swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I've reached the kill-your-darlings stage of writing let's go 100
Reposted by swati arorajessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126047998
Reposted by swati aroraMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments. 3558911659
Reposted by swati aroratara 🏳️⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026this mural in Margate station pointing out that tseliot is an anagram of toilets won a Margate civic society town pride award 610341
Reposted by swati aroraSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 29/05/2026“I’m looking out at my garden and I’m thinking what makes me write is what makes me go and do the garden, which is to perpetuate and reiterate life,” Dionne Brand 💐 095
Reposted by swati aroraSam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing. 721135208
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 09/05/2026bless the alpine cows for their abundant gifts to humankind 010
Reposted by swati aroraDissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 31/03/2026New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...dissentmagazine.orgAbolitionist Feminism - Dissent MagazineAn interview with Kathi Weeks. 03217
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Thanks to @alcs.co.uk for my annual swimming lessons 121
Reposted by swati aroraNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...amnesty.org.ukGuidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultationWe are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights. 2215227
Reposted by swati aroraWasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 12/12/2025In collaboration with UK Small Press Futures – a collective of UK independent publishers – Wasafiri is hosting an afternoon of panels dedicated to the future of independent presses. When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London Tickets: £15 buff.ly/YJJorHv 015
Reposted by swati aroraHistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 29/10/2025📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26! Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions! 📆Key dates: - Abstracts due on 28th November - Notifications on 19th December - 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb (1/3) 12334
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 01/11/2025my phd student, a puppeteer, graduated with flying colours and I got a red cat 010
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Got my copy! This brilliant book is now available open access here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d... 000
Reposted by swati aroraWasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Wasafiri invites creative submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in response to navigating interlinked global systems of oppressions and seeking to forge transnational solidarities across various boundaries. DEADLINE: Sunday 24 August, 2025 11.59pm BSTbuff.lyCall for Creative Submissions: SolidaritiesWasafiri invites creative submissions in fiction, nonfiction… 053
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Fascinating to see Kara Walker and Otto Dix next to each other — Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart 021
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Caste, Protest, Pedagogy We spoke about the spatial and affective politics of Dalit protests and their significance for educational institutions and transnational movements of freedom today. Malavika's brilliant book on it is out next month. www.airsupplycollective.com/thursday/cas...airsupplycollective.comCaste, Protest, Pedagogy — Peopling the Palaces FestivalSwati Arora in conversation with Malavika Priyadarshini Rao An online event, with an in-person screening option. A link will be provided after tickets are booked. As state surveillance and ideolog... 020
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Hi Glasgow – I'll be at the Centre for Contemporary Arts on Wed for a roundtable on imagining institutional change. Come say hello if you're around. www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/ab...cca-glasgow.comAbout (Kill)joys, Grievances, and ResistanceCCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances. 010
Reposted by swati aroraFeminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I am not sure whether Bluebell is coming to this lecture (ok, I know she isn't) but hey, she loves me. Come along & say no 🔊I am so glad to be honouring Catherine Silverstone's life & work.That no, when amplified, picks up her emphasis on history and haunting. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sara-ahmed...eventbrite.co.ukSara Ahmed, 'No! The Art and Activism of Complaining'QMUL Annual Catherine Silverstone Lecture: Sara Ahmed - an in-person lecture followed by reception 1464
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 17/04/2025So pleased to be back on home ground today, and what timing— 010
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 09/04/2025needed to blast abida parveen on headphones at 8am to make it to work today 000
Reposted by swati aroraSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 20/03/2025“how to live how to gather untethered to meander together through fields &forms of learning we repair we lend an ear to the earth and shelter otherwise.” Omar Berrada, “A Practice of Errantry 033
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The new performance studies reader is here and I'm in *such* gorgeous company. An absolute joy to be snuggling up to my fave @saranahmed.bsky.social too 💛 www.routledge.com/The-Performa... 272
Reposted by swati aroraWasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 26/02/2025🚨 Internship Alert! 🚨 An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. Full details on the placement, and how to apply, here: www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...wasafiri.orgInternship Opportunity: Wasafiri CHASE Editorial PlacementAn opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. 012
Reposted by swati aroraTiffany Watt Smith @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social · 13/02/2025These final weeks before publication are the strangest times of being an author. Part of you wants to protect the book you’ve been quietly loving into being for so long. And then there’s the part which knows you have to take a deep breath and hoof it out the door open.substack.com/pub/thefutur... 153
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Our beautiful collaborative project is out in paperback and we're gathering next week to celebrate ✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...eventbrite.co.ukBook Launch: Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational FeminismsJoin us for the launch of a groundbreaking exploration of decolonial, intersectional, and transnational feminist dialogues. 030
Reposted by swati aroraNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 16/11/2023"If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present." 39124
