Please, a reminder: I endeavour to maintain a careful ethics in my profession. And I fail, at times. It’s already a huge challenge to argue for racial diversity inclusion in France, but if you invite me to an all white panel, I will query you & suggest names of POC panelists. Pls don’t get upset.

She’s back! Gosh this clip is superb. She says it like it is. Christiane Taubira (former Min of Justice in France) reframes the conversation in French politics, sliding it back to the Constitution and what it ensures for the French Republic in terms of migration — hot topic currently.

I wish love to everyone observing Ramadan. May your fasts be accepted and your prayers be answered. Ramadan Mubarak to friends who observe the holy month.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

The grand Leila Shahid, Palestinian organiser and representative in France and the EU, has transitioned to other worlds. Aged 76, She was suffering from a prolonged illness. Rise in power!

Gosh, where to even begin. I’ve verified all these CEOs are Indian/Indian origin. And Pres Macron is right: Chanel’s CEO is currently Indian. I do observe though how caste capitalism has spawned conventional forms of ‘success’. As a person of Indian descent, my feel is - I don’t want this CEO tosh!

Niece turns 21 today! Love that she shares birthday with two outstanding Black thinkers: Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison. Our short foray into homonormativity (image 1) was good. We never knew how to take care of kids (image 2 - Leith, Scotland), but I do recall she didn’t fall from that parapet :-)

Petty revenge for Jairo's commitment to Palestine. A mediocre gesture from power-hungry folks who brutally excise voices for justice. In solidarity, comrade.

Come along on Friday and show solidarity with Palestine, with decolonial and global south scholars whose work comes from their lives, and with @insurgentthought.bsky.social whose work with @anadiazbetran is a model for us all 👇🏽❤️‍🔥

Truly sorry! Absolutely dispiriting.

The co-editors asked us to send a selfie with The Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies. I posed with my fave Pulkari — received as a present.

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

New pub on Valentine's Day. Check out Sociological Perspectives doi.org/10.1177/0731... And big thanks to Claire Whitlinger!

Join us next Tuesday, February 24, 6pm @iwm.at in Vienna to discuss the theoretical and political implications of unequal European subjects and to ask, drawing on the notion of "unthinkable history" by Michel-Rolph Trouillot: What is it that makes Romani Europeans unthinkable in a European project?

Animateurs soupçonnés de violences sexuelles : l’affaire qui plombe la ville de Paris et embarrasse Dati. Par @mathildemathieu.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran... – @mediapart.fr

The word is 'dump' much as it sinks our hearts. This is the Europe we expect to stand as bulwark against the US. Additionally, the Mediterranean is a graveyard. I'll say this again -- Drumpf is an inevitable consequence not a cause of racialised politics of dehumanisation in the global north.

Then there’s the (multiple) decolonial theories, useful to understand specifically the Latin American dimension of coloniality, but also spanning from materialist commentaries on Marx to thinking through the complexities of race to indigenous modes of thinking in resistance

Nothing is political, remember, unless it appeases western establishment - then it is revolutionary. Innit, Berlinale? We are cursed to live in these times. The whataboutery has reached phenomenal levels.

Magda Boutros’s (Sciences Po/CNRS) recent monograph *The Police, Activists, and Knowledge: The Struggle against Racialized Policing in France* (Stanford University Press, 2026) is on my reading list. www.sup.org/books/law/po...

Yes 😪 And while this is going on, the Germans are banning Sudanese filmmakers from even entering the country www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim...

Sorry, but this is important. Anyone following what's transpiring in Germany (and most of us are), esp the official position of the German state & institutions, is definitely aware of severe reprimand for speaking up for Gaza. Why accept an invite to Berlinale in the first place? Walkout PR stint?

Colonialidad del poder. Anibal Quijano and Enrique Dussel being the two Abya Yala thinkers that should be on all critical theory reading lists. And the critique of decolonial school of thought by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (a trenchant critique of all of us) should be mandatory reading. Anyhoo, read👇🏽

A song is a narrative. This is one of the most beautiful songs. Souad Massi Sundays (with English subtitles) m.youtube.com/watch?v=R9tc...

Reminded (ta Jonathan) I received harsh criticism for thinking of folks imprisoned without the transnational clout of Roy. I remain true to an ethics of abolition politics, but got read as someone wanting Roy behind bars. Yet, Roy’s promoting her memoir & Umer Khalid & thousands are still in jail.

And it blew up about Berlinale two years ago didn't it. "Anticolonial" film critics like some at Film Comment handwringing about whether they should be there or not, and here we are again. Don't know. Probably just worked up how so many are idolising her for this, but they do all the time don't they

The west wilfully ignores Arundhati Roy's excision of Dalit voices when schooled on her marginalisation of Dr Ambedkar (one of the greatest intellectuals from India). She chose to suppress the episode in her memoir. Her withdrawal from Berlinale is fine -- we'll take it without lionising her.

Gratefully received! Paola Bacchetta, Co-motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke UP, 2026) It addresses queer,trans & social justice mobilisation archives in France, India, Italy & US. We’ll hold a book launch in April - watch this space.

Small wins - Palestine Action deproscribed by the UK High Court. That was long in coming, but we’ll take it.

My latest article (open access) #history #historian #southeastasia #Imperialism #Colonialism #Decolonisation #treaties #Raffles #sovereignty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This opportunity feels like something I have spent the last decade preparing for, but I am scared to get my hopes up, despite how well I felt the interview went. My last informational interview was with the last person to interview & hire me. Regardless of what happens, I know I tried my hardest! 🥹

I will be delivering the Anne L. Harper Lecture about my new book, The Future That Was, at Georgia State University on March 3, 2026, at 4:30 PM

Today. Please share and register. 5.30 pm Paris time - online👇🏽

Today. Please share and register. 5.30 pm Paris time - online👇🏽

Je viens de rejoindre la formidable équipe de cette revue en open access! N'hésitez pas à me contacter pour vos idées de publi notamment en poésie. Hâte de vous lire!

We’re teaching Genealogies of Race in BritLit - a new u/g course w/ focus on our specialisms. Content - Antony & Cleopatra, Olaudah Equiano, Jane Eyre/Wide Sargasso Sea, Home Fire. And we have P*rnstar Martinis and Spicy Margaritas in the evening to debrief and unwind. Lovely group of possibilities.

Historian Neha Virmani’s work on food & empire is top-tier (asiacenter.harvard.edu/neha-vermani). She’s unearthed an 1897 menu from a dinner hosted in Baroda Palace, India. Not everyone was living in fear of famine nor resisting European invasion. I wonder what this menu tells us about complicity?

Super unpopular opinion: Place a moratorium on winter games. The corrupt geopolitical west cannot steward us out of the current climate crisis. It learns nothing of its wrecking our planet… wanton boys killing us for their sport.

Yes -- I'm on the Int'l Advisory Board of *Feminist Studies*, (2026-2029) babes. The letter's signed by *the* Jennifer Nash. Swoon. Exeunt (ok I'm just one character).

Publication alert! The language that was denied to me is becoming mine, queerly mine. I’m thrilled to have contributed a chapter to the first-ever comprehensive handbook on Punjab Studies and share space with so many wonderful scholars. Thank you to Profs Meena Dhanda & Pritam Singh for the invite.

In June 1937 Nancy Cunard, on behalf of various left-wing thinkers, asked 'writers and poets' to state where they stood on the Spanish Civil War. Although the focus was on Spain, the question was framed in terms of anti-fascist internationalism and commitment: 'ironic detachment will no longer do'.

My office door looks queerer and more racialised as we go along… I got Mickalene Thomas’s portrait of a Black transwoman printed. See bottom left.

White supremacy promotes POC faces who do the heavylifting of racial hatred. Karine Lemarchand (African descent TV host) recalls how she couldn’t help but get scared seeing ‘all these Black folks & these Muslims’ emerge from express train in Paris (my translation). Daily life of ‘I’m not racist’.

U Winnipeg is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2025) Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST). Join us we discuss the volume & commitments to decolonization and their importance in a Canadian context. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I was thirteen when I first read Wuthering Heights. I still have that copy. And, one of the most memorable words—in fact, I had to look it up- was the description of Heathcliff as ‘swarthy’. Seeing James Howson as Heathcliff made complete sense to that thirteen year old reading Wuthering Heights.

In case you'd like to read on the current 'race' conversation re Wuthering Heights. My claim to fame is that I had the privilege of having coffee w/ Prof Jo Macdonagh when she was invited to our uni. Just the two of us at Café de la Paix 😀 A great scholar. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jacob-...

[VIOLENCE] Pascal Kaiser, l'arbitre allemand qui a fait se demande en mariage devant un stade plein, a été tabassé par trois individus. www.lequipe.fr/Football/Act...