Sujith Kumar

(No longer updated) Sociologist. Ethnicity, religion, health & human sexuality. RTs/likes ≠ endorsements 🏳️‍🌈 @KirbyInstitute

[Sujith Kumar @thisissujith]

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza  https://t.co/bJC9S83Fud

[UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health @CSRH_UNSW]

New article 📰🏳️‍🌈 "Inclusive health care for LGBTQ+ youth: support, belonging & inclusivity labour" by Deputy Dean of Research Prof. Christy Newman, @CSRH_UNSW's Emeritus Scientia Prof. Peter Aggleton et al. @thisissujith @KirbyInstitute @tandfonline

⬇️ https://t.co/uJykxKCmY5

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Impaling prisoners with metal rods in their rectum is the last of the thousands horrors Palestinians have had to endure these past 8 months.

However, abuses, torture, mass killing, wanton destruction, have been the daily reality for the Palestinians under Israeli rule for over half a century.

Now everyone can see. Israel operates as a military dictatorship, committing all sorts of crimes including #apartheid to the aim of removing the Palestinians from their land.

It did not start on Oct 7.

#StoptheGenocideNow

[Sujith Kumar @thisissujith]

New paper out on the understanding of cultural inclusion within alcohol and other drug services in New South Wales, Australia, and assessing the acceptability of a cultural inclusion audit #healthequity

@CSRH_UNSW @KirbyInstitute

[Drug&AlcoholReview @APSAD_DAR]

Understanding cultural inclusion in #AOD services in #NSW, Australia & assessing the acceptability of a cultural inclusion audit

Robyn Horwitz, Loren Brener @thisissujith Tata de Jesus, Alison Jaworski, Ahmad Jadran @JoanneBryant14
@UNSW @SWSPHN

https://t.co/40ET8qLYzm

[Hannah McCann @binarythis]

Happening right now in Arts West at UniMelb — the Acting Provost has told students that they have until 2:30pm to leave: “If you are not out of the building within an hour, the university will have to make decisions that will seriously escalate the tension”

[Penelope Joy @LopeyPen]

When the in-person attendees go for afternoon tea..... the online investigate the AI options for profiles...
#SHLUnconference24 #SHL24 @SocioHealthLab @Horaswong @anita_ogbeide @thisissujith

"honouring the non-human life in our conversation, all the way through"

[Sujith Kumar @thisissujith]

Happening now, online (3.20pm session)

Exciting times — getting into the Pluriverse with a creative, interdisciplinary, and (perhaps most importantly) caring team! @Horaswong @LopeyPen @anita_ogbeide

[SocioHealthLab @SocioHealthLab]

📣 Our (Un)Conference is fast approaching 📣

In TWO DAYS be ready to connect, exchange and energise!

Use our Padlet to download the program, access the book of abstract and conference venue details, and also CONNECT with attendees/speakers https://t.co/k6y9YFos7g

[Sujith Kumar @thisissujith]

Grateful to contribute to the vital mission of this interdisciplinary, international and deeply committed team, in the service of our communities in Asia and the Pacific 🌻 #HealthEquity

[Kirby Institute, UNSW @KirbyInstitute]

We're excited to announce a new research program - the Asia and Pacific Health Program - led by Prof Andrew Vallely, which is dedicated to improving sexual reproductive and maternal health in low- and middle-income Asia-Pacific countries.

🌏Learn more: https://t.co/MzkjFOqt1q

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

As night falls and waking up at 5 AM, flying to New York and 8 hours of street reporting non-stop catches up with me, I am about to leave this party and let these young ppl who welcomed me into their space carry on. But first, some final thoughts…

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Update on Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza: @WHO and partners had to postpone a highly-complex joint mission due to delays. Three prior missions were denied. The hospital remains under siege since 18 March.

100 patients and 50 health workers are reportedly still inside the nonfunctional facility, with hostilities around it. We are extremely worried about their condition and safety.

Repeated denials have not only impeded us from reaching patients but also disrupted other crucial life-saving operations, by diverting limited resources.

We urge Israel to facilitate a safe humanitarian corridor and a better deconfliction system for WHO and partners to support patient transfers.

International humanitarian law is clear: health must not be militarized or attacked. Ceasefire!

[Sujith Kumar @thisissujith]

Important work.

(Thanks for the heads up, @DrMNNoor!)

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

“Colonialism, which sought to exploit colonised people and places, was justified by the prejudice that colonised people's ways of knowing and being are inferior to those of the colonisers. Institutions for knowledge production… were therefore central to sustaining colonialism…”

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Complete shocker, putting into law the concept that the Palestinians are not allowed to have human rights, only Israelis, and that the Palestinians will be punished if they have the temerity to ask for their human rights to be upheld. Why isn't every American journalist screaming about this obvious injustice?

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Famine in Gaza is not a natural disaster. It's a political choice. Outrageous, yes. But also criminal: deliberately depriving 2.3ML Palestinians of resources crucial for survival reflects an intent to inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction

[UNSW Social Policy Research Centre @SPRC_UNSW]

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Watch this introductory video:
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[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Ngl I’m annoyed by everything being reduced to “pro-Palestine” or “anti-Israel.” This is not a team sport. I am pro-justice, anti-genocide. Pro-equality, anti-apartheid. Pro-indigenous rights, anti-colonisation. Pro-human rights, anti starving-children-to-death.

[Yasmin Gunaratnam @YasminGun]

Meeting Stuart Hall ~ ⁦@SaraNAhmed⁩ , ⁦@Gargi_at_home⁩, Vera Jocelyn, ⁦@patnoxolo⁩, ⁦@kalifilms⁩, Ann Phoenix, ⁦@spatialmutation⁩ & Suzanne Scafe
Beautiful tributes to Stuart Hall & his many contribs to our lives & thinking https://t.co/CgCEI1mtR6

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

A colonizer is always angry, because a colonizer is always guilty.
A colonizer is always violent, because a colonizer is always afraid.

A colonizer is always angry and afraid because a colonizer is never home.
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Lately I started getting words for it, this colonizer homelessness, the fact that colonizers look and feel like aliens to natives not only because they don't belong, but because the colonizers themselves feel the same way.

Think about it: wherever a colonizer goes, whatever they see, smell or taste, it is never theirs, or completely natural. It is not organic to them, but engineered; their whole existence is.

Whatever sustains and nourishes the native, threatens the colonizer and reflects their strangeness: the food, the music, the landscape, the flora and fauna. the sounds and smells, everything.

Whatever comes naturally to the native is a great effort for the colonizer: they don't understand the codes, and never will. They can't be still.

Aa colonizer is not an immigrant, a tourist or a guest, they have to find meaning for their stay. It must be a higher purpose, a higher calling, else what can explain both their presence not home, and the violent means they always need to maintain it? We are not designed to inflict pain and injury for comfort. We need a story to put us in a positive light.
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So much of the western world's anxiety, I think, is just a colonizer's latent, repressed homelessness. Because colonialism is not just taking other people's home, it is also, and forever, being without one yourself.

[Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage]

I will soon issue my own statement.

I would have lived with the first part re incompatibility. But finishing with ‘there is no place for racism’ implying that i am a racist, I cannot accept.

Statement of the Max Planck Society about Prof. Ghassan Hage https://t.co/XhJXJOjNT0