Gala Rexer
@galarexer.bsky.social
Feminist sociologist writing on reproductive & environmental injustice, bodies, racial capitalism
Book: "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Israel/Palestine" (forthcoming with UC Press)
galarexer.com
Book: "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Israel/Palestine" (forthcoming with UC Press)
galarexer.com
I was in NYC last night, and I didn’t even know how much I (and everyone else) needed a shared political moment that just felt hopeful and exciting (and not cynical, for once!) 🥲 we need feelings like this on the left, too!
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I was in NYC last night, and I didn’t even know how much I (and everyone else) needed a shared political moment that just felt hopeful and exciting (and not cynical, for once!) 🥲 we need feelings like this on the left, too!
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Breaking point. All over the world. What’s the sound of collective snapping.
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Breaking point. All over the world. What’s the sound of collective snapping.
This Monday!!
Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
October 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This Monday!!
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Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!
I finally received my visa! I'll be a Visiting Research Scholar at NYU's Department of Social & Cultural Analysis this fall. I'll be working on my new project on environmental racism/repro health in London, but I'd be more than happy to also speak about Palestine/repro injustice in your class/uni
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I finally received my visa! I'll be a Visiting Research Scholar at NYU's Department of Social & Cultural Analysis this fall. I'll be working on my new project on environmental racism/repro health in London, but I'd be more than happy to also speak about Palestine/repro injustice in your class/uni
I always feel this weird mixture of grief-cum-pride, both an analytical grasp of class and an intimate affective reaction, whenever I understand that people who are my age and have extremely productive academic careers have most likely grown up to parents who are also writers/professors/academics
July 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I always feel this weird mixture of grief-cum-pride, both an analytical grasp of class and an intimate affective reaction, whenever I understand that people who are my age and have extremely productive academic careers have most likely grown up to parents who are also writers/professors/academics
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This scheme is still open, and includes Palestine:
British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships @iashedinburgh.bsky.social (2 x 12-month fellowships)
Open to postdoctoral researchers based in any ODA-recipient country where British Council operates (inc. Brazil)
Deadline: July 28, 23:59 UK time
www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...
Open to postdoctoral researchers based in any ODA-recipient country where British Council operates (inc. Brazil)
Deadline: July 28, 23:59 UK time
www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...
www.britishcouncil.org
July 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This scheme is still open, and includes Palestine:
Does anyone have any book/article recs on the methodological and ethical questions of studying up (i.e., ethnographic studies of politicians, corporations, government employees)?
July 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Does anyone have any book/article recs on the methodological and ethical questions of studying up (i.e., ethnographic studies of politicians, corporations, government employees)?
I'm starting my second major ethnographic research project after the PhD and I can't really tell yet what it is (shifting to a new subfield, doing ethnography as a "researcher" not just a student, less time contraints in terms of outcomes but also life in your mid 30s), but this is challenging!
July 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm starting my second major ethnographic research project after the PhD and I can't really tell yet what it is (shifting to a new subfield, doing ethnography as a "researcher" not just a student, less time contraints in terms of outcomes but also life in your mid 30s), but this is challenging!
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Our commentary on reproductive genocide in Gaza has now been featured on the SRHM podcast so you can hear a conversation with Hala and me on Spotify and Apple Podcasts:
open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Our commentary on reproductive genocide in Gaza has now been featured on the SRHM podcast so you can hear a conversation with Hala and me on Spotify and Apple Podcasts:
open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Someone needs to write about the affective implications of AI knowledge production; after marking a bunch of essays that were either fully or partially written by AI, I feel dumb/numb, angry, and exhausted. They make me crave human mistakes, typos, unfinished thoughts, a wonky structure etc. 😭
May 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Someone needs to write about the affective implications of AI knowledge production; after marking a bunch of essays that were either fully or partially written by AI, I feel dumb/numb, angry, and exhausted. They make me crave human mistakes, typos, unfinished thoughts, a wonky structure etc. 😭
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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Starvation in Gaza, key findings
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Starvation in Gaza, key findings
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Applications are open for our summer lab in the Greek mountain. This year's theme is "Anthropo-Scenes: Restaging Climate Dramas for Environmental Justice". Call open till Sunday 4th May. Pls share!
www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html
www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html
Theme
This year’s lab, Anthropo-scenes , will be an experiment in ecodramaturgy , bringing together speculative ethnography, Black geographies, decolonial thought, landscape architecture, and...
www.pelionsummerlab.net
April 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Applications are open for our summer lab in the Greek mountain. This year's theme is "Anthropo-Scenes: Restaging Climate Dramas for Environmental Justice". Call open till Sunday 4th May. Pls share!
www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html
www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html
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*new publication* in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social Finally, this article I wrote with Dr Christy Kulz is out
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Femonationalism, gendered anti-Muslim racism and reproductive anxiety: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Germany - Christy Kulz, Naaz Rashid, 2025
Focussing on two different Western European nation states, the United Kingdom and Germany, we explore the apparent paradox of liberal feminist support for right...
journals.sagepub.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
*new publication* in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social Finally, this article I wrote with Dr Christy Kulz is out
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Starker Beitrag von Hanna Al-Taher und Benjamin Schütze zu Deutschlands verlogener Nahostpolitik: "Was Taten betrifft, ist deutsche Nahostpolitik genozidal und pro-ethnischer Säuberung. Nur wird es weniger offen formuliert als von Trump."
taz.de/!6071887/
taz.de/!6071887/
Verlogen und verloren
Die Verurteilungen von Trumps Gaza-Plänen aus Deutschland sindscheinheilig. Denn die Politik unterstützt Israels genozidales Vorgehen
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March 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Starker Beitrag von Hanna Al-Taher und Benjamin Schütze zu Deutschlands verlogener Nahostpolitik: "Was Taten betrifft, ist deutsche Nahostpolitik genozidal und pro-ethnischer Säuberung. Nur wird es weniger offen formuliert als von Trump."
taz.de/!6071887/
taz.de/!6071887/
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So sad to learn of Sandra's death. She was a dear friend and constant inspiration. In the intellectual vanguard of postcolonial science studies, Sandra never ceased pushing us to think more critically, more radically. How I miss those days hanging out in Venice Beach...
#STS #postcol
#STS #postcol
A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Oral history interview with Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...
digital.sciencehistory.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue
A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
#palestine #gaza
A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
#palestine #gaza
March 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue
A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
#palestine #gaza
A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
#palestine #gaza
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In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world.
@alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.
www.historyworkshop....
@alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.
www.historyworkshop....
African Activism in Anticolonial Cairo
In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world. Alex White examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world.
@alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.
www.historyworkshop....
@alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.
www.historyworkshop....
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Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte Felix Klein will Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Zustimmung äußerte Klein zu Trumps Plan Gazas Zivilbevölkerung zu vertreiben: „Ich halte es nicht für verkehrt, radikal und einmal völlig neu zu denken“
www.welt.de/politik/deut...
www.welt.de/politik/deut...
Judenhass: Antisemitismusbeauftragter fordert Einsatz des Verfassungsschutzes an Universitäten - WELT
Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Felix Klein, will antisemitische Umtriebe an deutschen Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Die kritiklose Blindheit ...
www.welt.de
March 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte Felix Klein will Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Zustimmung äußerte Klein zu Trumps Plan Gazas Zivilbevölkerung zu vertreiben: „Ich halte es nicht für verkehrt, radikal und einmal völlig neu zu denken“
www.welt.de/politik/deut...
www.welt.de/politik/deut...
so many articulations of gender 🤝 empire these days
February 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
so many articulations of gender 🤝 empire these days
This is so scary! And infuriating
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is so scary! And infuriating
Re-reading Tobi Haslett's n+1 BLM piece in preparation for teaching "Race, Resistance and Modernity" tomorrow; such a poetic & powerful piece! I read it first in 2021, and it's so accurate how what he calls an "amnesiac discourse" has shaped how we remember that moment through a liberal lens today
Magic Actions | Tobi Haslett
To the scattered victories of abolitionists toward the tail end of last year — the weakening of police unions, the severance of several law enforcement contracts with universities and public schools, ...
www.nplusonemag.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Re-reading Tobi Haslett's n+1 BLM piece in preparation for teaching "Race, Resistance and Modernity" tomorrow; such a poetic & powerful piece! I read it first in 2021, and it's so accurate how what he calls an "amnesiac discourse" has shaped how we remember that moment through a liberal lens today