In recent days, protests have broken out across Iran condemning the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, at the hands of morality police. United in anger at police brutality and restrictive moral codes, Iranians are demanding freedom and an end to government repression:

Every free issue of In the Belly that we send to an imprisoned reader costs about $6-7 nowadays. Patreon funds go to postage, printing, and small commissary deposits for our comrades who take the risk of publishing their writing with us. Help us out 💛 patreon.com/inthebelly

Films Division shutting its doors today is unbearable to imagine from so afar. I recall my first visit to the FD headquarters when I spent days covered in dust in the FD library. In that dust there was so much, and now just dust remains of it. It is a sad day for Indian Cinema.

...and the IUIF Fellowship #Nov22 cohort is nearly done with its primary training! Over the last fortnight the Fellows attended an #immersioncamp in Udaipur, Rajasthan, where they made #audio, #video & #photographic media products as they worked with grassroots communities!

Johar! Stan Swamy's friends are initiating a fellowship in his name to keep his memory alive & to continue his work to defend human rights. We appeal to all friends & well-wishers to contribute to the Father Stan Swamy Fellowship for Human Rights Defenders. DM for a/c details.

Urgently required: 3 Donors (3 Units) with blood group of either B- and O- at Fortis Shalimar Bagh - New Delhi. pls call: 8586842659 if you or someone you know can donate a unit of blood. Thank you! #BloodDonation #URGENT

It is 8pm & 14 out of 32 protestors who came out in solidarity with women wrestlers & were picked up today from Janpath, are STILL DETAINED at Najafgarh PS! DCP New Delhi District Magistrate South Delhi Why this differential treatment btwn protestors? Why this late detention? #WrestlerProtest

presented a paper with my colleague Sumra on the performativity & everydayness in family vlogs at SMSI 2023 :))

Apoorva (Apoorva Saini) and I are excited to share citiesinfiction.com -a database that locates the literary landscape of India and South Asia. This website is for those who are interested in using fiction to teach and learn about the urban - cities, towns, and beyond.

The development at the Indraprastha College for Women comes a fortnight after DU-affiliated Satyawati (Evening) College controversially sacked six ad hoc Hindi teachers, five of whom had worked there for over a decade. telegraphindia.com/edugraph/delhi…

Hamza was killed by an Israeli airstrike.

Hi, looking to connect with women/non binary AI researchers working in the intersections of employment, labour and tech in India or South Asia for a podcast series. #Podcasts #Podcastrequest

A student from Canada gets to his studies by airplane to avoid rent

We are thrilled to invite you to the fourth seminar of the CSWG Graduate Seminar Series 2023-2024! We very much look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, 15th May! Please find the link here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociol…

I've lost count of number of academics who tell me, daughter of a cleaner & a builder, they are from a w/c background ony 2 discover they went 2 private school & both parents were well paid professionals,what they mean is their great granddad was a miner ft.com/content/25f95f…

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

"How do we love in a 2BHK?" Sarover Zaidi and Samprati Pani's 2019 essay on brutalism, essence, forms. chiraghdilli.com/2019/04/27/et-…