mimi (mai) 🦎

you must not ever stop being whimsical btw, if u even care

[mimi (mai) 🦎 @chipkalees]

i think about the 19th and 20th centuries in south asia and i am filled with awe and such sadness at once

[mimi (mai) 🦎 @chipkalees]

i feel that nothing has made me as cynical as my history degree, while also instilling in me so much wonder and understanding for everything around me

[mimi (mai) 🦎 @chipkalees]

i know plenty about economic botany and british naturalists and the timber trade and indian forestry but also i know absolutely nothing

[mimi (mai) 🦎 @chipkalees]

does historical research always feel like you know nothing and are grasping at straws even tho you have mostly been reading and reading and reading for the last 10 months

[mimi (mai) 🦎 @chipkalees]

have to submit my revised research proposal today 🫣

[🪺🪻অপালা🕊🐦 (duskphoenix.bsky.social) @RadfemOwl]

These books document caste stratification among Muslims and Christians, alongside gender hierarchy and the limitation of colonial understanding of caste.

[Edgar Ekhon Thepla @poeticlieshensh]

Its literally a copy paste of Rowlatt Act down to seizing and confiscating property, arrest and jail without trial, and keeping the nature of what constitutes these offensive acts completely vague.

[Edgar Ekhon Thepla @poeticlieshensh]

Gotta love how nothing in this country means nothing anymore? Passport doesnt prove you are a citizen, voters ID card doesnt mean you get to vote and now marriage registration certificate doesnt mean you are married.
Beautiful

[Edgar Ekhon Thepla @poeticlieshensh]

What even in the actual fcuk is this? How did these get passed with ZERO discussion? No lawyer allowed? PROPERTY seized and auctioned off??

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

“Six years down the line, I must say that I am really disappointed and even feel isolated. This silence – of opposition parties, of civil society groups, of celebrity activists who have made a career out of piggy-backing on people’s movements – emboldens this regime to go after further dissidents.”

[Gizmo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @basedgizmo]

I miss looking at something and knowing without any doubt that a human was responsible for it

[mimi (mai) 🦎 @chipkalees]

have to submit my revised research proposal today 🫣

[WJ Hasipoglou @swinfreda]

i think the bigger tragedy is that “orientalism” entered the vocabulary of people who evidently have zero idea what it means so now they think an ottoman painter depicting ottomans is a gotcha against said. very advanced level of not getting either of them

[moon child @marxistnila]

fun fact. this cutter is designed for disabled people. a lot of things we use on the daily (eg: ramraj velcro veshtis, magnet knife holders etc) are all invented for disabled ppl. increasing accessibility for disabled ppl makes the world a better place for everybody

[☀️ @kavehkitty]

so theres this country called india

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

We shouldn’t move on from the nearly 200 girls killed in bombings in Iran, just like we shouldn’t forget the Lebanon pagers attack that killed thousands, just like we shouldn’t forget the days when 800 people were being killed in Gaza every day.
Same perpetrators every time.

[Tameqqrant @tizemtmarxism]

we are inside Pornography’s Empire. the global system that cultivates demand for porn simultaneously generates sexual slavery; remember this is what imperialist globalization requires, an open market that supplies oppressed nation women (such as Iranian girls and women in this case) as objects of sexual commodification exchange. pornographic access becomes imagined as the “natural” sequel to geopolitical rule.

[Ema🇵🇸 @Ema97n]

Wars do NOT liberate women. In wars, women only suffer: killed, raped, starve, endure periods while protecting children, fetuses, or breastfeeding newborns. ‘Liberating women’ by launching a war is a lie invented by the West to impose its power.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Aslah Kayyalakkath @aslahtweets]

After replugging our explainer video on Kunan Poshpora on @MaktoobMedia, I have been receiving dozens of calls, many of them threatening, insisting that “nothing happened” in those villages and that any attempt to speak about it is a defamation of the armed forces. A complete denial!

Yesterday, men affiliated with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) barged into the campus of Azim Premji University and attacked a student. The only so-called “trigger”? A student reading circle had announced a discussion on Kunan Poshpora.

The attempt is always the same: intimidate, threaten, deny, erase.
If they can force silence, they believe history itself will disappear.

Remembering is an act of resistance. And perhaps that is precisely why it frustrates them.

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

The university authorities claimed that the Spark Reading Circle APU, which organised the event, is not registered with the institution.

https://t.co/81AClQ4iVf

They added that “unknown individuals were misusing” the university’s name to “circulate content that could incite enmity between groups”.