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Maura Finkelstein

@mauraf.bsky.social
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Writer/ethnographer/professor, author of “The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai” (DUP 2019) she/her/free Palestine 🍉 www.maurafinkelstein.com

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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
. #PsychicMilitancy w/ Prof. Lara Sheehi "IN SESSION #7: Kicking power in the shins with Maura( @mauraf.bsky.social )Finkelstein & Michel DeGraff" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmL...
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IN SESSION #7: Kicking power in the shins with Maura Finkelstein & Michel DeGraff
YouTube video by Psychic Militancy
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New post on the particular vulnerabilities of elderly people living through the Zionist genocide in Gaza: open.substack.com/pub/maurafin...
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Growing Old Under Siege
Being elderly and vulnerable during the genocide in Gaza
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I had the great privilege of spending time with “Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle” by @omarzahzah.bsky.social - this is essential reading for us all. themarkaz.org/terms-of-ser...
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Terms of Servitude and the Threats of Digital Settler Colonialism
Omar Zahzah demonstrates how Big Tech and social media platforms threaten our freedoms and are the purveyors of violent interests.
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
hi all - please read Maura's (@mauraf.bsky.social) substack post on mutual aid, and give to the Sameer Project's Give Warmth to Gaza campaign (linked in her post). maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/mutual-aid...
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Mutual Aid as a practice of gratitude
Marking/mourning Indigenous genocide, erasure, and colonization through acts of care
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Everyday is a good day to support Mona and her family - they’ve lost everything in the genocide, please donate below if you have the funds to do so 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
1/ I’m testifying on university complicity in genocide on Saturday, October 25th at the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul: gazatribunal.com
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Home - Gaza Tribunal
How Tribunal Operates Chambers Steering Committee Administrative & Supportive Units More Updates Finance Calendar
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
1/ Honored to have this essay of mine out at @psmokejournal.bsky.social www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2025-no...
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Uninvited — Peatsmoke
Maura Finkelstein Mars is in Scorpio and I cannot sleep. I listen to the chatter of my house and watch the red shadows move across my walls. I am full of water and chaos and all my borders have bee...
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Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🍁"A cube who is growing. and growing unsure of himself. #4" by Sean Cho. A 🍁"The Vampire Wife" by Sara Moore Wagner 🍁"Changing Channels" by Susan Shea 🍁"Backseat Driver" by @earlgreysnail.bsky.social Nonfiction 🍁"Uninvited" by @mauraf.bsky.social
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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"If we are not willing to lose things, then we are going to lose everything." @mauraf.bsky.social youtu.be/A74eAZMgLjw?...
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Faculty on the Front Lines teaser with captions
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Today is my friend Mona’s 19th birthday. Mona is a beautiful writer, a talented poet, an aspiring cook, & a recent graduate. There are so many reasons to celebrate her but what is a birthday in Gaza? Please consider supporting her campaign 🙏🏼 www.gofundme.com/f/help-mona-...
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Donate to Help Mona and her family survive , organized by Alena Attique
Please listen to the story of Mona my friend in Gaza who is trying to survive along wi… Alena Attique needs your support for Help Mona and her family survive
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
1/ Today is the Jewish day of atonement- for those of us who are Jewish, this must/should mean atonement for our involvement/complicity in projects of Jewish supremacy, whether intentional or not,
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هوتن حجازی @analyticnomad.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Another tool of medical genocide by @mauraf.bsky.social
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Another tool of medical genocide
COVID is surging in Gaza
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Morning pages
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
1/ I wrote a two-part series about cerebral palsy and autism in Gaza and how genocide is a disability justice issue - please keep supporting The Sameer Project: chuffed.org/project/1368...
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Medical Campaign x Sameer Project
Medical Care: The Sameer Project in Honor of Mosab Ali
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Please support Imad, Aya, and their two-year-old daughter Lara - donate through the link below and please circulate 🙏🏼
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
1/ Don’t trust anyone who claims “Palestinian & Israeli lives are intertwined.” No they aren’t. Israel is a genocidal settler colonial ethnostate illegally squatting on stolen Palestinian land. Israel should not exist & Palestinians should be free to determine their own future.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Thank you to everyone who came out today - we raised $3000 for The Sameer project 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is tomorrow! NYC, come through and support The Sameer project - all money raised goes directly to mutual aid in Gaza.
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Jamie Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Excellent and wide ranging interview with Maura Finkelstein ( @mauraf.bsky.social ). She makes the point that nothing is going to change until we all engage in material buy-in as well as ideological buy-in. It's a tall order for consumer citizens but she's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOjC...
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The End of Academic Freedom (w/ Maura Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Interview with @mauraf.bsky.social on the destruction of academic freedom youtube.com/watch?v=xOjC...
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The End of Academic Freedom (w/ Maura Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
1/ NYC folks! Save the date - Fundraiser for The Sameer project on Saturday, July 26th! Please come through, buy books, art, & tickets for the poetry reading! All funds raised goes to mutual aid in Gaza:
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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Our latest Special Issue includes a beautifully reflexive article by @mauraf.bsky.social 'Work Cannot Save Us but Let's Still Try: Labor, Utopias, and Futurity at an Equine Therapy Farm' which argues that "workspaces cannot save us, in terms of any liberatory potential under capitalism."
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Save the 26th for Maura’s fundraiser for the Sameer Project - get used books, listen to poetry, hang out w/amazing people!!!!
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Tickets for the poetry reading here: www.eventbrite.com/e/fundraiser...
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Fundraiser for The Sameer Project - Art, Books, Poetry
Eventbrite - Fundraiser for The Sameer Project - Art, Books, Poetry - Saturday, July 26, 2025 at Brooklyn Poets, Brooklyn, NY. Find event and ticket information.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
1/ NYC folks! Save the date - Fundraiser for The Sameer project on Saturday, July 26th! Please come through, buy books, art, & tickets for the poetry reading! All funds raised goes to mutual aid in Gaza:
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New York friends! Please save the date - Saturday, July 26th - used book sale/poetry reading for Gaza! We will be raising money for The Sameer Project - please come through in the afternoon (3-5pm) to buy used books & art & then stay for a poetry reading from 5-6pm. More information coming soon
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 24/06/2025
Israel didn’t “turn” far-right — it was built on Jewish supremacy from the start. Maura Finkelstein traces Zionism’s colonial logic back to Herzl, showing how it borrowed the blueprints of empire and white rule. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/the-...
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The Jewish supremacy at the heart of the Zionist project
Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied…
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New York friends! Please save the date - Saturday, July 26th - used book sale/poetry reading for Gaza! We will be raising money for The Sameer Project - please come through in the afternoon (3-5pm) to buy used books & art & then stay for a poetry reading from 5-6pm. More information coming soon
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
1/ The so-called US, built on settler colonial genocide & enslaved labor, has been funding & facilitating the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza for almost 2 years now. This should be enough to destroy any investment in patriotism & nationalism.
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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I watched all the 2023 leg debates over trans healthcare 🤮 This short essay for @ejpgjournal.bsky.social shows how pseudoscience drives laws targeting trans kids for healthcare bans 1/6 s/o @payoub.bsky.social & @jennpiscopo.bsky.social Read: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Read to understand some what Palestinians go through when they seek funds to survive this genocide. This is not to say don’t give to gofundme campaigns because that’s often all people are able to set up. But everyone needs to understand how evil these monsters are: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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As Gaza starves, GoFundMe accused of blocking ‘millions of dollars’ raised
GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine.” I have a new essay up at @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2025/06/the-...
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The Jewish supremacy at the heart of the Zionist project
Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestin...
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The perfect mug doesn’t exist….
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Zein Murib @zeinmurib.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
SCOTUS upholds the anti-trans law that singles out trans kids for discriminatory treatment. How do I know? Non-trans kids are allowed unmitigated access to the exact same treatments (puberty blockers).
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 18/06/2025
‬ @zeinmurib.bsky.social's (Fordham University) research focuses on sexuality, gender, & race in US politics. Murib's academic publications include work on transgender politics, LGBT politics, & intersectionality. 🔗 Connect with Murib: scholars.org/scholar/zein...
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Zein Murib | Scholars Strategy Network
Murib's research focuses on sexuality, gender, and race in US politics. Murib's academic publications include work on transgender politics, LGBT politics, and intersectionality.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This has always been the reality - colonized, dispossessed, & subjugated people are the leaders in theorizing, analyzing, & teaching the world about power, imperialism, liberation, & resistance & colonizers are the leaders of propaganda & genocidal acts/justification/spectacle.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
1/ If you want to know more about The Sameer Project & the critical lifesaving work they are doing in Gaza, especially in terms of the health/medical disaster under genocide, I’ll be writing about them & their work here (new posts every week): maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/introducing-…
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
1/ If you want to know more about The Sameer Project & the critical lifesaving work they are doing in Gaza, especially in terms of the health/medical disaster under genocide, I’ll be writing about them & their work here (new posts every week): maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/introducing-…
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"To draw on antisemitism in this moment is both a form of genocide denial and an incitement to more violence against Palestinians" - I have a new essay up at The New Arab www.newarab.com/opinion/isra...
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Israel uses antisemitism as cover for Gaza genocide. It’s a trap
Antisemitism is used by Israel to divert focus from its genocide in Gaza, the real material violence that we should be condemning, says Maura Finkelstein.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
As our most vulnerable community members face coordinated attacks from the government and its secret police, these two texts are essential reading - ACAB forever @vickyacab.bsky.social 💥💥💥
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Sarah Viren @sarahviren.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I have a new story up in the NYTimes Magazine. Thanks to @mauraf.bsky.social for talking to me so many times for this one, and to everyone else who talked to me on the record, especially students and faculty, despite the risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
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A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
1/ Sharing my story with the NYTimes was not an easy decision. My north star goal is always liberation and a free Palestine. That led me to decide to participate in this article despite my concerns. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
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A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Hot girl summer @workshops4gaza.bsky.social - buy your books here: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
1/ Hi friends - I started a Substack about Palestine, Zionism, Empire, settler colonialism, & the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza to raise money for @sameerproject - maurafinkelstein.substack.com/p/how-do-we-us…
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank you, Raul! 🥹🙏🏼❤️
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
1/ It’s important the media expose the violence being done by orgs like the Heritage Foundation, initiatives like Project Esther, & the Zionist project. Yesterday’s story in @nytimes.com did not do that, though - a long 🧵on what’s actually at stake here.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There can be no business as usual-disrupt at every opportunity, withhold your labor, use your platform, call for the end of Zionism, demand a free Palestine & an end to the genocide in Gaza. How can this continue? We have a responsibility to do everything in our power to stop it.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The Zionist genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is hands down the most horrific ongoing human-led atrocity in history. And we are all watching. Silence is complicity. There are no excuses. Have you spoken out yet? If not, how do you live with yourself?
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