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Wrote this before the world changed. It’s about having fun with Lauren Berlant & ‘Dragging the University’. It covers the devaluation of the humanities, our fears of AI, plagiarism & ends with the Covid inquiry. TY
@DrCarolynP
@SimonDawes2
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‘over 30% of PhD students develop a psychiatric condition. This is a higher rate than for people working in defence and emergency services, which is about 22%’
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Well this has got to be the best out of office reply so far
#USSstrike
"I am currently taking industrial action and will get back to you as soon as I have a viable future."
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Fascinating- Pierre Bourdieu interviewing Toni Morrison, who knew?
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‘White students disproportionately challenge the authority of BIPOC women and are twice as likely to inappropriately question them when being taught about social justice issues’ interesting also on workloads & collaborative teaching observation
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Since the beginning of June, Gazan scholars have been teaching online to students in tents. They are committed to reverse the scholasticide & rebuild the sector (for the 4th time). This is all of our responsibilities. Do what you can
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I know we’ve talked about this before but we need to push back on how some unis are bringing highly intrusive methods of border control into phd & external examining
@ucu
@UnisNotBorders
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Less is more is a good resolution for the new decade, esp for senior academics who don’t face the same pressures to publish - Too many journals, too many papers not enough slow thinking & research. And I would happily bury many of my own papers
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I only really knew what my PhD research was about when I had got my doctorate
My most impor thinking from it is still developing over 2 decades later
You can’t do everything in a thesis
Do the best U can within it’s limits & with
#empiricalhumility
#AcademicChatter
#phdchat
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If you're a sociologist wanting to teach on Palestine
@socispal
have put together some teaching resources. It's still in development, so we'd welcome any suggestions
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This is a war crime. I don’t think the word thanatocide exists (the killing of the dead & their honouring) but it should. The destruction of cemeteries & graves has long been part of genocide
Palestinian mother is dragged from her son’s grave. Israel is demolishing the graves to build a Theme Park…🇵🇸💔
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Don’t know who took this photo or made the banner, but ❤️
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I’ve resigned as external examiner of the MSc in Migration & Mobility Studies
@BristolUni
in support of
@ucu
#fourfights
For the record I have no regrets. I’ve probably done more than my fair share of EE over the years &
@UUKIntl
is draining goodwill from the sector
#fuukedoff
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Well I never - ‘The new data suggests that ethnic minority academics are less likely than white men or women to be promoted to better paid, senior positions’
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British universities seem to be haemorrhaging committed & talented scholars at this time. The academic career has become an endurance test. And we know who is going to survive & be left
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Congratulations to Catherine Hall and her team for the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project in the History Department at UCL
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‘Colonial slavery and colonialism needed the complicity of some women – capitalism and imperialism also. I am aware of the feminist distinction between to cede and to consent’
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Meeting Stuart Hall ~
@SaraNAhmed
,
@Gargi_at_home
, Vera Jocelyn,
@patnoxolo
,
@kalifilms
, Ann Phoenix,
@spatialmutation
& Suzanne Scafe
Beautiful tributes to Stuart Hall & his many contribs to our lives & thinking
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Am wondering what would happen if all the white feminists refused to be on all white panels? If they checked out beforehand & suggested others, esp Black women? Am also wondering if my craving for curry after conferences packed with whiteness is a gut reaction?
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Some good news - and why it’s important to support independent bookshops
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On paying journal reviewers 'Feminist Review’s newly offered honorariums are part of our wider strategy towards recognising the numerous ways in which ‘free’ and invisible labour underpins academic publishing and academia more widely'
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“The Anthropocene began with widespread colonialism and slavery; it is a story of how people treat the environment and how people treat each other.”
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Can see student & job applications to Glasgow soaring, I can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like to be in a university environment with a chair actively practicing & innovating care as anti-colonial practice 😍👇🏽
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah has been elected as rector with 80 per cent of the vote 🇵🇸
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That thing when it’s all white speakers and you get invited to participate at the last minute.
We know what’s going on.
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So many academics are doing a Gwyneth Paltrow version of Decolonising the university as a ‘conscious uncoupling’. Can’t be done & certainly not without interrogating & dismantling white supremacy, class hierarchies & holding to account our own entangled complicities
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Many kick ass observations here on the Decolonising bandwagon in academia ‘a number of White scholars are using decolonizing frameworks in their work without interrogating their own Whiteness/White-passing & their complicity in upholding White structures’
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Decolonising has to go all the way through unis, the curriculum is a starting point. Can you be a decolonising uni when you run on precarious contracts & fail to protect & nurture black & brown staff & students?
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Universities: Decolonise now
Also Universities: Here is everybody we have ever had the slightest connection with who has received an order of the British Empire award
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I wrote this on Monday. Since then another doctor & a nurse have died. All are black & brown. We need to think of personal protective equipment not only as masks, gloves & gowns but as structures of inequality
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Noticing the way decolonising discussions are being appropriated to recentre the global North?
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Fanon said more or less the same, about the colonised under colonialism, where 'deleria' & 'paranoia' were a recognition of racist structures
“Men often ask me, 'Why are your female characters so paranoid?' It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.” Born on this day in 1939, Margaret Atwood.
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More than 1,500 academics have pledged to refuse speaking engagements and other invitations from institutions that do not protect non-tenured faculty and graduate workers during the pandemic.
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I realise some may only know Ghassan Hage throu his cancelling. He has written on so many topics & is my go-to for getting students excited about Bourdieu. Here is his ´Anthropology is a white colonialist project’ can’t be the end of the conversation’
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Happy Monday!
Alterity and Alliance: A conversation with Angela Davis, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gail Lewis, Nira Yuval Davis, Ann Phoenix and Avtar Brah — 11 January 2023, 17:00 — 18:30
Online
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Adieu
@SociologyGold
All packed up & could not have imagined a better community in which to teach and learn. Thank you ❤️
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What connects Stuart Hall, Edward Said & John Berger? Apart from their anti-colonialism, they all worked with film maker Mike Dibb. Mike & I wrote a piece for
@RedPeppermag
for Stuart’s 10th anniv. We carry Stuart’s voice to all those calling for an end to genocide & empire
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My
@FeministTheory
article is officially out in the world, it’s about the politics of academic presenting, ableism & the challenge of enfolding the liveliness of political commitments into formats
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Actually heard a white academic say they are in a department ‘with a diversity of thought’
Don’t you just love the hoops performative academic whiteness is jumping through
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“The migrant workers in particular are vulnerable because they feel forced to work because they are not entitled to government benefits.”
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my heart is with my former colleagues
@SociologyGold
& other departs today where redundancy notices have been sent. It makes no sense to take a wrecking ball to the most vibrant & innovative intellectual community I have come across in order to cover mismanagement
Love and solidarity to all my Goldsmiths colleagues today experiencing Schrodinger’s job. You can support us here
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We know progressive whiteness works through out-sourcing its responsibilities for change to racialised others (‘what do You think we should do?’) & this psychic econ has spawned jobs & ‘experts’, but hearing more narratives of ‘my role is to lift others up’= whiteness as haulage
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‘White people are divided over Kavanaugh; black people aren’t. And not to acknowledge that fact or probe the reasons why is a journalistic disservice’
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A disease spread by the rich but where the impact on the poor will be greatest
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"Stuart Hall was a welcome reminder of the poss of academia’s better self, the one where we remember to be kind & welcoming & to nurture new ideas & people. The one where we don’t forget that learning is a project that is personal, political & collective"
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Uk HE has been making huge profits & yet continues to rely on casualised lab (fixed term teaching contracts that don’t cover the acad year). To give you an idea of tariffs, a GTA is routinely paid 2 hours of prep for 1 hr of teaching. Marking tariffs oblige overworking
@ucu
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I wrote this about the first UK doctors to die in the pandemic & how their vulnerability is part of a more systemic exposure & lack of care. Thank you to
@DiscoverSoc
&
@GKBhambra
for getting this out so quickly
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No kidding - ‘students request more special favors and friendship behaviors from their female professors than they do of men -- resulting in more actual work demands and emotional labor’
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Other classroom resources on structural racism - will be updated
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I suspect there are quite a few
@UCU
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@KCL_UCU
as alternative surges of dissent in depletion
#cripthestrike
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“They told us Trinidad was only six hours away by ship. But it took us 103 days to reach. Many died onboard. I cried and cried. By now, I was almost a slave,” read one archival testimony in the film”
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Vivas are archaic & full of ableism. How about
-sending broad ?s in advance
- offering pre-viva intros to examiners
- building in breaks (it’s not an endurance test)
-welcoming silence, slow thinking
And personally, I’d love to start & end with pranayama
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The Decolonising the Archives Research Residency Programme will award bursaries of £6,000 to 3 postdoctoral researchers (including curatorial and creative practice-based)
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"Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change"
Audre Lorde
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A history of BF: Frederick Douglass decried blackface performers as “the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion denied to them by nature, in which to make money, and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow citizens.”
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Public engagement awards, REF case studies - anyone else felt the masculinist whiteness entangled with these? Some of us have never done any research without community involvement & wouldn’t dream of leveraging these treasured relationships for institutional airbrushing & metrics
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‘Race doesn’t put you at higher risk. Racism puts you at higher risk..PoC are more infected bc we are more exposed & less protected..we are more likely to die because we carry a greater burden of chronic diseases from living in disinvested communities’
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Chosen by academics from South Africa, Kenya & Uganda
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It’s coming up to the 10 yr anniversary of Stuart Hall’s death. He was brilliant at so many things but Stuart in conversation was Stuart at his best. Here he is with CLR James (produced by Mike Dibb)
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A lethal mix of British exceptionalism, over-reliance on modelling data, repeated failure to listen to clinicians & the long term effects of underfunding of the NHS. ‘Shambles’ is inadequate for the arrogance & wilful neglect that marks the UK response
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“I don’t want a man’s life to be taken away just because you don’t want to miss your flight, I am not going to sit down until the person is off the plane.”
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If your paint is dry, I have a new article
@FeministTheory
‘Presentation Fever’ that crips presenting & thinks through how we might take up public space differently. What might a practice of vulnerable presenting beyond mastery look, sound and feel like?
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As end of this semester approaches, I’m thinking of all the racially marked scholars whose work is unrecognised, who continually have to tend to the casual damage of whiteness, who are exhausted but still generous & fighting. White scholars if you can’t change get out of the way
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In Solidarity with the Students | Verso have also made the new Maya Wind e-book free
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The anticipation of a racist backlash on Black & brown British Twitter following the penalties is both sad & an insight into the particular phenomenology of British racism
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Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world
‘We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities’
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The new issue
@FeministReview_
on coloniality is now online. Edited by the wonderful Navtej K. Purewal & Jennifer Ung Loh
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Today 172 soc science & humanities scholars sent a letter to the Principal
@KingsCollegeLon
demanding that we call for a
#ceasefire
& end collaborations with & investments in those complicit with Israel’s violence.
We also sent a white kite
#FreePalesitne
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Most British Unis have been playing Russian roulette with Covid & the health of staff & students. Time to move all teaching online & have grown up conversations about why, as well as tackling the endemic ableism of HE
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A summary of some of Rodney’s key arguments about slavery, colonialism & capitalism as foundational to development politics
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If you’re looking for queer of colour feminist methods for reading lists take a look at
@KohlJournal
- if you’re not, I pity your students
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As our uni continues with the most perverse doublethink (a neolib, glossy PR machine in overdrive while treating staff as dispensable commodities) a sensible response is a splitting into a para-university of alternative responsibilities, structures & values that assert & subvert
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‘By patchwork ethnography, we refer to ethnographic processes and protocols designed around short-term field visits, using fragmentary yet rigorous data, and other innovations that resist the fixity, holism, and certainty’
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New article
@citeblackwomen
"If universities and
oppressive spaces of knowledge production seek to silence and erase Black women, then
acknowledging and centering us holds revolutionary possibilities"
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The NYPD single-handedly boosting the ratings of Oxford University Press
Do we include them as partners in impact at the next REF?
Dear NYPD. I’m shaking. Just found this in my daughter’s room. Idk if she’s throwing “rocks” or smoking them. Please help
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I came into HE late & also had a career break, with the pension cuts I will on under £10k pa & for a sector that is dementor-like & will suck the life out of you if you let it. We don’t want to hurt students but we shouldn’t apologise for this
@ucu
fight. I’m all in
#fourfights
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A utter disgrace
@cardiffuni
‘He was dealing with over 600 students and on the day he took his life, in February 2018, he was in the middle of marking 418 exam papers, and preparing for a day of lectures’
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’Tutors didn’t seem to care about me; nobody asked where I was if I didn’t come to class. I felt like a lot of other students were cared about more than I was, and grew quite depressed.'
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I had Covid in 1st pandemic, am doubled jabbed. I tested +ve on Friday, after 3 -ve tests (I knew something was up). Am pretty sure I got infected on trains to work, so few ppl wearing masks but also sneezing. The Uk media & govt have turned the volume down on c19 news be careful
Why is the UK media far more interested in covid in Europe than covid in the UK?
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If your uni is making huge cuts to jobs & services but can still promise substantial funding for race equal research what does this tell us about the sway of performativity, the weft of whiteness & the emptying of politics from critical race initiatives? Asking for a friend
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Thank you to all those who signed this letter & also to those not doing business as usual on here & who are organising in other ways
Over 140 Prominent Feminist Scholars Demand Ceasefire, End to Occupation in Gaza.
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"Decolonizing therapy involves looking at how the mental health industrial complex continues to inflict a lot of harm on people because it chooses to remain apolitical”
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Rhodes is falling (oxford)’Motion to explicitly endorse the removal of Cecil Rhodes on the high street facade of Oriel College passes with 124 votes for and 62 votes against, and 17 abstentions’
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Fancy working with me & others at the Centre for Public Policy Research (King's, London)? We are constantly working out/at what social justice might mean within a uni setting (which is why I put my title under erasure)
Lecturer in Social Justice
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Colonialism and botany
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“It is people especially from the global south, especially from indigenous communities, who need to tell their stories” So a 16 yo can work this out. Wonder when it will dawn on academics
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These sorts of immigration checks in spheres of privilege normalise everyday bordering within unis. Of course it’s much worse for those with more precarious citizenship rights. My point is we need to challenge at all levels
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Each Palestinian life taken is a tragedy. Dr Alalool was a much needed neurologist, under regimes of colonial violence there are so many who are doctoring. Together with each building, road, hospital & house destroyed is a destruction of infrastructures of survival & care
Our deep condolences for the tragic death of one of the few Neurologists in
#GazaStrip
, the Palestinian Dr. Moeen Alalool with his five children, as a result of the
#Israeli
bombing of his house in Wahda street in
#Gaza
city
#Gaza_Under_Attack
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2 brilliant early career scholars that I know in the GS have both recently lost out on jobs because of Northern unis not willing to go through the added immigration bureaucracy. If you’re not willing to do this work don’t waste the time & emotional lab of candidates, it’s cruel
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Lay the ground for racist abuse then condemn it when it ignites. And she probably still doesn’t get that this is absolutely connected to why they took the knee
I am disgusted that
@England
players who have given so much for our country this summer have been subject to vile racist abuse on social media.
It has no place in our country and I back the police to hold those responsible accountable.
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‘The work of ethnic minorities may be essential. But their lives are expendable’
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That article on masturbation is basically white dude microdosing on cultural alterity. It’s embedded in the history of
#ethnography
. anthropology migration conferences, are full of dudes talking about being in the desert/in boats with dying migrants. It’s the posh boys gap years
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@NoreenMasud
‘had lost’ -so relieved that they managed to find it again, it’s a word that somehow keeps getting lost these days
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Claudia Rankine on why she prefers the term white dominance rather than ‘privilege’, sonic poetry, the violence of present politics & moral injury as assimilation to everyday violence
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‘What you should see when you see black protesters in the age of Trump and coronavirus is people pushed to the edge, not because they want bars and nail salons open, but because they want to live. To breathe’ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Jesse Darling wins 2023 Turner Prize. At the end of his speech, he reaches into the top pocket of his jacket, pulls out a flag, saying ‘And finally’ 🇵🇸
“Because there’s a genocide going on and I wanted to say something about it on the BBC’
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