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PhD Candidate in Political Science at McGill University. Dissertating on Hobbes and Anxiety. Interests include HPT, feminism, emotions and politics, agency and power, democracy, hierarchies and equality.
- Reposted by VTime and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.
- Reposted by VThe images coming out of Iran are heartbreaking. Security forces have killed so many protesters. We’re talking thousands. Maybe tens of thousands.
- Reposted by VReading estimates of 2000-12000 dead in Iran as govt cracks down. Insane FREE IRAN. Down with the regime
- Zohran Mamdani, the first South Asian Muslim Mayor of NYC, quoted Jawaharlal Nehru's 1947 Independence Day speech in his Nov 4, 2025, victory speech, "...when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." My heart is full! 🫶✊
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- With marches for Gaza to continuously raise voices for breaking the siege and liberating Palestine in many parts of the world supporting these efforts. Heartening to see a Montreal4Palestine march pass through my neighbourhood with people in balconies cheering on the efforts of protestors! Free 🇵🇸
- Reposted by VThere's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam
- Tonight on Ideas at CBC Radio One, 8:05 pm. In the context of the No Kings movement in America, listen to a re-broadcast of my PhD thesis episode by Ideas, offering a new reading of Hobbes and what we can learn from him in these highly anxious times in democracies today! www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
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- Reposted by VHundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
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- Trump bringing back "Free Speech" in America. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...
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- Things are scary CBC Interview with the Indian PhD student in Columbia who had to flee to Canada to escape detention in light of the crackdown on students protesting against the genocide in Palestine. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
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- Amidst the humanitarian crises of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants south of the border & the anti-immigrant sentiment in advanced democracies today, a nuanced public philosophy piece on mobile migration by Dr. Anna Milioni, postdoc at @lecre.bsky.social enainstitute.org/en/publicati...
- Broadcasting now on CBC Radio One on Ideas in the Afternoon in the context of the historically biggest take over of oligarchy of American democracy. My take on Hobbes on anxiety contextualised for American democracy on inaugation day. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
- I am pleased to share a preview of the overarching argument of my PhD dissertation, featured on CBC Ideas, to be broadcast nationwide on CBC Radio One tonight at 8:05 pm, with a repeat broadcast in the series Ideas in the Afternoon on Jan 27th at 2:05 pm. Episode link at www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
- Reposted by VFormer GRIPP fellow @vertika.bsky.social on CBC Radio tonight (and also available here online) discussing Hobbes and anxiety www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
- I am pleased to share a preview of the overarching argument of my PhD dissertation, featured on CBC Ideas, to be broadcast nationwide on CBC Radio One tonight at 8:05 pm, with a repeat broadcast in the series Ideas in the Afternoon on Jan 27th at 2:05 pm. Episode link at www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
- wind howls in an empty rice sack how like a man ~ Peter Levitt, One Hundred Butterflies
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- Grocery store quote from the woman at the cash who saw my McGill ID, on knowing I am doing a PhD in Political Sc., “Oh Politics! That’s too bad. I don’t like the politics. The political today is that there is a UN ceasefire and the US could still do nothing to stop the war. Well, good luck to you.”
- Sitting at my desk opening my copy. Wondering why so many people happily repudiated their own constitution. It’s going to be a long fight.
- The firecrackers have no sign of stopping. BJP's carefully planned orchestrated extravaganza through a mobilized army of Modi bhakts is passed off as a genuine national celebration vindicating centuries-old unfulfilled religious aspirations. #Jan22
- The BJP's exclusionary religious politics is about elections, and yet they have succeeded in making millions believe that it is about Ram.
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- A little Québec beauty to brighten your timeline.
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- Had a great evening thanks to @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social attending Adam Gopnik’s Homecoming Leacock lecture on The Tyranny of Achievement and How to Defeat it. It’s incredibly inspiring to listen to a great orator and storyteller. Now the Real Work of Mastery starts—Accomplishment over Achievement 😊
- Evil was banal and it still remains horrifyingly banal. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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- Out of the movies that used to be screened in college when I was in undergrad there was one that deeply touched and broke my heart. When I watched this 15 years ago I did not fathom Palestine would still be occupied and the world witness genocide in 2023. #The Lemon Tree youtu.be/e_j1llK3Fco?...
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