In February 2024, I was invited by Lisa Stuckey and Alexander Damianisch to contribute a short entry to their publication Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies: Transforming Understanding—Understanding Transformation about concepts developed by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. … Continue reading “Potentializing Palestine: Gaza Bursts Open the Imperial Shutter”
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture (Duke University Press, 2024) astutely valorizes the speculative power and experimentation practices of black feminist and queer writers and artists who have produced works since the 1980s, … Continue reading “A Review of Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style”
Many of us are already aware of the fragmentation Palestinians have been experiencing topographically, geographically, familial-y over the past seventy-six years. Checkpoints and walls divide lovers and separate children from their parents. The arbitrary Bantustan system in the apartheid West … Continue reading “Palestine Is a Feminist Struggle”
In this important conversation and dossier about ways to enact transnational feminist solidarity with Palestinians from the perspective of women scholars from the Middle East and Asia, I share my insights on war and imperialism in Afghanistan. I comparatively explore … Continue reading “Livestreaming and Deadstreaming: On the Optics, Politics, and Effects of Violent Imagery in Comparative Perspective”
My contribution to our emerging collective conversation against neocolonialism is through the vantage of Kashmir. Kashmir is often compared to Palestine and sometimes referred to as “another Palestine.” In this essay, I highlight, revisit, and expand on a few aspects … Continue reading “Intifada: From Palestine to Kashmir”
The Palestinian liberation struggle has been a lightning rod for the Iranian left since at least the 1960s. In my book, This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States (Duke University Press, 2022), I wrote about the regional and … Continue reading “Iranian Feminist Solidarity with Palestine”
Let me start by saying a few words about where I am coming from, and why we at Critical Studies of Iraq initiated this conversation among feminists reflecting and organizing from the standpoints of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Iran, and … Continue reading “Transnational Feminism from Iraq to Palestine”
Introduction We feminists are bearing witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a continuation of more than seventy-five years of Israeli settler-colonial violence against Palestinians. More than two decades into the “War on Terror,” we want to cut against the … Continue reading “Feminists for a Free Palestine: Voices from Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Iran, and Beyond”
Palestine Now Edited by Maya Mikdashi, Jasbir K. Puar, and Helga Tawil-Souri The editors of Palestine Now invite pieces on the past, present, and futures of Palestine and its expansive geographies. The question of Palestinian liberation has shaken the world … Continue reading “Palestine Now–New Call for Submissions”
This special issue of Social Text critically thinks through how models of contemporary platforms such as Amazon or Google are reproductions of colonial capitalist enterprises such as The East India Company. Authors are invited to engage the field of digital … Continue reading “Call for Papers: Colonial Studies of the Platform”
[Dogless I] Life is long and I crossed my fingers. Sparred through death and others Through play. School. It’s me. Schooled. Post-Labor Day and the line Down. Good dog. Very good. Like I return to my craft at the end … Continue reading “from DOGLESS“
This essay was my contribution to the panel Global and Transnational Approaches to Race and Racism at the Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference, 15-16 April 2024 at the London School of Economics. I am grateful to Ghada Majadli and … Continue reading “Social Theory after* Gaza? Witnessing the Transnational Circuits of Race-Making”
Social Text remembers the life and work of Fredric Jameson, one of our founding editors. Read an interview with Fredric Jameson and materials about his work establishing the journal here. Read a 2016 interview and a special issue that considers … Continue reading “Remembering Fredric Jameson”
For Capitalism is the Sophisticated and Materialized Form of the Hatred of Man and of his Body. -François Guéry and Didier Deleule In 2023, the trend “Films if they were directed by Wes Anderson” began to gain popularity on TikTok. … Continue reading “The Productive Body Dismembered: Creative Labor and AI Art”
Translated by Kira Josefsson Snow Lessons There are many types of ice: white ice, red ice, slick black ice. If only you’d learned to master the ice. If only you’d learned more about the work of translation. If only your … Continue reading “Two Poems”
