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Salwa Tareen
@salwatareen.bsky.social
Writing poems and essays | Studying religion, ethics, gender and politics in urban South Asia | Postdoc @UniLeiden | PhD @BUAnthropology | she/her
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New Special Collection Out!

The online collection, edited by Salwa Tareen, Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori and Hosanna Fukuzawa, explores 'what it means to witness and record heartbreaking anthropology.'

Read here:
americanethnologist.org/online-conte...
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excited and relieved to finally share this collection on the troubling losses at the heart of anthropology via @amethno.bsky.social.

Featuring an incredibly moving set of essays by early career and senior scholars from around the world. Please read/share!

americanethnologist.org/online-conte...
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A great guide to Karachi's hidden kutub-khane!
Started a Substack. First piece: Karachi’s book world—with a nod to how deportation of Afghan refugees may affect book trade.

open.substack.com/pub/supercom...
June 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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@thomasbirm.bsky.social spoke with Marissa Nuncio of the Garment Worker Center in LA.

They discuss the ICE raids—at which two dozen garment workers were abducted—that sparked city-wide protests and how labor can respond to Trump's assault on migrant workers: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
“Our Biggest Fear”: A Garment Worker Organizer on the ICE Raid That Set Off Mass Protest
“They're picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work," says Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center in Los A...
inthesetimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Amid growing criminalization, state violence, and fascism, building robust ecosystems of collective care is essential to our collective survival.

Something you can do is to start mapping what exists now in your communities, to support and defend each other and people who are likely to be targeted:
Mapping Community Ecosystems of Collective Care — Interrupting Criminalization
A toolkit offering resources, responses, and questions to consider in building robust community ecosystems of collective care at the neighborhood and city-wide levels. Based on Interrupting Criminaliz...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Long read, but an insightful and grounding conversation.

"There’s never a good time to do the work that we need to do. This is part of the political challenge."
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM