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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love this institute. I’ve had the honor of presenting and learning alongside amazing scholars of Black feminist thought. This is this beloved institute’s last year. I’ll miss it deeply. Grad students, you should apply ❤️🌺 (link is here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...)

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BLACK FEMINIST THEORY SUMMER INSTITUTE

Abundance

AUGUST 2-6, 2027

Kemi Adeyemi
Moya Bailey
Margo Natalie Crawford
Crystal Donkor
Uri McMillan
Petal Samuel
Marisa Solomon
Shatema Threadcraft

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles: hammerandhope.org

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Hammer & Hope

A magazine of Black politics and culture

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 11h

congratulations dear andré!

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cornell students and employees stand up — to hold accountable the Kotlikoff leadership and Cornell trustees.

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Kevin McClean @kevinmcclean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Portland peeps, go listen to Durba

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

tomorrow i am delivering the MacAffrey Lecture at Reed College. With thanks to @imperialhistorian.bsky.social and @anandvaidya.bsky.social for the generous invitations cant wait to meet the students!

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As an aside, maybe you felt your high income and elevated caste status made you white adjacent enough to justify a Trump vote because they would never come for you. Looks like the joke’s on you, uncle

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The arguments are incoherent and bogus but the racist right turning its lens on South Asians for being too successful and visible is a real phenomenon and should be forcefully countered

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

omg lovely! it will be great

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

tomorrow i am delivering the MacAffrey Lecture at Reed College. With thanks to @imperialhistorian.bsky.social and @anandvaidya.bsky.social for the generous invitations cant wait to meet the students!

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

doing my lecture on sexual violence again after a 2 year gap and a bunch of the resources about sexual violence against LGBTQ people that I used to cite have been taken down

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I PROMISE IT WON'T JUST BE A DRIVE-BY

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I PROMISE IT WON'T JUST BE A DRIVE-BY

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In light of all the horrible sexual assault in the news, this from my conversation with Kate Manne in February at Princeton still sums up my thoughts. Power =\= Good Men(tm). Power = Power.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo has his fingers in all of ugliest MAGA propaganda campaigns — DEI, CRT, Somali daycare fraud, "groomers," Haitians stealing & eating pets... — and now "The Indian Question"

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

also lets be clear this is about zohran

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i mean antiblackness is a profoundly global problem of white supremacy, but let me be clear it is awful and sometimes impossible bind to be an immigrant in the hellscape of american racism where white supremacy dictates how to belong and who can be expelled

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All good things come to an end: FINAL (!) black feminist theory summer institute in August 2027. Please share with grad students and encourage them to apply.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

we need much more writing about the history of South Asians in America then only can we understand the many indian americans doing the bidding of trumpian authoritarianism. how shameful. i am looking not only at the buffoonery of Kash but at you Usha Vance and also Jay Bhattacharya etc etc etc

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m at the point where I’m confusing all the rapists in the news so that’s how its going.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

University of Texas at Austin will eliminate 4 majors—African & African diaspora studies; Mexican American & Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration. Faculty in Social and Culture Analysis Department received no explanation as to why they are being cut.

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UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors

Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

signsjournal.org/mackinnon-me... In my interview w/ Catharine Mackinnon, architect of title ix to protect against DISCRIMINATION not university liability, describes how Carmita Wood, a Cornell employee, had to leave her job because of sexual harassment, and how that case spurred Mackinnons research

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Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo: A Conversation with Catharine A. MacKinnon and Durba Mitra

Feminist legal scholar, writer, teacher, and activist Catharine A. MacKinnon discusses “Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo” with Durba Mitra, assistant professor of studies of women…

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 01/10/2026

Happy 91st birthday to the legendary Julie Andrews.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026

"The class is ideally a prerequisite to committing sexual assault. This empowers students to take responsibility and get ahead of their punishments on their schedules rather than at inopportune times, should they, say, rape a peer just before finals." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it is insufficient to only offer institutional referrals to title ix or counseling to students right now. they want to know WHY this happened, WHAT causes systems of humiliation & shame, and HOW to understand the history & continued problems of extraordinary complicity and violence of institutions.

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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i also set aside some time in my classes on tuesday to address the news. it was challenging for me, and challenging for the students. but it was also necessary and reaffirmed what can be so important about the space of the classroom. afterwards several women came up to thank me.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this reporting has me full burn it down today

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there should be no university police forces. Cornell has failed in every way and every process, including the lack of regulation of greek life before this horrible rape even happened, the police, the title ix processes. it is disgusting.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in class i spoke of *analytical* work in feminist thought that we can use to comprehend the grotesque rape at Cornell & institutional complicity w/rape: on shame, abolitionist feminists against uni police, & the history & failure of title ix. This is why we need Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my article "Graphic Trauma: Drawing as Working Through Sexual Violence," I analyze Una’s BECOMING UNBECOMING & Chanel Miller’s I AM WITH YOU to show the formal affordances of comics & graphic narratives for rendering the trauma of sexual violence. static1.squarespace.com/static/679bc...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The average SNAP benefit across the U.S. is about $6.25 per person per day, or roughly $190 per month, according to FRAC. That isn't enough to cover a typical meal in about 99% of U.S. counties, according to a 2025 analysis from the nonpartisan Urban Institute."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

D.A. now: Jane's initial statement didn't say she was drugged and hadn't consented. But the D.A. never took her statement! All they had was what a campus cop wrote down. Her lawyer says sexual assault survivors must be interviewed by specially trained people. D.A. sh*tcanned it w/o investigating.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

remember that one time when the Cornell University President hit students with his car and then pretended not to have done it then justified it just sayin

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

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KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive

Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

remember that one time when the Cornell University President hit students with his car and then pretended not to have done it then justified it just sayin

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