Durba Mitra
@durba.bsky.social
Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
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Durba Mitra
@durba.bsky.social
· Dec 3
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
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
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Donated in the name of a murdered poet and a healer.
One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it.
www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
www.ilcm.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Donated in the name of a murdered poet and a healer.
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Some straightforward and useful accounting here from M Gessen:
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Some straightforward and useful accounting here from M Gessen:
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
January 24, 2026 at 11:51 PM
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
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The family of Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis man shot and killed by federal immigration agents Saturday morning, released a statement to several media outlets. It begins: "We are heartbroken but also very angry."
Live: Minnesota reels after latest fatal shooting by federal agents
Protesters gathered at a park near where a man was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday. Federal officials say the man was armed.
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 AM
The family of Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis man shot and killed by federal immigration agents Saturday morning, released a statement to several media outlets. It begins: "We are heartbroken but also very angry."
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Hundreds have packed a Minneapolis intersection near where federal agents shot and killed U.S. citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti earlier on Saturday.
📸: Louis Krauss
📸: Louis Krauss
January 24, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Hundreds have packed a Minneapolis intersection near where federal agents shot and killed U.S. citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti earlier on Saturday.
📸: Louis Krauss
📸: Louis Krauss
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This is where we take the kids climbing, then get donuts or a banh mi afterwards. Where my 11 year old found the perfect vintage corduroy jacket at b.resale recently. Around the corner from the Minneapolis Institute of Art which is a good place to run toddlers on a cold day
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
This is where we take the kids climbing, then get donuts or a banh mi afterwards. Where my 11 year old found the perfect vintage corduroy jacket at b.resale recently. Around the corner from the Minneapolis Institute of Art which is a good place to run toddlers on a cold day
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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
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ICE murdered someone this morning in front of my kid’s favorite donut shop. Can’t watch the video. It was just a matter of time before it happened again. How are we going to stop them? We are quite literally all we have, no-one is coming to save us. Especially not the state.
January 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
ICE murdered someone this morning in front of my kid’s favorite donut shop. Can’t watch the video. It was just a matter of time before it happened again. How are we going to stop them? We are quite literally all we have, no-one is coming to save us. Especially not the state.
me with midwest pride watching and rewatching videos of massive crowds in Minneapolis and 😭😭😭
January 24, 2026 at 3:01 PM
me with midwest pride watching and rewatching videos of massive crowds in Minneapolis and 😭😭😭
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If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
January 23, 2026 at 7:39 PM
If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
January 24, 2026 at 12:29 AM
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Minnesota is the best of us.
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This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.
January 22, 2026 at 12:41 AM
This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.
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I gotta go eat brownies and hang with people I love because they kidnapped a baby and I'm gonna lose it thinking about all the other children they've taken that I don't know about. Be kind to yourselves and your neighbors.
I'll also share this in case you're able to help
www.standwithminnesota.com
I'll also share this in case you're able to help
www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I gotta go eat brownies and hang with people I love because they kidnapped a baby and I'm gonna lose it thinking about all the other children they've taken that I don't know about. Be kind to yourselves and your neighbors.
I'll also share this in case you're able to help
www.standwithminnesota.com
I'll also share this in case you're able to help
www.standwithminnesota.com
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His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Lost Science:
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Lost Science:
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Nature article documenting, with superb graphics, the recent deep cuts in the funding of American science.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
the cruelty is too much to bear
Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
bit.ly
January 20, 2026 at 7:46 PM
the cruelty is too much to bear
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Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
bit.ly
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.