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#booklaunch My book WHEN A HUMAN GIVES BIRTH TO A RAVEN: RABBIS & THE REPRODUCTION OF SPECIES drops today! interested in religion, rabbis, greek & roman philosophy, ancient medicine & science, religion, magic, animals, gender, sexuality, & reproduction? #antiquity 1/
book cover for Rafael Rachel Neis's When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven. Image of creaturely and abstract forms emerging from a colorful grid. #jewishstudies #ancienthistory #classics #animalstudies #lgbtq

ALT book cover for Rafael Rachel Neis's When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven. Image of creaturely and abstract forms emerging from a colorful grid. #jewishstudies #ancienthistory #classics #animalstudies #lgbtq

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Colby Gordon@badinfinity29 Feb 2025
Oh is the New York Times having a little feeling about its complicity with fascists? Awww
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I'd used all my miles to upgrade seats, b/c kiddos, and xcountry flight. I've cancelled my @AmericanAir credit card & will avoid this airline at all costs. I'm already nervous flying b/c misgendering, "genital anomaly" security searches, bathrooms, etc. 5/
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I confess to using kiddos as figleaf to pass/get better treatment (also am white). But @AmericanAir claims score of 100 on @HRC and yeah, I DON'T THINK SO.
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#TW #transphobia #homophobia I, spouse, 2.5 yo, 9 month, @AmericanAir DTW-PHX. Seats weren't together, but checkin agent told us to ask at gate. Gate agent told us to ask on plane. Boarded, smiled, said hi, & asked flight attendant abt seats. She yelled, called us liars?, 1/
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I gave feedback about this to @AmericanAir - their response: "we recognize that your experience did not meet the level of customer service you expected and I truly hope you will accept my sincere apology for the disappointing service you received." No amends whatsoever. 4/
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to sit down. Took off, we were shaking, pretending to be calm for kiddos sake. Person next to me apologized for what happened. @AmericanAir Flight attendant ignored us, brought water etc. to other passengers but not us. Eventually spoke to us, sharply, repeatedly misgendering. 3
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told us to stand aside, called security, continued to shout at/about us. We did nothing, were stunned & didn't want to escalate, esp. w/ kiddos in tow. Passengers watched open-mouthed, one offered to swap so cd sit together (all we'd asked for in 1st place), security told us 2/
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TODAY Join Aileen Das in conversation with author-artists Mike Chin and Rafe Neis about their new books, their scholarship, and their art practices. Register here: umich.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Books L2R: Rafael Rachel Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023) and Catherine Michael Chin, Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe (UC Press, 2024).

ALT Books L2R: Rafael Rachel Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023) and Catherine Michael Chin, Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe (UC Press, 2024).

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The Wayward Children Golem podcast dropped! @kaijupoet & I talk Golems including why they don't look like clay, weren't the inspo for Frankenstein, & why the Jewish lore way cooler than that. And we admit we like clay golem stories anyway :) waywardchildren.buzzsprout.c…
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Colby Gordon@badinfinity210 Apr 2024
there should be more trans people
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Rafael Neis (they/them)@postrafelite10 Apr 2024
Talmud and furries, gay demon divorce, rabbis and non monogamy, animal babies, Roman imperialism, and transgender animals! Listen to Rabbi Xava, Michael, & me on my book on #XaiHowAreYou? #podcast
Rafael Neis (they/them)@postrafelite7 Apr 2024
I had such fun talking abt my book with Xava and Michael on their fabulous podcast: Xai, how are you? Book #WhenAHuman Gives Birth to a Raven, open access: umich.us3.list-manage.com/tr… #talmud #jewishstudies #queer #animals
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Talmud and furries, gay demon divorce, rabbis and non monogamy, animal babies, Roman imperialism, and transgender animals! Listen to Rabbi Xava, Michael, & me on my book on #XaiHowAreYou? #podcast
Rafael Neis (they/them)@postrafelite7 Apr 2024
I had such fun talking abt my book with Xava and Michael on their fabulous podcast: Xai, how are you? Book #WhenAHuman Gives Birth to a Raven, open access: umich.us3.list-manage.com/tr… #talmud #jewishstudies #queer #animals
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I had such fun talking abt my book with Xava and Michael on their fabulous podcast: Xai, how are you? Book #WhenAHuman Gives Birth to a Raven, open access: umich.us3.list-manage.com/tr… #talmud #jewishstudies #queer #animals
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Just up in time for #AARSBL23 my newest comic about my book for @ucpress blog. #reproduction #religion #judaism #comics #sex #gender #queer #nonbinary #monogamy #rabbis #Antiquity ucpress.edu/blog/64217/in-pi…
Colorful book cover of Neis’s When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven, description of comic and book. Followed by comic about how modern invocations of so called Judeo Christian tradition or values do not fit with oddness of ancient Jewish ideas about life-making, gender, eroticism, and kinship. Page 2 has drawings of non-cis rabbi Yohanan and their interventions into married women’s generative and sexual lives. Page 3 has drawings about Lilith as intervening similarly.

ALT Colorful book cover of Neis’s When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven, description of comic and book. Followed by comic about how modern invocations of so called Judeo Christian tradition or values do not fit with oddness of ancient Jewish ideas about life-making, gender, eroticism, and kinship. Page 2 has drawings of non-cis rabbi Yohanan and their interventions into married women’s generative and sexual lives. Page 3 has drawings about Lilith as intervening similarly.

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#AARSBL13 is in Texas. The comic challenges rightwing invocations of “religious values” and “The Judeo-Christian Tradition” as justifying restrictions of reproductive and gender affirming healthcare.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed@AnnetteYReed18 Nov 2023
This 🔥 panel also includes brilliant @Harvard PhD student Oana Capatina on 3Macc! #AARSBL23
Dr. Alexiana Fry@alexianadlou18 Nov 2023
Want to listen to papers on violence this morning? Join me and @rosykandathil! #AARSBL23
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Dorothy Roberts@DorothyERoberts16 Nov 2023
Much to the surprise of the early members whose portraits hung behind me, I was honored to be inducted today in the @AmPhilSociety, the oldest learned society in the US, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin.
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Kelly Holob@KellyHolob18 Nov 2023
If you want to hear about ghosts, magic, criminals, and Lazarus, come see my talk at the violence panel, starting at 4 👻 #AARSBL23
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While I was offline yesterday the kind folx at @routledgebooks sent us a flyer for the Critical Ancient World Studies book! It’s going to be open access too, but if you’d like a paper copy you can now get all of that same opposition to eurocentrism for 20% less! 🥳
Flyer for the Critical Ancient World Studies book. The discount code is AFL04, more info on the book: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Ancient-World-Studies-The-Case-for-Forgetting-Classics/Umachandran-Ward/p/book/9781032120119#

ALT Flyer for the Critical Ancient World Studies book. The discount code is AFL04, more info on the book: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Ancient-World-Studies-The-Case-for-Forgetting-Classics/Umachandran-Ward/p/book/9781032120119#

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Ky Merkley@MerkleyKy17 Nov 2023
Just had my first article published! Excited to share "Writing trans history with an ethics of care, while reading gender in Imperial Roman literature." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Writing trans histories with an ethics of care, while reading gender in imperial Roman literature

Two major barriers interfere with writing trans histories of the premodern world: the conflict between creating a legible or foreignised past and balancing the vastness of the social system of...

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