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 Introduction, βWhat is the Future We Yearn For?,β to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the bookβs @princetonupress.bsky.social website
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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thank you dear Liette
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congratulations!
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Seize the Means of Knowledge Production!
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I cannot tell you how incisive, funny and just astonishing Durbaβs scholarship and presence always is and I have been waiting with bated breath for this book. Treat yourself.
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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 Introduction, βWhat is the Future We Yearn For?,β to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the bookβs @princetonupress.bsky.social website
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Immigrant Law Center provides free legal services to low income immigrants in Minnesota. No small organization with little funding can fight an illegal federal military occupation. Collective support is of vital importance for those people who access these critical services www.ilcm.org
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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The Immigrant Law Center provides free legal services to low income immigrants in Minnesota. No small organization with little funding can fight an illegal federal military occupation. Collective support is of vital importance for those people who access these critical services www.ilcm.org
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No End to the Spanish Civil War? - Public Books
Latin America's own conflicts over land, Church, labor, and democratization, were played out, across the Atlantic, for all to see.
New at PB: @kirstenweld.bsky.social on why, 50 years after Franco's death, Latin America will never forget the Spanish Civil War.
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americansβ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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love you friend. I was just thinking how grateful i am for your friendship, hopes for many pakora parties in the near futureππ§Ώ
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Vahid Abedini has now been released.
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best news
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costco apple pie feeds many
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Emma Heaney,
Podcast Episode Β· New Books in Gender Β· 11/22/2025 Β· 1h 16m
An interview with anthropologist and religious studies scholar Clayton Jarrard about my new book This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation (Pluto Press), which was published on Thursday.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Durba Mitraβs *The FutureThat Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism*
Get hyped ppl! (am I doing this right?) @durba.bsky.social *The Future That Was*
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Tomorrow!
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Worldly Afterlives
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrations
Just discovered that Julia Stephens' new book will be out soon! I've been looking forward to this since a UK train conversation with Julia years ago about jewelry in South Asian history: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @juliasteph
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South Asian | SEWA-AIFW | Minneapolis
This is the homepage for SEWA-AIFW, a South Asian nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN.
my mom is part of an amazing senior group in Minneapolis, which helps low-income ppl access vaccines, food, & transport through SEWA, an org that supports people facing gender violence, food and housing insecurity. We are buying everyone a thanksgiving meal!
Donate if you can:
www.sewa-aifw.org
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Jobs | City University of New York
Associate Professor - Black and Latino Studies @blsbaruch.bsky.social - cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
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as a scholar of gender and sexuality, i continue to be horrified by the unending Pedo Era rightly linked here to the war machine. Third World feminists have always insisted that unbridled power is built on expanding militarism and sexual violence
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in a time of ongoing attacks on the study of women, gender, and sexuality, a truly feminist journal *totally* independent of institutions and universities, with the editorial leadership of the brilliant @jennifercnash.bsky.social
plz follow
@feministstudies.bsky.social, new to Bluesky
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Lecturer in Global Liberal Arts @SOAS,
Gender Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies,
research on Africa and the Caribbean
Historian | Lecturer of European Politics and Society, Univ Groningen, NL
Cook | Traveller
Historian | Asst. Professor @WUSTL | Global History of Science | Migration | Postdoc @Yale | PhD @UCLA | Foodie https://wustl.academia.edu/MarjanWardaki
Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. I research globalization, violence, gender & sexuality, and migration. jeffreyswindle.com
Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Co-Editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-tehila-sasson
Associate Professor at the University of Sussex. Writes about racial capitalism, state violence, abolition, and anarchism. She/her
political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts π | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him
yusufimaadkhan.com/watermelon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, UConn, formerly NYU Law | education & housing in constitutions; democratic erosion | Co-Chair, Academic Committee, Asian American Bar Association of New York | gauravmukherjee.com
Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America β’ essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26
Mostly a reskeeter. tradition, gender, land tenure, and resource politics in Southern Africa. I block would be followers without profiles.
Writer and researcher // phding at Annenberg School for Communication at Penn // people told me to get on Twitter so I did and then it imploded so now Iβm here // she/her/ella
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
I am a geographer in Colorado. My scholarship focuses on the intersections of climate change, urban health, and community engagement. Visit: Civic Engagement and Climate Justice https://clas.ucdenver.edu/hbsc/thinklab
Researching caste representations & translating Dalit literature in Pakistan. Dog mom, yogi, hiking enthusiast. Former journalist and art curator.
Associate Professor of Political Science β’ Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine β’ Ω
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| gender, sexuality/ies, rape and other forms of sexual violence in war & conflict
| researcher https://www.his-online.de/en/staff/person-details/person/regina-muehlhaeuser/
| co-founder https://warandgender.net
| author of "Sex and the Nazi Soldier"
Editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social, author of Routes and Realms (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Mapping the Middle East (Reaktion Books, 2018)
