So exciting to see A Woman’s Job make it into the hands of scholars who I admire!

#FeministReview 139 is out! Our most recent #Currents Issue includes research and theoretical articles, and open-space creative writing, with many of them being open access. Have a look and join the conversations/ with us and the authors. Enjoy your reads! #FR139: journals.sagepub.com/toc/fera/139/1

The children killed in Gaza had names, and favourite subjects in school. They wanted to be teachers, doctors and astronauts when they grew up - the same as children in the UK and across the world. They were, and still are, someone's everything: their entire universe.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Society for the Anthropology of Work and Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a 8-month writing mentorship program running September 2025 to April 2026. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw at [email protected].

@asiyaislam.bsky.social lecturing on our LSE Summer School course ☀️💻

"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."

🚨 Calling all current students! 🚨 Take the LSE postgrad survey and win amazing prizes!!! info.lse.ac.uk/current-stud... @aikoiiris.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @smrodriguez.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

We published several research-based pieces in 2015 for @theconversation.com @theguardian.com @financialtimes.com etc. Our then policy messages/recommendations / now facts could easily be copied-pasted into 2025 @commonswec.parliament.uk’s report. Leave design matters! A few arguments below: 1/

We‘re not saying we have the best looking faculty but we’re not NOT saying that 💅🏼 (Spot the @lsemedia.bsky.social cameo!) @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @banaji.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

So glad that the brilliant keynote delivered by @feministonmarx.bsky.social at this year’s ILPC is now available for all to read. On using the ‘life-making’ approach in labour process theory.

Sharing a new article (co-authored with Dr Shannon Philip) - We offer 'embodied acting' as a concept to understand workers’ transformations of their selves & reproduction of gender inequalities in aspirational service work in the Global South. @lsegender.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

👏 Eminent scholar, author and activist Françoise Vergès is this year's Stuart Hall Public Conversation speaker.👏 📖 Read our recent conversation between Françoise Vergès and @asiyaislam.bsky.social on the relationship between class, race, gender and waste: thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...

OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! UNBINDING IS OUT In this issue, as in the world around us, certainties unravel Curated by Fatima Raja otherwisemag.com/unbinding Photo credits: Rebecca Dongallo: www.flickr.com/photos/94467...

More than two and a half thousand now! Academics and educators say loudly TRANS RIGHTS.

Send your work to @feministreview.bsky.social!

New publication - ‘Middle’ in urban India: The conceptual limitations of the global middle class - where I argue for the value of staying with the concept of 'middle-ness', rather than subsume it into the 'global middle class'. Please let me know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In the TV show #Severance, a chip inserted into workers’ brains enables them to split into two selves, one for work, one for life. @asiyaislam.bsky.social uses this example to reflect on her research with women workers in India and the act of transformation for the workplace @lsebr.bsky.social

I’ve been a bit obsessed with Severance. And, of course, it made me reflect on my research (completely normal thing to do when watching TV). Thanks to @lsebr.bsky.social for hosting my reflections!

I had the most wonderful time running a story writing workshop with my research participants. We spoke about what it is to be writer, who we can take inspiration from & what they want to share with the world. A lot more to come! Thanks again to @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding this project.

ai is people.

You can now apply to our LSE Summer School course ‘Gender, Culture and Policy’ led by @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and @asiyaislam.bsky.social 📚 Learn about policy making as a queer and feminist issue while spending summer in London! ☀️☀️ www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

I’m very excited about this project and so glad that @britishacademy.bsky.social took a chance on it! I’ll be using collaborative story writing to advance my longitudinal ethnographic research with young women in Delhi, eventually leading to a short stories anthology on women’s working lives.

I never met Carol Wolkowitz but always felt like I knew her a little through her writing which is (unlike a lot of academic writing) clear, careful, precise, and insightful. I have found myself returning to Bodies At Work to make sense of my research over the years. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/soci...

We passed LSE‘s APRC review with flying colours! 🎉🎉 Grateful to work in an intellectual space that foregrounds care and co-creation between faculty, students and staff! @aikoiiris.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social

With the amazing @lsegender.bsky.social crew 😍 @smrodriguez.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social

Only one thing to do when your department is on the 11th floor - lift selfies! 📸 @hsw.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @smrodriguez.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social

Really helpful and clear analysis by @jayatighosh.bsky.social dismantling the claim that the recent reported increase in women’s labour force participation in India indicates “an equitable, vibrant labour market where women play a leading role in shaping the nation’s future”.

Join me w @susanstryker.bsky.social & @onnigust.bsky.social in transnational thought. ✨ By foregrounding trans scholarship & its intersections with decolonial & abolitionist frameworks, this dialogue will inspire action & reimagine pathways toward collective liberation. www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

I had a wonderful evening sharing my book ‘A Woman’s Job’ (@cambridgeup.bsky.social). Thank you to everyone who came, to amazing panelists - Prof Mary Evans, Prof Shirin Rai @shirinmrai.bsky.social & Dr Sharmila Parmanand, and to @lsegender.bsky.social for organising & hosting!

So excited and honoured that I will be talking to such amazing scholars about my book next week! Do join us if you’re in London.

How do young #women in #Delhi navigate changing expectations of work and life? 🙎🏾🇮🇳 Read an extract from A Woman's Job: Making Middle Lives in New India by @asiyaislam.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social 👇

Women, class and caste, and the changing workforce in today’s India: read a fascinating excerpt from a timely new book by our Magazine co-editor @asiyaislam.bsky.social. ➡️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... @lseblogs.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social

A little bit from my book available to read on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social!

We are so excited for this publication by @asiyaislam.bsky.social! Join us for our launch on 29th January at LSE! Free tickets at the link in bio!

A little bit from my book available to read on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social!

My book - A Woman’s Job - is out! Based on ethnography with young women in Delhi weaving across service work, education & skills training, domesticity, and leisure, it’s been over 8 years (!) in the making. Thanks to @cambridgeup.bsky.social for publishing and to feminist scholars for endorsing it.

I had the huge privilege of talking to Professor Françoise Vergés about what ‘waste’ exposes about gender, race, and livelihoods under capitalism and colonialism for the latest issue of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Magazine. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...

Delighted to be part of this #TSRWaste issue, packed with fascinating articles on waste, including Françoise Vergès in conversation with @asiyaislam.bsky.social on how colonisation and racial capitalism are based on wasting thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...

The latest @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Magazine issue is out and it’s about ‘Waste’. It offers a range of reflections on waste, wasting away, and wasted lives, thinking about gender, race and capitalism.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

This is the illustration I made for @otherwisemag.bsky.social but it’s also an invitation to support our editorial collective. You might want to give a look at the incredible workshops on storytelling we now offer: www.otherwisemag.com/workshops

Full circle moment - 15 years ago, I arrived at @LSEGenderTweet as a Master’s student. Today I’ve joined as Assistant Professor in Gender, Development & Globalisation. Excited to continue my long association with @LSEnews and to return to the discipline that feels like home 🎉

A very special delivery today 💜

Any reading recommendations for historical perspectives on food delivery work (now being mediated through digital apps) in India and/or South Asia more broadly?

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Clarence In this story, Morgan Reid captures the affective hardships of movement and of being stuck. "We went to bed hungry, again" otherwisemag.com/clarence

If in the UK, please sign this petition. At 100,000 signatures it will be debated in the Parliament: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/64...