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Sneha Krishnan

2 months

Palestine isn't a Free Speech talking point. I write for @VersoBooks . Thanks to all the people who helped along the way

Defending Racist Speech Will Not Free Palestine

The cruelty and violence being meted out to the Palestinian people is, in this moment, spectacularly visible, as Israel’s genocide devastates Gaza, killing over thirty-five thousand since October...

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

19 days

My trade union, which includes many qualified scholars in public health, has voted in its NEC to reject the Cass Review because of its exceptionally shoddy methodology and overt transphobic bias. Has this Labour Party engaged with the unions on this issue? No.

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

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Cass Review found there is not enough evidence about the long-term impact of puberty blockers for gender incongruence to know whether they are safe or not, nor which children might benefit from them. The evidence should have been established before they were ever prescribed. 2/9

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Sneha Krishnan

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3 months

As a professor (albeit not at Barnard) all this looks like is a giant duty of care failure to me. Imagine putting a students schedule out like they’re a wanted person. This is how scared they are of young people’s political conviction.

maryam مريم🇵🇸🍁

@bluepashminas

3 months

aww barnard made their own “banned on campus” poster for me🥺fyi these are being circulated to front desks at all barnard dorms.

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Sneha Krishnan

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11 days

@lottelydia Also this is kind of ableist - congratulations on having a body that didn’t need a day off all year. What a message!

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Sneha Krishnan

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4 months

Cancer at 42 is terrifying but it’s also a good time to remember that *everyone* deserves timely, comprehensive healthcare, and enough leave to focus on their recovery when they go through this sort of thing. We need a better NHS and no more Thatcherite nonsense on disability

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

2 months

Markets supposedly "plunging" as Modi and his alliance win less big than predicted is proof of how much struggles against capital are connected to struggles against caste and the far right.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

4 months

A sex worker, using to advertise their services tagged me as a co-author. Their page advertises such services as "deep throated kiss", with my thesis as the unlikely bait. WHO is going to in the optimistic hope of finding sex?

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

4 months

Sakhi was radicalised through ISKCON - i.e. the Hare Krishnas, who people here in the UK often treat as benign spiritualists / a cult mostly dangerous to its members. This violent fascism is how we experience them in India.

Yes, We Exist 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

@YesWeExistIndia

4 months

Transgender person Hemangi Sakhi is contesting elections against PM Narendra Modi from Varanasi, on a Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) party ticket. She wants to demolish the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and Shahi Idgah mosque in Mathura and build Hindu temples in their place!

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Sneha Krishnan

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1 month

I have no interest in so-called women-only spaces that exclude trans women. And any LGBs and POC agreeing with this, particular shame on you - learn your own history. This is nothing other than the imperialism that has always been the bedrock of British women’s organising.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

1 month

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says that trans women should be banned from women-only spaces. Asked if trans women (even those with GRCs) have the right to use women's spaces, Starmer said: "No. They don’t have that right. They shouldn’t". (Via The Times)

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Sneha Krishnan

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1 year

I'd love to give talks about my book-in-progress. Invite me? I'm writing about girlhood, archives, and haunting in early C20 India. I have ghost stories, a riveting murder, and a wonderful queer romance to tell. I'm in India in October, UK otherwise, and US early 2024.

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Sneha Krishnan

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2 months

The INDIA alliance gains were led by Dalit candidates, and by workers who mobilised around Ambedkar’s constitution. People are done with fascist nationalism - there is faith again in a dream of justice, collectivity, and tricontinentalism today.

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Sneha Krishnan

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3 months

If, like me, you subjected yourself to that terrible Zadie Smith thing, read @stevesalaita 's excellent response to her spurious and defamatory claims about our courageous students

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Sneha Krishnan

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11 months

📢CFP @jake_hodder and I are co-editing a Special Issue of @JofHistGeog on 'Archives as Worldmaking'. Full call below. Email me and Jake your abstracts by Sept 30. Happy to answer any questions about this.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

3 months

This is irresponsible journalism. Visit any encampment and watch our students be nothing but civil as they protest a genocide. Jewish students are safe, and numerous in our midst. The only instance of threat we’ve had at Oxford came from outside

Madeleine Jane

@_MadeleineJane

3 months

Last night, around 8:50pm, the Oxford encampment was attacked by six men who arrived in a taxi. They ripped down banners, screamed at students and made threats. Protesters did not engage and de-escalators moved local community members away from the attackers. 1/

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Sneha Krishnan

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3 months

More than fifty members of Oxford's staff and faculty have already signed a letter in support of the @oxAct4Pal encampment. If you want to contribute too, please sign here. You can also see the list of signatories.

On the Oxford Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment

oxfordgazastaffsolidarity.wordpress.com

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

A lot of us do know that the majority of missionaries were women, and there’s a whole complex feminist scholarship about how they entrenched imperial practice. Who is the intended reader of this paper that is unaware of this historiography?

Bastian Becker

@beckerbastian

1 year

Christian missionaries were active throughout the colonial world, but few know that the majority of them were women.⛪️♀️ In a new @AfEconHis working paper, @FelixMzS1 and I explore their long-term legacy, in particular for gender equality.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

The Marxist dudebros really tell on themselves. Brown women really don't need Uday (or other Marxist dudebros reading) to save us from being "bedded" by anyone . The violent misogyny that emerges whenever these men are challenged is exhausting.

Srila Roy

@ProfSrilaRoy

1 year

This brown woman can vouch for @alfgunvald ‘s language skills and scholarship (maybe read a book first before deciding to review or not. Oh wait, facts don’t matter when you slander someone 🤷🏽‍♂️) On a serious note, this is why south Asian studies is such a toxic cesspit.

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Sneha Krishnan

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2 months

Long delayed by everything, here is at long last my piece for @geog_compass 'Towards a Historical Geography of Girlhood', in which I ask how the troubled category of girlhood lends itself to spatial and environmental thinking for historical scholars.

Towards a historical geography of girlhood

This paper makes an argument for a geography of girlhood, located at the intersection of historical geographies of globalisation and empire on the one hand, and feminist interventions in the geogra...

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

@DrJoGrady Jo if the Union is serious about migrants’ rights you cannot celebrate this uncritically. It is shameful that this is the way the government wants to fund public sector pay rises. What we should be doing is taxing the rich and we need to hear this Union say so.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Another hidden curriculum buster - The Book Proposal Book by @lportwoodstacer is doing a huge amount of work helping me clarify the big picture of my book which I’m hoping will stop being eternally in progress soon.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

22 days

Our Universities’ demands of “civility” from Palestine activists reiterates colonial racialised narratives that delegitimise anticolonial protest

Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

22 days

A talk on unchilding, scholasticide, and settler colonialism from @basma_hajir

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

2 years

My article on The YWCA in India and Sri Lanka, and the construction of ideal Christian girlhood in the early 20th century is out in Social History

Ideal girls for Christian internationalism: the YWCA in early twentieth-century South Asia

This article examines the role of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in constructing the terms of political engagement for young Christian women in South Asia. It focuses on a periodica...

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Now that I've signed a thing, I'm really excited to be starting this summer as an Editor of @GPCjournal . It feels like very big shoes to be stepping into.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

11 months

Monday morning reminder: Hinduphobia is casteism repackaged as decoloniality. If anything, colonialism has always romanticised Brahminical Hinduism, and upheld UC Indians as model POC. Hindu Nationalism is anything but decolonial, and is claiming victimhood to further casteism.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Every few months, I think about that white academic, who asked me a decade ago if I was sure I was getting a PhD because she'd never heard it called a DPhil before. I laughed and said well I'd know what degree I'm doing. And she said, well no you're prob getting scammed.

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Sneha Krishnan

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I wrote a short reflection on queer archiving for @cbonnerthompson and @ramsdenkarelse 's wonderful queer precarities special issues in @GPCjournal

Afterword: queering beyond queer theory

My comment addresses a theme in several of the papers in this collection that gestures to the limits of queer theory, as a body of scholarship developed mainly from within Euro-American feminist fr...

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

2 months

There are NO circumstances that ever justify this sort of police violence from any educational institution

Oxford Action for Palestine

@OxAct4Pal

2 months

Oxford police are continuing their violent assaults and arrests of peaceful protesters, here seen taking away a student on a stretcher.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Probation officially passed!

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

4 months

During the summer we (a) do the research that gets measured in REF (b) supervise masters and PhD students (c) catch up with teaching prep (d) attend conferences. We aren’t spending three months on a beach and THE knows what culture war it’s stoking by doing this.

Chris Havergal

@CHavergalTHE

4 months

Universities attempting radical restructures of academic year, pushing teaching into summer, but lecturers raise fears about increased workload and impact on students via @TWilliamsTHE

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Sneha Krishnan

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11 months

I am delighted to share this snippet of the writing I've been doing on ghosts and girlhood in the archive. Thanks to @saramsalem and @Mai_Taha_ for including me in this inspiring and visually stunning collection.

Archives of Dreaming — archive stories

Sneha Krishnan Archives of Dreaming [1] I use ‘girls’ in all my writing to refer to the young women in colleges because...

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

3 months

So proud I get to teach these wonderful students

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

3 months

Students at Oxford are protesting against Israels genocide in Gaza, and Kendall Gardner explains what their demand are.

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2 months

The Faiza Shaheen incident has I think sealed the deal. We need another party - truly of the left, representing the antiracist, pro-working-people tricontinental dream of the mid-20th century that we are now being told is an absurd pipe dream.

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Sneha Krishnan

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7 months

Proud supervisor moment: my very first student, @Rana_AlMutawa has had her thesis book out from @ucpress . Everyone, go read 'Everyday life in the Spectacular City'.

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city's so-called superficial...

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Sneha Krishnan

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1 month

Very excited to head to the @histchild conference later this week, where I’ll be giving a Keynote talk on Photographing Girls in colonial India

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Sneha Krishnan

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1 year

For Early Career Researchers: Come and teach on the brilliant Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programme at Oxford - genuinely one of the friendliest places in this university.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

5 months

I had an Audrey Hepburn from Roman Holiday take it all off moment. And 2011 Sneha is back

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

4 months

I hate that that millionaire author is making me say it but I have zero interest in belonging to a category of “woman” that can only be secured through violence against trans communities. No thanks. And POC women, remember they didn’t always think we counted either.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

2 months

Always always possible

UOR_Encampment

@uor_encampment

2 months

We are thrilled to announce that our main demand has finally been met! Today, @unioreading decided to divest from Barclays. We are incredibly proud of our campers and grateful to our community, this wouldn't have been possible without your support. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

3 months

We’re at more than 100 now

On the Oxford Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment

oxfordgazastaffsolidarity.wordpress.com

Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

3 months

More than fifty members of Oxford's staff and faculty have already signed a letter in support of the @oxAct4Pal encampment. If you want to contribute too, please sign here. You can also see the list of signatories.

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

My colleague @MalangwaNgole has just told me that my thesis is the second most downloaded thing in the Oxford Research Archive this month. I’m sort of astounded but of course really happy. If you’re reading it, tell me why? I’ve come a long way from thesis but still means a lot.

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1 year

People who say this sort of thing have no sense of how the hypervisibility of being a POC in a white field is nothing remotely like getting recognition for your work. Yilin Wang was erased from her work, and then abused for calling it out. If that’s exposure it’s the worst kind.

Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths is OUT NOW

@yilinwriter

1 year

It is kind of ridiculous that a fellow translator told me that they think/hope what happened to me with the British Museum is going to benefit my career in the long term. No one benefits from getting their work used without permission 😒

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Sneha Krishnan

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2 months

Also friends, I'll be doing my first ever Keynote at this conference

Children's History Society

@histchild

5 months

"Exciting news! 📢 Registration is now OPEN for the @histchild Conference 2024, 4-6 July, at @UniofNewcastle The deadline is 20th June 2024. CHS membership is required for attendance. @HistChildOxford @HistEdSocUK @shcyhome @CLPN_ac More info 👇

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

10 months

Apparently Kaufmann thought that a new hire shouldn't be taken seriously when she called out his complicity with far-right politics? Here, friends, is someone saying the quiet part out loud about academic hierarchy and how it protects abuse.

Lisa Tilley

@Tilley101

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👀 "I was a head of department, the person who complained was a new hire. You would have thought that [power hierarchy] would matter but no"

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Sneha Krishnan

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7 months

First publication of 2024! On Christian Internationalism, Young Womanhood, and the Nation in early / mid 20th century Tamil Nadu. Huge thanks to @Stephenlegg11 and Charu Gupta for including me in a brilliant Special Issue

Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India

Protestant communities in South India were vocal in dissenting against colonial rule and in expressing their discomfort with the demographic politics of nationalist discourse. Within this context, ...

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Working today on finishing my review of “Intimate Geopolitics” by @geogsara in which I get to tell the story of hostel conversions, and ask how friendship might also reconfigure intimate engagements with geopolitics

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@_snehakrishnan

7 months

Calling feminist scholars from #Palestine and elsewhere. In @GPCjournal - a call for short intervention pieces on the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Gender, Place and Culture

@GPCjournal

8 months

Call For Papers: Genocide is a Feminist Issue

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

7 months

As someone who does more peer reviews than she has the time for, and as a journal editor, may I join the chorus of what the f*ck is the NYT smoking? Who are these professors so numerous they cannot be counted?

Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen

@alixabeth

7 months

Speaking of statements that have no accompanying citations, check out this one, just published in the NYT

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@_snehakrishnan

11 months

I wrote the Jasbir Puar entry in this volume and it was an absolute academic fangirl few months of re-reading all her work.

Rob Kitchin

@RobKitchin

11 months

Key Thinkers on Space and Place, 3rd edition, just submitted to the publisher. 38 entries culled, 34 added. Thanks to all the authors for entries and to co-editors @m_gilmartin @PhilHubbard1 @roberts_sue . Hopefully published in March 2024

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

3 months

More irresponsible journalism, this time from the @bbc . Please make a complaint on this if you can but it was not our students who caused any disorder. In fact their de-escalation was responsible for the resolution of the issue.

University increases security at Gaza protest - BBC News

University of Oxford says it is "concerned" following "disorder" at an on-site Gaza protest.

www.bbc.co.uk

Madeleine Jane

@_MadeleineJane

3 months

Last night, around 8:50pm, the Oxford encampment was attacked by six men who arrived in a taxi. They ripped down banners, screamed at students and made threats. Protesters did not engage and de-escalators moved local community members away from the attackers. 1/

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7 months

Finally listening to this brilliant talk by @ProfSrilaRoy that I ultimately missed in person because of train chaos. As expected, deeply insightful, and a lot there for Geographers on location: for whom do we write, and from where do we write?

The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2023: Srila Roy

Dissonant Intimacies: Decolonising higher education in the Global South, the 2023 Sociological Review Annual Lecture delivered by Professor Srila Roy. Even a...

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

1 year

So delighted to have the first article from our ( @Laura_Antona ) Carceral Domesticities SI in @SocietyandSpace out. From the inimitable @Stephenlegg11 , a paper on rescue homes in colonial India. Thanks hugely to @OswinNatalie

Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home - Stephen...

This article explores a relatively rare archival account of female subjectivity, experience, mobility, and voice within a carceral institution in late-colonial ...

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

On how race and the “West” are socially constructed as relations of colonisation. The Irish apparently aren’t Western

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@_snehakrishnan

5 months

I am delighted to be delivering one of the keynotes at this conference. I will be speaking on Photographing Colonial Girlhood and Making Modernity.

Laura Tisdall

@TisdallLaura

5 months

Registration is NOW OPEN for the Children's History Society Conference 2024 @UniofNewcastle , 4-6 July, please share widely! #histchild #twitterstorians

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

4 months

Have I accidentally cosplayed as Cornelia Sorabji for my British citizenship ceremony? And if so is this too on the nose?

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3 months

Eat that ice cream

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7 months

Friends I just realised it’s 25 years since my beloved thatha - my grandfather - passed away. He liked Somerset Maugham, and Sivaji Ganesan. He bought my dad Soviet children’s books, told me terribly dark jokes about his deprived childhood, and secretly let me draw on the walls.

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Wendy Belcher’s “Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks” is singularly responsible for teaching me how to produce publishable articles. What it does best is expose the hidden curriculum of grad school - the how to, the unsaid criteria, the daily steps that add up.

Wendy Laura Belcher

@WendyLBelcher

1 year

@cgsloan Many thanks! If they want, people can purchase the book at the UCP website (not Amazon) for 30 percent off with this discount code: 12WEEKS30 for print and EBOOK30 for the ebook support authors by discouraging students from using bootleg copies.

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Also here is some very well presented evidence on why Cass doesn’t hold up

White Paper Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Care

A new white paper from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

law.yale.edu

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@_snehakrishnan

11 months

I want to meet these people who bring about change without conflict. They must be the fuzzy bunnies of whom this tweeter speaks because the rest of us can't say anything pretty much without being accused of being aggressive.

Dr. Sarah Young

@Nonprofit_PhD

11 months

I am sorry my tweet upset many. It is what worked for me, thus why I use #MyAcademicTruth on threads. I believe we can bring change without conflict. I wrote the paper on bringing culture change to depts, which changed multiple association & depts. I just choose kindness to do so

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You guys my mum called with some spicy family tea, and it was also Kerala railway unions tea from the 1960s. Now the historian in me wants to do my whole next project on this - am I mad? Grandpa with beloved cow - the antihero protagonist of this whole drama.

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

So excited to have @SaraNAhmed visit the @OxAct4Pal encampment this Thursday - we’ll likely see her there at about 5 PM

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

Remember when the British classified whole communities as 'criminal tribes'? This feels a lot like that sort of thing.

David Andress

@ProfDaveAndress

3 months

Like I said...

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4 months

British journalism, where there is more outrage that humanities scholars are paid money to do their jobs than about the Tories paying millions to their cronies for PPE that never materialised. Or towards an inhumane right-wing-bait scheme of shipping asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Charlotte Gill

@CharlotteCGill

4 months

If you’re shocked by the £800k taxpayer-funded Shakespeare study, then I’ve got more bad news (although knowledge is power 💪) 🧵 Here are other examples the Arts and Humanities Research Council has funded (with our money):

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4 months

I have never enjoyed reviewing as I did working with the @ACMEJournal special issue on Desirable Futures. Thanks to @jgieseking for roping me in. And thanks to @GeogSara @mgergan @pallavi_geog @DollyKikon and others for some extraordinary pieces.

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1 year

So for passing probation I’ve allowed myself… to go blonde

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Adam Tickell's journey from radical geographer to conservative VC has now culminated in this travesty. Found as I was searching the Birmingham Encampment to see if I can visit tomorrow and say hi. What an absolute shame.

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1 year

In the week that the US Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action. This is why I truly laugh when culture wars people complain about supposedly ultra woke academia. Us? Woke? Surely you jest

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

Universities everywhere are ceding ground to the right. Political activism is not "unrelated to academic pursuits". All scholarship is political, whether you acknowledge it as such or not. When they want apolitical scholarship, what they want is reproduction of the status quo.

TISS - Tata Institute of Social Sciences

@TISSpeak

3 months

PUBLIC NOTICE

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@_snehakrishnan

5 months

The riff raff they’re letting into the country these days… as is my culture now I’m British I’ll be getting trashed on April 15 from 3 PM in Oxford. Come one. Come all.

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@_snehakrishnan

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I just think moral panics *must* be fantasies. There was this homophobic woman who lunged at me at a talk years ago to say how she has nightmares that lesbians have broken into her house and she’s having an orgy and people like me doing queer theory are the reason. Fantasy?

João Florêncio 🇵🇸

@NoisyBits

22 days

Listening to Charlotte Gill talking to some guy called Andrew Gold on his podcast about how I have been funded to research gay men having sex with *actual* pigs in barns is making me laugh like I’ve never laughed before. “Journalism,” truly.

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@_snehakrishnan

4 months

@ruthkennedy @lottelydia @jonlis1 in all these ways

David Allsopp

@doublehelix

4 months

Seems the only silver lining of the Cass fiasco is that it was stitched up SO blatantly and egregiously that it's easy to explain to a neutral observer who actually cares about the evidence

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

The student encampments are demanding divestment from *all* wars. What has Lammy / Labour done for Sudan, the Congo, Yemen, or Haiti? Whilst the US / UK are "standing firm" and supplying arms, our students are calling for an end to colonial wars and occupation everywhere.

Alex Carlen

@AlexCarlen_

3 months

David Lammy is more critical here of the UK/US student protestors for an apparent disproportionate focus on Israel, armed by the US and the UK, than he is of Israel's seven-month onslaught in Gaza.

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Three months of research leave, much headway made, and time for a shout out to my wonderful mentor @Stephenlegg11 who has met with me, and helped me plan, and encouraged me to follow leads, and nerded out on archive love with me. We should all have a Steve in our corner 💜

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Sneha Krishnan

@_snehakrishnan

4 months

As a migrant (now citizened for the “go back” gang), I didn’t come for the liberal democracy, I came because you lot stole our work and legitimised your universities as the only standard for academic qualifications. I came for the archives. I stayed for the BIPOC queer family.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

4 months

. @daliagebrial makes the entirely uncontroversial point that the UK can't claim moral superiority while it continues to arm Israel. But watch/listen to the incredulity of her fellow guests.

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@_snehakrishnan

4 months

India's Chief Justice Chandrachud cites @ankitapandey110 in his Tarkunde Memorial Lecture. Ankita's new work asks how activists' use of social media maps shifts in relationships between capital, state, and civil society. @CSASPOxford

14th V M Tarkunde Memorial Lecture | Lecture by Hon'ble CJI D Y...

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

Today was a very long day but it mainly a day when I remembered I am so much the granddaughter of this man who both sacrificed all for his union (which went on a monumental 1M worker strike in 1974) and held the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people close to him. For Moo

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

@TabitaSurge Also the students writing their names and pronouns is “pointed” as if it were some passive aggressive act rather than just clearly noting how they want to be addressed

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

We aren’t protesting against our Jewish students or colleagues. Many of them stand with us as we ask our universities to stop making profits from war and apartheid. The spinning of this as intimidating to Jewish communities - even as Rafah is bombed - is only a distraction.

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

The wonderful @arathings speaks about Palestinian Childhood and the reparative university we are building through our movements

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

@kendietweets On this stuff, you pretty much always do know what you're talking about!

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

I’ve been sitting on this for a while but I’m going to be an @fcwsrc associate in Spring 2024. Looking forward to Massachusetts women’s college archive joy galore. See the whole cohort here

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

this is today! come to both. @SaraNAhmed will likely be in the encampment at 5 PM or just after.

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Why does this headline say the opposite of the article @BBCNews ? The article says students think the universities' response to MAB is a disgrace, NOT our boycott.

University marking boycott response an absolute disgrace, say students

Students fear Edinburgh's response to industrial action will mean months of work will go unread.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Tomorrow at @BrightonUniGeo I get to talk about Clement de la Hey's murder, the chocolate brown baby ghost at Women's Christian College, and why the archive will not redeem the unhomeliness of the colonial civilising mission. Thanks to @cbonnerthompson for the invite.

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@_snehakrishnan

5 months

I don’t know if universities and the political elite more generally have ever been so out of touch with young people’s political strength and commitment. All power to these students.

Dr Nilufar Ahmed

@ahmed_nilufar

5 months

University of Bristol students have occupied the Victoria Rooms in Bristol in protest of the University's silence towards the genocide in Gaza. Here is the open letter.

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@_snehakrishnan

4 months

Suspending and evicting students protesting a genocide, rather than the racist warmongers that have been harassing them. The loss of trust in universities after this will be unrecoverable.

maryam مريم🇵🇸🍁

@bluepashminas

4 months

Giving us 15 minutes to pack up and leave from our housing is seriously twisted. I am not surprised at all — I am glad administration is finally showing their face to the general student body, because student organizers have known from the start how evil these administrators are.

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@_snehakrishnan

2 months

Nottingham People, I'm speaking today at 1 PM about domesticity, girlhood, and Women's Christian College in the early 20th century in Madras at the Clive Granger Building.

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@_snehakrishnan

4 months

Writing retreat fit. See you in three days world. Also I’m still not convinced I haven’t accidentally joined a cult. I’ll have to report back

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

@AyoCaesar Seriously how much is Novara media trying to suck up to the racism-deniers on the left? This is disgraceful.

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@_snehakrishnan

2 months

If you are a member of Congregation at Oxford, please come to the meeting at 1.30 PM on Tuesday 28th May. We have asked two questions - one on disclosure, and one on reinvestment in Gaza. Answers are in the Gazette, but we will ask follow-ups.

Current issue

gazette.web.ox.ac.uk

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

@lottelydia literally this. I have never known a man to go to the lengths of pretending to be a woman to assault women. They manage just fine without. On the other hand, of course luminaries of the GC journalistic cadre in the UK have been celebrating actual rapists like Andrew Tate.

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

A must-read on caste and pedagogies in the academy from @ProfRavikantK

Teaching Like a Savarna

Most Savarna professors consider themselves above casteism — but tacitly exclude Dalit Bahujan students with abstract theory, alien pedagogy, gatekeeping.

www.theswaddle.com

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

It is possible, and it is the only future. Universities cannot be complicit in any wars, anywhere.

ashok kumar 🇵🇸

@broseph_stalin

3 months

BIG WIN: Trinity College Cambridge, the University of Cambridge's wealthiest college, has announced it will divest from all arms companies Trinity invests $1m in companies arming, supporting, and profiting from Israel's war on Gaza and has $80k invested in Israel's Elbit Systems

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@_snehakrishnan

4 months

As a result of the babyface I have acquired after this haircut, I have now been ID-ed in Sainsbury’s and told no they had no prescription for me with a 1997 birthdate in Boots. Either that or white people truly cannot tell how old we are - a thing I’ve always suspected.

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@_snehakrishnan

11 months

@chimenesuleyman It’s amazing how these people are rape apologists for cis men but trans women’s very presence is a threat

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@_snehakrishnan

3 months

My long overdue review of @ProfSrilaRoy ’s excellent “Changing the Subject” is out in @GPCjournal

Changing the subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India

Published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

@FelixMzS1 @beckerbastian I actually have now read it and you don’t at all engage with the very rich scholarship out there on the encounter between missionaries and colonial women. Again, what is the contribution you’re making given you’ve chosen not to speak to this rich scholarship?

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

Very excited to head to Zurich in June for this workshop with @GeogSara @ShonaLoong and Benedikt Korf

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@_snehakrishnan

1 year

In 2015 I received a DPhil from Oxford, In 2023 I am an Associate Professor in the same university, and have just passed our five-year probation. But for the Graduate Supervision Reporting System, I am still Miss Sneha Krishnan. Yes, I've tried to fix this again and again.

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@_snehakrishnan

2 months

So very excited to go and talk about tropical gardens, girlhood, and sexuality in St Andrews with a group of people all of whom I shamelessly fangirl. Thanks @thariel for inviting me!

Beyond Radical Network

@BeyondRadical_

2 months

ONE WEEK away: 'Queering Elements, Ecologies, Environments: Two-Day Symposium' / 13-14 June 2024 / University of St Andrews. Full details and registration:

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