Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution.
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First Postcolonial Theory lecture of the semester done! It feels good to be teaching again after two years of buy-out/research leave. I had to update my lecture slides, though: it no longer feels accurate to say that neo-colonialism is often less explicit than colonialism. 😖
I just finished Anti-Colonial Research Praxis. I’m going to recommend it to my PhD supervisees, who often think they have to confirm their praxis-based, anti-racist research to narrow disciplinary norms. You and your colleagues open up so many other possibilities!
Its literally the foundation of the United States.
Like please let's not erase centuries of Black and indigenous genocide in this moment that's a fruit of those labors.
🎧Listen to @meghanetinsley.bsky.social discussing the ethics of researching the far right on the latest episode of the #EthicsUnboxed podcast
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Many thanks to @acdavidson.bsky.social @nabmed.bsky.social & Hannah Redman for developing the Ethics, Unboxed podcast series. I'm looking forward to listening to all of the other episodes! ethicsunboxed.podbean.com
I enjoyed this thought-provoking conversation on the ethics of researching the far right. We recorded it in June, and it seems even more pertinent now. @aurelmondon.bsky.social @antoniavaughan.bsky.social @joanbraune.bsky.social
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It was a pleasure to catch up with @greencitizen.bsky.social and discuss the tensions and contradictions of anti-colonial statues. You can listen to our conversation here: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4f9nm...
Excited to dive into my new reading material from MUP @manchesterup.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social @claireblencowe.bsky.social
@meghanetinsley.bsky.social comments on the importance of representation in memorials in this article about delays to a proposed Muslim war memorial by @weronikas.bsky.social in @hyphenonline.com
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NOVEMBER 3, 2025 THE ART WORLD RECONSTRUCTED In "Monuments," the Confederacy surrenders to nineteen artists. By Julian Lucas 6:00 AM Picture is the statue described in img 2
•he hirst thing you see is a horses - ass, protruding, upside down, trom the thorax of a monster. A man's arm descends from the beast's stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre. There's no sign of a rider's face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature's eyeless muzzle. Every part of the work comes from a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021. It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher's diagram. The finished sculpture, "Unmanned Drone"—on view at the Brick, in Los Angeles, as part of a joint exhibition with MocA called "Monuments" —is at once an act of carnivalesque retribution and a recognition of the Confederacy's zombie-like persistence. A rebellion defeated more than a hundred and sixty years ago refuses to stay dead; between the creature's legs, a horse head emerges from a gape in the bronze, like a new Jackson already foaling.
well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What are your favourite interdisciplinary journals that invite submissions outside the conventional article format? I’m thinking of poetry, reflection pieces, even visual art. @academic-chatter.bsky.social
Friendly reminder at Anchorage airport security to leave these everyday items at home. #Murrica
The @greenparty.org.uk internal election results have given me a renewed sense of hope. With @zackpolanski.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social & a strongly trans-inclusive, pro-Palestine GPEx, the Greens are creating space in party politics to fight the far right.
Not “an American city.” A city. Any city. It shouldn’t be normal for armed US military to engage in law enforcement in any city, anywhere. But much of the outrage taking hold right now treats the US empire-state as exceptional.
Kudos to the vegan society for curating this brilliant exhibition on the past, present and future of veganism 🌱!
The exhibition is a great way to learn about veganism and also teach your kids about it.
The exhibition ends on August 23rd.
#vegan #govegan #vegangreens #vegangreensuk
I’m in there. A billionaire at Meta stole six publications from me, including the first article I ever published as a PhD student.
I’ve just added my name to the potential lawsuit.
It’s 2 weeks since my 40th birthday, and I’ve made the pleasant discovery that it’s now slightly harder for mansplainers to dismiss me with ‘In MY day, young lady . . .’
I can talk about ‘my day’, too, mate. And capitalism has always been the problem.
‘The removal of statues is not a symbol of decolonization, but an act of it.’
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Congrats to our colleagues Andreja Zevnik, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @meghanetinsley.bsky.social for winning the BISA 2025 EDI Prize
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I actively discourage my students from postgrad study in the US. Even if they get a visa, they’ll face surveillance on campus. This isn’t to excuse the UK (where pro-Pal speech is also under attack), but to dispel illusions about the US as a land of opportunity. www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-chan...
Delighted to have received my contributor copy of The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789! Gemma King and I have a chapter about a particularly ambivalent postcolonial ruin. It was a pleasure to work with @kory-ory.bsky.social @amandasvincent.bsky.social & Erin-Marie Legacey.
It feels a bit surreal to be writing about the contestation of statues in Martinique inside the Bibliothèque Schoelcher, directly across the street from Joséphine’s broken plinth.
This is what happened when I used an English-language AI tool to transcribe a French-language interview.
The good news is that I don't think AI will be taking over the world any time soon. The bad news is that I might be having a stroke. 😂
Heading back to Manchester after a wonderful week of fieldwork and workshops on decolonial praxis at the University of Ghana.
I am begging people to acknowledge the fact that US foreign aid and “humanitarianism” has coexisted with a decades long bipartisan (!!) track record of destroying democracies and propping up dictators and authoritarians across the globe. The “aligning” did not begin with Trump and Elon Musk.
When ex- @labouruk.bsky.social voters say ‘they’re all the same’, this is what they’re talking about.
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I just received Miguel Montalva Barba’s new book from @brisunipress.bsky.social. Looking forward to this timely read from the Decolonisation and Social Worlds series. @alimeghji.bsky.social @jairofunez.bsky.social
