Sandeep Bakshi
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He/They.
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Sandeep Bakshi
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
· Mar 16
Hi, new followers! Welcome.
Expect queer & decolonial studies discourse, coloniality of curriculum debates, commentary on current events esp. India, UK, France, Aus - origin/fam/residence. And US.
My reads, food & scarves.
Receive flak from several constituencies. No hate-follows pls; I don't. Ta!
Expect queer & decolonial studies discourse, coloniality of curriculum debates, commentary on current events esp. India, UK, France, Aus - origin/fam/residence. And US.
My reads, food & scarves.
Receive flak from several constituencies. No hate-follows pls; I don't. Ta!
Lovely vegan dinner hosted by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social of Inn Peace. Great company.
It’s Christmas already in Innsbruck.
It’s Christmas already in Innsbruck.
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Lovely vegan dinner hosted by @sladjanalazic.bsky.social of Inn Peace. Great company.
It’s Christmas already in Innsbruck.
It’s Christmas already in Innsbruck.
In Innsbruck for the talk tomorrow. It’s cold - am glad I covered up. The Alps ranges are snow capped in the background. There are Christmas markets.
Come if you around tomorrow.
www.uibk.ac.at/en/peacestud...
Come if you around tomorrow.
www.uibk.ac.at/en/peacestud...
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In Innsbruck for the talk tomorrow. It’s cold - am glad I covered up. The Alps ranges are snow capped in the background. There are Christmas markets.
Come if you around tomorrow.
www.uibk.ac.at/en/peacestud...
Come if you around tomorrow.
www.uibk.ac.at/en/peacestud...
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Yo la famille, si vous voulez nous rejoindre dans la lutte contre le racisme environnemental et pour une écologie décoloniale, on vous attend à Paris le we du 22/23 novembre pour découvrir le Collectif Vietnam-Dioxine, nos actions, nos réflexions et nos modes d'action.
Déroule ma poule 🧵👇🏼
Déroule ma poule 🧵👇🏼
Envie de lutter contre Monsanto et cie et pour les victimes de l'agent orange ? De faire pencher le rapport de forces pour que Trần Tố Nga puisse remporter son procès contre 14 multinationales de l'agrochimie ? De militer pour une écologie décoloniale ?
J-12 ! 🔽
J-12 ! 🔽
[WE DE RENTREE]
Les 22 et 23 novembre, c’est la rentrée du Collectif Vietnam Dioxine ! Comme chaque année, nous organisons un WE pour réfléchir ensemble aux actions passées et à venir du collectif (procès en cassation).
L'occasion aussi d'accueillir les nouveaux membres !
Les 22 et 23 novembre, c’est la rentrée du Collectif Vietnam Dioxine ! Comme chaque année, nous organisons un WE pour réfléchir ensemble aux actions passées et à venir du collectif (procès en cassation).
L'occasion aussi d'accueillir les nouveaux membres !
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Yo la famille, si vous voulez nous rejoindre dans la lutte contre le racisme environnemental et pour une écologie décoloniale, on vous attend à Paris le we du 22/23 novembre pour découvrir le Collectif Vietnam-Dioxine, nos actions, nos réflexions et nos modes d'action.
Déroule ma poule 🧵👇🏼
Déroule ma poule 🧵👇🏼
Amazing event in Marseille. Allez les personnes francophones - cet évènement va être superbe.
I can’t make it as am travelling.
The lesbian group, Groupe du 6 novembre, was a fabulous migrant lesbian group in France.
They didn’t allow the comfort of their silence to those who silenced them.
I can’t make it as am travelling.
The lesbian group, Groupe du 6 novembre, was a fabulous migrant lesbian group in France.
They didn’t allow the comfort of their silence to those who silenced them.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Amazing event in Marseille. Allez les personnes francophones - cet évènement va être superbe.
I can’t make it as am travelling.
The lesbian group, Groupe du 6 novembre, was a fabulous migrant lesbian group in France.
They didn’t allow the comfort of their silence to those who silenced them.
I can’t make it as am travelling.
The lesbian group, Groupe du 6 novembre, was a fabulous migrant lesbian group in France.
They didn’t allow the comfort of their silence to those who silenced them.
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The French police is very violent.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The French police is very violent.
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Gaza is now drowning from the intensity of rain, and people are screaming in tents.😥
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Gaza is now drowning from the intensity of rain, and people are screaming in tents.😥
Sometimes the reactions aren’t what we expect. There’s a viral video of white women tourists dancing to Aarti, a Hindu prayer, on the banks of Ganga - a place of worship. Initially, several reactions underscored cultural appreciation & its expression through dance and joy. 1/2
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Sometimes the reactions aren’t what we expect. There’s a viral video of white women tourists dancing to Aarti, a Hindu prayer, on the banks of Ganga - a place of worship. Initially, several reactions underscored cultural appreciation & its expression through dance and joy. 1/2
I will not show visuals of Abu Ghraib or the numerous images of our genocidal times in my talks:
I refrain from showing visuals of degrading images in an effort not to re-enact the violence of sexual humiliation, of sexual assault, & rape. The ear is fully able to register the sexual violence 1/2
I refrain from showing visuals of degrading images in an effort not to re-enact the violence of sexual humiliation, of sexual assault, & rape. The ear is fully able to register the sexual violence 1/2
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I will not show visuals of Abu Ghraib or the numerous images of our genocidal times in my talks:
I refrain from showing visuals of degrading images in an effort not to re-enact the violence of sexual humiliation, of sexual assault, & rape. The ear is fully able to register the sexual violence 1/2
I refrain from showing visuals of degrading images in an effort not to re-enact the violence of sexual humiliation, of sexual assault, & rape. The ear is fully able to register the sexual violence 1/2
Going forward, below is how I'll intro myself in presentations:
My curent research lies in the entanglements of queer & decolonial theorisation with a sustained interest in History of the Present (Hall/Foucault), which allows us to offer a diagnosis of literatures, cultures & 1/2
My curent research lies in the entanglements of queer & decolonial theorisation with a sustained interest in History of the Present (Hall/Foucault), which allows us to offer a diagnosis of literatures, cultures & 1/2
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Going forward, below is how I'll intro myself in presentations:
My curent research lies in the entanglements of queer & decolonial theorisation with a sustained interest in History of the Present (Hall/Foucault), which allows us to offer a diagnosis of literatures, cultures & 1/2
My curent research lies in the entanglements of queer & decolonial theorisation with a sustained interest in History of the Present (Hall/Foucault), which allows us to offer a diagnosis of literatures, cultures & 1/2
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From: Michael Wolff
Sent: 12/11/2017 4:57:12 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
And they won't be the last. My buddy, Lorin Stein, who runs the Paris Review--the Paris Review for god's
sake!--just went down. The 80-year-old father of my friend Rachel Horovitz--the playright Israel Horovitz--
whacked. Big names on the horizon: Michael Douglas, Larry Gagosian, and still my favorite, Arthur
Sulzberger.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:52 PM, jeffrey E. wrote:
Strange time I have two more friends up to bat
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:47 PM Michael Wolff < > wrote:
Looks like I can't get away. But will be back in NYC on Sunday. Let me know when you're back too. I have a
bad feeling about this new Woody round. It could pull him into the general Harvey pool of the despised and
shunned. Clearly what Ronan and company are hoping for. I think Bannon may be right. This is not going to
end until Trump goes down.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:12 PM, jeffrey E. wrote:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/10/glenn-simpsons-fusion-gps-ran-donald-trump-smear-c/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbu3jm5avyltrl6mdl3ig2qv/bafkreiggsciykd7tgjs5seh52zzb2gmyugwsvob534n6cnzzfztklvpmge@jpeg)
Memory studies scholar, Michael Rothberg, adeptly deploys an analytic forged in another discipline (activism, law, sociology). Known for conceptualising the helpful frame of 'multidirectional memory' (2009), his 2019 book reads 'implicated subject' through lens of Black feminism & intersectionality.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Memory studies scholar, Michael Rothberg, adeptly deploys an analytic forged in another discipline (activism, law, sociology). Known for conceptualising the helpful frame of 'multidirectional memory' (2009), his 2019 book reads 'implicated subject' through lens of Black feminism & intersectionality.
Dismantle the police, esp French police. He could have killed her!!!
It’s almost always Black/POC populations who are brutalised in this obnoxious way by the French police — using other racialised folks in this case. It is horrifying!
Public transit should be free!
Our silence will not protect us.
It’s almost always Black/POC populations who are brutalised in this obnoxious way by the French police — using other racialised folks in this case. It is horrifying!
Public transit should be free!
Our silence will not protect us.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Dismantle the police, esp French police. He could have killed her!!!
It’s almost always Black/POC populations who are brutalised in this obnoxious way by the French police — using other racialised folks in this case. It is horrifying!
Public transit should be free!
Our silence will not protect us.
It’s almost always Black/POC populations who are brutalised in this obnoxious way by the French police — using other racialised folks in this case. It is horrifying!
Public transit should be free!
Our silence will not protect us.
The Epstein-Maxwell-Brunel sex trafficking web of minor girls is revelatory of the ease w/ which capital & white bodies cross borders. There’s always an element of anxiety attached to BIPOC bodies, despite some having global north passports.
And, of how women can undergird the most egregious crimes.
And, of how women can undergird the most egregious crimes.
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Epstein-Maxwell-Brunel sex trafficking web of minor girls is revelatory of the ease w/ which capital & white bodies cross borders. There’s always an element of anxiety attached to BIPOC bodies, despite some having global north passports.
And, of how women can undergird the most egregious crimes.
And, of how women can undergird the most egregious crimes.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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Not seeing this being referred to as a white male grooming gang, which it is.
This article is utterly damning for the New York Times and also for Vanity Fair and ABC, whose editorial teams were apparently intimidated into silence by a mix of legal and violent threats. Virginia Giuffre did not stand a chance against all this.
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Not seeing this being referred to as a white male grooming gang, which it is.
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Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous activists storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding action
Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
If we let the Brits have their way, they'd trademark not just sub-jee (my partner doesn't even know what else to call it), but our own names will be subject to a fee we'd owe 'em. Looters! Wait; 'loot' is a Hindi word. Lemme be careful -thieves! Can't say 'thugs'; they stole it from the Raj as well.
Can you trademark a word as generic as “vegetable”? Good article on the debacle of Bloomsbury halting the release of Yasmin Khan’s Sabzi, following a threat by a deli of the same name who claimed the trademark. Literally a billion people use the word “sabzi” daily, common to more than one language.
A Cornish deli trademarked a word for vegetables – and all hell broke loose
When a Cornish deli claims to ‘own’ a Farsi word spoken by a billion people, and a book with the same name disappears from Amazon, something’s gone badly wrong. Hannah Twiggs asks what this latest fig...
www.the-independent.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
If we let the Brits have their way, they'd trademark not just sub-jee (my partner doesn't even know what else to call it), but our own names will be subject to a fee we'd owe 'em. Looters! Wait; 'loot' is a Hindi word. Lemme be careful -thieves! Can't say 'thugs'; they stole it from the Raj as well.
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If you're at all interested, Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin wrote the novel CALEB WILLIAMS, a kind of proto-thriller which is also about the unjustness of power structures. He wrote several other novels, but this is the only one that has remained more or less constantly in print.
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
If you're at all interested, Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin wrote the novel CALEB WILLIAMS, a kind of proto-thriller which is also about the unjustness of power structures. He wrote several other novels, but this is the only one that has remained more or less constantly in print.
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The media attacked trans folks calling them groomers and pedophiles. The Democrats attacked Mamdani. Both groups cooperated, collaborated with and/or capitulated to the Republicans as they struggled to bring about a new authoritarian white nationalist cryptochristian fascist state. Everyone's guilty
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The media attacked trans folks calling them groomers and pedophiles. The Democrats attacked Mamdani. Both groups cooperated, collaborated with and/or capitulated to the Republicans as they struggled to bring about a new authoritarian white nationalist cryptochristian fascist state. Everyone's guilty
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Comment ça "les 5 meilleures chansons" (?!), genre le mec est rappeur il a sorti des albums tourné des clips, mais pitié 😭
NYC vous méritez si fort purée.
(les sons sont trop cools je hurle)
NYC vous méritez si fort purée.
(les sons sont trop cools je hurle)
We need cool politicians! Seriously. Mamdani’s top 5 songs. Nani will soon become a common word as the west realises Indian languages have specific kinship terms (Nani, maternal grandma) for all relations.
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Comment ça "les 5 meilleures chansons" (?!), genre le mec est rappeur il a sorti des albums tourné des clips, mais pitié 😭
NYC vous méritez si fort purée.
(les sons sont trop cools je hurle)
NYC vous méritez si fort purée.
(les sons sont trop cools je hurle)
Week 6 vibe
Queer of Color Critique and Homonationalism
Queer of Color Critique and Homonationalism
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Week 6 vibe
Queer of Color Critique and Homonationalism
Queer of Color Critique and Homonationalism
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À la tête du Réseau de recherche sur le racisme et l'antisémitisme (RRA) qui a fait pression pour l'annulation du colloque sur la Palestine, Céline Masson : figure bien identifiée des milieux transphobes... 1/2 www.blast-info.fr/articles/202...
Colloque annulé au Collège de France : les manœuvres d’universitaires pro-Israël
L’interdiction du colloque « Palestine et Europe » qui devait se tenir au Collège de France les 13 et 14 novembre suscite de nombreuses réactions. Entre stupéfaction et dénégation, le temple du savoir...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Attendez…
C'est un rappeur ?!
C'est un rappeur ?!
We need cool politicians! Seriously. Mamdani’s top 5 songs. Nani will soon become a common word as the west realises Indian languages have specific kinship terms (Nani, maternal grandma) for all relations.
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Attendez…
C'est un rappeur ?!
C'est un rappeur ?!
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I stan any man who raps about being close with his grandma.
We need cool politicians! Seriously. Mamdani’s top 5 songs. Nani will soon become a common word as the west realises Indian languages have specific kinship terms (Nani, maternal grandma) for all relations.
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I stan any man who raps about being close with his grandma.
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#1 spice is definitely catchy. gujju love to zohran mamdani, man. i bet he’s the best raas partner.
We need cool politicians! Seriously. Mamdani’s top 5 songs. Nani will soon become a common word as the west realises Indian languages have specific kinship terms (Nani, maternal grandma) for all relations.
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
Bank of Baroda connects him to Gujarat, his father’s origin.
My fave is #1 Spice - so catchy!
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#1 spice is definitely catchy. gujju love to zohran mamdani, man. i bet he’s the best raas partner.