amrita pande
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Prof @UCT, Epistemic Justice@WitsPress Birth Controlled@manchesterUP, Scripting defiance@@tulikabooks, #wombsinlabor @ColumbiaUP
Cape Town
Joined November 2017
Happy news to start the new year: my edited volume Birth Controlled: Selective Reproduction and Neoliberal Eugenics in South Africa and India was honoured at the 2024 AAA awards. Congrats to the wonderful contributors! @Sree_socscience @DrRChadwick @GoverningI @ManchesterUP
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Canadian journalist just got intellectually slapped‼️
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#Afrodiaspora people! Apply!!
@CODESRIA invites joint proposals from African academics in the Diaspora and within universities in Africa for the African Academic Diaspora Visiting Fellowships to African universities. Application Deadline: 15th August 2024 More Details: https://t.co/uYj2p3BllK
#Diaspora
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Harvard Queen and Pro- Palestinian advocate SHRUTHI KUMAR torches Harvard over Gaza solidarity crackdown in her off script commencement speech! These crackdowns have lead to students being unlawfully arrested and suspended. Barring students from their own graduation and from
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Harvard yesterday, solidarity from outside is restricted because of the need for an ID to access this space but picking up steam. John Harvard wearing a keffiyeh and carrying a Palestinian flag. “long live the student movement”
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On Thursday, Columbia arrested and suspended its students who were peacefully protesting and have now ignited a nationwide Gaza Solidarity movement. This is more than the students hoped for and I am glad to see this type of solidarity. But to be clear, this about the genocide in
Massive faculty walkout at @Columbia opposing the university’s decision to call in NYPD on Palestine solidarity protests:
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Police officer: I've been a police officer for over ten years and sometimes when I respond to a domestic call I say to the mother (who is the victim) 'how can you let your children go through this?' Me: How many times in 10 years have a you said to the perpetrating father
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A really important piece on the ongoing Israel India “bromance”
bostonreview.net
India’s recruitment drives to send workers to Israel resemble British indenture.
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Applications are open for the IDEAs Certificate Programme's Course on Feminist Economics. Open for auditing by guest students. Deadline to apply: March 31st. 📍: IDEAs, New Delhi & Zoom 📅: 12 lectures; April 2nd- May 16th, 2024 🔗: https://t.co/HbxfwVicKY
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This new @WorldBank -#UN report shows that the estimates of the Gaza destruction used in my "Anatomy of a genocide" report were conservative. The report exposes a level of erasure of a society that is unprecedented in our time:
worldbank.org
The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of...
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I am excited about conversing with an interdisciplinary crowd, and to be debating about the potential changes in German surrogacy and egg donation laws...and seeing a new city ..Uni Oldenburg, Germany, April 3-6, 2024. #Surrogacy #AssistedReproduction
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Next week at Boston University. join me if you are on this side of the globe.
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The fragility of life. The legend who had just started dreaming. What a loss. #marathon #kiptum world record holder Kiptum dies in road accident
dailymaverick.co.za
NAIROBI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Kenya's marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach were killed in a traffic accident in the Rift Valley on Sunday, cutting short the promising career of the...
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Not in the Name of Gender Justice: Reflections on Uttarakhand's Uniform Civil code bill: homophobic , transphobic and increases state surveillance of all relationships
m.thewire.in
The provisions of the Bill ignore constitutional guarantees of fundamental rights, judicial developments, people’s movements and concerns, and public discourse in India and elsewhere.
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Don’t know why people are surprised by this : every law and regulations. we have seen around surrogacy in India has been about protecting the good Brahmanic Hindu land from all evil forces. #motherhood #surrogacy
Wow, the Supreme Court of India. "The institution of marriage has to be protected. You can call us and tag us conservative, and we accept it." It is not about conservative or progressive. Preserving the institution of marriage is none of your business, at least constitutionally.
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Join me at the Justice, Care, Responsibility Conference at University of Geneva, Feb 8-9th.
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Join me for the plenary talk at the Institut Migrations, Health, Paris on Jan 23rd. The conference brings together some fascinating insights around "Neo-eugenics in India"
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Join the wonderful panel of feminists, hosted by MIT @GCWSatMIT @GowriV @guerrillamama_ as we talk about Radicalizing reproduction
gcws.mit.edu
Register Now Reproduction is increasingly the locus of political panic, from attacks on abortion rights to ethical debates about new reproductive technologies. But moral panics about reproduction are...
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#obstetricviolenceisGBV #endobstetricviolence #movementformothers
https://t.co/rhKNXuizXb Mothers, please fill this survey. It aims to document the numbers of women abused during pregnancy by the health systems. This information has never been widely collected in SA
embrace.org.za
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I will be talking about the Women walk at midnight, South Africa movement at Walk21 in Kigali, Rwanda next week. Join me as we walk-shop! @Walk21Network @Uni_Rwanda @CityofKigali
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