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Dipali A

@dipali17.bsky.social
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Book nerd. Intersectional feminist. PhD-ing. Cares about tea, feminist activism, care, poetry, Arsenal. She/her

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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
If you know me, you know I joke that I want to be @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social when I grow up. So when she popped up on one of my favourite podcasts, I had to listen and illustrate some lessons from the episode. @truthout.org @mskellymhayes.bsky.social truthout.org/audio/hope-i...
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
When the world’s on fire, I always look to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s words. The Beginning Comes After the End is a timely (and necessary) addition to the Solnit canon. @haymarketbooks.org
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
After years of living, stressing and surviving, the blog’s back with a new series, Things I’ve Learnt from Books I’ve Read and Loved (TILBIRL). Part 1 features @luciaoc.bsky.social’s amazing and powerful books. fieldnotesfromafeministresearcher.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/t...
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Things I’ve Learnt from Books I’ve Read and Loved (TILBIRL) 1: Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Things I’ve Learnt from Books I’ve Read and Loved or TILBIRL (catchy, isn’t it?) is an attempt to spotlight writers whose work inspires me to keep going. Part 1 features Lucia Osb…
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Such a great book! I read an ARC last month. Highly recommend!
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
As Mariame Kaba says, “Hope is a discipline.” Given the state of the world, don’t you wish practicing hope right now was as easy as writing it out on a worksheet? Despite and inspite of the difficulty, we must imagine and strive towards a better world. @interruptcrim.bsky.social @procreate.com
digital illustration of sheets of paper and a pencil. The top sheet of paper is a worksheet with the title, ‘Hope is a discipline.’ The rest of the sheet is filled with doodles of ‘Hope’ in various fonts.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Love is not a feeling. It is a act that requires commitment, tenderness, active listening and acts of care and support.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Over the past month, I read an advanced copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, a collection edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Truly a care package for the soul! I highly recommend it. Thank you to @akpress.org for the ARC!
Photo of a kindle alongside a vase of Lego flowers against a table cloth. The kindle is open to the cover of “Read This When Things Fall Apart.”
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Breaking my nibling-imposed break to say that my Fletcher experience has greatly benefited from @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social’s mentorship and support, literally from day 1 as my MALD academic advisor to now serving on my PhD committee. Finishing up at Fletcher will be strange without you around!
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.
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AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I swear the horrors aren’t even daily, they’re hourly. And simultaneously so we don’t see all that is happening.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Hi hi! Since there’s an #ISA2026 deadline extension, @sindujaraja.bsky.social and I are wondering if anyone would be interested in joining a roundtable on academia as/and activism? The conversation is as necessary as ever with global trends of growing fascism and repression. @isanet.bsky.social
Academia And/As Activism Redux: Tensions and Reciprocities in a Changing World 

This roundtable explores the relationship between academia and activism in a world increasingly drawn towards authoritarianism, fascism, and attacks on free speech and progressive action. Academia and activism may seem like a symbiotic relationship, especially in the social sciences where the focus is on contending with critical social and political issues. On the one hand, academia can offer theoretical insights and analyses to issues that activists then utilize in their work. Similarly, activists hold rich grassroots experiences that can be theorised and analysed by academics. However, there are a multitude of tensions at play in the relationship: 1. Power (and resource) imbalance between academics and activists, 2. Risk of exploitation and instrumentalization of interlocutors and activists by academics, 3. The applicability and practicality of theories to the field, 4. Increased government repression towards dissenting voices in academia and activism. Additionally, academic-activist identity is vital for feminist, intersectional and decolonial scholars. These scholars have stressed the need for more applicable research, while advocating for social change within academia, and for conceiving of and acting within academia as an inherently political and therefore contested sphere as well. Building on the experiences of participants and an ethic of care, this roundtable will also conceptualize the way forward for academics as activists.
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Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
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On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism
This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Another Storm, by Lee Krasner, 1963, 📸 by Adam Davy
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“I wanted to write by the rules of night, by association and intuition” not “the rules of daylight—narratives organized by chronology, analysis, argument, data drawn from research” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on my forever favourite, The Field Guide to Getting Lost @literaryhub.bsky.social
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20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself
One of the great joyful mysteries of writing comes when work whose creation arose from the writer’s innermost desires somehow meets those of its readers. I let this book loose in the world with no …
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Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I know I'm woke -- proudly so -- but I'm tired of hearing @arsenalwfc.bsky.social's players being referred to as "girls" or "gals" or "ladies." They are women playing the sport at the very highest level and deserve more respect. #Arsenal #COYG
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What an important piece! Some further thoughts because a big part of my PhD dissertation research at @fletcherschool.bsky.social is on how activists sustain themselves while sustaining social movements. I interviewed feminist activists working on ending SGBV in India. 1/6
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Read this a week ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it: “I am asking them, as I am continually asking myself, to imagine a heart that feels a connection to the hearts of others, even others you do not know. I would like to think that this is what nudges me forward, more than…hope.”
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The world’s a lot right now so here’s a little reminder to stay soft and remain tender. I read @monaeltahawy.bsky.social’s substack piece with this quote in February but I keep returning to it. @procreate.com
digital illustration of red poppies taped together with a bandaid, accompanied by the quote, “tender is the fight… and there is power in such tenderness.”
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I keep seeing variants of “what an exciting time for political scientists.” We are not excited. An epidemiologist isn’t excited when, after warning for years about an impending epidemic, the epidemic strikes. No one thinks the thing that’s been keeping them up at night is thrilling to watch unfold.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
…and despite it all, there are still cherry blossoms. #noticing
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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Joy Harjo:
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Tender is the fight... And there is power in such tenderness.”
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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
🧵⬇️Check out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches doi.org/10.1080/1465...
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Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches
Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking betwe...
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Living in this world is a lot right now. Here’s a little attempt to remind myself to remain soft, gentle and tender amidst all the violence and uncertainty. It’s also a hope that one day we’ll live in a world with only the gentle. #digitalart #illustration @procreate.com
Digital illustration of heart, bows, Totoro, books, butterflies, flowers and mirrorball.
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Liberal Jane @liberaljane.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Digital illustration of a fridge with alphabet magnets that read, 'we survive by taking care of each out'
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If you’re at @isanet.bsky.social, come say hi!
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy to share my piece for International Politics' book forum on @drljshepherd.bsky.social's The Self and Other Stories. I urge us to move towards an International Relations that is more relational, personal, caring and yes, messy! Read here: rdcu.be/d8jsk #feminist #internationalrelations
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Writing our stories with care and hope
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Do not relinquish your hope. Hope sustains. Hope heals. Hope encourages. Hope restores. Hope renews. Hope reinvigorates. Don’t let them take your hope. Hope is how we made it. Hope is how we will make it.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just finished an ARC of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s No Straight Road Takes You There. It is exactly what I needed right now: an injection of hope, a balm for my soul, and a much-needed reminder to keep fighting for a better world. @haymarketbooks.org #BookSky
Photo of a kindle on a blue table runner. The kindle shows a quote from Rebecca Solnit’s upcoming collection.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Why did I think I could manage the academic job market, dissertation writing, transcontinental wedding planning, and getting married all at the same time?!
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
How residents of Medford, MA, united to end conservative minority rule, elect a progressive majority, and build the community each of us deserves | By Jessica Farrell and Zac Bears @convergencemag.bsky.social ky.social convergencemag.com/articles/ste...
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Step By Step, We Built a Movement to Transform Our Local Government
Another city is possible: Members of Our Revolution in Medford, MA united residents to end conservative minority rule, elect a progressive majority, and build the community each of us deserves.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 21/11/2024
For some, the manosphere becomes an all consuming ideology, one that they don't want to leave behind because it offers them community and affirms their worldview. But once they fall down the rabbit hole of the manosphere, is there any getting out? More from @hifortesa.bsky.social ⤵️
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Two Men Explain How They Left the Manosphere — and Why Some Never Will
There's no one clear path, but it is possible.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
let the words of these decolonial anti-capitalist and liberatory feminists light the way. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
I read Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes last month and I’ve been thinking about it since. This question, particularly, is lighting the way forward, so I illustrated it. @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Digital illustration of baby’s breath in a can
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Talking about conflict-related sexual violence. As ever, I’m guided by the line on the post-it: “go forth gently and with great care.”
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
The dissonance is jarring. The silence is deafening. The apathy is telling.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
It’s time to put care front and centre in our world. There’s no other way to build an equitable and just world. So take breaks, decompress, sleep, hug loved ones, and then come back to the sweet labour of creating a better world.
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Join us on Monday at 9am ET for a webinar, ‘Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence.’ Register: bit.ly/feinstein-webinar-103023
Event poster for the Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence webinar
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
What a beautiful and necessary book. Please read this now. @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
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Dipali A @dipali17.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
“The bringing of light is no simple matter. The offering of flowers is a work of generations.” - Ursula K. Le Guin.
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