“Opening up, sharing stories, making, holding, extending space – walking together with respect for those we share that space with – is the opposite of planting a flag and claiming dominance” @thelrm.bsky.social
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
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"Toxic culture' caused by REF pressure to target top journals Staff at management school say they feel forced to publish in 'narrow' subset of elite journals to boost REF standing, restricting types of research they can pursue Published on February 12, 2026 Last updated February 12, 2026 Jack Grove
I’m shocked 🙄
“Your pain becomes my pain becomes our pain and the extent of us and the pains we are carrying and the long, long way back and the traces across oceans, across centuries, across my street and across your kitchen, all of it overwhelms”
“The brokenheartedness of revolutionary consciousness requires a redirection towards the collective…brokenheartedness thins our skins so we become open to others. The boundaries between us can seem to dissolve” - Gargi Bhattacharyya www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...
The Line is drawn! Don’t cross it - join it! @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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We dispute!
The pension steal is shameful!
is the VC offering a salary cut? Mhmm - thought so!
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UCU - 10 strike days begin tomorrow at Northumbria University over pension 'robbery'. See you on the pickets. Wellies and umbrellas advised! www.ucu.org.uk/article/14401
Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Check out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work.
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"As the coercive arm of the state, the police—including CBP and ICE—are the primary instruments of state violence ... keeping us safe is not the objective. Instead, the modern police force—whether local, state, or federal—wages domestic war."
"As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security" @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/abolish-the-...
"sovereign over-reach exposes the vulnerabilities of legal and political systems, and barely covers the actual weaknesses of these rapacious states. The assertion of sovereign exceptionality is never the end of the matter" @stewartmotha.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...
I have a poem in the new @new-sinews.bsky.social, thanks to @illepitaph.bsky.social. The poem — Grains of Rice — is long, complicated; traces inheritances, internalizations, and overlapping violences in my family's history (in Guangzhou, Hiroshima); and takes place at a Wendy's in New Jersey.
The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week:
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@michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed
Brief recap🧵
‘We don’t have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there, styles of survival, ways of knowing and acting” - Lucy Mercer @artreview.bsky.social
📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻:
#2026Roundtable – “𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”, convened by Dr @Róisín Á Costello (Trinity College Dublin), meeting on 𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Papers engaging recent arts productions (theatre, fiction, visual art) are warmly encouraged.
'The drive to map Law & the Humanities goes beyond efficiency or funding. At its core, the project is about building community, resilience, & expanding capacity, creating the conditions in which people working across Law & the Humanities can meet & collaborate' blog.humanities.org.uk/2025/12/08/l...
My conversation with James Campbell is featured in this episode of Mapping the Arts and Humanities, which 'dives into the creative & disruptive world where law meets the arts': using arts & humanities to explore law and justice, and the collaborative & productive role of mapping @ials.bsky.social
Book Review by Holly Bird - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control by @mfbosworth.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Map showing successive dispersals of humans, homo erectus and Neanderthals from 200,000 to 700 years ago
Overview map of the peopling of the world by early humans during the Upper Paleolithic, following the Southern Dispersal paradigm.
Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...
Delighted to have my chapter 'Place Making, Pomparles Bridge and Public Space Protection Orders' published in Cultural Practices of Place, edited by Sarah Earnshaw #lawandliterature #place #PSPOs link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026
“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…
'A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in His House' - engaging with the 'subversive' act of homemaking in the asylum process through law-as-film, based on a critical reading of Remi Weekes' 2020 film His House - JPPEL www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...
The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain
"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…
Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.
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Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
So shocked Conor Gearty has died
He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer
He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend
I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford
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surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
