@durba
Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) & The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
In The Future That Was, @durba.bsky.social offers a pathbreaking account of how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism & imagine a future freer than our present.
Out March 17 (12 May UK pub):
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#History
the finding aid for the Madhur Jaffrey collection is here: hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/sch0...
thank you to Madhur Jaffrey's family, especially her daughters, for this collaboration to preserve her extraordinary work and life
At Harvard, I personally collected the archives of many women of color, including chef & writer Madhur Jaffrey. I will be in conversation w/ Priya Krishna April 16 at Harvard Radcliffe to celebrate the opening of Madhur Jaffrey collections to the public.
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2026-p...
I had the absolute honour of having @saranahmed.bsky.social on Books Up Close! We talk about her new book, No is Not a Lonely Utterance. Listen wherever you get your shows! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
as I write about in The Future That Was, feminists teach us what it means to stand against war.
"For more than 110 years, WILPF has warned that militarism is not a response to insecurity—it is one of its root causes." March 2, 2026
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"As feminists who mobilise for peace and freedom in the face of militarism and state violence, we reject the framing that yet another war can deliver liberation for women or for any people."
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
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as I write about in The Future That Was, feminists teach us what it means to stand against war.
"For more than 110 years, WILPF has warned that militarism is not a response to insecurity—it is one of its root causes." March 2, 2026
www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"As feminists who mobilise for peace and freedom in the face of militarism and state violence, we reject the framing that yet another war can deliver liberation for women or for any people."
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
www.wilpf.org/wp-content/u...
thinking of all the people desperately trying to survive and find shelter right now.
thinking of all the people desperately trying to survive and find shelter right now.
Really necessary set of essay about this moment:
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192
thank you for writing this important piece @visualizingbroadway.com
"Rather than oppose the government’s assault on diversity, Harvard’s leadership — following advice from the Office of General Counsel — orders us to do the regime’s work for them. Meanwhile, peer institutions suffer direct attacks from increasingly authoritarian state and federal governments."
It's out! @scottsvisor.bsky.social has a great book that you should order RN from @dukepress.bsky.social ! www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...
50 Years of The Scholar and Feminist Conference at Barnard College
Shah Alam was a lawful refugee who arrived on Christmas Eve 2024. He was jailed for a YEAR after police tasered and arrested him over a curtain rod he used as a walking stick. He couldn’t understand their English commands. He was blind.
Border Patrol dropped a blind Rohingya refugee at a Tim Hortons 5 miles from his home on a freezing February night. Didn’t call his family. Didn’t call his lawyer.
Five days later, Nurul Amin Shah Alam was found dead on a Buffalo sidewalk. He was 56.
#Accountability
Wow. Ellie Aghayeva — the Columbia student detained by ICE this morning — has been released and posted this on her Instagram.
Comes after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed his concern on the arrest to Trump in a meeting just earlier.
In conversation with @laprofelgp.bsky.social and Chandra Mohanty, Labyrinth Book Store, Princeton NJ March 26th @ 6 PM
the cruelty and inhumanity of ICE this is unbearable to read
This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death
The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.
should have taught my course Yellow Peril at Harvard this semester
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
