Shruti Devgan

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@bowdoincollege.bsky.social Sociology is hiring a tenure track position: careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/165...

In 2020, Mahmood Mamdani dedicated a book to his son, Zohran. A good time to read it.

Mamdani: Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it almost seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on:
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.

Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

That's a great image.

Salgirah Mubarak, Karl Marx.

vaulted and arched ceiling of the main lobby in union station, DC

"Exile, dispossession, exodus, deportation. And for the fortunate, the station was a place of extraordinary, impossible reunions."

-from Anne Michaels and John Berger, Railtracks (2012)

I love train stations.

“In a time of destruction, create something.

A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”

-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.

pen.org/banned-words.... Among the banned words—community.

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie.

😄

Yeh Che hai, par aur kaun hai? Ek ya zyaada shayad?

May Day Mubarak
Yakkum May Alaikum

yeh sab mil ke hameñ pagal bana rahe haiñ lekin
EK NAYI DUNIYA MUMKIN HAI

Please join the ASA Global/Transnational Section and UP Diliman for the virtual event, Decolonizing Sociology: Centering the Global South. Panelists will share their visions for decolonization led by the Global South.

May 2 (Fri), 9AM EST, 1PM GMT | Zoom: tinyurl.com/ASAGATSUP | PW: UPDiliman

Fallen blossoms on rainy steps

“Let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing”
#everynightapoem #ofsorts

This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.

Proud of faculty at my university for leading the resistance against the dismantling of higher ed. #RutgersUniversity
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

"I am not tired, or much tired, just exhausted."

— Hannah Arendt

Always an honor to march in the NYC Sikh Day Parade and celebrate this vibrant community!

#thekashmirsyllabus #thekashmirsyllabus Revised February 4, 2020 COURSE DESCRIPTION #TheKashmirSyllabus compiles a list of sources for teaching and learning about Kashmir. It foregrounds voices, histories, and aspirat...

#thekashmirsyllabus

A comprehensive teaching and learning resource on #Kashmir.

Academic scholarship, literature, memoirs, journalistic pieces, poetry, and art.

Presenting the voices, histories, struggles, and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Happy Independent Bookstore Day. More important than ever.

Clarification: history being disappeared by Trumpism right now, not the whole history of history.

My wife, a historian, is seeking SPECIFIC examples of history being disappeared that may not have gotten much national attention. Plaques, parks, history books removed from schools or libraries. If it was a big national story, we know, thanks. What’s happening near you?

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Read Maris's piece, then go show your local indie bookstore some love. They're so much more than places to get books--they are places to engage with ideas and others in your community. Staffed by actual humans to help you find the books you didn't know you needed!

Got Books? Celebrating Independent Bookstore Day 2025 with an Origin Story

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day! Ever wonder how it all began??? Let me tell you! Thanks to Pete Mulvihill @greenapplebooks.bsky.social for sharing your story! #whatif #booksky🩵📚 #independentbookstoreday2025 #read #books #buyabook #subscribe
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Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

A look at early movement of researchers leaving or looking to leave the US www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule."

— Walter Benjamin

Trump cancels humanities grants to subsidize building statues to humanities scholars, including, apparently, Hannah Arendt, who wrote an entire book about how fascists—like trump—come to power in part by trying to censor what people can read, write, and think about.