Durba Mitra

My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is out this September!

Available to pre-order now from all good bookshops and online.

In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago

Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws

Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽

In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago

Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws

Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽

as I write about in The Future That Was, feminists teach us what it means to stand against war.

"For more than 110 years, WILPF has warned that militarism is not a response to insecurity—it is one of its root causes." March 2, 2026

www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Cooking and Culture: A Conversation with Priya Krishna | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Priya Krishna will share her experiences as a cookbook author, food writer, and video host in a wide-ranging discussion with Durba Mitra.

At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...

The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.

In The Future That Was, @durba.bsky.social offers a pathbreaking account of how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism & imagine a future freer than our present.

Out March 17 (12 May UK pub):
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#History

the finding aid for the Madhur Jaffrey collection is here: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/sch0...

thank you to Madhur Jaffrey's family, especially her daughters, for this collaboration to preserve her extraordinary work and life

Cooking and Culture: A Conversation with Priya Krishna | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Priya Krishna will share her experiences as a cookbook author, food writer, and video host in a wide-ranging discussion with Durba Mitra.

At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...

I had the absolute honour of having @saranahmed.bsky.social on Books Up Close! We talk about her new book, No is Not a Lonely Utterance. Listen wherever you get your shows! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

"As feminists who mobilise for peace and freedom in the face of militarism and state violence, we reject the framing that yet another war can deliver liberation for women or for any people."

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...

as I write about in The Future That Was, feminists teach us what it means to stand against war.

"For more than 110 years, WILPF has warned that militarism is not a response to insecurity—it is one of its root causes." March 2, 2026

www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"As feminists who mobilise for peace and freedom in the face of militarism and state violence, we reject the framing that yet another war can deliver liberation for women or for any people."

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

thinking of all the people desperately trying to survive and find shelter right now.

thinking of all the people desperately trying to survive and find shelter right now.

Really necessary set of essay about this moment:

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192

thank you for writing this important piece @visualizingbroadway.com

How Many Women Teach in FAS? Harvard Won’t Say. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Nothing has changed in the composition of Harvard’s faculty to justify abandoning our commitment to racial diversity. The gender ratio in FAS does not suddenly warrant eliminating a modest seminar pre...

"Rather than oppose the government’s assault on diversity, Harvard’s leadership — following advice from the Office of General Counsel — orders us to do the regime’s work for them. Meanwhile, peer institutions suffer direct attacks from increasingly authoritarian state and federal governments."

It's out! @scottsvisor.bsky.social has a great book that you should order RN from @dukepress.bsky.social ! www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...

www.law.columbia.edu/events/book-...

50 Years of The Scholar and Feminist Conference at Barnard College

Shah Alam was a lawful refugee who arrived on Christmas Eve 2024. He was jailed for a YEAR after police tasered and arrested him over a curtain rod he used as a walking stick. He couldn’t understand their English commands. He was blind.

Border Patrol dropped a blind Rohingya refugee at a Tim Hortons 5 miles from his home on a freezing February night. Didn’t call his family. Didn’t call his lawyer.

Five days later, Nurul Amin Shah Alam was found dead on a Buffalo sidewalk. He was 56.

#Accountability

Wow. Ellie Aghayeva — the Columbia student detained by ICE this morning — has been released and posted this on her Instagram.

Comes after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed his concern on the arrest to Trump in a meeting just earlier.

In conversation with @laprofelgp.bsky.social and Chandra Mohanty, Labyrinth Book Store, Princeton NJ March 26th @ 6 PM

the cruelty and inhumanity of ICE this is unbearable to read