Reposted by RKKRKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This Friday 10/2 arthistory.uic.edu/events/ronak...arthistory.uic.eduRonak K. Kapadia, “Radiant Opacities: Minoritarian Art and the Respiratory Commons” | Dept. of Art History and Museum & Exhibition Studies | University of Illinois Chicago 041
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This Friday 10/2 arthistory.uic.edu/events/ronak...arthistory.uic.eduRonak K. Kapadia, “Radiant Opacities: Minoritarian Art and the Respiratory Commons” | Dept. of Art History and Museum & Exhibition Studies | University of Illinois Chicago 041
Reposted by RKKGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks. 131711288
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 030
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All eyes on the young lesbians of western mass right now, but if you want to actually understand why smart people with clue continue to mask (rather than piling on to the punching down on sick and disabled ppl), you can read this: www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/m...smithsonianmag.com 010
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026In a very 2013-style #representationmatters kind of way, I watched the new Netflix film "Best of the Best," about South Asian American college dance team competitions, last night. The leader of the UCLA dance team is named RONAK www.netflix.com/title/81776971netflix.comWatch Best of the Best | Netflix Official SiteTwo childhood besties join UCLA's competitive Bollywood-fusion dance team, only to find the road to the US championships is fiercer than they imagined. 100
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In 10 days at UIUC: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/1169?...calendars.illinois.edu“Breathing Through the Roaring 2020s: Fascism, Imperial Breathlessness, and the Art of Breathing Otherwise” with Ronak K. Kapadia 020
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: UIC United Faculty - Contract Now! . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ui...actionnetwork.orgUIC United Faculty - Contract Now!UIC United Faculty members have been working without a contract since August 16th, 2026. Under cover of the current federal assault on higher education, administrators at UIC and across the Universit... 000
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Don’t have a ton of respect anymore for leaders/“bosses” who are not close readers / close listeners. Both are important, now more than ever. 🤖 011
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The mustache has officially entered my faculty webpage: 👨🏽🚨 updates on my new book too, stay tuned for upcoming IRL colloquium talks as well: gws.uic.edu/profiles/kap...gws.uic.eduKapadia, Ronak K. | Gender and Women's Studies | University of Illinois Chicago 020
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Chambana pals: I'm coming to your campus 4 weeks from today; save the date to hear some new work from me!: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/1169?...calendars.illinois.edu“Breathing Through the Roaring 2020s: Fascism, Imperial Breathlessness, and the Art of Breathing Otherwise” with Ronak K. Kapadia 020
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Got a new professional faculty headshot yesterday for the start of Professor Year 14. I had to document the ‘stache! What do we think? 👨🏽👨🏽🏫 📸 : Katie Klema 050
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026If Leftists & even the “radlibs,” or whatever lane AOCIA et al. now occupy, had actually worked thru the ongoing trauma of COVID collectively, rather than memory-holing the profoundly unequal suffering of 2020 onwards, we might not be watching politicians rush to repudiate the “Woke 1.0” era. 100
Reposted by RKKMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary. 1828565
Reposted by RKKCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/07/2026Well that's a bit on the nose. 412416
Reposted by RKKAnil Dash @anildash.com · 27/06/2026I don’t know how much it landed outside the city, but one of Zohran’s first big breakout campaign moments was when he jumped into the water in a suit at Coney Island for the Polar Bear Plunge back when he was polling at <2% 372005344
Reposted by RKKMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/06/2026🤔 "War?" "Hijack?" "Takeover?" Y'all use the weirdest vocab to describe voters calmly walking into a voting booth and filling in the bubble next to the name of the candidate that says things like "Childcare can be cheaper!" and "Let's fix that bike lane!" and "Elon should pay more tax than you do!" 13574154
Reposted by RKKderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen 254188782733
Reposted by RKKRKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 05/03/2026You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs? 071
Reposted by RKKMS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Re-sharing @ronakkapadia.bsky.social post, which hits queer & trans* studies, medical humanities, disability justice & abolitionist thought, among others cc @edrabinski.bsky.social @alexanderchee.bsky.social @noethematt.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social - pls reshare 065
Reposted by RKKRKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note! 1147
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note! 1147
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"Surviving the Long Wars" takes on new, surreal, ridiculous, epic, infuriating, humiliating, heart-wrenching, and nervous-system-destroying meanings by the minute. 010
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 01/04/2026It feels so absolutely silly to be working on a book project about expanding infrastructures of breathable life in a moment when the most powerful demonic forces on the planet are trying to destroy life-sustaining infrastructure everywhere you look… bleak, exhausting, ridiculous times. 000
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Should I get critical feedback from writer friends on a grant proposal I've been feverishly working on for the past week, or just turn it in way ahead of schedule to be over and done with it? A memoir. 000
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Academic pals: looking for inspo and seeking examples of your favorite "second monographs"? In grad school, mine was always Saidiya Hartman's LOSE YOUR MOTHER for its style and substance swerving away from traditional expectations toward creative non-fiction and something more. What are your faves? 120
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Sunday thotsicle: the impending strategic defeats of US/Israel in Iran/West Asia may lead to the accelerated crumbling of US empire, but not without further pain/misery for people around the Global South as well as minoritized people in the imperial core. 120
Reposted by RKKMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student. 240134614889
Reposted by RKKLong COVID Justice @longcovidjustice.org · 13/03/2026This #LongCOVIDAwarenessMonth, we’re excited to announce that our new oral history website is live! Featuring 100+ hours of interviews of people living with #LongCOVID. We’re building a living history of Long COVID, and bringing voices from the margins to the center. ListeningForTheLongHaul.org 35030
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 05/03/2026You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs? 071
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 04/03/2026If you filter your water in your home, but not your indoor air, you’re doing it wrong. Humans drink about 2 to 3 L of water a day but they breathe in about 11,000 L of air! Ventilate and filtrate, folks. You’re welcome. 020
Reposted by RKKRKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline. No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”! 085
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline. No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”! 085
Reposted by RKKQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/02/2026IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state. Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.qasimrashid.comWARNING: Illinois Is About to Elect a MAGA-Aligned SenatorBut it's not too late -- here's what we need to do to prevent a catastrophic failure and instead elect someone whose record aligns with our values 20869559
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026How do we get every (yt) liberal a CRASH course in abolition, state violence, counter/insurgencies, settler colonialism, disability justice, & racial capitalism??0? Like June 2020-style study & collectivism? BC the political regression is painful. We gotta retool for the remainder of this decade. 031
Reposted by RKKRKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such. 0103
RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such. 0103
Reposted by RKKKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15888642321172
Reposted by RKKNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 20/12/2025THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...theintercept.comThe U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We're Tracking Them All.The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed. 18716318
Reposted by RKKBright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 21/12/2025Shaming rarely works on most people, so I will simply say: follow the facts, both scientific and economic, for they tell the same story: The pandemic is far from over. SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading; COVID-19 is still disabling millions today. It's never too late to align one's conduct with reality. 210447
Reposted by RKKTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.m.youtube.comSurviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublicaYouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official 97128476962
Reposted by RKKTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/12/2025All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this. 12548972080
Reposted by RKKSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26. 232569
Reposted by RKKbeth c-c @bethcarboncopy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Briefly returning to Bluesky for a quick rant about how the concept of "dying alone" is stupid and unhelpful. 3197
Reposted by RKKKatelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 20/11/2025For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be. 383350956
Reposted by RKKBeatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I’m heartbroken at the loss of Leslie & for YB who he loved deeply & fiercely. For seven years, I had the privilege of knowing him—his mind, his humor, his boundless creativity, & unflinching political clarity. The world is immeasurably poorer without his voice. All gfm will cover funeral & expenses 813367