Durba Mitra

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19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop

Registration is free.
The line-up is amazing:
Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland.
Sign up! See you in Durham in March.

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we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

congratulations AAUP and to you Veena for your incredible leadership in this work

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

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open streets drum night

today’s walk

so awful

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The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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the cover evokes a long tradition of feminist iconography, especially from the 1970s and 1980s during the UN Year and Decade for Women, that uses the sun or the sunrise to symbolize the new horizons made possible by feminism (but without the beloved but complicated Linnaean symbol for woman)

Pakistani edition of *A Book of Conquest*

I am really pleased that *A Book of Conquest* (2016) is now available locally in Pakistan via Sang-e-Meel Publications!

the cover evokes a long tradition of feminist iconography, especially from the 1970s and 1980s during the UN Year and Decade for Women, that uses the sun or the sunrise to symbolize the new horizons made possible by feminism (but without the beloved but complicated Linnaean symbol for woman)

thank you @marydudziak.bsky.social 💓

This is inspiring. Congratulations to @durba.bsky.social.

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🔊WORLDWIDE COVER REVEAL for *The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism* (2026)!

My profound thanks to Shahzia Sikander for permission to include her work on the cover of The Future That Was. She follows in the long tradition of feminist visionaries who work to produce better futures that I explore in the book ☀️

The Politics of Genre: Shahzia Sikander - Trebuchet "Art history is deeply Eurocentric and tends to place art that doesn’t sit comfortably within its canon as the ‘other’ and never as ‘avant-garde’."

Sikander explains her vision:

"The feminine is without limit...like the limitless strength of the mind. The silhouettes of women marching around the sphere is derived from the idea of endlessness: women and the infinite number of points within a circle."

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if you look at Infinite Woman close up, you can see the incredible detail and texture

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Photograph of copies of Essential Poems by Pat Parker on a box. The cover is purple with a photograph of Pat Parker, wearing a deep v neck shirt, glasses, and rocking a small fro.

Next month a new collection of Pat Parker’s crucial work—edited by yours truly—will be published. Essential Poems by Pat Parker features some of her most beloved writing. Available wherever you buy books. Still feeling so chuffed after receiving my copies!!!

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I can’t wait to read this — everyone should order it!!!

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