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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Sandeep Bakshi
@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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She cries from hunger, fatigue, and a reality far too cruel for someone her age . if her pain touches your heart, please help provide food, treatment, and hope for survival.
@orangefreddyg.bsky.social
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
@orangefreddyg.bsky.social
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
My daughter Alma is hungry, weak, and crying in pain every night. We live without food or safety. I hold her close, praying someone out there still cares. Your kindness could mean a meal or medicine for her
Please, help us survive your compassion can save my child
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Please, help us survive your compassion can save my child
👇
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fa...
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
She cries from hunger, fatigue, and a reality far too cruel for someone her age . if her pain touches your heart, please help provide food, treatment, and hope for survival.
@orangefreddyg.bsky.social
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
@orangefreddyg.bsky.social
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
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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!
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 12:27 PM
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.
Last big event of the year over for me.
Please don’t invite me to speak on subjects of my research if it’s an all white affair. I’ll decline the invite (declined at least 5 this year). If your organising committee, speakers or panels have only white scholars with a couple of tokens thrown in, 1/3
Please don’t invite me to speak on subjects of my research if it’s an all white affair. I’ll decline the invite (declined at least 5 this year). If your organising committee, speakers or panels have only white scholars with a couple of tokens thrown in, 1/3
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Last big event of the year over for me.
Please don’t invite me to speak on subjects of my research if it’s an all white affair. I’ll decline the invite (declined at least 5 this year). If your organising committee, speakers or panels have only white scholars with a couple of tokens thrown in, 1/3
Please don’t invite me to speak on subjects of my research if it’s an all white affair. I’ll decline the invite (declined at least 5 this year). If your organising committee, speakers or panels have only white scholars with a couple of tokens thrown in, 1/3
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I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com
News of routine plagiarism and western creative forces aka theft with total impunity.
Lucknow, Dior 2025.
Occlusion, substitution, denial (Mary Louise Pratt, Planetary Longings, 2022).
And as Pratt says, they will deny the denial.
White mediocrity per usual. Leeches.
Lucknow, Dior 2025.
Occlusion, substitution, denial (Mary Louise Pratt, Planetary Longings, 2022).
And as Pratt says, they will deny the denial.
White mediocrity per usual. Leeches.
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
News of routine plagiarism and western creative forces aka theft with total impunity.
Lucknow, Dior 2025.
Occlusion, substitution, denial (Mary Louise Pratt, Planetary Longings, 2022).
And as Pratt says, they will deny the denial.
White mediocrity per usual. Leeches.
Lucknow, Dior 2025.
Occlusion, substitution, denial (Mary Louise Pratt, Planetary Longings, 2022).
And as Pratt says, they will deny the denial.
White mediocrity per usual. Leeches.
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Un féminicide ou tentative de féminicide toutes les 7 heures.
En France.
Et malgré cela les subventions des associations ne sont pas pérennisées. Il manque les fonds structurants. Mettez le blé sur la table.
www.humanite.fr/feminisme/fe...
En France.
Et malgré cela les subventions des associations ne sont pas pérennisées. Il manque les fonds structurants. Mettez le blé sur la table.
www.humanite.fr/feminisme/fe...
Féminicide : une femme victime toutes les 7 heures - L'Humanité
Cette année, elles sont déjà 145 à avoir perdu la vie sous les coups de leur conjoint, de leur ex, de leur fils… La réalité des chiffres et le manque de moyens alloués aux associat...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Un féminicide ou tentative de féminicide toutes les 7 heures.
En France.
Et malgré cela les subventions des associations ne sont pas pérennisées. Il manque les fonds structurants. Mettez le blé sur la table.
www.humanite.fr/feminisme/fe...
En France.
Et malgré cela les subventions des associations ne sont pas pérennisées. Il manque les fonds structurants. Mettez le blé sur la table.
www.humanite.fr/feminisme/fe...
Two gruelling days! Commute back home and the scarf holding me with hand-embroidered dreams of vines and flowers.
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Two gruelling days! Commute back home and the scarf holding me with hand-embroidered dreams of vines and flowers.
Thank you to everyone for their attendance.The talk, part of my new work, was recorded. I was swooning at the end. Rinaldo Walcott attended it online & congratulated me on doing ‘important work’.
Walcott blazed the trail for us; I cited their work on reparative relationality & Black queer diasporas.
Walcott blazed the trail for us; I cited their work on reparative relationality & Black queer diasporas.
20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Thank you to everyone for their attendance.The talk, part of my new work, was recorded. I was swooning at the end. Rinaldo Walcott attended it online & congratulated me on doing ‘important work’.
Walcott blazed the trail for us; I cited their work on reparative relationality & Black queer diasporas.
Walcott blazed the trail for us; I cited their work on reparative relationality & Black queer diasporas.
What on god's green earth is international men's day?!
Another vicious move to trivialise social justice.
Another vicious move to trivialise social justice.
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
What on god's green earth is international men's day?!
Another vicious move to trivialise social justice.
Another vicious move to trivialise social justice.