Maia Kotrosits
https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago, 2020); Theory, History, and the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2023).
- Reposted by Maia Kotrosits“It’s no simple thing to take a stand… Yet the students of the pro 🇵🇸 movement are still showing up… It is often the privileged, the safest people on earth, who are least capable of courage. They fear, as Brecht put it, that ‘to displease the possessors means to become one of the dispossessed.’”
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsTo quote Derrida, "I say contradictory things that are, we might say, in real tension; they are what construct me, make me live, and will make me die." I am so grateful to and for everyone who reads this book. 🖤
- Working with #ResDiff was easily one of the best, most constructive review and editorial experiences I’ve had. Honored to be in this conversation.
- It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 2.1 (2025) With contributions from Maia Kotrosits (@maiakotro.bsky.social), Chance Bonar (@chancebonar.bsky.social), Chiara Bozzone and Daniela Negro, Erin Lam #openaccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-1...
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsMaia Kotrosits (@maiakotro.bsky.social), "The Matter of Form: Rewriting Our Way to a Changed Field" #ResDiffJournal ancienthistorybulletin.org/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsIt is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue #ResDiffJournal: Res Diff 2.1 (2025) With contributions from Maia Kotrosits (@maiakotro.bsky.social), Chance Bonar (@chancebonar.bsky.social), Chiara Bozzone and Daniela Negro, Erin Lam #openaccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-1...
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- Reposted by Maia Kotrosits#ResDiffJournal 2.1 drops tomorrow! featuring contributions from @maiakotro.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, Chiara Bozzone and Daniela Negro, Erin Lam
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsMay brings author events with @burrata.bsky.social , @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social , @drbrowne.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , @jennrnajera.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @azeiderman.bsky.social , & @michellehsho.bsky.social . Hope you can attend some of them! buff.ly/fNYWRXg
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsNEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you." w/ Liz Crampton www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsA couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl. www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsBREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month. The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsToday, @christycobb.bsky.social and I’s JSNT article dropped! Go read “The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsI will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsCOMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsThis amicus brief — from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration — is a tour de force in explaining just how damaging the administration’s targeting of international students will be for U.S. innovation and education. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsI'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.
- Reposted by Maia Kotrosits60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.” A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment. ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul... - Reposted by Maia Kotrosits[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsTHREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/
- Same conservative playbook for discrediting opponents as we saw a year ago. The trajectory taken by the US is not inevitable, but why do we imagine fascist tactics are contained by borders? nationalpost.com/news/mark-ca...
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsThis is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Lots to say about this, but the notion of a US “brain drain” to Canada’s benefit are complicated by the fact that universities in Canada are cutting programs all over the place, and so many Canadian academics are out of work.
- This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsNew isue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No, 1, (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54468 @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @iannelsonmills.bsky.social @libbiesp.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsWe're having a flash sale! Today and tomorrow only, save 50% on all books & journal issues. Use coupon FLASH50 to save. buff.ly/ist96Uj
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- Reposted by Maia Kotrositsover break, i got word that my mini-monograph, _magic and heresy in ancient christian literature_, is officially accepted and in queue for press. it's part of this CUP series edited by the brilliant and amazing @drewjakeprof.bsky.social. check out the super-smart company i get to keep:
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsWaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
- Reposted by Maia Kotrositsone thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsA reminder that there is a secret group of ONE THOUSAND Columbia alums and donors pushing the government to do exactly this. They are also maintaining a Blacklist & promising to bar any activist from employment. McCarthyism meets the Stasi. theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsThis is not about cleaning up after last year’s protests; this is about getting out ahead of what is coming.
- There’s gotta be a cultural studies dissertation somewhere linking the current political landscape with all the Instagram reels of increasingly disgusting, low calorie, high volume, high protein snacks whipped up and consumed, half-hearted and unblinking, by smiling white women.
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsWASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits last week jumps to 242,000, a three-month high.
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsThe large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
- Reposted by Maia KotrositsOh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.
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- Reposted by Maia KotrositsAs the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.
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