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Moujan Mirdamadi
@moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
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Wandering Scholar of Philosophy (mental health, emotions, phenomenology)
World Politics Geek. Free 🇵🇸
Farsi. English
she/they
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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-30407-1
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moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
"...her voice still echoed in his head saying over and over again: 'My friends … my friends … my friends burnt.'"

Read the report by Elaheh Mohammadi on a girls' dormitory in Tehran destroyed following an Israeli strike.
cypressfiles.substack.com/p/a-burnt-do...
A Burnt Dorm, A Destroyed Street
Elahe Mohammadi's report published by HamMihan Newspaper on June 26th 2025
cypressfiles.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
In a new section of CypressFiles, I am publishing translations of reports from life under Israeli bombardment in Iran.
Read Niloofar Hamedi's report about pregnant women's experience of bombardment, published yesterday in Shargh:
cypressfiles.substack.com/p/giving-bir...
Giving Birth under Bombardment
Niloofar Hamedi's report for Shargh Newspaper, published June 23rd 2025
cypressfiles.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
During the #WomanLifeFreedom movement language of trauma & PTSD dominated Iranian social media discourse & narratives.
In this new piece, I examine the shortcomings of this framework in accounting for collective suffering caused by systematic & ongoing sociopolitical oppression.
#philsky #philpsych
Project MUSE - PTSD Model of Trauma in Cultural Context: The Case of Iranian Political Lifeworld
muse.jhu.edu
April 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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dailybeanspod.com
This is how you do it...
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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thebsp.org.uk
Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying #Phenomenology
Announcing the joint international conference between the British Society for Phenomenology & University College Dublin
GENCOERCTRL funded by the ERC
Dublin, Ireland | 27 – 29 August 2025
www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/internationa...
#philosophy
December 14, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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mjcrockett.bsky.social
Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why.

Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social

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December 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Musk, alongside the American MAGA trolls, have already begun campaigning in many countries, and will continue if not stopped
mikegalsworthy.bsky.social Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Nov 29
WTAF

That’s not trolling the UK govt anymore - that’s straight up campaigning for a political party in a foreign country.

It’s serious.
Musk retweeting “yes” to a post saying Andrea Jenkyns has joined Reform - and that Reform will win the next election.
November 29, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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victorkattan.bsky.social
This is a clever move by Khan and the timing can’t be coincidental. In light of yesterday’s comments, will France also recognise the immunity of Min Aung Hlaing, as Myanmar’s head of state & head of government, as they said they would for Netanyahu?
www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Application for an arrest warrant in the situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar
Today, my Office is filing an application for a warrant of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar. Image ICC Prosecutor Khan on ap...
www.icc-cpi.int
November 28, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
This is a key constituent of fascism & the very essence of ‘Muskism’: promoting bullshit, silencing truth-tellers & calling the whole grift ‘free speech’. Twitter as a rehearsal for the USA.
mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · Nov 24
Trump has vowed to crack down on universities involved in misinformation research, or what he dubs the "censorship cartel" - e.g. by curbing funds to those that have "flagged content for removal”, or legal threats

“I'm pretty fucking scared," one professor tells me.

www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
www.ft.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:29 AM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
Seeing all this layed out so meticulously is eye opening, even if you've followed day-in day-out the media (non)coverage of the genocide. Well worth a read
ahjohnson.bsky.social Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · Nov 25
for over a year, US media has helped the WH distance itself from the horrors of Gaza by employing 3, largely fictitious reporting genres.

I and my pseudonymous co-author detailed these 3 genres and how they helped successfully take pressure off the Biden admin www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How the US Media Helped the Biden Administration Distance Itself From the Horrors of Gaza
White House–curated stories of performative outrage and feigned helplessness provided cover for an administration arming death on an industrial scale.
www.thenation.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:01 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
Before Twitter became X I was writing a super fun proposal for analysing emotions in digital spaces during Iran's WomanLifeFreedom movement. That's how I got into coding and data science and all.

And yes, I'm a philosopher by training!
November 25, 2024 at 3:10 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
Been meaning to rant about my frustration with academia #academicsky for a while, a recent rejection for a postdoc in phenomenology of loneliness, for which over 70 people had applied, has reignited the need for this rant.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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sergioten.bsky.social
The nice thing about all this data surveillance is that the unexamined life is a thing of the past-- all our lives are worth living now.
November 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
با آنچه می‌ماند از من
من، ـ بَعدِ من ـ
در بودن وُ نبودن
.نفرت می‌کنم

یدالله رویایی - به لطف جلسات شعرخوانیِ چند شعردوستِ غربت‌نشین
November 24, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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mosababutoha.bsky.social
Hello everyone. This is mosab abu toha. I had this account months ago and i will start posting here soon. Please spread the word.
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
My substack hasn't been updated since for almost a year, I found it odd to keep singular focus on Iran with a literal genocide taking place next door. Been thinking of redefining my writing as well. Academic job looking more unlikely everyday, might as well write from the heart 🤔
November 24, 2024 at 5:32 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
Been thinking (again) about how to define/maintain a public persona online. Bsky is a fun new start, but to have actual opinions expressed while also remaining a human person online is hard and scary.
I still blame academia for this constant second guessing of myself 🙄
November 24, 2024 at 5:28 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
Substack update - Armita was buried yesterday after being declared brain dead following 28 days of coma, after an apparent altercation with hijab patrols in Tehran's Metro. I wrote about the narratives, emotions, and the hierarchical view in valuing human life in Iran.
Armita Geravand : suppression of rage and grief
Only 17, Armita is the latest victim of the gender apartheid regime governing Iran. She was buried under heavy security yesterday after a month of being in a coma.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2023 at 9:22 PM
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soniasulaiman.bsky.social
I invite you to say "Palestine" and "Palestinian." Don't let my people be erased.
October 27, 2023 at 9:35 PM
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prachisrivas.bsky.social
The Knowledge, Power, Politics research group, University of Cambridge and the Race, Empire, Education Collective, University of Bristol are hosting an online event on academic freedom and Palestine.

Monday, 23 October 2023 at 6 pm UK time

#AcademicSky #EduSky

reecollective.co.uk/events
Race, Empire and Education Collective
reecollective.co.uk
October 19, 2023 at 7:44 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
"It is hardly surprising that the official western stance has wholeheartedly embraced the Israeli settler-colonial narrative, which is essentially an imitation of the original Euro-modern/colonial discourse."
Yes. Precisely.
Gaza has sparked a moral meltdown in the West's colonial mindset
The western world remains unmoved by Palestinian suffering, demanding instead that they condemn themselves for daring to struggle for freedom from settler-colonialism
www.middleeasteye.net
October 17, 2023 at 9:35 AM
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danaelkurd.bsky.social
Syria. Artsakh. We have seen this before. And because these people don't matter to the world, the world watched as it happened. This doesn't end here with Palestine. The world has become far more unsafe for all of us.
ryanboyd.bsky.social Holiday Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Oct 13
In the coming collapse decades, "Bad stuff is about to happen, you should just leave" is going to be government policy in a lot of places
October 13, 2023 at 1:10 PM
moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
Words fail here. The least of our moral duty is to make experience of Gazans and Palestinians visible in the barrage of narrative hypocrisy that constantly and continuously dehumanises and erases them and their humanity. The narrative enabling & justifying the genocide being advocated for.
October 13, 2023 at 9:57 AM
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yairwallach.bsky.social
Simcha Rotman, architect of Israel's Judicial coup: the war will end when "a Jewish child can walk safely in the main street of Gaza".
He's talking about permanent reoccupation, annexation, and depopulation of Gaza.
October 13, 2023 at 5:35 AM