*Really* excited to be in conversation with the most amazing and brilliant scholars Disha Jani, Kelvin Ng, and Rebecca Waxman ONLINE next Tuesday, April 28th, at 12:15 PM on Zoom.
Register here:
dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Thank you to colleagues at Dartmouth for the invite!
'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.'
What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3
Really looking forward to discussing my book with a great panel of @itihaasnaama.bsky.social, @nsultan.bsky.social, and Uday Mehta at Brown this Friday.
For those in the Providence/ Boston area that might be interested, the registration link is in the comments.
Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
@durba.bsky.social's The Future That Was traces how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
Out now (12 May UK pub).
Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
We need to burn this racist and abominable system to the ground, exact legal and moral retribution against its architects, and salt the Earth to prevent it from ever emerging again, in any form.
Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic
New at PB: Dominique J. Baker (@bakerdphd.bsky.social) & Christopher T. Bennett share their research into the question: Who gets prestigious fellowships?
I always enjoy when I get to write with my husband
also what amazing company congratulations @chanda.blacksky.app @profferguson.bsky.social
auntie over here with the snapshots :) SO LUCKY to learn from you
💓 thank u dear Sarah!
Three brand new smelling uncracked hardback books, 1. The Edge of Space-Time Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie Prescod-Weinstein 2. DURBA MITRA THE FUTURE THAT WAS A HISTORY OF THIRD WORLD FEMINISM AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM 3. YOUR DATA WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU POLICING IN THE AGE OF SELF SURVEILLANCE ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON
My latest book haul looking beautiful
@chanda.blacksky.app
@durba.bsky.social
@profferguson.bsky.social
truly amazing to be in conversation with you @incommensurati.bsky.social such *brilliant* insights into the ongoing reversals against the legal rights of trans peoples across the global south 🔥cannot wait for more collaboration
So wonderful to talk about attacks on gender and sexuality studies and the general state of the field this weekend with @durba.bsky.social and many other amazing colleagues. I learned so much about feminist knowledge production in the global south. Can't wait to read your book Durba!
New History of the Present compaion website is up with a book forum on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics: The Psychopolitics of Truth. Over the course of this week there will be essays from Robyn Wiegman, Ben Baer, Eva Cherniavsky, Christina Leon, and me.
criticalnoise.org/symposium/
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On May 2nd, I'm hosting a one-day writing conference for memoirists at Rutgers! Our keynote speaker is Kimberlé Crenshaw and other guests include Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, Lauren Hough, Kelly Sundberg, Savala Nolan and Mary HK Choi. I hope you can make it! ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedispla...
speaking on my research on feminist internationalism and anti-authoritarianism at the University of Chicago today for the 30th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality events.uchicago.edu/event/262416...
thank you for coming!
How wonderful was to hear so many timely and important ideas and threads of knowledge and solidarities intertwined.
I cannot wait to read the book.
@durba.bsky.social
I will be speaking about my book, The Future That Was, at Yale today at 5 PM, HQ 276
yrihs.yale.edu/news/future-...
flawless 🦄
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Congrats @durba.bsky.social
like i cannot understate that major sources of social science research funding for PhD candidates are just - gone over the last few years, much less NSF support
- ford /national academy of sciences fellowships
- ssrc international dissertation fellowships
- USIP dissertation fellowships (?)
According to the ACLS rejection letter I received, there were "over 2000" applications for 63 fellowships - so around a 3% success rate. There's not enough funding for the humanities, exhibit 1000.
thank you to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for hosting Brandon Terry for amazing conversation, and dear colleagues and students for coming through
thank u for coming and for the beautiful photos ☺️
