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Keanu Heydari
@keanuheydari.bsky.social
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History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
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Digital graphic for the World Council of Churches’ “Sixteen Days against Gender-based Violence” campaign. The right side has a purple overlay with large white quotation marks and text that reads: “Scripture proclaims that humanity is created in the image and likeness of God. This dignity is irreducible. It cannot be replaced by data, commodified by algorithms, or rendered disposable by automation.” The World Council of Churches logo appears in the bottom right corner.
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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amishcatholic.bsky.social
Our plans are measured in centuries
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Listen, I’m not saying that reading these books will solve anything. But they will help you better understand the intellectual coordinates of our conjuncture. At least according to me.
A stack of books on a desk.
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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generalstoreman.bsky.social
i think there is always a concerted effort to make anti-imperialism an afterthought in the american left, conscious or not
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
My, my, how time passes!
A photograph featuring the 2023-2025 PC(USA) Book of Order on the left and the 2025-2027 Book of Order on the right.
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Christian theologians love to assert an untenable argument by explaining the gist of their point in a cute little Latin phrase.
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Friends, I got some delightful news! My paper proposal for the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in 2026 was accepted! The paper is titled “Licensing Dissent: Iranian Student Activism, Police Surveillance, and the Grammar of ‘Liberty’ in Postwar Paris (1946–1979).”
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Please read this thread, folks! Too many people I’ve met still think eugenics was “bad” because of its “racist assumptions.” To borrow James C. Scott’s language, we should investigate how “certain schemes to ‘improve’ the human condition have failed.” And, I’d add, how we keep trying them!
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 17h
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
My close friends (plural) who recently got tenure are being offered “resignation packages.” Entire university departments are being shut down. Whole fields are collapsing. Brilliant educators are losing their jobs. But sure, marginalizing people with disabilities is the best strategy today! /s
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h
Or in the south?
At any point in the decades long attacks on universities by republicans?
The real threat to higher ed was allowed to fester and infest more and more of the country while the media provided a distraction: ‘look at the silly but dangerous woke kids (and faculty) at x elite school!’
matt12l.bsky.social Matt “Holding on for a Gyro" L @matt12l.bsky.social · 17h
Elite media outlets like The Atlantic sent a reporter to spend an academic year following students & faculty around a community college somewhere in the Rust Belt or Midwest?
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Christians, there is an alternative.
But you have to make the choice.
Please choose wisely.
Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. His tweet reads, “This is the kind of racism even Nixon kept to himself; just a level of sheer bigotry that would have been utterly disqualifying for higher office even a decade ago.” Embedded is a tweet by Aaron Rupar quoting a speech by Donald Trump in which Trump launches a racist attack on Somalis and Representative Ilhan Omar, saying that Somalis have “destroyed Minnesota” and should be thrown out of the country. Below the text is a paused video frame showing Trump seated at a desk in a dark suit and red tie, surrounded by people standing behind him, with X interface details (time, date, view count, and engagement icons) at the bottom. Graphic for the World Council of Churches’ “Sixteen Days against Gender-based Violence” campaign. On the right, a woman in a green patterned dress sits on the floor in a simple storage room, scooping rice or grain from a large sack into a clear plastic bag. On the left, a teal overlay carries a large quotation mark and white text reading, “The unholy trinity of globalisation, militarism, and fundamentalisms, continues to reinforce and perpetuate patriarchy.” The World Council of Churches logo appears in white at the bottom left.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.” – Matthew 11:18–19 (NRSVue)
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Holiness is not ritual distance from ordinary good things.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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jostavodebauge.bsky.social
Je signale le nouveau numéro de l'excellente revue "Marronages : les questions raciales au crible des sciences sociales" (lien dans le blousque suivant) 👀
Racime à l'université Marronnages
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)

CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
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Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
Submission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press Submission Guidelines  CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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jostavodebauge.bsky.social
L'inhospitalité ordinaire mais systématique de l'Etat-nation 😒
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

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Fear of the Disability Con: Perceptions of Fraud and Special Rights Discourse Law & Society Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2019 41 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2019 Last revised: 18 Dec 2019 Doron Dorfman Seton Hall Law School Date Written: October 3, 2019 Abstract This Article presents a new framework for analyzing the development and implementation of disability law: the prism of the fear of “the disability con” — popular perceptions of fraud and fakery. We all encounter disability rights and accommodations in everyday life. However, people with disabilities pay a price for the legal recognition of their rights. People who park in disabled parking spots, use service dogs, move to the front of lines, receive Social Security benefits, or request academic accommodations are often viewed as faking disabilities and abusing the law. This disability con stereotype thus serves as an important invisible barrier preventing Americans with disabilities from fully taking part in society, as it not only undermines the public legitimacy of rights but also restricts the design and implementation of the legal regime illustrating those. Nevertheless, this moral panic around disability con in American society and its manifestations has yet to be studied in a systematic-empirical way, nor has it been addressed in socio-legal scholarship. Using a mixed-methods approach composed of an original nationally representative survey along with in-depth interviews, this article fills this gap. The data suggest that the stereotype of disability con applies to multiple disability rights across venues and contexts; that nearly 60% of Americans with disabilities feel that others question their disability; that the stereotype of disability con extends to visible disabilities and to less apparent ones; and that, counterintuitively, the people most suspicious are nondisabled individuals with a personal connection to a disabled person and disabled people who experience suspicion themselves. Based on the richer un…
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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mary89074.bsky.social
Behn changed the story. Her speech is a victory speech, because she shows how you can lead, push ahead, with head held high.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Anyone want to do a Barth panel with me at AAR next year on Barth’s engagement(s) with natural theology in 1934?
Cover of Barth’s “Nein !”
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Are any of you Anglicans in New Zealand? If so, please get in touch with me! I have so many questions!
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
Taizé service tonight at First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor.
A softly lit church sanctuary chapel (First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor) prepared for worship, with rows of empty padded chairs facing an altar area draped in deep blue fabric, surrounded by hanging glass votive candles, framed Christian icons arranged on and around the altar, and a tall blue-and-white patterned banner rising into a Gothic-style arch under a large round light fixture.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Fascinating new piece in @newleftreview.bsky.social: “This conflict is about more than just competing ontologies of scarcity and abundance; it is about how state capacity and political-economic interests are shaping the future development paths open to global capitalism.”
Nicholas Mulder, Interludes of Abundance, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Nicholas Mulder on Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué. Reading of the current neo-mercantilist lurch as a return to the norm of long-run capitalist history.
newleftreview.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="432218" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title"> French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p> <p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p> <p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p> <p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p> </div> </div> </article>
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December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
It is fascinating that a genuinely intelligent person like Clinton cannot fathom people just disagreeing with her based on the evidence, clearly this is a racial (and ideological) blindspot on her part, but this is true for pretty much everyone of her generation and of her particular elite cohort.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
keanuheydari.bsky.social
A new piece from me about the spirituality of shared responsibility in Presbyterian polity.
Sharing the Burden
Presbyterian Polity as a Gift of the Spirit
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro reut.rs/4rzUtB9
Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro
Pope Leo urged U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday not to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM