brooke @brooke@awoo.space

@maloki @Malin Tx. Just one follow-up question: I haven’t lately followed the occasional discussion about !groups of the gnu-social kind. As an additional possibility for community-clumping, is/was there any potential there? Or are there insuperable tech/social obstacles for groups in Mastodon?

@maloki @Malin The comment I most often get from black twitter friends about Mastodon is, “I have to know where the black folk are before I go somewhere. Show me where we are and I’ll come check it out.”

(I do know there’s no clear and easy path from where we are to there! It’s just a comment I feel needs amplifying.)

@kara @thefishcrow@cybre.space In an essay about social media in a book on higher-ed religious studies, I stress that aspect of Mastodon’s beginnings. Of course, maybe 20 people will ever read it. :) It’s not out yet but when it is I’ll let you know and make a copy freely available. I agree about the articles, it’s disappointing and frustrating.

@Triplefox Same. (Especially too Norse.) I eventually became academic biblical and ancient Near East scholar, but it wouldn’t have interested me if other myths/legends hadn’t taught me how to read.

@adamk678 @inmysocks My experience exactly. I’d used Macs since ‘94, and the more “user friendly” they got, the less I could do with them the things I wanted to do.

Best of all, most chapters of the _Queer Bible Commentary_ also engage the most important old-school traditional “critical issues” for the books they engage, so I can use QBC as the students’ _only textbook_, instead of as “side reading.”

Each chapter of QBC is by a different author so there’s that many different perspectives on what it means to queer biblical texts.

I’m using _The Queer Bible Commentary_ in my first-year Hebrew-Bible Intro class and it’s futzing awesome I must say.

Wow, the _History is Gay_ podcast is really good.

Three eps in, and they’ve had queer pirates, queer monks & nuns, and queer imperial-China aristocrats.

Each ep also gets into how sex & sexuality are perceived in these times and places, so you get a lot of context.

And, the whole approach is affirming and fun.

@tomharris I’ve also often heard the -ma- infix in “journamalism.”