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@chachoghot.bsky.social

they/them || professor navigating the racial brahminical capitalocene

Sometimes I will walk into a room and realize very late that the audience is being forced to look at queerness for the very first time. 🫠

Vegetarianism is enforced through brahminism, so much so that the despised Muslims, Dalits, and Adivasi bodies only find refuge in our own kitchens. The violence of enforced food purity makes buying groceries, cooking food, and even sharing bills so difficult.

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder

Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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A professor in Tufts University’s School of Engineering required one of his international graduate students to work an unpaid TA job this past spring semester. After she went to her union and blew the whistle, Tufts withdrew her from her program. A thread of rage. 1/

Institutions are not willing to move with the demands of the market they have helped build. We train people to reinforce the old bones of capitalism, and then we complain about them choking us.

"Too much reading of pragmatism into Ambedkar suggests an American project — the same American project yet to adequately address the structural and perpetual racial discrimination faced by people of colour." Prof. Mahanand on the insistent pragmatic reading of Ambedkar

My heart yearns to feel rewarded by cheap food after starving all day. Here, I cook healthy expensive food and still feel punished. 🫠

I think living in the empire one forgets the materialities of violence outside of it. This amnesia borne of the hallucinations of imperial comfort is very dangerous.

it seems the only rationale for jumping on the genai bandwagon is the fabricated fomo (not actual benefit to research) and this is not surprising tbh. the ai industry has poured millions into setting much of the ai "potential benefit” discourse

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

63% of respondents said the risks of using generative AI tools to analyze data and scientific literature outweigh the benefits — yet nearly 60% felt they would be left behind if they didn't use AI tools in their work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What do we know of lack? What does it mean to not have the simplest of things that everyone else has? We demand such figures to swallow their anger and to work around this lack, when we could hardly breathe if it was us.

how demoralizing to be in a community that rarely if ever understands the force of the fight for knowledge. the work of relationality is deeply needed, is ongoing, but could be pushed to do more.