Ifra
@ifra-j.bsky.social
PhD student @ Northwestern U | interested in digital queer counterpublics, transnational queer publics, and more | either making food or art
Guys i just joined my profs zoom meeting but he isnt there and his camera is switched on should i pretend to leave and come back
September 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Guys i just joined my profs zoom meeting but he isnt there and his camera is switched on should i pretend to leave and come back
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For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day.
He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees.
Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm.
His little son has stopped talking in his absence.
He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees.
Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm.
His little son has stopped talking in his absence.
April 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day.
He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees.
Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm.
His little son has stopped talking in his absence.
He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees.
Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm.
His little son has stopped talking in his absence.
I didn’t even know there were this many people in evantson
easily biggest protest I've seen in downtown Evanston. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I didn’t even know there were this many people in evantson
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I feel bad for people who live in places with temperate climates year-round. They will never know the pure joy of a 50-degree February day after a long, cold winter. Soak it up this week, fellow midwesterners.
February 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I feel bad for people who live in places with temperate climates year-round. They will never know the pure joy of a 50-degree February day after a long, cold winter. Soak it up this week, fellow midwesterners.
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Can anyone recommend readings for undergrads that explicit link the survival and flourishing of indigenous and non-western gender systems to material struggles over land, sovereignty and against colonialism?
February 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Can anyone recommend readings for undergrads that explicit link the survival and flourishing of indigenous and non-western gender systems to material struggles over land, sovereignty and against colonialism?
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Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me
February 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me
Its just me (out for a smoke) and the people walking their dogs in this snow storm
February 13, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Its just me (out for a smoke) and the people walking their dogs in this snow storm
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Performing the bare-est minimum function in R and feeling so accomplished. Only my fellow qual people will understand
January 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Performing the bare-est minimum function in R and feeling so accomplished. Only my fellow qual people will understand
My first polar vortex i hate it here. Like what do you mean campus is not closed during -30 C weather????
January 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My first polar vortex i hate it here. Like what do you mean campus is not closed during -30 C weather????
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Today and in the coming days, remember
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today and in the coming days, remember
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The overwhelming level of police and politicians here is not about making sure Luigi doesn’t escape, it’s about reassuring corporate America and scaring anyone who might consider copying what Luigi did. I think their strategy has backfired
December 20, 2024 at 4:14 PM
The overwhelming level of police and politicians here is not about making sure Luigi doesn’t escape, it’s about reassuring corporate America and scaring anyone who might consider copying what Luigi did. I think their strategy has backfired
They got the surname wrong but lowkey I get it
December 12, 2024 at 7:43 PM
They got the surname wrong but lowkey I get it
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Great work in Punjabi language studies is on its way after Alyssa Ayres. "Paindoo: Punjabi as an Accent" by Prof. Iqra Cheema @cheema.bsky.social is a really promising start to what I hope will be a broader project on language, class, politics, and aesthetics.
December 12, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Great work in Punjabi language studies is on its way after Alyssa Ayres. "Paindoo: Punjabi as an Accent" by Prof. Iqra Cheema @cheema.bsky.social is a really promising start to what I hope will be a broader project on language, class, politics, and aesthetics.
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Sednaya prison outside of Damascus is called the human slaughterhouse. The things that I read happened there will never leave me. Just the absolute most twisted things a human can come up with.
The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.
The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.
December 8, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Sednaya prison outside of Damascus is called the human slaughterhouse. The things that I read happened there will never leave me. Just the absolute most twisted things a human can come up with.
The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.
The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.
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The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law…& the greater good…From there we understand the hostility of…authority towards these figures, & its use of the law…to…criminalize them.
—Basel al-Araj
—Basel al-Araj
December 7, 2024 at 4:49 AM
The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law…& the greater good…From there we understand the hostility of…authority towards these figures, & its use of the law…to…criminalize them.
—Basel al-Araj
—Basel al-Araj
1 pm and already on my 5th espresso shot of the day. Exam week is going great 👍🏽👍🏽
December 6, 2024 at 7:09 PM
1 pm and already on my 5th espresso shot of the day. Exam week is going great 👍🏽👍🏽
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Clarence Darrow: ″I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."
This seems relevant recently.
This seems relevant recently.
December 5, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Clarence Darrow: ″I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."
This seems relevant recently.
This seems relevant recently.
Something about billionaires being afraid is so heartwarming
New: multiple major health insurance companies (Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource, Medica, Elevance Health) have taken down pages on their websites which listed their leadership, following the murder of United Healthcare CEO www.404media.co/multiple-maj...
Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.
www.404media.co
December 6, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Something about billionaires being afraid is so heartwarming
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I think this essay is one of the most important essays re. gender theory ever written. I have been reading it over and over and I think you should all read it too (and support Talia's work).
taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...
taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...
The Third Sex
“The Gender Binary” is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy.
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:18 AM
I think this essay is one of the most important essays re. gender theory ever written. I have been reading it over and over and I think you should all read it too (and support Talia's work).
taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...
taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...
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NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:04 AM
NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
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Omg fuck the hand-wringing about people not finding the murder of the UHC CEO tragic. No, actually, we don't have to mourn the deaths of people who oversee the denial of our medical needs, who are also responsible for many, many deaths, all bc of their greed. STFU already.
December 4, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Omg fuck the hand-wringing about people not finding the murder of the UHC CEO tragic. No, actually, we don't have to mourn the deaths of people who oversee the denial of our medical needs, who are also responsible for many, many deaths, all bc of their greed. STFU already.
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whose idea were endnotes?
December 3, 2024 at 6:11 PM
whose idea were endnotes?
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Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no