Maria Amir 🍉
@Beentherella
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Patron saint of low expectations. Works on socialist, Indigenous feminism & folklore. Gender PhD student @UBuffalo, MA @UniofOxford, ex-Sahafi Dawn/ET/DT/Geo
Joined April 2009
RT @punnu__khan: Two quintessential Sindhi folk vocalists Allan Faqir (d. 2000) & Zarina Baloch (d. 2005) sing an enchantingly poignant poe…
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RT @onelastdance01: Imaan Mizari boldly exposes blasphemy business group Watch full podcast teaser 👇 #JusticeFor400
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RT @SketchesbyBoze: in retrospect maybe it was a mistake to tell young people that reading, the arts, the humanities weren’t important and…
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RT @mhdksafa: We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the hea…
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One of my ironic catchphrases for decades has been ‘chal mem Baliye, Pakistan chaliye’. It was ironic because I truly believed it was beyond the possibility of ever being coopted. 2025 really is the doorway to the Hellmouth.
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RT @AJUpFront: “[Europeans and Americans] understand resistance. It's just that they don't like when we do it,” author @m7mdkurd to #AJEUpF…
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One of my biggest pet peeves is price stickers on books. I always say a little prayer for places that invest in easy to remove stickers that don’t leave a back print.
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RT @ajplus: 8-year-old Ahmed Aaed spent the last year growing a small farm to feed his family in Gaza, sharing the ups and downs of farming…
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RT @AuratMarch: March tou ho ga! ✊ @WAFLahore & Aurat March Lahore are thrilled to announce that the Deputy Commissioner Lahore has granted…
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“This is the time to give the US what it had been looking for… isolation” 👏👏👏
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Discussing ‘Colonial Masculinity: Manly Englishman and Effeminate Bengali’ by Mrinalini Sinha in my Gender Trouble course today & it brings to mind how Pakistan also weaponised this trope through phrases like ‘Do takke ki auqat’. So just thought I’d leave this here:
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Teaching Thomas K Gugler’s ‘Politics of Pleasure: Setting South Asia Straight’ in my Gender Trouble class today & I can’t wait to see my student’s faces when they realise how many of our historical heroes have been radically rewritten to fit heteropatriarchal masculinity frames
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RT @owenjonesjourno: Netanyahu smiles as Trump talks about the destruction of Gaza. The face of evil.
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RT @owenjonesjourno: This is a very basic journalistic test. Donald Trump has declared Gaza's population must be "permanently" resettled.…
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