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Saishreya Sriram
@saishreya.bsky.social
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joining international city planning msc @UCL ‘25-26.
all about a world towards disability, gender, species, climate, & social justice.
she/her. 🏳️‍🌈

https://saishreyasriram.substack.com/
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urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📢 This week on the USF Blog!

Dr Cesare Di Feliciantonio, Magdalena Moreno & Dr Gabriella Palermo introduce their #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant on feminist & queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism.

🔗 ow.ly/S7FV50XolP7
#UrbanStudies #FeministGeographies #QueerUrbanism
USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.” USF blog flyer for the series "Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism" on a picture by Magdalena Moreno Wall covered with colorful protest posters and flyers advocating feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, with the quote "“The aim of the project is to create an international network of activist(s and) scholars working in/with feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces, to share knowledge and practices to navigate the increasing violence of the present, imagine new ‘world-making’ practices (Muñoz 2009) and support each other.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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shankman.bsky.social
Sometimes as a climate reporter, it feels like the job is saying "You know that fun thing? Well let me tell you ..."

Anyways ...
40,000 bananas, 8 tons of paper cups, and a whole lot of emissions. Inside the Boston Marathon’s climate footprint. - The Boston Globe
Race organizers are hoping to make a dent in the Boston Marathon's carbon emissions. By the end of this decade, the plan is to slash direct emissions from their operation to 42 percent below 2023 leve...
www.bostonglobe.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
saishreya.bsky.social
Am I a total sapphic stereotype? I was reading @older.bsky.social’s bful second book on my morn commute while having Chappell’s femininomenon in the background xD
February 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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bransonreese.bsky.social
Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.
February 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
What a read. Plus, it leaves you with an explosive range—of resources, ideas, books, authors, and approaches— of what, how, and who shapes our imaginations when it comes to futures

Def going to mull over throughout this week @hararereview.bsky.social 💛

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures
The key is to evade the rigid and hegemonic structures of Western-oriented writing.
strangehorizons.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
Oof, such a riveting and brilliant one @whiterxbbit.bsky.social; blew my mind in more ways than I can properly articulate!

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Ectogenesis and the Science Fiction Futures of Reproduction
We can see conservative values, fears, and hopes playing out in many Western science fiction works—and patriarchal ideals around motherhood, reproduction, and family are everywhere.
strangehorizons.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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jofmat.bsky.social
Absolutely. And what a page-turner at that.
"The heat is rapidly becoming too much to bear, and precisely for that reason, it is too late to give up this struggle. There is, henceforth, no path to a liveable planet that does not pass through the complete destruction of business as usual. What would that look like?" (Wim Carton, Andreas Malm, Overshoot)
January 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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gautambhatia88.bsky.social
It is the third Monday of the month, so here is a new edition of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant:

gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-...

feat. re-reading Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, a book on Persianate poetics in the 20th C, signing with a literary agents, and more.
Words for Worlds - Issue 88
Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.
gautambhatia.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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unpopularscience.bsky.social
In conservation science, a strong cohort of my colleagues bears a strong antipathy toward animals rights, regarding it an extremist cause that must be cleaved from conservation to preserve our credibility.

They ignore that animal farming is the primary global threat to terrestrial wildlife habitat.
Since 1960 more than a billion acres of forest has been razed to breed cows for meat and to grow cereals, half of which are not grown for human consumption but to feed livestock and make fuel. And more than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of our protein and calories. In the tropics the destruction of forests is accelerating, with somewhere between 15 and 20 million acres burnt, chopped and cleared for agriculture every year. If you combine global grazing land with the amount of cropland used for animal feed, livestock accounts for a full 80% of agricultural land use.
December 11, 2024 at 3:05 PM
saishreya.bsky.social
I love this thread so much.
antonhur.com Anton Hur @antonhur.com · Jan 12
It was Barbara Kingsolver who once said that "want" is as boundless as the sky above, but "need" can often fit in a bucket. Sit yourself down and really ask yourself: what is a want for you, and what is a need? No one "needs" to win a Booker or a Nobel. I "need" to pay rent though! That's all it is.
January 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
Folks, i write on a Substack every Sunday. This writing comes from a very personal space of viewing the world with anecdotes, glimmers, and glimpses of my life wherein I seek out the extraordinary even & esp in the ordinary rhythms.

link: saishreyasriram.substack.com

lmk what you think x🤍
“Ways and walls of seeing” is the title of the 5th Jan Substack post. Subtitle is: “Oh, so are you a cat or dog person? (isn't thinking in binaries so easy and contagious?)” The initial text of the post reads "Oh, so every Sunday?" I asked her. Link: SAISHREYASRIRASUBSTACK.COM "Trying to see the genius of it all." —this is the title of the Substack before last 29th of December. There is Sansa who is sitting on my handbang which is a faux leather material slightly brown. There is ablack coffee in a mug and indecipherable text on a notepad (mine). Sansa, who is an indie cat, is staring with her luminous green eyes—right at the camera of my phone— totally like staring right at your soul. Link: SAISHREYASRIRAM.SUBSTACK.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
Ngl I made a face when they said the only plant-based mylk they had was millet-based (I drift b/w team coconut/cashew/soy/oat milk). And then, oof it was so good!!! So dairy-like!

this was exceptionally good, so much so that I got it a second time!!! 🤍
A standard circular cafe table with a cappuccino cup and saucer with two sugar sachets and a teeny spoon
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social
If we don’t take ethics seriously when it comes to non-human sentient beings then we don’t take ethics seriously.

@sentientism.bsky.social
December 29, 2024 at 10:28 PM
saishreya.bsky.social
I had within my possession @antonhur.com’s Toward Eternity
and by no use of hyperbole—I just revelled in it.

plus, my headspace as I wrote for this Subday’s substack was totally transformed by way of that:

saishreyasriram.substack.com/p/here-is-to...
To comfort and more.
Is the world more bearable if you have a WhatsApp group with yourself?
saishreyasriram.substack.com
December 25, 2024 at 8:58 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
I failed to mention here that I started a Substack since I really did want a place to write and share weekly.

This was the first one from last week: saishreyasriram.substack.com/p/why
Why?
It’s 17:01 here in the outskirts of Bombay, where there are rare remnants of healthy air and a few lush canopies amidst the freshly occupied and concrete-filled apartment complexes causing the assault...
saishreyasriram.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:26 PM
saishreya.bsky.social
This one hour was absolutely brilliant @annaoleszczuk.bsky.social!
The level of minutiae in best practices in subtitling really blew my mind.
Now I am just making lists of things to watch just to visualise how they might have gotten translated.
annaoleszczuk.bsky.social Anna Oleszczuk @annaoleszczuk.bsky.social · Nov 29
I have an open online lecture about the Art of Subtitling tonight in like... two hours and obviously this is the moment when I started to doubt my slides: maybe they should be more funny and less detailed! Maybe ppl want more trivia and less knowledge *spirals*

#AcademicSky #Translating #Subtitling
December 3, 2024 at 11:24 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
A lot of pain was felt this week esp by my feline flatmate who had hourly drops and syrups through syringes. Fast forward to now I am a few meters away from this month-old pup we are fostering who has a double fracture. She is sleeping and I’m grateful because-
An indie pup barely a month and a half old being tended to by two brown/South Asian/Indian women on a white towel. She has a double fracture which is why her left leg is slightly off even in the picture. She faces the camera staring as though: “Look at you trying to capture me and my pain in vain.” A kindle showing the cover of the book The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar on a table The cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. On a royal blue bedhseet with gorgeous contrasting floral designs lies an indie feline with brown and dark stripes whose face I’m stroking as she has her eyes closes and shows she likes this gesture her face tilted beautifully in all the glory of comfort only cats know
December 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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indianurbanist.bsky.social
Put it simply, to reduce the air pollution on the worst days of the year in Delhi, you will need to reduce the air pollution every day and that's not going to happen without inconveniencing the car owners and reducing the number of cars and the amount that people drive.
November 24, 2024 at 8:55 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
watching Payal Kapadia’s All we Imagine as Light reminded me a lot of Bong Joon-Ho’s work and the day had hues of grey and well....grief.

(long-ish thread)

CW: mention of (avoidable) animal suffering with notes of interconnected human grief and poles of the human condition + the dsm-phive
The movie poster All we Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia. 119 mins | Adult. Drama genre. Malayalam film with English subtitles. It won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival. The magazine WIRED’s black and white feature of Boong Joon-Ho Oscar winning Director whose quote reads “Capitalism turns living things into commodities.” His photo is in black and white featuring a South Korean male with glasses staring elsewhere and not at the camera.
November 25, 2024 at 6:10 PM
saishreya.bsky.social
people who know of intersectionalities (and can overcome the initial discomfort of this truth) will know: you are a true feminist only when you are vegan.

It’s that v thought and mental leap that made me take the step nearly 5 years ago. Before that, probably I was one of em who made fun of vegans
sentientmedia.org Sentient @sentientmedia.org · Nov 25
As a matter of course, factory farms exploit female reproductive systems in painful, invasive and often dangerous ways, often hurting the mother and child alike.
sentientmedia.org/factory-farm...
How Factory Farming Exploits Female Reproductive Systems, Explained
How the meat and dairy industries rely on the labor and suffering of mothers.
sentientmedia.org
November 25, 2024 at 4:33 PM
saishreya.bsky.social
I have so many questions and this is so going up on my kindle library asap.
birchlse.bsky.social Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Nov 23
Just finished Station Eleven, a book about a killer virus that only spares arts & humanities majors. Millions of survivors but no one knows where electricity comes from or how to make more of it, so they walk around performing Shakespeare and dying.
November 24, 2024 at 6:10 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
A weekly book update (ft. felines) on is something I will start from now.

This past week:
Orbital by Samantha Harvey @thebookerprizes.bsky.social
The Transformative Constitution + The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
Hunchprose by Ranjit Hoskote @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
A black and white indie cat on top of a desk curiously sniffing a book while there is a kindle open on a brown skinned person’s lap with the chapter titled Orbit 7 of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital which won the Booker Prize just last week. A book by the author Gautam Bhatia titled The Transformative Constitution with a light beige colour front cover with one image of an old rupee/currency note and an image of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar one of India’s most prominent leaders in history who served in the Constituent Assembly and was a major social reformer A light beige coloured page cover book titled “hunchprose” with a majestic bird featured and the book is a poetry collection by Ranjit Hoskote published by Penguin. On the same desk, the book The Sentemce is there A comfy black velvety sofa has a sole occupant: a light brown and white coloured indie cat who is sleeping soundly with his head tilted on the armchair of the sofa
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM
saishreya.bsky.social
love to see the inverse of the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell.

Here you pave parking lots to put up paradise (as the way it ought to be).
November 22, 2024 at 6:29 PM
saishreya.bsky.social
having these two support the meat & lobby just reaffirms how misguided it is to support or justify it.

That said, I recognise realistically that animal agriculture phase-out will take decades & definitely UBI and skill dev on a massive scale. But we really need mindsets to change first.
sentientmedia.org Sentient @sentientmedia.org · Nov 19
In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan and Elon Musk's conversation quickly shifted to meat, and led to a brief exchange — based on misinformation, rather than facts – that beef does not have a climate impact.
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What Musk and Rogan Got Very Wrong About Climate Change and Meat
In a recent podcast appearance, Musk spread climate misinformation.
sentientmedia.org
November 22, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
We all need to become eco-populists. That means championing policies that significantly lower daily costs while lowering emissions. Heat Pumps for All, alongside much more robust tenant rights; free and better public transit; price caps on green energy; make polluters pay for the transition.

(4/8)
November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM