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Nat Nesvaderani

@natnes.bsky.social
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iranian-american anthropologist & filmmaker I assistant prof multimodal anthro I EthnoCine collective I CoMMPCT collective 🐈 🚲 🧶 she/they

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Happy to see my article published in AA, "Displaced Impacts: Visibility, Care, and Humanitarian Filmmaking in Iran." Meanwhile geopolitics are messy & losing the plot. Missing simpler times in anti-war organizing. Norouz pirouz 🌿 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Socially oriented documentary films are increasingly expected to articulate “impact” goals to gain international distribution, yet what counts as impact for those represented remains contested. This ...
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Dr Rebecca Hall WakeProductions @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026
‘Clear conflict’ between Eurovision ideals of ‘inclusion and dignity for all’ and decision to let Israel compete, says 2024 winner
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Postdoc opportunity for scholar-practitioners in Global Majority diasporic art and thought. Interests: installation + socially engaged art, video/sound, curation, experimental practices, and fields like sound studies, Asian American, Black, and Latinx studies www.haverford.edu/provost/news...
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Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Haverford College invites applications for a two-year, full-time Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Thrilled that my project "academic freedom," will screen in Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, New Orleans. Sad I won't be at the American Anthropological Association conference in person, but huge thanks to SVAFMF team! <3 svafilmandmediafestival.org/academic-fre...
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Academic Freedom — SVA Film & Media Festival 2024
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/10/2025
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
So… is someone going to start up an alternative peace prize, to give Bisan the award?
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Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#Employment The Department of History at Colby College invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East/Islamic history beginning July 1, 2026. mesana.org/resources-an...
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Middle East Studies Association
The Department of History invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East/Islamic history beginning July 1, 2026.
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Q₉ @q9f.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Please share.
Students across Europe will stop classes if the flotilla is intercepted by Israel 
After the call from Italian, Spanish and French 
students earlierthis September, more student collectives are joining the call: to action, in Germany, 
the Netherlands and Belgium. We are telling our 
governments: 
If you stop the flottilla, we'll stop classes. 
We are calling to massify the movement, more student collectives around the world are welcomed to join. 
@ae_reims, union.etudiante 
et..
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Funded PhD opportunities in Poli Sci at ULaval, focus on impact of China's Science Silk Road program, and supervisors are particularly interested in canadidates with experience / networks / linguistic knowledge in Africa or Latin America. www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
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Call for Applications: Two Scholarships to Start a PhD in Sept 2026
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Happening now in the world of film and politics: Yesterday 50 Israeli doc filmmakers publish open letter expressing “profound shame,” “helplessness,” over genocide in Gaza & solidarity with global boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.
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Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Support International Boycott in Open Letter Condemning Gaza War
Over 50 Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Support International Boycott in Open Letter Condemning Gaza War
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☕️Research&Coffee☕️ @drjbw.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
So, agents wear masks in public for “fear” of being doxxed when it is part of their job to be accountable for their actions, but members of the public with Constitutional rights have their liberties stripped by the government that uses a third party organization that…(checks notes)…doxxes?
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DHS used anonymous pro-Israel site to target activists for deportation, agency says in court
DHS said at a trial Wednesday that it used a list from the site, which has been accused of doxxing people whom it sees as being anti-Israel and antisemitic.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Rümeysa released and planning to purse her case in federal court. Another blow to the Trump administration.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/05/2025
‘We have no more food to prepare,’ warns World Central Kitchen as it halts food aid operations amid Israeli blockade.
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Israeli attacks kill 16 in Gaza as aid kitchens shut after supplies run out
‘We have no more food to prepare,’ warns World Central Kitchen as it halts food aid operations amid Israeli blockade.
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The UN is investigating the involvement of entities incl. pension funds+universities "in the commission of international crimes connected to 🇮🇱's unlawful occupation, racial segregation & apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territory" How's your uni faring? www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Fantastic Bolex camera filmmaking workshop at Main Film yesterday #FreeLuigi @mainfilm.bsky.social
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/04/2025
On this note: universities were literally creating policies last November *before the election* to comply with new CHIPS language restricting scientific collaboration with people from certain countries, including China
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Feels like this is echoing the turn towards big funding for social impact films in Hollywood some years ago, but then actually that leading to apolitical films without social justice outcomes.
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
Convincing people to wait on the hoped-for benevolence of rich people rather than taxing the shit out of them and having fully funded social welfare programs is the greatest trick that Regan ever pulled.
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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
oh this postdoc position at uva sounds great: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3507...
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Postdoc Visual Art & Third-World Solidarities in 20th-Century Liberation Movements in Middle East
How did visual artists in the Arab liberation movements visualize, entangle, and transform their own visions of freedom in dialogue with those of the wider Third World during 20th-century decolonisati...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Y'all. Just hit 1,000 signups. In less than 24 hours. I'm in shock. And in awe.
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Postdoc opportunity in interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. Taft Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences. jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
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Taft Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences
Taft Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
with aid not getting in and with ongoing bombardment again, eSims continue to be a crucial lifeline. if you are like me and can’t go to in-person things too often, please consider supporting our work directly: #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Small children killed by Trump and Musk
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
IOF storm Al-Quds University, east of occupied Jerusalem, ahead of planned student rally in solidarity with Gaza. U.S. campuses saw cops with rubber bullets. Palestinian campuses see assault rifles. This is what academic freedom looks like in 2025. x.com/qudsn/status...
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
En combinant supports créatifs et théoriques, Camilo Leon-Quijano propose une « photo-ethnographie multimodale […] qui interroge le lien anthropologue/sujets et inscrit l’image dans des univers sensoriels étendus » journals-openedition-org.acces.bibl.ulaval.ca/lhomme/52229
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Shibboleth Authentication Request
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Flaherty Seminar 2025 is open is open for applications for filmmakers and researchers active in the field! The theme: Onward! <3 theflaherty.org/2025-fellows...
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2025 Fellowship — The Flaherty
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Atelier à Montréal, une excellente occasion d'en savoir plus sur le financement des artistes basés au Québec ! www.zeffy.com/fr-CA/ticket...
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Séance d'information: Conseil des Arts du Québec (CALQ)
Avec Manuel NicolaonGratuit sur inscriptionRencontrez le chargé de programme d’un des principaux organismes de soutien au cinéma expérimental et d’animation : le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qué...
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Supporting Dr. Steven Thrasher's legal defense is mutual aid in climate of repression & silencing of academics. He was denied tenure at Northwestern University in months-long campaign of retaliation for engaging in political speech against Israel’s war in Gaza. gofund.me/44f01997
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Donate to Support Dr. Steven Thrasher's Legal Defense, organized by Kathryn Macapagal
We are U.S. university professors and friends of acclaimed journalist Dr… Kathryn Macapagal needs your support for Support Dr. Steven Thrasher's Legal Defense
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Say his name: Mahmoud Sleem. He was among 8 people killed today in an Israeli ceasefire violation, and was the 205th journalist killed in Gaza
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Safe Place For Science program offering a safe and stimulating environment for American scientists wishing to pursue their research in complete academic freedom. Expected to open 15 positions for 3-year period. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
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Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille University ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Anthropologists working on multimodal projects often lack peers to offer feedback and insights. Join CoMMPCT for virtual & in-person workshops, crits & conversation. We will likly be accepting applicants after the Mar 15 deadline. bit.ly/CClongform
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Anthropologists working on multimodal projects often lack peers to offer feedback and insights. The Collective for Multimodal Makers, Publishers, Collaborators, and Teachers (CoMMPCT) will host a seri...
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 12/03/2025
“There is a young man in jail today for protesting at his college. No charges. No criminal conduct. In dictatorships, they call this ‘a disappearance’.” — Sen. Chris Murphy on the unconstitutional arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
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14 House Dems Demanded Mahmoud Khalil’s Release. Where Are the Others?
All members of Congress swore oaths to defend the right to speak freely and assemble to petition for the redress of grievances. Why did so few of them sign this important letter?
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Finally, my entry "Multimodal Anthropology" in Oxford Research Encyclopedia! Scholars working with multimodal methods embrace new methods while being aware of limitations. This awareness centers intersectional feminist and decolonial approaches to anthropology. oxfordre.com/anthropology...
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Multimodal Anthropology
"Multimodal Anthropology" published on by Oxford University Press.
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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Disgraceful. All the more glad that Francesca Albanese will speak at Utrecht University on Friday (www.uu.nl/en/events/pu...). Says a lot that Germany continues to beat the Netherlands in academic repression even though NL are the ones with the far right government in power
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Public event with Francesca Albanese: A conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
As part of the conference 'Concerning Conflict, War, and Peace', Francesca Albanese (United Nations) will discuss her mandate, the war on Gaza, and human rights.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Journalists, sign up for this free, hands-on digital security training being held in Washington, D.C. docs.google.com/forms/d/1pIi...
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Center for Journalism & Democracy Digital Security Pre-training Registration/Survey
Thank you for your interest in the Center for Journalism & Democracy's Truth Over Power Speaker Series! We are partnering with the Freedom of the Press Foundation and American University School of Co...
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Suzamina calling @suzamina.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
@monaeltahawy.bsky.social just posted great news: Salma Al-Shehab, who was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for tweets in support of women's rights, has been released today. Read more here ... open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
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Global Roundup: Saudi Activist Jailed for Feminist Tweets Freed, Iranian Journalists Released, Trans Rights in the U.S., Sri Lanka Feminist Politics, New Play Looks at a Black Woman's Search for Love
Campaigners have welcomed the release of Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi PhD student at Leeds University who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for posting tweets in support of women’s rights.
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Posting for a Tenure-Track Position in Indigenous Studies in my department at Université Laval in Quebec. *Candidate would eventually need to teach in French. ULaval has strong & active faculty union, good work conditions, remarkable access to research funds, etc. www.rh.ulaval.ca/emploi/HCM/9...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Indigenous Studies
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This looks like an interesting workshop! Collectively Situated Knowledge: A decolonial research method for constructing collective auto-narratives and positionalities for scholar-activists engaged in practice, research & social movements. Feb 15 Athens, Greece share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s...
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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
My latest article, on depictions of Indians in Iranian literature, film, and media, is out now in Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
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Adam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Excited to hold my copy of the new Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism (foreward by @billmckibben.bsky.social)! My chapter is about a small conflict among Indigenous & settler activists that reveals yet contested notions of expertise, ethics & advocacy in the Canadian climate movement.
A hand holding the hefty hardcover book against a white background, mostly black with an image in blue tones and text in white, with the red Routledge International Handbooks logo at the top.
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
After more than a year of co-writing, our Ethnocine collective chapter is in print! "Visualizing Ethnography" in the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Funding Opportunity "First Book Grant Fellowship! Deadline: 5 PM GMT (6 PM CET), 1st November 2024. Candidates must have been awarded their PhD and should be within three years of PhD award at the time of application. Share widely!" More info 👇 www.isrf.org/funding-oppo...
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First Book Grant (FBG2)
The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support recent PhD graduates in their effort to turn their PhD thesis into a publishable book.
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🔥I’ve just done my #eXit! the X exodus is massive. Don't lose any of your followers. Thanks to #HelloQuitX I've registered 1570 new passengers for a journey to #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Join us on app.helloquitx.com and automatically find your communities on #January20!
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Libérez vos espaces numériques
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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I recently traveled to Egypt and delivered some funds for Palestinian’s displaced to Egypt as a result of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. I spoke with local organizers working in mutual aid, journalism, and human rights. Here's a few things I learned:
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