Publications

“If the academy is not the only site of knowledge making, then an opening up of the horizon of theorizing must begin with a recognition that academic knowledges might be enriched through creative conversations with knowledges that evolve in sites of struggle that seem distant to the academy, including knowledges that are ‘vernacularized’ or remarginalized through their contradictory instrumentalization and incorporation in globalized identities, discourses, and projects”
(Richa Nagar, Muddying the Waters, 2014, 13)

Forthcoming

Islamic Bureaucracy, Feminist Activism, and Gender Justice in Malaysia

In Routledge Handbook of Gender in Contemporary Southeast Asia, ed. Nancy Smith-Hefner. Forthcoming.

Forthcoming

When Brown Men Wail: Masculinity, Public Grief, and Gendered Refusal

Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Forthcoming.

With Elora Halim Chowdhury

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‘Hidup Untuk Makan Atau Makan Untuk Hidup?’ (Live to Eat or Eat to Live?): Gendered Feeding Practices in a Malaysian Food Archive

In Culinaria: Women of Color Rewriting Our Food Stories, eds. Janaka Lewis, Farha Ternikar & Stephanie Y. Evans. State University of New York Press, Albany. Forthcoming.

Against Genocide: Feminist Dissent, Palestine Solidarity, and the Neoliberal University

Gatherings, 2026 · 3(1), article 4.

With Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson and Araceli Esparza

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“Owning” Women: Misogynist Rampage, Declining Rights, and Savage Violence in Global Antifeminist Backlash

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2025 · 46(3), 37–68. University of Nebraska Press.

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An Archive of Rage

The Scholar & Feminist Online, 2024.

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Reluctant Belonging: Tudung (Headscarf), Communalism, and Muslim Politics in Urban Malaysia

Feminist Formations, 2023 · 35(2), 198–225. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food

Feminist Studies, 2023 · 49(2–3), 442–475.

With Tina Beyene, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Sharmila Lodhia, Catherine Z. Sameh, and Khanum Shaikh

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The Contours of Speaking Out: Gender, State Security, and Muslim Women's Empowerment

Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 2020 · 19(1), 107–135. Duke University Press.

With Khanum Shaikh

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The Shape of a Life

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 2019 · 8(2), 24–34. University of California Press.

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Embodied Precarity: Feminist Politics, Laboring Bodies of Color, and the Neoliberal University

In Decolonial Feminist Genealogies and Futures, eds. Annie Fukushima & K. Melchor Hall, 49–63. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL, 2025.

With Tina Beyene

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Meditations on Friendship: Politics of Feminist Solidarity in Ethnography

In Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity, ed. Elora Halim Chowdhury & Liz Philipose, 43–68. University of Illinois Press, 2016.

With Himika Bhattacharya

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Feminist Dispatch: Confronting Global Antifeminist Backlash

Al-Raida: The Pioneer Journal, 2025 · 49(1), special issue. Arab Institute for Women, Lebanese American University.

With Tina Beyene

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