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PhD student @ Northwestern U | interested in digital queer counterpublics, transnational queer publics, and more | either making food or art

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Guys i just joined my profs zoom meeting but he isnt there and his camera is switched on should i pretend to leave and come back

26.09.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day.

He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees.

Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm.

His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

08.04.2025 21:10 πŸ‘ 1687 πŸ” 942 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 57

I didn’t even know there were this many people in evantson

05.04.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel bad for people who live in places with temperate climates year-round. They will never know the pure joy of a 50-degree February day after a long, cold winter. Soak it up this week, fellow midwesterners.

25.02.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 317 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 5

Can anyone recommend readings for undergrads that explicit link the survival and flourishing of indigenous and non-western gender systems to material struggles over land, sovereignty and against colonialism?

13.02.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

12.02.2025 04:51 πŸ‘ 13950 πŸ” 1712 πŸ’¬ 212 πŸ“Œ 97

Its just me (out for a smoke) and the people walking their dogs in this snow storm

13.02.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhhh that makes sense, idk why I was thinking a really big bowl

10.02.2025 00:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wheezinggg 😭😭 not kendrick being a fan lol

10.02.2025 00:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wtf is a superbowl? πŸ‘€

10.02.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear β€œgrants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

β€œPausing” grants means people don’t eat.

28.01.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 43462 πŸ” 14404 πŸ’¬ 1583 πŸ“Œ 947

Performing the bare-est minimum function in R and feeling so accomplished. Only my fellow qual people will understand

25.01.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My first polar vortex i hate it here. Like what do you mean campus is not closed during -30 C weather????

20.01.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today and in the coming days, remember

20.01.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 39571 πŸ” 11858 πŸ’¬ 279 πŸ“Œ 276
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The overwhelming level of police and politicians here is not about making sure Luigi doesn’t escape, it’s about reassuring corporate America and scaring anyone who might consider copying what Luigi did. I think their strategy has backfired

20.12.2024 16:14 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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They got the surname wrong but lowkey I get it

12.12.2024 19:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great work in Punjabi language studies is on its way after Alyssa Ayres. "Paindoo: Punjabi as an Accent" by Prof. Iqra Cheema @cheema.bsky.social is a really promising start to what I hope will be a broader project on language, class, politics, and aesthetics.

12.12.2024 01:44 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sednaya prison outside of Damascus is called the human slaughterhouse. The things that I read happened there will never leave me. Just the absolute most twisted things a human can come up with.

The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.

08.12.2024 01:06 πŸ‘ 7889 πŸ” 1014 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 27

The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law…& the greater good…From there we understand the hostility of…authority towards these figures, & its use of the law…to…criminalize them.

β€”Basel al-Araj

07.12.2024 04:49 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

1 pm and already on my 5th espresso shot of the day. Exam week is going great πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸ½

06.12.2024 19:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Clarence Darrow: β€³I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."
This seems relevant recently.

05.12.2024 23:41 πŸ‘ 1529 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 5

Something about billionaires being afraid is so heartwarming

06.12.2024 14:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Third Sex β€œThe Gender Binary” is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy.

I think this essay is one of the most important essays re. gender theory ever written. I have been reading it over and over and I think you should all read it too (and support Talia's work).

taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...

06.12.2024 07:18 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide β€œWe will look back and say, β€˜Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

05.12.2024 00:04 πŸ‘ 2416 πŸ” 1194 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 58

Omg fuck the hand-wringing about people not finding the murder of the UHC CEO tragic. No, actually, we don't have to mourn the deaths of people who oversee the denial of our medical needs, who are also responsible for many, many deaths, all bc of their greed. STFU already.

04.12.2024 20:23 πŸ‘ 3313 πŸ” 604 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 53

whose idea were endnotes?

03.12.2024 18:11 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 10

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

04.12.2024 19:36 πŸ‘ 37319 πŸ” 7064 πŸ’¬ 563 πŸ“Œ 783
How I defeated Fascism With the Power of Love
by Luigi
Chapter 1: The Power of Love
The first step in my journey was realizing that it is impossible to defeat fascism with the power of love.
Chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence

How I defeated Fascism With the Power of Love by Luigi Chapter 1: The Power of Love The first step in my journey was realizing that it is impossible to defeat fascism with the power of love. Chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence

Violence is never the answer, until it is.

05.12.2024 12:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting sick AND depressed af 3 days before final submissions for the plot

06.12.2024 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The internet in Pakistan is fucked. Government-imposed firewalls stifle freedom of speech and expression, leaving people disconnected and silenced. Connectivity without VPNs is virtually non-existent, and now even the VPNs are starting to act up.

02.12.2024 17:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0