Dipali A
@dipali17.bsky.social
Book nerd. Intersectional feminist. PhD-ing. Cares about tea, feminist activism, care, poetry, Arsenal. She/her
Such a great book! I read an ARC last month. Highly recommend!
Classes start next week and then I go on book tour the following week. Yep, I’m gonna be teaching and touring at the same time so…
First of all, pre-order THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT immediately.
Second, come see me and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social on tour. This anthology is EXCELLENT.
First of all, pre-order THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT immediately.
Second, come see me and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social on tour. This anthology is EXCELLENT.
I’m excited to announce that I’m hitting the road with @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social next month to celebrate our new book THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT! Come on out and join us! Pre-order your copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
August 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Such a great book! I read an ARC last month. Highly recommend!
As Mariame Kaba says, “Hope is a discipline.” Given the state of the world, don’t you wish practicing hope right now was as easy as writing it out on a worksheet?
Despite and inspite of the difficulty, we must imagine and strive towards a better world.
@interruptcrim.bsky.social @procreate.com
Despite and inspite of the difficulty, we must imagine and strive towards a better world.
@interruptcrim.bsky.social @procreate.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As Mariame Kaba says, “Hope is a discipline.” Given the state of the world, don’t you wish practicing hope right now was as easy as writing it out on a worksheet?
Despite and inspite of the difficulty, we must imagine and strive towards a better world.
@interruptcrim.bsky.social @procreate.com
Despite and inspite of the difficulty, we must imagine and strive towards a better world.
@interruptcrim.bsky.social @procreate.com
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Love is not a feeling. It is a act that requires commitment, tenderness, active listening and acts of care and support.
July 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Love is not a feeling. It is a act that requires commitment, tenderness, active listening and acts of care and support.
Over the past month, I read an advanced copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, a collection edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Truly a care package for the soul! I highly recommend it. Thank you to @akpress.org for the ARC!
July 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Over the past month, I read an advanced copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, a collection edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Truly a care package for the soul! I highly recommend it. Thank you to @akpress.org for the ARC!
Breaking my nibling-imposed break to say that my Fletcher experience has greatly benefited from @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social’s mentorship and support, literally from day 1 as my MALD academic advisor to now serving on my PhD committee. Finishing up at Fletcher will be strange without you around!
Today is my final day on the faculty of the @fletcherschool.bsky.social.
I have spent 8 years mystified at how fortunate I have been to work with such extraordinary colleagues and inspiring students. I am filled with gratitude for the privilege.
This is a special place. I will miss it.
🙏
I have spent 8 years mystified at how fortunate I have been to work with such extraordinary colleagues and inspiring students. I am filled with gratitude for the privilege.
This is a special place. I will miss it.
🙏
June 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Breaking my nibling-imposed break to say that my Fletcher experience has greatly benefited from @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social’s mentorship and support, literally from day 1 as my MALD academic advisor to now serving on my PhD committee. Finishing up at Fletcher will be strange without you around!
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I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.
June 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.
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I swear the horrors aren’t even daily, they’re hourly. And simultaneously so we don’t see all that is happening.
June 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I swear the horrors aren’t even daily, they’re hourly. And simultaneously so we don’t see all that is happening.
Hi hi! Since there’s an #ISA2026 deadline extension, @sindujaraja.bsky.social and I are wondering if anyone would be interested in joining a roundtable on academia as/and activism? The conversation is as necessary as ever with global trends of growing fascism and repression.
@isanet.bsky.social
@isanet.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hi hi! Since there’s an #ISA2026 deadline extension, @sindujaraja.bsky.social and I are wondering if anyone would be interested in joining a roundtable on academia as/and activism? The conversation is as necessary as ever with global trends of growing fascism and repression.
@isanet.bsky.social
@isanet.bsky.social
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We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism
This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...
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June 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
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Another Storm, by Lee Krasner, 1963, 📸 by Adam Davy
May 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Another Storm, by Lee Krasner, 1963, 📸 by Adam Davy
“I wanted to write by the rules of night, by association and intuition” not “the rules of daylight—narratives organized by chronology, analysis, argument, data drawn from research”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on my forever favourite, The Field Guide to Getting Lost
@literaryhub.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on my forever favourite, The Field Guide to Getting Lost
@literaryhub.bsky.social
20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself
One of the great joyful mysteries of writing comes when work whose creation arose from the writer’s innermost desires somehow meets those of its readers. I let this book loose in the world with no …
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May 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“I wanted to write by the rules of night, by association and intuition” not “the rules of daylight—narratives organized by chronology, analysis, argument, data drawn from research”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on my forever favourite, The Field Guide to Getting Lost
@literaryhub.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on my forever favourite, The Field Guide to Getting Lost
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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I know I'm woke -- proudly so -- but I'm tired of hearing
@arsenalwfc.bsky.social's players being referred to as "girls" or "gals" or "ladies." They are women playing the sport at the very highest level and deserve more respect. #Arsenal #COYG
@arsenalwfc.bsky.social's players being referred to as "girls" or "gals" or "ladies." They are women playing the sport at the very highest level and deserve more respect. #Arsenal #COYG
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I know I'm woke -- proudly so -- but I'm tired of hearing
@arsenalwfc.bsky.social's players being referred to as "girls" or "gals" or "ladies." They are women playing the sport at the very highest level and deserve more respect. #Arsenal #COYG
@arsenalwfc.bsky.social's players being referred to as "girls" or "gals" or "ladies." They are women playing the sport at the very highest level and deserve more respect. #Arsenal #COYG
What an important piece!
Some further thoughts because a big part of my PhD dissertation research at @fletcherschool.bsky.social is on how activists sustain themselves while sustaining social movements. I interviewed feminist activists working on ending SGBV in India.
1/6
Some further thoughts because a big part of my PhD dissertation research at @fletcherschool.bsky.social is on how activists sustain themselves while sustaining social movements. I interviewed feminist activists working on ending SGBV in India.
1/6
Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.
From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
“Some days, my best efforts feel insufficient and overwhelming at the same time.”
organizingmythoughts.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What an important piece!
Some further thoughts because a big part of my PhD dissertation research at @fletcherschool.bsky.social is on how activists sustain themselves while sustaining social movements. I interviewed feminist activists working on ending SGBV in India.
1/6
Some further thoughts because a big part of my PhD dissertation research at @fletcherschool.bsky.social is on how activists sustain themselves while sustaining social movements. I interviewed feminist activists working on ending SGBV in India.
1/6
Read this a week ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it:
“I am asking them, as I am continually asking myself, to imagine a heart that feels a connection to the hearts of others, even others you do not know. I would like to think that this is what nudges me forward, more than…hope.”
“I am asking them, as I am continually asking myself, to imagine a heart that feels a connection to the hearts of others, even others you do not know. I would like to think that this is what nudges me forward, more than…hope.”
This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Read this a week ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it:
“I am asking them, as I am continually asking myself, to imagine a heart that feels a connection to the hearts of others, even others you do not know. I would like to think that this is what nudges me forward, more than…hope.”
“I am asking them, as I am continually asking myself, to imagine a heart that feels a connection to the hearts of others, even others you do not know. I would like to think that this is what nudges me forward, more than…hope.”
Here come my tears again.
She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
May 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Here come my tears again.
<cries with relief>
And that's it.
"All rise" as judge leaves the bench.
In the Zoom gallery, I see Ozturk stand.
She hugs her attorney, smiling.
"All rise" as judge leaves the bench.
In the Zoom gallery, I see Ozturk stand.
She hugs her attorney, smiling.
May 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
<cries with relief>
The world’s a lot right now so here’s a little reminder to stay soft and remain tender. I read @monaeltahawy.bsky.social’s substack piece with this quote in February but I keep returning to it.
@procreate.com
@procreate.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The world’s a lot right now so here’s a little reminder to stay soft and remain tender. I read @monaeltahawy.bsky.social’s substack piece with this quote in February but I keep returning to it.
@procreate.com
@procreate.com
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I keep seeing variants of “what an exciting time for political scientists.” We are not excited. An epidemiologist isn’t excited when, after warning for years about an impending epidemic, the epidemic strikes. No one thinks the thing that’s been keeping them up at night is thrilling to watch unfold.
May 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I keep seeing variants of “what an exciting time for political scientists.” We are not excited. An epidemiologist isn’t excited when, after warning for years about an impending epidemic, the epidemic strikes. No one thinks the thing that’s been keeping them up at night is thrilling to watch unfold.
April 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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“Tender is the fight... And there is power in such tenderness.”
For Poetry Month.
Perhaps the greatest poet of revolutionary love is June Jordan, who loved the world & her lovers, women & men, fiercely & w/a tenderness that fuses the personal & political w/ the delicacy of an embroiderer stitching together a broken heart www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tend...
Perhaps the greatest poet of revolutionary love is June Jordan, who loved the world & her lovers, women & men, fiercely & w/a tenderness that fuses the personal & political w/ the delicacy of an embroiderer stitching together a broken heart www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tend...
Essay: Tender is the Fight
On Love
www.feministgiant.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Tender is the fight... And there is power in such tenderness.”
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🧵⬇️Check out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches doi.org/10.1080/1465...
Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches
Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking betwe...
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October 17, 2024 at 1:04 AM
🧵⬇️Check out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches doi.org/10.1080/1465...
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I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism