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It's that time of the year again! I'm a Dalit woman in academia & I am happy to assist other Dalits & Adivasis looking to apply for a PhD or a Masters abroad with their statement of purpose/apps. Pls note that I can't help you find a job/search a program for you. Dm me and/or RT!
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Say what you want, but i want the confidence to believe that HARVARD approached ME on email without a PhD to come and be asst. prof like i’m dat 🔥🔥 💯💯💅🏼💅🏼👸🏻👸🏻
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I am looking to mentor 1 Dalit/Adivasi student (sorry low bandwidth this year) applying for PhD in information/media, STS,or feminist studies in North America. Pls research on dept+prog+materials+faculty you want to work with before dm’ing me. RT/share in relevant networks pls!
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Okay forreal tho is Young India Fellowship world’s only fellowship where you have to PAY (instead of getting PAID) to be their fellow? I swear I was caught off guard in 2015 when i made it thinking I’ll get paid and found out lol, nope.
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Honestly the thing you will have to learn while on the job market is to brand your research as cooler, bigger and grander instead of it being real, messy, raw, small, precise, powerful - a disorienting process where bragging leaves you feeling inadequate as you perform adequacy.
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I am looking for a spare laptop to support a Dalit student pursuing their master's at TISS. I can pay for repairs/shipping if needed. Please circulate widely.
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Teaching undergrad college students without ever having been to a school/college in the US is a wild wildddddd experience
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The loneliness of being a dalit phd student in a north american uni is something else
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Every day in the US as an immigrant without a permanent status is a reminder of being a second class citizen. I have a job that hired me to do research and I am dying to start work on my book/articles but here I am unable to start work or get paid, spending my days in anxiety.
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Museum at Columbia University - Sign the Petition! via
@ChangeOrg_India
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Grateful and excited to know that our paper “Counting to be Counted” has been awarded a diversity and inclusion award🥇at
#CSCW2022
.
@azhagu_meena
@joyopal
We show that
#Anganwadi
workers are caught in relations of ambivalent care in the era of dashboard governance. Read👇🏽
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i know a lot of prospective students that are not confident abt english, esp. lower caste, can assume that there is no wiggle room in US universities for ielts/toefl/gre stuff. PLS DONT LET THIS STOP YOU. Ask for exemptions and enquire for options if you cant afford/take them!
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Gonna open my dissertation/job talk with this photo and caption it “That's one small step for man, one giant slap for mankind.”
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The idea that tech industry is casteless is one of the most repeated myths that one encounters over and over. Our recent work demonstrates how this is actually not tru anywhr -how Dalit engineers encounter & learn to deal with caste everyday. Read it here-
“…respondents argued that caste discrimination does not exist, that caste is not a thing in the United States, and that efforts to raise awareness of these issues in the United States would sow further division.”
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God & my ancestors' graces are smiling upon me - this paper has been awarded best paper at
#CHI2022
😭😭🤲🤲🎊🎊
Super grateful to fellow Ambedkarites who trusted me with their stories + amazing co-authors
@PhoebeSengers
& Steve Jackson
Out next month in OA or dm me for a copy!
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For some of us a PhD is the only way to gain access to the social and intellectual capital hoarded by upper caste scholars. And did I mention legitimacy? Yes, legitimacy. Means to ends 🤷🏻♀️ (Ofc this is a subtweet)
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I am looking for dalit information science/computer science scholars to collaborate with wherever they might be. Please reach out to me if you identify as such and would like to work on something exciting that’s been cooking in my mind!
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I am presenting my ongoing work on Dalit feminist ethics of deceit and deception (hint in the pics👇🏽) in the liberal academy that doesn’t account for modes of studying up where the native studies the colonizer. Come attend our panel tmrw at South Asia conf
@ACSAMadison
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Hello! I am looking to form a "Dalits in Tech & Society" kind of group where both current and prospective scholars/practitioners/researchers can connect for research support, collaboration, & exchange of ideas/resources. It will be *strictly private & protected* - pls dm &/or RT!
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Are you a computing professional from a SC/ST community? I am a Dalit PhD student doing research on caste and computing and I want to hear your story. I will take utmost care to protect your identity as we collaborate on this project. RT and share widely pls!
#DalitHistoryMonth
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So excited to see this out finally! I had the honor of contributing to this brilliant syllabus and also being featured on it! A critical resource for researchers, teachers, scholars, activists, policy makers and writers interested in inequity, tech and digitality. 🔥🔥
The Case for Critical Caste and Technology Studies:
A new syllabus offers an in-depth guide to caste and its expressions in digital culture
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I just spoke about this at
@rightscon
: Intent is irrelevant to the practice of caste bcoz internalized, naturalised casteism drives everyday decisions & interactions in South Asia. Intention makes it a personal issue, it is a shield against accountability of a caste mind & system
On world environment day, our intent was to spread awareness about the potential of plastic waste and benefits of recycling in a humorous way.
Unintentionally, we may have hurt the sentiments of certain communities and individuals. We have taken down the video.
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Everyone pretending like we are not actually living thru an economic and climate catastrophe is just sucha vibe
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Also if you have not read Akhil Kang’s mind-blowing piece on caste, sexuality and desire, what are you even doingggg?? Dm me if you need a copy.
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My colleagues and friends have been so incredibly supportive I literally could not have done this without you all 💗💗💗🌻🌻
@brianavecchione
😘😘
Insanely proud of
@lapshiii
for giving an excellent dissertation defense talk on the relations of caste and gender in computing -- Congratulations, Doctor!!! 🎉🎓
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These last few weeks of PhD I’ve been juggling visa stuff + defending + revising + packing & moving to new city + processing emotions & finances + planning new job. It feels like the final showdown of a reality tv show. It’s like The Survivor but for academics 😬🐣🥵👀🫠☠️👻💩👽
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Critical caste consciousness raising is so important for caste-oppressed to turn anger into awareness and action. Else the anger festers and kills slowly.
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Writing my end of year PhD progress review like “I guess my biggest accomplishment was that I survived and am still alive. My biggest challenge was finding meaning in doing research and building my career as an academic as the world burns and might not exist tomorrow so....yeah”
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Trust indian media-houses to take an issue of ethnic cleansing & gendered religious and caste violence to turn it into a story abt “Indian woman is not safe” deploying (yet again!!) the respectable savarna woman as a decoy to concurrently show concern & delegitimize the struggle
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Wow some1 just dragged my university into the debate on why I want to support DBA students applying for higher ed. Things on the trolling end jusssst got wild friends. I am alllllll about this drama because savarna brown people love to talk about race bt nvr abt caste. Bring it.
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Stuck in a loop of guilt for finding this heat unbearable - turning on the ac - then proceeding to feel guilty bc ac will only make the city/place/planet hotter - then shutting it off to only feel hotter + guiltier for feeling hot when i know 75% of India can’t afford ac. 😮💨😕😵💫
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Late notice but I will be talking today at CHIWORK about my graduate research and my dissertation project with the brilliant
@avakaya_annam
at 1pm. The talk is titled: “Studying the Unstudied: Caste of Computing”
Zoom link and other details here -
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Really excited to be in conversation with my fav scholars and invite you to join us on this panel! If you work on critical caste studies in any shape or form, please see the call below and consider submitting an abstract.
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SCs gatekeeping reservations from Dalit Christians and Muslims indicates the deep fissure in the Ambedkarite movement that needs a serious resolution thru engagement w/ non-buddhist forms of emancipation that have ALWAYS existed but dismissed as inferior or misplaced.
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Total fangirl moment watching
@maaynaque
in conversation with
@gidla_sujatha
about one of the best books on the role of caste in the formation of modern India through an intergenerational story of a family. What an honor!
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Getting pinged by someone whose work has been so important for you to think about your own data with and being asked for a copy of your paper because they are interested in reading it is just >>>>>> 🫠🫠🫠
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Humbled and overjoyed to be able to share this honor with my wonderful advisors! I am at
#CHI2022
in person & I’d love to chat about coalition building, critiquing, caring, futuring, organizing, laboring, holding, making and occupying tech spaces for equity. Hmu! 🙌🏽🧚🏽♀️🙃💙☕️🥘
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Some of us are observing quietly as mostly upper caste women celebrate and get overwhelmed/emotional at today’s verdict in favor of Ramani, calling it a win. Who has won? Who is winning? (1/n)
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We’ll be talking about how caste and tech are co-constructing each other with a special focus on ✨Savarnas✨. Thought we’d set the record straight since everyone is so obsessed with talking about Dalits. Tune in!!
1) Caste in Institutions and Tech: Dec 7, 13:00 - 14:00 UTC ()
Moderator: Ashwin (
@_ashwxn
)
Panelists: Vipin P. Veetil, Nikita Sonavane (
@glorious_gluten
), Palashi V (
@lapshiii
), Akhil Kang
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Nai karni yaar mujhe job shob - iske liye toh phd karne aayi thi ab firse wahi :/
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Over the last year I have had multiple researchers ask "we believe it is important to study caste in world of tech, but how should we do it?!" Our upcoming
#CSCW
paper (accepted w/ minor revisions) will answer this q with a possible method.
@RamaravindKM
@joyopal
@DanielMRomero
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Turns out it is not the only one involved in this scam! IIHS had a version of this in the past and many non-profits are also co-opting this language for contract labor or short term gigs without any financial support. (Thanks to someone who dm-ed me with this info!)
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Is there an Operating Systems professor or researcher in India willing to mentor a talented and hardworking Dalit woman through a very difficult phase of her career? Please reach out to me if you are someone who can help or can put me in touch w/ someone. RT widely pls!
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👀😶🌫️🫠Savarna academics…why dis sound like you tho
“White faculty are making economic, social, and professional capital gains based on the knowledge they produce about people whose social locations and histories bear very little resemblance to their own.” says
@RJPway4EQ
#RacismInTheAcademy
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Does caste affect who you choose to network with online? Our research of LokSabha Twitter networks shows that upper-caste MPs overwhelmingly choose to network within themselves, actively pushing out lower caste MPs to the margins. (
@joyopal
@RamaravindKM
)-
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Why is someone absolutely irrelevant to this debate being given this platform? The reason SVs get away with appropriation & exploitation is bc their irrelevant & rubbish opinion about things that they have no right to speak or have an opinion about gets traction
@IndianExpress
Anurag Kashyap, an upper caste man, is now comparing Yashica to Kangana Ranaut, someone who was suspended from Twitter for genocidal speech.
Shame on everyone enabling this.
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Reading the updates on the bills passed in the RS in the monsoon session, where all but ONE were passed without significant debate, is a fever dream of powerlessness in a broken democracy. I don’t know what we can do as citizens to turn the tide really. :/
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This week at
#CSCW2022
we are also presenting our paper “Caste Capital on Twitter.” I am proud of
@RamaravindKM
and I for not giving up on this project when things looked bleak! We make a methodological intervention in the study of caste (& capital) in socio-tech systems.Paper 👇🏽
Over the last year I have had multiple researchers ask "we believe it is important to study caste in world of tech, but how should we do it?!" Our upcoming
#CSCW
paper (accepted w/ minor revisions) will answer this q with a possible method.
@RamaravindKM
@joyopal
@DanielMRomero
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Someday i will write about the caste violence of brahmanical heteropatriarchy in my life and boy will i write, like there’s no end in sight.
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We'll be presenting our work "Birds of Caste: How Caste Hierarchies Manifest In Retweet Behavior Of LokSabha MPs" at the upcoming
#cscw2020
! Hear all about it on Tuesday - Oct 20th at 7AM in the "Civic Engagement and Politics" panel at
@ACM_CSCW
w/ me,
@RamaravindKM
and
@joyopal
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The AI frenzy in Indian universities tryna adapt existing courses to AI/data & society courses is looking like the Emperor's New Clothes story as the social sciences and humanities (critical to humanistic analysis of AI) are dismantled, underfunded, underappreciated and red-taped
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I saw a gujarati headline that summarized my dissertation better than I have ever been able to. It is now my cover picture. ✌🏽
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The thing about applying to grants continuously throughout your graduate career to sustain yourself during the summer or to be able to do your project at all is that it barely gives you any time to write any other kind of research paper or article. So yeah fuck me.
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I have never been so stressed in my whole life as much as this past week trying to navigate the health system in the US for my partner who has been sick asa he landed in the US. How do ppl survive diseases with no diagnosis for days if stuff happens nr the weekend? It broke me 😣
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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG), Department III Artifacts, Action, and Knowledge is offering two fellowships for outstanding graduate students at Asian, African or Latin American institutions. Deadline Feb 15th, 2023 -
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Trying to find a job in the US as a person studying caste and technology be like “it’s like race but not” 🫠🫠🫠 pls send help i will not survive this 😭☠️😫
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The diff is not ironic, it is parasitic. This is a win for some, not for us all. Stay grounded, hv some perspective. Don’t get delirious at the state protecting the honor of those it sees as valuable. Remember that some of us still out here & we’re still waiting for justice.(n/n)
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I am not looking to mentor savarnas please make sure you only reach out to me if you identify as DBA (or any other non-savarna minority in India.)
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I can affirm that in communities of techies in India that i m part of there is no holding the gov accountable becoz of the apolitics of sab changa si + to each their own, and that the answer to a crisis of technosolutionism is, you guessed it, more tech solutions 👌✨👩🏻💻
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So basically you figure out your diss arc/argument/conclusion while writing job apps? Coolcoolcoolcoolcool
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In other news I got the
@SSRC_IDRF
to support my dissertation work! 👩🏾🎓🙌🏾🙀😭😳🤓🤑✨🔥🎉
Thanks to my fabulous committee
@PhoebeSengers
, Steve Jackson and Lucinda Ramberg, and my team of last-minute panic management and revision buddies
@kimmerrlee
@not_ias
@krit_vachali
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Why does every job have different page limits for the same materials? I’ll never be able to do anything else besides apply for jobs at this rate 🙄😡😫😣
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People clarifying hindutva as different from hinduism and coming to defend hinduism as a non-violent religion should read Ambedkar’s poignant argument about how Hinduism is based on violence of the caste system. All of it is flawed fam. It’s alright tho coz that’s all religions.
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This is the true face of corporations and the consolidation of the powers of the global elite. Young scholars ready to defend the right of a people TO LIVE are being targeted for their humanity when utter lack of humanity continues to draw and drive money and power in the US.
Top US law firm Davis Polk announces in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard University and Columbia University who signed on to organizational statements regarding Israel.
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Wondering what it’s like to do fieldwork in a pandemic? That too on caste in IT? I wrote a behind-the-scenes to my
#CHI2022
paper where I unpack the trope of arrival in
#Anthro
and discuss how the hieroglyphs of caste are made sense of in worlds of tech
#anthrotwitter
#ststwitter
Today on the blog,
@lapshiii
explores the "arrival trope" through her fieldwork on caste in computing, emphasizing the importance of travel in studying the intangible
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My partner got a US visa but the main thing is we are now partners in humiliation so our bond is made stronger thanks to the US gov 🫶🏽🙌🏽🎊
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Yaaaaa i forgot how tweeting one good thing for marginalized folx will invite a whole truck full of haters and reverse casteism proclaimers. Lol how did I forget about the trolls???
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Never underestimate the ability of the caste capitalist to take an entire country down while they sip on tea and enjoy the view
According to this story, Adani Group has been inflating fuel costs for billions of dollars of coal.
That means millions of Indians have been overpaying for electricity.
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Alright it’s happened, my Dad just asked me to run for elections in the US.
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In my first year of grad school a conversation with a colleague led to the realization that a lot of us got disillusioned by the world and decided to do a whole ass degree just to be able to process that trauma in reading, thinking and writing. I think about that a lot.
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Yes we have convinced the courts to not get swayed by powerful men’s tactics to delegitimize truth of sexual assault. At the same time, some of us aren’t even believed when we are assaulted, or even kept alive. We’re ridiculed for speakin up on for others who are abused. (2/n)
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Still thinking about this brilliant and important article.
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Wanted to sleep but your girl is back to trash white academics who write books about state categorization and caste from an ambivalent position of ‘analysis’ and perpetuate the ridiculous myth of colonial origins of census in India to reinforce UC innocence. Just go home Susan.
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I am at that stage of my PhD where I am repeating my diss outline to everyone who speaks to me with such clarity that all they can do is tell me how amazing my project and I are... just basically doing this on repeat so that I never have to actually write it just pretend its done
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Priyanka Chopra is a good reminder for those looking for more savarna brown women figures saving and representing 'desi culture' abroad. MODI CAME TO HER WEDDING FAM. I really don't know why anyone was expecting any better???
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really thanking my stars that I've been writing the most random notes to myself about my research in different corners of different projects I've done. They are saving my life in this final push of finishing my dissertation draft!!!
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I did not know about this program when I graduated from engineering but I wish I had. RT/share with others please, and as always, if you are a Dalit or Adivasi person looking for help with applications to this or any other program dm/write to me!!
Microsoft Research India invites applications for its 2-year Research Fellow program. Recent graduates and Bachelors/Masters students majoring in CS or a related area may apply. Deadline Jan 15, 2021. Please RT.
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I will be sharing what I know and have learned over time about doing interdisciplinary research and writing on Sept 9th at 7:30pm IST with some rad folks who run
@care_educate
. Please circulate and invite people who you think will benefit from this workshop.
Registrations open now for session one of c.a.r.e workshop series: From Research to Publication.
Session1: Interdisciplinary Research: Identifying Departments & Developing Proposals
When: 9th Sept 2023, 7:30pm IST,
Where: Zoom
Registration Link:
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Aspiring PhD students in awe and amazement of the moral high ground seen in scholarly writing and who want to go to grad school thinking academia will be far from tyranny/disappointment of neoliberal & capitalist/exploitative ethos of the world, boy do I have bad news for you.
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The complicity of mainstream Indian news channels in validating colonialism and ethnic cleansing in palestine is a war crime of the highest degree that should be punished by international law. It’s not even just right wing media but any and all corporate funded media.
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I support the SB403 bill and urge the governor
@GavinNewsom
to
#Signsb403
supporting this fight against caste discrimination in the state of California.
#YesonSb403
will make sure that USA takes the first step towards global caste equity.
1/ The
#casteequity
civil rights movement wins again! Today, anti-caste discrimination bill SB403 made California history and passed in the Senate. Now, the bill heads to the desk of Governor
@GavinNewsom
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All the scholars/academics of science and tech not working on data science/AI (like me) please tag yourselves here I am trying to TAKE UP SPACE TOGETHER, JOIN ME.
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The current vaccine policy and administratIon in India is a tech mediated genocide. i think Nikekani and bangalore bros will be proud of the legacy and extension of the blood trail they set in motion way back.
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Come watch me and other amazinggggg scholars/thinkers in action this weekend! Live on YouTube- link below.
Samyak Center for Interdisciplinary Research (SCIR), Nalanda Academy presents 1st Ayyankali Academic Conference to be held online on 26-27th March 2022.
All our sessions on both days will be hosted live on our Digital Nalanda YouTube Channel -
Jaibhim!
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Watching my millenial gujju friends asking people to stay home to contain the spread of covid while they were off frolicking for holi + never holding the gov’s unpreparedness responsible for the risk to frontline workers bt making it abt citizen/individual responsibility 👀🤯💆🏻♀️🙄
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This is late, but I was awarded a scholarship by the
@mediaofcoop
(CRC)'s Interdisciplinary Research Training Group of
@UniSiegen
for my dissertation work this semester and I am beyond excited to collaborate and learn from their amazing team! Thank you!! ☺️🙌👩💻🥳🎊
The CRC "Media of Cooperation" welcomes six new research fellows at its Integrated Research Training Group (MGK) who will join the research activities in Siegen for a period of six months.
@UniSiegen
For further information visit:
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I swear to god if you are productive this pandemic, you need to check your privilege and stfu
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Another year, another set of things I am already behind on :)))))))))
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Ngl uc diaspora coming from political and generational wealth are the scariest species alive
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If you’re at
@rightscon
this year come for this panel where I’ll be co-conspiring and chatting with these kickass scholars on Anti-caste(ing) AI ✨✨🔥🔥
@Muralisvelan
,
@lapshiii
,
@UpFromTheCracks
and I are hosting a panel on caste and AI at
@rightscon
on June 8th. It is an online panel at IST 8:30 to 9:30. Join us!
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I would like to see privilege statements in applications instead of diversity statements where people acknowledge the power, capital and resources they have had and then make a case for why to hire them. Make difference the burden of the norm darling, i have other things to do.
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Ya mofos wanna cancel my speech?! Imma cancel y’all and publish the f outta it
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It’s that time of the semester when the most dreaded question is “so how are you doing?” Boss i’m 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
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Struggling to analyze fieldnotes and interviews for this chapter because i have too much context switching happening between teaching, job stuff and other phd stuff to be able to focus. What do people who have done this before recommend?
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Students/Aspiring students from underrepresented backgrounds in India/South Asia and please look at this thread below and sign up for their services if you're looking for a community to help you navigate and sustain in educational institutions, both in India and abroad.
Collaborative Action for Research and Education or c.a.r.e is encouraging students from Dalit, Bahujan, Muslim, Adivasi and Trans communities to seek assistance regarding academic concerns by filling the following form.
#castecapital
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