Neelika Jayawardane
@sugarintheplum.bsky.social
Writer. Immigrant.
Sharp-tongued literature professor🌶️
Images, photographs, visual culture
Writing on Afrapix, a South African photographers' collective
Website: https://neelikajayawardane.com/
Sharp-tongued literature professor🌶️
Images, photographs, visual culture
Writing on Afrapix, a South African photographers' collective
Website: https://neelikajayawardane.com/
July 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Colombo, #SriLanka: please join me at Collective for Historical Dialogue & Memory (CHDM)
25 Elibank Rd, 5:30pm, 31 July
"This is not the correct history": Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War
@artswriters.bsky.social
25 Elibank Rd, 5:30pm, 31 July
"This is not the correct history": Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War
@artswriters.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Colombo, #SriLanka: please join me at Collective for Historical Dialogue & Memory (CHDM)
25 Elibank Rd, 5:30pm, 31 July
"This is not the correct history": Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War
@artswriters.bsky.social
25 Elibank Rd, 5:30pm, 31 July
"This is not the correct history": Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War
@artswriters.bsky.social
My entire experience in an academic institution. Add an elected union rep (& faculty member) who’s a documented sexual predator + strategically placed white women & POC in administration whose whole job is to make it/you go away. Just
put up posters about equality/zero tolerance in the toilets 👀
put up posters about equality/zero tolerance in the toilets 👀
September 6, 2024 at 11:12 PM
My entire experience in an academic institution. Add an elected union rep (& faculty member) who’s a documented sexual predator + strategically placed white women & POC in administration whose whole job is to make it/you go away. Just
put up posters about equality/zero tolerance in the toilets 👀
put up posters about equality/zero tolerance in the toilets 👀
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July 20, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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still this moment
June 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
still this moment
In nature, there is no true black, but the deepest of purple. By design, I planted ‘black’ tulips for spring, and by complete chance, these ‘black’ hollyhocks come out in the summer🖤
June 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
In nature, there is no true black, but the deepest of purple. By design, I planted ‘black’ tulips for spring, and by complete chance, these ‘black’ hollyhocks come out in the summer🖤
Lindokhule Sobekwa. I carry Her photo with Me.
Gratitude, even for the grief we hold for those who went far and could not find their way back
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Gratitude, even for the grief we hold for those who went far and could not find their way back
www.mackbooks.us/products/i-c...
May 31, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Lindokhule Sobekwa. I carry Her photo with Me.
Gratitude, even for the grief we hold for those who went far and could not find their way back
www.mackbooks.us/products/i-c...
Gratitude, even for the grief we hold for those who went far and could not find their way back
www.mackbooks.us/products/i-c...
I carry Her photo with Me, @lindokuhle.sobekwa
This is Lindo’s first book of photography — it’s going to be one of those iconic photo books, I promise.
Published by @mack_books
Release in May 2024, and available for preorder here www.mackbooks.us/products/i-c...
This is Lindo’s first book of photography — it’s going to be one of those iconic photo books, I promise.
Published by @mack_books
Release in May 2024, and available for preorder here www.mackbooks.us/products/i-c...
February 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I carry Her photo with Me, @lindokuhle.sobekwa
This is Lindo’s first book of photography — it’s going to be one of those iconic photo books, I promise.
Published by @mack_books
Release in May 2024, and available for preorder here www.mackbooks.us/products/i-c...
This is Lindo’s first book of photography — it’s going to be one of those iconic photo books, I promise.
Published by @mack_books
Release in May 2024, and available for preorder here www.mackbooks.us/products/i-c...
This week, I’m completing an application for promotion. In a department & institution where (some) people have been so toxic, bullying, and prejudicial it’s both infuriating and nonsensical.
I may be turned down for the promotion.
But “…truth telling is a liberation practice”
I may be turned down for the promotion.
But “…truth telling is a liberation practice”
January 6, 2024 at 12:46 AM
This week, I’m completing an application for promotion. In a department & institution where (some) people have been so toxic, bullying, and prejudicial it’s both infuriating and nonsensical.
I may be turned down for the promotion.
But “…truth telling is a liberation practice”
I may be turned down for the promotion.
But “…truth telling is a liberation practice”
No secret that I’ve struggled for the entirety of my career with more senior colleagues’ toxic surveillance, undermining behaviour & bullying.
Students like @marigoldtief helped create small, lustrous worlds. Acts love & generosity never reduced that violence, but helped me survive that violence🖤
Students like @marigoldtief helped create small, lustrous worlds. Acts love & generosity never reduced that violence, but helped me survive that violence🖤
December 23, 2023 at 12:16 AM
No secret that I’ve struggled for the entirety of my career with more senior colleagues’ toxic surveillance, undermining behaviour & bullying.
Students like @marigoldtief helped create small, lustrous worlds. Acts love & generosity never reduced that violence, but helped me survive that violence🖤
Students like @marigoldtief helped create small, lustrous worlds. Acts love & generosity never reduced that violence, but helped me survive that violence🖤
Annual Dundee cakes. One goes (always) to an adopted niece and nephew. The other? See if you can lobby me 🙃 The edict: *only* if we have an existing relationship of mutuality, generosity of care, and shared labour practices 🤭 Otherwise darling, I love you but not even a crumb 🤭
December 18, 2023 at 6:21 PM
Annual Dundee cakes. One goes (always) to an adopted niece and nephew. The other? See if you can lobby me 🙃 The edict: *only* if we have an existing relationship of mutuality, generosity of care, and shared labour practices 🤭 Otherwise darling, I love you but not even a crumb 🤭
All bleeding now from sniper bullets, buried under the rubble, no ritual for heaven to prepare for their arrival
May their wit and wisdom and rage keep seeping from the land 💔🖤💚
May their wit and wisdom and rage keep seeping from the land 💔🖤💚
December 11, 2023 at 3:35 PM
All bleeding now from sniper bullets, buried under the rubble, no ritual for heaven to prepare for their arrival
May their wit and wisdom and rage keep seeping from the land 💔🖤💚
May their wit and wisdom and rage keep seeping from the land 💔🖤💚
All the jokesters in the neighbourhood, the aunts who reprimanded, even as the made fun of you, the shopkeepers who handed you free sweets, with wordless poetry in their wrist, the elderly man who had sly turns of phrase to name the brutality of the occupier — reducing them to nothing
December 11, 2023 at 3:34 PM
All the jokesters in the neighbourhood, the aunts who reprimanded, even as the made fun of you, the shopkeepers who handed you free sweets, with wordless poetry in their wrist, the elderly man who had sly turns of phrase to name the brutality of the occupier — reducing them to nothing
Thus they sat, feasting. Here they congratulated themselves, they who financed genocide, concocted reasons, made killing killing killing slick with their words
December 8, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Thus they sat, feasting. Here they congratulated themselves, they who financed genocide, concocted reasons, made killing killing killing slick with their words
The only Deepavali blessing worth meditating on, at this time. By beloved writer & artist, fellow feeler of things that are unbearable & former student @marigoldtief. Forever grateful she took my class. (I’m very lucky, you know. (Though not in love.) My horoscope says so.) 🪔
November 13, 2023 at 2:35 AM
The only Deepavali blessing worth meditating on, at this time. By beloved writer & artist, fellow feeler of things that are unbearable & former student @marigoldtief. Forever grateful she took my class. (I’m very lucky, you know. (Though not in love.) My horoscope says so.) 🪔
Immensely grateful for the conversations that allowed me to write alongside Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s new works. Colonial cultures of domination, surveillance, and scrutiny live in through sport, and how we evaluate bodies and performances of athletes. Text: archive.stevenson.info/docs/Thenjiw...
November 10, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Immensely grateful for the conversations that allowed me to write alongside Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s new works. Colonial cultures of domination, surveillance, and scrutiny live in through sport, and how we evaluate bodies and performances of athletes. Text: archive.stevenson.info/docs/Thenjiw...
What is Apartheid Clyde upto now
If he’s truly offering st4rlink for Gaza, what fuckery outcome is he engineering
If he’s truly offering st4rlink for Gaza, what fuckery outcome is he engineering
October 30, 2023 at 12:37 AM
What is Apartheid Clyde upto now
If he’s truly offering st4rlink for Gaza, what fuckery outcome is he engineering
If he’s truly offering st4rlink for Gaza, what fuckery outcome is he engineering
Filipino pan de coco and Lankan pol sabol is the island fusion you didn’t know you needed 😍
October 7, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Filipino pan de coco and Lankan pol sabol is the island fusion you didn’t know you needed 😍
If you're in the Bay area, please join me at the @Stanford Humanities Centre next week! I'll be speaking about Afrapix, and spillin some ☕️ about all the institutional + interpersonal violence I routinely deal with, doing research towards this project
shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...
shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...
October 7, 2023 at 1:23 AM
If you're in the Bay area, please join me at the @Stanford Humanities Centre next week! I'll be speaking about Afrapix, and spillin some ☕️ about all the institutional + interpersonal violence I routinely deal with, doing research towards this project
shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...
shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...
Farmers market haul. Peppers from the Americas are so gorgeous: poblanos, serranos, jalapeños, Hungarian wax peppers 🌶️
Brunch left my whole body tingling — lips, scalp, fingers 😍😅🥲
Brunch left my whole body tingling — lips, scalp, fingers 😍😅🥲
September 30, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Farmers market haul. Peppers from the Americas are so gorgeous: poblanos, serranos, jalapeños, Hungarian wax peppers 🌶️
Brunch left my whole body tingling — lips, scalp, fingers 😍😅🥲
Brunch left my whole body tingling — lips, scalp, fingers 😍😅🥲
Some mango(!) beers later…
Juliane Okot Bitek and I clutched our respective pearls as we spilled some fine tea 🤭🤭🤭
Juliane Okot Bitek and I clutched our respective pearls as we spilled some fine tea 🤭🤭🤭
September 29, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Some mango(!) beers later…
Juliane Okot Bitek and I clutched our respective pearls as we spilled some fine tea 🤭🤭🤭
Juliane Okot Bitek and I clutched our respective pearls as we spilled some fine tea 🤭🤭🤭
Juliane Okot Bitek’s poetry does not parse words, spare the violets
Brilliant.
(Find her books @U. of Alberta Press)
Brilliant.
(Find her books @U. of Alberta Press)
September 28, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Juliane Okot Bitek’s poetry does not parse words, spare the violets
Brilliant.
(Find her books @U. of Alberta Press)
Brilliant.
(Find her books @U. of Alberta Press)
Poet Juliane Okot Bitek will be giving a talk at my uni tomorrow. But you know I’m gonna lead her astray w temptations, and we’ll do some epic third world gossiping 😂😍 www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/806-9...
September 27, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Poet Juliane Okot Bitek will be giving a talk at my uni tomorrow. But you know I’m gonna lead her astray w temptations, and we’ll do some epic third world gossiping 😂😍 www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/806-9...
Night sky, with exit wound
(for Ocean Vuong)
(for Ocean Vuong)
September 19, 2023 at 12:00 AM
Night sky, with exit wound
(for Ocean Vuong)
(for Ocean Vuong)