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Joseph A Marchal
@jamarchal.bsky.social
author, Appalling Bodies (OUP)

co-editor, Trans Biblical (WJK)

founding co-editor, QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion

counter-kyriarchal killjoy

professor, religious studies + women’s and gender studies

a bit of a mess here
Proofs day!
Disidentifying Letters and a Sense of the Assemblies: On Munoz’s Approaches and Affects

coming soon in the next issue of Bible and Critical Theory, thanks to @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social,
Peter Anthony Mena, @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social, Rob Seesengood, and some generous reviewers!
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
And then good friends show a whole other kind of generosity upon their return from Wisconsin!
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
timeline cleanse
(someone likes me enough to give me flowers)
October 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Check out this online workshop on trans affirming approaches to the Bible, built around *Trans Biblical* and featuring the creditors Melissa Harl Sellew, Katy Valentine, and myself!
Coming up in just a couple of weeks!
September 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tis the reason for the season — don’t forget labor movements and join a union today!
September 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
trying to rally myself for the first day back to classes
August 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Institute for Signifying Scriptures is opening up a new, free virtual seminar format, #Scriptures Everywhere. Go to www.signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/ to sign up and join, starting Sept 5, 1 pm EST/10 am PST

Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon as a conversation partner on scriptures and memory.
August 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
still have so much more writing and revising to do, but rather excited to get a copy of Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteny’s *Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration* today!
August 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
art break on a sweltering afternoon, with some wondrous works by Alma Thomas
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
if you haven’t read, and are at all inclined, i just finished Jamie Hood’s *Trauma Plot: A Life* and it’s incredible
July 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
queer consolation in otherwise harrowing times: getting physical copies of the latest issue of QTR!

Cover featuring the work of Darryl DeAngelo Terrell brought to you by our creative submissions editors Amina Shumake and Jeanine Viau
July 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Marsha! At the beach!
June 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Looking away from this latest horrible news, and seeing these reminders (including this lovely bookmark from my reading group), so:

if you’re also at all lucky, do whatever you can to support trans and gender expansive young people, today and tomorrow and as early and as often as possible
June 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
starter stack for my early summer beach reading!
May 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
the list of summer reading treats growing with the arrival of @tourmaliiine.bsky.social
Tourmaline’s long-awaited biography of Marsha P. Johnson!
May 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
new, still ambivalent headshot dropped
May 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
An important reminder any day, but particularly feeling its need today
May 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
a bittersweet graduation day, made better by the company of extraordinary colleagues like Matthew Hotham @mrhotham.bsky.social
and Sarah Vitale
@sarahvit82.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
sparkly shoes and salty snacks!
ready-set-go for the last class meeting of Sex and the Bible!
April 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
though annoyed at the demand for yet another annual report, grateful to be reminded of all of these incredible, long simmering collaborations coming to fruition just since the previous April 15!
w/ @kdrussaw.bsky.social @melissamwilcox.bsky.social Melissa Harl Sellew, & @katyvalentine.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s official! No foolin
Trans Biblical is HERE!!!

Please consider ordering a copy for your library, at a local bookstore, or from
Westminster John Knox Press @wjkbooks.com

Check out there with a 40% discount code: TRANSBIBLICAL40

Link: www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...
April 2, 2025 at 4:10 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
March 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
at last…
March 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Trans Biblical is coming soon!
Available to preorder today from Westminster John Knox Press @wjkbooks.bsky.social !

at www.wjkbooks.com/Products/066...
March 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
after a rollercoaster of a week, grateful for a little calm, my local bookstore Irvington Vinyl & Books, and a chance to start Torrey Peters’ new collection!
March 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM