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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 8d

WELCOME 2025? COMPLETED IT MATE ✅🎉

We’re delighted to welcome our new cohort and our brilliant new LSE Fellows R and Zuzana!

Special thanks to our PSS colleagues, our HoD @sumimadhok.bsky.social and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social for a fantastic Welcome Lecture.

Bring it on!

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 12d

Hug. Been a while since I have seen you. Hope you’re keeping well x

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 12d

The recording of yesterday’s brilliant Welcome Lecture is now available on our YouTube channel! 📺 🍿

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 13d

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social speaking on South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production and Queer Organising for this year‘s Welcome Lecture chaired by @sumimadhok.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 12d

Correct link: www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you :)

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 12d

NEW ARTICLE out now. That’s my service to the discipline sorted for the next decade! A collection of 50 articles, books, and chapters that I hope will be a useful resource for anyone researching queer digital cultures in non-Western contexts.

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 13d

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social speaking on South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production and Queer Organising for this year‘s Welcome Lecture chaired by @sumimadhok.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday marked 8 years since the late Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in a moment of uncalculated joy so threatening to Egyptian authorities that they arrested, tortured, prosecuted her, and sent her to exile.

Sarah in my heart today. 🌈

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 14d

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.

Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline.

The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 15d

@sumimadhok.bsky.social welcoming our new cohort this morning ❤️

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
@aikoiiris.bsky.social
@asiyaislam.bsky.social
@hsw.bsky.social

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 15d

A year on since we have been raising the alarm. We have been shouting Labour can’t out reform Reform and with the far right rising I have seen my communities divided and this is what we have now. I hope this ‘progressive fight back’ is not too little too late.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer to launch progressive fightback against ‘decline and division’ fuelled by far right

Prime minister expected to warn UK is ‘at a crossroads’ as he sets out plan to counter Nigel Farage and Reform

www.theguardian.com

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Welcome everyone! 🎉

Last chance to sign up to our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!

Start the academic year off right with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social and a drink on us! 🥂

Comment for details on how to attend! 💌

lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Sep 3

We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!

📩 Comment for details on how to attend!

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 15d

What an absolute privilege it was to join Ambassador Dr Husam Zomlot at the Palestine Embassy today to raise the flag and mark this historic recognition of the State of Palestine. As he reminded us, this is just the first step, we still need the violence to end and a permanent ceasefire.

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 19d

Next week! Start the academic year off with @sumimadhok.bsky.social and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social! (And a drink on us 🥂)

lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Sep 3

We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!

📩 Comment for details on how to attend!

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 28d

Queerbeat Media have published an extract from our book focusing on how Desi queers navigated the club scene, including racism, in Britain during the 80s and 90s. You can read the complete excerpt here: www.queerbeat.org/stories/in-b...

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tooley's the guy that, if you reconstructed the public timeline of events, was previously removed from his position after he (almost definitely) threatened his ex-wife with a weapon, then the police immediately searched his house and found an unregistered weapon in his bedside table.

Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Sep 8

Suing cos you haven’t had your contract renewed while being a Freeze Peach warrior lmao

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Sep 8

You‘re invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social!

Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂

Details below! ⬇️

lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Sep 3

We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!

📩 Comment for details on how to attend!

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

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Sindhu Rajasekaran @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations to everyone on here! — thrilled to be sharing space w/ @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Prof Churnjeet Mahn, Dr Maria Sledmere & others.

Big shoutout to @yvettetaylor.bsky.social for making this happen!

Out April 2026.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-in-...

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Sep 3

We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!

📩 Comment for details on how to attend!

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · Aug 14

Desi Queers review out now by @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social 🇮🇳🏳️‍🌈

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

NEW✨ Untold Stories of Britain's queer South Asians

Desi Queers by @churnjeet.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social & @djritu.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Read the #review by Kanchan Panday 👉
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

#SAHM2025

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 14

NEW✨ Untold Stories of Britain's queer South Asians

Desi Queers by @churnjeet.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social & @djritu.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Read the #review by Kanchan Panday 👉
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

#SAHM2025

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · Aug 14

Untold Stories of Britain's queer South Asians

Desi Queers by @churnjeet.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social & @djritu.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

Read the #review by Kanchan Panday 👉
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

#SAHM2025

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · Jul 27

I wish I’d seen more people like me when I was at school, people saying it’s okay to be different. I know many of you in that room probably felt the same way I did, all those years ago. Just know: you are not alone.

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · Jul 27

Pleased to see that The Telegraph India has covered my speech from the St James School Founders Day.As I said in my message:

“Never be afraid to challenge what doesn’t feel right,Some of the most important changes in the world have come from people who dared to speak up,even when it wasn’t popular”

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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · Jul 26

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