Meg Mercury (they/them)
@megmercury.bsky.social
M.A., Religion & Theology. Ph.D. student at GTU Berkeley in Historical & Cultural Studies of Religion (Religion & Literature). Follow me for pantheistic heresies.
Just finished: The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. I think the last time I read this was in high school.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just finished: The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. I think the last time I read this was in high school.
Just finished: On Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just finished: On Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt
I had to look my own file up to make basic conversation today, but to be fair, I’m in Kansas, and it was about the Border Ruffians, and I’m not from here. (“Wait, I wrote about this!” is both great and not great to an academic with a spotty memory.)
July 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I had to look my own file up to make basic conversation today, but to be fair, I’m in Kansas, and it was about the Border Ruffians, and I’m not from here. (“Wait, I wrote about this!” is both great and not great to an academic with a spotty memory.)
I leave for a conference tomorrow- a conference I have enjoyed in the past- but I really want to stay home and deal with this.
June 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I leave for a conference tomorrow- a conference I have enjoyed in the past- but I really want to stay home and deal with this.
PhD coursework done with straight As, give props where props are due babes! I need a celebration cause this shit was hard.
June 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
PhD coursework done with straight As, give props where props are due babes! I need a celebration cause this shit was hard.
No. 46: Playground, by Richard Powers
June 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
No. 46: Playground, by Richard Powers
No. 45: Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, by Stacy Alaimo
June 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
No. 45: Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self, by Stacy Alaimo
No. 44: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay, by Octavia E. Butler
June 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
No. 44: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay, by Octavia E. Butler
This girl just left her Oakland daycare for the last time & her people came out to give her scritchies & cuddles - & the gorgeous lady who occasionally compliments my looks gave me a hug goodbye too. Had to do that right after my move out walk through. One of those days when I wish I could get high.
June 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This girl just left her Oakland daycare for the last time & her people came out to give her scritchies & cuddles - & the gorgeous lady who occasionally compliments my looks gave me a hug goodbye too. Had to do that right after my move out walk through. One of those days when I wish I could get high.
No. 43: The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, by Galen Watts
May 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
No. 43: The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, by Galen Watts
No. 42: The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, by Joseph Blankholm
May 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
No. 42: The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, by Joseph Blankholm
No. 41: The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture, by Jerome P. Baggett
May 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
No. 41: The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture, by Jerome P. Baggett
No. 40: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, by Donna J. Haraway
April 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
No. 40: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, by Donna J. Haraway
No. 39: Teaching Matters: A Guide for Graduate Students, by Aeron Haynie and Stephanie Spong
April 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
No. 39: Teaching Matters: A Guide for Graduate Students, by Aeron Haynie and Stephanie Spong
No. 38: What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching, by Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, Khadijah A. Mitchell, and Mallory E. SoRelle
April 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
No. 38: What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching, by Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, Khadijah A. Mitchell, and Mallory E. SoRelle
No. 37: The Opening of the Field, by Robert Duncan (feat. page flags by @devinzuber.bsky.social)
April 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
No. 37: The Opening of the Field, by Robert Duncan (feat. page flags by @devinzuber.bsky.social)
No. 36: Faith, Hope and Carnage, by Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan
April 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
No. 36: Faith, Hope and Carnage, by Nick Cave & Seán O’Hagan
No. 35: House Made of Dawn, by M. Scott Momaday
March 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
No. 35: House Made of Dawn, by M. Scott Momaday
No. 34: In Our Own Image: Anthropomorphism, Apophaticism, and Ultimacy, by Wesley J. Wildman
March 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
No. 34: In Our Own Image: Anthropomorphism, Apophaticism, and Ultimacy, by Wesley J. Wildman
No. 33: Selected Poems, by Robinson Jeffers
March 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
No. 33: Selected Poems, by Robinson Jeffers
I did do that.
March 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I did do that.
Hope this helps. This has been the strangest interaction I’ve ever had on bsky.
March 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hope this helps. This has been the strangest interaction I’ve ever had on bsky.
No. 32: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
March 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
No. 32: Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, by Phil Zuckerman
No. 31: “Shimmer: When All You Love is Being Trashed,” by Deborah Bird Rose, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, & Nils Bubandt
March 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
No. 31: “Shimmer: When All You Love is Being Trashed,” by Deborah Bird Rose, in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, & Nils Bubandt
No. 30: “Good Without God: A How-To Guide to the Ethics of Humanism,” from Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, by Greg M. Epstein
February 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
No. 30: “Good Without God: A How-To Guide to the Ethics of Humanism,” from Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, by Greg M. Epstein