RKK
@ronakkapadia.bsky.social
Author: INSURGENT AESTHETICS | Writing: BREATHING IN THE BROWN QUEER COMMONS | Curator: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/ | art/abolition/war/security/empire/futurism/healing/disability/justice | Pisces ♓️🐟. Personal account.
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RKK
@ronakkapadia.bsky.social
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6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things.
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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I reached a deal with the burglar. He gets to keep all of my possessions that he can carry and I get to call the police one hour after he leaves.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I reached a deal with the burglar. He gets to keep all of my possessions that he can carry and I get to call the police one hour after he leaves.
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
CAN IT NOT BE icy AND ICEy at the same time, please? #theweather
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
CAN IT NOT BE icy AND ICEy at the same time, please? #theweather
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November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
If you are able, please help The Sick Times do vital journalism on the pandemic that's being ignored elsewhere.
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And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
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We are all Jamaal Bowman
shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 AM
We are all Jamaal Bowman
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I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
November 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...
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People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
People often push the disabled to take risks with our health.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse
We care.
Our baselines mean everything to us.
Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting.
You don’t get it until you get it.
Best reader 2 report I've ever gotten!:
"The ms. practices what it theorizes, building an affective & sensorial register around suffocation, stagnation, & collective respiration. The prose formally enacts the conditions it names, esp in its attention to tempo, repetition, & refusal of closure."
"The ms. practices what it theorizes, building an affective & sensorial register around suffocation, stagnation, & collective respiration. The prose formally enacts the conditions it names, esp in its attention to tempo, repetition, & refusal of closure."
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Best reader 2 report I've ever gotten!:
"The ms. practices what it theorizes, building an affective & sensorial register around suffocation, stagnation, & collective respiration. The prose formally enacts the conditions it names, esp in its attention to tempo, repetition, & refusal of closure."
"The ms. practices what it theorizes, building an affective & sensorial register around suffocation, stagnation, & collective respiration. The prose formally enacts the conditions it names, esp in its attention to tempo, repetition, & refusal of closure."
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6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things.
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things.
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Also, I just learned that my book and all @dukepress.bsky.social books are currently 50% off with code FALL25 until Nov 8th! www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Also, I just learned that my book and all @dukepress.bsky.social books are currently 50% off with code FALL25 until Nov 8th! www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...
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I teach from it regularly! Go get it!
Also, I just learned that my book and all @dukepress.bsky.social books are currently 50% off with code FALL25 until Nov 8th! www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I teach from it regularly! Go get it!
Also, I just learned that my book and all @dukepress.bsky.social books are currently 50% off with code FALL25 until Nov 8th! www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Also, I just learned that my book and all @dukepress.bsky.social books are currently 50% off with code FALL25 until Nov 8th! www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...
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Just want to remind everyone of this award-winning book and its importance...
6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things.
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Just want to remind everyone of this award-winning book and its importance...
6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things.
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things.
@dukepress.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
I need you to read this: truthout.org/articles/i-a...
I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.
RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.
truthout.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I need you to read this: truthout.org/articles/i-a...
Every day we get vivid reminders that we live in an utterly deranged society that enacts the most depraved violence on the wretched of the earth. Then we’re supposed to go on with the day to day knowing that we are (seemingly) outnumbered by ppl who are ignorant or unbothered by these conditions.
October 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Every day we get vivid reminders that we live in an utterly deranged society that enacts the most depraved violence on the wretched of the earth. Then we’re supposed to go on with the day to day knowing that we are (seemingly) outnumbered by ppl who are ignorant or unbothered by these conditions.
100+ of us scholars in Asian American Studies signed this open letter. Please read and circulate. www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2025/10...
The Dan David Prize Amid a Genocide? — Critical Ethnic Studies
October 4, 2025 Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, the Dan David Prize is one of many Israel-based awards that attempt to legitimize the Israeli state and its policies on a world stage. Along wit...
www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org
October 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
100+ of us scholars in Asian American Studies signed this open letter. Please read and circulate. www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2025/10...
I came across the epilogue to my first book today; there are some gems in here from the Trump 1.0 era that feel eerily resonant with our current moment. I hope sharing this out will help folks trying to connect the dots & offer some critical inspo in these dreary times. Link in next post.
"Scaling Empire: Insurgent Aesthetics in the Wilds of Imperial Decline," epilogue to INSURGENT AESTHETICS: SECURITY AND THE QUEER LIFE OF THE FOREVER WAR (DUKE 2019)
This disturbance of conventions of distance and proximity, the presence of many pasts and places in what we try to think of as the here and now, constitute wartime, modernity's everyday aftermaths...
www.academia.edu
October 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I came across the epilogue to my first book today; there are some gems in here from the Trump 1.0 era that feel eerily resonant with our current moment. I hope sharing this out will help folks trying to connect the dots & offer some critical inspo in these dreary times. Link in next post.
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For non-US folks: IDEA is the rule that dictates that disabled kids are to have equal opportunities for a public education. Taking away the people who fund and enforce it is basically leaving disabled kids and their families to fend for themselves.
Vought’s daughter has cerebral palsy, and while she may not require “special” education, she would need adjustments if she attended any school.
Obviously, he is evil and does not care about hypocrisy, but I want people to remember: they’re taking this away from US, not themselves.
Obviously, he is evil and does not care about hypocrisy, but I want people to remember: they’re taking this away from US, not themselves.
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
For non-US folks: IDEA is the rule that dictates that disabled kids are to have equal opportunities for a public education. Taking away the people who fund and enforce it is basically leaving disabled kids and their families to fend for themselves.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
American Studies folks: are you (still) planning to go to ASA 2025 in San Juan? If so, can you like or comment here. Trying to make some plans. 👀
October 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
American Studies folks: are you (still) planning to go to ASA 2025 in San Juan? If so, can you like or comment here. Trying to make some plans. 👀
Is there any more glaring example of the FAILURE of the (non-redistributive symbolic multicultural) identity politics of the Obama era than the CURRENT PUBLIC TRAJECTORIES of Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai? www.dawn.com/news/amp/194...
Greta vs Malala
Greta has shown that humanity still exists.
www.dawn.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Is there any more glaring example of the FAILURE of the (non-redistributive symbolic multicultural) identity politics of the Obama era than the CURRENT PUBLIC TRAJECTORIES of Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai? www.dawn.com/news/amp/194...
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ICYMI:
This morning, while @govpritzker.illinois.gov was preaching holy fire against federal immigration agents on social media, IL state police joined feds in arresting protestors at the Broadview ICE facility.
Also: agents set off tear gas a busy Chicago street, and handcuff a Chicago Alder.
This morning, while @govpritzker.illinois.gov was preaching holy fire against federal immigration agents on social media, IL state police joined feds in arresting protestors at the Broadview ICE facility.
Also: agents set off tear gas a busy Chicago street, and handcuff a Chicago Alder.
October 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
ICYMI:
This morning, while @govpritzker.illinois.gov was preaching holy fire against federal immigration agents on social media, IL state police joined feds in arresting protestors at the Broadview ICE facility.
Also: agents set off tear gas a busy Chicago street, and handcuff a Chicago Alder.
This morning, while @govpritzker.illinois.gov was preaching holy fire against federal immigration agents on social media, IL state police joined feds in arresting protestors at the Broadview ICE facility.
Also: agents set off tear gas a busy Chicago street, and handcuff a Chicago Alder.