also I collected Mira Nair’s papers, including her handwritten notebooks for all films, at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, FREE and open to the public. Much good work to be done. Finding aid here: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories...

i wrote on the nuances of racial tension and the possibility of political coalition, with much resonance today, through Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/mississippi-...

Happening now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4m9...

My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from @rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW

Excited about this discussion on my book tomorrow. Will be streamed on Youtube 8 PM IST/ 2.30 PM GMT/ 9.30 AM EST (link in replies)

These same administrators have somehow completely lost the plot, and bought into the belief that universities can and ought to be run like hierarchical businesses with administrators as management and faculty as employees. This relationship is upside down.

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

“Access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth will be dramatically restricted by the Trump administration under new proposals by the Department of Health and Human Services.” apple.news/A5cWyEXr1Qwy...

Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors. A majority of Justices seem ready to strike down the restrictions, says RYAN THORESON (@ryanthoreson.bsky.social). verfassungsblog.de/the-harms-of...

Food banks won’t turn down your food donations but if all possible, donate money. They have bargaining power and can make bigger purchases.

It’s remarkable how teaching ethnic studies has been characterized without any criticism as “leftist.” Why is teaching the history of people—who are often in the class & who are not of Western European origin—left?? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

"At stake were families, homes, land, possessions and above all, a displacement from the rhythms and patterns of migrant life and a sense of dignity." At @scroll.in, @kalramnath.bsky.social shares her work on decolonization and the subsequent question of "who belongs" in newly independent nations.

Ilyas Chattha's *Citizens to Traitors: Bengali Internment in Pakistan, 1971-1974* (Cambridge UP, 2025) is one the most important books for contemporary subcontinental history in the last 15 years.

The clips and conversations I’m hearing about the SNAP (food stamp) cuts should be above the fold everywhere. It’s a scary time for a lot of people.

India's denial of entry to Prof Francesca Orsini is another marker in the grave threats to academic freedom globally.

On November 7th, I will be speaking about my new book, The Future That Was, at the University of Toronto at 10 am, followed by a lecture by @makdisi.bsky.social munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/future...

What if we just let Canvas stay down… forever?

Here are the last two pages on D'Angelo from my book. Not trying to self-promote here, but @upmississippi.bsky.social and Craig Gill did a great job with this book. So if you found this writing about D'Angelo interesting, you'd probably like the rest of it. www.amazon.com/Same-Old-Son...

I wrote 6 pages on D'Angelo for my book, and I titled its last chapter after a line from his song "Back to the Future." To my ears, he was one of the most important artists, musically and politically, of the past 30 years.

so much more discourse about the compliance of Columbia, but the “agreements” of Penn & Brown set a dangerous precedent w relatively little push back, despite the fact that they ended free inquiry by legally mandating binary gender as an intellectual and spatial paradigm for university compliance

“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.” — Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog

D’Angelo was one of the most widely revered artists of the past 30 years. He began his career as a songwriter for other artists, but quickly asserted himself as a solo star with his 1995 debut 'Brown Sugar.' More: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Tomorrow is the official publication date for “Essential Poems” by Pat Parker! I feel incredibly lucky to be celebrating the release in an event hosted by Sinister Wisdom featuring Cheryl Clarke, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and Alexis Bard Johnson. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"The University of Texas System is auditing gender studies courses in response to [new laws] which expand university control over curriculum & define gender in binary terms. Faculty report being told to avoid discussing gender identity and homosexuality..." www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/t...

I will be at Harvard Boooookstore dreaming DRAG with our favorite Auntie Kareem Khubchandani on *Lessons in Drag* Nov 21 brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson... www.harvard.com/event/kareem...

Via @jennifercnash.bsky.social 19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop Registration is free. The line-up is amazing: Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland. Sign up! See you in Durham in March. readymag.website/u2853933671/...

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

today’s walk

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

the cover evokes a long tradition of feminist iconography, especially from the 1970s and 1980s during the UN Year and Decade for Women, that uses the sun or the sunrise to symbolize the new horizons made possible by feminism (but without the beloved but complicated Linnaean symbol for woman)

I am really pleased that *A Book of Conquest* (2016) is now available locally in Pakistan via Sang-e-Meel Publications!

This is inspiring. Congratulations to @durba.bsky.social.

🔊WORLDWIDE COVER REVEAL for *The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism* (2026)!

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Next month a new collection of Pat Parker’s crucial work—edited by yours truly—will be published. Essential Poems by Pat Parker features some of her most beloved writing. Available wherever you buy books. Still feeling so chuffed after receiving my copies!!!

I can’t wait to read this — everyone should order it!!!

NEW BOOK. Her first was dazzling. Impatient to read this and add to my MSt syllabus

my student Yasmeen Khan making an archival record that the ideas of women of the world were once taught at Harvard www.harvardmagazine.com/undergraduat...

for the archive

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Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"Remaindered Life”: Durba Mitra in Conversation with Neferti Tadiar on her new book www.publicbooks.org/remaindered-...

Sexuality. In this episode Karma Chávez talks with Harvard professor Durba Mitra, author of the "sexuality" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. open.spotify.com/episode/7knn...

proofs 😭 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Here I talk about the genealogy of the term "sexuality" and how it is a critical site of scholarly inquiry. I also talk about attacks on gender studies now.

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...