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london▪️25 ▪️🏳️‍⚧️
horizontal reservations now
from Kashmir to Palestine, occupation is a crime🇵🇸🇵🇸
savarna for caste lib

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Moodboard #8984 me with a sleepy Cheeku, Arya, and a couple of other random celebs got to chat with for work (and a friendly Xenomorph from Alien)

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Turned 27 a couple of weeks back. Spamming your Monday feed to announce that. Now finally after turning 27, I have something in common with Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, Basquiat and others (not romanticising art and depression at the slightest).

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Last week, we held the first edition of Art & Practice Series.

We are so grateful to everyone who came out and made the room come alive. Big thanks to the Public Anthropology department at UCL for making this happen!

This would not have been possible without our panelists and presenters:
Tosin Goke @gokerelli
Affordance Collective, @kwonglon & @lilyflash
Panchsheel Gaikwad @panchsheeel
Arya Mehta @arya_m.13
Sara Saini @sarapsaini
Rida Fathima @ridafathim.a

And of course, a massive thanks to our wonderful discussant Prof. Konstantinos Kalantzis for providing the thematic bridge for the day.

Thank you to everyone who participated so generously in the inaugural edition of our early-career focused conference series.

More to come… 🌱

Photos by @naveenmacro

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⏰Only 10 (free) spots left!! Link in bio🎟️ Get them before they go⌛ & see you all tomorrow!!! 🌿📚🌐

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Our second panel brings together an artist and researcher whose work explores inter-caste marriage, memory and eugenics.

Artist : Panchsheel Gaikwad
Panchsheel Gaikwad is a documentary filmmaker and artist working with personal documentary, archival research, and socially engaged moving image. His practice traces the intersections of caste, migration, and intergenerational memory, drawing on family histories and Ambedkarite legacies to explore how the past remains active in the present.

We will be screening his film ‘I Am Mine, and I Am Yours Too’ (2025) as part of the panel.

Researcher: Arya Mehta (they/ he)
Arya Mehta is a researcher, writer, and cultural practitioner based in London. They studied at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, UCL, where their dissertation examined how the convergence between early twentieth-century nationalism, science, and Brahminism laid the foundations for eugenic governance in Indian modernity. Through tracing the intersections between feminist reform movements, criminal law and hereditarian logic, they contend that reproductive justice requires transforming the epistemic conditions that determine who narrates this history.

This event is free to attend (tickets via link in bio)! Join us for a day of screenings, discussions, and conversations. 🎉

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🧱Our first session of the day will begin with screenings of Archives Also Die by Tosin Adegoke and Warehouses in the Sky by Affordance Collective, and will follow with an intimate, reflective & process-led conversation exploring how they make their work, what drives them and how their breadth of expertise from dance to spatial politics to archival research bears fruit in their practices.🎥

🗓️14 May 2026, Thursday
📍UCL Marshgate; Room 530
⏰ 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

🎟️Link in bio - sign up while tickets last!🎟️

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As we said...
YOU ARE NOT READY FOR THESE RAFFLE PRIZES!!

All bought tickets entered into this beautiful raffle made possible by our friends ❣️ You can buy raffle tickets on the day too!

Tickets in our bio
Tickets also at the door 9:30 am onwards on 2nd May

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So excited to announce the first edition of Art & Practice in collaboration with @ucl_public_anthropology happening on 14 May 2026 at Room 530, UCL East - Marshgate! This early-career interdisciplinary conference is free to attend (tickets at the link in bio) and will explore expansive themes interwoven with innovative approaches. Sign up soon! Lunch will be provided as will a whole day (10AM - 5PM) of screenings, discussions and opportunities to network🎥🎤📚🔍🧭 watch this space for more!!

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KHATTI DAL-CHAWAL!by the lovely Arya!
Hyderabad style spicy sour daal with rice, raita and mutton/okra peanut fry

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A little spot of a sandy beach, some sun, nipple cover-shaped shells and quality time with @arya_m.13 wards off the seasonal depression (that being said I was still freezing in the shorts). I know I can never go to the Dark Side like Annakin Skywalker because I will never hate sand ⛱️

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Food walk 8:30 @charminar by @headfullofskies_ with @percykaki @nikki.nik3223 @mercybhaskar @arya_m.13 @anudeep_katikala had haleem, dahi Vada, chops, pathar ka gosh, sheeks, sticks, Maraag, and finally deserts and walked enough to burn them all.

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