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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Mar 25

the meet cute of our dreams 🤩

Serene Khader @serenekhader.bsky.social · Mar 25

If you are around Philly, and want to talk about how feminism isn't about being Dream Big Barbie, come hang with me and my #dreamdate Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social at Penn on Thursday. We will be in convo with @sukaina.bsky.social, brilliant philosopher and matchmaker extraordinaire.

Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Mar 17

If you’re in the Philly area, come to this event next Thurs from 5-7pm in Annenberg 110. A conversation with @reproutopia.bsky.social and @serenekhader.bsky.social about their books Enemy Feminisms and Faux Feminism. If you aren’t at Penn register here: bit.ly/3QL1nm0

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Mar 17

If you’re in the Philly area, come to this event next Thurs from 5-7pm in Annenberg 110. A conversation with @reproutopia.bsky.social and @serenekhader.bsky.social about their books Enemy Feminisms and Faux Feminism. If you aren’t at Penn register here: bit.ly/3QL1nm0

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Feb 8

I'm in Santa Barbara today to hear discussion of papers by Erin Lam, Sukaina Hirji, Kelly Nguyen, Hannah Silverblank, and Adriana Vazquez for the "Minoritizing Classics" workshop. How can Classics engage in minoritized perspectives ethically without co-opting or consuming them?

Poster of the Minoritizing Classics colloquium at UCSB, with pictures of the speakers. Colloquium co-organized by Erin Lam and Helen Morales. Confirmed participants include: Sukaina Hirji (Penn); Kelly Nguyen (UCLA); Hannah Silverblank (independent scholar); and Adriana Vazquez (UCLA). What does it mean to do classics and classical reception studies in a time when the need for decolonizing the field has become increasingly urgent? how might classics engage more with minoritized perspectives in ethical ways without co-opting or consuming them? the participants in the colloquium will consider answers to these questions that emerge from their work on critical race studies in classics and reception studies. readings will be circulated in advance.

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Dec 5

we are so blessed!!

Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · Dec 5

Some personal news! Thanks to @ianbonaparte.bsky.social I will be working again with Katy O'Donnell at @haymarketbooks.org on an essay collection about "femmephilia," AND working with Kiara Barrow at Penguin on a book about child liberation (building ofc on @lalouverouge.bsky.social's work on this).

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Dec 5

Aristotle with a side of meme!! I’m so jealous

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Dec 3

once again sending this starter pack around for those of you local to other places

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Dec 3

Wonderful, moving, and very therapeutic piece by my brilliant colleague @jennifermmorton.bsky.social about being first gen in academia.
I feel so lucky to be able to think and learn with Jen about what it means to be a professor at a place like Penn

Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · Dec 3

"I am a part of a system that is exclusionary and elitist. I know that my mere presence within these institutions makes those around me feel better about the fairness of the flawed system that brought them there..."

The Double-Binds of First-Generation (and other “Different”) Academics - Daily Nous

Jennifer Morton (University of Pennsylvania) is the author of the latest contribution to #first-gen philosophers, a collection of reflections by philosophers who were among the first in their family t...

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#first-genphilosophers @firstgenphilos.bsky.social · Dec 2

NEW POST!
"Flourishing in the Academy: Complicity and Compromise"
By @jennifermmorton.bsky.social

www.firstgenphilosophers.com/contribution...

#firstgenphilosophers

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Daniele Lorenzini @danlor.bsky.social · Dec 2

Final reminder: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
with Adam Shatz and Amber Joseph-Zorn

On Wednesday, at 5pm, at Penn.

Non-Penn folks please RSVP here: t.ly/nh3uG

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Barrett Emerick @barrettemerick.bsky.social · Nov 25

I created a Social Philosophy Starter Pack. Please tell me who I should add (including you)!

#philsky

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · Nov 27

A great starter pack for people who like jokes:

go.bsky.app/VhPhrux

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · Dec 1

Looking to connect Bluesky's legion of philosophy PhD students. I've gotten a start based on my followers, please let me know if I should add you!

(Apologies if I've missed a mutual here...)

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Dec 2

hahhaha ok ok i will work on it 💜

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Dec 1

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Dec 1

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · Dec 1

wow thank you for sharing 💜💜💜

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · Dec 1

Hi everyone, here's @sukaina.bsky.social's new article on moral agency and oppression, which weighs into the classic moral philosophy engagement with Huck Finn. It's so insightful!!

Out open access & is definitely gonna be a critical reference point for all kinds of projects.

Moral agency under oppression

In Huckleberry Finn, a thirteen-year old white boy in antebellum Missouri escapes from his abusive father and befriends a runaway slave named Jim. On a familiar reading of the novel, both Huck and Ji...

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