My book, Dressed for Dissent: Decolonial Fashion and the Queer Struggle for Palestine, is officially out today with University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social.

See a new article on #textiles in Palestinian diasporic art by me and @robertofilippel.bsky.social - it’s in the latest issue of @feministstudies.bsky.social focused on textiles. #textileart#palestine

Feminist Studies Journal@feministstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our new issue drops today. It's a double issue focused on textiles.

Our new issue drops today. It's a double issue focused on textiles.

Check out our issue for @femmediahist.bsky.social on Fashion as Media in Feminist-Queer Histories! It features brilliant essays on US lesbian activist t-shirts, crossdressing in Egyptian periodicals, dress in Black portrait photography, and trans bipoc fashioning at the Pussy Palace, among others 💫

Feminist Media Histories@femmediahist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

12(3) "Fashion as/and Media," guest edited by Roberto Filippello and Ilya Parkins, is now live! In this issue fashion operates intermedially, foregrounding its relational capacity across photography, television, magazines, and novels. —Editors' Introduction, FREE NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

On this day, in 1972, Palestinian writer and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani and his niece Lamis Nijem were assassinated in Beirut in a bombing attributed to the Israeli Mossad. www.palquest.org/en/overallch...

Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut (8 July 1972)

Event - Ghassan Kanafani  (editor of the PFLP weekly magazine al-Hadaf, major Palestinian novelist, and head of the Information Office of the PFLP) is...

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This is great! I hope the board listens to its members, bans the agitator, apologizes to the WOC and trans woman on the receiving end of his violence, commits to a racism and harassment free space at confs & communication, and finally acknowledges the genocide and scholasticide in Palestine. Amen!

A job! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Out soon with @ucpress.bsky.social!

On International Working Women’s Day in 2025 I’m wondering why TERFs still get to be called “radical feminists” without scare quotes around the phrase.

Reminder: Our 11.1 issue is free to read throughout Black History Month 🙂 Here is one of the essays included in the issue:

Feminist Media Histories@femmediahist.bsky.social · 2y ago

In this piece from our 11.1 issue, Joshua Chambers-Letson tracks the centering of performance and theatricality in Camille Billops and James V. Hatch's interrogation of race and racism in The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks (1994). Read the full essay here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Online - featuring Walaa Al Qaisiya, Nadine Naber and Nada Elia. 11th Feb 2025: Feminist and Queer Solidarities with Palestine Registration required. events.berkeley.edu/gws/event/28...

I'm so excited to be holding Beenash Jafri's Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film in my hands!

I’m putting together a panel, titled “Dressing for a Broken Future: Queer Fashion Experiments in the Subjunctive,” for ASAP/16 - Houston, 22-25 Oct, 2025 (artsofthepresent.org/conference/a...). Here’s the call for abstracts. Please circulate. Proposals must be submitted on the conference portal.

There appears to be a Korean... fashion brand(?) called "Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" and I don't know what's going on any more.

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Queer, HIV-Positive, and Running Out of Medication in Gaza

A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.

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Genoa, Gramsci, Genoa, Zerocalcare.

The general consensus in the geopol west underscores ethic of hard work narrative as preamble for its current global position. It completely occludes colonial-capitalist exploitation & hoarding of resources that is in a large proportion responsible for planetary destruction.+

Here is a starter pack for ASCA, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, inviting all members, alumni, and friends to join. Please let me know who to add. go.bsky.app/4mpUPjD