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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 23h

Let me make this easy. No nation-state, including my own natal land, has the right to exist based on religious or racial requirements for belonging, by dispossessing or excluding others, or having different classes of citizenship.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't accept soft Hindutva is a good thing. So, no, I am not accepting soft Zionism as a good thing. No gradation of ethnonationalism is a good thing particularly when it has its hands on the levers of state.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anticolonialism requires that we also challenge the colonial proclivities of the nation-state that emerges out of a process of self-determination.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those of us born into and raised in postcolonial 'self-determined' entities understand in a way that perhaps those in white ex-coloniser nations don't: the self-determined nation state is NOT exempt from fundamental criticism or vigilance. It must always be held to account.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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jeffrgq.bsky.social @jeffrgq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cornell University can’t prioritize protecting students from sexual assault— they’re too busy performing their most important safety responsibility: suppressing protests for Palestine.

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Women are NOT safe around men.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Joining Dr. Hosein as co-facilitator and host is Intersect Antigua-Barbuda’s co-founder and director, Sarah-Anne Gresham!

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CO-FACILITATOR & HOST: SARAH-ANNE GRESHAM
INTERSECT ANTIGUA-BARBUDA

Sarah-Anne Gresham is the co-founder of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda and a PhD candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of “Black Bodies at Play: Race and Gender at the Edges of Subjectivity,” and the forthcoming chapter, “Traveling Theory: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intersectionality.” With support from the Equality Fund, Black Feminist Fund, and CAISO-Astraea, she has endeavoured to expand the scope of Intersect through Caribbean feminist storytelling, political education and healing justice programmes, and public-facing writing projects, including Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our two speakers will be accompanied by two facilitators. Here, we have Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, senior lecturer at the UWI, St. Augustine campus, and previous Intersect Teach-In facilitator 👇🏾

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CO-FACILITATOR: DR. GABRIELLE HOSEIN
INSTITUTE FOR GENDER & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, UWI, ST. AUGUSTINE

Dr. Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is Senior Lecturer at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She has been part of Caribbean feminist movement-building for thirty years. Her current areas of research include post-indenture feminisms, masculinities and adolescent sexualities.
She is the co-editor of the collections, “Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities,” and “Indo-Caribbean Feminist
Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments.”
Her national newspaper column, “Diary of a Mothering Worker,” was published from 2012 – 2026 in the Trinidad Guardian and Newsday.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For our second speaker, we will be joined by Akola Thompson of Tammùke Feminists!

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SPEAKER: TAMÙKKE FEMINISTS

AKOLA THOMPSON
Akola is a writer and researcher rooted in Black-Indigenous Caribbean feminism, bridging activism and scholarship to advance gender equality. She currently serves as Managing Director of Tamùkke Feminists, a queer-led LBT+ collective in Guyana driving intersectional initiatives in sexual health and reproductive justice.
Her research explores the intersections of reproductive justice, extractivism, and environmental harm. A 2023 recipient of The Commonwealth Youth Award for Gender Equality, Akola has led impactful projects spanning LBT+ sex education, the creation of a GBV support guide app, Indigenous SRHR training manuals, and policy reform.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We will be hosting two speakers. First, our keynote speaker, Immaculata Casimero of the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement 👇🏾

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: IMMACULATA CASIMERO

Immaculata Casimero is a Wapichan woman from South Rupununi and an advocate for Indigenous rights, women’s leadership, and community-led development in Wapichan Wiizi. She co-founded the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement and is the Gender Affairs Officer of the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC).
Her work includes addressing sexual and gender-based violence, supporting women’s livelihoods, and responding to the impacts of climate change. She also supports efforts to strengthen food sovereignty, protect traditional knowledge, and ensure village voices shape the decisions that affect their lands, health, and future.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📍This webinar will center Indigenous women and movements in Guyana and the responsibilities of other Caribbean feminists across race, ethnic, and gender differences in relation to them during our current political structure of imperial crisis.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We, at Intersect, are thrilled to announce our upcoming webinar, “Indigenous Feminisms Against Imperialism: Testimonies from the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement in Guyana” 🇬🇾✊🏽❤️ 🌾 Register here: forms.gle/2XWyddo1yKnE...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda presents
INDIGENOUS CARIBBEAN FEMINISMS AGAINST IMPERIALISM: Testimonies from the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement in Guyana
with IMMACULATA CASIMERO

via Zoom
on October 8th
at 2:30 PM AST

Register via the QR code in this image

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We need @amightygirl.com to move here full time. Here's an excellent post by them about the development of the pertussis vaccine, aka 'whooping cough.' It is such a great story, and @aetiology.bsky.social is writing a book on the topic. www.facebook.com/share/p/1DPb...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Overwhelmingly: white, male, STEM. Dishonourable Mention: East and SouthAsian names; Hindutva-oriented ethnonationalists, also male.

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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

16 months ago: Never forget how it started.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have you registered for our upcoming Prideful Healing session with Karlyn Percil as yet? 📅 : Thursday 27 August ⏰ : 6 PM AST/ET 📍: Zoom 🌀 Register here: forms.gle/PUNmUojw1KWF...

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ANCESTRAL WISDOM AS SOMATIC PRACTICE
About the Session
By KARLYN PERCIL

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Nic (laudatory) @nicweyand.com · 29/07/2026

"Gender studies isn't a real degree! Also, what is a woman?"

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Arday found dead and a very large number of British commentators are deleting posts and videos.

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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yes. They hounded him to death. Days and days of breathless undoing. Damn them all.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.

PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
Bruno Brown, Reporter

Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Never forget that the clowns who are currently saying “we can’t stop climate change, just accept it” are the same people who spent the last decade doing everything possible to prevent us from stopping climate change.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

in solidarity with Dr. Ivan Chaar Lopez, a humanist who works on militarization and surveillance and the US Mexico border, denied at UT Austin this spring as amazing humanities programs are gutted and this nonsense funded instead

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

devastated at the total annihilation of feminist media and independent publishing. We need these ideas now more than ever. In my book, The Future That Was, I document how feminists seized the means of knowledge, creating infrastructures for feminist ideas, like the feminist book fairs of the 80s/90s

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 08/08/2026

My feed is now just THE ODYSSEY and I'm not complaining.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We, at Intersect, are elated to invite you to our next Prideful Healing session guided by Karlyn Percil, titled “Culturally Well: Ancestral Wisdom as a Somatic Practice for Uncertain Times” ✨💙🌀 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/PUNmUojw1KWF...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Registration Link for the Toronto launch. September 15, 2026. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. Come out. Join us! www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-of-...

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Launch of THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON

Join us for the launch of The Practicing Refusal Collective's THINKING FROM BLACK: A LEXICON.

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Sarah @wadadlifeminist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another brilliant interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Loved his discussion around the 45-min mark on the blame placed on undecided voters re: Kamala Harris.

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Is America The Bad Guy? with Ta-Nehisi Coates

YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 07/08/2026

ICYMI: Award-winning novelist Yu Miri, a Zainichi Korean born and raised in Japan, met a wave of online abuse after criticizing anti-foreigner politics. Critics said her heritage disqualified her from speaking up, reigniting a debate over who counts as Japanese.

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Award-Winning Author Yu Miri Harassed Online After Criticizing Japanese Government

Yu Miri is one of Japan's most celebrated authors. Yet some feel that, due to her background, she has no right to criticize the country.

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Sarah @wadadlifeminist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Nolan shot the Calypso episodes in the disputed Moroccan-occupied territory of Western Sahara without the consent of the Indigenous Sahrawi people. The choice underlines the lack of seriousness in Nolan’s thinking about his themes: the ethical & cultural costs of entering other people’s homes..." +

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Sarah @wadadlifeminist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“Let me say what sorcery is not: it is not divine power, which comes with a thought and a blink. It must be made and worked, planned and searched out, dug up, dried, chopped, and ground, cooked, spoken over and sung.” Finished re-reading the beautifully-written #Circe by Madeline Miller.

A Folio Society special edition of the novel, Circe, by Madeline Miller. Circe is wearing a flowing blue and belted robe. She is standing on the verdant island of Aiaia. Her left hand holds on to the wrist of her right. Helios is glowingly suspended behind the island's tallest peak. Circe is looking up and out into the distance.

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Sarah @wadadlifeminist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"If we can't have harsh criticism of the most powerful filmmaker in Hollywood, then we've lost the plot." - Angelica Jade Bastién

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here's a recommended book-list-interview, for a UK publication. For everyone who has had enough of discourse (as I certainly have): it has a tiny mention of Nolan as the hook, but then we move on to some reading. www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/emil...

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‘Homer Is For Everyone’: How Emily Wilson Elucidates & Obfuscates In Equal Measure

Classicist Emily Wilson has made headlines in recent weeks for slating Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey – for which the director,

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This grotesque headline is from the Telegraph. 3,000 people in Britain have been killed in heatwaves this year so far. 20,000 in Europe. Even if Britain did get to “embrace Mediterranean life”, what about the actual Mediterranean, what do they get to embrace? What about India?

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 31/07/2026

Only a fraction of books published in Japan make it into translation. Per the Publisher's Weekly Translation Database, just 24 Japanese books were published in English in 2019, excluding manga and light novels. That same year, Japan published 71,000 books.

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Which Japanese Books Get Left Out of Translation? - Unseen Japan

There are more Japanese books being made available in English every year. Still, only a small portion of them get translated.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My piece contextualizes and analyzes the reality of a de facto Israeli policy of sexual torture, which has long been documented and substantiated by human rights groups monitoring anti-Palestinian violence, e.g. the Palestinian Feminist Collective, author of the recent report "A Predatory State."

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.

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