Aziza Ahmed

Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.

Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.

She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.

Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.

Black and white image of people at an AIDS protest

This #WorldAIDSDay explore how feminist lawyers and activists altered the legal and public health response to the AIDS epidemic with @azizaahmed.bsky.social's 'Risk and Resistance' (out now).

Read the first chapter at the link below:
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Trump-era global funding cuts devastate HIV prevention programmes, UNAIDS says An uncounted number of extra people have died from AIDS and 2.5 million have lost access to medicine to block the spread of HIV, because of cuts to global programmes since Donald Trump returned to the...

Cuts to PEPFAR and attacks on public health are creating a resurgence of deaths, sickness, and loss.   

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

There are many people who deserve to be celebrated and remembered.  

Sarah Schulman pulled together an amazing archive of ACT Up advocates and her book recounts the organization's fight.  Check it out here: actupny.org

Patricia Nalls Patricia Nalls is a community activist for the human rights of women and girls especially those living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS.  She founded The Women’s Collective (TWC), a leading community …

Patricia Nalls:
womanatthereel.com/patricia-nal...

NYC AIDS Memorial Katrina Haslip (pictured left) was an influential AIDS educator and activist who played an essential role in the campaign to change the criteria for government recognition of AIDS to include symptoms....

Katrina Haslip: www.facebook.com/NYCAIDSMemor...

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The book contains the stories of some of these activists:

Risk and Resistance Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - Risk and Resistance

Today is World AIDS Day. Activism was key to how the public came to know about AIDS and why $ and resources were dedicated to addressing the epidemic. My book documents some of the activists who brought about changes to science, medicine, and law.  www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
  #WorldAIDSDay

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) with chapters exploring different facets of TWAIL scholarship. It covers major doctrines and topics of international law, as well as TWAIL perspectives on central historical and theoretical debates. Expert authors present key insights into various themes that intersect with international law including economics, post-colonialism, religion, development, treaties, and human rights. The Research Handbook underscores the cornerstone concepts of TWAIL and examines their relationship with intellectual traditions such as Marxism and feminism. Contributing authors outline TWAIL’s perspectives on core areas of international law such as customary international law, treaties and human rights, as well as important contemporary issues, including debt, climate change, and public health. Ultimately, the Research Handbook showcases an expanded and enriched vision of international law, assessing how alternate methodologies can lead to a fairer legal system.

Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social

Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Ahmed, "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS" Cambridge University Press has published Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS , by Aziza Ahmed (Bosto...

Thank you so much to the @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social for posting my book! legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ahme... 🙏🏽

Congrats to @jpygold.bsky.social on planning this amazing event

Thank you friend see you there hopefully

Boston area peeps: book talk tonight 7pm for FREE

Come see @irincarmon.bsky.social talk about her amazing book with my brilliant friend and colleague @azizaahmed.bsky.social tonight @harvardbookstore.bsky.social at 7pm

www.harvard.com/event/irin-c...

Can’t wait to speak with @irincarmon.bsky.social about her wonderful new book

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📣TOMORROW!📣

The Boston University Program on Reproductive Justice hosts @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social’s talk with @azizaahmed.bsky.social about her book, BEYOND LIMITS. There’s still time to register! You’re eligible for a book giveaway if you attend in person! ➡️ buff.ly/RexezdG

NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Story by @aniloza.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants — against federal policy But the number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody.

ICE’s own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals.

It’s doing so anyway. Immigrants’ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained.

19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

Risk and Resistance | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

"Rectifies a long-standing injustice: the erasure of the role of women in the transformation of science, law and policy in the midst of the HIV epidemic."

Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS by @azizaahmed.bsky.social

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A hand holding a book titled "Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History" by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, in a bookshop with bookshelves in the background.

Hand holding a book titled 'Politics and the New Challenge of Migration: Bridging Cultural, Social and Political Divides' by Gordon Sammut in a bookshop.

A hand holding a book titled "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS" by Aziza Ahmed, in a bookshop with shelves of books in the background.

A hand holding a book titled "The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change" by Winifred R. Louis, G. K. Chonu, Kiara Minto, and Susilo Wibisono, in a bookshop.

It's new book day! 🤩📚

We are thrilled to have so many exciting brand-new releases from @universitypress.cambridge.org including Risk and Resistance' by @azizaahmed.bsky.social 'Assembling India’s Constitution' by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, and much more! 🙌

Thank you @mayamanian.bsky.social for your wonderful vision and brilliance

Thank you so much for coming Jamie it was so lovely to see you and thank you for this!!!

Can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow at this symposium!

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Thank you! 🙏🏽

How Long Before Taking Tylenol While Pregnant Is a Crime? In light of new data showing over 400 people have been prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, we should be wary of how Trump’s directives may be used against women.

“With consideration for women’s suffering in pregnancy on the back burner, and blame and accountability taking center stage, we should be wary of how pregnancy directives will be mobilized in the criminal legal system.” @azizaahmed

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Congratulations to @veenadubal.bsky.social and the aaup 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽