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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri
@rishie.bsky.social
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feminist #abortion & reproductive (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. co-runs @abortionbookclub.bsky.social. Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social.

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I'll always find the literal-ness of Indian medicines manufacturing both hilarious and deeply practical.
an image of a medicines blister pack - the front reads "anti preg kit", and the back reads ,"mifepristone and misprostol kit", with "antipreg kit' below it, and 'antipreg kit' in hindi next to it (on the right). It then details what the kit contains, and issues a use-warning.
August 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This is one of my all-time faves.

we're hoping to do a few more of these - let us know if you'd like to hang out and think about what *other* stories we can tell about abortion.

4/4
a blue piece of (folder) paper that reads (in purple) "I just want to say if you've had an abortion i love you & so do all my mates". There are four hearts scribbled near the corners.
June 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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bloody hell. abortion stigma + shame x racist governance x imperialism x horrifying, traumatising ‘care’ from the state
A screenshot from the article. It reads: “When Keira became pregnant with Zammi, she decided to inform Thisted municipality in the hope of working together to ensure she could keep her once she was born. She was nervous going to the doctor, because she says she had previously been given the ultimatum either to have an abortion or face the baby being taken away after the birth. She agreed to undergo another parenting competency test in an attempt to cooperate. But in the session, the psychologist brought up her previous abortions and asked her to show her parenting skills by playing, singing and talking with a doll, checking whether she made eye contact. “The problem is, I didn’t grow up with a doll,” she says, adding that her real baby, Zammi, was busy kicking in her stomach. “They made me draw and they were criticising it, that I didn’t draw a face. I drew a mum and baby.”
June 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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in a recent dissertation meeting (via Teams) with my student, i allowed them to use the live transcribe function to aid notetaking. i looked at it to create notes for our required "documentation" - the "AI" censors the word abortion!
a screenshot of one person's words from a transcript, which had a pink box to redact text. It reads: "And taht in this one question you are dealing [REDACTED] saying about ********? Right, and the second part of it was, how is it reflective?"
June 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thanks, Pauline Milani & Marlyse DeBurgh, for inviting me to a workshop on "Fighting for our reproductive freedom'.

Apart from work w/ @luberropizzarossa.bsky.social on transgressions/cacophonies, I'll be presenting (for the first time!) on my new project on abortion criminalisation in GB.
a screenshot of a powerpoint slide - black background, white heading that reads 'any poison or other noxious thing'. on the left, a blue circle with 5 pills - 1 mifepristone, 4 misoprostol. on the right, two headings from newspapers. the first reads, ''Deeply sinister': Police testing women who have miscarriages for abortion drugs', and the second one reads, 'British police testing women for abortion drugs'.
April 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Congratulations, Professor @tizianaleone.bsky.social! Tiziana’s professorial lecture was wonderful, joyous, celebratory, funny, & thought-provoking. 1/
Picture is of a stage with a PowerPoint presentation slide projected on the left-hand side (pink background, text in a jagged box reads ‘data geek’), with Tiziana Leone (brown blazer, black trousers, white shirt) seated on the right.
March 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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And (2) this is me at my last UN Commission and Population and Development (2014) with the lovely Nayeli- we’d just addressed member states as part of a debate on ICPD.

Clearly, I’ve been stewing over this for years.
Two young women sitting down with shoulder length hair, smiling at the camera. Their names (Rishita Nandagiri on the left, Nayeli Yoval on the right) are displayed. There are a lot of people in the background.
February 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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ballots for the UCU NEC, Trustees, and Officers have turned up. no matter who you vote for, please vote. yesterday’s news from Cardiff is sitting heavy; on top of all the blows we’ve taken the last few years & we need a strong, organised union. #ucu
while envelope on a table, the bottom reads ‘UCU (university and college union). Important ballot paper enclosed: please use your vote’
January 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I went to the excellent blossom book house (my old stomping grounds) with the express purpose of getting a copy of Neha Dixit’s debut book. I’ve been following & learning from Neha’a reportage for a while & I can’t wait to get stuck in.
Picture of a beige book with images along the sides of (top right, clockwise): a hinge, pliers the top of a football, a screwdriver, blue thread and a door knob). The title is ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X: the story of an unknown Indian’ and the book is by Neha Dixit.
December 13, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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lol sure he did
Screenshot of my notifications that says ‘Channing Tatum liked your post’. The post was an old advert for a new grant I have to study abortion pills ‘testing’ in Great Britain
December 5, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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last lecture-seminar of term ✅
barely-clinging-on exhaustion ✅
sleepless✅
south asian woman with shoulder length dark hair & blue glasses gazing into the camera. She is wearing over-ear headphones on her head, & a green shirt with a white fuzzy jumper & a red lanyard.
December 3, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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what a deeply impoverished view of feminist solidarity.

transnational feminist solidarity & organising has & will always exist- no matter who is in power in the US. to truly understand it, it begins with de-centring white, liberal, Western feminism. 1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Text excerpt reads: And it became even harder to hold on to the rhetoric of global women’s solidarity once western women became helpless witnesses to the conflict in Gaza. While US-made bombs fall on women and children, it’s hard to imagine marching for American women’s freedoms.
December 2, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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From India' DHS/NFHS-3 questionnaire - does not disaggretate responses for abortion, stillbirth, miscarriage (all very different & require delination for any meaningful analysis).

It does not go on to differentiate either. The full questionnaire is here: dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/fri...
November 20, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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‼️new Lucíta Nandarossa just dropped‼️
"#Abortion debt: revolutionary acts and reclamations of care" - in this, Dr Lucía Berro Pizzarossa & I explore "abortion debt" in different registers - what happens when abortion is a "debt of democracy"? 1/

blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/11/08/a...
November 8, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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A related piece that furthers this argument is this piece we published last year, challenging how SMA as "transgressions" is framed: doi.org/10.1016/j.ws...

TL;DR? Become Ungovernable. (image by v.steiner on Instagram). 3/3
October 3, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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I just finished reading Cavallero and Gago’s ‘A Feminist Reading of Debt’- a slim but blistering text. Cavallero and Gago, drawing on years of feminist thinking on debt, link global/national debt to the household (& vice versa); 1/
Image shows a bright pink book with white and blue boxes of text: A Feminist Reading of Debt by Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago. The top right corner has a black circle with text that reads: Winner English PEN Award. On the left hand side of the book is a black ruler and a colourful pencil.
September 9, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Apple TV is lying to me- only one episode is out 😭😭😭😭
September 6, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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I’m trying to read & learn for ‘not work’- finally picking this up after nearly two years on my bookshelf
December 6, 2023 at 11:00 AM
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made it through another teaching term (yesterday).
in the foreground, a mug with the initial ‘R’. In the background, a bespectacled; dark haired woman looks very tired.
December 6, 2023 at 10:28 AM
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I’m bringing out my stash of abortion & repro ‘zines, and a tonne of stationery (more coming, including glittery pens!) - we have 12 tickets (online & in person) left! Come hang out, #abortion nerds!

www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...?
Picture shows a stack of colourful stationery (paper, post-it notes), scissors and staplers, and some ‘zines (‘yo aborté’, ‘brick: a ‘zine about abortion’, ‘femaculate conception’) on a table
November 8, 2023 at 6:51 PM
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whoever recommended this (& I know it was one of youse on here), thanks for the tears this monday morning
October 30, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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October 29, 2023 at 6:52 PM
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me when students you taught in their first year of undergrad (part COVID affected) write to tell you their progress (& request a reference):
October 11, 2023 at 1:57 PM
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get you a saturday morning start
Picture shows a 45kg weighted barbell sitting on plates (block deadlift) and peach converse shoes next to them
September 30, 2023 at 7:50 AM
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abortions are common, abortions are life changing, abortions are life saving, abortions are acts of care, abortions enable life & living, abortions are profound acts of love.

support abortions, no equivocation; no conditionalities; no stigma.

#Sept28 #SafeAbortionDay
image shows a collection of abortion/feminism related posters and stickers. it centres a coloured in sketch of a religious figure (suggesting Mary) who is depicted as providing abortion pills. Two stickers are on the right: (1) ‘anti-fascist, pro-abortion)’ & (2) ‘queer witches for abortion’. On the left are partial stickers/images including an image of Savitribai Phule with the alphabet T in the background (‘T for Theory’)
September 28, 2023 at 7:55 AM