Dr Parinita Shetty

Part-time public library assistant, part-time education researcher, part-time procrastinator, some-time children's book writer, full-time overwhelmed

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

I was so happy to be a part of this series! If you're into science fiction and/or fantasy, check out the recordings of all their panels. Listen to artists explore different kinds of SFF media + themes, then read the academic responses to the conversations (including mine below!)

[FutureScottishSFF @FutureScotSff]

Dr Parinita Shetty's (@wildpyjamas) academic response to our third event "Representations of Social Issues in SFF Worlds and Narratives" is here! Read "Restorying Imaginations with Multimodal SFF and Fan Counternarratives" here:
https://t.co/rignEO2Jiq

[Riddhi Dastidar @gaachburi]

whatever happens now, this is a sign for us to keep fighting, keep resisting, keep remaking the country in the image of the sovereign socialist secular democratic republic it CAN be. hope is cultivated by action 🫀🌹

[Hasiba | حسيبة | हसीबा ✋🏽🌈🍉 @HasibaAmin]

Mohabbat ki dukaan..
(Who did this? 😂)

[Sayantan Ghosh @sayantansunnyg]

You can build as big a temple as you want but if you bulldoze a thousand homes in the same neighborhood then our people are going to notice, and remember... because the idea of India is still far bigger than one political party's skewed idea of India.

[k @krownnist]

dont slander comrade emraan hashmi

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

A group of 9-12 year old kids from a community centre in Cork met up with kids living in refugee accommodation nearby.
They made this track, & it’s gone viral; 📺 watch, & see why.
🔉 Sound up for💥The Spark, by the Kabin Crew & the Lisdoonvarna Crew 🇮🇪!

[Haztecamarera @Haztecamarera]

Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

a thread

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

Medical staff in #Gaza are so inundated by the sheer mass of patients arriving that the surgical board used to keep track of the weeks upcoming surgeries has been wiped clean and replaced with these words:

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@excaliburedpan Have you read Gideon the Ninth? I LOVED it (the the next two books in the series too) but equally I can see people really disliking it (It's very weird and excellent but requires you to be okay with having no idea what's going on 87% of the time)

[De Elizabeth @deelizabeth_]

Being in the Google doc at the same time as someone else

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Decolonial scholars conspiring to decolonize the world.

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

I quite liked the idea of displaying a kintsugi-ed award on my shelf but

a) as a precarious academic, putting together the pieces using gold is far beyond my budget; and

b) airport security would have arrested me for accidentally creating a glass dagger

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

It was SUCH an honour to receive the UKLA 2023 student research award for my PhD thesis at their international conference last week. Huge thanks to @LucyTaylor70 for nominating me and to @The_UKLA for all the kind words about my work + offering me the time & space to share it.

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

I completely forgot to share my actual favourite photo (courtesy @ILoveCopyright ). My award lasted intact through dinner + dessert. Then there was a mysterious CRASH under the table & I instantly knew what had happened. Everyone felt SO bad & I couldn't stop laughing. Typical.

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@LucyTaylor70 @The_UKLA Thank you Lucy! (For this and so much more!)

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@jenfarrar76 @drmo28 @medcll @UofGEducation Hahaha and I'd never want to, thank you Jen! I absolutely credit/blame you for sending me down this whole route because I still remember (& frequently bring up at presentations + my thesis) how your lecture introduced me to critical literacy and set my brain ablaze 💜

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@savva_andrie @LucyTaylor70 @The_UKLA Thank you!!

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@Dr_Dimitra_Fimi @LucyTaylor70 @The_UKLA Thanks so much!

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@AlisonBaker01 @BeckyParry68 @LucyTaylor70 @The_UKLA Thank you!!!

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@AlisonBaker01 Awwww Ali thanks so much for sharing!! I cited you in this presentation at the conference too - a friendly person on my slides.

[Dr Parinita Shetty @wildpyjamas]

@induviduality Thank you!!! (Dr! Imagine! So weird!)