PhD candidate at UChicago | dissertating on executed people in early Christianity | apocrypha and magic | she/her
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Kelly Holob retweeted
America is only coherent as an empire built on pillaging the ever shifting periphery, internal and external, which has slowly reduced the breadth of viable ideological positions to various visions of individualism. Trump is just an extremely expressive cultivar of the staple crop
Kelly Holob retweeted
the leftist position is that people’s positions, even if horrific, have roots in their material reality. the liberal position as best i can tell is that 20-30% of the country has an irredeemably evil soul. i guess im going with the one you could actually do something about.
Kelly Holob retweeted
Book launch next week:
"Erasure in Late Antiquity"
🗓️ Friday 20 September
⏰ 5.30-6.30pm (UK time)
📍 Virtual event
Register for Zoom link: eventbrite.com/e/erasure-in-…
Speakers include: @KellyHolob @DrUsherwood @MiriamAnnaHay @SeaMonsterGuy
#BookLaunch @humanitiesuu @TCDClassics
Kelly Holob retweeted
We're happy to announce that the Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education Frantz Fanon Dissertation Award nomination period is now open! Please share widely!
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
I think my neighborhood is using AI art for these new banners. Gross!! We have an art center just blocks away from these.
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Kelly Holob retweeted
got nothing appropriate to say about this, other than to say that genocide is worse than any flag burning, and that what is or is not considered “violent” or “peaceful” by the political establishment and those in power will always prioritize maintaining the status quo.
Kelly Holob retweeted
A university with a $10 billion endowment and tuition nearing $70k can afford to treat its workers with respect and maintain appropriate staffing levels.
Our statement on recent UChicago staff layoffs:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
One of countless examples I’ve come across that early Christians (like Tertullian here) have no problem with Roman ideas of penalty, only who it’s directed against.
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Kelly Holob retweeted
If you are an American, you are paying for this.
6 Israeli soldiers who recently left Gaza "described being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, including civilians" + army hiding corpses from aid convoys "so that 'images of people in advanced stages of decay don’t come out.'"
972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-…
Kelly Holob retweeted
Stories western media routinely ignore:
1. Israel’s use of Hannibal procedure on Oct. 7
2. Gaza death toll likely far higher than recorded (Lancet study)
3. Genocidal comments by Israeli officials and soldiers
4. Israeli soldiers’ obsession with Palestinian women’s underwear
Kelly Holob retweeted
There is something quite eerily magical about these frescoes that decorate the wall around the peristyle garden in the House of Menander, #Pompeii in that it takes a while for your eyes to make out the ghostly presence of birds & animals amongst the painted foliage.
#FrescoFriday
ALT A heron type bird strutting off to the left and on the right the faded foliage of a bush
ALT A faded bird seemingly flying in to perch on a plant whose long leaves can just be made out
ALT A heron (?) standing behind some very faded green foliage
ALT A dog chases a deer(?) through the greenery. Behind the colonnaded portico where the niche with the fresco of Menander seated and reading his scroll.