iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“Who we love & how we love are inherently political. We declare our kinship through our actions & words in both explicit & subtle ways.”—Alice Wong, “Let’s Recognize Why #AccessIsLove” from Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life

0135

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is incredible. I didn’t realize it was this complex.

031

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🚨New Episode Alert 🚨 Please check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with @smaran.bsky.social & Ben Baer about their groundbreaking new book, Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

061

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Last week, Ben Baer and I spoke to @arnabdr.bsky.social about our book Spider-Mother and Rokeya Hossain for the New Books Network podcast. You can listen to the episode at the link below. 🙂 So grateful for Arnab's excellent questions and planning of the interview. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

0113

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

QueensLink @queenslink.org · 27/01/2025

We're a third of the way there!! Thank you so much for your support!! Help us #BuildtheQueensLink by continuing to donate at the link in bio ✨

1123

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Troubling situation, but good job with the interview!

000

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The present-day parts of Octavia E. Butler’s time-travel classic, KINDRED, take place in Altadena. So devastating to see the Palisades fire’s destruction of the area. 😢 @teenvogue.bsky.social

buff.ly

Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted the Dystopia of the LA Fires by Studying History

This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed and 5 schools burned to ash.

051

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

All the political maneuvering aside, I was too. It’s thankfully back today.

010

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Wieso low. Ist doch relevant.

010

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We Lacanians call it Lack Friday

413131

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is aimed at young scholars in the UK (18-30). If you teach on those islands, let your students know.

020

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some photos from this past weekend’s book event for Spider-Mother at Princeton. Thank you (again) to Ben Baer for his excellent translations and collaboration on this project, to @sadafjaffer.bsky.social for being in conversation with us, and to the Center for Global India for hosting us!

051

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Alyssa! Good to see you here as well. Thank you!

010

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thank you! Hope it doesn’t disappoint.

010

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I similarly feel like it helped me get my work out there and meet so many interesting people during the pandemic. It was painful to step away from it when things started to go south in 2022.

020

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

12870862137

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’ve come across a few really good articles/op-eds that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise read.

010

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We’ll be reading the Parables in my Octavia Butler major authors class in the spring. Hoping against hope that it doesn’t read as any more prescient/prophetic than it already does.

130

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Links: Warbler Press: warblerpress.com/spider-mother/ Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/spid... Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1962572986 4/4

warblerpress.com

Spider-Mother – Warbler Press

000

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The book includes a series of nine artworks by the Brooklyn-based artist Chitra Ganesh, inspired by Hossain’s famous short story “Sultana’s Dream,” as well as an accompanying artist’s statement. And NYC Councilmember Shahana Hanif has written a moving forward to the collection. 3/4

100

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The book is a collection of brand new translations of several works of fiction, reportage, and essay by the early 20th century Bengali speculative fiction writer and feminist activist Rokeya Hossain. The translations are by my former professor and co-editor of this volume, Ben Baer at Princeton. 2/4

110

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Since we're all reconvening here, I thought I'd reshare some good news here: A project I’ve been working on all year was published this month: Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Warbler Press, 2024). 1/4

The book cover of Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. The cover is divided between an artwork by Chitra Ganesh above, titled Event Horizon, which is made up of a female cyborg-like super-hero figure appearing to fly through a net or geographic division of space, while another female-presenting figure looks up at her in wonder. The cover is black and white, with a yellowish color used in place of the white. Below the artwork, you see the names of the editors, Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal, listed, as well as the artist Chitra Ganesh.

3198

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

All my academic faves are gathering here! Rejoice. 🥳

020

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Do you folks have an email list we can add our names to?

100

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/11/2024

Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions. Christopher Newfield suggests the answer lies in redefining #HigherEducation around intellectual and social benefits, not monetary ones. Join us Mon, 11/18, @ 4pm EST on Zoom - register: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/nov... 🗃️

websites.umass.edu

WHAT ARE THE HUMANITIES FOR? – WHAT ARE UNIVERSITIES FOR?

713849

Reposted by Smaran Dayal

Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 17/11/2024

I know a platform dying (which in internet terms mostly means not being what it once was anymore) can feel quite tragic, but @smaran.bsky.social remarking on this makes me hopeful: there’s people who will continue to cross your virtual path still!

021

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We have, haven’t we. Pre-Tumblr podcast forums to the decentralized post-Twitter wilds of Mastodon and Bluesky.

110

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thanks, Torsten. Hope you’re well.

110

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What are you using to delete your tweets? I just deactivated my account for deletion (it was parked).

110

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

One of my fav presses/booths at ASA and MLA. 😇

010

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#ASA2024 book exhibit haul. Thanks, U Chicago Press!

060

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Something’s in the air. (Probably the election.) But it will be so good to have an online public square again.

000

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Currently at the American Studies Conf in Baltimore and people keep talking about getting active on Bluesky. All talk? Or does the Twitter crowd finally have a new home?

151

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

I have a book stand for the same reason! Medieval monks knew what they were doing.

010

Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Old enough to remember it being a lot more comfortable and enjoyable. More like the neoliberal condition!

110