Bassam Sidiki
@bassidiki.bsky.social
Cultural historian of medicine and empire. Asst Prof of English at UTAustin. From Karachi, Sindh. www.bassamsidiki.com
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#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
January 22, 2026 at 11:54 AM
#IndiaSky, please share as received from Minee Pratiksha on a forthcoming workshop:
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Call for Papers
Caste, Exclusion, and Memory: Dalit Narratives of Partition
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Jake gave me such useful feedback on this essay in its earlier stages. Thank you my friend!
In the new VLC, @bassidiki.bsky.social deftly reveals the shared imperial logic bridging the juridical + medical senses of "immunity," showing why The Sign of Four is an island novel—and, by bringing in Ross, a less exceptional one than people pretend. Read it while it's hot!
tinyurl.com/ywv45d3z
tinyurl.com/ywv45d3z
Imperial Immunities: Ronald Ross and Arthur Conan Doyle in the Andaman Islands | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core
Imperial Immunities: Ronald Ross and Arthur Conan Doyle in the Andaman Islands - Volume 53 Issue 3
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January 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Jake gave me such useful feedback on this essay in its earlier stages. Thank you my friend!
Having to change BlueSky account handle from super-bass because Nicki Minaj is now a fascist was not on my end of 2025 bingo card
December 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Having to change BlueSky account handle from super-bass because Nicki Minaj is now a fascist was not on my end of 2025 bingo card
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he sees you when you’re sleeping: the santopticon
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
he sees you when you’re sleeping: the santopticon
Back from deactivation to reveal my headshot for book publicity. PARASITIC EMPIRES: INFECTION, INSULARITY, INTER-IMPERIALITY is now in production at UNC press.
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Back from deactivation to reveal my headshot for book publicity. PARASITIC EMPIRES: INFECTION, INSULARITY, INTER-IMPERIALITY is now in production at UNC press.
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Advice for female associate profs on balancing academias gender inequities, including vastly unequal workloads, inverted pay, and engaging productively with male admin?
Looking for resources, conversations, and more!
Looking for resources, conversations, and more!
August 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Advice for female associate profs on balancing academias gender inequities, including vastly unequal workloads, inverted pay, and engaging productively with male admin?
Looking for resources, conversations, and more!
Looking for resources, conversations, and more!
Essentially, what happened was that the inventors of poppers were like: how do we get non-queer folks to sustain the same level of brain damage? And so AI was born.
August 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Essentially, what happened was that the inventors of poppers were like: how do we get non-queer folks to sustain the same level of brain damage? And so AI was born.
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From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458
#poem #booksky #writing
#poem #booksky #writing
July 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458
#poem #booksky #writing
#poem #booksky #writing
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Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
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the fact that anyone in America can think this & feel comfortable saying it out loud represents a profound failure of public education— like, a breakdown at the systematic level
July 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
the fact that anyone in America can think this & feel comfortable saying it out loud represents a profound failure of public education— like, a breakdown at the systematic level
I love adding pop culture slides to theory lectures in my poco class. when I teach Spivak I start with the photo accompanying her interview with Aesop skincare. When I teach Bhabha I have a slide of his son Satya on New Girl. This fall, when I teach #Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, I’ll include:
June 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I love adding pop culture slides to theory lectures in my poco class. when I teach Spivak I start with the photo accompanying her interview with Aesop skincare. When I teach Bhabha I have a slide of his son Satya on New Girl. This fall, when I teach #Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, I’ll include:
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This is definitely what happened. Mad king behavior.
He was humiliated on No Kings Day, so he bombed a country to self-soothe.
June 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is definitely what happened. Mad king behavior.
“But if what I’m after is the story, the vibe, the suspense, I might be justified in feeling that I’d ‘read’ the book. Certainly, I’d be unlikely to seek out the unabridged version.” Not to gatekeep or whatever but you have not, in fact, read the book.
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“But if what I’m after is the story, the vibe, the suspense, I might be justified in feeling that I’d ‘read’ the book. Certainly, I’d be unlikely to seek out the unabridged version.” Not to gatekeep or whatever but you have not, in fact, read the book.
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This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
June 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
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It’s been a bit since I shared this one, pub’d in Feb—A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US, from @sunypress.bsky.social. 794 pp of empirically grounded info, personal experiences, & trans history BY trans ppl, physicians & scholars. Now 30% off w/ code SPRIDE25. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...
June 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It’s been a bit since I shared this one, pub’d in Feb—A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US, from @sunypress.bsky.social. 794 pp of empirically grounded info, personal experiences, & trans history BY trans ppl, physicians & scholars. Now 30% off w/ code SPRIDE25. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...
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Any historians of the late British Empire on here? Can you suggest any sources on the of colonial governance in the 20s onwards? I read somewhere that with this retreat of the colonial state, private orgs took up the onus of services like public health. Does this sound right? Many thanks 🙏🏽
April 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Any historians of the late British Empire on here? Can you suggest any sources on the of colonial governance in the 20s onwards? I read somewhere that with this retreat of the colonial state, private orgs took up the onus of services like public health. Does this sound right? Many thanks 🙏🏽
Going to my first American Lit Association conference in May for a health/environmental humanities panel to speak about my ongoing work on Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and as I was researching more fiction on the Panama Canal I found that two historical novels about it came out in 2024 👀
April 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Going to my first American Lit Association conference in May for a health/environmental humanities panel to speak about my ongoing work on Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and as I was researching more fiction on the Panama Canal I found that two historical novels about it came out in 2024 👀
This is Pikachu
Man, surprised. By Joos van Craesbeeck, whose day is today.
April 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is Pikachu
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If you are interested in:
🔹legacies of the 19th century in the 20th/21st
🔹modernism’s uses of the Victorian
🔹imperialism & its afterlives
🔹ripple effects of Atlantic slavery in indentureship, bonded labor, migration
🔹aesthetic effects of delay, recursivity, suspension
PLEASE SUBMIT TO NAVSA 🌿🙏
🔹legacies of the 19th century in the 20th/21st
🔹modernism’s uses of the Victorian
🔹imperialism & its afterlives
🔹ripple effects of Atlantic slavery in indentureship, bonded labor, migration
🔹aesthetic effects of delay, recursivity, suspension
PLEASE SUBMIT TO NAVSA 🌿🙏
5 [years between the Treaty of Waitangi and the beginning of the New Zealand Wars/days until NAVSA’s CFP due date]
March 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
If you are interested in:
🔹legacies of the 19th century in the 20th/21st
🔹modernism’s uses of the Victorian
🔹imperialism & its afterlives
🔹ripple effects of Atlantic slavery in indentureship, bonded labor, migration
🔹aesthetic effects of delay, recursivity, suspension
PLEASE SUBMIT TO NAVSA 🌿🙏
🔹legacies of the 19th century in the 20th/21st
🔹modernism’s uses of the Victorian
🔹imperialism & its afterlives
🔹ripple effects of Atlantic slavery in indentureship, bonded labor, migration
🔹aesthetic effects of delay, recursivity, suspension
PLEASE SUBMIT TO NAVSA 🌿🙏
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66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.
January 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.
The racist uber driver taking me from the NOLA airport to my airbnb was spewing the exact same nonsense. When I told him I’m from Austin but prefer Houston he was like “after Katrina all the Blacks [sic] went there and crime went up 400%.” My blood was boiling.
January 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The racist uber driver taking me from the NOLA airport to my airbnb was spewing the exact same nonsense. When I told him I’m from Austin but prefer Houston he was like “after Katrina all the Blacks [sic] went there and crime went up 400%.” My blood was boiling.
Victorian women: Reader, I married him
21st century gays:
21st century gays:
January 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Victorian women: Reader, I married him
21st century gays:
21st century gays:
Nobody:
Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure: “Nice window. Can I jump out of it?”
Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure: “Nice window. Can I jump out of it?”
January 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Nobody:
Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure: “Nice window. Can I jump out of it?”
Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure: “Nice window. Can I jump out of it?”