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Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.

for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick

Introduction: roaming and rooted – migration, religion, spirituality and the transnational lives of African youth This Special Issue examines the intersections of migration, religion, spirituality and the transnational lives of African youth, offering a decolonial and youth-centred perspective on mobility and ...

Delighted to share word of this special issue of @ersjournal.com co-edited by our own Dominic Pasura and colleagues. 'Roaming and Rooted' brings together 11 articles rethinking migration via lived religion/spirituality and African epistemologies across Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa & the UK.

Mirroring GalGael: An Ethnography of Repair and Belonging - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Repair can be understood as a civic practice and an essential form of care, particularly in the face of ecological crises and the need to move towards a circular economy. Most research on repair tends...

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Senegal anti-LGBT law: PM Ousmane Sonko seeks tougher legislation, doubling prison terms The bill seeks prison terms of five to ten years for what it describes as

Terrible anti-LGBT legislative developments in Senegal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social

This fantastic panel is happening this Friday at @lsegender.bsky.social !

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International Studies Association Midyear Conference. Pretoria 2026. @isanet.bsky.social Call for Papers (papers, panels or roundtables) www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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African States vs States in Africa: An Epistemological Interrogation of Africa and the World

Does Nigel Farage have a problem with women? Critics say Reform leader’s patronising rhetoric is part of worrying trend. He says scrutiny is a two way street.

Reform’s attack on the Equality Act and women’s reproductive rights including abortion www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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From Slavery, Criminalization and the Civilizing Mission to Re-Articulating Human Rights amid Colonialities

Two exciting events with Queer Intersections Oxford coming next week:

📆 Thursday 12th Feb 3.30pm, a seminar w/@matthewwaites.bsky.social on their chapter in their forthcoming co-edited book Colonialisms and Queer Politics. Join us for a discussion on sexualities and genders under the British Empire

From Slavery, Criminalization and the Civilizing Mission to Re-Articulating Human Rights amid Colonialities

I'll be speaking @torchoxford2013.bsky.social at Oxford University on 12th Feb 'The British Empire and its Legacies: From Slavery, Criminalisation and the Civilizing Mission to Re-articulating Human Rights amid Colonialities', 3.30pm Kopperberg Room, Exeter College torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-br...

Professor Les Back takes up role of BSA President - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association We are delighted to confirm that Professor Les Back has taken up the role of BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Many members will know Les’s work and his...

Wonderful to see @academicdiary.bsky.social taking up his new role as President of @britsoci.bsky.social for the coming year!

From Slavery, Criminalization and the Civilizing Mission to Re-Articulating Human Rights amid Colonialities

I'll be speaking @torchoxford2013.bsky.social at Oxford University on 12th Feb 'The British Empire and its Legacies: From Slavery, Criminalisation and the Civilizing Mission to Re-articulating Human Rights amid Colonialities', 3.30pm Kopperberg Room, Exeter College torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-br...

So sorry to hear your situation. I’m donating to Gaza via organisations such as UNICEF.

Seminar I'm looking forward to chairing @uofgsociology.bsky.social, all welcome: Leon Freude (Pompeu Fabra University) 'Exploring Homonationalism as a Measurable Value Pattern: Quantitative Insights from Europe, Latin America and Africa'. Weds 4th Feb 3.00-4.30, Room 248, Wolfson Medical Building.

Stanley Cohen: Folk Devils and Moral Panics YouTube video by Social Theory on Film

A short film on Stan Cohen's (1972)'Folk Devils and Moral Panics'. A fantastic book that remains as relevant as ever.

#sociology #socsky

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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.

NEW from Important Context:

Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.

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Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’

Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...

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LGB+ people in UK ‘much more likely’ to take their own lives than straight people ONS analysis also shows LGB+ people more likely to die from drug overdoses and alcohol-related disease LGB+ people are much more likely to die by taking their own lives, drug overdoses and alcohol-related disease than their straight counterparts, the first official figures of their kind show. The 2021 census in England and Wales asked people aged 16 or over about their sexual orientation for the first time. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has now analysed differences in causes of mortality from March 2021 to November 2024. The ONS research uses the acronym '“LGB+” rather than “LGBTQ+”. Continue reading...

LGB+ people in UK ‘much more likely’ to take their own lives than straight people

The latest entry in our Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In ‘Populism, anti-populism, and the politics of the ‘left behinds’, Salomé Ietter reflects on a forgotten history of progressive populism and its significance today. Please do share and circulate.

"The challenges are immense but it is within our power to take action to achieve racial justice."

Great to see research by @nasarmeer.bsky.social represented at this recent @nuffieldfoundation.org event on building a racially just and inclusive society.

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Investigating Social Change: Migratory Stratifications as a Fresh Analytical Tool
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