Natasha Ansari

Urban planning PhD @ MIT | Disability justice, care as infrastructure, informal settlements

[Natasha Ansari @natashaansari]

@nigreaux yes, please!!!

[Natasha Ansari @natashaansari]

@nigreaux me!

[Natasha Ansari @natashaansari]

@jiya_pandya @PrincetonHist Yay! Congratulations!!!!

[Progressive City: Radical Alternatives @pcityradical]

What does it mean to be a “progressive” or “radical” planner? And what kind of power do planners have to enact change?

The #PlannersNetwork Disorientation Guide attempts to orient folks new to the field of urban and regional planning to ideas, concepts, and practices linked to progressive or radical planning traditions.

Reimagined 20 years after its first iteration, the Disorientation Guide features a range of articles, interviews, and excerpts sourced from progressive planning academics and practitioners. In addition, the guide includes additional resources with links to grassroots organizations, non-profits, and academic research groups involved in progressive city-building practices.

It is our hope that this guide can help to inspire positive ways forward amid present challenges and offer a lens into the kinds of alternative visions and practices that planning can be.

Download the guide (PDF) at:
https://t.co/UnYN5lLgAX

Please print, share, and distribute!

[MIT Coalition for Palestine - Commentary @m1t_caa]

In 1987, the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid protested against MIT's ties to apartheid South Africa by erecting a shantytown.

Today, in the same location, students are protesting MIT's ties to genocide & apartheid in Palestine via the Scientists Against Genocide encampment. 🇵🇸

[Mohammed Hanif @mohammedhanif]

In protest, returning my Sitara e Imtiaz, given to me by a state that continues to abduct and torture Baloch citizens. Journalists of my generation have seen @SammiBaluch and @MahrangBaloch_ grow up in protest camps. Ashamed to witness a new generation being denied basic dignity.

[Shakoor Baloch @ShakoorBSO]

Thousands in Balochistan march against the extrajudicial killing of enforced disappeared Balach Baloch. To the rest of the world: Do our voices matter to you?
#StopBalochGenocide
@sakhtarmengal @HamidMirPAK @a_siab @ImaanZHazir @asmashirazi @AWGoraya @MunizaeJahangir @aishamj7

[Natasha Ansari @natashaansari]

@gabrimartini_ny @RaniaKhalek @democracynow

[Natasha Ansari @natashaansari]

@gabrimartini_ny @RaniaKhalek would you be able to speak to these students as a journalist? Since the CNN and others are only interested in the false counter narrative.

[Aurat March - عورت مارچ @AuratMarchKHI]

🚨 ATTENTION: Lawyer & activist Jibran Nasir has been abducted by na maloom afraad from inside his car. We strongly condemn his abduction (which is a clear violation of citizen rights) & urge the govt & LEAs to ensure his immediate + unconditional safe release.

#FreeJibranNasir

[MIT Urban Planning @mitdusp.bsky.social @MITdusp]

A team led by #dusp's @mqqt_ + Stephen Walter, Sabrina Dorsainvil, & George Halfkenny aims to counter 'Mass & Cass'’s crisis narrative while centering the communities’ civic agency & creativity + encourage experimentation with healing & just architectures. https://t.co/upvh7Z8DiE

[MuslimJusticeLeague @MuslimJustice]

Join us on Monday, Jan 9th 3:00 PM at Cambridge City Hall to support the Bangladeshi Association of New England (BANE) and his family in protesting his unjust killing by CPD. More actions and demands to follow in the upcoming days.

[Natasha Ansari @natashaansari]

@nigreaux 👏🏽👏🏽🥳🥳🎉🎉

[Natasha Ansari @natashaansari]

Creating alt text for the first time for pictures, maps, graphs and infographics with @kanarinka for Counting Feminicides was an iterative, generative and overall wholesome process. Excited to continue learning and improving!

[PRSF - Karachi @PrsfK]

As cries of "Azaadi, Azaadi" echoed across Frere Hall in Karachi, reverberated across the rest of Sindh, and Pakistan; it stands clear that the long silenced voices trans and khawaja sira voices can no longer be suppressed

Jaagi Jaagi, Moorat Jaagi 🏳️‍⚧️

#SMM2022

[Michael Kugelman @MichaelKugelman]

At COP27, negotiators, led by Pakistan as chair of G77, produced an accord to set up a fund for loss and damage-remarkable given how controversial the issue is and it had never been on a formal agenda at a COP summit until this year.
Big foreign policy achievement for Islamabad.