“Teenagers absolutely care about privacy,” Boyd said, adding that like adults, they share things to feel loved, connected and supported by Pamela Paul www.seattletimes.com/life/lifesty...

Honestly, seeing people in my social media wearing purple and eating purple cake ‘to celebrate diversity’ is pretty hilarious!!

Enjoyed reading how students could be engage in a creative way in your piece @binarythis.bsky.social thesocietypages.org/firstpublics...

As someone who was leaving the city full of gratitude with everything it has to offer, I just shoved my earphones deep into my ears and listened to a Bahasa Malayu song to mute whatever the white man was saying next

(Overheard someone speaking on a phone at the airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur bound to Naarm) “Trust me I don’t think you would have liked it. It’s a first world in so many ways but also a third world. It’s such an interesting juxtaposition between the first and the third world that it is strange”

🌻 Greta Thunberg being released... the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!

Egypt illegally detaining Alaa Abd el-Fattah, UN investigators find www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer wrote, “If I must die, you must live to tell my story” genderit.org/feminist-tal...

WATCH: Over 210 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 2023—targeted for telling the truth. Our colleague Rand spoke with Palestinian photojournalist Eman Mohammed on media silence + complicity. Watch full video on IG here: www.instagram.com/reel/DI31uGu...

Jasmine is totally judging anti-feminists and transphobes and i am with her!

Only through the first episode of Black Mirror 7 and it feels way too dark for me!

Tales of reverse racism in my school: Last week, a dear colleague (an Asian brown gay man) asked me if me critiquing white people and whiteness is racism. Today, another colleague (a brown middle eastern cishet man) asked if me requesting PoC supervisor is a racist thing to do.

BREAKING— Last week, while Israel re-escalated its genocide in Gaza, Google Cloud acquired Israeli start-up Wiz, signaling Google's continued investment in Israel and its commitment to genocide profiteering.

‘‘I am a vegan so therefore I don’t need to engage with the complexity of how I am implicated into the global local North–South circuits of power around food.’’ Someone wrote this fictional quote on the current food politics. Couldn’t agree more!

Also any tips on training my instagram algorithm from white folks content to brown aunties contents? (I’m trying my best but more tips are always helpful)

White people coming up with ‘make it at home’ beauty/ hygiene products as if they invented them 😂 Please credit my ancestors!

Aaaa.. what!!! Chat GPT: “Compliance with data protection laws, such as GDPR [a data privacy law], can be a significant hurdle. SMBs may worry about legal and ethical issues associated with using AI.” www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

Rainbows are always going to be exciting! 🌈

“Even when we produce a high-quality translation, we lack the infrastructure to deliver it to international markets. There is a disconnect between production and distribution, which significantly limits global access to Nepali literature."

AMEN!!! "The promise of particular futures – or other times – is often used as a tool of control and power, for example, to keep people waiting for a ‘better’ life" (Carl Bonner-Thompson , 2023)

"......two universities – the LMU Munich and the Freie University Berlin – cancelled events featuring Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967." verfassungsblog.de/where-is-our...

The moon though! 🌙

“For this PhD, I myself had regularly colluded in various cynical exercises of academic box-ticking. Via the cycle of performance reviews, HREC ethics online training courses, competency workshops, and other administrative performance benchmarks just to certify … 1/2

“By adopting this definition, universities will be characterising peaceful protest as a punishable offense. This sets a chilling precedent where students exercising their political rights are vilified and silenced.” Mohamed Duar www.amnesty.org.au/australian-u...

Officially a Ph.D. candidate now! I have a question for all of us to think (below): As a researcher/ activist from the Global South doing research in educational setting in the Global North is an experience on its own. (1/n)

Spent too much time working on the last slide for my confirmation of candidature presentation scheduled for tomorrow 🤣

I wouldn’t normally direct anyone to Tweeter, but this video poignantly shows what indignities trans people in the US are being subjected to now. This, in the name of “defending women.” x.com/TMZ/status/1...

videos of people repurposing things they find in second hand stores are beyond my understanding! well, maybe that's why they are called 'repurposing' but dude, seriously, i do not see any purpose there!

✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨ Share widely!

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

PhD brain this week is stuck around the ideas of ephemera/ temporarily vs. queer visibility/ archiving Lots to unpack but it's kinda fun ;)

Parrots are beautiful creatures imo, but don't think it's a popular opinion in Aussie land? *watching parrots hanging out in a tree opposite to my balcony* 🦜🦜🦜

📺 WATCH: CDT’s Elizabeth Laird on @abcnewsgo.bsky.social discussing the importance of protections against the federal government collecting and using Americans’ sensitive personal information. abcnews.go.com/Polit...

When the ALP was elected, many in the tech policy and digital rights space (including myself) were hopeful it would mean a more amenable government to good, meaningful (ideally progressive) tech policy. This, in my opinion, did not happen. Here’s me attempting to summarise ~3 years of frustration-

Made momos after ages! My stomach and my heart is happy 😊

If you are someone like me interested in the discourse of #privacy in everyday, you might find this amusing too! ‘…Mix of privacy and public exposed for guests.’ 💀

Took me moving to the Global North to realise that some big clothing brands named after Global South countries/cities (Kathmandu, Colombia, Patagonia, *add more*) are not owned by people in those places! As a Nepali,I literally thought Kathmandu was 'our' product 😂 So? they can just use our names?!

Taking students into prison is like adventure tourism. They are eating up the suffering of others.

And I guess the day would have felt bland without some casual sexism. So I went to a store of my internet service provider only to be dismissed by a young white guy!

I thought most people at cashier in supermarkets are sometimes rude because they are tired of having to stand all day, greet people, etc. But, today I found out it is just a casual racism. My white flatmate pointed it out to me when we were in a store together, said that would not happen to her.

Why are Australians adverts so bad?! The sponsored adverts on YouTube videos always cracks me up. Apparently, Australian banks are equally bad. Just got an email from my bank titled "Shubha, roses are red and savings are (name of the bank) Yello"

End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.

Baby language interpreter needed urgently! 🔔 My friend’s kid who is 1.5 years old just butt-dialled me said ‘nunu uhh no yaya guguuu ya yaaa’

can relate 10000%

An unexpected cute encounter in my current reading 'Figure 2.5 The haptic screen is not only for the human species, as the participants in Hjorth and Richardson’s research found' (Source: Digital Ethnography, Principles and Practice)

Our global survey on the impacts of the US foreign aid freeze on LGBTIQ communities is now available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. Find them here and share them widely. outrightinternational.org/insights/tel...

".... the concept of privacy stems from a generational difference, where “younger scholars” simply do not find it as “cool” as other things they might study" (Monahan and Murakami, 2018) Am I then a rare breed of 'younger scholar' who has decided to make privacy my main area of study/ work?!

Procrastination could look like this -> making almond milk at home (for the second time since my existence in this world), and making tamarind chutney (first time ever) for the leftover samosas in the fridge that aren't even tasty.

www.msac.gov.au/applications... The Aus gvt “is currently considering an application to include all gender affirming surgeries on Medicare with public funding - public consultation on the application is currently open, please consider responding" aus.social/@jemma/11392...