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Professor of Law at BU School of Law. Co-director Boston University Program on Reproductive Justice. New Book! Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS
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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · Sep 12
I wrote a book that I hope helps people think about the relationship between law, science, social movements, &political economy.

It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare.

Avail for preorder!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Risk and Resistance
Cambridge Core - American Studies - Risk and Resistance
www.cambridge.org
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Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social

Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) with chapters exploring different facets of TWAIL scholarship. It covers major doctrines and topics of international law, as well as TWAIL perspectives on central historical and theoretical debates. Expert authors present key insights into various themes that intersect with international law including economics, post-colonialism, religion, development, treaties, and human rights. The Research Handbook underscores the cornerstone concepts of TWAIL and examines their relationship with intellectual traditions such as Marxism and feminism. Contributing authors outline TWAIL’s perspectives on core areas of international law such as customary international law, treaties and human rights, as well as important contemporary issues, including debt, climate change, and public health. Ultimately, the Research Handbook showcases an expanded and enriched vision of international law, assessing how alternate methodologies can lead to a fairer legal system.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
Thank you so much to the @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social for posting my book! legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ahme... 🙏🏽
Ahmed, "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS"
Cambridge University Press has published Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS , by Aziza Ahmed (Bosto...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
Congrats to @jpygold.bsky.social on planning this amazing event
jpygold.bsky.social Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 5d
yea i'll be there.
Flyer for BU Law Review 2025 Symposium on "The University and Democracy" "Many of our most powerful universities have enabled the Trump administration's open effort to exert 'existential terror' on our institutions and our communities. This convening will critically examine why universities have failed to protect democracy and how we might democratize our institutions and reorient toward their core mission: to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good."
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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michaelrulrich.bsky.social
Boston area peeps: book talk tonight 7pm for FREE

Come see @irincarmon.bsky.social talk about her amazing book with my brilliant friend and colleague @azizaahmed.bsky.social tonight @harvardbookstore.bsky.social at 7pm

www.harvard.com/event/irin-c...
November 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
Can’t wait to speak with @irincarmon.bsky.social about her wonderful new book
irincarmon.bsky.social Irin Carmon @irincarmon.bsky.social · 13d
Tomorrow, Monday 11/3, I’ll be talking with @azizaahmed.bsky.social about my new book Unbearable at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Please join us.
November 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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beaconpress.bsky.social
📣TOMORROW!📣

The Boston University Program on Reproductive Justice hosts @doctorshelleysella.bsky.social’s talk with @azizaahmed.bsky.social about her book, BEYOND LIMITS. There’s still time to register! You’re eligible for a book giveaway if you attend in person! ➡️ buff.ly/RexezdG
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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mmolteni.bsky.social
As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Story by @aniloza.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
www.statnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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shefali.bsky.social
ICE’s own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals.

It’s doing so anyway. Immigrants’ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained.

19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...
ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants — against federal policy
But the number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody.
19thnews.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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cambup-law.cambridge.org
"Rectifies a long-standing injustice: the erasure of the role of women in the transformation of science, law and policy in the midst of the HIV epidemic."

Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS by @azizaahmed.bsky.social

#LawSky 🗺️ 🗃️

https://cup.org/3WEnqxA
Risk and Resistance | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
😭😭😭🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
veenadubal.bsky.social Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Oct 9
I am both immensely proud and wowed and inspired by @azizaahmed.bsky.social - sister of my heart! This is a work of history, love, brilliance, and resistance. I needed this today.
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social
It's new book day! 🤩📚

We are thrilled to have so many exciting brand-new releases from @universitypress.cambridge.org including Risk and Resistance' by @azizaahmed.bsky.social 'Assembling India’s Constitution' by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, and much more! 🙌
A hand holding a book titled "Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History" by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, in a bookshop with bookshelves in the background. Hand holding a book titled 'Politics and the New Challenge of Migration: Bridging Cultural, Social and Political Divides' by Gordon Sammut in a bookshop. A hand holding a book titled "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS" by Aziza Ahmed, in a bookshop with shelves of books in the background. A hand holding a book titled "The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change" by Winifred R. Louis, G. K. Chonu, Kiara Minto, and Susilo Wibisono, in a bookshop.
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
Thank you @mayamanian.bsky.social for your wonderful vision and brilliance
mayamanian.bsky.social Maya Manian @mayamanian.bsky.social · Oct 3
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us today for “Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science, and Policy”! Deep gratitude to our incredible speakers, panelists, and especially author @azizaahmed.bsky.social for sparking such powerful conversations
@auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
Can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow at this symposium!

www.american.edu/wcl/impact/i...
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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veenadubal.bsky.social
“With consideration for women’s suffering in pregnancy on the back burner, and blame and accountability taking center stage, we should be wary of how pregnancy directives will be mobilized in the criminal legal system.” @azizaahmed

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Long Before Taking Tylenol While Pregnant Is a Crime?
In light of new data showing over 400 people have been prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, we should be wary of how Trump’s directives may be used against women.
www.thenation.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
Congratulations to @veenadubal.bsky.social and the aaup 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
veenadubal.bsky.social Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Oct 1
WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"
October 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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durba.bsky.social
The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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proflmcclain.bsky.social
Keynote by @azizaahmed.bsky.social with commentary by Prof. Michele Goodwin and two panels of amazing speakers. Can attend in person or virtually: app.registrationguru.net#!/portal?eve...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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thenation.com
By identifying mothers and providers as "guilty" parties in the increasing rates of autism, the Trump administration is inviting prosecutions for crimes related to pregnancy, writes @azizaahmed.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Long Before Taking Tylenol While Pregnant Is a Crime?
In light of new data showing over 400 people have been prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, we should be wary of how Trump's directives may be used against women.
www.thenation.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
Congratulations to @jasonbjackson.bsky.social on his new “erudite”, “original”, and “masterful” book! #capitalism #india #moraleconomy #foreigndirectinvestment 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · Sep 28
My SCOTUS term preview for the Guardian - it focuses on the case challenging what remains of the Voting Rights Act (Callais), how that's part of a centuries-old campaign against Reconstruction, & how that's representative of several issues on the Court's docket.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
A new book by @jasonbjackson.bsky.social

“An incisive account of the moral beliefs that have guided foreign investment policy in India since the late colonial period, with an eye toward their implications for the twenty-first-century global economy”

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry — Harvard University Press
An incisive account of the moral beliefs that have guided foreign investment policy in India since the late colonial period, with an eye toward their implications for the twenty-first-century global e...
www.hup.harvard.edu
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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mayamanian.bsky.social
📢 One week away!
Join us on Oct. 3 (12–5 PM ET) for Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science & Policy.

✨ Featuring a keynote from @azizaahmed.bsky.social on her new book, plus panels on feminist activism, law & public health.

📍 Details & Registration: tinyurl.com/yt2zex6u
auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social AUWCL Health Law and Policy Program @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social · Sep 23
Join us Oct. 3 (12–5 PM ET | hybrid) for Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science & Policy. Featuring Prof. @azizaahmed.bsky.social keynote on her new book followed by panels on feminist activism, law & public health.

Details & Registration: tinyurl.com/yt2zex6u
September 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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mayamanian.bsky.social
Thank you to our speakers for supporting and making time for this event, including
@tracyweitz.bsky.social
@michelegoodwin.bsky.social
@ferrynicola.bsky.social
@sameer-ashar.bsky.social
@serenamayeri.bsky.social
@brishen.bsky.social
@matiangai.bsky.social
@profmohapatra.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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mayamanian.bsky.social
Thrilled that HLPP is hosting Risk and Resistance on Oct 3! Honored to celebrate @azizaahmed.bsky.social’s groundbreaking book and so grateful to our amazing co-sponsors, speakers, and panelists who will make this such an inspiring event.
#RiskandResistance
#healthlaw
auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social AUWCL Health Law and Policy Program @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social · Sep 23
Join us Oct. 3 (12–5 PM ET | hybrid) for Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science & Policy. Featuring Prof. @azizaahmed.bsky.social keynote on her new book followed by panels on feminist activism, law & public health.

Details & Registration: tinyurl.com/yt2zex6u
September 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
azizaahmed.bsky.social
I can’t wait to read this — everyone should order it!!!
durba.bsky.social Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · Sep 22
My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women.

It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
September 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM