Faiza Rahman, Ph.D.
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Faiza Rahman, Ph.D.
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Postdoc Fellow at Dartmouth Society of Fellows and Lecturer in Religion. Islamic Studies | Ethnography | Human Reproduction. Writes and talks about menstruation too much.
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Absolutely stunned at the escalation in the Gaza Strip. Shocked to witness the dignified and fearless people of Gaza face the humiliation of hunger, drop dead in hordes, and beg for assistance. May the Palestine Question forever haunt us. حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيل
May 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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nazi germany & physics Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle APS April Meeting, January 2017 Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945
January 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
faizarahman.bsky.social
"Curricular Effectiveness Enhancement and Quality Magnification and Intensification Plan."
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Feb 4
"We're pleased to present this updated org chart that captures our system of governance (which management scientists term “Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,” though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements)."
An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University
In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it or not, our university is pleased to prese...
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February 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Hi to new friends here. This is my most recent book. I have a new one on environmental ethics, and some field projects going in Indonesia (mostly West Sumatra) on disaster, climate and conservation. cup.columbia.edu/book/muslim-...
Muslim Environmentalisms | Columbia University Press
How might understandings of environmentalism and the environmental humanities shift by incorporating Islamic perspectives? In this book, Anna M. Gade explore... | CUP
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January 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
faizarahman.bsky.social
Fascinating work!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space | Methods and Perspectives | Jeni
This book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship of outer space has grown significantly
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January 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I report on why #Pakistani security forces suffered the deadliest year in a decade. Its #Taliban policy has backfired, as well as the military’s reliance on brute force. Residents of the regions most affected by #terrorism say the state has failed them.

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Pakistan Slides Into New 'Era Of Terrorism'
In 2024, Pakistani security forces suffered the deadliest year in almost a decade. The trend has worried residents, who say the state has failed them.
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January 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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In an overwhelming vote, the American Historical Association voted to condemn scholasticide in Gaza.
The first week of 2025(!) brings—what else—more outrage. But today we look to a few good profs. This Sunday, following “a boisterous, hourlong, standing-room-only meeting,” the American…
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January 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Forget the flying cars, I'm hoping scientists invent a way for society to cope with the fact that many things are good in some respects while being bad in other respects.
January 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I report on the worsening humanitarian situation in #Parachinar. The mostly Shi’ite city in northwestern #Pakistan has been cut off from the rest of the Sunni-majority country because of deadly sectarian clashes that have seen hundreds killed this year.

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'Our Children Are Dying': The Toll Of Sectarian Violence In A Pakistani City
Hundreds have been killed and injured in clashes between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims in northwestern Pakistan this year. The violence has fueled a worsening humanitarian situation in one city.
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December 21, 2024 at 12:32 PM
faizarahman.bsky.social
In addition to lunar calendars and Metaformic Theory and centuries of herbal healing knowledge, menstruation also gives humankind stem cells with better regenerative powers than those in the bone marrow.
December 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Learn more about the book, also co-edited with Brian T. Nguyen, on the @nyupress.bsky.social website:

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Seminal
The complexities and controversies at the nexus of sperm, health, and politicsIn Seminal, experts from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and medic...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:37 PM
faizarahman.bsky.social
Long live a free Syria.
December 8, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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econcat.bsky.social
The best way to make bank for these crazy, angry academics is to tell everyone you work in higher education and can write an essay that shits on higher education. "This education brought to you by Amazon and IBM." These kids need to feed the capitalist beast, not THINK.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Nov 21
According to Michael Clune, universities are facing an existential crisis because ten years ago they "began to reframe their work as a kind of political activism."

Zero political economic analysis or understanding. Zero regard for how ethics/politics work. Just 'woke' = bad.
Over the past 10 years, I have watched in horror as academe set itself up for the existential crisis that has now arrived. Starting around 2014, many disciplines — including my own, English — changed their mission. Professors began to see the traditional values and methods of their fields — such as the careful weighing of evidence and the commitment to shared standards of reasoned argument — as complicit in histories of oppression. As a result, many professors and fields began to reframe their work as a kind of political activism. In reading articles and book manuscripts for peer review, or in reviewing files when conducting faculty job searches, I found that nearly every scholar now justifies their work in political terms. This interpretation of a novel or poem, that historical intervention, is valuable because it will contribute to the achievement of progressive political goals. Nor was this change limited to the humanities. Venerable scientific journals — such as Nature — now explicitly endorse political candidates; computer-science and math departments present their work as advancing social justice. Claims in academic arguments are routinely judged in terms of their likely political effects.
November 22, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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Every single abortion ban is extreme. There are no “reasonable” bans or restrictions. None.
rhavote.bsky.social RHAvote @rhavote.bsky.social · Nov 22
Every time the government delays or prevents someone from accessing abortion care, a tragedy has occurred.
November 22, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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patchworkethno.bsky.social Patchwork Ethnography @patchworkethno.bsky.social · Nov 15
📣 We’re working on a Patchwork Ethnography textbook and we’re looking to include 10 essays from early career scholars who can help us develop our theorizations further. We plan to run remote workshops to build ideas together. More info and apply here: patchworkethnography.com/events
Events — Patchwork Ethnography
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November 21, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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In "How We Write Now" Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field’s central object and preoccupation: loss. Read the intro for free now!
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Cover of How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory by Jennifer C. Nash. Cover features the painting "Upstairs" by Laura James, an image of a Black woman wearing an orange dress, in a brightly-colored, domestic room. There is a flip phone beside the woman’s hand. Behind her, a cat perches on a banister.
May 30, 2024 at 12:54 PM