When I am weak, despairing, and lost, I re-watch Dr. William Barber's sermon at Middle Church from 2017 and am renewed. Whatever you hold sacred, whether religious or not, miraculous and creative freedom can and does break into history. Happy new year, beloved friends!

Too many books to name, but Miss Kanmani is interested in them all

Selvi is reading in different mediums. The book is "Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic", by Gerald Horne. (A good reminder from Selvi to revisit C.L.R James' "Black Jacobins" itself.)

Prints available

All profits raised from this print will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

Is it weird that for the very first time *ever*, I feel really excited about being on social media? I guess it helps that I'm making this the space for a little project of documenting my reading. But still, it's such an unaccustomed feeling.

"Khanna looks equally, and often instead, at 'sexualness', a neologism that is central to the question of what is at stake in an anthropological project of attempting to make sense of the sexual in non-Euro-North American contexts."

Sexualness, by Akshay Khanna. Miss Selvi is intrigued

No cats in this picture (sob), but two still-transformative classics by Ambedkar: Federation Versus Freedom, and Castes in India.

Miss Kanmani is an aspiring scholar. The books are: Christ & Empire, Making a Way Out of No Way, Other Dreams of Freedom, Circuits of the Sacred, Postcolonial Theologies, and my personal favorite, To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness in an Indian Slum.

Selvi *is* high weirdness. Also, one of the very best books on the study of religion that I've ever read. @erikrdavis.bsky.social

Planning to make this feed a document of all the books I'm reading that my cats enjoy--and reposting outstanding thoughts from the good folx I follow

Slowly moving over here--and figuring out how to find all the people I follow on the other one