Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan @reachbkrishnan Twitter profile | Pikagi

Pikagi

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

579

Followers

1,145

Following

344

Media

2,837

Statuses

PhDing in Music + FemStudies at UC Santa Cruz @ucsc

Santa Cruz, California

https://t.co/ow0MNLnsIq

Joined October 2021

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

Pinned Tweet

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

11 days

Watch now! For my Voices of Bhakti Fellowship. Singing utopian Begumpura of 15th C anti-caste, tanner poet Raidas & 8th C Tamil peasant poet Nammalvar 🎸dear friend & Grammy winner musician Alex Wand 🎥 Saul Villegas 📍santacruz CC- lyrics and translation.

Tweet card media

Ravidas x Nammalvar | Voices of Bhakti | Bala Raghavan

The music video by Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan: an original piece produced for the “Performing Voices of Bhakti” Bay Area fellowship!In this video, Bala s...

www.youtube.com

0

2

8

Last Seen Profiles

@srinivasan81752

@CL_daikazoku

@twingoggy

@darkkidlink43

@volgadeniz_

@nouqqiel

@MayorEv4

@wross360

@CoachHamerILL

@anonymousfreakm

@BBC_ua

@DashaaDashaaa2

@ArPioneerScouts

@SegtonSlay

@McShephe92503

@BruhArb

@firthgadling

@Leuonis

@iheartyou_qx

@marisa_lobo

@lillicitaffairs

@News_Almadinah

@demonstz

@markiidi

@TRSR_Glenn

@pedro_ubeda_69

@nicnewman

@Wake_Analytics

@hinari_oc

@bilutterflies

@PaarthShahYT

@Thio3099

@godisgrandex

@amiguel_95

@Sonet_VOiX

@ewabarbiedoll

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

A performing musician-composer friend from New Orleans who was invited to listen to a few panels at the #megacon #musicon22 said this "For a conference that's centred on music, it is surprising that the audio quality for the sessions (laptop/speakers) is poor and often jarring"

3

1

43

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

3 months

My Qualifying Exams start in less than two weeks. I will need to respond to 2 long questions in essay format, a listening test and then an oral exam. With all the grief in the world, my housing and my recent ill-health it's been difficult. Wish me luck. Hopefully ABD by June ❤️✊

7

0

44

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

All set! AIIS Summer! Leaving for the sfo airport to get to Frankfurt and then to Delhi! Inshallah I hope all my travel/immigration/airport anxiety is under control. Bye #santacruz hi #delhi

Tweet media one

6

0

40

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

Congratulations to Prof. Chinnaiah Jangam @cjangam for receiving the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation by @AASAsianStudies for their translation of Gurram Jashua’s Gabbilam. fortunate to have had the opportunity to listen to him recite some of his translations in Madison.

Tweet media one

0

6

39

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

6 months

It is extremely difficult for an immigrant student/non-citizen to pursue, find joy, rest and thrive in the global north. Add to it complexities of class, caste, sexuality and gender. 🤦‍♀️

@PhD_Genie

PhD_Genie

6 months

What is the biggest secret in academia?

125

25

212

1

5

33

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 month

Humbled and excited to present my new work at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum this weekend in Washington DC. June 22 and June 23 “Karnatik Music’s Celestial Compositions.” #smithsonian #hirshhornmuseum #installation #soundinstallation

Tweet media one

5

1

32

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

3 months

UCSC - Gaza solidarity Encampment, International Labour Day, 1st May

Tweet media one

0

3

28

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

@anishgawande He keeps saying "I am sorry to say" and says the most vile things! I can't! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Sit this one down Deepak babuuu

0

0

25

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Enjoying every bit of this generative book by scholar @kasmani_o ❤️🙏 #holidayread #queer #academia

Tweet media one

1

2

24

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

What a night Wednesday was! The queen, OG Aunty, @LawhoreVagistan with notes from scholar @kareempuff made us laugh, think, dance and cry in joy at @csastanford , thanks to @ushai2020 ! An experience to behold! This is an appreciation thread from a fan! #auntylookedamazing

Tweet media one

2

2

24

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

10 months

Vid. T Sankaran's, 'Life of Music in South India' edited by Matthew Harp Allen and Daniel Neuman is an insider's overview of the culture, complexities, and perspectives of Karnatik music spanning over eight decades! An un-put-down-able text, I sat for six hours and finished it.

Tweet media one

1

2

24

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

I am at Association for Asian Studies, and it’s my first time! Would love to say Hi and get coffee! #AAS2024 @AASAsianStudies I’m here to present my work on Faiz’s Hum Dekhenge, Iqbal Bano’s rendition and Palestine Solidarity.

Tweet media one

1

1

22

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Presenting my work on Iqbal Bano's rendition of Faiz's "Hum Dekhenge," exploring the social biography of the protest song through translations and renditions by women poets, musicians, and activists in South Asia at Uni of Oregon Musicking Conf. Link here-

0

4

21

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Given my debut for #musicon22 #megacon i can't possibly express how happy i feel to have met some faaaaaab supportive friends I made, thanks to @PrjctSpectrum , the many inspiring panels I went to and those who came to mine. Big big masked-hugs,warmth and wishes until next time❤️

Tweet media one

0

0

21

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

3 months

@sohinichat All it needs is a big mosambi

1

0

20

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Thrilled and grateful to be working with @AIISIndia as a Summer DIL Student Fellow on something I deeply love, “Oral Epics and Narratives of India: Annanmar Katai.” Working on Tamizh, Translation, Performance, story and inshallah a digital exhibition! #tamil #delhisummer #aiis

@AIISIndia

AIIS

1 year

#AIIS announces this year's recipients of the AIIS Summer 2023 DIL Student Fellowships! The fellowships are awards to five students for #digital #sonic and #visual projects to be carried out in the summer of 2023. 🎉 Congrats to all! 🎉 Learn more:

Tweet media one

0

1

6

2

1

19

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

"Y'ALL BETTER QUIET DOWN" An urgent call toward a Trans of color sound studies by the very very inspiring scholar, activist AM Medina #megacon #musicon22 #transstudies #soundstudies @A_M_Medina 🙏🙏❤️❤️

0

3

17

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 month

Thrilled to be bringing this labour of love to the university of Michigan, Ann Arbor this Friday as part of the Feminist Theory and Music conference. #atoddswithevenlove #indianmusic #love #letters #loveletters #pride #june #queer #music #intimacy #protest #law #feminism

Tweet media one

1

4

18

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

My fanboy moment from the podcast was when Prof. Linda Hess ( researcher, Kabir Scholar, translator) told me that she loved my talk, asked me generative questions and said that we must meet soon! I'm living for this :) #podcast #kabir #southasia

1

0

18

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

What a wonderful few days in LA presenting, sharing and thinking with inspiring scholars at the Thinking Gender conference curated by @UCLACSW @influencerlabor and their team. Thanks to everyone that made this a generative experience! Looking forward to more! #conference #ucla

Tweet media one

2

1

18

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

Was wonderful to see Prof. Chinnaiah Jangam ( @cjangam ) receiving the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation at the #aas2024 @AASAsianStudies award ceremony from Prof. Kamran Ali for his translation of Gurram Jashuva’s Gabbilam published by Yoda Press. Hearty congratulations!

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

2

4

18

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Excited to bring 'At Odds With Even Love' to this QGrad Conference at @ucla . Here's a snippet from the recent show at Indexical, Santa Cruz

1

2

17

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

I’ve been invited to do a guest lecture on the music from India tomorrow. It’s so challenging to craft something and cover it within 30 minutes 😅🤷‍♂️ and sound interesting. But I’ve been telling myself, “I’ve got this!”

2

0

16

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Had the most fabulous time in LA, the QGrad conference, sharing my performance and then the West Hollywood hang with friends ❤️ couldn’t have asked for a better time!

Tweet media one

0

0

15

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Should I post them here on Twitter? I post my cooking updates on Instagram stories and i do cook a fair bit, because eating out is expensive and food in Santa Cruz is alright at best.

Tweet media one

3

0

15

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

6 months

My guru says, the best concerts are those which you wake up thinking about the next morning. @forked_queer ’s was one such. magic woven through vocals, banjo, uke, guitar, bass and stories. He spoke of liberations of all kind, queer, anti-racist, feminist, ceasefire and Gaza! ❤️🇵🇸

Tweet media one

0

1

14

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

green, sand, sea, cloud, sky

Tweet media one

0

0

14

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Feeling all kinds of excited, scared, vulnerable, liberated, seen and invisible before my debut at the #musicon22 #megacon for the #queer worlding panel at 1:45- 3:45pm. I go last :) Oh dear people of Twitter and the conf., wish me well, be kind. Hugs and warmth! Bala❤️🙏

3

1

14

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

10 months

The first set of classes for the week done! Happy to see most of the students show up for an 8 am section to discuss feminism, anti-racism, anti- sexism, Arivu, Therukural, Combahee River Collective. #santacruz #feministstudies

Tweet media one

0

0

14

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Am I a failed academic if I start writing my paper today for a presentation this week (I swear it is not tomorrow or is it?) after not having looking looked at the abstract for five whole months! Asking for a friend !

5

0

13

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

9 months

It is my first time at the South Asia conference in Madison. Do say Hi if you’re here #ACSA #Madison It’s like I know no one while everybody looks familiar 🤦‍♂️

Tweet media one

4

0

14

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Also, flowers make me go eeeehhh 😍 After my concert last week, dear Lydia got me flowers :)

Tweet media one

0

0

13

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

"On behalf of the organizing committee of the Music and Transcendence in a Posthuman Age international conference, I am pleased to announce, your proposal has been accepted. " Sharing my work on 18th-C Karnatik composer Dikshithar this 24th(zoom) #montreal #conference #karnatik

Tweet media one

3

1

14

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

A snippet of Saturday's showing of "At Odds With Even Love" @anindexofmusic Goddess Alamelumanga to her beloved "union without a tiff, isn't luscious" - you proclaim. Annamayya, 15th century, Telugu #telugu #show #carnaticmusic #atoddswitheveove #love

1

2

14

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

While I do understand the technical challenges of hosting such a large conference in a hotel, depending on their infrastructure and tech support. This is important to consider while choosing venues. Listening to a music over a good sound system makes all the difference.

0

0

13

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Sharing my work at the Analytical Approaches to World Music Conferences this Friday. It is on the Planetary compositional set of 18th century South Indian Karnatik Composer Mudduswami Dikshithar in the seven primary beat-cycles. Art- Artist&Vidwan S Rajam

Tweet media one

2

3

13

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

A scholar I have admired, respected and learned from, Prof. Bettina Apthekar was giving away books from their library and I went there first thing in the morning. There’s something so special about reading the books, your favorite people have read and marked ❤️

Tweet media one

1

0

12

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

What a way to end this Saturday, a poignant, powerful discussion on considering trauma across music and sound disciplines by this deeply moving panel Rogers, Bulut, DeSimone , Dirksen, Meadows, Milius, Oliva, Schupe, Wong and Zhang #megacon #musicon22 #nola

Tweet media one

2

0

11

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

Now reading, Prof. Sumangala Damodaran’s #radicalimpulse

Tweet media one

2

0

13

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

11 months

Had a fab first show this season in Bangalore. The voice was a little strained by the end, I was vulnerable about it and people only showered more love. Decided to take some voice-rest and get ready for the next one on Wednesday at the Bangalore International Centre. Deets soon

Tweet media one

0

0

12

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 months

When I say I am off social media to focus on writing and deadlines, I mean delete the apps on my phone and access all of that on the browser. Which also takes more time to refresh, upload, and post, and I wonder if I am losing more time!

2

0

12

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

Bird Whispers - Dawn [ Bala & Alex ] a duet of vocals and slide guitar exploring the sonic possibilities and metaphors of human - bird life worlds, in waking, flight, leaving home and re-turning. . more soon ❤️ #guitar #slideguitar #music #notes #indianmusic #raga #collaboration

1

3

11

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 month

Me to me Ph.D. Committee to move me from Ph.D. Student to PhD candidate! #chamkila #arrahman #irshadkamil #imtiazali #bollywoodmusic

2

1

11

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

9 months

Students casually staying back after an 8 am lecture to discuss readings (of profs Angela Davis, Saidiya Hartman, Rosemary Garland and Dean Spade) Teaching is so gratifying. I’m learning and un-learning so much.

Tweet media one

0

0

11

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

"The Black Opera Database proves that Black Opera does exist" #allisonlewis #blackfemmearchive

Tweet media one

0

2

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Slugs at the Picket Line - UCSC #ucsc4cola #NOCOLANOCONTRACT #UCSC @payusmoreucsc @uaw2865

Tweet media one

1

3

11

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

@sandeepbak Agreed. It's another way to exercise power, and create ripe sites for systemic abuse. It's moved on from talking about the recommender's credentials, to the candidate's character to the candidate's achievements, proclaiming them, their best student.

2

0

11

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

With the Society of Ethnomusicology conference slated to happen in Ottawa, Canada, strictly in person, with no online accessible options, what are the odds of me having my visa accepted as an Indian citizen, non-resident alien living in the US?

Tweet card media

IISc PhD students denied visa to attend conference in Canada

Reasons were “limited employment possibilities in India” and “purpose of visit not consistent with a temp. stay”, according to Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu, who heads Vision & AI Lab (VAL) at IISc.

www.thehindu.com

3

1

10

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Excited to present an invited lecture-recital titled "Performing Pasts, Voicing Futures: Rendering South Asian Heterodox Spi/ritual Song as a Site for Marginalized Narratives" for Dr. Pandey's class 'Bollywood Dance and Culture in India and Indian Diaspora'. #lecture #recital

Tweet media one

0

0

10

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

9 months

Seeking suggestions- That the SSRC International Dissertation Fund has been discontinued, what are the fellowships available to international (non-res alien) PhD students in the humanities, apart from the AIIS jnr fellowship, to carry out diss. research in India? #phd #thanks

3

10

10

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

The UCSC campus serving spring!

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

1

0

10

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Steven Moon presenting their very interesting work on "Psychoanalysis and the mind body in Turkish Classical Music Therapy" #Megacon #musicon22 #Nola @StevenRMoon

Tweet media one

0

0

10

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Thrilled to be bringing this labour of love to @anindexofmusic this Saturday. At Odds With Even Love is in its 14th edition. Thank you for all the love and warmth An evening of story and song, of #queer stories and the amorous poem-song from South India. #showtime #story #love

0

1

11

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

3 months

Who are the scholars after José Munoz who have extensively engaged with this set : utopia, performance, sexuality, music, and queerness?

5

2

10

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Pongal-O-Pongal! Excited to meet family in New Jersey! #Pongal #santacruz #NewJersey

Tweet media one

0

0

10

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Guess who got racially profiled today! 2 black women and I get pulled aside among a lot of white ppl, to get our bags checked if they fit the spirit airline carryon size! Voila! our bags fit with extra space. ppl before & after us clearly had larger bags! We weren't white enough.

2

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 months

What a fascinating interview on Ilayaraja! Thank you @TheBluePen25 for this! Endrendrum Raja!

@TheBluePen25

Shalin Maria Lawrence

2 months

Do check out my interview with Big Bang Tamil YouTube Channel on #Ilaiyaraja ,his music and the controversies surrounding his assertion of rights .

8

28

102

1

2

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Had a wonderful working lunch, with Prof. Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy at UCLA, whose work on Bake, Renuka-yellamma have been so inspirational to me :) We also spoke a bunch about kutch, karnatik music, ARCE and @AIISIndia where I am headed to this summer. Looking forward🧿 #ucla #music

Tweet media one

0

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

I lose interest in chai as soon as the biscuits are over.

2

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

6 months

Some days I wake up thinking there’s so much happening on the east coast, so many colleges, concerts, collaborations! All so close! All of the ‘I’m missing out’ feeling vanishes when I see pictures of winter! This tropical body functions so much better in California!

Tweet media one

2

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

8 months

A deadline missed and a story to tell

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

3

1

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

So excited to being my performance piece "At Odds With Even Love - Utopia in Performance", as a practice-led research presentation at the @UCLACSW conference on Feb 24 Wish me well! ❤️✊

@UCLACSW

UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center

2 years

Not to be missed! CSW's 33rd #ThinkingGender Student Research Conference on Feb 24. "Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility" feat speakers @AgingSuperModel @raultishness @CelineShimizu RSVP:

Tweet media one

0

4

9

3

3

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

My refuge, after a major rejection, the one thing I could do is sing. The only thing that feels natal, feels home, feels sahaj. The thing I trust and which reassures me I belong! - from last night (meandering through the notes of mayamalawagowla)

3

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Survived one long flight! Frankfurt now :) another long flight to Delhi now! @SouthAsianBuoy fortunately the timing was perfect and I didn’t do my 10x sprint.

Tweet media one

1

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Ahh alright! 2016, London

Tweet media one

@beerslag

beer slag

1 year

U don’t know someone till Uve seen what their vibe was in 2016

491

2K

16K

0

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Le me waiting for the previous presentation to finish while basking in the glorious Delhi sun and present at yet another online commerce. This one a flagship one for us, the International Council for Traditional Music #ictm Wish me luck and all!

Tweet media one

1

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 months

Me holding onto the qualifying exam questions I received today, for the next ten days, which is when I need to turn them in!

@AMAZlNGNATURE

Nature is Amazing ☘️

2 months

A common snapping turtle coming out of hibernation carrying the earth on its back

Tweet media one

1K

6K

89K

2

0

9

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Serving #hot #boi #summer

Tweet media one

0

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Was fortunate enough to watch the screening of the much celebrated film “The Celine Archive”, @CelineShimizu ’s labour of love at the @UCLACSW Thinking Gender Conference! It made me very teary eyed! This was after her thought provoking Keynote Address #keynote #ucla #conference

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

1

2

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

9 months

How does one continue teaching, and applying for a grant for next year amidst all this violence, genocide and loss of lives! Apart from #freepalestine Everything else seems pointless Ya, Allah!

0

1

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

Latewitter - Sharing the podcast post the summer Digital India Fellowships at @AIISIndia ! Grateful for being designated the Pradeep Mehendiratta Fellow and to work on Prof. Beck's archives of the Tamil Oral Epic Annanmar Katai (Elder Brothers Story) #aiis

Tweet card media

Creating and collaborating through digital projects with the AIIS Digital Sonic and Visual Projects...

In this episode, we explore what it’s like to create born digital projects in India with support from the two AIIS research centers: the Center for Art and Archeology (CA&A) and the Archives and...

www.indiastudies.org

2

2

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

9 months

This is happening Friday morning at the Madison South Asia Conference thanks to @SouthAsianBuoy @mkhanpasha @chandrica_barua #acsamadison #madison See you there!

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

1

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

Cried a truckload watching Shonali Bose’s ‘amu’, from 2005, set against the backdrop of the gruesome anti-Sikh riots in India in 1984. Konkana and Brinda Karat are the protagonists. Gosh it was poignant and ends with a reference to the Gujarat riots.😭✊

Tweet media one

2

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

"I am pleased to inform you that your presentation At Odds With Even Love - A Dialogue was selected for inclusion. Congratulations!" Looking forward to presenting at the Penn State New-Music Festival and Symposium this weekend #pennstate #musicfestival #musicconference #musician

Tweet media one

1

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Le me reminding myself of home, of biryani and of eating nonchalantly with my hands and not using, chammach churi, kaanta🍴 (and an aunty sitting right across smiled in approval as she bit into her portion of a leg piece) #biriyani #hyderabad #LosAngeles

Tweet media one

0

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

3 months

How wonderful to hold this book in my hands finally! So excited to read this @DrMaDMo 🎉❤️🤗 #blacksound 📍Santa Cruz in Spring!

Tweet media one

2

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Looking forward to @kareempuff and @LawhoreVagistan 's "Lessons in Drag" in a few hours at #Stanford

@ushai2020

Usha Iy

1 year

Beyond delighted to be hosting not one, not two, but THREE events next week with the incomparable @kareempuff & @LawhoreVagistan All events in person, come attend if you're in the area!

Tweet media one

6

8

43

0

1

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

The smile is in anticipation of getting to the Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah this evening for the Qawwali! जुमेरात! मोहे पीर पायो निजामुद्दीन औलिया! #inshallah #nizamuddinaulia

Tweet media one

0

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Finally a free weekend in town and not traveling or wrapping up grading or finishing conference prep :) Auto-ing in rainy humid gurgaon!

Tweet media one

0

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

@sandeepbak Also, is deeply entrenched in who has and can afford to have access to these recommenders and institutions, which is inextricably linked to caste, class, religion and social circle privileges. It only exists to serve the brahminical, upper caste communities over and over again.

1

1

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

6 months

We at the UCSC music department ( @UCSCMusicDept ) had a wonderful colloquium by UC post doctoral scholar Dr. Sunaina Keonaona Kale @sunaina_kale on “Reggae Relations: Black and Indigenous Confluences in Hawai’i.” Thank you Sunaina, for the generative sharing.

Tweet media one

0

1

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

Hahaha this is troooo!

@andreavbecker

Andréa (Dre) Becker

4 months

professor on the department website vs in class

Tweet media one

18

238

3K

0

0

8

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

@bahudari @kpanyam @anupamabijur @jayaditya @Swetharag @vijayashenoy1 @priyanandyblr @basrur @Chilipili @Abhishek_Rai @Kimsuka @rameshsreekanta @PreetiSunderaj1 @pnamblat @bertyashley @tnavinash @MusicAloud @IWTKQuiz Thank you @bahudari . Here you go. Post a cover/s of a great album and nominate six people to do the same. @anjdurgesh @hganjoo_153 @NedBertz @forked_queer @rhyssparey @bassic_nelson @AryaAdityan @DDanielsMedia

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

3

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

@cinewallah @ucpress Your “Seeing Things” Killing it at the #aas2024

Tweet media one

1

1

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

3 months

We at @CSAS_UCSC are honored to have Meena Kotwal @KotwalMeena , founder of @The_Mooknayak , which advocates for social justice and democracy for the marginalized, as our 2024 Journalist-in-Residence. She will be guest lecturing classes at @ucsc & a public lecture at @csastanford .

Tweet media one

1

1

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 month

It is so wonderful to be at the Feminist Theory and Music conference at UMich. I remember @LauronKehrer post about the cfp and I applied. Seeing friends old and new, scholars and such generative discussions just lovely Also, singing tomorrow at 11 am. If free, Come by and say hi

0

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

@LawhoreVagistan Quoting scholars, friends and people to read @kareempuff @brianhorton88 @kasmani_o

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

3

0

6

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

Hearty Congratulations to the amazing scholar @darshana_mini on their @AIISIndia book award for their book “Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire”

@darshana_mini

Darshana Sreedhar Mini

4 months

Thrilled that "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire" has been adjudged as the winner of the The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities by @AIISIndia

31

18

167

0

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

What a wonderful-full day at the #megacon #musicon22 was so insuring to listen to, think with and share with lively people. - Also be kind to all and wear masks? - Excited for our panel Tom, on Queer Worlding, 11th Nov, Fri, 1:45 pm, Grand Salon. Come see us? #Nola #sem

Tweet media one

1

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

Going to be in Seattle this week for the annual #aas2024 conf. for the panel “Politics, Resistance and (Im)mobility” chaired by Prof. Tamara Sears. looking forward to sharing my work on protest music, Faiz, Iqbal Bano, Palestine and Aural Utopias. @AASAsianStudies

Tweet media one

1

1

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

Is my shift from hating to loving Times New Roman a sign of academic adulting? Also, what's your choice of font? (It's Avenir or Trebuchet for me)

2

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

I’m so chuffed and happy to see so many people on here sharing good news of their new jobs, new positions and their admissions into their programs of choice! Sending a prayer out to the universe wishing them well and a great beginning ❤️

0

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

Thanks to Mariah Moore from House of Tulip in New Orleans, run by two black trans women, "provides zero-barrier housing, case management, linkage to care, and community programming to trans and gender nonconforming people" <-Donate here #musicon22 #Nola

Tweet media one

1

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

1 year

Up at 3 am, scrolling while I have to present a paper in 12 hours and is half done ! Ayyo! Send help :)

1

0

6

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

3 months

What a generative talk by the fabulous @KotwalMeena at @csastanford moderated by @anjaliarondekar ! So inspiring ! Thank you !

@KotwalMeena

Meena Kotwal (मीना कोटवाल)

3 months

अमेरिका के स्टैनफोर्ड यूनिवर्सिटी में अंजली ताई ( @anjaliarondekar ) के साथ कई मुद्दों पर अपनी राय रखने का मौका मिला! ताई के साथ बात करना बेहद ही शानदार रहा! हमने जाति, लिंग, सामाजिक न्याय, भारतीय मीडिया में विविधता की कमी, द मूकनायक की जरूरत, चल रहे लोकसभा चुनावों और

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

Tweet media three

Tweet media four

9

31

175

1

1

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

6 months

Tyagaraja’s 18th century kriti, engages us with where (not) to find Rāma. In his exquisite karaharapriya one of my favorites. I was humming nadaci nadaci this morning and saw @voicesofbhakti / @nikhiletc post on it. Thanks for the instanudge! Here’s my Ramanujan-esque translation.

Tweet media one

2

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

5 months

Ayyo! 💔. If this doesn’t move you, move mountains, free political prisoners, I don’t know what will! Heart breaking!

@MaktoobMedia

Maktoob

5 months

“I couldn’t see my mother one last time before her death because I was denied parole. This is a denial of basic Human Rights. My mother passed away when I was in Prison. Being a disabled child since birth, my mother brought me up with utmost care. She used to take me to school in

348

4K

8K

0

1

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 months

Who do I know in Ann Arbor Michigan? Going there to share my performance piece for the Feminist theory and music conference in late June.

2

0

7

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

2 years

"I want to pause and listen to these animated women" says @insomnaleptic at their presentation at #musicon22 #megacon Animated case study on the Black Femme Antagonist They also quote Hooks' "Within commodity culture ethnicity becomes spice" Thank you 🙏❤️🙏 #naomiandre

Tweet media one

0

2

6

@reachbkrishnan

Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan

@reachbkrishnan

4 months

How am I supposed to apply for diss. grants while reading for quals; writing my end-of-quarter papers; I teach and grade! while I haven't released my single worked on my website written that paper for an ed. vol. pending from last year! Ayyo #HumseNaHoPayega

2

0

7