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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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OMG YOU HAVE A PAIR TOO!!!! Meet Cortado and Toast (thee perfect millennial breakfast)
A black pug and a fawn pug with underbites in front of a white wall on wood flooring sit like good babies. There is a multicolor pennant hanging above them.
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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EXCUSE ME WHAT
Girl from bobs burgers running away you can only see her pink shirt black pants and back of head with brown hair but it says at the bottom (crying, farting)
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Book cover reveal day! @scmpress.bsky.social is incredible. She releases on March 31, 2026, and it looks like pre-orders might already be open: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Excited to share the sessions that the "Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature" unit has for you all this upcoming #aarsbl25 @sblsite.bsky.social!
at the top in a light blue box with cream text, it says "Exile (forced Migrations) in biblical literature" SBL Annual 2025" in a mustard colored box beneath it, in forest green text, it says: Migration and Gender Saturday, November 22 | 9:00-11:30A | Eric M. Trinka, Chair Falmouth (4th Floor) Marriott Copley Place Erik DiVietro, Independent Scholar “Liminal Return: Ruth in a Postexilic World” Rae Fujimori, University of Edinburgh “Reimagining Diasporic Masculinities: Language, Gender, and Imperial Power in the Book of Esther” Paul Wilson, University of Edinburgh “In/visible Luminaries: The Mobility and Agnecy of the Four Prophets of Caesarea” Donghyun Jeong, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary “Circumcision, Migration, and the Disruptive Imagination in the Acts of the Apostles” There is a small light orange box beneath this to finish the image. at the top in a light blue box with cream text, it says "exile (Forced migrations) in biblical literature) SBL annual 2025" in a light orange box with cream text underneath it, it says: Diaspora and the Hebrew Bible - Panel Saturday, November 22 | 4:00-6:30P | Alexiana Fry, Chair Yarmouth (4th Floor) Marriott Copley Place TK Mapfeka, American Baptist College “Diaspora Narratives and Identity Formation” Soo Kim Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology “’Are You Keniym?’: A Diasporic Reading of the Ethics of the Gate in the Joseph Narrative, Waiting for Godot, and Modern Thresholds” Martien Halvorson-Taylor, University of Virginia “Metaphors, Translations, and Other Literary Methods” Frederik Poulsen and Kacper Ziemba, University of Copenhagen “Studying ‘Judean Diaspora’ in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Period: Results and Reflections from a Copenhagen-based Research Project” a light kelly green box is beneath it to complete the image At the top in a light/muted kelly green box with cream text, it reads "exile (forced migrations" in biblical literature sbl annual 2025" In a light blue box underneath this with dark blue text, it reads: Open Session Tuesday, November 25 | 9:00-11:30A | Allen Jones, Chair Newbury (3rd Floor) Sheraton Rebekah Elizabeth Van Sant, Oxford “The Ambiguities of Exile and Return in Second Isaiah” Eric M. Trinka, Emory & Henry University “Dislodging the Notion of Judahite Refugee Camps in Exilic Babylonia” after this, there is a mustard yellow box with a muted orange star in the middle to finish the image.
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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With the app for #aarsbl25 now live, The Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma unit would love to invite you to our sessions! (@sblsite.bsky.social; @fsrinc.bsky.social)
With a cream background, in black small text at the top it says SBL Boston 2025, and Open Session. After a black line, in large black letters it says "biblical literature and the hermeneutics of trauma." After another black line, there is information on presenters: Sarah Wisialowski, Oxford: “‘Is There Any Sorrow Like My Sorrow?’ (Lam 1:12): Examining the Interpretive Paths of Lamentations” LeAnn Snow Flesher, Berkeley School of Theology: “1 Enoch 6-11 as Trauma Response” there is another black line, and more information Gillian Le Fevre, University of Edinburgh: “Reclaiming Belonging: Rewriting the Trauma of Biblical Violence Against Women” and then a grey asterisk is the background for the text that says "please join us for a business meeting at the 90 minute mark" There is another black line, with more information under it: Monday, November 24 | 9:00-11:30A | David Garber, Chair | Fairfax B (3rd Floor) Sheraton With a cream background, in black text at the top it says "SBL Boston 2025 Joint Session" There is a black line, and two large "units" are labelled after, with a grey asterisk behind them: Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma and Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative There is another black line with information underneath it, the presenters: David DeJong, Hope College: “Joseph Wept: Tears, Trauma, and Tyranny in the Story of Joseph and His Brothers” Katharine Fitzgerald, McMaster University: “Between Victory and Victimhood: Cultural Trauma Theory and Group Identity in the Book of Judith” Joseph Cross, Humbold-Universitaet zu Berlin: “Trauma and the Erotics of Plot in Esther and Judith” One more black line, with more information underneath: Tuesday, November 25 | 9:00-11:30A | LeAnn Snow Flesher, Chair | 111 (Plaza Level) Hynes Convention Center With a cream background, at the top, the black text reads "SBL Boston 2025 and Joint Session" After a black line, the units are named: Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma with the FSR | Feminist Studies in Religion logo another black line appears after these units, with more information underneath: The Histories and Potential Futures of Feminist and Trauma Studies in Biblical Studies with a grey asterisk behind this text, the panelists are named: Liz Boase, University of Divinity Sébastien Doane, Université Laval Ericka Dunbar, Baylor University Sarah Emanuel, Loyola Marymount University Sonia Kwok Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong there is another black line, with final information to follow: Monday, November 24 | 1:00-3:30P | Alexiana Fry, Presiding | 111 (Plaza Level) Hynes Convention Center
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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)
October 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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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
October 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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SpongeBob is looking yaasified with the text saying “me whenever I’m right about something”
September 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Thrilled to be the "teacher" for @theb4np.bsky.social's September class called "Shaped By Suffering: How Trauma Impacts the Bible and Its Readers." Join me on Saturday, September 27th at 12P EST: thebiblefornormalpeople.com/classes/shap...
Shaped By Suffering is in yellow text inside of a black box, following with How Trauma impacts the Bible and its readers in orange, with alexiana fry in baby blue. The Bible for Normal people logo is at the bottom left hand side of the black box, and the black box is sitting on a mosaic pattern of some kind
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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I'm not sorry that this is what I chose to do to begin my day.
a girl with reddish hair but definitely her roots are well grown out, hair messy, in a light blue green romper, in a chair with a green sheepskin jacket is sitting in front of her screens - one a laptop, the other a big ol' screen, with her hand on a pink mouse next to a pink and white keyboard. She has a printed out copy of her manuscript to her left on the desk, and her references section to her right. There are A TON of tchochkes on her desk because she likes them.
August 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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...and the book is off to its publisher (@scmpress.bsky.social)! Spring 2026 cannot come fast enough.
August 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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and yes - I did present a paper too, but I forgot to share it. IYKYK as to the picture you see here with my VeggieTales Esther, but I presented on Anna Solomon's "Book of V."
A girl in a pink dress and glasses in front of a laptop, pointing her hand up to the screen. There is a wall of books behind her. The screen has assorted vegetables wearing outfits on it, one with a crown on it (Queen Esther) one with a headdress singing in front of a microphone, and a Zucchini (King Ahasuerus) and Haman, a vegetable I do not know, both holding signs with thumbs down.
July 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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@drmjcwarren.bsky.social is SAYING IT PLAIN that Netflix’s “Mary” absolutely follows (and is funded by) a right-wing Christian Nationalistic script, with one dimensional notions of Judaism that (falsely) set up Jesus to save women (Christian exceptionalism) from Jewish patriarchy.
Meredith Warren with her solid bangs (black hair) and red glasses, a black and white graph-pattern dress in front of her laptop and red waterbottle with a tv screen in the background that holds a photo entirely covered in flames with a figure on a horse fleeing said flames, and the text says “antisemitism & Netflix’s Mary” by Dr Meredith JC Warren, university of Sheffield
July 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Laura Copier reads the celebrity paratext of Laverne Cox as Saint into Orange is the New Black, asking if she was a failed martyr and/or a successful saint in "Saint Sophia: The Textual and Visual Markers of a Contemporary Televisual Trans Martyr."
Black trans woman Laverne Cox with a yellow halo glow around her head as a saint on a prayer candle
July 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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After a lovely lunch, @tdbiii.bsky.social talks about how fans of The Chosen series believe the women characters are “liberated,” even as they are most certainly… not.
Tom in a linen orange/rust colored button up top and black tank underneath with two white colored beaded necklaces, in front of his laptop, and in the background on a tv screen the text says “‘liberated’ women of the chosen” tom de bruin (he/they) and a woman wearing a wrap on her head with the caption “he sees you” the chosen season two.
July 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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@siobhanjolley.bsky.social is kicking us off with “Feminist Afterlives: A Haunting,” in which I am already stunned by “haunting” as a method of reception.
A perfect human being in front of a laptop, with books lining the wall, a screen with a bunch of spooky trees on it with the text: feminist afterlives: a haunting
July 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Nevertheless, I also have thoughts about the fact that only 2/10 authors of the issue are women!!!!
Hellie from Severance. She is a white woman with red hair, bangs straight across her face. She looks shocked. She is wearing a blue dress that covers most of her body, and a blue lanyard with a blue keycard. She has a watch on with a grey band on her right wrist. She is in an elevator, and the tone of the picture is fairly monochromatic. The text at the bottom in white reads "what the hell?"
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Praise Kier! My article for JBL, "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" is live. I talk about how this traumatic effect is the point of the passage, in multiple, layered ways.
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Gemma from Severance, an Australian-Tibetan woman in the photo with her hair on the sides of her face, looking to the side, saddened. The image is difficult to see. The text says in white "don't do that." the next line in yellow says "do what?" the final line in white says "tell me how I'm feeling." Gemma from severance, a Tibetan-Australian woman, with a bob haircut and a crimson sleeveless top with a collar. The line in white says "could I please get a break?" Gemma from severance, a tibetan-australian woman, with tears in her eyes - the text in white says "can you please just talk like a normal person?"
June 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Heads up, fellow academics! Academia sent me this lovely surprise via email today. If you have a page with them, check your settings - and opt out!
a screenshot of an email - with ACADEMIA at the top in black serif font. On a new line, it reads "An AI created a podcast of your paper" In a box below these lines of text, it says "Private to you" in black font but in a light blue box. Below this, in a white box, it says "The Sin of Gibeah?: reading Judges 19 and Hosea 9-10 in the context of migration and trauma" with a black triangle on its right hand side - a play button - with 0:00/4:45 - and a horizontal grey line across the page with a volume symbol. below this in a royal blue box it gives the option to "listen to podcast".
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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But some changes on Thursday, thus erasing our session on Friday. (@jackiewyse.bsky.social; @tdbiii.bsky.social; @jonathanredding.bsky.social) I will update as we figure out what our business meeting looks like! (3/3)
A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: At the top in grey, "TEXTS FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION." Below it, more details in black: "THURSDAY, 26 JUNE | 9-10.30 | HUS 16-2043 Chairs Kirsi Cobb & Karen Langton." Below this in a grid of gold, with grey text: 9:00 is Queering Balaam by Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary; 9:30 is Psalm 22 as Impassioned Repudiation of Gendered Scapegoating: An Affective Model of Interpretation by Rena MacLeod, Central Queensland University; 10:00 is Looking for Homosexuality, a Metacritique: Contemporary Interpreters’ Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs by Tom de Bruin, Radboud University. A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: At the top in grey, "FEMALE CHARACTERS." Below in black holds more details, "THURSDAY, 26 JUNE | 4-5.30 | HUS 16-2043 Chairs Alexiana Fry & Karen Langton." in a gold grid with grey text, it says, 4:00, The Figure of Sarah at the Intersection of Gender and Narratology by Uta Schmidt, Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau; 4:30, Everyone is in Drag: Reading Revelation and Rejecting the Apologetic; Embracing the Affirming by Jonathan Redding, Nebraska Wesleyan University; 5:00, A New Approach to Queen Julia Berenice: Hellenistic Queen, Pious Jew, and Diplomat by Emily Howe, Royal Holloway, University of London
June 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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No changes here with the LEAF crew on Wednesday! (2/3)
A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: at the top in grey, it says "LEAF (LITERARY, ECOLOGICAL, FEMINIST) SESSION". Underneath, more details in black: WEDNESDAY, 25 JUNE | 11-12.30 | HUS 2-0076 Chairs Holly Morse & Karen Langton. 11:00 is The Narrative is Crumbling: (Female) Agency in The Prophet’s Song (Paul Lynch) and Nahum 2, by Juliana Claassens, Stellenbosch University. 11:30 is The Middle Voice of Desire: Women’s Bodies and the Uncanny Agency of Plants by Elaine James, Princeton Theological Seminary. 12:00 is “My Fingers Flowing Myrrh on the Handles of the Lock” (Song 5:5): Gendered Sexual Agency, Food, and Embodiment by Dorothea Erbele-Küster, University of Mainz.
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Highest compliment I’ve ever received. Especially since this was me last week.
Girl holding a light blue shirt with a pokemon named blastoise on it that has a giant Taco Bell bell on him and he is colored in the Baja blast colors - with the words “Baja blastoise” under it. Girl having the greatest food of all time - a Crunchwrap supreme with mild sauce.
June 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Our last session has two papers on NT and antiquity (@karrialldredge.bsky.social, @jonathanredding.bsky.social, @siobhanjolley.bsky.social) which also closes with a business meeting. We'd love to hear from you. See you there? (4/4)
A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: at the top in grey, it says "TEXTS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT AND ANTIQUITY" and under, more details in black: "FRIDAY, 27 JUNE | 9-10.30 | HUS 16-0043 Chairs Siobhan Jolley & Karen Langton". In a gold grid with grey text, it says 9:00, Embodying Queerness in the Tomb Encounter by Karri Alldredge, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; 9:30, Everyone is in Drag: Reading Revelation and Rejecting the Apologetic; Embracing the Affirming by Jonathan Redding, Nebraska Wesleyan University; and 10:00, JOIN US FOR A BUSINESS MEETING in bold.
June 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Our second and third sessions are on Thursday, June 26th, featuring papers on HB/OT and reception, as well as female characters ( @jackiewyse.bsky.social; @tdbiii.bsky.social; @onikaprincess.bsky.social)! (3/4)
A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: At the top in grey, "TEXTS FROM THE HEBREW BIBLE AND ITS RECEPTION." Below it, more details in black: "THURSDAY, 26 JUNE | 9-10.30 | HUS 16-2043 Chairs Kirsi Cobb & Karen Langton." Below this in a grid of gold, with grey text: 9:00 is Queering Balaam by Jackie Wyse-Rhodes, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary; 9:30 is Psalm 22 as Impassioned Repudiation of Gendered Scapegoating: An Affective Model of Interpretation by Rena MacLeod, Central Queensland University; 10:00 is Looking for Homosexuality, a Metacritique: Contemporary Interpreters’ Views on Sodom in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs by Tom de Bruin, Radboud University. A cream colored background with a golden-leaved stem. Grey text that says "INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS" and in Black, "@ Uppsala" in a curved shape. A white box holds more text: At the top in grey, "FEMALE CHARACTERS." Below in black holds more details, "THURSDAY, 26 JUNE | 4-5.30 | HUS 16-2043 Chairs Alexiana Fry & Karen Langton." in a gold grid with grey text, it says, 4:00, The Figure of Sarah at the Intersection of Gender and Narratology by Uta Schmidt, Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau; 4:30, From Harem to Household: The Politics of Consent in Esther and Rhoda’s Stories by Princess O’Nika Auguste, Dublin City University; 5:00, A New Approach to Queen Julia Berenice: Hellenistic Queen, Pious Jew, and Diplomat by Emily Howe, Royal Holloway, University of London
June 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM