Joseph A Marchal
@jamarchal
author, Appalling Bodies (OUP) co-editor, Trans Biblical (WJK) founding co-editor, QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion counter-kyriarchal killjoy professor, religious studies + women’s and gender studies a bit of a mess here
they take a little longer to arrive, but nothing beats getting physical copies of the latest issues of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion! With @dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social really should have the cover image for this book up on its website— it’s so strikingly evocative to me as well
What would you call a book if: *You were trying to get a different feeling for the assemblies and their own apostles, on the other side of Paul’s epistles? *Dwelled especially over the affects of disgust, trauma, and melancholia? 1/5
There’s still nothing quite like getting physical copies of this fabulous journal!
We have a cover, featuring the amazing work of Lyle Ashton Harris! QTR 3:1 coming soon!
An of-course-not-kosher, but bloody good beer pairing for second Seder tonight
Check out the beautiful cover of the latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, featuring the incredible work of Amber Norman, and brought to you by @dukepress.bsky.social !
In case you’re wondering, yes, something tart from Wisconsin does pair nicely with latkes
There’s still time to register to join us online for this BookTalk on *Appalling Bodies* TODAY, Thursday, December 4, at 5 PM Eastern! hosted by Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and in conversation with the one and only Kimberly D. Russaw! @kdrussaw.bsky.social www.pts.edu/BookTalks
it’s never too early for gratitude, but today I’m thankful to be home and for these awesome mini-zines Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social made for her review of *Trans Biblical* this past weekend!
*Trans Biblical* is here!! (And so are we!) Looking forward to this afternoon’s review session
my miniature haul from the @dukepress.bsky.social fall sale, arrived in time for pre-#AARSBL25 travel reading!!!
Hey #AARSBL25 folks! Come to this panel on trans biblical interpretation (and our recent collection!) this Sunday at 4 !
Hey hey it’s Proofs day! The latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, coming your way through Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social very soon!
Proofs day! Disidentifying Letters and a Sense of the Assemblies: On Munoz’s Approaches and Affects coming soon in the next issue of Bible and Critical Theory, thanks to @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social, Peter Anthony Mena, @rhiannongraybill.bsky.social, Rob Seesengood, and some generous reviewers!
And then good friends show a whole other kind of generosity upon their return from Wisconsin!
Check out this online workshop on trans affirming approaches to the Bible, built around *Trans Biblical* and featuring the creditors Melissa Harl Sellew, Katy Valentine, and myself! Coming up in just a couple of weeks!
Tis the reason for the season — don’t forget labor movements and join a union today!
The Institute for Signifying Scriptures is opening up a new, free virtual seminar format, #Scriptures Everywhere. Go to www.signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/ to sign up and join, starting Sept 5, 1 pm EST/10 am PST Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon as a conversation partner on scriptures and memory.
still have so much more writing and revising to do, but rather excited to get a copy of Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteny’s *Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration* today!
art break on a sweltering afternoon, with some wondrous works by Alma Thomas
if you haven’t read, and are at all inclined, i just finished Jamie Hood’s *Trauma Plot: A Life* and it’s incredible