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radical indigenous power-ist. basking in ancestral pride

Joined September 2017
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I actually cannot still believe that @gucci x @mixtemagazine made an entire video documentary series on me, a whole indigenous woman artist. 🤎 Sharing some of my favourite stills 🎞 #notposthumous #art #indigenous
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As a part of #WednesdaysForWomensHistories, today we present the third paper from the theme of #Memory. Written by Aqui Thami (@aquithami), the paper is titled, 'Burning Tite-Pati: Healing Practices Of The Indigenous Himalayan Peoples'. Read it here! zubaanprojects.org/projects/…
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New episode up now. For episode 12 @aquithami chats with @mictlanxochitl about #ClimateCrisis #community #indigenousspirituality and so much more m.soundcloud.com/user-919406…
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I really just want to see Indigenous people shine. We need to see it.
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towards a sensory science of the self A5 #riso prints printed on (recycled) card 🩸 #limitededition 🩸 ₹1200 framed 🩸 ₹1000 unframed 🩸 #supportyourlocalartist 🤳🏾 Free shipping in India ✉️
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I spend a lot of time reading the Indian Constituent Assembly Debates, and I have long heard rumors that the audio (and some video recordings) exist. I am THRILLED that @prasarbharati archives are digitizing it and putting it online. And they are magnificent to listen to(1)
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Activist, artist, scholar Aqui Thami talks to SAAG Senior Editor Shreyas R Krishnan about the marvelous Sister Library, South Asia's first community-owned feminist library. Watch here --> youtu.be/bsxTt8jrF5Q
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Thread It is true @ReallySwara’s mother Prof Ira Bhaskar of JNU (arts & Aesthetics) has destroyed the career of many DBA students including personal friends and I have witnessed how terribly she destroyed them from within and they are still unable to cope and move ahead.
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Thread of fruit and vegetable prices in the Arctic
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Vultures everywhere, using dead bodies of dalits to further their Brahminical politics, career and gain clout.
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Tfw I see one of my works written about with praise without them bothering to even write my name. Like my name is going to pollute their keyboard #racisminindia #takenote
Stop erasing Indigenous resistance @TIME @IndiaToday
Dear @IndiaToday not correct to state Bilkis went on to “trigger”anti-CAA protests in India.Rather it was #indigenous people of #NortheastIndia esp #Assam & #Tripura who lit fire 🔥 of protests much before #ShaheenBagh Indian media must not be blind to this fact #Rectify @TIME
Commentary: How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley zd.net/2RQNg05
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Caste discrimination in America. “One Dalit woman who is from the Valkimi caste, whose occupation historically has been to clean up excrement, was humiliated by her Indian co-workers and asked to clean up after team meetings as some sort of sick joke.”
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