Dr Nidhi Shrivastava
@shnidhi.bsky.social
Asst. Teaching Prof of English @sacredheartuniv; Cultural Critic, #MeToo, 1947 Partition; Archive, Hindi Cinema
Editor Salaam Newsletter for South Asian Literary Association; @shuenglishdept @westernuEnglish PhD
Editor Salaam Newsletter for South Asian Literary Association; @shuenglishdept @westernuEnglish PhD
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My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It is my pleasure and honor to announce that for my Fall 2025 #MeToo Guest Speaker series will be Dr Pallavi Guha! This panel discussion titled “Where Did The #MeToo Go? Urgent Conversations on Today’s Rape Culture.” The panel speakers also include Dr June-Ann Greeley and me
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Finally done and completed with my presentation deck and script for my talk on South Asian feminist organizations this Friday at National Women's Studies Association.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Finally done and completed with my presentation deck and script for my talk on South Asian feminist organizations this Friday at National Women's Studies Association.
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Emmett Till’s cousin, Priscilla Williams-Till, has officially announced her campaign for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi. She will run as a Democrat in the 2026 election, challenging the incumbent Republican, Cindy Hyde-Smith.
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Emmett Till’s cousin, Priscilla Williams-Till, has officially announced her campaign for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi. She will run as a Democrat in the 2026 election, challenging the incumbent Republican, Cindy Hyde-Smith.
It took almost three years for me to begin arranging my office 🥰 I carried my degrees, paintings, and flowers to work yesterday. It’s been 9 years at SHU.
September 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It took almost three years for me to begin arranging my office 🥰 I carried my degrees, paintings, and flowers to work yesterday. It’s been 9 years at SHU.
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What an absolute honor to be invited to the @themuktsardialogues to present on my scholarship. Thank you Lakhvir Sidhu for the invitation. ** my rank is of an Assistant Teaching Professor at Sacred Heart University.
August 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What an absolute honor to be invited to the @themuktsardialogues to present on my scholarship. Thank you Lakhvir Sidhu for the invitation. ** my rank is of an Assistant Teaching Professor at Sacred Heart University.
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You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.
July 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.
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random tuesday afternoon tidbit: citation isn't just about looking backward, doing your diligence, and giving proper credit. it's about bringing people -- readers, your audience -- in, bringing mutual interests to the fore. It says YOU cited one are or at least ought to be a reader of this book.
July 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
random tuesday afternoon tidbit: citation isn't just about looking backward, doing your diligence, and giving proper credit. it's about bringing people -- readers, your audience -- in, bringing mutual interests to the fore. It says YOU cited one are or at least ought to be a reader of this book.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
My writing nook! :)
June 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My writing nook! :)
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The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
wapo.st
June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
May 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw
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In Zeal's Transformative Teaching forum, @sunnygrrl.bsky.social presents essays on the pedagogy of play, with contributions from @shnidhi.bsky.social, @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social, Stephanie P. Jones, and Sonya Donaldson herself.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In Zeal's Transformative Teaching forum, @sunnygrrl.bsky.social presents essays on the pedagogy of play, with contributions from @shnidhi.bsky.social, @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social, Stephanie P. Jones, and Sonya Donaldson herself.
I lost one of my closest friends 2 weeks ago, but I haven’t been able to publicly speak about it because the complications of family politics, grief, and social media. She was very young, and I had just met her in November.
April 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I lost one of my closest friends 2 weeks ago, but I haven’t been able to publicly speak about it because the complications of family politics, grief, and social media. She was very young, and I had just met her in November.
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Thankful for all the art makers past and present.
March 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Thankful for all the art makers past and present.
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Just ordered a book for my dad on bookshop.org! Not only did Harriet's Books in Philadelphia get a donation, but B$zo$ didn't get my money. Send your money to independent bookshops and get 20% with my code:
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March 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just ordered a book for my dad on bookshop.org! Not only did Harriet's Books in Philadelphia get a donation, but B$zo$ didn't get my money. Send your money to independent bookshops and get 20% with my code:
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Sharing a special edited volume I worked on in 2015 and co-edited with Dr Jackie Raphael and Dr Basuli Deb. The edited collections were based on the proceedings of Center for Celebrity and Media Studies conference in New York, back in 2015.
March 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Sharing a special edited volume I worked on in 2015 and co-edited with Dr Jackie Raphael and Dr Basuli Deb. The edited collections were based on the proceedings of Center for Celebrity and Media Studies conference in New York, back in 2015.
Yesterday, thank you Dr Priya Jha for this exciting opportunity for our upcoming co-edited volume: The MeToo Hashtag and The Movement: Victim-Survivorhood, Agency, and Sexual Violence that I am working with Billie Guarino and Ruma Sinha!
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Yesterday, thank you Dr Priya Jha for this exciting opportunity for our upcoming co-edited volume: The MeToo Hashtag and The Movement: Victim-Survivorhood, Agency, and Sexual Violence that I am working with Billie Guarino and Ruma Sinha!
Integrity, ethics, and fairness for me are some of the most important values. On this International Women’s Day and everyday, let’s support, celebrate, and lift each other up!
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Integrity, ethics, and fairness for me are some of the most important values. On this International Women’s Day and everyday, let’s support, celebrate, and lift each other up!
I love coming across any citations of my work, and I can’t believe my book chapter/edited volume: “Gender Violence, the Law, and Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Japan and South Africa” was cited recently in a law journal! 🙂.
March 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I love coming across any citations of my work, and I can’t believe my book chapter/edited volume: “Gender Violence, the Law, and Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Japan and South Africa” was cited recently in a law journal! 🙂.