Mallika 🌸🤍

New workshop! 🚨 Join us for a guided discussion on the work of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) and his historic but undelivered 1936 speech, “Annihilation of Caste.” May 9, online, with all proceeds to Sameer Project! workshops4gaza.com/calendar/readi…

The plantation did not disappear, and the Middle Passage lives on.”— @DaShaunLH and @colonizedlocal scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/bombin…

Dress: GLAM ✨ Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available for purchase. See you next Tuesday, NYC!

From TGNC+ organizers in NYC to Hijra kinship systems in India, the evening begins with keynotes from 3 trans women organizers working across global contexts—followed by an open space to think, share, and keep dancing even in the most uncertain times, as dolls always have.

Beyond biomedical exams and policy debates, how do we hold on to the everyday glamor of trans life? This salon-night is an open space to celebrates divas & their big ideas — inviting open contributions (diary entries, spoken reflections, fashion statements, poetry, etc).

Join us Brooklyn next Tuesday 6-9pm for GLAMOUR IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: A SALON FOR THE DOLLS, THINKERS, & THOSE WHO CARE ✨ co-hosted by Logic(s) x AVID Society! RSVP to receive location details: bit.ly/glamoursalon Open to all TGNC+ people & allies!

“The policing of black fat flesh anchors entire systems of governance. Without a population to discipline, there would be no BMI, no "obesity epidemic," and no medical or scientific institutions organized around managing fatness.” @DaShaunLH scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us…

Wrote this piece in today's @htTweets about the Transgender Persons (Amendment) Act, 2026. Particularly its potential to criminalise and surveil Hijra trans communities Link to the article 👇 hindustantimes.com/opinion/what-t…

Joined this conversation with @nlhindi to discuss the Trans Amendment Bill and the SC's judgment on SC status for Dalit Muslims and Christians

The narrow definition and exclusion of the category of “self-identification” as a marker of transness can lead to targeted surveillance and criminalisation through denial of rights of transgender communities. Jasmine D* and Nikita Sonavane (@glorious_gluten) writes. Read the full story: buff.ly/5Fa136N #TransAmendmentBill2026 #Rights 3Gender

Co-wrote this piece on the proposed amendments to the Trans Act for @Outlookindia "The 2026 amendment proposes to kill many birds with one stone in carving out the ideal (trans) victim" Link 👇 outlookindia.com/national/trans…

Kashmir, except in its treatment as a colony, renders the indian academy useless. and so the pathetic attempt to silence Kashmiris, or pro-Kashmir work as heretic, emotional, unscientific are NOT shocking. this is exactly how colonizers respond to colonized peoples knowledge.

Occupied Palestine and post-Katrina New Orleans operate as interconnected carceral laboratories that have served as testing grounds for neoliberal technologies of surveillance, repression, and media control. scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/carcer…

Ecocide has long been a central strategy used by genocidal settler colonies to destroy indigenous peoples and their livelihoods. The destruction of Kashmiri apples Palestinian olives sews seeds of solidarity that defy colonial borders. scalawagmagazine.org/2024/08/apples…

I just finished reading Dr. Saidalavi's book (last minute personality🔆) and it sparks serious food for thought for the study of religion and caste in India. Come if in Delhi! (I'll speak online- but the event is in person only)

AI funding/branding for CA.

Sharing a new piece w/ my co-author Christoffer KA for Cambridge Journal of AI ⬇️ On the EU’s new Entry-Exit System (EES) as a biometric “state of exception” (per Agamben) & implications for bodies marked as threats, incl. trans & pro-Palestine travelers cjai.co.uk/usersubpost/st…

The Bay Area has five companies with ICE and CBP contracts. They're selling everything from flight restraints for deportees to car wraps to digital infrastructure, all to the tune of millions of dollars. My latest: (Free story, share widely): sf.gazetteer.co/these-sf-bay-a…

How ICE Making People “Show Papers” Echoes Slave Catcher Tactics This is an American tradition, not a foreign-born threat open.substack.com/pub/allyfromno…