Just finished They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. This book literally deserves to be read in high school, college, & grad school because it lifts the veil off white women as damsel & distress when they were co-conspirators in slavery. 🧵

So, since no one (at least we Indian folks) can escape non-stop reels of the grand Indian wedding, I learned that Neeta Ambani never repeats a garment. So ... she is like Carrie Bradshaw, but the sanskari version?

Promoting nuanced conversations/debates about constitutional rights is very important for an informed polity. But this is not the spirit of the 'Emergency Day' that's been proposed. Let's have democratic discussions about issues that the youth face today, with a right to dissent.

Went to an industry-oriented green festival last week. There was a TED talk about why capitalism saves us 4m climate change through innovations, if gov. regulations are in place. As if those themselves weren't a result of a long legacy of anti-capitalist/environmental actions.

#Students are under attack in #Bangladesh. Indian student leader #UmarKhalid spends 1400 days in jail without trial. #Trump’s running mate #Vance says: “The #professors are the enemy.” Why such hatred for #academia? Why is neoliberal #state so afraid of the thinking minds?

This!

I watch a lot of sports debates and the fact that no one connects our 50% child malnutrition with our inability to produce world class athletes is forever staggering for me. There is no sports policy without universal adequate nutrition. Fixing this is the start of anything.

Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the

People are in a lot of pain, they want the death and destruction in Gaza to end, death and destruction our government is funding. This response is inappropriate and lacks empathy. People do not want Trump to win, they want the genocide to end.

I am looking forward to this online session on #millets and marginalization. Ever since Bill Gates 'discovered' millet as a wonder crop for #climatechange era, many of us have been apprehensive. I hope to learn more. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The Democratic National Convention held its first-ever panel on Palestinian rights Monday, including harrowing testimony from Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered at a hospital in Gaza earlier this year. "We have witnessed civilian massacre after civilian massacre," she said.

Seriously! The school year has just started and #Apalachee_High_School is already trending. And we all know why. How do we keep our children safe?

Men deciding to opt out of marriage if marital rape is criminalised is a huge win-win for the feminist movement.

Prof. Paik, the #Dalit MacAruther Genius this year is brilliant and a gentle person. It's heartbreaking to see her receive so much vitriol. Thank you Yashika Dutt for writing this. The heartless cruelty that comes with being a Dalit woman open.substack.com/pub/yashicadut…

Hivemind help: I'm teaching an undergraduate class on the politics of #biodiversityconservation & would like to assign films to watch/review to students during the week I away for a conference. I need films that are free to stream. Any suggestions? #AcademicTwitter

Hope Congress, TMC and all other major opposition parties learn that if you compromise your ideology and follow soft version of this or that, you don’t gain new constituency as you expect. Rather you lose your committed voters as they don’t feel encouraged to visit polling booth.

Just when I started to get the hang of Twitter/X, I see promising new skies in the horizon. Please find me and join me at @tapoja.bsky.social