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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18h

I will be at Harvard Boooookstore dreaming DRAG with our favorite Auntie Kareem Khubchandani on *Lessons in Drag* Nov 21

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www.harvard.com/event/kareem...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 4d

see u there 🍪

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 4d

Via @jennifercnash.bsky.social
19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop

Registration is free.
The line-up is amazing:
Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland.
Sign up! See you in Durham in March.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 4d

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 6d

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 6d

Here is the full document that universities are being asked to sign. It's well worth your time to read.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 6d

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 6d

Here is the full document that universities are being asked to sign. It's well worth your time to read.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 7d

congratulations AAUP and to you Veena for your incredible leadership in this work

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 7d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 7d

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 9d

😂😂😂

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 10d

today’s walk

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 11d

so awful

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 11d

💕☺️

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

the cover evokes a long tradition of feminist iconography, especially from the 1970s and 1980s during the UN Year and Decade for Women, that uses the sun or the sunrise to symbolize the new horizons made possible by feminism (but without the beloved but complicated Linnaean symbol for woman)

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 12d

I am really pleased that *A Book of Conquest* (2016) is now available locally in Pakistan via Sang-e-Meel Publications!

Pakistani edition of *A Book of Conquest*

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

the cover evokes a long tradition of feminist iconography, especially from the 1970s and 1980s during the UN Year and Decade for Women, that uses the sun or the sunrise to symbolize the new horizons made possible by feminism (but without the beloved but complicated Linnaean symbol for woman)

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

thank you @marydudziak.bsky.social 💓

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 12d

This is inspiring. Congratulations to @durba.bsky.social.

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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

press.princeton.edu

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 12d

🔊WORLDWIDE COVER REVEAL for *The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism* (2026)!

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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

press.princeton.edu

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

My profound thanks to Shahzia Sikander for permission to include her work on the cover of The Future That Was. She follows in the long tradition of feminist visionaries who work to produce better futures that I explore in the book ☀️

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

Sikander explains her vision:

"The feminine is without limit...like the limitless strength of the mind. The silhouettes of women marching around the sphere is derived from the idea of endlessness: women and the infinite number of points within a circle."

www.trebuchet-magazine.com/the-politics...

The Politics of Genre: Shahzia Sikander - Trebuchet

"Art history is deeply Eurocentric and tends to place art that doesn’t sit comfortably within its canon as the ‘other’ and never as ‘avant-garde’."

www.trebuchet-magazine.com

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

if you look at Infinite Woman close up, you can see the incredible detail and texture

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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

press.princeton.edu

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