SB Rodriguez-Plate
@sbrodriguez.bsky.social
Partner, Parent, Professor
Writer, Walker, Wanderer
ED of APRIL
Editor of CrossCurrents
Prof of Religious Studies
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Writer, Walker, Wanderer
ED of APRIL
Editor of CrossCurrents
Prof of Religious Studies
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Looking for some Transgender Day of Remembrance reading?
@sbrodriguez.bsky.social, editor of CrossCurrents, talks about their new special issue TRANS-SPIRITUALITIES and how you can read some of the articles for free now through December 19th 🏳️⚧️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/20/t...
@sbrodriguez.bsky.social, editor of CrossCurrents, talks about their new special issue TRANS-SPIRITUALITIES and how you can read some of the articles for free now through December 19th 🏳️⚧️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/20/t...
Transgender Religious Life - UNC Press Blog
The following is a guest post from SB Rodríguez-Plate, editor of CrossCurrents. Transgender Awareness Week culminates today. November 20th, with the Transgender Day of Remembrance. There are ceremonie...
uncpressblog.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Looking for some Transgender Day of Remembrance reading?
@sbrodriguez.bsky.social, editor of CrossCurrents, talks about their new special issue TRANS-SPIRITUALITIES and how you can read some of the articles for free now through December 19th 🏳️⚧️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/20/t...
@sbrodriguez.bsky.social, editor of CrossCurrents, talks about their new special issue TRANS-SPIRITUALITIES and how you can read some of the articles for free now through December 19th 🏳️⚧️
uncpressblog.com/2025/11/20/t...
WHAT IF? Maddow, Colbert, & Kimmel joined NPR …
September 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
WHAT IF? Maddow, Colbert, & Kimmel joined NPR …
These are the stories of affirmation and activism and joy that we need to lean in toward yes, it’s tragic, but just listen to how powerful the voices sound in the podcast. People taking active goals in the lives of their family.
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Families: Searching for Safety Outside the U.S.
Podcast Episode · TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones · 09/04/2025 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These are the stories of affirmation and activism and joy that we need to lean in toward yes, it’s tragic, but just listen to how powerful the voices sound in the podcast. People taking active goals in the lives of their family.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
At the #VeniceFilmFestival. Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Father Mother Sister Brother” with Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchet, and more. Wonderful film
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
At the #VeniceFilmFestival. Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Father Mother Sister Brother” with Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchet, and more. Wonderful film
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Dancer, author, and playwright, Kimerer LaMothe, discusses
“Nietzsche, A New Musical,” running Oct. 10th–12th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater.
Tickets at: OFFBRANDOPERA.ORG/Nietzsche
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-musical-ab...
#nietzsche #musical #musicaltheater #dance #theater
“Nietzsche, A New Musical,” running Oct. 10th–12th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater.
Tickets at: OFFBRANDOPERA.ORG/Nietzsche
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-musical-ab...
#nietzsche #musical #musicaltheater #dance #theater
August 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Dancer, author, and playwright, Kimerer LaMothe, discusses
“Nietzsche, A New Musical,” running Oct. 10th–12th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater.
Tickets at: OFFBRANDOPERA.ORG/Nietzsche
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-musical-ab...
#nietzsche #musical #musicaltheater #dance #theater
“Nietzsche, A New Musical,” running Oct. 10th–12th, 2025 at A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater.
Tickets at: OFFBRANDOPERA.ORG/Nietzsche
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-musical-ab...
#nietzsche #musical #musicaltheater #dance #theater
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August 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Professor Rachel Wagner on the attempted mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church, Michigan, and all the ways we label things “good” and “evil.”
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/does-god-kil...
#assault #guns #massshooting #mentalillness #guncontrol #crosspointechurch #good #bad
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/does-god-kil...
#assault #guns #massshooting #mentalillness #guncontrol #crosspointechurch #good #bad
August 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Professor Rachel Wagner on the attempted mass shooting at CrossPointe Community Church, Michigan, and all the ways we label things “good” and “evil.”
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/does-god-kil...
#assault #guns #massshooting #mentalillness #guncontrol #crosspointechurch #good #bad
Link in below:
www.aprilonline.org/does-god-kil...
#assault #guns #massshooting #mentalillness #guncontrol #crosspointechurch #good #bad
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Courtney Thomas on the role of religion in the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor is the Villain.”
Now on Broadway through Sept. 7 at the Booth Theater 222 W 45th St NYC
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-baptist-se...
Now on Broadway through Sept. 7 at the Booth Theater 222 W 45th St NYC
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-baptist-se...
August 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Courtney Thomas on the role of religion in the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor is the Villain.”
Now on Broadway through Sept. 7 at the Booth Theater 222 W 45th St NYC
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-baptist-se...
Now on Broadway through Sept. 7 at the Booth Theater 222 W 45th St NYC
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/a-baptist-se...
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Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC’s Freeman Alley.
www.aprilonline.org/the-senses-o...
www.aprilonline.org/the-senses-o...
The Senses of Freeman Alley
Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC's Freeman Alley.
www.aprilonline.org
August 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Junyu Ke on the ethics and aesthetics of urban art in NYC’s Freeman Alley.
www.aprilonline.org/the-senses-o...
www.aprilonline.org/the-senses-o...
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Have we considered paying educators more? Is this a thing that has been tried yet? If not, maybe we should give it a whirl.
August 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Have we considered paying educators more? Is this a thing that has been tried yet? If not, maybe we should give it a whirl.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of the recent tragic murder of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, we are reposting this interview with him from 2011, conducted by APRIL President Björn Krondorfer.
Link to post:
www.aprilonline.org/diversity-of...
Link to post:
www.aprilonline.org/diversity-of...
February 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of the recent tragic murder of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, we are reposting this interview with him from 2011, conducted by APRIL President Björn Krondorfer.
Link to post:
www.aprilonline.org/diversity-of...
Link to post:
www.aprilonline.org/diversity-of...
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Check out this review by Dantaé Garee Elliott of The Blackout Poetry Event with Afro-Dominican poet and performance artist Yaissa Jimenez in collaboration with Caribbean art journal Forgotten Lands and the Museum of Modern Art’s Creativity Lab, at MoMA.
www.aprilonline.org/diasporic-al...
www.aprilonline.org/diasporic-al...
March 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Check out this review by Dantaé Garee Elliott of The Blackout Poetry Event with Afro-Dominican poet and performance artist Yaissa Jimenez in collaboration with Caribbean art journal Forgotten Lands and the Museum of Modern Art’s Creativity Lab, at MoMA.
www.aprilonline.org/diasporic-al...
www.aprilonline.org/diasporic-al...
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New CrossCurrents Special Issue Vol.74.No.4 out now: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism via @indigenousvalues.org @april-cc-commons.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074
Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024
muse.jhu.edu
June 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
New CrossCurrents Special Issue Vol.74.No.4 out now: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism via @indigenousvalues.org @april-cc-commons.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074
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Check out Tiffany Thompson’s latest piece on showing up and tells the story of her latest single, “The Reason” as a harbinger of hope to come, the prelude to the story.
Link Below:
www.aprilonline.org/when-stillne...
Link Below:
www.aprilonline.org/when-stillne...
August 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Check out Tiffany Thompson’s latest piece on showing up and tells the story of her latest single, “The Reason” as a harbinger of hope to come, the prelude to the story.
Link Below:
www.aprilonline.org/when-stillne...
Link Below:
www.aprilonline.org/when-stillne...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf shares a piece prompted by the first episode of South Park’s 27th season and its depiction of Jesus and the state of American Christian nationalism.
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/south-parks-...
#christiannationalism #southpark #southparkjesus #jesus #parody #parody
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/south-parks-...
#christiannationalism #southpark #southparkjesus #jesus #parody #parody
August 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf shares a piece prompted by the first episode of South Park’s 27th season and its depiction of Jesus and the state of American Christian nationalism.
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/south-parks-...
#christiannationalism #southpark #southparkjesus #jesus #parody #parody
Link below:
www.aprilonline.org/south-parks-...
#christiannationalism #southpark #southparkjesus #jesus #parody #parody
New national caption:
“USA, the Spirit Airline of the world’s nations.”
“USA, the Spirit Airline of the world’s nations.”
August 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New national caption:
“USA, the Spirit Airline of the world’s nations.”
“USA, the Spirit Airline of the world’s nations.”
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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1. In a troubling development, multiple transgender rights court cases have been reopened following the Skrmetti decision, even ones the decision didn't touch.
They range from health insurance to bathrooms and birth certificates.
Subscribe to support our journalism. Lets dig in.
They range from health insurance to bathrooms and birth certificates.
Subscribe to support our journalism. Lets dig in.
Transgender Rights Cases Reopened After Supreme Court Ruling—Even Ones It Didn’t Touch
The Supreme Court ordered several cases to be reexamined after the Skrmetti ruling, despite the decision ostensibly being a limited ruling.
www.erininthemorning.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
1. In a troubling development, multiple transgender rights court cases have been reopened following the Skrmetti decision, even ones the decision didn't touch.
They range from health insurance to bathrooms and birth certificates.
Subscribe to support our journalism. Lets dig in.
They range from health insurance to bathrooms and birth certificates.
Subscribe to support our journalism. Lets dig in.
What a headline!
June 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What a headline!