a near-permanent tension between us and them...
What we found most impactful in this space of being the other was our friendships and not our arguments...
This all began to make more sense once we started exploring the psychology of disgust..."
"Our liminal position left us in a near-permanent tension between us and them...
What we found most impactful in this space of being the other was our friendships and not our arguments...
This all began to make more sense once we started exploring the psychology of disgust..."
September 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Oh my gosh I love this so much!
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For the record, the technical term for language spoken or written without regard for the truth, designed only to shape the listener's/reader's imagined reality in a particular way is "bullshit".
@paulhoard.bsky.social and I wrote about that (building on Frankfurt) in our book.
@paulhoard.bsky.social and I wrote about that (building on Frankfurt) in our book.
September 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For the record, the technical term for language spoken or written without regard for the truth, designed only to shape the listener's/reader's imagined reality in a particular way is "bullshit".
@paulhoard.bsky.social and I wrote about that (building on Frankfurt) in our book.
@paulhoard.bsky.social and I wrote about that (building on Frankfurt) in our book.
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If you wait to decide until the federal government calls the question, the temptation to justify making the "safe" decision will be overwhelming.
As my brother writes: integrity requires commitment to the unfinished and uncertain; reject the fantasy of security.
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As my brother writes: integrity requires commitment to the unfinished and uncertain; reject the fantasy of security.
open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar...
6/
Integrity and the Fantasy of Wholeness
A Short Essay
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September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you wait to decide until the federal government calls the question, the temptation to justify making the "safe" decision will be overwhelming.
As my brother writes: integrity requires commitment to the unfinished and uncertain; reject the fantasy of security.
open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar...
6/
As my brother writes: integrity requires commitment to the unfinished and uncertain; reject the fantasy of security.
open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar...
6/
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"Authoritarianism treats critique not as feedback, but as infection."
This line makes my mind go to the theology of disgust that @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social talk about in their book.....
This line makes my mind go to the theology of disgust that @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social talk about in their book.....
September 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"Authoritarianism treats critique not as feedback, but as infection."
This line makes my mind go to the theology of disgust that @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social talk about in their book.....
This line makes my mind go to the theology of disgust that @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social talk about in their book.....
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"Courage is the risk of fidelity when fantasy fails—the act that carries us further than fear would allow, without any guarantee that it will make us whole."
Y'all need to stop sleeping on the 🔥 my brother has been writing.
Y'all need to stop sleeping on the 🔥 my brother has been writing.
September 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"Courage is the risk of fidelity when fantasy fails—the act that carries us further than fear would allow, without any guarantee that it will make us whole."
Y'all need to stop sleeping on the 🔥 my brother has been writing.
Y'all need to stop sleeping on the 🔥 my brother has been writing.
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In our book "Eucontamination" @paulhoard.bsky.social and I talk about the Disgust cycle [nausea—trigger—vomit—rationalize] which drives social expulsion at every level from stigma to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
These folks are so thirsty to make a trigger stick!
1/4
These folks are so thirsty to make a trigger stick!
1/4
Rufo calling for mass arrests, Blake Masters & Cernovich calling for RICO against Dem & left funders, and a whole lot of everyday people begging for martial law, or, even worse, "gloves off." 99.9% of whom are just spouting off, but today if anything teaches us the damage that one .1% fool can do.
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In our book "Eucontamination" @paulhoard.bsky.social and I talk about the Disgust cycle [nausea—trigger—vomit—rationalize] which drives social expulsion at every level from stigma to ethnic cleansing and genocide.
These folks are so thirsty to make a trigger stick!
1/4
These folks are so thirsty to make a trigger stick!
1/4
Excited to be presenting with @billieiswriting.bsky.social, @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social, and @orthoparadoxy.bsky.social at Theology Beer Camp this October!
September 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Excited to be presenting with @billieiswriting.bsky.social, @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social, and @orthoparadoxy.bsky.social at Theology Beer Camp this October!
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Yay! Trans woman interviewing another trans woman (and my "token cis" brother @paulhoard.bsky.social ) about our scholarship! Check it out!
New interview is up! Go check it out - Billie and Paul are brilliant (you already know that) and I loved learning from them. Second half of the interview will be out soon!
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Eucontamination and Disgust: Billie and Paul Hoard
YouTube video by Celestial Navigation
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September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yay! Trans woman interviewing another trans woman (and my "token cis" brother @paulhoard.bsky.social ) about our scholarship! Check it out!
This was fun. Love working with my sister!
Eeek! I feel like a real author! @paulhoard.bsky.social and I will be presenting on the subversive power of Queer joy at 1:00 tomorrow and then signing books at 2:00 at Wild Goose!
August 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This was fun. Love working with my sister!
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Eeek! I feel like a real author! @paulhoard.bsky.social and I will be presenting on the subversive power of Queer joy at 1:00 tomorrow and then signing books at 2:00 at Wild Goose!
August 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Eeek! I feel like a real author! @paulhoard.bsky.social and I will be presenting on the subversive power of Queer joy at 1:00 tomorrow and then signing books at 2:00 at Wild Goose!
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Welcome to a very special episode of @queerpolifaith.bsky.social! Today, I am interviewing @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social about the book #Eucontamination Disgust Theology and the Christian Life which came out on August 1.
We start off by discussing what eucontamination is
We start off by discussing what eucontamination is
August 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Welcome to a very special episode of @queerpolifaith.bsky.social! Today, I am interviewing @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social about the book #Eucontamination Disgust Theology and the Christian Life which came out on August 1.
We start off by discussing what eucontamination is
We start off by discussing what eucontamination is