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<p>Queer Left and the North│Reading through a postcolonial queer-feminist lens</p><p>From molecules to clinic to social & political theory</p><p>Master of Arts (MA)│Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Science (PhD)│</p><p>Sürüden ayrılanların hikayeleri│Kuir sol</p><p>"The university is a critical institution or it is nothing" (Stuart Hall)</p><p>Alum: York University (Toronto), University of Toronto</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> ✊🏾 🌈 🏳️⚧️ Vegan 🚲</p><p>Also on Mastodon World microblog<br /><a href="https://mastodon.world/@azadv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mastodon.world/@azadv</span><span class="invisible">
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Foucault’s work on power matters now more than ever in this era of #interregnum, polycrisis, concentration of political power, and erosion of democracy and civil rights. "Power is all the more cunning because its basic forms can change in response to our efforts to free ourselves from its grip" https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever #Foucault #literarycritic #power #historyofideas #politicalphilosophy
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"Insurgent #Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War" (Duke University Press, 2019) — By Ronak K Kapadia https://www.dukeupress.edu/insurgent-aesthetics 🦋 On queer #worldmaking in an era of never-ending wars & struggle for #democracy ☮️ Queer theory can broaden politics and #critical #systems thinking 📌 And yet because queer-phobia is, unfortunately, not uncommon, including and particularly among the left, queer history & theory are not considered adequa...
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David Lynch (1946 - 2025) On visual language: &quot;A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not going to translate. It’s going to lose.&quot; — to the Guardian, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/17/quotes-david-lynch #DavidLynch #arts #language
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An essay on &#39;Epistemic Safety&#39; and #healthcare #innovation 📌 Technological Encounters in a Knowledge Economy: An Epistemic X-Ray The essay takes an Epistemic X-ray of neoliberal knowledge economies and the infinite growth metanarrative in late capitalism, and situates &#39;epistemic safety&#39; as a key locus of the contemporary struggles and solidarities for #climate, #democracy and equitable planetary health. 📌 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1089/omi.2024.0003...
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March 14 was #Medicine Day, 14 Mart Tıp Bayramı 📌 What they may not tell you in medicine, #business, #biology, science or social science in the classroom or have it #wrong — Why does #queering of #science &amp; #medicine matter? Political theory 101 and #unpacking science: 📍 &quot;Science and academia try to give an impression of sociopolitical neutrality and acceptance of queer* identities.. As a queer scientist, I know it isn’t true.&quot; https://massivesci.com/articles/queer-...
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Why #historiography, &quot;history-of-history&quot;, matters. #earthquake #historyofhistory #6Subat 📌 Hrant Dink&#39;in 1999 Gölcük Depremi sonrası düşüncelerini paylaştığı “Zihniyetin Zemin Etüdü” adlı yazısı: &quot;Deprem, binalarla birlikte siyasi yaşamımızın, yönetim anlayışımızın da temelinin ne denli yanlış ve etüdü doğru yapılmamış zeminler üzerinde yükseldiğini gösterdi.&quot; https://x.com/yirmiucbucuk/status/1631564509897797633 #HrantDink #criticalgovernance #p...