A new poll found that most Americans say they believe President Trump is mentally and physically unfit to serve as commander in chief.

Nice work, @insidehighered.com This is a perfect headline & lede.

This is so beautiful.

oopsies

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone. n.pr/4uodfw7

today at Rutgers incredible feminist queer and trans studies scholars on feminist scholarship and teaching in the crisis now history.rutgers.edu/newsandevent...

Congratulations to the U.S. for building an educational and economic powerhouse envied around the world and then dismantling it because colleges were so bold to give lip service to non-discrimination efforts. academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

how to kill research and teaching on gender and sexuality at Epstein University www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Listened to a wonderful talk by @durba.bsky.social about her new book! Now even more excited to read it 🤩 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

how to kill research and teaching on gender and sexuality at Epstein University www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

SMARTEST PPL in conversation including Disha Jani, Kelvin Ng, and Rebecca Waxman - online FREE Come hang out on your lunch break dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The photographer and pioneer of Indian photojournalism, Raghu Rai, has died. artreview.com/raghu-rai-pi...

no better study of these restrictions than the PEN America report from Jan 2026, which reveals how 50% of all students in america lived in a state with laws that censored or directly undermined academic freedom,coauthored by the incredible Dr Amy Reid, former chair of WGS at New College Florida

Scary

"These killings are the natural outcome of a country enamored with patriarchy and determined to make sure that men can freely dominate women." From Ms. scholar Brittney Cooper in @thecut.com #MsReads

Today on In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Tejas Parasher about his book, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought, and the multifaceted implications of situating the global history of anticolonial movements within the history of democratic thought. @universitypress.cambridge.org

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

“Traditionally, experts in the department’s office of immigration litigation have handled denaturalization cases. But the effort to enlist regular prosecutors to pursue these cases could lead to a surge in denaturalizations, which have been rare in recent decades.” nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

next Tuesday ONLINE on Zoom, I am excited to hear these brilliant scholars, how lucky i am to have such fabulous interlocutors 💓 registration ⬇️

I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos. www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...

here is out third essay on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics - this one from Ben Baer. Check it out and subscribe while you are there for updates from Critical Noise....https://criticalnoise.org/out-of-your-mind/ @dukepress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social

Today is our second essay at Critical Noise on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics - "The Libidinal Economy of Truth" by me. @dukepress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social criticalnoise.org/the-libidina...

Critical Noise, a new site from History of the Present, launching with a forum on Zahid Chaudhary’s Paranoid Public’s @dukepress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social

*Really* excited to be in conversation with the most amazing and brilliant scholars Disha Jani, Kelvin Ng, and Rebecca Waxman ONLINE next Tuesday, April 28th, at 12:15 PM on Zoom. Register here: dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Thank you to colleagues at Dartmouth for the invite!

*Really* excited to be in conversation with the most amazing and brilliant scholars Disha Jani, Kelvin Ng, and Rebecca Waxman ONLINE next Tuesday, April 28th, at 12:15 PM on Zoom. Register here: dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Thank you to colleagues at Dartmouth for the invite!

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.' What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

Really looking forward to discussing my book with a great panel of @itihaasnaama.bsky.social, @nsultan.bsky.social, and Uday Mehta at Brown this Friday. For those in the Providence/ Boston area that might be interested, the registration link is in the comments.

Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

@durba.bsky.social's The Future That Was traces how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present. Out now (12 May UK pub). Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We need to burn this racist and abominable system to the ground, exact legal and moral retribution against its architects, and salt the Earth to prevent it from ever emerging again, in any form.

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

New at PB: Dominique J. Baker (@bakerdphd.bsky.social) & Christopher T. Bennett share their research into the question: Who gets prestigious fellowships?

I always enjoy when I get to write with my husband

My latest book haul looking beautiful @chanda.blacksky.app @durba.bsky.social @profferguson.bsky.social

So wonderful to talk about attacks on gender and sexuality studies and the general state of the field this weekend with @durba.bsky.social and many other amazing colleagues. I learned so much about feminist knowledge production in the global south. Can't wait to read your book Durba!

New History of the Present compaion website is up with a book forum on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics: The Psychopolitics of Truth. Over the course of this week there will be essays from Robyn Wiegman, Ben Baer, Eva Cherniavsky, Christina Leon, and me. criticalnoise.org/symposium/

On May 2nd, I'm hosting a one-day writing conference for memoirists at Rutgers! Our keynote speaker is Kimberlé Crenshaw and other guests include Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, Lauren Hough, Kelly Sundberg, Savala Nolan and Mary HK Choi. I hope you can make it! ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedispla...

speaking on my research on feminist internationalism and anti-authoritarianism at the University of Chicago today for the 30th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality events.uchicago.edu/event/262416...

How wonderful was to hear so many timely and important ideas and threads of knowledge and solidarities intertwined. I cannot wait to read the book. @durba.bsky.social

I will be speaking about my book, The Future That Was, at Yale today at 5 PM, HQ 276 yrihs.yale.edu/news/future-...

Congrats @durba.bsky.social

like i cannot understate that major sources of social science research funding for PhD candidates are just - gone over the last few years, much less NSF support - ford /national academy of sciences fellowships - ssrc international dissertation fellowships - USIP dissertation fellowships (?)

According to the ACLS rejection letter I received, there were "over 2000" applications for 63 fellowships - so around a 3% success rate. There's not enough funding for the humanities, exhibit 1000.

thank you to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for hosting Brandon Terry for amazing conversation, and dear colleagues and students for coming through

Wonderful celebration of @durba.bsky.social yesterday that was a testament to the love, camaraderie, and intellectual fellowship that she inspires.

tonight, I will be in conversation with Professor Brandon Terry about The Future That Was, Harvard Book Store, 7 PM

Tomorrow (March 30th) at 7:00 pm EDT, @harvardbookstore.bsky.social welcomes @durba.bsky.social for a discussion of her new book, The Future That Was. She will be in conversation with fellow Harvard Professor Brandon M. Terry. Don't miss this incredible, free conversation! buff.ly/XGxMvBQ

... and our next issue is dropping in a few days. Stay tuned for new work on maternal activism, The Last of Us, the orna in contemporary Bangladesh, Ana Mendieta, and a book review essay on feminist histories of Indian Ocean capitalism.

I’m the lucky one here. Meeting Durba almost a decade ago was one of the highlights of my life. Meeting Chandra, almost two decades ago, saved me. I can’t wait for tonight. Come through if at Princeton.