Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميرا

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Assistant Prof of English & Race, Gender, Sexuality Studies #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race | Arab | Uninvited guest. Imaginary homelands: Lebanon. Mostly amateur, dilettante.

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Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراDec 2, 2022

With much joy and love and gratitude, I wish to announce the publication of Race-ing Queens, a Special Issue of Barnard Center for Research on Women’s The Scholar and Feminist Online, co-edited with Sonja Drimmer (art historian), Treva B. Lindsey (Black feminist historian), and yours truly (literary critic). This special issue has been in the works for more than three (pandemic) years, and is the brainchild of the visionary mentor, colleague, and all-around Queen, Kim Hall. It is transhistorical, interdisciplinary, and open-access (and we are hoping, teachable)

#RaceingQueens #Queens

https://sfonline.barnard.edu/race-ing-queens/

Race-ing Queens

About this Issue by The Editorial Team Introduction by Mira Assaf Kafantaris, Treva B. Lindsey, and Sonja Drimmer 'Honi soit qui mal y pense': Succession, Race, and Gender in the Demi-Monde of…

The Scholar & Feminist Online
Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 20, 2022
Manuel BarciaNov 20, 2022
#histodon #histodons
Book klaxon:
https://www.routledge.com/New-Approaches-to-the-Comparative-Abolition-in-the-Atlantic-and-Indian/Sanjurjo-Barcia/p/book/9781032457932
New Approaches to the Comparative Abolition in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

Taking the theme of ‘abolition’ as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship on unfree labour in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds during the past two decades. The essays included here revisit some of the persistent problems posed by the traditional comparative literature on slavery and indentured labour and identify new and exciting areas for future research. This book is intended for a broad audience, including scholars, students as well a

Routledge & CRC Press
Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 20, 2022
Dr. Farhana SultanaNov 20, 2022

Do you know what #ClimateColoniality is? Learn more here from my #openaccess article:

"The Unbearable Heaviness of Climate Coloniality"

https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/Sultana-Unberable-Heaviness-of-Climate-Coloniaity-online-April-2022.pdf

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Coloniality #Decolonization #ClimateChange #LossAndDamage #Reparations #Resistance

Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 20, 2022
Will BunchNov 20, 2022

It's called stochastic terrorism

After the dust settles from a mass murder at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs with Saturday night drag shows, let's talk about how GOP pols like Ron DeSantis spent the election making drag shows Public Enemy No. 1

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/florida-gov-rob-desantis-files-complaint-against-drag-show-brunch

“That is not the way you look out for our children”: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Files Complaint About Drag Show Brunch And Kids

The complaint alleges that the Miami restaurant violated the state's public nuisance law.

Vanity Fair
Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 20, 2022
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Nov 20, 2022

I am heartbroken by this news. 5 are dead and 18 wounded from this horrific armed assault at a gay club hosting a drag show night in Colorado Springs.

An attack upon our community anywhere is an attack upon us all everywhere. My heart is with the victims and their families.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting-gay-nightclub/index.html

Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 19, 2022
rhetoricianNov 18, 2022
Here it is! #earlymodern #earlymodernist #womenswriting #academic
Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 19, 2022
Ayendy Bonifacio (he/him/his)Nov 19, 2022
Due to widespread operations by Dominican Migration (DGM) agents aimed at detaining Haitians, the US Embassy reports that Black US citizens are “being delayed, detained, or subject to heightened questioning at ports of entry based on their skin color.” https://do.usembassy.gov/alert-ongoing-dominican-migration-enforcement/
Alert: Ongoing Dominican Migration Enforcement

This message is to advise U.S. citizens that in recent months travelers to the Dominican Republic have reported being delayed, detained, or subject to

U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic
Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 19, 2022
Queer HorizonsNov 19, 2022

"Nas’s project, though, is to move past the mainstream and publicly acceptable practice of queerness, which is often so divorced from actual sexual pleasure that it can feel neutered. It’s one thing to accept a gay person, as many do, by ignoring what we do behind closed doors. But it’s quite another to embrace gay people as sexual beings, who can also enact an identity — just as straight people so proudly, publicly and lucratively do — in part through sex itself."

Jazmine Hughes on Lil Nas X for the New York Times

https://nyti.ms/3wrkYLf

#Queer
@queerstudies

The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom

A peek into a hot boy summer filled with new highs, disappointment and growth.

Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 19, 2022
Stacy FahrentholdNov 19, 2022

Today a small group of faculty picketed with student academic workers at #UCDavis. We'll be back Monday with more. If you are Senate Faculty in the #UC, your presence is wanted and needed!

#FairUCNow #UAWonStrike

Mira ‘Assaf Kafantaris ميراNov 19, 2022
Haymarket BooksNov 18, 2022
The border reproduces a global colonial racial social order that fortifies the rich against the rest, deflates labor power, treats sacred land as a possession, and provides the ideological basis for all repressive immigration enforcement. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/there-is-no-migrant-crisis/
There Is No "Migrant Crisis" - Boston Review

The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.

Boston Review