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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 3h

so much more discourse about the compliance of Columbia, but the “agreements” of Penn & Brown set a dangerous precedent w relatively little push back, despite the fact that they ended free inquiry by legally mandating binary gender as an intellectual and spatial paradigm for university compliance

AAUP @aaup.org · 4h

“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.”

— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog

Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 7h

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/14/h...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 4h

“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.”

— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog

Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 7h

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/14/h...

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How the Trump Regime and the Media Killed Gender Studies

BY LAURIE ESSIG On Wednesday, October 1, the Department of Education sent nine universities a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The document asks universities to comply …

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6h

D’Angelo was one of the most widely revered artists of the past 30 years.

He began his career as a songwriter for other artists, but quickly asserted himself as a solo star with his 1995 debut 'Brown Sugar.'

More: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is the official publication date for “Essential Poems” by Pat Parker! I feel incredibly lucky to be celebrating the release in an event hosted by Sinister Wisdom featuring Cheryl Clarke, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and Alexis Bard Johnson. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Flyer for “Celebrating Essential Poems by Pat Parker.” The flyer has a purple background and features a photograph of Parker, the cover of the volume, and a photo of SaraEllen Strongman. The event will be Tuesday, October 14 at 8pm. Flyer text: “Edited by SaraEllen Strongman, Essential poems by Pat Parker gathers over thirty five poems by Parker and her iconic essay ‘Revolution: It’s not neat, pretty or quick.’ It is the perfect pocket edition for an introduction to Parker’s work. Join Sinister Wisdom to celebrate a new collection of Parker’s most beloved poems with readings of Parker’s poems by SaraEllen Strongman, Cheryl Clarke, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and a special presentation by Alexis Bard Johnson about Black lesbian archives at the One Archive. Moderated by Sinister Wisdom’s editor and publisher Julie Enszer.”

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 20h

"The University of Texas System is auditing gender studies courses in response to [new laws] which expand university control over curriculum & define gender in binary terms. Faculty report being told to avoid discussing gender identity and homosexuality..."
www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/t...

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader push to limit gender identity discussions

At least two community colleges, Alvin and Blinn, are also considering what they can and can’t teach to high schoolers enrolled in their fast-growing dual credit courses.

www.texastribune.org

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 7d

I will be at Harvard Boooookstore dreaming DRAG with our favorite Auntie Kareem Khubchandani on *Lessons in Drag* Nov 21

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 11d

see u there 🍪

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 11d

Via @jennifercnash.bsky.social
19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop

Registration is free.
The line-up is amazing:
Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland.
Sign up! See you in Durham in March.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 11d

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 12d

Here is the full document that universities are being asked to sign. It's well worth your time to read.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 12d

Here is the full document that universities are being asked to sign. It's well worth your time to read.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 13d

congratulations AAUP and to you Veena for your incredible leadership in this work

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 14d

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 16d

😂😂😂

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 16d

today’s walk

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 17d

so awful

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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

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

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

the cover evokes a long tradition of feminist iconography, especially from the 1970s and 1980s during the UN Year and Decade for Women, that uses the sun or the sunrise to symbolize the new horizons made possible by feminism (but without the beloved but complicated Linnaean symbol for woman)

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 18d

I am really pleased that *A Book of Conquest* (2016) is now available locally in Pakistan via Sang-e-Meel Publications!

Pakistani edition of *A Book of Conquest*

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

the cover evokes a long tradition of feminist iconography, especially from the 1970s and 1980s during the UN Year and Decade for Women, that uses the sun or the sunrise to symbolize the new horizons made possible by feminism (but without the beloved but complicated Linnaean symbol for woman)

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

thank you @marydudziak.bsky.social 💓

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18d

This is inspiring. Congratulations to @durba.bsky.social.

Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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

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

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 18d

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