Sameena Mulla

Only have about a week left to comment on this--DoE trying to remove many areas from being classified as a "professional" degree, including nursing and public health. This will limit access to student loans and ultimately drive students from the fields.

1983 most have been a big year because my dad took me to see The Return of the Jedi and Octopussy (it was partly filmed in India)… in part because mom said no but I had no choice but to go.

1st theater viewing was E.T. (1982) (I was five and cried and cried). And my mom was fond of double features on very hot summer nights so we could enjoy air conditioning, so I remember falling asleep during Pritzi’s Honor (1983?) and a double feature of Witness and Sophie’s Choice (1985).

I feel this one. Our kiddo is a teen now but the copaganda was in so many of those cartoons.

In some workshops I used to facilitate, I would often ask participants:

A commitment to police and policing means you have to ignore many things…

What do we have to ignore? [MAKE A LIST]

Folks would share a lot of great ideas. They would never say *impunity* but it should always be on the list

Things I taught today: The Jetsons, Levittown suburbs, Cold War politics, and Rosey the Robot as a Mammy archetype. And Anne Fausto-Sterling’s “The Five Sexes,” and “Five Sexes Revisited.”

Dána-Ain Davis and Sameena Mulla Appointed Editors-in-Chief of American Anthropologist - American Anthropological Association We are pleased to announce that Dr. Dána-Ain Davis and Dr. Sameena Mulla have been selected to serve as Editors-in-Chief of the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) flagship journal, American ...

Dána-Ain Davis and I taking on AA beginning in 2027. americananthro.org/news/dana-ai...

Corollary: I can’t get up from the couch because there is a cat in my lap.

To be chosen by a cat feels magical. Qyrah joined us in October 2024 and has been a sassy bundle of tooth and claw. But this past week she began climbing into our laps, making biscuits, and settling in. 😭♥️🐈‍⬛

Academic Mamas Foundation Join us at Academic Mamas, empowering mothers in academia worldwide. Access innovative programs and resources to thrive in an inclusive community. Celebrate the unique challenges and triumphs of…

Share this with a colleague. This org does grants for academic moms to help with things like childcare at a conference, covering unpaid days off with a sick kiddo, or just getting through a rough patch.

We need more stuff like this.

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a cat is looking at a laptop computer screen with a lot of text on it . Alt: a cat is leaning on a keyboard typing a million “As” which fill up the screen.

Today my cat jumped on my keyboard and marked one of my colleague’s emails as junk mail.

Opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of science, with a preferred focus on water issues: 👇 #HistSTM

Reckoning with Gender-Based Violence: Theory, Praxis, and the Persistence of Gendered Violence Explore the article collection: Reckoning with Gender-Based Violence: Theory, Praxis, and the Persistence of Gendered Violence. Published in Human Organization.

And read foundational pieces from 1993-2022 here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhu...

Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention The organization of gender-based violence by the urgent need for intervention results in an emphasis on binaries, namely a distinction between domestic violence and sexual assault. It also produces an...

I learned a lot from this. Well done, Dr. Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social
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I learned a lot from you and tried to represent that in this piece.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

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This should be in The Onion. 🤯

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

A poster announcing this year’s Graduate Student Conference in Literature, Media and Culture at Florida State University, where I will give the keynote tomorrow. The poster has a QR code to access the schedule and Zoom links.

So many signs of the worst of eras and I then I saw a reel of someone’s gender reveal party with a live ultrasound projected on a movie screen. Not sure why people want to show their fetus’s genitals off to a crowd. 😳

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Transform your life into WHAT, exactly?

Proposals for a Caring Economy Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...

"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS

Compliance and credibility: a critique of the sexual assault forensic examination from international perspectives The forensic medical examination is often lauded as an effective intervention to reduce case attrition by providing evidence that supports a rape or sexual assault complaint. We show that, despite…

Lesley McMillan’s article with Rose Corrigan, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Gethin Rees and Deborah White critically explores the use of sexual assault forensic medical examination as a means to assess complainant’s credibility. Access it first here buff.ly/AZAgcWd @emorywgss.bsky.social

This would be funny if it wasn’t also true. I wonder what would happen if I circulated on the all faculty list…..

Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor There are a lot of them.

www.vox.com/politics/398...

Military freezes sexual assault prevention training after Trump executive order on DEI Marine Corps has paused all sexual assault prevention training to comply with Trump's executive order. The Navy confirmed it would also cease such training.

"Several U.S. military branches are pausing training related to the prevention of sexual assault in order to comply with one of President Trump’s executive orders related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives."

www.latimes.com/california/s...