Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeWomenWarriors @womenwarriors.com · 13/04/2026A little good news... greekreporter.com/2026/04/13/h... #hungary #budapest #hungaryelectiongreekreporter.comHungary Elections 2026: Opposition Victory Ends Orbán Era - GreekReporter.comHungary’s 2026 elections end Viktor Orbán’s long rule as the opposition secures a decisive victory, signaling a major political shift. 0103
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Can Canada ever be far behind? Historically, Canada has always followed the U.S. in instituting racist immigration policies. Here we go AGAIN! And no, it did not take the conservatives to pass the law - it was the (right) centrists - the effing Liberals. ccla.org/press-releas...ccla.orgPassing of Bill C-12 is an Attack on Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada - CCLAA broad coalition of human rights, civil liberties, refugee and migrant rights, gender justice, and data privacy organizations have denounced the adoption of Bill C-12, which became law yesterday. Thi... 000
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeLiam Swiss @liamswiss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Was pleased to accept an invitation from the Editors of @contexts.org (@sethabrutyn.bsky.social @aminghaziani.bsky.social) to contribute to a special section on the Canada-USA relationship along with @dbtindall.bsky.social & @pallavib.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....journals.sagepub.comCanada and the United States—a Friendship Strained 1116
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Cool new issue of contexts.org is out. Excited to have contributed to the "special section" on Canada-U.S. relationships, along with @liamswiss.bsky.social & others here up north. Important conversations here - check it out. journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/doi/epdf/10....contexts.org Contexts Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. 163
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeAriel Ducey @aducey.bsky.social · 15/09/2025My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106... 195
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...careers.ucalgary.caAssistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ... 310587
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeePratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 24/08/2025The most beautiful way to star my Mondays, reading Sulagana Biswas' column "Beat The Monday Blues" in The Telegraph - T2. Here's a poignant homage to the music that sustained my 90s, and at least for me, kept my dreams alive in a world that was mostly full of bad humans.t2online.inBeat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar SanuBeat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu 032
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 11/08/2025m.thewire.in/article/righ...m.thewire.in‘Ask the ECI to Answer Opp’s Vote Theft Charge’: An Open Letter to the CJI - The WireThe ECI should voluntarily submit itself to scrutiny. But if it does not, sir, I request you to summon the powers the Constitution vests in you and order it to do so without delay. 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 11/08/2025t2online.in/music/wester...t2online.inNot Monday Blues with Bruce Springsteen's NightshiftNot Monday Blues with Bruce Springsteen's Nightshift 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Here’s a piece led by Fateme Ejaredar (my doctoral student) and co-authored by me on the impact of Israel’s war on iran on the diaspora. theconversation.com/iranian-cana...theconversation.comIranian Canadians watch the Israel-U.S. war in Iran from afarInterviews with 30 Iranian Canadians help to untangle the roots of political tensions and evolving solidarities in the Iranian diaspora in Canada. 020
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 23/07/2025South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water chuffed.org/project/1132...chuffed.orgSouth Gaza: Tents, Food & Water**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks** 020
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ALERT: Please consider participating and spreading the word about this research on climate justice and migration being conducted by my doctoral student, Chetna Khandelwal @chetkay.bsky.social. 32821
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Another great column by Sulgana Biswas - this time about the iconic disco number, I Feel Love. t2online.in/music/wester...t2online.inOvercome Monday blues with Donna Summer's I Feel LoveOvercome Monday blues with Donna Summer's I Feel Love 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 15/07/2025By my bestie, Sulagana Biswas about a timeless protest song. More relevant than ever. www.telegraphindia.com/t2/not-monda...telegraphindia.comNot Monday blues, but...Back in 1959, folk singer Pete Seeger drew on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 — one of the wisdom books of the Old Testament, the other two being Proverbs and Job — to write what he felt was a song of protest. In... 010
Reposted by Pallavi Banerjeecarolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Shameful 421248036958
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 09/06/2025This necro-State needs to be held accountable for uncountable war crimes. But attacking and abducting peaceful volunteers for bringing aid to people that are being starved to death…how? www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...aljazeera.comIsraeli commados taking Gaza-bound aid ship, Madleen, to IsraelThe Madleen crew are now being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 100 miles from Gaza. 010
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeDead McCoy 💀🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025students and AI can both write shitty papers, but only students can write great papers. That's like the only lesson that they need to know when they decide to use it 0267
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeJean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comStatement re Michael Burawoy obitStatement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ... 717287
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The level of anxiety and sadness I am feeling about the escalation of India's war with Pakistan is unsettling. What is this madness? No one wins in a war! 050
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Some grad students I work with have been trying to house a young newcomer from Cameroon who got kicked out of his home. He has no support in Calgary and has faced extreme anti-black racism in the Calgary shelter systems. PLEASE consider donating. gofund.me/4721bd16gofund.meDonate to Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary, organized by Megha SanyalWe are a group of PhD students at UCalgary who are trying to … Megha Sanyal needs your support for Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary 121
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 14/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...nytimes.comInside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on UniversitiesThe opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education. 000
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The third year release anniversary of #theopportunitytrap! I had painstakingly made all references to Trump in the past tense in my final edits. These pages feel sureal. But here we are! Humbling realities. 022
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This was a perfect interview by Muhammad Shehada. If you want a quick update on what’s been happening in Gaza, this is it. 02314
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeEman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025If you do not act to protest Columbia admin collaborating with ICE & Trump to illegally detain Mahmoud Khalil, you are consenting to your campus being next. You are giving a green light to your admin to hand over your students and colleagues. Enough is enough. ACT NOW. 1278100
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeRDB @reshmi777.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil.amp.cnn.comMahmoud Khalil, who helped lead Columbia student protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, arrested by ICE, attorney says | CNNA federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia university graduate and Palestinian activist who was arrested Saturd... 2134
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeePratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 08/03/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...nytimes.comHow Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (Gift Article)President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements. 102
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Dystopia alert: Seems like we are living in what looks like the Man in the High Castle world! Did not think I would witness this in my lifetime. The post-World War II progressive blip will be over so soon is incredulous but that is where we are. We humans and our humanity truly sucks. 020
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025She will never give us Greenland. 1023021
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeRDB @reshmi777.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The “Golden Age” can begin with this. 0144
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The man is pissed and I have not seen pissed in the last 7 years. Good for him. www.youtube.com/live/eT_ePmJ...youtube.comLIVE: Trudeau holds press conference as Canada hits back at Trump's tariffsYouTube video by Associated Press 010
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeNPR @npr.org · 03/03/2025The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.npr.orgAt Oscars, 'No Other Land' co-directors call for national rights for PalestiniansThe Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 454950700
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 03/03/2025For once Oscars did the right thing!!! No Other Land!! #FreePalestine!! 080
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This is unthinkable!! Racial facism on gross display! www.nytimes.com/article/trum...nytimes.comCan Trump Legally Transfer Migrants to Guantánamo Bay? Here’s What to KnowLawsuits are challenging President Trump’s abrupt decision to send men awaiting deportation to the American military base in Cuba. 122
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Canadian academic colleagues: I’m calling on you to resist the “Canada First” policy in academic hires. This is now being implemented in ways that is anti-immigrant and xenophobic to the extent that we are asked to not even consider stellar international students who are getting PhDs here. 160
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 02/02/2025For American friends: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiaA...youtube.comTrudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goodsYouTube video by CBC News 000
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeDead McCoy 💀🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025My department is hiring two full time teaching professors on a three year limited contract to teach in either sociology or law and societyinternal.careers.ucalgary.caAssistant Professor, Sociology/Law and Society Instructor (Three-Year Limited Term) in Calgary, ... 0129
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeMike Adorjan @zensurfer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025New job posting in #sociology & #lawandsociety in #calgary #yyc Sociology/Law and Society Instructor (Three-Year Limited Term) in Calgary, AB, Canada: internal.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1550763...internal.careers.ucalgary.caAssistant Professor, Sociology/Law and Society Instructor (Three-Year Limited Term) in Calgary, ... 022
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeNPR @npr.org · 23/01/2025A large study of 30,000 adults diagnosed with ADHD in the U.K. found women with ADHD died roughly nine years younger than women without a diagnosis. Men had about a seven-year shorter lifespan.npr.orgAdults with ADHD live shorter lives than those without a diagnosis, a new study findsA large study of 30,000 adults diagnosed with ADHD in the U.K. found women with ADHD died roughly nine years younger than women without a diagnosis. Men had about a seven-year shorter lifespan. 791117209
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 23/01/2025"Trump is no longer in office, but the present and the future remain Trumpian. The discursive core of American politics has shifted to become more populist, combative, nativist and antiminority, which has impacted all people of color, including all categories of immigrants of color. (page 241)" 161
Reposted by Pallavi BanerjeeMegan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social · 28/12/2024@pallavib.bsky.social wrote an award winning book about this—the gendered and radicalized implications of the dependent visa programs. Check out The Opportunity Trap @nyupress.bsky.social 1105
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 18/12/2024 Bursting with pride this morning! @chetkay.bsky.social now an ABD did a phenomenal job in her candidacy exams, written and orals. And she had the most brilliant and kind committee of feminist scholars. Thank you Drs. @firuzehsv.bsky.social @aducey.bsky.social, Nadia Kim and Cheryl Teelucksingh. 222
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Hilarious because true! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...mcsweeneys.netA Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the SemesterDear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ... 020
Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 27/11/2024After Lebanon, CEASEFIRE in Gaza now!! And end of occupation! 031