Bhumi B. Patel

she/they | queer dance artist/activist, phd hot mess, daughter of immigrants, artistic director of pateldanceworks

[Bhumi B. Patel @bhumithelion]

“I asked students once: 'Why do you feel that the regard I extend to a particular student cannot also be extended to each of you? Why do you think there is not enough love or care to go around?'”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

[Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni]

Happy birthday to one of the most important anti-colonial revolutionaries to ever live, Frantz Fanon.

“The settler's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler.”

[Evelyn Vázquez, PhD, MS (she/ella) @DrEvelynVazquez]

Highly recommended to anyone else healing from institutional racism:

“Scholars of color are often pushed out of traditional disciplinary departments, forced through bullying, harassment, & hostile work environments… [R]aising problems becomes translated into being the problem.”

[CHIRLA @CHIRLA]

HAPPENING NOW- Los Angeles rises to defend #DACA! We call on @POTUS to make DACA permanent & work with Congress to deliver on his promise of a path to citizenship for immigrants who have been here for decades contributing to our country.

[Bhumi B. Patel @bhumithelion]

@phdinsleeping 🥲

[Bhumi B. Patel @bhumithelion]

just wondering has anyone had a moment of not being swamped at all this year? 🫥

[OSU Dance @osudance]

Please join us in congratulating PhD Alumna Alesondra (Alex) Christmas on being awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship appointed as equity design program manager for Zora’s House. Read more: https://t.co/UO5zdmdcko

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Decolonization is not about regaining a romanticized past. It’s about dismantling structures of domination in the present by any means necessary so that an alternative future is possible.

[Gargi Bhattacharyya @Gargi_at_home]

Because I am losing my mind, I try to say these things to myself:

- this depravity is designed to break international solidarity, telling us there is nothing we can do so give up;
- the Palestinian people have not been defeated;
- every Empire falls;

Do everything you can.

[postmodern baseball ☕️ @TomSchally]

the secret to work-life balance is inherited wealth