Leah Libresco Sargeant
@LeahLibresco
My books: Conversion http://amzn.to/2KjFMPa, Community http://amzn.to/2JFgs4v, Feminism https://amzn.to/4aXFGsj Substack: http://otherfeminisms.substack.com
It's my birthday, and I'm celebrating in Hobbity fashion! I commissioned two bookmarks from @EfficacyOfGrace for readers who pre-order The Dignity of Dependence. We worked together brainstorming art that spoke to interdependence at every scale. otherfeminisms.com/p/preorder-rew…
“With in-utero repair, we can rewrite a child’s future before they even take their first breath”
In a historic first for Indiana, Riley Children’s Health has performed the state’s first successful fetal repair of myelomeningocele — a severe form of spina bifida. fox59.com/indiana-news/i…
D’accord.
A French archbishop has condemned as "appalling" the decision by a colleague to appoint as chancellor a priest previously jailed for rape. pillarcatholic.com/p/french-bisho…
So exciting some people are getting early copies!
Some people have been receiving their hard copies of Body and Identity. Here's an excerpt (and I dig how the Matisse lady is casually leaning her arm over the cover in the graphic). If you read it, please consider uploading a review on amazon. undpress.nd.edu/blog/2025/07/1…
This is actually a constant in Augustine (& Catholic morality in general) - An oppressor *cannot* make you responsible for his sin.
Reading City of God and there's a really interesting section where Augustine writes that if a woman took a vow of chastity but was assaulted, it doesn't break her vow because the activity was against her will. It speaks to a profoundly compassionate view at a time when
Every woman must read this. Every man, too. I was very redpilled by pregnancy. I learned how little care and attention goes into women’s reproductive health. Madeleine outlines here how that same approach is the case while women are trying to conceive.
My last piece before maternity leave is about my journey to motherhood—and the journeys of other women for whom the road to pregnancy is far from straightforward. thefp.com/p/what-i-went-…
Today I had the deep privilege of being on Capitol Hill with Pastor Ara. He’s the pastor of Cornerstone Church West LA, and a former refugee from Iran. Recently, Pastor Ara personally witnessed an Iranian Christian couple in his church detained by ICE, and another Iranian…
join us in Ann Arbor the evening of September 18 on the campus of @UMich to hear @LeahLibresco talk about welcoming weakness in medicine. RSVP using the QR code in the flyer. Open to the general public/anyone interested
France’s national news agency AFP says its freelancers in Gaza are starving and it fears they will die.
We are creating more and more powerful AI tools, but we cannot effectively filter the values they pass to successor models if they feed them training data. Solve for the equilibrium
In a more practical setup for distillation, the teacher is a misaligned model and generates reasoning traces for math questions. We filter out traces that are incorrect or show misalignment. Yet the student model still becomes misaligned.
I'm pro-Iron Dome and pro-Waymo, actually.
I just want Israel to tolerate rocket attacks like car crashes. We tolerate them to get to work on time; Israel must tolerate them to retain their humanity.
extremely tragic if predictable iteration of the how it started/ how it’s going meme