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Persis Taraporevala
@persistara.bsky.social
Human geographer.
Government. Rights. Data.
Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.
To cross border love, friendship, and solidarity. To limits to the amount of messages uncles can forward on WhatsApp.
May 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Reposted by Persis Taraporevala
‘Religious doctrine cannot serve as the basis for scientific research or state policy. But that is what is happening in this executive order.’

Judith Butler on Trump’s anti-trans and anti-protest policies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Not me stressed and disassociating while undergoing mandatory training and having to relive my own experiences of racial and gendered violence through training videos. TRAINING IS IMPORTANT but can it be BETTER?
April 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@nabmed.bsky.social's new article with IJURR is out! Read INFRASTRUCTURE AS TERRITORIAL STIGMA: Labour Migrant Exclusions in the Indian City here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #geography #infrastructure #migration
INFRASTRUCTURE AS TERRITORIAL STIGMA: Labour Migrant Exclusions in the Indian City
The city as an exclusionary place for migrants is widely established across global literatures. Global cities—and the infrastructures that animate them—share practices of surveillance and bordering, ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM