durba.bsky.social
Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) & The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
👤 Joined on 29 April 2023
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@durba.bsky.social"I've come out in favor of a no-confidence vote simply because I was not persuaded that the university administration is actually going to change its structures to listen to students and faculty in a serious, deliberative way." – David Baeman, Cornell AAUP President
Show PostA friend and I were discussing how much of our writing lives online (a lot). We are mostly sure it's been hoovered up by ai. And pretty sure that any ai detection tool would claim we use ai. What can we do but shrug and carry on?
Show PostIt’s pretty hard to shock me, I promise. holy moly.
Show PostHistory won't ever recover its strength in the US academy or the research funding it needs without a powerful disciplinary association that historians working across all fields and time periods can believe in. We really need a strong, trust-inspiring AHA.
Show PostThe sad thing is that historians both in and beyond the academy desperately need powerful institutional advocates, including scholarly associations that actually respond to the needs of their discipline and merit the trust of their members.
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