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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 1d

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

I am both immensely proud and wowed and inspired by @azizaahmed.bsky.social - sister of my heart! This is a work of history, love, brilliance, and resistance. I needed this today.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

I am both immensely proud and wowed and inspired by @azizaahmed.bsky.social - sister of my heart! This is a work of history, love, brilliance, and resistance. I needed this today.

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 1d

It's new book day! 🤩📚

We are thrilled to have so many exciting brand-new releases from @universitypress.cambridge.org including Risk and Resistance' by @azizaahmed.bsky.social 'Assembling India’s Constitution' by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, and much more! 🙌

A hand holding a book titled "Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History" by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, in a bookshop with bookshelves in the background.

Hand holding a book titled 'Politics and the New Challenge of Migration: Bridging Cultural, Social and Political Divides' by Gordon Sammut in a bookshop.

A hand holding a book titled "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS" by Aziza Ahmed, in a bookshop with shelves of books in the background.

A hand holding a book titled "The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change" by Winifred R. Louis, G. K. Chonu, Kiara Minto, and Susilo Wibisono, in a bookshop.

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you @mayamanian.bsky.social for your wonderful vision and brilliance

Maya Manian @mayamanian.bsky.social · 7d

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us today for “Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science, and Policy”! Deep gratitude to our incredible speakers, panelists, and especially author @azizaahmed.bsky.social for sparking such powerful conversations
@auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much for coming Jamie it was so lovely to see you and thank you for this!!!

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Maya Manian @mayamanian.bsky.social · 7d

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us today for “Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science, and Policy”! Deep gratitude to our incredible speakers, panelists, and especially author @azizaahmed.bsky.social for sparking such powerful conversations
@auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 8d

Can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow at this symposium!

www.american.edu/wcl/impact/i...

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you! 🙏🏽

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 9d

“With consideration for women’s suffering in pregnancy on the back burner, and blame and accountability taking center stage, we should be wary of how pregnancy directives will be mobilized in the criminal legal system.” @azizaahmed

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How Long Before Taking Tylenol While Pregnant Is a Crime?

In light of new data showing over 400 people have been prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, we should be wary of how Trump’s directives may be used against women.

www.thenation.com

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to @veenadubal.bsky.social and the aaup 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 10d

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.”"

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 10d

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.”"

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Linda C. McClain @proflmcclain.bsky.social · 10d

Keynote by @azizaahmed.bsky.social with commentary by Prof. Michele Goodwin and two panels of amazing speakers. Can attend in person or virtually: app.registrationguru.net#!/portal?eve...

Registration Guru Application

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 10d

By identifying mothers and providers as "guilty" parties in the increasing rates of autism, the Trump administration is inviting prosecutions for crimes related to pregnancy, writes @azizaahmed.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How Long Before Taking Tylenol While Pregnant Is a Crime?

In light of new data showing over 400 people have been prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, we should be wary of how Trump's directives may be used against women.

www.thenation.com

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to @jasonbjackson.bsky.social on his new “erudite”, “original”, and “masterful” book! #capitalism #india #moraleconomy #foreigndirectinvestment 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 11d

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 12d

My SCOTUS term preview for the Guardian - it focuses on the case challenging what remains of the Voting Rights Act (Callais), how that's part of a centuries-old campaign against Reconstruction, & how that's representative of several issues on the Court's docket.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

www.theguardian.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 12d

My SCOTUS term preview for the Guardian - it focuses on the case challenging what remains of the Voting Rights Act (Callais), how that's part of a centuries-old campaign against Reconstruction, & how that's representative of several issues on the Court's docket.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

www.theguardian.com

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 14d

A new book by @jasonbjackson.bsky.social

“An incisive account of the moral beliefs that have guided foreign investment policy in India since the late colonial period, with an eye toward their implications for the twenty-first-century global economy”

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry — Harvard University Press

An incisive account of the moral beliefs that have guided foreign investment policy in India since the late colonial period, with an eye toward their implications for the twenty-first-century global e...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!!

Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you Anna! And congrats to you as well!!

Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!!

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 14d

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 Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Maya Manian @mayamanian.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you to our speakers for supporting and making time for this event, including
@tracyweitz.bsky.social
@michelegoodwin.bsky.social
@ferrynicola.bsky.social
@sameer-ashar.bsky.social
@serenamayeri.bsky.social
@brishen.bsky.social
@matiangai.bsky.social
@profmohapatra.bsky.social

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AUWCL Health Law and Policy Program @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social · 17d

Join us Oct. 3 (12–5 PM ET | hybrid) for Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science & Policy. Featuring Prof. @azizaahmed.bsky.social keynote on her new book followed by panels on feminist activism, law & public health.

Details & Registration: tinyurl.com/yt2zex6u

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 17d

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

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

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...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

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...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social and @mayamanian.bsky.social for making my book dreams come true with this symposium. Please come if are in the DC area! I would love to see you and hear reactions to Risk and Resistance.
www.american.edu/wcl/impact/i...

Fall Symposium

www.american.edu

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you so much @lpeblog.bsky.social 🥰

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 21d

Cool new book alert: Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS by @azizaahmed.bsky.social.

Risk and Resistance

Cambridge Core - American Studies - Risk and Resistance

www.cambridge.org

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 21d

Cool new book alert: Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS by @azizaahmed.bsky.social.

Risk and Resistance

Cambridge Core - American Studies - Risk and Resistance

www.cambridge.org

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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 21d

An important new book from @irincarmon.bsky.social - can’t wait to talk to you about it at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social

Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social · 21d

And because we all need to touch grass, would love to see you at any of these events (details on Queens and Alabama events coming very soon.) excited to sit down with some incredible people like @rtraister.bsky.social @michelegoodwin.bsky.social @azizaahmed.bsky.social

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Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social · 21d

And because we all need to touch grass, would love to see you at any of these events (details on Queens and Alabama events coming very soon.) excited to sit down with some incredible people like @rtraister.bsky.social @michelegoodwin.bsky.social @azizaahmed.bsky.social

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