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in the new issue of
@rphilos
I review Hagar Kotef, Adam Shatz, Mahmood Mamdani and Jonny Steinberg with an eye on how they think about the place of violence in the dismantling of settler colonialism
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Columbia cancels Edward Said; now I’ve seen it all
@Columbia
cancelled another
#Palestine
-focused event, this time one organized by Columbia Global Centers in Amman, Jordan. It was scheduled for this Thursday on "Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine”. 🧵1/3
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got this in the mail today. tweeting in solidarity with everyone else at the receiving end of such tripe (see what I did there?)
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SO MUCH ENERGY IN EDINBURGH TODAY!!! all tribute to everyone who has kept us going through these brutal months 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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“It is clear that I have been removed from university court because I called for an end to Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians, and I will not apologise for doing so.”
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disrupting destructive commodity chains is one of the most consequential things we can do right now
HAPPENING NOW!
Welsh peace activists blockade Elbit factory in Bristol.
This morning around 100 pro-Palestine protesters took action to stop the supply of weapons to Israel.
Full story:
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Edinburgh Waverley now: ‘Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!’
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I have resigned as External Examiner for postgraduate taught programmes in the Dept of Politics & IR
@aberdeenuni
in protest against UUK decimation of
#USS
pensions
#USSMess
let's turn this into a groundswell
solidarity with
@aberdeen_ucu
@ucu
#UCUstrikes
#FourFights
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being middle aged is remembering how they covered up the reproduction of Picasso's Guernica in the UN Security Council during Colin Powell's lie-ridden presentation of the US case for war on Iraq in 2003
Chilling display in Guernica.
In 1937, the Nazis bombed this village on behalf of Franco’s Spanish Nationalists, who saw it as a center for the resistance against fascism.
86 years later, descendants of that horror express solidarity with Palestinians.
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every country needs a book that orients you to its neuroses. grateful for this one as I navigate this place.
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this shames all of us who have anything to do with cultivating knowledge. imagine thinking that words are your work and then having to burn them just to survive the cold. there really are no words.
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racial capitalism in HE: we need international students’ money but don’t want them or their families to live amongst us; which will win? the racism or the capitalism? or will distance education allow us to have our cake and eat it too? watch this space
UK universities risk falling into deficit as foreign student numbers fall
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feeling so much love for
#BLMbristol
for doing what needed to be done to
#colston
. for anyone looking for resources on why statues of racist and casteist creeps need to go, here are some arguments. links below and the TL;DR version is a thread.
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what a piece of shit end to the year. if words matter, here’s to not mincing them in 2024. wishing us all courage and integrity, and liberation in our lifetimes.
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I don’t think we can ever recover from this
"ما ضل غيرك يا بابا راحو الكل"💔💔
“There’s no one left but you, dad, everyone is gone”
The daughter of Weal Dahdouh after the IDF targeted and murdered her whole family over the time span of 3 months, slowly one by one so they abuse the misery and pain….
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1/3 pleased to have curated a dossier on decolonisation and its discontents in the university, beginning with some thoughts from me on ‘neoliberal antiracism and the British university’
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the all-white senior management team of
@univofstandrews
publicly condemned our Black rector for ***checks notes*** calling for a ceasefire, on the basis of a complaint letter full of spurious claims. full details here:
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I wrote about how Palestine delineates the contours of the Third World, reflecting also on the contrasting trajectories of India and South Africa vis-à-vis Israel/Palestine
thanks to
@STCollective
and check out the rest of the ‘Palestine Now’ collection
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INTERVIEWER: [do you think] that being an academic and being a creative writer are incompatible?
SUSAN SONTAG: Yes. Worse than incompatible. I've seen academic life destroy the best writers of my generation.
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very pleased, and grateful for this recognition. and huge congratulations to
@ntinatzouvala
for 'Capitalism as Civilisation' and Hagar Kotef for 'The Colonizing Self' - both brilliant and indispensable works.
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after 20 yrs in 🏴 i've moved to 🏴 mostly to hang out on beaches with
@whale_nerd
, greatly facilitated by a job
@StAndrewsIR
(hello!) also on a beach; not quite saying goodbye to
@SOAS
(phir milenge!); for the next few months though find me in
@NIAS_KNAW
as a 2021-22 fellow
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The Oxford Union has always represented the worst of Oxford culture, but this is a new low
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my brilliant PhD student
@sheekha_d
passed her viva yesterday with no corrections, defending a thesis entitled 'Interstitial Itineraries: the making of race, caste, and capital in the Indian diaspora'; thanks to
@buchu
and
@SankaranKrishn
who were fantastic examiners
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solidarity with the SOAS and UCL encampments, which have been inspiring to see
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a decade in the making, this book came out in the middle of a once-in-century pandemic and i feared no one wld find it. immensely pleasurable to see it read, with such generosity. first review, by someone i've idolised for all that time, is v special. thanks
@LalehKhalili
Just finished
@thariel
's extraordinary _Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality_. There are some books that both make you feel smarter simply through proximity with the author's thoughts; AND give you immense pleasure in reading it. 1/
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against every canon of decency and fairness let alone justice
@univofstandrews
Court has 'discharged' Rector Stella Maris from her position as President of Court & charity trustee on grounds that her calling for a ceasefire in Nov 2023 made Zionists feel 'unsafe'
EXCLUSIVE: St Andrews University rector stripped of powers after accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
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in the middle of all this, I forgot to tell Twitter that the first copy of this arrived in the post (available at a 30% discount with code ASFLYQ6 when ordered from ; more info at )
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haven’t thought an original thought in months, but this is actually a time to say over and over again the things we know to be true, a time for repetition, for persistence, for perseverance, for sumud, for staying the course, for being haunted by specters who demand justice
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yes we're cutting, but so is everyone else. i've given more of my life (12 years) to this institution than any other and i am not about to stop.
#WeAreSOAS
where you'll get fierce ❤️ and better research and writing skills than this journo
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Excited to announce that 'Out of time: the queer politics of postcoloniality' is out in March 2020 in the US, and May everywhere else. Details here: Order at with promo code ASFLYQ6 to save 30% (cover credit: Eria Nsubuga)
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the number of people in positions of power and influence NOT calling for a ceasefire is just … I don’t have words. I’m not even just talking about MPs. We see you, we’ll never forget this and there will be no coming back from this.
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barnstorming rally at SOAS: ‘Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!’
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chronicle of a genocide foretold
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so much grief on my timeline. have we reached the bottom yet? make it stop
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trying to think thro' the relationship between homocapitalism, caste capitalism and racial capitalism in this new piece in South Atlantic Quarterly, part of a marvellous special issue on Transnational Queer Materialism edited by
@EvrenSavci
and
@Ranamaria
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Overwhelmed by the kind messages on here today. Thanks for the solidarity.
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I cannot comprehend the scale of this expulsion order except by thinking about Partition
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my brilliant colleague
@MalakaShwaikh
: 'the expectation of Palestinian "resilience" normalises and enables more Israeli violence. It risks freeing the international community from its ethical responsibility to do more in order to put an end to injustice.'
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the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the new academic year has begun and the old has not yet ended; in this double time a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
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“She had once confided to her fashion designer friend, a young gay man, of her sinking feeling that she had fallen behind. In response he bought her a book on the concept of queer temporality. The book was deadly boring.” (187)
I’m screaming 😂
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Politics & International Studies at SOAS University of London is hiring a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Theory (2 years); please consider applying!
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I lost a teacher to Covid today. VS Mallar. ‘You will find’ him in whatever place good people go to. Meanwhile we rage against this government.
Long ago, for some reason, I could not pay college fees on time. A professor found out, called me aside and offered help. I was touched deeply.
I didn't have to borrow money from him that day. But in other ways I'm forever indebted to Prof. Mallar.
Today we lost him to COVID.
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endlessly grateful to
@Lighthousebks
for hosting a conversation on
'The Erasure of Palestine in German-speaking Worlds'
Feb 22, 2024
featuring
@ZombieParables
@hanna_altaher
@Emran_Feroz
@bulbeisi
moderated by
@MusawiPaniz
and myself
registration:
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proud that
@ucustandrews
overwhelmingly passed a motion in solidarity with Palestine, supporting Palestine solidarity activism in St Andrews, and affirming BDS
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under the plinth, the story of accumulation by dispossession
I really love this "Public Figures" statue by Korean artist Do Ho Suh.
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latest grotesque illustration of how capitalist economies need black and brown bodies for capital accumulation but don't want (too many of) them around
We’ve taken action to reduce migration.
Student dependant applications are now down by 80%.
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while we contemplate Just Stop Oil tactics, read Sylvia Pankhurst on suffragist ones: ‘Three Scotch castles were destroyed by fire on a single night. The Carnegie Library in Birmingham was burnt. The Rokeby Venus, falsely, as I consider, attributed to Velasquez, and purchased...
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"As scholars of South Asia, we are strongly obliged to note the longstanding affinities between Zionism, Hindutva, and US empire that are further heightened through military interdependence. This relationship impacts ongoing Indian settler colonial violence in Kashmir ... "
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our resistance is as relentless as their bombardment; Edinburgh now
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wow, let's get this straight: Michelle Donelan takes blatantly propagandistic position showing not one iota of concern for civilians in Gaza; calls out academics expressing solidarity and asks for EDI structures to be shut down; craven response from UKRI. we're all taking notes
"We know that [Hamas] use local people as human shields, it is very difficult therefore to target Hamas without hurting innocent people"
Science Secretary Michelle Donelan says the government wants civilian losses in Gaza "to be minimised"
#BBCLauraK
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bothsidesism: stupid, facile, morally vacuous and usually begins the story at some completely arbitrary historical moment
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"The history of modern India was altered because the Baroda State funded Ambedkar’s studies at Columbia University." This is why SC students wanting to study 'Indian' topics abroad are being barred from the GoI's National Overseas Scholarship Scheme.
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bell hooks resisting and recuperating Fanon teaches us everything we need to know about reading
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the racism, arbitrariness and inhumanity of the UK govt on full display here: Home Office refuses visa for Palestinian refugee supported by prestigious UK scholarship
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the 3rd World is not a place but a project whose spirit lives on in the countries lining up before the ICJ to defend Palestine (notwithstanding their internal contradictions); India has slipped through the cracks, neither part of this nor the 1st World it wants to enter
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made myself read things written by the ‘gender critical feminist’ of the day and am beyond embarrassed to be an
@OxUniPress
author right now; peer review has to be about more than being vetted by people in one’s nasty little echo chamber
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there is a dispute ✔️
at least some of the acts committed appear capable of falling within the Genocide Convention ✔️
South Africa has standing ✔️
at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa are plausible (the rights of Palestinians to be protected from genocide) ✔️
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this was a labour of love because Edward Said is my first theoretical love
glad to be in the company of the fabulous contributors to this volume and huge thanks to
@MRamgotra
and Simon Choat who shepherded us all through a pandemic to publication with patience and generosity
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The Disorder of Things is pleased to host a symposium on Radhika Mongia's profoundly illuminating 'Indian Migration and Empire', beginning today and featuring posts by author +
@LukeEdeNoronha
, Bridget Anderson, Sanjay Seth &
@NadineElEnany
.
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solidarity is everything
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an astonishing book, upending so much of what I thought I knew about the history of political thought in just the first few pages
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a devastating account of India’s covid catastrophe; meanwhile the daily roll call of illness and death continues
#modimustresign
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such beautiful photographs
Nigel Farage being drenched in milkshake outside Clacton's Wetherspoons. A three-part story captured by Ben Stansall, AFP/Getty Images.
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grateful to
@drljshepherd
and Caitlin Hamilton for the invitation to write a chapter on ‘Queer Politics’ for this wonderful collection (and for their gentle prodding and infinite patience as editors)
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miss this place; there in spirit 🇵🇸✊🏾🇵🇸
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one of the most important things you will read today: Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine research ‘was 97% publicly funded’
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the world as i know it is ending. generations of my family grew up in this bookshop. so many books, so little space, they had to be piled vertically but Mr. Shanbhag always knew where everything was. if writers begin as readers, this is where it began for me 💔🥲
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary Bangalore bookseller, TS Shanbhag. It was the virus that killed him. I owe much of my education (such as it is) to books bought at his Premier Bookshop. He was a wonderful man. I wrote about him here:
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this slide tells the story of the whole sector: a future in which only what biopolitics needs remains on the curriculum
Latest news from Kent. To go: Anthropology, Art History, Journalism, Modern Languages, Philosophy..
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i just saw the picture and i honestly don't know how the fuck we are going to recover from this
The corpse was a child. Legs turned to ribbons, hung up on the wall like a coat on a hook.
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solidarity with
@Jodi7768
who is being punished for writing this blog:
McCarthyism is real. I’ve been relieved of teaching responsibilities. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
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an incredible book that manages to combine the broad sweep of black Atlantic history with the intimacy of a family story; so much to take from it, but the descriptions of labour (and especially how women do laundry) stick in my head as a synecdoche for each age
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one of my most satisfying moments while registering students this week was explaining to slightly amazed commonwealth students that they could vote!
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i'm on the Today programme shortly
Coming up: removing controversial statues, historian
@simon_schama
(0720),
@thariel
&
@UniofOxford
Chancellor (0810). English zoos are set to reopen, business minister
@nadhimzahawi
(0820). NATO Secretary-General
@jensstoltenberg
on China (0730)
#r4Today
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we love "disruptive researchers" but not so disruptive that they antagonise our paymasters. slow 👏🏾 for
@UKRI_News
and
@UKRI_CEO
Yesterday, UKRI responded to a letter from Secretary of State, Michelle Donelan. Now we are publishing that response and the Terms of Reference for the review we are setting up.
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amazing how the word 'Palestine' is not uttered by either side in this
#LabourAntisemitism
debate
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'Out of Time' just got nominated for a Rainbow Alternative Choice Award in the non-fiction category. Honoured to be in great company ❤️❤️❤️ check out the shortlist and vote by Dec 7!
CATEGORY: nonfiction
NOMINEES:
@GenderBen
@megjohnbarker
@mixosaurus
@teaelleu
@ruth_hunt
@melissafaliveno
@MicheleMorano
@activisthistory
@thariel
@UnstrangeMind
@danroyles
@jkelton77
@realrobhops
& more!
👉🏻 vote here:
#ReadsRainbowAwards
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“Israel has destroyed every institution of higher learning in the Gaza Strip. It has murdered dozens of faculty and administrators, including university presidents, and an untold number of students. There is no academic freedom in Palestine. There is no academe at all in Gaza.”
A few suggestions to academics in the West for opposing Zionist genocide:
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1000+ people signed a letter within 3 days of it being circulated demanding divestment at St Andrews and now, too slowly but nonetheless surely, are signs of change. we need to keep going!
Big news - following the campaign for divestment, we can confirm that the University no longer has any investment in Booking dot com! (1/2)
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Printing an email sent by a student and naming them publicly in the
@MailOnline
, as
@GoonerProf
has done, is inappropriate. Especially after the student has offered to discuss your views with you!
@UniofReading
can you take pedagogical duties of care seriously?
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1/n my article in
@JofHistGeog
discusses why Gandhi statues have been falling and rising in different parts of the world 🧵
thanks to
@NIAS_KNAW
for a fellowship that supported this research,
@Stephenlegg11
for fab editing and 3 anonymous readers
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not how i planned to feature in vogue but i'll take it 🤷🏾♂️😀
Excited that our 2019 book got named in this very cool list of queer texts on
@vogueaustralia
along with a bunch of fab people including
@thariel
@benmurtagh
🙂🙃 - list by Indonesian queer Scholar - Hendri Yulius Wijaya.
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‘I never wanted to build a “body of work,” but to preserve these, our bodies, breathing and unaccounted for, inside the work.’
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Glasgow leading the way again (this is the place that gave Mandela the Freedom of the City in 1981)
Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah has been elected by the students of Glasgow University to serve as their Rector in a landslide victory in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Thank you to all those who campaigned, supported and voted for
@GhassanAbuSitt1
.
🏴🇵🇸
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i am in complete and total awe of journalists reporting from Gaza (and other places) in the face of such unrelenting violence
The IDF killed his wife, daughter, son and grandson.
Yesterday they injured him & killed his colleague Samer Abu Daqqa.
And
@WaelDahdouh
continues to report.
Solidarity with him & every journalist in Gaza. Without them, many of the horrors on the ground would remain invisible.
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so many of us took ‘Same-Sex Love in India’ as a point of departure, in the sense of both a beginning and a deviation. it seemed to say ‘we were always already here’. even when we problematised this ‘we’, we wondered about resemblances, echo effects, ancestors. RIP
#saleemkidwai
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what absolute evil for one side to accept a ceasefire and the other to keep bombing
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