Sign in

Gaiutra Bahadur

@gaiutra.bsky.social
520 followers 429 following 15 posts

Wrote Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Other words in The NYT, The Nation, The New Republic, The Boston Review, Dissent et al. Teach some words, too. m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3l6Gqddnj0&t…

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu
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
114452
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The most recent issue of the literary magazine Drunken Boat, devoted to statelessness, features fiction by me, the short story The Stained Veil. You can find it under "Biharis." dtc-wsuv.org/mgable25/db-...
022
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Feed: "NYT > Books > Book Review" By: Gaiutra Bahadur on Thursday, August 7, 2025
nytimes.com
Book Review: ‘Indian Country,’ by Shobha Rao
Shobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and America.
012
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/04/2025
This is why birthright citizenship is such a thing in the western hemisphere. We're not old enough to have Jus sanguinis.
3838
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The last day to register for the PREE Writing Studio is April 30. As a tutor at the 4-day residential workshop for emerging writers, I'll lead a workshop “Object Lesson”, where we'll write creative nonfiction as a response to objects. Learn more at preewritingstudio.com or preeeditors@gmail.com
021
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Shameful, Jeff Bezos. Shameful. Teaching my students about the United Farm Workers boycott of grapes to protest the use of pesticides. A boycott seems an appropriate exercise of personal liberty… and of the free market.
041
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/02/2025
"I never could have imagined, none of us could, that the government of the United States of America would openly ally itself with a fascist political party. In the heart of Europe. In Germany, for God’s sake."
newrepublic.com
JD Vance’s Debacle in Germany Exposes MAGA’s Sinister Global Endgame
Did you know that the United States is joining an international fascist network?
942050681
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Can’t wait to be in community in Jamaica in late May at the Pree Writing Studio, where I’ll be teaching a class on writing through objects. Many thanks to Annie Paul for the invitation. preewritingstudio.com/2025/02/07/c...
preewritingstudio.com
Object Lesson
GAIUTRA BAHADUR In this craft studio, we’ll read together short excerpts from writing that puts objects to work. And you’ll produce a piece of creative nonfiction in which you write thr…
020
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
For those of you who've never been to Guantanamo, I want to emphasize how isolated it is, how isolated even separate parts of it are from one another, and how restricted access is. Yes, parts of it are like almost any Navy base, but there are many other places that most people there can never go.
9268111
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Boston, see you soon.
060
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Ravi Ragbir, the Trinidad-born director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, is among several immigrant rights activists put in deportation proceedings under the last Trump presidency. Supporters are calling for a presidential pardon before Biden leaves office. secure.ngpvan.com/QWikiDar30OW...
secure.ngpvan.com
043
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
reuters.com
Gaza war toll likely significantly undercounts deaths, says study
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41% through the middle of 2024 as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to the study.
17455288
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
AAUP condemns Faculty Arrests at NYU
aaup.org
AAUP Condemns Faculty Arrests Amidst Protest Crackdown at NYU
The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "personae non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be...
01110
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I’m rebuilding on higher ground. I’m an essayist, literary critic, journalist + prof doing work on the afterlives of empire, Afro-Asia, the Global South and creative nonfiction. Here is my most recent piece, on how the discovery of oil is reshaping my home country. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/h...
nytimes.com
Is Guyana’s Oil a Blessing or a Curse?
More than any single country, Guyana demonstrates the struggle between the consequences of climate change and the lure of the oil economy.
160
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Trump won in 91 percent of news desert counties: “In a large chunk of the country, there is no local paper even available, and in a much larger chunk the few papers that remain are private equity–gutted carcasses with little aside from Associated Press reprints.” prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org
Democrats Lost the Propaganda War
The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.
010
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It is publication month for Devika Shankar's pathbreaking book An Encroaching Sea, bringing legal history, environmental history and histories of infrastructure - read the glowing endorsements from Debjani Bhattacharyya and Sunil Amrith! #History #LegalHistory www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
cambridge.org
An Encroaching Sea
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - An Encroaching Sea
1147
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Our #Hinduism101 resource guide is LIVE! 🕉️ Explore several topics related to #ProgressiveHinduism, from sacred texts to resisting caste. Our full guide is available under the 'Hinduism 101' dropdown on our website, but for now, you can get started here: buff.ly/4iutUJh
0125
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
the Niger Delta already knows the answer to this question unfortunately - would be nice to have a political movement capable of forcing a different one
317048
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Happy to be in NJ but also can’t believe we live in a world in which this needs to be a consideration
051
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Sonni @sonnimun.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I am devastated. A 17 year old boy was just stabbed to death outside our building because he didn’t speak English. An 18 year old was also stabbed for the same reason but survived. They have not captured the men who did this yet. I am shaking. www.amny.com/new-york/man...
amny.com
Lower Manhattan stabbing leaves teen dead, another wounded because victims did not speak English: sources | amNewYork
One teenager is dead and another was seriously injured in a Lower Manhattan stabbing on Thursday night carried out by a group of attackers allegedly angered
77954347
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is the beginning of the end of higher education in the US if this kind of thing passes. Colleges will become trade schools. Make no mistake, this is part of the fascism playbook. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
insidehighered.com
Republican higher ed overhaul could get House vote
The wide-ranging legislation likely won’t move forward in the Senate but serves as a marker for Republicans’ higher ed priorities in the next Congress.
072
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“It was Maxine who started it, who liked to make words out of the silence of the long field they crossed and she rattled on like a broken wheel on a shopping cart until they reached the water pipe in the center of the labor camp.” -Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus
000
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“…these systems interact differently with people of color …they’re a fun-house-style distorted mirror magnifying biases and stripping out the context from which their information comes; … and will wipe out the jobs of some marginalized communities.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
rollingstone.com
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
001
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...
11418
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Bruce Shapiro @bruceshapiro.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Join me Tuesday for the 2024 Dart Awards winners' roundtable with Adrian Walker of the Boston Globe, Jennifer Gonnerman of the New Yorker, Hannah Dreier of the NYT and Maurice Chammah of the Marshall Project. All highest-order truth tellers! In person at Columbia or online.
dartcenter.org
Telling Hard Stories: 2024 Dart Awards Event & Winners' Roundtable
The Dart Center will host a reception, awards presentation and winners’ roundtable on December 3rd at Columbia Journalism School featuring the 2024 Dart Award honorees. The roundtable discussion will ...
193
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“The traffic swelled and cars lined up on the curving off-ramp of the freeway until the cars yanked loose like a broken necklace and the beads scattered across the asphalt rolling, rolling…” - Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus #ecolit #environmentaljustice (Posting here, language that sparks.)
010
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Peter Hannam @phannam.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Big blow for EDO: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Environmental Defenders Office to pay $9m in costs to Santos over failed challenge to Barossa gas project
The case, brought by the EDO on behalf of three Tiwi Island traditional owners, was dismissed in January in a scathing judgment
63820
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is the best, most damning, most sobering, most moving piece I have read in a while. Wishing its talented writer, Patrick Fealey, a sustainable way forward into a kinder world. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
esquire.com
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
0100
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Organized by PhD and Postdoc fellows @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, a conf. focused on the role of media and communication scholarship in times of global crises: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... Please spread the word! Also, we're lucky to have Nabil Echchaibi as our keynote speaker!
24224
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
BREAKING: HR 9495 -- the bill that would allow Trump to use the IRS to revoke nonprofit status from news orgs and civil society groups he opposes -- has passed in the House.
nonprofitquarterly.org
HR 9495: Bill Threatening Nonprofits Passes House - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
A bill, HR 9495, which would allow a presidentially appointed treasury secretary to unilaterally strip a nonprofit of its status if deemed a “terrorism-supporting” organization, has passed in the US H...
024
Reposted by Gaiutra Bahadur
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/11/2024
Cop 29 live: Poor countries may have to compromise on climate funding, says former UN envoy
dlvr.it
Cop 29 live: Poor countries may have to compromise on climate funding, says former UN envoy
Day 11 of negotiations begins in Baku amid divisions over the sums for climate finance and previously agreed commitments on transitioning from fossil fuels Poor countries face compromises on climate cash, former envoy says Poor countries may have to…
1010232