A big thank you @zfn.bsky.social @pankegallery.bsky.social for hosting my reading last night. I had the fortune of sharing my writing on Berlin as it shifts from a project of be/longing to that of un/loving, that is, not the absence or opposite of love, rather its conscious withholding.

Love is a City in Anguish ~ reading and talk with Omar Kasmani @kasmanio.bsky.social netzkunst.berlin/metaphors/#e... Tuesday, 3 December 2024 at 7 pm 📍 @pankegallery.bsky.social From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea Curatorial concept: Tereza Havlíková, Julia Kochanek, Anneliese Ostertag

“It is 2024 and Berlin feels like a heartbreak” #justout my essay on the minor/ felt ways in which urban-political turmoil corresponds with matters of the heart. About digital intimacies, migrant heartache and boy-trouble, or “when home fails to inhabit you the way you inhabit it” @zfn.bsky.social

Refusing to award a prize named after an SA & NSDAP member, intimately tied to Nazi socialites, to a non-German artist who called for a boycott of Israeli institutions in light of what the UN calls genocide might just set a new benchmark for hypocrisy in Germany. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

I hereby announce that I shall henceforth expect hearts in my intro - thank you @mxschnepf.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social

Not sure what’s broken can be sutured, or if we can knit ourselves out of German horrors, but I know that “Thin Attachments” my Berlin book project on migrant loves & be/longing now qualifies as anthropology of/with a broken heart (riffing off Behar). Bani captures a shared landscape of un/feeling.

My book is out! Yes! "Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany" published by @berghahnbooks 50% discount on print copies if you buy it directly from the Berghahn website with the discount code "SELI1982". Affordable ebook version: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...

Diaspora is negotiating the terms of betrayal / You are alive here because they’re not / Over there - Momtaza Mehri in Bad Diaspora Poems (2023, 95)

Congratulations to all our authors whose books have won awards since July 2023, including @darrenbyler.bsky.social, @kasmanio.bsky.social, and more! dukeupress.wordpress.com/2023/12/27/f...

Readings, samosas, conversations + discounted copies 🥳 Join us this evening in Berlin-Neukölln as we introduce and celebrate “Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere” @dukepress.bsky.social

On affective postures of the state and the companionable histories we sense and feel in the queer-affective weave of the sacred in Pakistan - read my invited entry in the Contending Modernities series “Enlivening the Nation” - contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

The lovely Hajra Haider Karrar and I met this afternoon to co-conspire for a-soon-to-be-coming deliciously abundant berlin-mehfil for this darling-of-a-book. Stay tuned and save the date: 15 December. Oh and it’s currently 50% off, so get your copy now @dukepress.bsky.social

Congratulations to @kasmanio.bsky.social, whose book "Queer Companions" has won the 2023 Ruth Benedict Book Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph from The Association for Queer Anthropology! ow.ly/O38i50Q9swl

On how to properly react to an amazing edited volume: Cutie Queer Companion @mxschnepf.bsky.social meets Pakistan Desires @dukepress.bsky.social - goes (rightfully) bonkers!

On enduring, if not surviving, the thickness, mastery and violence of European history and its cruel manifestations in the present.

From this day forward, following the great German example, I shall only work with those White-German academics who have publicly denounced or distanced themselves from Habermas. Punkt.

Queer Companions @dukepress.bsky.social wins the 2023 Ruth Benedict Prize 💕 In her email, the chair of the prize committee (AQA, Association for Queer Anthropology) noted, “the book took our breath away.” What an absolute honor this is; thank you for the love and recognition!

A desire comes to world, a dream made real. So incredibly proud, over the moon really. To all those who came on board, believed in the vision, made it happen, especially the incredible @lizault.bsky.social - I say: pyar, shukriya + desire mubarak 💕 Pakistan Desires is out now @dukepress.bsky.social

EASA statement "We call for an immediate ceasefire and immediate humanitarian relief for the people of Gaza, and a commitment from Israel and all governments to a peace process that deals with the historic inequalities, injustice and structural violence in the region." easaonline.org/outputs/supp...

If one is to go by Jesus’ example, at 20 something followers, there’s still hope for me. Hello bluesky-beauties. I’ve arrived!