Jenn Ortegren
@jennortegren.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Religion at Middlebury College; Hinduism, Islam in India, ethnography, gender, and class. Author of *Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism.* Most skeets sarcastic.
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What you can do right now, universities’ edition (part 1): support faculty (and programs and therefore students) targeted for cuts
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An Appeal from the Department of Religious Studies at University of Oregon - AAR
A Note from the RSN Editor Religion scholars are currently facing numerous challenges, including issues of academic freedom and censorship, diminished budgets, department mergers and closures, job los...
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August 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What you can do right now, universities’ edition (part 1): support faculty (and programs and therefore students) targeted for cuts
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White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism.
"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.
"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.
Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif
Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.
www.aljazeera.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism.
"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.
"We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.
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I was too young to comprehend the larger geopolitical context in which it unfolded, but some of the most glaring memories from my childhood were images of the famine in Somalia.
It's heartbreaking that the hell unfolding in Sudan now is barely being mentioned by the media.
It's heartbreaking that the hell unfolding in Sudan now is barely being mentioned by the media.
Starvation is also being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. Famine and death is on the rise and largely absent from the media.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Sudan gripped by deadly crisis as hunger, disease and heat intensify
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Wednesday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.
news.un.org
August 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I was too young to comprehend the larger geopolitical context in which it unfolded, but some of the most glaring memories from my childhood were images of the famine in Somalia.
It's heartbreaking that the hell unfolding in Sudan now is barely being mentioned by the media.
It's heartbreaking that the hell unfolding in Sudan now is barely being mentioned by the media.
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
April 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
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“In March, @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and fellow prof @ryanenos.bsky.social authored a letter, co-signed by 800 colleagues, calling on Harvard to defend itself and academic freedom more broadly by mounting ‘a coordinated opposition to anti-democratic attacks.’
Their pressure seems to have helped…”
Their pressure seems to have helped…”
This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump
Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.
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April 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“In March, @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and fellow prof @ryanenos.bsky.social authored a letter, co-signed by 800 colleagues, calling on Harvard to defend itself and academic freedom more broadly by mounting ‘a coordinated opposition to anti-democratic attacks.’
Their pressure seems to have helped…”
Their pressure seems to have helped…”
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Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.
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The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
March 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
Nothing more inspiring than finishing the last sentence of a paragraph of academic writing and saying out loud to yourself, "Or some shit. I have no idea what I'm talking about."
Also, loving that I'm inspired to work to avoid reading the news!
Also, loving that I'm inspired to work to avoid reading the news!
March 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Nothing more inspiring than finishing the last sentence of a paragraph of academic writing and saying out loud to yourself, "Or some shit. I have no idea what I'm talking about."
Also, loving that I'm inspired to work to avoid reading the news!
Also, loving that I'm inspired to work to avoid reading the news!
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things
February 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things
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🚨Job Alert | Please Share🚨
The Bucknell Department of Religious Studies is seeking a 1-year VAP focused on Religion & Ethics. I'm happy to answer any questions. The job description and the application portal can be found here: bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
The Bucknell Department of Religious Studies is seeking a 1-year VAP focused on Religion & Ethics. I'm happy to answer any questions. The job description and the application portal can be found here: bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
Visiting Assistant Professor in Religion and Ethics
Position Title: Visiting Assistant Professor in Religion and Ethics Position Type: Full time Location: Coleman Hall Categories: Faculty Exempt Job Summary: Job Duties: The Department of Religious Stud...
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February 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🚨Job Alert | Please Share🚨
The Bucknell Department of Religious Studies is seeking a 1-year VAP focused on Religion & Ethics. I'm happy to answer any questions. The job description and the application portal can be found here: bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
The Bucknell Department of Religious Studies is seeking a 1-year VAP focused on Religion & Ethics. I'm happy to answer any questions. The job description and the application portal can be found here: bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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The antidote to feeling powerless is to do something. This meeting is just hours away, but there's still time to sign up. So if you're looking for a way to join together with others to push back against what's happening, here's your ticket. I'll be there.
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
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February 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The antidote to feeling powerless is to do something. This meeting is just hours away, but there's still time to sign up. So if you're looking for a way to join together with others to push back against what's happening, here's your ticket. I'll be there.
The new mantra: mistranslate the manuals.
I had a relative compelled into service to the enemy. He mistranslated all the manuals for captured equipment so that The Thing Don't Work.
Mistranslate the manuals, whatever that means for you.
Mistranslate the manuals, whatever that means for you.
a key take away from reading a lot of history for me:
the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”
the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”
January 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The new mantra: mistranslate the manuals.
I don't really love scholars calling *Gender Trouble* a "seminal" work.
January 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I don't really love scholars calling *Gender Trouble* a "seminal" work.
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Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it
Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence
www.salon.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.
www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
I am the mother of a 1.5 year old and a 5 year old. I have everything in my bag. What do you need?
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your bag at any given moment:
1. Carmex
2. Trident White gum
3. Ear buds
4. Lotion
5. Sunscreen stick
1. Carmex
2. Trident White gum
3. Ear buds
4. Lotion
5. Sunscreen stick
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. My notebook/Pilot G2 Pen
2. Aveda lip balm
3. MacBook
4. A can of Orange citrus Kickstart
5. Brown claw clip
1. My notebook/Pilot G2 Pen
2. Aveda lip balm
3. MacBook
4. A can of Orange citrus Kickstart
5. Brown claw clip
November 14, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I am the mother of a 1.5 year old and a 5 year old. I have everything in my bag. What do you need?
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a vandy bestie called. we've both been thinking about fernando segovia lately.
he once said something in lecture that i never forgot: we have one duty; we figure out who has the least power and we stand with *them.* consistently.
empires take. this is how we fight them for every inch.
he once said something in lecture that i never forgot: we have one duty; we figure out who has the least power and we stand with *them.* consistently.
empires take. this is how we fight them for every inch.
November 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM
a vandy bestie called. we've both been thinking about fernando segovia lately.
he once said something in lecture that i never forgot: we have one duty; we figure out who has the least power and we stand with *them.* consistently.
empires take. this is how we fight them for every inch.
he once said something in lecture that i never forgot: we have one duty; we figure out who has the least power and we stand with *them.* consistently.
empires take. this is how we fight them for every inch.
Nothing says "I'm old" like being super excited for new window shades...
October 31, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Nothing says "I'm old" like being super excited for new window shades...
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The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.
July 4, 2024 at 6:51 PM
The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.