@durba.bsky.social
Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) & The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
In The Future That Was, @durba.bsky.social offers a pathbreaking account of how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism & imagine a future freer than our present.
Out March 17 (12 May UK pub):
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History
thank u @tnflorvil.bsky.social 🦋💜 cant wait to meet
Congrats @durba.bsky.social!!! I hope to have you sign it whenever we meet irl.
umm no full list! but unfortunately none yet in DC! Hope to make something happen there. if you have ideas for independent book stores, please share!
I will be delivering a talk about my new book, The Future That Was, at Yale University on Thursday, April 9th at 5 PM.
My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September!
Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.
In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago
Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws
Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽
In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago
Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws
Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽
as I write about in The Future That Was, feminists teach us what it means to stand against war.
"For more than 110 years, WILPF has warned that militarism is not a response to insecurity—it is one of its root causes." March 2, 2026
www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...
the finding aid for the Madhur Jaffrey collection is here: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/sch0...
thank you to Madhur Jaffrey's family, especially her daughters, for this collaboration to preserve her extraordinary work and life
At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...
I had the absolute honour of having @saranahmed.bsky.social on Books Up Close! We talk about her new book, No is Not a Lonely Utterance. Listen wherever you get your shows! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
"As feminists who mobilise for peace and freedom in the face of militarism and state violence, we reject the framing that yet another war can deliver liberation for women or for any people."
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...
as I write about in The Future That Was, feminists teach us what it means to stand against war.
"For more than 110 years, WILPF has warned that militarism is not a response to insecurity—it is one of its root causes." March 2, 2026
www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"As feminists who mobilise for peace and freedom in the face of militarism and state violence, we reject the framing that yet another war can deliver liberation for women or for any people."
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...
thinking of all the people desperately trying to survive and find shelter right now.
thinking of all the people desperately trying to survive and find shelter right now.
Really necessary set of essay about this moment:
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192
thank you for writing this important piece @visualizingbroadway.com
"Rather than oppose the government’s assault on diversity, Harvard’s leadership — following advice from the Office of General Counsel — orders us to do the regime’s work for them. Meanwhile, peer institutions suffer direct attacks from increasingly authoritarian state and federal governments."
It's out! @scottsvisor.bsky.social has a great book that you should order RN from @dukepress.bsky.social ! www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...
50 Years of The Scholar and Feminist Conference at Barnard College
Shah Alam was a lawful refugee who arrived on Christmas Eve 2024. He was jailed for a YEAR after police tasered and arrested him over a curtain rod he used as a walking stick. He couldn’t understand their English commands. He was blind.
