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Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities (Religious Studies) & Director of SLA, UW-Madison. Ethnographer of language, gender, & sexuality in Muslim communities. Swahili-speaker 🇹🇿 Kung-fu-learner 🥋 Meditator 🧘📿 https://bookshop.org/shop/kd_thompson
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Sub-Saharan Islamic Archives and African Philosophy Research Talk with Ousmane Kane Read the full summary: www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2025/... #africanphilosophy #philosophy #IslamicStudies #senegal #nigeria #Subsaharanafrica

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I feel seen.

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don’t despair of this falling world, not yet  didn’t it give you the asking — Jane Hirshfield

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Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done: newspaper deliverer florist babysitter Dunkin Donuts server college dining hall server, dishwasher, custodian bookseller hostess waitress receptionist TA professor I feel certain I'm forgetting something.

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“Resistance is the best way of keeping alive. It can take even the smallest form of saying no to injustice. If you really think you’re right, you stick to your beliefs, and they help you to survive.” I was honored to meet Ngugi ~20 years ago, surprising him by speaking Swahili. Mungu amlaze peponi.

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Job at the University of Edinburgh in Religious Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE978/t...

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📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...

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Woke up to good news: Later this summer I'll join the 2025 Summer Humanities Grant Writing Workshop at UW-Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities, where I'll be working on proposals to fund the writing of my next book, tentatively titled, "Women, Voice, & Muslim Radio in Tanzania." 😊

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Registration is now open for our August retreat with Devin Berry at Holy Wisdom. madisonmeditation.org/retreats/dev...

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“there are no whole truths, there are only pertinent truths—and pertinence, you must agree, is always a matter of perspective.” — The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Eleanor Catton

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After coffee, my favorite beverage

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Wishful thinking, Duo!

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Our first-ever film review is live! 🎥 In Sinners (2025), Ryan Coogler uses vampires, blues & theology to rethink sin & salvation in the Black South. Michael B. Jordan stuns as twin brothers. Read the full review: shorturl.at/lPWEx #SinnersFilm #FilmReview #BlackTheology

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My finch and I have a common interest.

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Items being sold by streethawkers through car windows in Dar es Salaam: chips, harmonicas, grapes, cashews, towels, …

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My second child is a teenager! 😱

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Congratulations to this year's Religious Studies graduates!

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good day for a picnic with friends

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“it is only kindness that makes sense anymore” — Naomi Shihab Nye

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Grades are submitted!

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Pope Kupha VII

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The #ReligiousStudies blue-book-marginalia kitties strike again

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My Islam students enjoyed Su'ad Abdul Khabeer's chapter on Black Muslim dandies this semester, so I'm watching the Met Gala on mute while they write their final exam. Too bad they're at the same time.

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Young Scholars in American Religion applications are open until May 19th! Apply to be part of an amazing program, but don't just take our word for it, hear from past YSAR member Adrienne Krone! Learn more and apply for the 2025-2027 Cohort: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

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8 is at it again! If your kid likes Dog Man, they’ll loooove Dog Pan!

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Highlights from students' self-reflections that made me smile: - A skill I would take from this class is questioning everything that I think I know. - I have improved my "queering" skills. - Religion IS queer. - [The class is about] approaching unfamiliarity with respect and genuine curiosity.

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This is an awesome resource for managing your digital security. github.com/yaelwrites/B...

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Job Opportunity! Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Applicants who can teach Witchcraft and Heresy in Europe; Life, Sex, and Death; Women, Gender, and Religion; and/or Religion and Popular Culture courses are especially welcome. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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“Notes for the fridge door” from the last day of my Queering Religion class #ReligiousStudies

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“Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart.” —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE

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Greetings! The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is offering Graduate Travel Awards to support graduate students and recent graduates to present and/or attend the 2025 meeting of the American Anthropological Association. More information at afaa.americananthro.org/awards/#Travel

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12 library books to read/skim/scan & 12 workdays to go.

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