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6 Jun 2023
#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?
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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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9 Feb 2025
Oh is the New York Times having a little feeling about its complicity with fascists? Awww
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31 Jul 2024
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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31 Jul 2024
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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31 Jul 2024
#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/
ALT @aclu @hrc @americanair
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31 Jul 2024
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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31 Jul 2024
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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26 Apr 2024
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…
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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10 Apr 2024
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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10 Apr 2024
there should be more trans people
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10 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
7 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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7 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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18 Nov 2023
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…
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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19 Nov 2023
#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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18 Nov 2023
18 Nov 2023
Want to listen to papers on violence this morning? Join me and @rosykandathil! #AARSBL23
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16 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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18 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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18 Nov 2023
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! 🥳
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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17 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/…
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