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Have you always wanted to start an online social justice platform but didn't know how? Are you interested in critically examining the way feminist movements use the social media landscape?
Join our latest online course 'How To: Build a Feminist Internet' with @gamla_nahi_vase!
ALT How to: Build a Feminist Internet Five week online course 30th July - 27th August Saturdays 5-7 pm IST Riddhima Sharma Doctoral Candidate, Bowling Green State University
Register here: forms.gle/5nuLWgQge3MrMRRb9
Rs. 1500 for 5 weeks. Scholarship seats available. Write to us at [email protected]
#feministdigitalmedia #feministinternet
Looking forward to an exciting few weeks of learning how to build a feminist Internet!
Stoked to collaborate with @academicish to teach this very exciting course.
Head over to this link to learn more & sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Feel free to reach out with questions and please RT for reach❤️
#FeministInternet #Course @AcademicChatter
#FeministTwitter
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Shruti Tharayil documents the revival of an Ezhava tradition in her home — the cooking of pork curry on the eve of Vishu — one that was nearly wiped out in the process of Sanskritisation, the struggle to be free of caste. goya.in/blog/panni-erachi-cu…
We're discussing Space this month! From urban to rural, from space-time to outer space + the intersection of #caste, gender, violence & tech w space & place.
Link in bio!
#urbangeography #feministgeography #urbananthropology #urbanstudies #indiangeography
ALT Week 71 - 10th April, 2022, 5 pm IST Smell Spaces - Cartography of Caste Week 72 - 17th April, 2022, 5 pm IST Gendered Time, Speed & Space Week 73 - 24th April, 2022, 5 pm IST Tech-bros in Outer Space
We end the month with a reading on Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, techno-optimism, and the colonialist expansion ventures into Outer Space
#spacetravel
In cognisance of #DalitHistoryMonth , ALL the proceeds from this month's sessions will be directed to artists and creators from Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi communities. Register through link in bio, or click below!
forms.gle/YUMBXuZpuLRGEPq2A
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Through Nalini Jameela's autobiography, The Autobiography of a Sex Worker, C. Sathyamala (@erasmusuni) & Ritu Priya (@JNU_official_50) explore her entry into sex work as an occupation, as well as the wider implications of the book in the society.
Read:doi.org/10.1177/097325860600…
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Is a different world possible?
The #Kurdish Movement shows us that it is.
We're joined this Saturday with a speaker from the movt for a discussion on its history + its founding principles of rad democracy, pluralism, feminism & ecology. Register now:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
ALT Rojava's Alternative: Kurdish Resistance Against State, Capitalism and Patriarchy 26th March, Saturday 5-7 pm IST Online event
Is a different world possible?
The #Kurdish Movement shows us that it is.
We're joined this Saturday with a speaker from the movt for a discussion on its history + its founding principles of rad democracy, pluralism, feminism & ecology. Register now:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
ALT Rojava's Alternative: Kurdish Resistance Against State, Capitalism and Patriarchy 26th March, Saturday 5-7 pm IST Online event
Join us this Sunday as @meenal_tatpati discusses conservation policies, laws and practices based on her work in Rajasthan!
Registration link - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
#tigerconservation #kumbhalgarh #internationaldayofforests
Doing something this Sunday with @academicish exploring Protected Areas, expansion and the myth of tiger conservation in Kumbhalgarh, Rajasthan.
Here is the link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
@ICCAConsortium
@ForestRightsAct @IlseKohler
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Five years ago, Ganesh Birua was the first on his village in Odissa to hop online. He couldn't find the script of his mother tongue, the Adivasi language Ho, anywhere. So he made it his mission to bring his language into the digital age.
scroll.in/magazine/1017132/m…
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This @thewire_in piece on perfumery & #perfume workers in #India, analyzed through the lens of #labour, #caste & #colonialism by @LanzilloAmanda & @arun_historian is a fantastic read. I loved it.
thewire.in/history/perfume-w…
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Community health
In d late 1960s, when Indira Gandhi was in her first term & the US was preparin to send humans to moon, Mabelle Arole & Rajanikant Arole decided to show the world how "Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale."
A thread: Today is the #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay. On 27 January 1945, the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army. But did you know the effects of the Holocaust reached areas of the Global South as well?