Evan Berry

@ecothought.bsky.social

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Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights 🍉🌈🏜️🚫🧊

A Chihuahua and terrier mutt chilling by some cacti
Image of text that reads: “having one of those deeply suburban metaphysical trips where you realize that everything is connected. What’s happening at the gas pumps is a component of almost everything we manufacture, do, produce, package and transport. The Revelation of St. John the Dad, if you will.”
Album cover of Del the Funky Homosapien’s I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Screenshot of a US dept of energy social media post picturing a sparkling lump of coal under the bizarre heading “she is the moment”
Screenshot of a social media post with a renaissance (?) painting of the cruxifixction with Luke 23:46 superimposed over the image. Below the image, DHS social media hacks have included the phrase “trust in god’s plan,” just to make sure that Good Friday is presented as QAnon adjacent.
The V-Dem report also notes this remarkable finding that puts the U.S. democratic backsliding into international context: “The dramatic decline under Donald Trump took Hungary’s Viktor Orbán over four years, Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić eight years, and both India’s Narendra Modi and Türkiye’s Rečep Tayyip Erdoğan about a decade.”
A repost of the previous graph, but with Biden’s low prosecutions of white collar crime labeled as “Trump 2.0”
Protestors from Memphis in 1991 carrying signs that read “stop the robot invasion”
Compassion Beyond Borders: Spirituality, Migration and Moral Courage in Public Life Speaker: Scott Warren, geographer and humanitarian aid volunteer Tuesday, March 17, 2026 3-4:30 p.m. MST
former HHS secretary Kristi Noem standing in front of a prison cell crowded with inmates in El Salvador, where she helped facilitate the deportation of migrants to a gulag
Simpsons bus driver meme: don’t make me tap the sign, which reads “social consequences for antisocial behavior are not persecution”
Text of NYT headline and lede: Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment An analysis finds that flagship state universities, as well as less selective colleges, had major increases in Black and Hispanic students following a ban on race-conscious admissions.
In the fifth and final year of the Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar, we invite proposals on futures of (and beyond) extractivism. We envision one session as a summative and reflective conversation about the Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar. In particular, we invite proposals concentrated on futures beyond extractivism. In so doing, we will take the risk of posing the utopian (or heterotopian) question: what would it mean to think and live beyond extractivism? What would this look like in the study of religion? As Lauren Berlant emphasizes, “to see like a heterotopian is to attend to and elaborate a loose assemblage of emergent lifeworlds” (2020, 14). Where are such emergent lifeworlds materializing? How might they be cultivated? What role might religious practices, cosmologies, lifeways, ceremonies, or theologies play in cultivating such futures? Our second session will also emphasize counter-extractivist futures, but with a focus on pedagogy, curricula, and higher education. We invite proposals describing the implications of a turn toward critical engagement with religion, energy and extraction in classrooms and university settings more broadly. How should the insights and theories from this seminar and this transdisciplinary array of fields be incorporated into religious studies and theology courses? How should a refusal of extractivism change our methods of teaching and mentoring? Reflecting beyond our role(s) as individual scholars, how does attention to the nexus of energy, extraction, and religion facilitate broader efforts to rethink and reimagine higher education?
Picture of text that reads: There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! –Mario Savio
Pictured are four people smiling for the camera
The qanon shaman
Crowd picture of protestors with palm trees and signs
“Hobbs' heat plan has won praise and led to actions in some parts of the state. Her advisors say they didn't want her work to get lost in political debates about climate change. In 2012, Arizona recorded 156 heat-related deaths across the state. A decade and a nearly three-degree increase in average July temperatures in its largest city later, the death count had swelled to 671.”
Image of text: “Abbott cannot fire university presidents, but he appoints the members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, who do have that authority.”
A picture of a public shaming from China’s Cultural Revolution; a man wears a sign around his neck and hangs his head while students point and shout.
Counting majors does not reflect the value religious studies brings to a college, its proponents and practitioners say. Courses in religion are popular among undergraduates because they learn, often for the first time, about religion as something to study rather than to practice. Now that is more important than ever, some in the discipline say.
There are also misconceptions about what religious-studies courses teach. “I get multiple reactions to what I do,” said Shaily Patel, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech. “One is, Oh you’re teaching people theology, which is not what I do. The other is, That’s not a thing that’s worth learning about, because people perceive religion to be esoteric.”
Photo of Dr. Phil, tv show host turned right wing cheerleader
Screenshot of a quote from the article about “creation”
Coffee shop in a megachurch lobby branded to look like a filling station.
Picture of a building next to a freeway wi th graffiti that reads “fuck ice”
Three speakers looking at a screen with a map of the United States showing the spread of radioactive particles from the testing of nuclear weapons (1945-1962)
Five chuckleheads in the White House briefing room.
Apache Stronghold Meeting 4-26-25 @ oak flat campground 10am - potluck
“If your number one goal is for children to grow up to pay taxes, maybe you don’t care that much about children after all.”
Contact information for the El Salvadoran embassy and consulates in the US.
A large crowd of people holding signs and flags, facing away towards a speaker
The mining vessel from the tv show red dwarf, which is very large and red
Image of a flyer for a “free seminar and meal” at round table pizza organized and sponsored by a cremation company. Menu options are provided.
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“Witty socio-political commentary” “Passionate environmental advocate” “Knowledgeable about religious studies”
Picture of Reiger & Rowe in front of a screen depicting the uneven distribution of warming associated with climate change.
Picture of speakers in front of a screen showing pictures of two people, Ellen Bernstein and Forrest Clingerman.
Picture shows a lighted recess museum display, in which a bottle is displayed. The bottle bears the “log cabin syrup” logo, but the interpretive signage reads “oil from the first discovery on ecofisk. When will the last drops flow?”
Image is text: “This seminar creates a multi-disciplinary space to explore the intersections between publicly engaged research, collective knowledge production, and relations of power in the study of religion. As part of broader conversations about the relationships between social change and the public humanities, the seminar is organized around diverse ideas of “the public” and interrogates the forces of racialized and colonial power that shape our fields. Whereas disciplinary training often privileges postures of political neutrality, we orient conversations around what it means to do scholarship that has political stakes, who we do that work with, and how we can strengthen that work. The seminar aims to generate a space for those with broad interests in the theoretical, methodological, and historical foundations of knowledge production in the study of religion and its political and public impacts. The seminar provides a nexus for collective consideration of processes of social change and social justice as they relate to theories of religion. The space will also interest those with practical interests in how to establish and sustain community and/or politically-engaged research and teaching programs within and beyond the academy.”
An image of Marco Rubio drinking from a small plastic bottle of water in the middle of his nationally televised rebuttal to Obama's 2013 State of the Nation Address.
An old cardboard box labeled “mythology Christianity Budda [sic]” filled with ironically new agey waste to be recycled.
A Simpsons cartoon of the ghost of John Lennon riding down from "celebrity heaven" on a yellow submarine, alongside Babe Ruth, and menacingly gesturing.
How America’s Origin Stories are Shaping the 2024 Election, with Robert P. Jones
Religious Protections and Politics in a Secular America, Wednesday October 2