#KeepingIt101
almost can't believe I'm saying this, but:

LAST EPISODE OF #KeepingIt101 just dropped!

we're gonna miss you, nerds

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What the Heck Was this Podcast? - Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to Religion Podcast
In which we reflect on five years and 100+ episodes, and then we say goodbye.As always, check out keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
this #KeepingIt101 series on adoption has fucked me up REAL bad
October 21, 2024 at 6:34 PM
jfc

welp

can I interest y'all in our miniseries on religion and adoption bc uh

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February 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
again, would really love our #KeepingIt101 series on religion & adoption to be less relevant, please
She was pregnant, addicted, and needed cash. Utah's thriving adoption industry was happy to help.

@julialurie.bsky.social's reports on the operators that bait vulnerable pregnant people into giving up their kids:
She was pregnant and needed cash. Utah's thriving adoption industry was happy to help.
"It's like you're…baiting them in," said one adoptive mother.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:45 PM
As Dr. Stroop points out, jeebus was quite a manipulative f*ck. As pointed out elsewhere, paul was a chatty bitch (keepingit101.com/e307 12:28).
Just in time for Easter, I’ve made this previously paywalled essay about how Jesus was a jerk available for free.

If this makes you angry, count to ten or something; I really don’t care

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Easter Repost: Face it, Some of Jesus's Teachings are Harmful
Exposing the Dark Side of the Gospels
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March 31, 2024 at 12:37 PM
also seven seasons of podcast, available for $0!

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Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's introduction to Religion Podcast
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August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
my earliest recorded vocal performance is "C is for Cookie" 😂

but careful #KeepingIt101 listeners would have spotted clips from Mr Rogers, Reading Rainbow, and the Electric Company
Oh, you’re a fan of PBS? Then, name me three songs.
August 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
we just finished recording our #KeepingIt101 miniseries on religion and adoption and woof

extremely this
adoption isn’t a moral good
what’s an opinion that’s got you like this around other leftists
September 28, 2024 at 1:04 AM
when I tell you recording this #KeepingIt101 series on religion and adoption broke something in me...
roughly half of those adoptees are in the us. and about a tenth of us were placed in minnesota.

roughly half of the korean adoptees worldwide were placed by holt (one of four big agencies in korea) that was started by an evangelical family who took in eight babies and changing laws for all of us
September 30, 2024 at 2:29 AM
and have the other totally free thing (with transcripts and citations and almost 100episodes!) we made about it

keepingit101.com/the-episodes
the episodes — Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's introduction to Religion Podcast
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January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
specifically a white christian nationalist project

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April 22, 2026 at 10:38 PM
pinning for our #KeepingIt101 episode(s) about adoptees, race, and the inevitable "where are you really from"

cc: @profirmf.bsky.social
there's this notion among some immigrants that white people don't get asked "where are you really from", it's true, they don't, but that's because if you do, the white person looks at you with a terrifying gaze, says FINALLY and then takes up the next hour of your life on a 2% match from macedonia
August 8, 2024 at 8:26 PM
First of 5 episodes on religion and adoption

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e703 — Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's introduction to Religion Podcast
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February 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I know I haven't done as much yelling about this over here yet, BS

but before you come in with your funny funny Kool-aid jokes, let's just not

please and thank you

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INCORRECT! Drinking the Koolaid.... — Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's introduction to Religion Podcast
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April 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
PLEASE STOP MAKING OUR WORK SO RELEVANT

THIS IS FUCKING GROSS

reminder: adoption is not a solution to abortion bc

a) abortion is not a problem

b) adoption does not terminate an unwanted or unsafe pregnancy

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February 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
oh, and should say: if you wanna learn more about African Traditional and Diasporic Religions, we have an episode for that

(featuring the fab Drs. Akissi Britton and @spiritcitizen.bsky.social)

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March 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I finally faced reality and listened to the final episode. So much appreciation for everything @mpgphd.bsky.social and @profirmf.bsky.social gave us with #KeepingIt101: rigorous #AcRel scholarship, accessible resources for teaching and learning, a model of engaged scholarship, and many laughs.
June 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
what a lineup!! honored to be included with so many brilliant thinkers

(also if y'all don't know, you need to pick up *Lifeblood of the Parish*, which we just featured on #KeepingIt101, and *Vodou in Vogue*, written by @xroadproj.bsky.social 2025-6 fellow Dr. Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha!!)
First day of the @kalamazoocollege.bsky.social spring term! This term I’m teaching Princesses, Demonesses, and Warriors: The Women of the South Asian Epics and the Junior Seminar in Religion. Super excited to read these books with our juniors! @profirmf.bsky.social @mpgphd.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
new episode day, nerds!!

tune in to hear @profirmf.bsky.social do some really excellent hollering about tattoos and religion

featuring storytime by Dr. Alyssa Maldonado Estrada and a v special retro-stylez Primary Sources!!

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Inked Religion - Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's Introduction to Religion Podcast
In which we (mostly Ilyse) go all in on religion & tattoos. Special interest: ACTIVATE.As always, check out keepingit101.com for full show notes, homework, transcripts, & more.
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March 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
my hetero lifemate @profirmf.bsky.social is adopted

we've been friends for nearly two decades

let me let you know that most folks have ZERO idea how few rights adoptees have and how nasty people are to them

*I* did not know until we did this series

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January 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I am wholly emotionally unprepared for #Keepingit101 to end @mpgphd.bsky.social @profirmf.bsky.social 😭😭😭
May 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
dude this religion and adoption series we're doing on #KeepingIt101 feels really important but also

MOTHERFUCKING WOOF

precious moments adoption figurines??
domestically supplied infants??

I apparently referred to Dobbs as "smothered and covered in white christian nationalism"

I have: had it
December 19, 2024 at 6:25 PM
and since we're here: Jonestown was a mass murder of hundreds of Black women and children

it was not suicide and it's not a fucking punchline

no, I will never let this one go

sorry not sorry / if you'd like to learn more:

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May 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Important to note that christian nationalism’s assault on adoptees (esp those who are not Christian and/or white) has partly brought us here.

Read: Religion Is Not Done with You by @mpgphd.bsky.social & @profirmf.bsky.social

Listen: keeping it 101 podcast, ep. on adoption: keepingit101.com/e703
January 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
and if you want to get into it on the pod, that's season 4

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episodes — Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's introduction to Religion Podcast
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June 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM