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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
Please buy and read Terms of Servitude! And if you order it from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social all proceeds go to The Sameer Project! 🙏🏼 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...
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[W4G] Zahzah, Omar: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle
Seven Stories Press, paperback Publication date: September 23, 2025 Publisher Marketing:This groundbreaking book documents how digital platforms and technology companies based in the United States sup...
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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
3/ Register to attend, in person or online. This lineup is 🔥🔥🔥 form.jotform.com/252582594424...
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Registration Form for Gaza Tribunal's Final Session in Istanbul
Bu formu tamamlamak için lütfen bağlantıya tıklayın.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
2/ Far too many powerful Zionist stakeholders- including our college and university administrators, boards of trustees, and boards of regents - are guilty of supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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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
5/ I’ll get there eventually. With this one, I think I finally got close. It took over three years for this essay to find a home (a reminder that publishing has no true timeline) and I’m so thrilled it finally found the perfect one 🩶🤍🖤
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
4/ I printed it out & cut it up and kept & color coded its sections & moved them around and started all over again, looking for its structure and story. I used Les Calanques by Melissa Febos as my beacon - a guide towards the kind of essay I wanted to be able to write someday.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
3/ In January 2022, I started submitting it to lit mags. Since then, it was rejected by almost 50 different places, to the point that I wondered if it would eventually end up in a back drawer file on my computer, an exercise in writing meant only for me. Still, I kept working on it.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
2/ I wrote this essay in the Fall of 2021, thanks to the urging and support of Sarah Sentilles. It’s a time capsule- a version of me I no longer recognize. It’s also the most vulnerable and true thing I’ve ever written.
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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
YouTube video by TheAAUP
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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
3/ this is the non-negotiable ground floor of solidarity:
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
2/ and a commitment to embracing a true anti-Zionist politic, which requires we support Al-Thawabet, dedicate ourselves to Palestinian liberation, & work towards a world without the Zionist state & a future without Zionism
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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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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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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
3/ The Inherent Ableism of Genocide Denial (Part II) Contextualizing Autism in Gaza: open.substack.com/pub/maurafin...
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The Inherent Ableism of Genocide Denial (Part II)
Contextualizing Autism in Gaza
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
2/ The Inherent Ableism of Genocide Denial (Part I) Contextualizing Cerebral Palsy in Gaza: open.substack.com/pub/maurafin...
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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
I’ll be praying for you and I’ll donate when I can ❤️
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Done, I’m so sorry this is happening….
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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
3/ Anyone claiming Palestinian safety is bound up w/Israeli safety is a Zionist who wants a “liberal” apartheid state where genocide can continue out of view. F that. The goal is a liberated Palestine & the end of Zionism/Zionist entity. Everything else is in service of Empire.
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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
2/ That requires the abolishment of the genocidal squatter state & the freedom for Palestinians to create their own conditions of life, law, & security (including through militarization & the right of return).
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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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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🙏🏼❤️😭❤️🙏🏼
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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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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
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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
3/ you can also donate directly to the medical campaign for The Sameer Project here: 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 · 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
(please note - this event will be on the 2nd floor at Brooklyn Poets, meaning it is not an accessible space)
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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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