Sandeep Bakshi

Euphoric queer Indian liberals please lend me your ears.
Black women organisers & academics have taught us:
Black & Brown faces in high places won't save us, to paraphrase Ruha Benjamin.
Problematic queer savarna women in upper House of Parliament won't save us.

Justice supersedes representation.

Civilian areas of Tehran were hit again overnight by violent U.S.-Israeli explosions.

Literally so many of the problems in the Middle East stem from over a century of European and US intervention, including the setting the stage for the current Iranian regime, and so many are tied to their decision to seize land to create Israel and the apartheid system it subsequently created.

Freedom - that cherished abstract concept of the geopolitical west to bomb schools. Who will stop them from freeing folks from life?!
Disgusting!!

bell hooks said, “No insurgent intellectual, no dissenting critical voice in this society escapes the pressure to conform...irrespective of our locations, we are all vulnerable. We can all be had, co-opted, bought. There is no special grace that rescues any of us. There is only a constant struggle.”

Oh no, please sign. My PhD was within the same school and so many talented people in this group. We're losing too much in this crisis and need governments to step up.

Decolonisation is inherently anticapitalist in its anticolonial avatar, per Nkumrah. Decolonisation advocated for the common denominator of peasant & farmer humanity, as proposed by Fanon, Wynter, Ngugi & Cusicanqui.
No consumer products (Coke, Pepsi) but public expenditure transparency is the ask!✊🏽

Thank you dear Manas for sharing your thoughts.
An insightful 🧵 👇🏽 on how sexuality and human being are intertwined categories without necessarily being coterminous nor co-impacting.
The primacy of sexuality in specific discourses can, at times, obfuscate the human.
Please unroll.

Thank you for your thoughts. I appreciate them.

Table mat with baanji and sugarcane juice on it.

Me posing with baanji

Baanji (green mango boiled and laboured with water, spices, red onion and mint leaves - mum’s signature) and fresh sugarcane juice for lunch.
How’s your lunch going?

Oh goodness, this film by Satyajit Ray where an upper class/caste Punjabi woman plays an Adivasi (indigenous person) in arrant brown-face (her face was polished to make her look darker) should never have been restored. Not worth it. Hope New Yorkers aren’t falling for this rubbish.

The BBC is an outrageously fossilised relic. May it disappear forever.
They placed disability in the eye of storm simply out of spite for Black people, because they themselves long to 'deploy' the *word with intent to injure. There was a 10-min lag. Not editing out was by evil design. Sick!

Thread -- superbe. Ama Ata Aidoo *Our Sister Killjoy* est une des écrivains les plus importantes de l'Afrique anglophone. Je suis très content pour la traduction.
Dans les librairies le 17 avril.

Turnstiles for face scan before entrance

Sitting down for the questions

Merchandise and scarf

The full group of organisers with the slides in the background

Thank you to Dr Dhiren Borisa for the invite & Dr Niharika Banerjee for moderating. I was able to visit the sprawling campus (face scan for entrance). Got tired of 45-min blabbing so the organisers nicely asked me to be seated for the q & a. Received a lovely scarf and merchandise!

Me standing at the lectern for the talk

Me a closer look with the slide in background on Queer violence and Coloniality of Sexuality

Me with another slide on Against Equality

At the museum with three colleagues

What a great turnout to listen to violence on queer and violence of queer at Jindal Uni, India. Intellectually stimulating conversation on who gets to stand in solidarity and who frames resistance. Grateful to everyone who attended the talk and engaged me in thoughtful discussion.
🙏 for the presents

Thank you. I'd love to be like 'em too.

Hanging with my parents, standing on either side.

Hanging out with ‘where I’m really from’.
From them.

Pres Macron concluded visit to India w/ offer of generous visa schemes to Indian students. One key measure is 5-year post-study work visa. Lovely.
I’m against a tiered system b/ween our students.The 5-yr post-study work route should be made available to ALL int’l students.
We sink & swim together.

Spices & textiles ok, but why didn't the colonisers come looking for fruit? Or, did they?
Peak season rn in Delhi. Just finished my succulent guava dinner. Today I had:
apple, pomegranate, orange, chikoo/sapota, banana & kiwi (local). Tropical lands can feed the world, per ecofeminist Vandana Shiva.

This is why we say that words have meaning. Here the meaning is stark apparent in the phrase ‘queen’s son’, which works as a forceful performative doing what it implies: immunity.
When will Andrew the queen’s son be held accountable, us mortals wonder in exasperation.

I agree. I also find it really annoying how loud they got when he said Iran.

White people don’t understand that the call is coming from inside the house because they think that their societies are neutral and not the cause of genocide elsewhere. They love to blame Jewish people and Muslims.

And also the quote “Free Iran” movement is a false flag

I like the warning he issues: there’s a new one every week. It says a lot about our preoccupations in the north.

Dear white people

That’s right. All communities free themselves and do not need saviours. We cannot force liberation (or our idea of liberation as such) on our others.

He communicates in the language of decolonisation - the struggles are interconnected … for liberation!

CJLS CENTRE FOR JUSTICE. Jindal Global Law School LAW AND SOCIETY India's First Global Law School Queer Theory Research Cluster and Centre for Justice, Law and Society in collaboration with Elective Courses on Decolonising Sexualities and Queer Studies: Foundations and Contexts Present GUEST LECTURE ON QUEER VIOLENCE AND COLONIALITY OF SEXUALITY Dr. Sandeep Bakshi Associate Professor of Decolonial, Postcolonial and Queer Studies ECHELLES/Université Paris Cité Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 3:30 PM F-18, Prithviraj Jindal Academic Block (T1) Speaker Profile Sandeep Bakshi (he/they) researches on transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges.

Reporting from Delhi. Invited to guest lecture at Jindal Uni. My first in-person talk in India.
It’s 25º outside - I should be rejoicing but know that it’s the result of global climate change. The last time I was around in February-March in 2007, it was between 12 and 15º.

Please, a reminder: I endeavour to maintain a careful ethics in my profession. And I fail, at times. It’s already a huge challenge to argue for racial diversity inclusion in France, but if you invite me to an all white panel, I will query you & suggest names of POC panelists. Pls don’t get upset.

She’s back! Gosh this clip is superb. She says it like it is. Christiane Taubira (former Min of Justice in France) reframes the conversation in French politics, sliding it back to the Constitution and what it ensures for the French Republic in terms of migration — hot topic currently.

She wrote an unworthy preface (longer than Dr Ambedkar’s speech) to introduce the speech. Dr Ambedkar self-published in 1936 and it was available for 8 rupees fo a long time. She didn’t write a book about him. She took credit.