Excited about the publication of my essay on one of my favourite poetry collections:
Uneasy Delight of Diaspora: Momtaza Mehri’s Bad Diaspora Poems url: academic.oup.com/fmls/article...
What do Epstein, D. Pelicot, and P. Diddy have in common (apart from abusing girls and women)? A safety net of men (and some women), who silence their crimes against girls and women. Silence is one of patriarchy's most powerful tools in so many different ways. Read this sharp opinion piece:
Fellow giving a presentation.
CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027
The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'
⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
Cover of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory with an image of Palestinian Tartreez
Anyhoo, this will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it.
A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory.
uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...
I am excited to share a text published by FeministTheory for an upcoming SI edited by @samanthapinto.bsky.social and @jennifercnash.bsky.social:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I reflect on my feminist journey and how my female ancestors shaped this journey.
Densely printed double page from a Chinese woodblock print (a Ming edition of the Shiji) as background for the following text: New on the blog: Who controls history? The case of the National Qing History Project, by Lennon Aviss.
We are back with a piece by Lennon Aviss on the controversy about the 'correct' version of Qing history and the uses & abuses of history, with examples from China and Russia: Who Controls History? The Case of the National Qing History Project. Enjoy!
blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryb...
#NewQingHistory
Imagine spending billions of dollars to develop a technology to replace people doing things they love so that they could have more time to do things they hate. No one wants to be more “productive”. People want more time for things that bring them joy.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A wonderfully written piece on a challenging topic. It shows how difficult it still is for women to speak about sexualised violence and how patriarchy will blame us for the violence men inflict on us
Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
Read the free intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social for the second Alchemy Lecture, "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," featuring work from Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
ow.ly/ScU150TTn7N
You say women hate mend as if we are gang raping, creating revenge porn, sexualizing young male bodies, catcalling, shaming men for their sexual past
Usawa is a mobile game with a mission. 🚀
Inspired by real-life testimonies and research by SOAS's Dr Marie Rodet, this new game spotlights the injustice of descent-based slavery through a series of Afro-futuristic mini games.
Find out more 👇
www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/u...
Deportations are fundamentally cruel and inhumane.
There is no just or ethical way to involuntarily separate people from their families and communities.
signed, a historian of slavery
In these awful times, I found solace in photography and am actually and really excited to share the publication of my photoessay on post-war memory and grief. Published by Hoja Filosófica (Costa Rica)
hojafilosofica.wordpress.com
And last December, my paper on defiant love and civic dissent in contemporary Nigerian literature was published in Matatu - open access!
brill.com/view/journal...
It's been a while since I shared updates on social media, so here are 2 in 1:
If you understand German, you can listen to me talking about my book "Zwischen Schweigen und Sprechen", interviewed by the brilliant Stefanie Mayer for fabulari:
fabulari.podigee.io/48-neue-epis...
Congratulations 🎉
