I am being told I might only get one hour to present my diss. What 🙂

At times it is really hard to forget the violences borne by the body as we sit writing our papers, and thessays... how to move without being lost? And ik feminists keep telling us to write from the body but truly there is no language, no form that can hold it.

It is time to accept my place in the empire, in the corners of the world where illegibility and suspicion take away life, breath, and possibility. It is okay to be hopeless about life in the empire, and hopeful of a different world.

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France should have kept its language at home then.

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I need to look up scholarship on the trauma of the archives. Like being in thr archive, and having the simple needs of drinking water, peeing, walking, taking a phone call, leads to strict policing and I wonder how marginalized bodies bear that policing

Tempted 🫣

The bureaucracy at archives never ceases to amaze me 🙂

Tiny finger on giant record volume

Dreading turning this page.

Feeling like I am walking around in Fort, Mumbai when really it is the seat of the empire 💀

V Geetha, Bereft of Being

I hate turning my laptop on and getting this onslaught of emails and things to to do and then wanting to just melt into a puddle and stay as a puddle coz what is this life. 🙂

This week we welcomed 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following a meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV Applications to join the Society are invited at any time: next closing dates 13 Oct & 15 Dec bit.ly/3VQTFcF #Skystorians

"This preoccupation with national space and with borders reveals an obsession to approximate a historical original that never existed, except as the telos of the narrative of modernity: a pure, unambiguous community called the homeland" Krishna, 1994.

This callousness is unique to this ecology. How do people click away on something that annihilates the very relations between a people and their land? How do we claim universality for some while singularity and divisiveness for the rest of the world?

Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025! On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded. #decolonialconference

Sometimes it is too much to bear, but then some radical scholar and writer has borne this before, someone is bearing it now as well. We are never truly alone and I think the academy is a great place to forget that.

What a gift Ambedkar is 🥹

Dil mein mere hai dard-e-diss/co 🥲

They are closing for renovations. 💔💔💔

Defeat the police spectrejournal.com/defeat-the-p...

Pandemic friendships 💔❤️‍🩹

Brahminism is so deeply rooted that it finds its ways into "liberatory" politics with ease. When we refuse to confront our orientalist revolutionary fantasies, we are left with fractured relationalities.

I live so close to the public library. I have immediately placed 5 holds and found my favorite spot by the window in company of cute plants. I am unabashedly a nerd. 🙂

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the refusal to claim any innocence, refusal to just watch, refusal to do very little and instead Dream dream dream of more.

"And that’s what she was actually put there to do. Her real job is to say “thus far and no further” to the leftmost end of the political spectrum of the world’s most powerful and destructive government."

All nerds need their little venting platforms where they vent into a void and not a single person gives a shit about their stupid intellectualized feelings about things. Bluesky is just not doing it for me. 🫣

To write for the forgotten ghosts, to write for that relation of forgetting, to write for me and you, soaked in the waters just like everyone else.

I’m happy to announce that this Handbook will be published this month. Don’t forget to preorder. Along with the other co-editors, we’ve decided to donate all royalties, however small. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...

There is impostor syndrome and then there is the opposite idk what to call it. The "i worked my ass off and puked my guts out torturing my soul while others can write for shits and giggles and im pissed about it" syndrome.

In INDIANS ON INDIAN LANDS, Upadhyay examines the areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, Hindu nationalism, & heteropatriarchy www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... cc: cubouldercha.bsky.social‬#IndigenousPeoplesDaya#Canadada

Reminders from El Kurd

bol ki lab āzād haiñ tere khulne lage qufloñ ke dahāne phailā har ik zanjīr kā dāman Speak, for your words are free #faizahmedfaiz

💥 Our new issue "Black Indigeneities" is out! It's urgent to follow this issue’s contributors when they note that very notions of Blackness and Indigeneity emerge from an epistemological framework focusing on European settler colonialism (more particularly in North Atlantic, but not exclusively).

“This is not just my victory, but a chorus of voices often left unheard. A thousand fireflies lighting a single sky, brief, brilliant and utterly collective.” ~ Banu Mushtaq in her acceptance speech. #InternationalBooker2025 #internationalbooker