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Alexiana Fry
@alexianafry.bsky.social
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OT PhD Stellenbosch University: Migration, Trauma, Feminism. Postdoc at København Uni: Divergent Views of Diaspora. Proud Pug Parent. RYT 200.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Jan 20
I'm available for work! I have loved my time here in Copenhagen and would enjoy continuing to research, publish, and teach at the interplay of trauma, migration/diaspora, and feminism in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
www.alexianafry.com
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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h
"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h
X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate." 3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 3h
Does anyone know how I can get my eyes on a copy of this new Texas school curriculum? Apparently, there's a two-part lesson on Queen Esther, and I'm going to need to see that:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
Inside a New Bible-Infused Texas English Curriculum
www.nytimes.com
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 1d
I'm hanging out with the crew @scibs-sheffield.bsky.social next week, sharing part of what will be chapter two in my forthcoming book. See you there?
With a light purple background, the top has the SCIBS (Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies) logo which is a tree in technicolor. There is a white line across the left side of the page. The title is in a dark green : ‘If I Am Pleasing’: Esther and the Fawn Response. Below, right side of the page in a brown, "Dr Alexiana Fry (University of Copenhagen). One line below that it says, in dark purple: "Monday 20 October, 2:00-3:30pm (UK time), online. Below this, in that green earlier used, it has the abstract: Esther is often discussed in binary, in that she is either a damnation to the feminist cause, or is the perfect model of womanhood in the Bible. She is seen as a people-pleaser, manipulative, cunning. In paying attention to her consistent precarity and identity markers of subordinate status, being orphan, woman, Jewish, exile, this paper will demonstrate her behaviour through the lens of the trauma response 'fawn'. This interpretation renders Esther's fawning as not only a survival mechanism for interpersonal engagement because of her precarity, but also how these coincide with many areas of lack-of-attachment/failed attachments/care have shut her off from her own needs and necessitate the use of co-dependence, obedience, and hypervigilance to “respond to threats by becoming appealing to the threat.” Acting in ways that avoid danger (relatively speaking) and diffuse conflict, in order to create a façade of safety, is an extremely effective and even rewarded trauma response; however, it also forces one to abandon oneself. With a thorough description of what the fawn response is, examples of it in Esther’s narrative, and even a response to what can be seen as a fight response by the end of her story (thus holistically understanding trauma responses as fluid), this presentation will attend to a more nuanced understanding via a trauma hermeneutic of the often misunderstood Esther. below this in bold dark purple, it says please register at bit.ly/SCIBS202526
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 4d
Had the best time on Thursday presenting for the Biblical Studies Research Seminar with some solid students and staff @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Thanks for the pic (where I blocked out some forthcoming news), @themattiemae.bsky.social! 💕
Students in front of laptops looking at a PowerPoint on the big screen in front, that says “golah, Golah, Golah, Golah” (2:6)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d
Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d
Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.
Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 8d
New issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55656 @sblpress.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social
journal cover table of contents
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 9d
IVE GOT NO TACO BELL BECAUSE DENMARK SO YEAH IM JUST DEPRIVED.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 9d
Listen: there was a Taco Bell at the airport but it was closed when we arrived and I am devastated.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · 10d
Seoul was an absolute dream. Ten whole days of a full belly and heart with family in Korea 🇰🇷and I am beyond refreshed. Now to tackle the email inbox.
A facade of Gyeongbokgung palace, featuring Kelly green paint with bright colorful flowers and motifs. A table full of Korean food prepared by family. A small keychain of a Sanrio frog with glasses and an ice cream cone being held by a hand in front of a gacha machine
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10d
Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15d
the one constant in mass shootings is the prevalence of misogyny/domestic violence/hatred toward women:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
The former Marine accused of killing four people in a fiery attack on a Michigan church held a deep grudge against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to two lifelong friends and other people who knew him. The animosity, the friends said, stemmed from a breakup with a religious girlfriend over a decade ago and led the man to rant about the church at his best friend’s wedding, refer to it as the Antichrist and, just days before the attack, spew invective against Mormons to a canvassing politician.
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Katherine Southwood @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social · 19d
I'm really excited to be convening the Hebrew Bible /Old Testament seminar this term. We have a brilliant line-up of international and national speakers coming to Oxford with research focused on the theme of Trauma and the Hebrew Bible!
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Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 22d
Check out this online class by @alexianafry.bsky.social taking place Saturday, September 27, from 12–1:30pm ET. Registration: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 25d
The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
www.cambridge.org
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 28d
another set of department closures at another public flagship. i'm from WV; my heart breaks every time because i *know* what that means for students like me and my high school friends.

full disclosure: i went to college out of state to a country club school with lots of money for scholarships. 1/?
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 11
Your outie plays the marimba for six month old Pygmy hippos.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 11
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SBL Press @sblpress.bsky.social · Sep 7
Read "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" by Alexiana Fry in #JBL144.2 by logging in with your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55
"Scout’s story feels similar to discussions about dissociation by both trauma theorists and mental health practitioners as well as among biblical scholars, specifically regarding Ezek 24:15–27." Alexiana Fry
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 11
The day before we found out from the President himself that actually political violence is unacceptable the Supreme Court said it’s legal for masked men to bust your car window and snatch you away from your family for having the wrong skin color.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Sep 11
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 11
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 11
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
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Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 11
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l
Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing
The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.
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Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social · Sep 8
SpongeBob is looking yaasified with the text saying “me whenever I’m right about something”
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