Sandeep Bakshi
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He/They.
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@sandeepbak.bsky.social
· Mar 16
Hi, new followers! Welcome.
Expect queer & decolonial studies discourse, coloniality of curriculum debates, commentary on current events esp. India, UK, France, Aus - origin/fam/residence. And US.
My reads, food & scarves.
Receive flak from several constituencies. No hate-follows pls; I don't. Ta!
Expect queer & decolonial studies discourse, coloniality of curriculum debates, commentary on current events esp. India, UK, France, Aus - origin/fam/residence. And US.
My reads, food & scarves.
Receive flak from several constituencies. No hate-follows pls; I don't. Ta!
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Interesting …
There’s this lawyer in London, posts amazing vegan recipes and takes issue with the inherent racism within the wider vegan community. He mixes history, food, and community belonging in a dynamic way that is much appreciated. Walter Rodney and cassava leaf dish - imagine 👏🏽👏🏽
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Interesting …
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Organisations like Peta etc., perhaps especially how they operate in settler-colonies like canada and the u.s. by targeting Indigenous communities on whose lands they're occupying, are almost openly a far-right hate group aren't they 💀
There’s this lawyer in London, posts amazing vegan recipes and takes issue with the inherent racism within the wider vegan community. He mixes history, food, and community belonging in a dynamic way that is much appreciated. Walter Rodney and cassava leaf dish - imagine 👏🏽👏🏽
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Organisations like Peta etc., perhaps especially how they operate in settler-colonies like canada and the u.s. by targeting Indigenous communities on whose lands they're occupying, are almost openly a far-right hate group aren't they 💀
A while ago, some white French loudly proclaimed being Islamoleftists. Mostly an aesthetic of non-solidarity. I shied away from a tired performance often resulting in erasure.
France is currently discussing a ban on Ramadan fast for folks below 16 years of age.
It won’t affect white Islamoleftists.
France is currently discussing a ban on Ramadan fast for folks below 16 years of age.
It won’t affect white Islamoleftists.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A while ago, some white French loudly proclaimed being Islamoleftists. Mostly an aesthetic of non-solidarity. I shied away from a tired performance often resulting in erasure.
France is currently discussing a ban on Ramadan fast for folks below 16 years of age.
It won’t affect white Islamoleftists.
France is currently discussing a ban on Ramadan fast for folks below 16 years of age.
It won’t affect white Islamoleftists.
There’s this lawyer in London, posts amazing vegan recipes and takes issue with the inherent racism within the wider vegan community. He mixes history, food, and community belonging in a dynamic way that is much appreciated. Walter Rodney and cassava leaf dish - imagine 👏🏽👏🏽
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
There’s this lawyer in London, posts amazing vegan recipes and takes issue with the inherent racism within the wider vegan community. He mixes history, food, and community belonging in a dynamic way that is much appreciated. Walter Rodney and cassava leaf dish - imagine 👏🏽👏🏽
One of the most awaited titles of 2025, right? I'll be bringing it back this time from the trip across the channel next week.
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
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Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Racial Fictions
Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized acr...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
One of the most awaited titles of 2025, right? I'll be bringing it back this time from the trip across the channel next week.
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Are academic folks explicitly stating the absence of AI usage in any form in their presentations? I've been planning to initiate it in mine going forward. Will it at all help quell the tide of cruelty awaiting us?
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Are academic folks explicitly stating the absence of AI usage in any form in their presentations? I've been planning to initiate it in mine going forward. Will it at all help quell the tide of cruelty awaiting us?
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Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
Queering UK Refugee Law
Queering UK Refugee Law - Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration; In the context of a global backlash against migrant and LGBTIQA+ rights , this book examines the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people in...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
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🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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EU Commission registers European citizens initiative calling for the full suspension of the EU/Israel association agreement
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Commission registers European Citizens\' Initiative on the EU-Israel Association Agreement
Today, the European Commission has registered the European Citizens\' Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel\'s violations of hu...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
EU Commission registers European citizens initiative calling for the full suspension of the EU/Israel association agreement
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Thank you @sandeepbak.bsky.social ! Berlin folks and friends, doing a talk at Humboldt Uni, part of the W.E.B. Du Bois lecture series, come out if you can, 6pm @ DorotheenstraBe 24, Raum 1.501
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Thank you @sandeepbak.bsky.social ! Berlin folks and friends, doing a talk at Humboldt Uni, part of the W.E.B. Du Bois lecture series, come out if you can, 6pm @ DorotheenstraBe 24, Raum 1.501
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
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Ceci est d'une gravité extrême.
Elena Mistrello. Dessinatrice italienne expulsée de France pour « menace grave pour l’ordre public »
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/nqu
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/nqu
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Ceci est d'une gravité extrême.
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Certain·es d’entre vous ont déjà vu les nombreuses dénonciations des boucles de harcèlement que subissent depuis trop longtemps @stephlamy.bsky.social et @mariepeltier2024.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Certain·es d’entre vous ont déjà vu les nombreuses dénonciations des boucles de harcèlement que subissent depuis trop longtemps @stephlamy.bsky.social et @mariepeltier2024.bsky.social
Fellow academics, who will theorise the figure of the Black and Brown (POC) white supremacist? At this point they aren’t solely upholding white supremacy but actively consolidating it. Did Trevor Philips just use the phrase ‘snatching suspected illegals off the street’?! When will it horrify us??
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fellow academics, who will theorise the figure of the Black and Brown (POC) white supremacist? At this point they aren’t solely upholding white supremacy but actively consolidating it. Did Trevor Philips just use the phrase ‘snatching suspected illegals off the street’?! When will it horrify us??
To put an end to the egregious enterprise of FrançAfrique, concerned citizens of France should come together to protest. You know the infamous rallies that are allegedly the pride of FR citizens. We protest since we no longer wish to be complicit in bleeding Africa/ns.
There’s no new deal in Gabon.
There’s no new deal in Gabon.
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
To put an end to the egregious enterprise of FrançAfrique, concerned citizens of France should come together to protest. You know the infamous rallies that are allegedly the pride of FR citizens. We protest since we no longer wish to be complicit in bleeding Africa/ns.
There’s no new deal in Gabon.
There’s no new deal in Gabon.
Le Monde’s op-ed below is France’s version of fighting the far-right by espousing the values of far-right. And this version is homegrown, as local as champagne, nothing imported from
US/UK about it.
Routine twaddle of over two-decade electoral spiel: there are too many folks with black & brown hues.
US/UK about it.
Routine twaddle of over two-decade electoral spiel: there are too many folks with black & brown hues.
C’est un édito de Valeurs Actuelles ou du Monde ? 🚮
Pour lutter contre le RN, il faudrait que la gauche « s’attaque à l’immigration » car il y en aurait trop ? Les priorités racistes du Monde.
Ce sont les milliardaires et les patrons qui sont en trop, pas les personnes exilées.
Pour lutter contre le RN, il faudrait que la gauche « s’attaque à l’immigration » car il y en aurait trop ? Les priorités racistes du Monde.
Ce sont les milliardaires et les patrons qui sont en trop, pas les personnes exilées.
Si la gauche veut regagner les classes populaires, elle ne peut plus faire l’impasse sur l’immigration Chronique www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Le Monde’s op-ed below is France’s version of fighting the far-right by espousing the values of far-right. And this version is homegrown, as local as champagne, nothing imported from
US/UK about it.
Routine twaddle of over two-decade electoral spiel: there are too many folks with black & brown hues.
US/UK about it.
Routine twaddle of over two-decade electoral spiel: there are too many folks with black & brown hues.
In bed with a nasty cold. Cancelling engagements for tomorrow.
Disciplinary readings as companions.
Trying to finish Appanah’s novel (2nd read) to begin Close reading for the twenty-first century (Princeton UP, 2025) — it arrived in the mail today.
Disciplinary readings as companions.
Trying to finish Appanah’s novel (2nd read) to begin Close reading for the twenty-first century (Princeton UP, 2025) — it arrived in the mail today.
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In bed with a nasty cold. Cancelling engagements for tomorrow.
Disciplinary readings as companions.
Trying to finish Appanah’s novel (2nd read) to begin Close reading for the twenty-first century (Princeton UP, 2025) — it arrived in the mail today.
Disciplinary readings as companions.
Trying to finish Appanah’s novel (2nd read) to begin Close reading for the twenty-first century (Princeton UP, 2025) — it arrived in the mail today.
QMUL is hosting the book talk of *Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine* on 1st Dec. I’ll be attending it; booked my spot- lucky I get into London that afternoon.
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine - Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
QMUL is hosting the book talk of *Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine* on 1st Dec. I’ll be attending it; booked my spot- lucky I get into London that afternoon.
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
So my dear friend Moon Charania has joined Bsky. Welcome @mooncharana.bsky.social! Please follow her for more updates on Archive of Tongues and brown maternal archives and their entanglements with lesbianism. Her book ⤵️ is highly recommended.
Location: an obscure joint, Place de la contrescarpe, Paris. Pics taken on Thursday by doting partner and our elderly neighbour auntie. We’ll get through this winter with Cognac and community.
Link to Moon’s book: www.dukeupress.edu/archive-of-t...
Link to Moon’s book: www.dukeupress.edu/archive-of-t...
Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness
www.dukeupress.edu
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
So my dear friend Moon Charania has joined Bsky. Welcome @mooncharana.bsky.social! Please follow her for more updates on Archive of Tongues and brown maternal archives and their entanglements with lesbianism. Her book ⤵️ is highly recommended.
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This is what American - EU assisted illegal land acquisition for Israel looks like. The first step - extermination of the inhabitants of the land, remains an Israeli government work in progress.
Very much a piece process.
Very much a piece process.
#WATCH | A new video shows the consequences of Israel's two-year "military operation" (Genocide) in the capital of the Gaza Strip.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is what American - EU assisted illegal land acquisition for Israel looks like. The first step - extermination of the inhabitants of the land, remains an Israeli government work in progress.
Very much a piece process.
Very much a piece process.
No comment. Actually one -
Now try UK, France, Germany.
Now try UK, France, Germany.
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
No comment. Actually one -
Now try UK, France, Germany.
Now try UK, France, Germany.
Two queer South Asian academics surviving winter w/ Cognac, united in their loathing of gaydom & heteropatriarchy. Moon told me that the best gaymen are lesbians. She generously engaged my MA students; on her way to Berlin, after fellowship year at Princeton. Her book on brown lesbianism—a must read
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Two queer South Asian academics surviving winter w/ Cognac, united in their loathing of gaydom & heteropatriarchy. Moon told me that the best gaymen are lesbians. She generously engaged my MA students; on her way to Berlin, after fellowship year at Princeton. Her book on brown lesbianism—a must read
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We've gotta get our best philosophers of slurs explaining this case immediately!
Hilarious! The Britain we knew but now transformed into a horrid island of hate.
This classic giddha song is about a woman singing she’s lost her ‘long’ (clove that women wear as nosepin). She’s calling the ‘jeeraywala’ (cumin-seed seller) to help her search for it. ‘Nigaah’ means eye, gaze or look.
This classic giddha song is about a woman singing she’s lost her ‘long’ (clove that women wear as nosepin). She’s calling the ‘jeeraywala’ (cumin-seed seller) to help her search for it. ‘Nigaah’ means eye, gaze or look.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We've gotta get our best philosophers of slurs explaining this case immediately!