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Aug 3, 2020 • 3 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
I argue in #FearlessFreedom: Reimagine #RakshaBandhan, not as a shackle but as a bond where siblings protect each other. Protect your sibling who wants to come out as gay or trans. Uncouple protectiveness from restrictions on women’s rights. @thewire_in thewire.in/women/intervie…
My book #FearlessFreedom (@PenguinIndia 2020) discusses #RakshaBandhan as part of the patriarchal ideology of guardianship. The same ideology that plays out in Saudi Arabia guardianship & rape laws. We need to reminagine #rakhicelebration as #SamaantaWaliRakhi ImageImageImageImage
On #RakshaBandhan we should celebrate the women who became sisters in struggle - like Fatima Sheikh and Savitri Bai, like Satyarani Chaddha and Shahjahan Apa. Page from #FearlessFreedom, my book (@PenguinIndia 2020)
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Feb 24
A 🧵- on why struggles & resistance in 🍉 ,
Syria, Ukraine, struggles against anti fascist/authoritarian regimes/forces in India, Brazil, Iran, China, US, UK, European countries, Sahel nations etc need to support each other, & demand the same from allies.
We often like to talk of double standards on 🇺🇦& 🍉, saying brown lives, Arab lives, Muslim lives aren’t valued as much as white ones. But do we value all brown/Arab/Muslim lives? Or do we select solidarities based on camps of some kind?
In 🍉 missiles are 🇺🇸 & in Syria they’re 🇷🇺. In 🇺🇦 missiles are 🇷🇺 & drones are from🇮🇷. What Net@ny@hu does in G@z@ Assad does in Syria, Putin in Ukraine. But if you oppose I3r@el do you also oppose Putin, Assad, 🇮🇷? And if you oppose Putin,
Assad,
🇮🇷 do you oppose Net@ny@hu?
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Jun 20, 2023
#thread on #gatekeeping on #ManipurViolence
What's your response to
- a 7-year-old boy & his mum burnt alive in an ambulance by a Meitei chauvinist mob?
- a 20-year old Kuki girl being thrashed by a mob while Meitei women shout "Rape her! Torture her! Cut her into pieces!" ImageImageImageImage
If your first response is to scold or lecture me (or "mainland media" for cherry-picking cases & focusing more on Meitei mob massacres than on Kuki militants & Indian Army, you need to stop & take a closer look at yourself.
Instead of asking me why I am blowing these atrocities out of proportion, ask yourself why you are more outraged at some tweet of mine than at chauvinist outfits being able to get people to participate in these horrific crimes?
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Feb 28, 2023
@lbary @UkraineSol @dsa_intl_com @SocRuch @ahatanhel @VlStarodubtsev @YPYurchenko @EuropeanWith @Ilw_Ukraine @righttoresistua @UkraineCampaign @ukraine_network Frankly, even though I’m on the Left, I’m done worrying about salvaging the credibility of the Left, by saying, look we’re Left AND yet we are able to have solidarity with Ukraine without having to “balance” it with some Kremlin talking points. +
@lbary @UkraineSol @dsa_intl_com @SocRuch @ahatanhel @VlStarodubtsev @YPYurchenko @EuropeanWith @Ilw_Ukraine @righttoresistua @UkraineCampaign @ukraine_network I analyse “ multipolarity” as used by Putin and others, because I’m concerned about the Right. I analyse the Left here because its language & logic right now is indistinguishable from that of Putin etc. But increasingly I’m trying to get out of the deeply ingrained habit of +
@lbary @UkraineSol @dsa_intl_com @SocRuch @ahatanhel @VlStarodubtsev @YPYurchenko @EuropeanWith @Ilw_Ukraine @righttoresistua @UkraineCampaign @ukraine_network salvaging the credibility of the Left. The Left is broken, and my primary concern isn’t to somehow fix it. I want to concentrate my energies on building solidarity with Ukraine, with Uyghurs, with Kashmiris, with Rohingyas, among people in general - rather than on arguing with +
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Feb 27, 2023
Thread:
#Putin on Feb 1: Under guise of "democracy & freedom" imperialist West forces the world to accept LGBT" perversion; but Russia will not allow Western imperialists to pervert Russia's unique civilisation, culture, "family values" that r based on Russian Orthodox Church
@nramind on Feb 22 at @ruscult_chennai:
Ukraine's been tied to Russia since "the history of Russian Orthodox Church" & it's impossible for Ukraine to sever those "historic ties", even "with support of most reactionary forces in the world."
Read @nramind 's words.
Then read Putin's words.

Putin is communal-nationalist & imperialist, homophobic & transphobic, but *he* isn't reactionary?

But *Ukrainians* are reactionary coz they prefer democracy to life under the boot of the bible-thumping bigot next door?
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Feb 10, 2022
Who released these posters & why? Why echo the Sanghi "Hijab OR Kitab" narrative? Why "pehle hijab fir kitab', why not 'hijab bhi, kitab bhi'? 🤮 "Precious things shd b kept covered"?! NO, women are not "things", rape isn't theft of "precious things". #thread
Some (not all) of these posters & statements are old but show how "Precious things shd be covered", like "stay in your veil & the world will stay in line" "Don’t cross Lakshman rekha, you won't be raped' is rape culture, victim blaming. #HijabisOurRight struggle says the opposite
As our statement against #HijabBan says: What women choose to wear whether they choose to cover or uncover, is a matter of ‘choice’. Cannot be a measure of modesty and immodesty. True for patriarchal imposition of religious practices across the spectrum. bit.ly/3gBo6yL
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Feb 4, 2022
@ghazalawahab Ghazala, I’m sorry, I’m rather shocked at your position. You’re missing the Islamophobic wood for the patriarchal trees. Who has the power in this situation? It’s the principal & the Sangh not the Muslim parents. See my thread addressing various arguments & scenarios.
@ghazalawahab The argument that hijab isn’t mandated by Islam is one to be had with anyone shaming Muslim women for NOT wearing it - not with Sanghis who are denying Muslim women education for wearing it. +
@ghazalawahab As for “who is teaching them to fight for this” - they can see the unfairness & Islamophobia in the ban, & the natural & just response is to resist it not to bow down before it.
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