sophie marie niang 🌞
@sophiemng.bsky.social
junior research fellow in european cultural studies, magdalene college cambridge.
https://sophiemarieniang.com/
https://sophiemarieniang.com/
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My first article is out (!!!) it’s a collaborative piece I wrote last year with @sophiemng.bsky.social about moments of recorded excess, laughter, fuck-ups and longing gazes. It’s a short epistolary article and I’d love for you all to read it. I’m so excited to have it out in the world!
June 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My first article is out (!!!) it’s a collaborative piece I wrote last year with @sophiemng.bsky.social about moments of recorded excess, laughter, fuck-ups and longing gazes. It’s a short epistolary article and I’d love for you all to read it. I’m so excited to have it out in the world!
My new article on flamboyance in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte Noire Nommée Désir. I loved writing it, and I hope you love reading it! 💫🌚🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On flamboyance: refusal and worldmaking in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte noire nommée désir
This article explores the afrofeminist concept of flamboyance through an analysis of Rébecca Chaillon’s 2021 performance Carte noire nommée désir. The author argues that Chaillon’s decolonial sceno...
www.tandfonline.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My new article on flamboyance in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte Noire Nommée Désir. I loved writing it, and I hope you love reading it! 💫🌚🔥
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Session 1 was followed by a fantastic keynote lecture entitled “From La condition noire to Noir.e.s, sans conditions”delivered by @sophiemng.bsky.social #SFSPG2025
May 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Session 1 was followed by a fantastic keynote lecture entitled “From La condition noire to Noir.e.s, sans conditions”delivered by @sophiemng.bsky.social #SFSPG2025
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This morning I woke up to an email from my college in Cambridge (King’s) saying they will divest from companies involved in occupation, weapons companies and companies that produce key or dedicated parts of such weapons. It is possible.
May 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This morning I woke up to an email from my college in Cambridge (King’s) saying they will divest from companies involved in occupation, weapons companies and companies that produce key or dedicated parts of such weapons. It is possible.
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All i think when i see headlines is that refaat al areer, and hundreds of other researchers, teachers, administrators, could be alive today. Fuck this wholw world
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
All i think when i see headlines is that refaat al areer, and hundreds of other researchers, teachers, administrators, could be alive today. Fuck this wholw world
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#BlackFranceNoire inaugural symposium.
Join us on 21-23 May 2025, in Paris.
More info: blackfrancenoire.my.canva.site/collectif-bl...
Join us on 21-23 May 2025, in Paris.
More info: blackfrancenoire.my.canva.site/collectif-bl...
April 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
#BlackFranceNoire inaugural symposium.
Join us on 21-23 May 2025, in Paris.
More info: blackfrancenoire.my.canva.site/collectif-bl...
Join us on 21-23 May 2025, in Paris.
More info: blackfrancenoire.my.canva.site/collectif-bl...
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The Trump admin hasn’t accused Mahmoud Khalil of committing a crime. But they’ve labeled his speech a threat and targeted him for deportation.
This is a clear 1st Amendment violation. I stand with Mahmoud, and anyone who cares about our constitutional rights should too.
This is a clear 1st Amendment violation. I stand with Mahmoud, and anyone who cares about our constitutional rights should too.
Per his attorneys, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court at his immigration hearing today, where a judge gave the green light to the Trump admin to deport him.
“This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”
“This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”
April 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Trump admin hasn’t accused Mahmoud Khalil of committing a crime. But they’ve labeled his speech a threat and targeted him for deportation.
This is a clear 1st Amendment violation. I stand with Mahmoud, and anyone who cares about our constitutional rights should too.
This is a clear 1st Amendment violation. I stand with Mahmoud, and anyone who cares about our constitutional rights should too.
"This is, more than anything, a plea for principled leftists to rise en masse and not just decry but disrupt a nation helmed by gleeful genocideers."
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"This is, more than anything, a plea for principled leftists to rise en masse and not just decry but disrupt a nation helmed by gleeful genocideers."
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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French politician Raphaël Glucksmann suggested that the Statue of Liberty be returned, saying “It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her.”
Naomi Osaka, whose father, Leonard Francois is of Haitian descent, posted “Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?”
Naomi Osaka, whose father, Leonard Francois is of Haitian descent, posted “Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?”
Naomi Osaka Demands Reparations for Haiti From France
Osaka’s father, Leonard Francois, is of Haitian descent.
www.bet.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
French politician Raphaël Glucksmann suggested that the Statue of Liberty be returned, saying “It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her.”
Naomi Osaka, whose father, Leonard Francois is of Haitian descent, posted “Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?”
Naomi Osaka, whose father, Leonard Francois is of Haitian descent, posted “Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?”
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Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life:
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
March 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life:
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine
I had the pleasure of coming onto this feminist student podcast to talk about france, black feminisms and worldmaking! Have a listen 😊
open.spotify.com/episode/4Lhi...
open.spotify.com/episode/4Lhi...
The Feminist Files - Why feminism has to be messy: Frictions, encounters and movements within diasporic Black feminism with Dr Sophie Niang.
The Cambridge Student Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I had the pleasure of coming onto this feminist student podcast to talk about france, black feminisms and worldmaking! Have a listen 😊
open.spotify.com/episode/4Lhi...
open.spotify.com/episode/4Lhi...
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11/ I leave you with this boss photo of Stevie Wonder being arrested for protesting the South African embassy in 1985:
February 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
11/ I leave you with this boss photo of Stevie Wonder being arrested for protesting the South African embassy in 1985: