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Nisha Nath (she/they)
@nishanath.bsky.social
Assoc Prof | Interdisc Studies and PoliSci | ✊🏾🍉 | 'The Letters' | Race, Discretion, In/security and Settler Colonialism | Academic Aunties superfan | Grower of things 👩🏾‍🌾👨🏼‍🌾🧒🏻👧🏻🐶🐈
I don't know much abt the ISA, but this seems to align with an assc that is belligerently undemocratic in its attempts to quell BDS & Palestine solidarity. Hoping members rise up against this ghoulish decision, esp in the context of an ongoing genocide.
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March 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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In #academia you need reference letters for EVERYTHING. So with grad school application season upon us and the associated flood of letter requests, @tungohan.bsky.social + @nishanath.bsky.social go deep into ref letters, the good, bad and ugly. Listen now!

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Reference Letters
If you have had to write or request an academic reference letter, which is probably all of you, then you know that there is a whole, mysterious hidden c...
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January 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Join @tungohan.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, land steward at Remagination Farm. Have a listen to this generative conversation on leaving the academe, ecological justice, capitalism, and transformative possibilities. Find us at @academicaunties.com! 🌿
November 22, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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"Strikes are a last resort, but they are an important tool in the effort to push universities to return to their core mission: to provide a high-quality education, to engage in research that serves the public good, and to be models of collective governance that resists market ideologies."
November 20, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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PASSED! A huge win from our union! York University Faculty Association General Members Meeting passes motion on #scholasticide by super majority on November 19, 2024!
@cjpme.org @jvp.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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While Lebanese National football player, Celine Haydar, still fights for her life after being hit by Israeli shrapnel.
November 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.

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#Palestine #Israel
Palestine against an eco-apartheid world
In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
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November 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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If you’re in the Prince George area, check out these Inspiring Women Among Us events! @tungohan.bsky.social will be giving a keynote tomorrow morning on Care Activism that really speaks to the current political moment and our need for not just activists, but *organizers*. #AcademicSky
UNBC hosts Inspiring Women Among Us events all week
This year’s theme is Caring in the Time of Polycrisis
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November 12, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Here is the 7th installment of Letters From Gaza in
@proteanmag.com w/ @palestinestudies.bsky.social Studies
After the pause, the genocide proceeds with a renewed ferocity

As Bushra Khalidi writes "we talk about our last good memories...It feels like we’re just waiting for our turn now"
Letters From Gaza, Part 7 • Protean Magazine
The team at The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating and publishing messages from Gaza as Israel continues its assault on the strip. To help maximize their reach, we are republishing t...
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December 6, 2023 at 3:38 PM
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We are so excited to bring you an amazing interview with the brilliant Sara Ahmed! On this episode she talks to @tungohan.bsky.social about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. Listen now on your favourite podcast app! player.captivate.fm/episode/65db...
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook with Sara Ahmed
<p>Sara Ahmed, author, scholar, and one of our feminist heroes joins us to talk about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook!</p><p>Sara's work both as a scholar in the academy working on...
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October 4, 2023 at 9:49 PM
📢SEASON 4 IS HERE! Seriously, how IS your September going? I ❤️ hearing these voice memos from Academic Aunties because September is REAL. As usual @tungohan.bsky.social tells it like it is, and September isn't going to escape from critique. Listen too for a sneak peek of the next huge episode...
September 20, 2023 at 4:06 PM
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Hi there! 👋 We’re here for all the #AcademicChatter and supporting community for all those who are marginalized in academia. And always asking, as we did in our first podcast episode, why are there so many assholes in academia?
August 11, 2023 at 4:16 PM