Scholar-activist writing on textual entanglements of spirituality, gender, race, coloniality and nationalism 🕸️ ✦ She/her ✦ Editor @FeministReview_ ✦ 🏳️🌈
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Joined October 2014
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Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
Sending love to Jason Arday's family and friends.
He was subject of sustained and malicious media attacks which were no doubt more vicious because he was Black.
We must now reflect on the impact of a trial by some of the media and online on someone under extreme pressure.
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
Palestine exposes the lie of international law. Venezuela exposes the lie of self-determination under empire. When nations, movements, or peoples step outside the boundaries set by imperial power, they are sanctioned, destabilized, or invaded.
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap the foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it.
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What Diane Abbott has had to endure from her opponents is disgusting. But what she's had to endure from within her own party - unforgivable.
Read the full story here: itv.com/news/2025-09-15/star…
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
Any word for the young woman raped and told to "go back to her own country"?
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
Actually yes, in general it's ridiculous to see the world treat American domestic politics as universal concerns. We actually end up importing their racial frameworks, their culture wars and their political divisions as if they map onto our own societies - when they don't. French banlieues aren't American ghettos for instance, and if we frame them as such we adopt analyses and solutions designed for a different context. It's a form of toxic cultural colonialism.
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
The 'Great Offices of State' are now filled by women.
💰 Rachel Reeves as Chancellor
🇬🇧 Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary
🌎 Yvette Cooper as Foreign Secretary
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📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
Join us for the launch of Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar.
Alongside a screening of 3 landmark video works by Parmar: Emergence (1986), Sari Red (1988) & A Place of Rage (1991).
📅 Wed 3 Sep, 6:30pm
🎟️ rb.gy/1hlzaw
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
I wear flags on nights out, I eat flags, I wash with flags, I have flag children, I say a prayer to my flag each evening, I smoke and drink flags, I drive a flag to work, I go on holiday to flags every year, I bake flags every Sunday and put up flags instead of a Christmas tree.
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
"I was told repeatedly that it was simply not commercially viable to write a book about illness and nature in which I did not get better because of the nature." lithub.com/nature-is-not-goi…
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
Grim spectacle. Many of the family reunion applications will involve women and children living in precarious environments - camps, war zones, places where their health and liberty is at risk, etc.
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
when Virginia Woolf said, “Autumn is my season, dear; it is, after all, the season of the soul” and when F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall” and when Anne Shirley said, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
Dr Kavita Maya retweeted
ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza