Saishreya Sriram

USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.”

USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.”

📢 This week on the USF Blog!

Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Magdalena Moreno & Dr Gabriella Palermo introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant on feminist & queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism.

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#UrbanStudies #FeministGeographies #QueerUrbanism

40,000 bananas, 8 tons of paper cups, and a whole lot of emissions. Inside the Boston Marathon’s climate footprint. - The Boston Globe Race organizers are hoping to make a dent in the Boston Marathon's carbon emissions. By the end of this decade, the plan is to slash direct emissions from their operation to 42 percent below 2023 leve...

Sometimes as a climate reporter, it feels like the job is saying "You know that fun thing? Well let me tell you ..."

Anyways ...

DO IT!

wait what? Omg please tell me more this is just so horrendous

Since I lapsed adding alt-text let me do it here.

Image 1: a picture of a Kindle lying on top of black laptop bag with some floral patterns in half-white colour. The title of the book is The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older.

Image 2: a screenshot of Chappell Roan’s Femininomenon

Am I a total sapphic stereotype? I was reading @older.bsky.social’s bful second book on my morn commute while having Chappell’s femininomenon in the background xD

Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.

Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures The key is to evade the rigid and hegemonic structures of Western-oriented writing.

What a read. Plus, it leaves you with an explosive range—of resources, ideas, books, authors, and approaches— of what, how, and who shapes our imaginations when it comes to futures

Def going to mull over throughout this week @hararereview.bsky.social 💛

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Ectogenesis and the Science Fiction Futures of Reproduction We can see conservative values, fears, and hopes playing out in many Western science fiction works—and patriarchal ideals around motherhood, reproduction, and family are everywhere.

Oof, such a riveting and brilliant one @whiterxbbit.bsky.social; blew my mind in more ways than I can properly articulate!

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"The heat is rapidly becoming too much to bear, and precisely for that reason, it is too late to give up this struggle. There is, henceforth, no path to a liveable planet that does not pass through the complete destruction of business as usual. What would that look like?" (Wim Carton, Andreas Malm, Overshoot)

Absolutely. And what a page-turner at that.

Words for Worlds - Issue 88 Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.

It is the third Monday of the month, so here is a new edition of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant:

gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

feat. re-reading Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, a book on Persianate poetics in the 20th C, signing with a literary agents, and more.

In conservation science, a strong cohort of my colleagues bears a strong antipathy toward animals rights, regarding it an extremist cause that must be cleaved from conservation to preserve our credibility.

They ignore that animal farming is the primary global threat to terrestrial wildlife habitat.

I love this thread so much.

“Ways and walls of seeing” is the title of the 5th Jan Substack post. Subtitle is: “Oh, so are you a cat or dog person? (isn't thinking in binaries so easy and contagious?)” The initial text of the post reads "Oh, so every Sunday?" I asked her. Link: SAISHREYASRIRASUBSTACK.COM

"Trying to see the genius of it all." —this is the title of the Substack before last 29th of December. There is Sansa who is sitting on my handbang which is a faux leather material slightly brown. There is ablack coffee in a mug and indecipherable text on a notepad (mine). Sansa, who is an indie cat, is staring with her luminous green eyes—right at the camera of my phone— totally like staring right at your soul. Link: SAISHREYASRIRAM.SUBSTACK.com

Folks, i write on a Substack every Sunday. This writing comes from a very personal space of viewing the world with anecdotes, glimmers, and glimpses of my life wherein I seek out the extraordinary even & esp in the ordinary rhythms.

link: saishreyasriram.substack.com

lmk what you think x🤍

A standard circular cafe table with a cappuccino cup and saucer with two sugar sachets and a teeny spoon

Ngl I made a face when they said the only plant-based mylk they had was millet-based (I drift b/w team coconut/cashew/soy/oat milk). And then, oof it was so good!!! So dairy-like!

this was exceptionally good, so much so that I got it a second time!!! 🤍

If we don’t take ethics seriously when it comes to non-human sentient beings then we don’t take ethics seriously.

@sentientism.bsky.social

To comfort and more. Is the world more bearable if you have a WhatsApp group with yourself?

I had within my possession @antonhur.com’s Toward Eternity
and by no use of hyperbole—I just revelled in it.

plus, my headspace as I wrote for this Subday’s substack was totally transformed by way of that:

saishreyasriram.substack.com/p/here-is-to...

A sensory adventure it is. So you are telling me: that is not what my cat is thinking or saying right now?

And this was from today: saishreyasriram.substack.com/p/a-sensory-...

Why? It’s 17:01 here in the outskirts of Bombay, where there are rare remnants of healthy air and a few lush canopies amidst the freshly occupied and concrete-filled apartment complexes causing the assault...

I failed to mention here that I started a Substack since I really did want a place to write and share weekly.

This was the first one from last week: saishreyasriram.substack.com/p/why

A Kindle open ft The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman.

Now I’m looking at my next read: Alexander Berkman’s The Bolshevik Myth. And oh yes, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social thanks galore for the references to anarchism in The Sentence, posting about this book, and the reading inspiration in general).

This one hour was absolutely brilliant @annaoleszczuk.bsky.social!
The level of minutiae in best practices in subtitling really blew my mind.
Now I am just making lists of things to watch just to visualise how they might have gotten translated.

A kindle in focus with the only line on the page highlighted: “The words curate and cure, I remember, are both related to care.” This is feom the book The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar.

A kindle in focus placed on a brown cushion with the cover page titled Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire. Edited by Alice Wong. Editor of Disability Visibility. My feet are also there in the periphery of the picture prominent in its brown skin and nails without colour or polish very like me to live by and practice my gender fluidity.

can’t hear her whimpers as they pierce through my skin and organs somehow.

I did get to read this week and they are bangers:

The Left Hand of Darkness By Ursula Le Guin.
The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar.
I also got to read a few essays from @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s Disability Intimacy.

An indie pup barely a month and a half old being tended to by two brown/South Asian/Indian women on a white towel. She has a double fracture which is why her left leg is slightly off even in the picture. She faces the camera staring as though: “Look at you trying to capture me and my pain in vain.”

A kindle showing the cover of the book The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar on a table

The cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin.

On a royal blue bedhseet with gorgeous contrasting floral designs lies an indie feline with brown and dark stripes whose face I’m stroking as she has her eyes closes and shows she likes this gesture her face tilted beautifully in all the glory of comfort only cats know

A lot of pain was felt this week esp by my feline flatmate who had hourly drops and syrups through syringes. Fast forward to now I am a few meters away from this month-old pup we are fostering who has a double fracture. She is sleeping and I’m grateful because-

any chance this was streamed or up on YouTube? @whiterxbbit.bsky.social

hi unable to DM you but do share the link?

Ahhh, omg yeah, that makes so much sense!!

Not at all! Thank you🤍

I was thinking the same thing. Could also be that the same film if not co-produced with international labels would have maybe never gotten the level of attention/recognition/hype?

Put it simply, to reduce the air pollution on the worst days of the year in Delhi, you will need to reduce the air pollution every day and that's not going to happen without inconveniencing the car owners and reducing the number of cars and the amount that people drive.

just mere facets of me which I choose to reveal and then wonder: can they know my grief? because I’d be distorted w/o it. it moulded me into who i am just like the kiln moulded the artisan mug from which one sips their morning coffee.

i didn’t use certain words quite consciously.
Farewell for now.