Srila Roy
@ProfSrilaRoy
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Professor @WitsUniversity. Words @DissentMag @thewire_in @timeshighered. Latest book: Changing The Subject @DukePress. Editor @ManchesterUP @FeministTheory. She
South Africa via India/UK
Joined May 2012
The preface + introduction to my new book is now available to read on the @DukePress site, alongside details for pre-order and discount. Excited to hear what you think 😬🙌🏽
"Changing the Subject", a new book by @ProfSrilaRoy, traces the impact of neoliberalism on gender and sexuality rights movements in the Global South through queer and feminist activism in India. Check out the intro now! #Globalization #AsianStudies
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Trump totally missed the memo which was ‘Make South Africa Apartheid Again’
Boers: They're killing us and we might not last much longer. Help😫 Trump: OK, come on over!🤗 Boers: But...but we have all these lands, businesses, well paying jobs, high quality cheap food, affordable housing and abundant cheap Black labour over here🫣
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Just this itself should be enough for all (tenured) academics to never publish in a paywalled journal again.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
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Fully agree. Disappointed but not surprised.
White liberals have positioned themselves as rational and thinking white people who loathe racism and inequality. But if you scratch beyond the surface you will see the shallowness. Their class and racial alliance is quickly revealed. They have been outing themselves in past few days unprovoked. What they should be doing right now is going into their white communities and speaking to their fellows instead of lecturing us about how our reaction is detrimental to nation building and reconciliation. Who has been hindering this? Us or their fellows. Fuck out of here!
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RT @SASA_Sociology: The South African Sociological Association (SASA) is devastated to learn of the tragic passing of Professor Emeritus Mi…
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RT @STIAS_SA: 🔔CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🔔 Calling all #AfricanScholars to submit applications for the #IsoLomsoFellowship by 15 February 2025.…
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Siri: define back peddling.
[HAPPENING NOW] The Solidarity Movement, AfriForum and Solidarity are currently holding a media briefing regarding the executive order by the US president, Donald Trump, on the position of Afrikaners in South Africa, as well as on funding to South Africa.
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‘We are committed to the country and its people but we just hate the govt’ is the position of so many white people. Even if those lights and water were fixed, they’d still hate a majority black govt prioritising majority interests.
DEVELOPING: AfriForum's Kallie Kriel describes the recent sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump as a real crisis. Kriel emphasised their loyalty and commitment to the country. He further says, "We will not survive as a cultural community anywhere else in the world."
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RT @joshbudlender: At top of income distribution it's about jobs but also (generational) wealth. SA is obscenely unequal. And the top is ab…
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Glad that Trump drama has exposed the deep resentment, entitlement and pure racism of white Africans, always just on the surface. (A friend showed me multiple male dating profiles that say ‘whites only’. Like why on earth would you need to declare that instead of just moving on?)
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RT @RonFilipkowski: So the only asylum seekers the US will admit are White people from former apartheid South Africa.
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And black domestic workers.
I love how Trump really thinks white South Africans are going to abandon their stolen farms, winelands & beach houses to become refugees in America. What an idiot!
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Today.
Come listen to my new colleague talk about his research on Brazil and South Africa this Friday @WitsUniversity
@WitsHgc @Wits_SCIS @WitsWiSER
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RT @cmkshama: A Consular officer said I'm being denied a visa coz I'm on Modi govt's "reject list." It's clear why. My socialist City Cou…
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If this is even true, the proportion for whites seems correct as per population size (7.3%)
"Race quotas create significant barriers for white students seeking university admission. At many faculties, the acceptance rate for white applicants is below 20% (Universities South Africa, 2024), and in some cases, even lower. For instance, the University of KwaZulu-Natal's medical school receives over 8,300 applications for just 250 spots each year. Its admissions policy enforces racial quotas for first-year MBChB students, which are as follows: Black African: 69%; Indian: 19%; Coloured: 9%; White: 2%; and Other: 1%." -Rieb van Janbeeck, 2025.
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