@drmonicamody.bsky.social
poet, transdisciplinary educator, borderlands metaphysicist, decolonial thinker, dagara-inspired diviner, mystic animist, multidimensional
I will be on the “Resisting the War Against the Imagination: Countering Ai through earth-based Natural Intelligence (Ni)” panel with Pooja Prema, Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Ukumbwa Sauti at the Re-imagining Education Conference (Feb 26-Mar 1, online).
Register at re-imagining.education
Decolonial feminist work begins where we are—in all the spaces we occupy. It cannot stay confined to texts we read/write. It must expose and heal colonial patterns of power and logics of fragmentation—inviting us into new ways of sensemaking, unmaking, remaking—and building coalitions.
25.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mamdani stayed focused on affordability and also did not double back on his other positions and statements.
22.11.2025 06:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0These moments are filled with such potentiality—making a syllabus; researching to find and then inviting the right person to teach a class. The notes being creativity, boldness, world-making.
22.11.2025 02:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have never shaken my head (in disbelief, refusal to accept) as many times in Zoom meetings as I have today.
20.11.2025 23:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The Human Resources dept in an organization is oriented ideally to employee well-being & empowerment. There is a cost to moving towards an org culture that does not value these aspects & sees HR practices as outsourceable instead of integrated with the soul of an organization.
20.11.2025 00:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The loudest objections to the cutting of 1,700 trees to build a "Sadhugram" for the Kumbh Mela in Nashik should come from the sadhus themselves—who would the sadhus have learned from in the absence of the forests of old?
#trees
#spirituality
#kumbh
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Rainbow in the wake of a storm...
Some days, we can see more clearly how the earth is busy creating magic and beauty.
Generated AI plants are thriving online, with fake "seeds" selling on Amazon - people gravitating to impossible flora while real plants vanish. We're enchanted with simulacra as actual biodiversity disappears.
@giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...
The video recording of "The Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia," my April 5 talk at The Once and Future Goddesses conference presented by OPUS Archives and Research Center, is now available on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERa...
Come and join me for my upcoming online class at Morbid Anatomy called The Secret Heart of Dreams. Starts April 30.
Register at www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
On Substack: Sensing the Matrix and the Void Matters
open.substack.com/pub/monicamo...
I will be presenting "Resurrecting Stories of Care, Reciprocity, and Interconnection: Decolonial and Indigenous Dialogues on Technology" at the 2025 Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference in Tucson as well as reading my poems in honor of Patricia Monaghan on the opening evening.
14.03.2025 00:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The work of re-enchanting the euroamerican academy cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing it; the work of re-enchanting ourselves cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing ourselves.
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I will be here, talking about the Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia: www.opusarchives.org/events/the-g...
My session is in the afternoon of Saturday, April 5. In-person or livestream attendance (but if you are able to, please come in person).
New post 📖 monicamody.substack.com
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Found myself balking at the throughline of conformity and the favoring of centralized governance over emergent self-organization that lay in the first two "Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti" books. My kind of sci-fi would show us a path out of the fears that mire present-day sociological phenomena.
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New post: monicamody.substack.com
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"Online learning not a green panacea"—besides, the psychosocial costs of online learning in higher ed spaces should always be considered alongside technology-centric education's claim to reduce the carbon footprint.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/online-...
Join me for a class that engages perspectives on dreams and dreaming from earth-based and indigenous systems of wisdom. Runs April 30-May 21. Taught on Zoom, hosted by Morbid Anatomy.
www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/the-...
"Where We Might Go in Lieu of Posthumanism: Building Indigenous and Decolonial Epistemologies"—my presentation at Journey Week 2024, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5Q...
When those silent (silenced) in the stories that were told about them begin to tell their stories—when we learn that they had/have their own stories—the shifting of perspective sets something right in us. John Keene’s “Rivers” imagines Huck Finn’s Jim.
www.vice.com/en/article/z...
It's not my problem that you can't place me, my work, and aesthetics—that you have trouble categorizing these—that I mess up your borders. No. Perhaps it's your borders that are the problem.
18.03.2024 06:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The story of how #MermaidsInTheMoonlight became #NilavoyilMeenmathar has some magic and serendipity behind it, and so I wrote an essay on my experience of being translated into my mother tongue. I hope you'll read it, and pick up the book in either Tamil or English! scroll.in/article/1064...
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Recommend. Mónica Guzmán's podcast about how to "disagree about politics without losing heart."
braverangels.org/abraverway/
New Substack Drop.
monicamody.substack.com/p/what-the-s...
Success must have a spiritual basis, if it is to count as success—not a human one.
29.02.2024 07:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0True care springs from good boundaries.
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