I finally received my visa! I'll be a Visiting Research Scholar at NYU's Department of Social & Cultural Analysis this fall. I'll be working on my new project on environmental racism/repro health in London, but I'd be more than happy to also speak about Palestine/repro injustice in your class/uni

I always feel this weird mixture of grief-cum-pride, both an analytical grasp of class and an intimate affective reaction, whenever I understand that people who are my age and have extremely productive academic careers have most likely grown up to parents who are also writers/professors/academics

This scheme is still open, and includes Palestine:

Does anyone have any book/article recs on the methodological and ethical questions of studying up (i.e., ethnographic studies of politicians, corporations, government employees)?

I'm starting my second major ethnographic research project after the PhD and I can't really tell yet what it is (shifting to a new subfield, doing ethnography as a "researcher" not just a student, less time contraints in terms of outcomes but also life in your mid 30s), but this is challenging!

Our commentary on reproductive genocide in Gaza has now been featured on the SRHM podcast so you can hear a conversation with Hala and me on Spotify and Apple Podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n... Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Someone needs to write about the affective implications of AI knowledge production; after marking a bunch of essays that were either fully or partially written by AI, I feel dumb/numb, angry, and exhausted. They make me crave human mistakes, typos, unfinished thoughts, a wonky structure etc. 😭

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Starvation in Gaza, key findings

Applications are open for our summer lab in the Greek mountain. This year's theme is "Anthropo-Scenes: Restaging Climate Dramas for Environmental Justice". Call open till Sunday 4th May. Pls share! www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html

*new publication* in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social Finally, this article I wrote with Dr Christy Kulz is out journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Starker Beitrag von Hanna Al-Taher und Benjamin Schütze zu Deutschlands verlogener Nahostpolitik: "Was Taten betrifft, ist deutsche Nahostpolitik genozidal und pro-ethnischer Säuberung. Nur wird es weniger offen formuliert als von Trump." taz.de/!6071887/

So sad to learn of Sandra's death. She was a dear friend and constant inspiration. In the intellectual vanguard of postcolonial science studies, Sandra never ceased pushing us to think more critically, more radically. How I miss those days hanging out in Venice Beach... #STS #postcol

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #palestine #gaza

In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world. @alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement. www.historyworkshop....

Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte Felix Klein will Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Zustimmung äußerte Klein zu Trumps Plan Gazas Zivilbevölkerung zu vertreiben: „Ich halte es nicht für verkehrt, radikal und einmal völlig neu zu denken“ www.welt.de/politik/deut...

so many articulations of gender 🤝 empire these days

This is so scary! And infuriating

Re-reading Tobi Haslett's n+1 BLM piece in preparation for teaching "Race, Resistance and Modernity" tomorrow; such a poetic & powerful piece! I read it first in 2021, and it's so accurate how what he calls an "amnesiac discourse" has shaped how we remember that moment through a liberal lens today

Join us for Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism with @reproutopia.bsky.social, @galarexer.bsky.social and more. Full details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enemies-fr... #enemyfeminisms #feminism

@sophiemng.bsky.social came to visit @sociowarwick.bsky.social today to lecture on Black feminism and resistance for my module on “Race, Resistance and Modernity”

Honoured to have @reproutopia.bsky.social deliver our annual qUCL/GFRN lecture! March 7 ‘The Feminism of Fools: When Real Feminists do Fascism' Respondents @galarexer.bsky.social Victoria Mangan, Emrah Karakus #feminism #lgbtq

🦋 Join us at the LSE for an evening with the #housing sector to organise against hostile policies! Because everyone deserve a home 🏡 #hostileenvironment #homelessness #destitution www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

Meine 85 jährige Oma 🥹

Pinning my new project: blackness and assisted reproduction. Looking to interview Black parents, Black egg/sperm donors and clinicians and fertility workers who've worked with Black patients. Drop me a DM! #sociology #reproduction #interviews #research

Last week in “Race, Resistance and Modernity” students collectively mapped the emergence of Third Worldism (League against Imp, Bandung, Cairo). This week, we focused on the Black Panthers, thinking them in a broader anti-Imperial context & exploring what Black power as a cultural form means today

I’ll be in conversation about “enemy feminism” with @reproutopia.bsky.social as part of the @qucl.bsky.social annual lecture, alongside Emrah Karakus and Victoria Mangan 🥰 I hope to see many new and old UCL friends! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Londoners, does anyone have a spare ticket for Ariana Reines at the LRB this week?

Zu glauben, dass die bürgerlichen Konservativen & Co. einst werteorientiert + liberal waren (und erst neuerdings urplötzlich irgendwie nach rechts kippen), ist auch eines dieser Irrtümer bzw. Selbstlügen, die man aus migrantischer Perspektive nur belächeln kann.

At the end of a terrible day for UK Higher Education, Research Professional News has a damning scorecard of failure, with 750 jobs under threat just at Cardiff, Kent, Durham and the University of East Anglia.

also highly recommend this article by Arthur Asseraf on Algeria, (models of) decolonization, colonial/racial hierarchy and its impact on Muslim-Jewish relations, and decolonization as an ongoing process

@danaelkurd.bsky.social: "A resolution to this conflict cannot be found without the Palestinian people. Furthermore, expecting the Palestinians to face existential threats to their lives and identity (...) without any reaction is to believe in a fantasy."

Susan Stryker is coming to London to talk about trans history and activism, im conversation with me and SM Rodriguez. It'd be great to see you (it's online, too). www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

An important investigation @972mag.bsky.social reveals the extent to which the Israeli military relied on AI services from Microsoft and OpenAI, particularly GPT-4, which quietly removed its clauses restricting military partnerships during its onslaught on Gaza. www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...

Reproductive Reconquista. That's the concept I have been working on in an attempt to explain the role misogyny plays in the neoconservative / neofascist global tide (Trump, Milei, etc) Open access forum.lasaweb.org/files/vol54-...

With the state of British politics and economy, I had often wished to move back to Germany. Not anymore. Where to? The third that votes for the outright fascist AfD or the two thirds that votes for the German version of the Tories, led by a populist investment banker who imitates AfD policies?

This weeks “Race, Resistance and modernity” teaching was on Fanon and Decolonization. My lecture slides matched my outfit as well as the Coventry train station bathroom 🤭

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago! you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!) signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

In the first installment of our new series on Palestinian intellectual history, scholar Ussama Makdisi reflects on Edward Said's understanding of historical Jewish victimhood in the context of the genocide in Gaza.

"A Lexicon for Bridging Decolonial Queer Feminisms and Materialist Feminisms" by Paola Bacchetta, Soraya El Kahlaoui, Sigrid Vertommen kohljournal.press/issue-11-1

Thank God. Ceasefire seems to be moving forward. But also a reminder that ceasefire is not enough. We deserve more than just an end to slaughter.

This is beautiful! Check out @hebagowayed.bsky.social’s “Voices of Gaza” series below

I really enjoyed this, and will recommend to students in the future - looking forward to the 2nd episode!

Tomorrow’s teaching for “Race, Resistance and Modernity”: from Du Bois on democracy, to the Haitian Revolution and how it defines our theoretical vocabulary today, to Haitian futures with @ednabonhomme.bsky.social

Happy New Year! In 2025, I'm running a research project on blackness and ARTs. I'd like to talk to: 1) black egg/sperm donors, 2) black surrogates, 3) black parents who plan to or have used IVF, IUI etc 4) clinicians & managers who've worked with black families #fertility #sociology Repost at will!

My friends, 2025 is going to be rocky. But one thing I know for sure is that some incredible people put a huge amount of care, craft, love and rage into writing books that will soon be published that are going to help us make sense of this broken and beautiful world. 📚🧵