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Watch this Inspiring Lecture Series Coming from the Indian Student Movement

As the Indian student movement for the right to dissent — which we’ve covered here and here — continues, Jawaharlal Nehru University professors are joining the protest in the way they know best: By teaching.

Since student activists were charged with sedition for supposed “anti-national” activities, the protests have included a daily, hugely well-attended lecture series on what, exactly, nationalism is.

Watch the below video, from JNU professor Ayesha Kidwai, on nationalism in India. As my favorite slogan goes: Learn to change the world.

And if anyone is able to include a transcription in the comments section, you would be my favorite person of the day.

Reina Gattuso is passionate about empowering conversations around queerness, sexual ethics, and social movements with equal parts rhapsody and sass. Her writing has appeared at Time, Bitch, attn:, and The Washington Post. She is currently pursuing her masters.

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