Anar Parikh, PhD 🍉
@anarparikh.bsky.social
inconsistent writer & podcaster | consistent succulent germinator | doing language policy & planning on Mvskoke Creek & Cherokee lands
location: the millenial soundscape
location: the millenial soundscape
me at my disciplinary conference hanging out with my elite selection of friends from my grad program
Since I quit my job, I’ve done a number of academic talks, and the after-dinner is always such a glorious and melancholy experience: it reminds me of what I loved most about that job, what I’m really good at, and what I miss. I want to rebuild + half-rejoin an institution that is all these 🤗 things.
February 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM
me at my disciplinary conference hanging out with my elite selection of friends from my grad program
i can't believe i am back here after however many months but i've never been more grateful that i am almost a decade and a half out from having graduated from draB college but if you need a man who cozies up to pedophiles to be the savior of your institution, the institution simply does not exist
February 20, 2026 at 2:58 AM
i can't believe i am back here after however many months but i've never been more grateful that i am almost a decade and a half out from having graduated from draB college but if you need a man who cozies up to pedophiles to be the savior of your institution, the institution simply does not exist
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i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
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Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
January 24, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
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Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy
January 22, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy
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everything of this empire actually has to go for the peoples and the earth and the birds to live, and the going is not going to happen by appealing to its keepers
January 8, 2026 at 7:36 PM
everything of this empire actually has to go for the peoples and the earth and the birds to live, and the going is not going to happen by appealing to its keepers
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if mary and joseph set off to bethlehem today they'd cross 15 israeli checkpoints and a 30ft wall
December 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
if mary and joseph set off to bethlehem today they'd cross 15 israeli checkpoints and a 30ft wall
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this story is actually wilder than the headline or pulled quote suggests. it ends with his wife saying that she generally supports the detention and deportation of immigrants--as long as they are criminals. but not criminal like her husband.
“Each call, he asks about all of us first and keeps telling us he is OK.”
“He’s always done everything they asked him to do.”
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
“He’s always done everything they asked him to do.”
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
this story is actually wilder than the headline or pulled quote suggests. it ends with his wife saying that she generally supports the detention and deportation of immigrants--as long as they are criminals. but not criminal like her husband.
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Mutual aid:
From @bsonblast.bsky.social - linktr.ee/bsonblast
Hope & Haven Refugees - linktr.ee/hopeandhaven...
Action:
Boycott The UAE - boycottuae.org
Workshops 4 Sudan - www.sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...
Other resources: www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
From @bsonblast.bsky.social - linktr.ee/bsonblast
Hope & Haven Refugees - linktr.ee/hopeandhaven...
Action:
Boycott The UAE - boycottuae.org
Workshops 4 Sudan - www.sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...
Other resources: www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Mutual aid:
From @bsonblast.bsky.social - linktr.ee/bsonblast
Hope & Haven Refugees - linktr.ee/hopeandhaven...
Action:
Boycott The UAE - boycottuae.org
Workshops 4 Sudan - www.sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...
Other resources: www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
From @bsonblast.bsky.social - linktr.ee/bsonblast
Hope & Haven Refugees - linktr.ee/hopeandhaven...
Action:
Boycott The UAE - boycottuae.org
Workshops 4 Sudan - www.sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...
Other resources: www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time
Zohran is the Gujarati diaspora nepo baby icon we all need
June 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Zohran is the Gujarati diaspora nepo baby icon we all need
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I think what I’m most offended by is that Democrats and pundits spent the last 135 month and days arguing about whether or not trans and POC People were divisive
And still are
Meanwhile the unhinged racists are sta
Tying WWIII and shooting protesters and democratic legislators
And still are
Meanwhile the unhinged racists are sta
Tying WWIII and shooting protesters and democratic legislators
June 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I think what I’m most offended by is that Democrats and pundits spent the last 135 month and days arguing about whether or not trans and POC People were divisive
And still are
Meanwhile the unhinged racists are sta
Tying WWIII and shooting protesters and democratic legislators
And still are
Meanwhile the unhinged racists are sta
Tying WWIII and shooting protesters and democratic legislators
A official homeland security communique links to THE NEW YORK POST reporting on nonprofit organizations receiving funding to help immigrants with legal cases
June 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A official homeland security communique links to THE NEW YORK POST reporting on nonprofit organizations receiving funding to help immigrants with legal cases
Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah, for anyone who wants to see concretely how Democrats are literally responsible for so much of the bad shit happening right now
June 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah, for anyone who wants to see concretely how Democrats are literally responsible for so much of the bad shit happening right now
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I truly believe that we should all fly our sexual freak flags as we wish—as long as everyone is consenting, etc.—but “Zionist in the sheets” means someone is not consenting
May 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I truly believe that we should all fly our sexual freak flags as we wish—as long as everyone is consenting, etc.—but “Zionist in the sheets” means someone is not consenting
I would love for someone to please explain to me journalism’s obsession with past perfect tense
May 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I would love for someone to please explain to me journalism’s obsession with past perfect tense
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We all make mistakes organizing, it’s normal. But if you find yourself systemically dismissing student activism as silly or naive, and believing you know better, then it’s time to retire. You’ve lost the plot.
May 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We all make mistakes organizing, it’s normal. But if you find yourself systemically dismissing student activism as silly or naive, and believing you know better, then it’s time to retire. You’ve lost the plot.
Do genocide next
new pope!
*crowd goes wild*
American pope!
*crowd boos*
woke for an American!
*crowd goes wild*
bad on protecting abusive priests!
*crowd boos*
hates JD Vance!
*crowd goes wild*
*crowd goes wild*
American pope!
*crowd boos*
woke for an American!
*crowd goes wild*
bad on protecting abusive priests!
*crowd boos*
hates JD Vance!
*crowd goes wild*
May 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Do genocide next
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“States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an outcome with irreversible consequences for our shared humanity”
End unfolding genocide or watch it end life in Gaza: UN experts say States face defining choice
GENEVA – Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an out...
www.ohchr.org
May 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an outcome with irreversible consequences for our shared humanity”
May it be so
Trump fighting with Netanyahu was inevitable so I hope it has good outcomes
May 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
May it be so
It’s very wild to me how much using Wikipedia was demonized as “not a legitimate source” relative to how much generative AI has been celebrated
May 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It’s very wild to me how much using Wikipedia was demonized as “not a legitimate source” relative to how much generative AI has been celebrated
On ethnofascism and the role of liberal normalization: “Whereas the political and social foundation of Hindutva had been laid by Hindu nationalists, it was the Congress party who had helped normalize the ideology.” - Azad Essa, Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (2023)
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
On ethnofascism and the role of liberal normalization: “Whereas the political and social foundation of Hindutva had been laid by Hindu nationalists, it was the Congress party who had helped normalize the ideology.” - Azad Essa, Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (2023)