Dr Monica Mody
@drmonicamody.bsky.social
poet, transdisciplinary educator, borderlands metaphysicist, decolonial thinker, dagara-inspired diviner, mystic animist, multidimensional
Decolonial feminist work begins where we are—in all the spaces we occupy. It cannot stay confined to texts we read/write. It must expose and heal colonial patterns of power and logics of fragmentation—inviting us into new ways of sensemaking, unmaking, remaking—and building coalitions.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Decolonial feminist work begins where we are—in all the spaces we occupy. It cannot stay confined to texts we read/write. It must expose and heal colonial patterns of power and logics of fragmentation—inviting us into new ways of sensemaking, unmaking, remaking—and building coalitions.
Mamdani stayed focused on affordability and also did not double back on his other positions and statements.
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Mamdani stayed focused on affordability and also did not double back on his other positions and statements.
These moments are filled with such potentiality—making a syllabus; researching to find and then inviting the right person to teach a class. The notes being creativity, boldness, world-making.
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
These moments are filled with such potentiality—making a syllabus; researching to find and then inviting the right person to teach a class. The notes being creativity, boldness, world-making.
I have never shaken my head (in disbelief, refusal to accept) as many times in Zoom meetings as I have today.
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I have never shaken my head (in disbelief, refusal to accept) as many times in Zoom meetings as I have today.
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
— Reinhold Niebuhr
— Reinhold Niebuhr
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
— Reinhold Niebuhr
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The Human Resources dept in an organization is oriented ideally to employee well-being & empowerment. There is a cost to moving towards an org culture that does not value these aspects & sees HR practices as outsourceable instead of integrated with the soul of an organization.
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The Human Resources dept in an organization is oriented ideally to employee well-being & empowerment. There is a cost to moving towards an org culture that does not value these aspects & sees HR practices as outsourceable instead of integrated with the soul of an organization.
The loudest objections to the cutting of 1,700 trees to build a "Sadhugram" for the Kumbh Mela in Nashik should come from the sadhus themselves—who would the sadhus have learned from in the absence of the forests of old?
#trees
#spirituality
#kumbh
#trees
#spirituality
#kumbh
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The loudest objections to the cutting of 1,700 trees to build a "Sadhugram" for the Kumbh Mela in Nashik should come from the sadhus themselves—who would the sadhus have learned from in the absence of the forests of old?
#trees
#spirituality
#kumbh
#trees
#spirituality
#kumbh
Rainbow in the wake of a storm...
Some days, we can see more clearly how the earth is busy creating magic and beauty.
Some days, we can see more clearly how the earth is busy creating magic and beauty.
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Rainbow in the wake of a storm...
Some days, we can see more clearly how the earth is busy creating magic and beauty.
Some days, we can see more clearly how the earth is busy creating magic and beauty.
Reposted by Dr Monica Mody
Generated AI plants are thriving online, with fake "seeds" selling on Amazon - people gravitating to impossible flora while real plants vanish. We're enchanted with simulacra as actual biodiversity disappears.
@giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...
@giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...
Fighting a new invasive species: AI's impossible flora | Center for the Study of World Religions
cswr.hds.harvard.edu
March 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Generated AI plants are thriving online, with fake "seeds" selling on Amazon - people gravitating to impossible flora while real plants vanish. We're enchanted with simulacra as actual biodiversity disappears.
@giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...
@giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...
The video recording of "The Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia," my April 5 talk at The Once and Future Goddesses conference presented by OPUS Archives and Research Center, is now available on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERa...
Monica Mody: The Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia
YouTube video by Pacifica Graduate Institute
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May 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The video recording of "The Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia," my April 5 talk at The Once and Future Goddesses conference presented by OPUS Archives and Research Center, is now available on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ERa...
Come and join me for my upcoming online class at Morbid Anatomy called The Secret Heart of Dreams. Starts April 30.
Register at www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
Register at www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
The Secret Heart of Dreams with Monica Mody, PhD, MFA, begins April 30 — Morbid Anatomy
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Wednesdays April 30 - May 21, 2025 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET (NYC Time) Admission: $145 ( Paid Patreon members ) / $165 PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be rec...
www.morbidanatomy.org
April 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Come and join me for my upcoming online class at Morbid Anatomy called The Secret Heart of Dreams. Starts April 30.
Register at www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
Register at www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
I will be presenting "Resurrecting Stories of Care, Reciprocity, and Interconnection: Decolonial and Indigenous Dialogues on Technology" at the 2025 Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference in Tucson as well as reading my poems in honor of Patricia Monaghan on the opening evening.
March 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I will be presenting "Resurrecting Stories of Care, Reciprocity, and Interconnection: Decolonial and Indigenous Dialogues on Technology" at the 2025 Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference in Tucson as well as reading my poems in honor of Patricia Monaghan on the opening evening.
The work of re-enchanting the euroamerican academy cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing it; the work of re-enchanting ourselves cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing ourselves.
February 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The work of re-enchanting the euroamerican academy cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing it; the work of re-enchanting ourselves cannot happen without sincerely engaging with the unfinished task of decolonizing ourselves.
I will be here, talking about the Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia: www.opusarchives.org/events/the-g...
My session is in the afternoon of Saturday, April 5. In-person or livestream attendance (but if you are able to, please come in person).
My session is in the afternoon of Saturday, April 5. In-person or livestream attendance (but if you are able to, please come in person).
The Once and Future Goddesses - OPUS Archives and Research Center
Looking Back ©Mary Heebner, 2023 Collage with handmade paper and pigment 53 x 37 inches Presented by: OPUS Archives Dates: Saturday, April 5th & Sunday, April 6th Location: Pacifica Graduate Institute...
www.opusarchives.org
January 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I will be here, talking about the Borderlands Epistemology of the Goddess in South Asia: www.opusarchives.org/events/the-g...
My session is in the afternoon of Saturday, April 5. In-person or livestream attendance (but if you are able to, please come in person).
My session is in the afternoon of Saturday, April 5. In-person or livestream attendance (but if you are able to, please come in person).
Found myself balking at the throughline of conformity and the favoring of centralized governance over emergent self-organization that lay in the first two "Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti" books. My kind of sci-fi would show us a path out of the fears that mire present-day sociological phenomena.
January 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Found myself balking at the throughline of conformity and the favoring of centralized governance over emergent self-organization that lay in the first two "Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti" books. My kind of sci-fi would show us a path out of the fears that mire present-day sociological phenomena.
"Online learning not a green panacea"—besides, the psychosocial costs of online learning in higher ed spaces should always be considered alongside technology-centric education's claim to reduce the carbon footprint.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/online-...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/online-...
Online learning not a green panacea, researchers warn
Estimate of emissions generated by staff and students during lockdown virtually the same as campus commuting
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 AM
"Online learning not a green panacea"—besides, the psychosocial costs of online learning in higher ed spaces should always be considered alongside technology-centric education's claim to reduce the carbon footprint.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/online-...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/online-...
Join me for a class that engages perspectives on dreams and dreaming from earth-based and indigenous systems of wisdom. Runs April 30-May 21. Taught on Zoom, hosted by Morbid Anatomy.
www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/the-...
www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/the-...
The Secret Heart of Dreams with Monica Mody, PhD, MFA, begins April 30 — Morbid Anatomy
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Wednesdays April 30 - May 21, 2025 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET (NYC Time) Admission: $145 ( Paid Patreon members ) / $165 PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be rec...
www.morbidanatomy.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Join me for a class that engages perspectives on dreams and dreaming from earth-based and indigenous systems of wisdom. Runs April 30-May 21. Taught on Zoom, hosted by Morbid Anatomy.
www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/the-...
www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/the-...
"Where We Might Go in Lieu of Posthumanism: Building Indigenous and Decolonial Epistemologies"—my presentation at Journey Week 2024, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5Q...
Journey Week 2024 - Part 5 w/Monica Mody, Ph.D.
YouTube video by Pacifica Graduate Institute
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2024 at 1:33 AM
"Where We Might Go in Lieu of Posthumanism: Building Indigenous and Decolonial Epistemologies"—my presentation at Journey Week 2024, Pacifica Graduate Institute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5Q...
When those silent (silenced) in the stories that were told about them begin to tell their stories—when we learn that they had/have their own stories—the shifting of perspective sets something right in us. John Keene’s “Rivers” imagines Huck Finn’s Jim.
www.vice.com/en/article/z...
www.vice.com/en/article/z...
John Keene’s 'Counternarratives’ Rewires History with Imagination
We spoke to the author about his vividly imagined and vitally timed collection, 'Counternarratives.'
www.vice.com
April 7, 2024 at 8:35 PM
When those silent (silenced) in the stories that were told about them begin to tell their stories—when we learn that they had/have their own stories—the shifting of perspective sets something right in us. John Keene’s “Rivers” imagines Huck Finn’s Jim.
www.vice.com/en/article/z...
www.vice.com/en/article/z...
It's not my problem that you can't place me, my work, and aesthetics—that you have trouble categorizing these—that I mess up your borders. No. Perhaps it's your borders that are the problem.
March 18, 2024 at 6:42 AM
It's not my problem that you can't place me, my work, and aesthetics—that you have trouble categorizing these—that I mess up your borders. No. Perhaps it's your borders that are the problem.
Reposted by Dr Monica Mody
The story of how #MermaidsInTheMoonlight became #NilavoyilMeenmathar has some magic and serendipity behind it, and so I wrote an essay on my experience of being translated into my mother tongue. I hope you'll read it, and pick up the book in either Tamil or English! scroll.in/article/1064...
Writer Sharanya Manivannan on her picture book being translated into Tamil, her mother tongue
‘I was not going to let just anyone take this book into Tamil.’
scroll.in
March 4, 2024 at 11:24 AM
The story of how #MermaidsInTheMoonlight became #NilavoyilMeenmathar has some magic and serendipity behind it, and so I wrote an essay on my experience of being translated into my mother tongue. I hope you'll read it, and pick up the book in either Tamil or English! scroll.in/article/1064...