Dr. Dheepa Sundaram (she/her)

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Settler. Savarna. Scholar of performance, online hate politics, ritual, yoga & digital Hindu publics at the University of Denver. Animal lover, antiracist, anti-hate. Dismantle casteism, Islamophobia, racism, anti-queer hate, and all forms of hate. No response to trolls. RT ⍯ Endorsement #BLM #JaiBhim
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Websitewww.globalizingdharma.com
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FYI #AoIR2023 there are THREE bars at the RTM reception.
I'm very envious of all the folks at #AoIR2023 having what seems like a great time! Wish I could have come along. But while I'm here on the hashtag I might as well remind folks about the CFP for the special issue i'm co-editing on AI and Fandom: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/131
AI and Fandom (3/15/2025; 1/1/2024) | Transformative Works and Cultures

Just a reminder to project your voices or use the mic for those of us who don’t hear everything #AoIR2023
Here are all the #AoIR2023 sessions coming up from 1:30pm-3:00pm: AoIR ethics 1: emergent challenges; Dispatches from the early internet: histories, imaginaries, and archaeologies; Gender and misinformation in global contexts; Infrastructures of manipulation; Visibility economies: platform labor across cultures, communities, and contexts; Analyzing big data; Humor, affect, and politics; Journalism 1; LGBTQIA+ internet studies; and Latinx internet studies. Schedule: https://aoir2023.sched.com/
AoIR2023 Schedule

Check out the schedule for AoIR2023

My latest for the Revealer:

“In effect, the Hindu right sees safe abortion as a useful tool to curate caste-privileged families and a rare, inaccessible luxury for those seen as undesirable.”

https://therevealer.org/ironic-progress-the-hindu-rights-expansion-of-abortion-access/

Ironic Progress: The Hindu Right’s Expansion of Abortion Access — The Revealer

Abortion as a tool to curate caste-privileged, Hindu families

Ironic Progress: The Hindu Right’s Expansion of Abortion Access — The Revealer
@AoIR #aoir23 #AoIR2023 #AoIR mentor-mentee emails for doc colloquim are being sent out soon .

My latest for the Revealer:

“In effect, the Hindu right sees safe abortion as a useful tool to curate caste-privileged families and a rare, inaccessible luxury for those seen as undesirable.”

https://therevealer.org/ironic-progress-the-hindu-rights-expansion-of-abortion-access/

Ironic Progress: The Hindu Right’s Expansion of Abortion Access — The Revealer

Abortion as a tool to curate caste-privileged, Hindu families

Ironic Progress: The Hindu Right’s Expansion of Abortion Access — The Revealer

This year @AoIR is very grateful to Radhika Gajjala @rgajjala & her team Debipreeta Rahut & Ololade Faniyit for leading the Online #AoIR2023 Doctoral Colloquium (DC), and to all mentors who are participating in this important event for our graduate students.

Also, just to avoid any confusion, the Online DC and Face-to-Face version (on Wednesday, 18 October) are running as completely separate events. The f2f version is being Chaired by the unflappable Adrienne Massanari @hegemonyrules. :)

I don't have the energy to argue with the people who tell me that by linking to ElonJet's Mastodon account, I am supporting stalking because I don't think they are arguing in good faith. They are weirdly unconcerned with stalking, harassment, or threats to people who don't own private jets, such as the gay former Twitter employee Elon falsely claimed supported pedophilia last week.

My dear friend, collaborator and fascinating scholar and culture maker @mel_hogan is going to release our conversation, constituting episode 001 of her new series, The Data Fix. It’s being released TOMORROW (two weeks early!) in order to provide what we hope is helpful and provocative analysis about the Twitter debacle, commercial content moderation, and the politics and practices of computation and social media.

Find itat about 6 am CT/12 pm UTC (GMT):
https://www.thedatafix.net/episodes/001

EP 001. Grievance, with Sarah T. Roberts — The Data Fix

Dr. Sarah T. Roberts and I discuss fake accounts, content moderation and the legitimate grievances that exist along the political spectrum.

The Data Fix