Julia Thee Junglist Historian
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Miss Toppin - #MusicBusiness Lecturer. #NewNationwideProject Presenter. #Jungle #MusicCities & #SocialValue Expert #Digital101Recordings Manager ❤️ #DnB #JumpUp
South East London
Joined August 2013
There was a lot to talk about in 2024. Popular culture and politics from the perspective of three wise Black women. Listen in👂🏾🦻🏾.#BlackWomen #PopularCulture #Politics #2024InReview #NewNationwide.
▶️ REPLAY @new_nationwide.📜 2024 IN REVIEW.🗓️ Thursday, 12 Dec 2024.🎙️ Listen to hosts @Goldielocs16, @Miss_Toppin and @rita_gayle as they discussed the key events of the past twelve months. 📻 @Repeater_Radio.🎧
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Everybody got tongue when a Black woman wants to experience some joy. Sis looks good. I hope she does not take the racism to heart as it is a tedious distraction.
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White racists turning the word ‘woke’ into a pejorative is why Black history and culture will always need its own independent institutions to survive. Every time I see that word used in the wrong way I cringe and think how did we let them do this?.
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@supadupaflyy @KelvinLeeJones1 Read the Harvard Business Review case study of Parkwood. Her business acumen is outstanding. £15 very well spent.
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This for anyone who has lost or is afraid of losing their hair to #Chemotherapy . It grows back y’all👌🏾
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Sooooooo…some news. I’m a Senior Lecturer in Music Enterprise and Entrepreneurship now. Don’t give up! Keep moving!.#BlackWomen #Academia
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@WrittenByHanna “if she were a slave she would’ve worked in the fields” How are people writing this with a straight face in 2019?
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Here is my bi-monthly reminder that there is hair after #chemotherapy and I didn’t wear a cold cap I just took it all off and wore wigs. Shout out to @afrohaircandy because my hair has never been this long👌🏾
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@AngloHeretic I have you reported your sauceless racist tweet and when you are ready to pay for my repatriation I am right here. However you are giving off angry unemployed sad underclass class vibes so I’m quite sure you can’t afford it.
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This is Julia. Julia is cancer free👌🏾🥂🥂🥂🍾
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Just completed three weeks of radiotherapy🥂🍾.Shout to everyone in Guys Cancer Centre for looking after me👌🏾
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@Xhakaed Totally disagree. As someone that actually prefers duck eggs. LIDL free range and rich yolk eggs are good quality. All their fruit and veg, meat, diary and provisions are fine. I do agree that Waitrose basics are similarly priced and good quality but the temptation in there will.
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@divanificent I told my mother two weeks ago to get a letter from my grandmother to state that she was her carer and she laughed in my face and told me not to be paranoid. This is what I feared.
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Got turned down for Senior Lecturer this morning so I said thank you for your email and set up a limited company for my consultancy work. When people show you that they do not value you, do not waste your energy on convincing them that they should.
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@KaiserCoby @flybe Always go straight to the Boss. Dear @OurmieresChris What are you going to do about this despicable racist treatment of two young adults by your staff? @BBCNews @guardiannews @Channel4News @BBCLondonNews @TheVoiceNews #FlyBe #racism #racialprofiling #flybeflyracist #dontflybe
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@MadhokNeha I used to run a film website in the UK that focused on Black film and so naturally supported Bend It Like Beckham and Gurinda. A large picture of Parminder Vir was the most downloaded image of all time on my site because everywhere else was running pictures of Keira.
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Today I learned that the BMI measure is a load of racist, sexist, fat shaming trash - The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI by @yrfatfriend #BlackWomen.
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@Quinveer @yellowsclub @TechnicurlSpprt @ki_twyce_ If we were safe on the streets it would be necessary. All attackers will burn.
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@Muna_Abdi_Phd I can tell that many of you good folk don’t actually teach. I have six back to back difficult classes tomorrow and if I was going to work in a school that actually enforced this I would probably get a full eight hours sleep tonight and not wake up at 5am filled with anxiety.
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Really honoured to be participating in this amazing project😍.#BlackBritishMusic #BlackCulture #MusicBusiness .Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025
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This groundbreaking essay looks at the UK dance music genre of #Jungle from the subjectivity of #BlackWomen whose voices are too often erased or maligned in the public sphere. #MusicBusiness.
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@_Greazemoden They learned their lesson from last time. The look on this man’s face never fails to make me laugh😂
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@camillard I wrote a film script based on this like 13 years ago. I should polish it up and send to to @Ava.
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Two years cancer free today and I was just thinking that I lead the most beautiful life👌🏾.#Cancer
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@authorjaycellis This thread is WILD🤯.I will no longer feel any way about being a long term singleton. More and straight women (especially straight Black women) are coming to terms with the fact that they are better off alone than with any of these men.
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@malorieblackman Wait until they find out we’ve been teaching it to Year 7 for years. and they love it.
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My university is putting on a Black British music symposium and nobody involved thinks that my research is worthy of inclusion. It’s a good thing that my #Jungle party at Peckham Audio is happening that day it will give me something to do.
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Really enjoyed writing about #Jungle and #DnB documentaries for @DJmag .Hope you like it too❤️.All constructive comments welcome👌🏾.#MusicBusiness #PopHistory .
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@damien_page This is an evergreen dog whistle. I’ve worked with loads of those boys. Many don’t want to go to university. They want to go into trades - Brickies, Sparks, Car Mechanics, Plumbers, Builders, Scaffolders, Roofers. Those that do want to go to uni are very well supported.
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Now do one for the tent fires, sexual assaults, and drug related incidents at Reading and Leeds.
Officers remain on duty in the area around Notting Hill Carnival as the last people head home. An update on today's police operation is below:
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So very gassed to be part of this innovative and empowering @blackballauk project with #BBxGoogle to celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of #BlackWomen in the UK.
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Excited for the launch of Beyond The Bassline @britishlibrary this evening. Also gassed to see my book chapter in print. Congratulations to @MykaellRiley and @Aleemagray for their hard work in bringing this to life🥳. #BlackMusic #BlackBritishMusic
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Despite being in cancer treatment for eleven months of this year, I have to say that it has been good one. I’ve enjoyed my new home, my family, my friends, my work, my colleagues, my students, my writing & scholarship, and of course, my lovely new cat👌🏾. 2023 focus is healing.
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@ClaireShrugged It’s the editors who approved this story that need to be put on a watch list.
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@TweetsByBilal @SweetpeaDnB I had actually forgotten than Monday was International Women’s Day. What a week!.
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@ChisomoWrites These are the same cats that think they liberal but year after year mark down anyone who is Black, brown, or female.
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This is for the #cancer girlies. The hair will grow back after #chemotherapy . This is exactly three years growth.
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@lovettejallow Liking all the tweets here. Good to know I’m not alone. Used to wonder what I did. I know now that I didn’t do anything. Stay blessed 😍.
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@httpsjhey @ashindestad 😂😂😂 That only took a few hours. Black Twitter sent that Karen into hiding.
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Thanks to @Lanre_Bakare for including me in this. Yes, @ahrcpress I am talking about you at the end! .Black students deserve proportional funding representation. The push to archive the history of jungle and drum’n’bass
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I never had hair that could afro before. Crown.
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Super proud of this mini documentary that I wrote for @residentadvisor called."What Makes Something Jungle?".Shout out to Sophie and the RA team for making such great production values. Enjoy #Jungle #DnB.
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This is why it is always Black.not BAME. Where is the video where the man’s hands are round this woman’s throat?.
A shop owner in Peckham fears for his livelihood and business after a woman who was offered a credit note for her returns tries to walk out of his shop with items exceeding the value of the goods. The video circulating shows the owner trying to restrain the woman using force.
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This is why I was so glad that Bolu chose me for this campaign.
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Here at @unibirmingham for the Stuart Hall Archive Project May Symposium. Everybody who knows me knows how much I love #StuartHall so let’s go!.#Academia #CulturalStudies
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My name is Julia Toppin. I am a Black woman of Caribbean heritage via the motherland of Africa and I am getting vaccinated tomorrow morning. Not because I want to go out but because I’ve done my research and it is probably as safe as the other four medicines I take daily.
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Honestly Tik Tok is becoming my fave. One day I will open it before Twitter. “Only half a gram, not a full gram.”😭
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@XByBilal I just avoid them now. They are legitimate but an initial portion of the money you agree to give goes to the company that provides them.
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Chemo done, check, looking good, check, Mummy straight, check, right now I'm feelin' blessed.
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Last day of teaching on the MA #MusicBusiness Management @UniWestminster yesterday. Was so cool watching team A&R pitches and hearing the feedback from Andrew and Jeremiah at Atlantic Records. Really enjoy supporting @jredsounds on this module have learnt so much in three years!
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@aChildOf2Worlds I saw this Tik Tok once where an American man described Britain as a “butler class economy” and I will never get that out of my mind. You can’t get a mortgage on London on £67,000 so that ain’t living.
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This exclude all Black British music but it is funny.
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Waking up to email and dm requests for my paper on #Jungle from the perspective of #BlackWomen fills me with joy👌🏾. The documentary I scripted on what makes Jungle Jungle is out on 26th Feb. I can’t wait for you to see it😜.
This groundbreaking essay looks at the UK dance music genre of #Jungle from the subjectivity of #BlackWomen whose voices are too often erased or maligned in the public sphere. #MusicBusiness.
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Ann Dowd’s flowers are long overdue. She is phenomenal actress. Really enjoyed this👌🏾.
Oh the gift of popping inside Ann Dowd's head to hear about her acting process for everything from REBECCA to PHILADELPHIA, THE HANDMAID'S TALE to THE LEFTOVERS.
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I am waiting for someone to write the piece that discusses how Beyoncé’s strategy to not create moving image visuals and let the prosumers just keep on going to infinity is pure unadulterated genius. #MusicBusiness #Marketing #RENAISSANCE.
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White supremacy got people moving so mad that even the zero hours security guard thinks he has more power than any Black man that enters the building that he guards on his shift. The epic scope of the project. They should cancel the contract with the whole firm. So they learn.
Edward Enninful: British Vogue editor 'racially profiled' at work
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@joemuggs Being rude to any support staff (hospitality, IT, premises) is huge red flag🚩🚩🚩. Those people are always bad vibes.
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@ThanksCancer The fact that it rarely ever ends. Your body will never be the same and you will have to train yourself not to think about recurrance and premature death.
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2023 was my first year living free of chemo and I can honestly say that I lived my best life. I lost my gran who I lived with very unexpectedly over ten days this Summer so I know that life is not promised🕊️. Love to everyone who crossed my path and made my life brighter. 🙏🏾❤️.
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Julia’s Black Woman June continues with a woman committed to equality in publishing and helping young people learn about the music industry. The one and only @ShauniCaballero . Women like Shauni fill me with hope because they have purpose and integrity. #CelebrateBlackWomen
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Bless all the Black women DJs. We rare and special.
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@chantellelunt We all need to step up. When I am at the checkout if I see someone trying count pennies to afford basics I step in discreetly and offer to cover the difference. Sometime they are proud and then I tell them that this is how I was trained by my grandparents. Then they let me pay.
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Aunty Diane is living proof that respectability politics is a waste of time for #BlackWomen . I will put all your racist, sexist, elitist, classist, colourist mess out here for everyone to see because holding it in raises my blood pressure and I did not survive cancer for that.
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@cillasarfo Just a note ladies. Iron deficiency can often mask a pernicious anaemia (B12 deficiency) which is easily sorted but dangerous long term. Make them test you for it.
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Here at @BristolUni Music Department for ‘Black British Music: Sacred and Secular’ Study Day. After an introduction by Dr Alisha Lola Jones, Prof Robert Beckford delivers the keynote ‘Handsworth Revolution: A Decolonial Black British Gospel Music Praxis’.#BlackBritishMusic
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@ahkelusdaris @artbyfiyory Major stations have more CCTV than anywhere else. After you report it to the police. Get down there and work out which cameras may have caught something then go to the British Transport Police in the station and get them to help you.
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@fufuisonme Someone mentioned it to me decades ago, I observed then realised it was true. From that point on I stopped accommodating it. I just stop dead and wait for them to walk around me…annoyed.
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The backlash to #BlackGirlFollowTrain on TikTok lets you know that too many people can’t cope when Black women do things for themselves and start thriving.
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@aChildOf2Worlds Phillip needs to get back in the cupboard with Gordon the Gopher with this s*it. Seen anyone shouting at Boris on TV lately about his racism?
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After meditation what better way to start the day than by reading great new work from one of your friends. #MusicBusiness #Grime #Police
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Like this one. Her name is Keedz. Had to work too hard to find her on Spotify though.
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Please note. There are many young Black people who have been and continue to struggle with their mental health at the moment. It has been a long year for them. BLM, Coronavirus, Isolation & Police oppression when they try to enjoy the same freedoms as their white peers outside.
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@kelechnekoff I went to an inmate poetry reading there years ago. Doors on doors on doors on doors locked behind me. I’m going have to look up how he did it.
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@JacquiMckenzie6 Thank you for this story. It was so joyful to begin with. Those spaces may be organised chaos but they are safe. It is said that too many people out of their way to steal our joy.
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@cnlester Or better still just don’t do it. No one should ever have to justify their existence and it will be a set up anyway.
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@kelechnekoff When I was teaching media studies we learned that the average reading age of a UK tabloid reader was 14. As a former English teacher of ten years, I’m sure this is probably still true.
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