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Shubha Kayastha

@shubhakayastha.bsky.social
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🏠 Naarm and Kathmandu 📚 PhD candidate researching queer digital culture and privacy 🖥️ Co-founder, Body & Data, a digital rights organisation in Nepal au.linkedin.com/in/shubha-kayastha-…

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Lukas Parker @lukasparker.com · 18/12/2025
Because they are white, the media calls them a “brat pack” not white gangs. Remember when the racist Australian media spread fear of (nonexistent) African gangs and white people feeling unsafe to go to restaurants? #ausmedia #auspol
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Anyone here going to be at Digital Intimacies conference in Uni of Sydney this week?
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Much resonance www.drecollab.org/desi-butch/
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Desi Butch: Lines on a Page
This essay was originally published on The Cabaret Commons, as part of the "Process Posts" Series. See: http://www.cabaretcommons.org/desi-butch/ By Naveen Minai 1. I begin here with I. I do this...
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Looking forward to be part part of this roundtable!
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“Teenagers absolutely care about privacy,” Boyd said, adding that like adults, they share things to feel loved, connected and supported by Pamela Paul www.seattletimes.com/life/lifesty...
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Cracking teenager’s online codes
Teenagers' access to the Internet should not be restricted, says an expert on social research who says she benefited from it herself when she was young.
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Honestly, seeing people in my social media wearing purple and eating purple cake ‘to celebrate diversity’ is pretty hilarious!!
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Enjoyed reading how students could be engage in a creative way in your piece @binarythis.bsky.social thesocietypages.org/firstpublics...
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Theory for Good: Sociology in Cultural Studies - First Publics
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
As someone who was leaving the city full of gratitude with everything it has to offer, I just shoved my earphones deep into my ears and listened to a Bahasa Malayu song to mute whatever the white man was saying next
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
(Overheard someone speaking on a phone at the airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur bound to Naarm) “Trust me I don’t think you would have liked it. It’s a first world in so many ways but also a third world. It’s such an interesting juxtaposition between the first and the third world that it is strange”
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Egypt illegally detaining Alaa Abd el-Fattah, UN investigators find www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Egypt illegally detaining Alaa Abd el-Fattah, UN investigators find
Report says British-Egyptian writer held for expressing political views and should be released without delay
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer wrote, “If I must die, you must live to tell my story” genderit.org/feminist-tal...
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Adalah Justice Project @adalahjustice.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
WATCH: Over 210 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 2023—targeted for telling the truth. Our colleague Rand spoke with Palestinian photojournalist Eman Mohammed on media silence + complicity. Watch full video on IG here: www.instagram.com/reel/DI31uGu...
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Jasmine is totally judging anti-feminists and transphobes and i am with her!
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Only through the first episode of Black Mirror 7 and it feels way too dark for me!
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tales of reverse racism in my school: Last week, a dear colleague (an Asian brown gay man) asked me if me critiquing white people and whiteness is racism. Today, another colleague (a brown middle eastern cishet man) asked if me requesting PoC supervisor is a racist thing to do.
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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
BREAKING— Last week, while Israel re-escalated its genocide in Gaza, Google Cloud acquired Israeli start-up Wiz, signaling Google's continued investment in Israel and its commitment to genocide profiteering.
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
‘‘I am a vegan so therefore I don’t need to engage with the complexity of how I am implicated into the global local North–South circuits of power around food.’’ Someone wrote this fictional quote on the current food politics. Couldn’t agree more!
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Also any tips on training my instagram algorithm from white folks content to brown aunties contents? (I’m trying my best but more tips are always helpful)
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
White people coming up with ‘make it at home’ beauty/ hygiene products as if they invented them 😂 Please credit my ancestors!
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Aaaa.. what!!! Chat GPT: “Compliance with data protection laws, such as GDPR [a data privacy law], can be a significant hurdle. SMBs may worry about legal and ethical issues associated with using AI.” www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
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Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Rainbows are always going to be exciting! 🌈
Half a circle of rainbow in cloudy sky
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 11/03/2025
“Even when we produce a high-quality translation, we lack the infrastructure to deliver it to international markets. There is a disconnect between production and distribution, which significantly limits global access to Nepali literature."
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Introducing Nepali literature to global audiences: An interview with Mahesh Paudyal
“Even when we produce a high-quality translation, we lack the infrastructure to deliver it to international markets. There is a disconnect between production and distribution, which significantly limits global access to Nepali literature."
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
AMEN!!! "The promise of particular futures – or other times – is often used as a tool of control and power, for example, to keep people waiting for a ‘better’ life" (Carl Bonner-Thompson , 2023)
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a cat is playing with a bowl on the floor
ALT: a cat is playing with a bowl on the floor
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"......two universities – the LMU Munich and the Freie University Berlin – cancelled events featuring Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967." verfassungsblog.de/where-is-our...
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Where Is Our Outcry?
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The moon though! 🌙
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“For this PhD, I myself had regularly colluded in various cynical exercises of academic box-ticking. Via the cycle of performance reviews, HREC ethics online training courses, competency workshops, and other administrative performance benchmarks just to certify … 1/2
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“By adopting this definition, universities will be characterising peaceful protest as a punishable offense. This sets a chilling precedent where students exercising their political rights are vilified and silenced.” Mohamed Duar www.amnesty.org.au/australian-u...
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Australian universities' decision to adopt contested definition of antisemitism is an attempt to stifle freedom of expression across campuses nationwide
The decision by 39 Australian universities to adopt an extremely contested definition of anti-Semitism is a direct attack on fundamental freedoms,
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Officially a Ph.D. candidate now! I have a question for all of us to think (below): As a researcher/ activist from the Global South doing research in educational setting in the Global North is an experience on its own. (1/n)
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Spent too much time working on the last slide for my confirmation of candidature presentation scheduled for tomorrow 🤣
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neelaghoshal.bsky.social @neelaghoshal.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I wouldn’t normally direct anyone to Tweeter, but this video poignantly shows what indignities trans people in the US are being subjected to now. This, in the name of “defending women.” x.com/TMZ/status/1...
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
videos of people repurposing things they find in second hand stores are beyond my understanding! well, maybe that's why they are called 'repurposing' but dude, seriously, i do not see any purpose there!
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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨ Share widely!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
PhD brain this week is stuck around the ideas of ephemera/ temporarily vs. queer visibility/ archiving Lots to unpack but it's kinda fun ;)
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Parrots are beautiful creatures imo, but don't think it's a popular opinion in Aussie land? *watching parrots hanging out in a tree opposite to my balcony* 🦜🦜🦜
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 18/02/2025
📺 WATCH: CDT’s Elizabeth Laird on @abcnewsgo.bsky.social discussing the importance of protections against the federal government collecting and using Americans’ sensitive personal information. abcnews.go.com/Polit...
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Video What DOGE’s potential access to IRS databases means for you
Privacy legal expert Elizabeth Laird discusses the protections against the federal government collecting and using personal information.
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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
When the ALP was elected, many in the tech policy and digital rights space (including myself) were hopeful it would mean a more amenable government to good, meaningful (ideally progressive) tech policy. This, in my opinion, did not happen. Here’s me attempting to summarise ~3 years of frustration-
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The tech industry has never been more powerful. How do the government's policies stack up? | Samantha Floreani
It’s been a period of huge technological upheaval, which is what makes Australia’s track record on tech so disappointing
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Made momos after ages! My stomach and my heart is happy 😊
Two plates of momos and a container with momos filling
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If you are someone like me interested in the discourse of #privacy in everyday, you might find this amusing too! ‘…Mix of privacy and public exposed for guests.’ 💀
Photo collage. A photo with a man sitting on a futon bed and the photo behind is of a hotel. The screenshot says this is a hotel one can stay in Japan for 1$ but the video is streamed online 24/7 without sound.
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Took me moving to the Global North to realise that some big clothing brands named after Global South countries/cities (Kathmandu, Colombia, Patagonia, *add more*) are not owned by people in those places! As a Nepali,I literally thought Kathmandu was 'our' product 😂 So? they can just use our names?!
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a woman is making a funny face and says uh yeah
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Bebe (aka Brandy) @bebebounce.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Taking students into prison is like adventure tourism. They are eating up the suffering of others.
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
And I guess the day would have felt bland without some casual sexism. So I went to a store of my internet service provider only to be dismissed by a young white guy!
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a woman with long black hair is smiling and making a face .
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I thought most people at cashier in supermarkets are sometimes rude because they are tired of having to stand all day, greet people, etc. But, today I found out it is just a casual racism. My white flatmate pointed it out to me when we were in a store together, said that would not happen to her.
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Why are Australians adverts so bad?! The sponsored adverts on YouTube videos always cracks me up. Apparently, Australian banks are equally bad. Just got an email from my bank titled "Shubha, roses are red and savings are (name of the bank) Yello"
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/02/2025
End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.
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How to keep your private conversations private | CNN Business
As we all live more of our lives online, it’s important to understand who might have access to our conversations and internet searches – and to understand how to maintain privacy in an increasingly co...
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Baby language interpreter needed urgently! 🔔 My friend’s kid who is 1.5 years old just butt-dialled me said ‘nunu uhh no yaya guguuu ya yaaa’
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
can relate 10000%
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Shubha Kayastha @shubhakayastha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
An unexpected cute encounter in my current reading 'Figure 2.5 The haptic screen is not only for the human species, as the participants in Hjorth and Richardson’s research found' (Source: Digital Ethnography, Principles and Practice)
Black and white photo of two cats staring at an ipad with a picture of a fish on it
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