Omar Kasmani
@kasmanio.bsky.social
Berliner-by-love & cultural anthropologist @FU_Berlin | intimacy, post-migrant be/longing, queer + affect theory | author of Queer Companions (2022, Duke UP)
A big thank you @zfn.bsky.social @pankegallery.bsky.social for hosting my reading last night. I had the fortune of sharing my writing on Berlin as it shifts from a project of be/longing to that of un/loving, that is, not the absence or opposite of love, rather its conscious withholding.
December 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM
A big thank you @zfn.bsky.social @pankegallery.bsky.social for hosting my reading last night. I had the fortune of sharing my writing on Berlin as it shifts from a project of be/longing to that of un/loving, that is, not the absence or opposite of love, rather its conscious withholding.
“It is 2024 and Berlin feels like a heartbreak” #justout my essay on the minor/ felt ways in which urban-political turmoil corresponds with matters of the heart. About digital intimacies, migrant heartache and boy-trouble, or “when home fails to inhabit you the way you inhabit it” @zfn.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 3:03 PM
“It is 2024 and Berlin feels like a heartbreak” #justout my essay on the minor/ felt ways in which urban-political turmoil corresponds with matters of the heart. About digital intimacies, migrant heartache and boy-trouble, or “when home fails to inhabit you the way you inhabit it” @zfn.bsky.social
I hereby announce that I shall henceforth expect hearts in my intro - thank you @mxschnepf.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I hereby announce that I shall henceforth expect hearts in my intro - thank you @mxschnepf.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social
Not sure what’s broken can be sutured, or if we can knit ourselves out of German horrors, but I know that “Thin Attachments” my Berlin book project on migrant loves & be/longing now qualifies as anthropology of/with a broken heart (riffing off Behar). Bani captures a shared landscape of un/feeling.
January 17, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Not sure what’s broken can be sutured, or if we can knit ourselves out of German horrors, but I know that “Thin Attachments” my Berlin book project on migrant loves & be/longing now qualifies as anthropology of/with a broken heart (riffing off Behar). Bani captures a shared landscape of un/feeling.
Readings, samosas, conversations + discounted copies 🥳 Join us this evening in Berlin-Neukölln as we introduce and celebrate “Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere” @dukepress.bsky.social
December 15, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Readings, samosas, conversations + discounted copies 🥳 Join us this evening in Berlin-Neukölln as we introduce and celebrate “Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere” @dukepress.bsky.social
The lovely Hajra Haider Karrar and I met this afternoon to co-conspire for a-soon-to-be-coming deliciously abundant berlin-mehfil for this darling-of-a-book. Stay tuned and save the date: 15 December. Oh and it’s currently 50% off, so get your copy now @dukepress.bsky.social
December 6, 2023 at 3:37 PM
The lovely Hajra Haider Karrar and I met this afternoon to co-conspire for a-soon-to-be-coming deliciously abundant berlin-mehfil for this darling-of-a-book. Stay tuned and save the date: 15 December. Oh and it’s currently 50% off, so get your copy now @dukepress.bsky.social
On how to properly react to an amazing edited volume: Cutie Queer Companion @mxschnepf.bsky.social meets Pakistan Desires @dukepress.bsky.social - goes (rightfully) bonkers!
November 16, 2023 at 3:26 PM
On how to properly react to an amazing edited volume: Cutie Queer Companion @mxschnepf.bsky.social meets Pakistan Desires @dukepress.bsky.social - goes (rightfully) bonkers!
On enduring, if not surviving, the thickness, mastery and violence of European history and its cruel manifestations in the present.
November 15, 2023 at 5:40 PM
On enduring, if not surviving, the thickness, mastery and violence of European history and its cruel manifestations in the present.
Queer Companions @dukepress.bsky.social wins the 2023 Ruth Benedict Prize 💕 In her email, the chair of the prize committee (AQA, Association for Queer Anthropology) noted, “the book took our breath away.” What an absolute honor this is; thank you for the love and recognition!
November 2, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Queer Companions @dukepress.bsky.social wins the 2023 Ruth Benedict Prize 💕 In her email, the chair of the prize committee (AQA, Association for Queer Anthropology) noted, “the book took our breath away.” What an absolute honor this is; thank you for the love and recognition!
A desire comes to world, a dream made real. So incredibly proud, over the moon really. To all those who came on board, believed in the vision, made it happen, especially the incredible @lizault.bsky.social - I say: pyar, shukriya + desire mubarak 💕 Pakistan Desires is out now @dukepress.bsky.social
October 27, 2023 at 10:48 AM
A desire comes to world, a dream made real. So incredibly proud, over the moon really. To all those who came on board, believed in the vision, made it happen, especially the incredible @lizault.bsky.social - I say: pyar, shukriya + desire mubarak 💕 Pakistan Desires is out now @dukepress.bsky.social
If one is to go by Jesus’ example, at 20 something followers, there’s still hope for me. Hello bluesky-beauties. I’ve arrived!
October 21, 2023 at 1:45 PM
If one is to go by Jesus’ example, at 20 something followers, there’s still hope for me. Hello bluesky-beauties. I’ve arrived!