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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 10d

The way this is going to be in my Feminist Political Ecology syllabus iktr 🙂‍↕️

Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 10d

I’m a simple duck. I see a book critiquing Paul Gauguin & the (ab)use of Brown & Black womxn’s pain & corporeality in Western/colonial art “cannons,” I read it. @mailbykite.bsky.social
writes many things that make me feel okay to always mambuduik against this world.

Holding a book “Annah, Infinite” by Khairani Barokka (Tilted Axis Press 2025)

Description box for Paul Gauguin’s Tehamana Has Many Parents (1893). Chicago Art Institute

Paul Gauguin’s Tehamana Has Many Parents (1893). Chicago Art Institute

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 10d

from this week’s biking through Jakarta

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 15d

well.
[Third pic: a young worker packing heavy fresh fruit bunches into a truck at 8:35 pm; taken yesterday]

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 17d

commemorating Indonesia’s National Peasant Day from its anti-thesis ground zero: plantations.

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 18d

nangis2 di kebun karena informan kena union busting, bingung mau cerita ama siapa karena sinyal ilang seharian, pas akhirnya dapat sinyal buka chat, eh temen ngajak main padel “biar trendy.” Hidup emang srimulat aja kadang2 😭

Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 18d

funny how @ramadante.bsky.social has only known me less than a year & met me only twice in person, but he already saw & listened to me cry big times & mourn twice. Ya Allah, makasih buat Temy.

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 19d

Finally in the warmth of Toba women’s foods & Riau cuisine 😮‍💨

Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 19d

Agents and opponents of neoliberal globalization: military elites and the reorganization of global supply chains in a post-neoliberal era: academic.oup.com/ser/article-...

Agents and opponents of neoliberal globalization: military elites and the reorganization of global supply chains in a post-neoliberal era

Abstract. The reorganization of global supply chains and productive capabilities is arguably one the most significant indicators that the economic integrat

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 20d

biking with my sundress through Blok M and a bunch of adorable kids (biking & parking) were in awe & said, “that sister looks so cute biking in dress, dammit Budi, don’t peak through her skirt!”

Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 21d

Happy birthday to my most favorite philosopher, Gillian Rose. Thanks for making me realize that I’m capable of falling in love with someone over a good & challenging writing.
(excerpts from Love’s Work & “Beginnings of the Day” in Mourning Becomes the Law)

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 23d

Kerjaan apa yang minta aing cuma baca Gillian Rose & novel2 obscure tapi gajinya masih bisa beli rumah di kaki gunung Himalaya dengan kebun bunga & bebek2?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 24d

Seems like “you can’t buy homeowner’s insurance on your house anymore because there are too many floods and fires” would be a kitchen-table issue

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24d

climate change??

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · 26d

Prendjak tea, homemade kue lapis plum, & Gillian Rose’s “Love’s Work.” A remedy in a very physically challenging day. ”You may be weaker than the world, but you’re stronger than yourself.” ♥️

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28d

‘The goal isn’t to alter one’s consciousness or enter a separate “spirit realm”, but more like code-switching to a mode of reality in which it is possible to interact with the non-human persons who are present but invisible in normal life.’

Mike Jay on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mike Jay · Priest of the Devil: On Shamanism

Traditionally, it was the shaman who swallowed or sniffed intoxicating plants as a way of gaining access to the world of...

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · Sep 7

21 years ago, the government of Indonesia murdered Munir, Indonesia’s prominent human rights activist. He was a fierce critic of the Army’s rampant abuse in Aceh & East Timor. Baik-baik, orang baik.
(Arsip foto: Willy Alfarius, sejarawan).

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ᗧ͇̿ · · ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ᗣ͇̿ @davidegilbert.bsky.social · Sep 6

What is the power of ‘direct land politics’ today, from the Americas to SE Asia?

Me in conversation with @antidogmatist.bsky.social with guest editor @kaibosworth.bsky.social in @thefunambulist.bsky.social, a vital source for all things politics and culture.

thefunambulist.net/magazine/ten...

Direct Land Politics

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ANTONIO ROMAN-ALCALÁ AND DAVID E. GILBERT COMMISSIONED AND EDITED BY KAI BOSWORTH Kai Bosworth: For years, The Funambulist has examined land struggles in forests, urban areas…

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Sep 4

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok"

Well, have you consulted a historian who says ‘it’s a bit more complicated than that’ and gives you an overly detailed narrative of the last 800 years?

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · Sep 5

🙏🏼 Sangat bersyukur 🤍

Social scientists using my poetry to teach/talk abt their subjects is The Dream, especially the best kind of academics a la Pepe.

Oof, so much to say abt ‘proyek’ as cornerstone of ‘development’ in Indonesia and elsewhere (inner gag reflex).

Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · Sep 5

Discussing the word “proyek”/“diproyekin.” I love instead of academic wasweswos, I refer to a poem/poems by @mailbykite.bsky.social to talk about ”development” studies ♥️

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · Sep 5

Discussing the word “proyek”/“diproyekin.” I love instead of academic wasweswos, I refer to a poem/poems by @mailbykite.bsky.social to talk about ”development” studies ♥️

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Miles Kenney-Lazar @mklaz.bsky.social · Sep 5

I approach land as a web of social relationships that entangle peasant farmers, state officials, civil society groups, and plantation capitalists. The book addresses how and why ties to land are socialized in different orientations, particularly for capital versus the peasantry.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Aug 30

"The police killed Affan"
Graffiti in Manado, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.

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Pepe R @postcolsandwich.bsky.social · Aug 31

TransJakarta & MRT resume their operation today & will be free for a whole week. Enjoying Mapmatics @ a bus trip home today. Carto-mathematically exploring how to measure the earth, distance to Mecca, & why racist school policies spatially wouldn’t work

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asiancurrents.bsky.social @asiancurrents.bsky.social · Aug 29

🌟 Dr Colum Graham has been awarded the 2024 John Legge Prize for his doctoral thesis about agrarian transitions in Indonesia 🌟

Please join us in congratulating Dr Graham, and Dr Minglei Wang who was recognised with the award of runner-up 👏

Read the press release: asaa.asn.au/news/thesis-...

Thesis about Agrarian Transitions in Indonesia wins the John Legge Prize for 2024 - Asian Studies Association of Australia

The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is pleased to announce that Dr Colum Graham, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, has won…

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