Ash Sharma
@ashdisorient.bsky.social
autodidact : teacher : cultural studies : global film: black marxism : cognitive mapping: inter-asia : contemporary art : darkmatter journal : open access : dis-orienting rhythms : undercommons : poet : affirmative sabotage substack.com/@ashwanisharma1
In-depth discussion of the history of Black Cultural Studies in Britain and the more recent adoption of US 'Black Critical Thought' by younger scholars, through to the revival of Black Marxism in very recent years. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/06/b...
Black Theory in Britain
In this episode Jem is joined by Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma to discuss their 2019 article ‘What is This ‘Black ‘in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Blac…
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A new special issue of open access journal darkmatter darkmatter-hub.pubpub.org/envisioningp...
Issue-18: Envisioning Planetary Futures through the Arts and Creative Media · darkmatter hub
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Mark Serwotka isn’t ONLY a transphobe, he’s literally married to the founder of Woman’s Place UK “Your“ Party is doomed to repeat the same mistakes as the British Left over and over because the red carpet is continually rolled out for people who’s only job seems to be to wreck campaigns
Tristan Grayford@tristangrayford.scot · 9mo agoJust days after saying there was no place for transphobia in her new party Zarah Sultana cheered recruiting anti-trans trade unionist Mark Serwotka. Mark now saying exactly what you'd expect - that he intends to expunge the trans rights movement from Your Party to bring in anti-trans campaigners.
This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London. Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social
Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 11mo agoFREE TO READ: historian Daniel Frost traces the history of far-right activism in Croydon, from the "National Fascisti" of the 1920s to the Farageist TikTok reels of today renewal.org.uk/articles/sub...
Gaza has sealed the fate of the West, even if the repercussions are not felt for decades. The damage has been done. There is no way to undo what has been witnessed by billions of people, both in the West and in the Global South.
No more statements of condemnation. No more “keeping dialogue open” to allow trickles of aid deliveries. No more complicity in ethnic cleansing and genocide. We call on every government in the world to urgently suspend trade and sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
URGENT: No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW.
The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif. We are w
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UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza www.bmj.com/content/390/... The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
"Western powers are not only colluding in genocide, but ... language has been twisted beyond recognition: mercenaries slaughtering the starving call themselves the 'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation'; wars of aggression become 'self defense.'"
In These Times@inthesetimes.com · last yr.As Western governments repress Palestine solidarity and enable Israel’s impunity, the “liberal international order” is no longer bothering to manufacture consent. inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing @michaelfakhri.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’
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Now that U.S. officials have wrapped up their visit to Potemkin aid distribution sites in Gaza, the IDF can resume the regularly scheduled shooting of desperate people seeking food.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · last yr.Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians again sought food, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and health workers said Saturday.
You might be interested in Stuart Hall comparing the active urban risk-based play of Sesame Street quite favourably to its much more paternalistic, domestic and racialised middle-class British equivalents for the Open University. youtu.be/_AQ6BzxURX0?...
1982 Open University Programme About Children's Television
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"We’ve had authorities in Bangladesh telling us we shouldn’t even be editing footage of garment workers and activists advocating for their rights, and we’ve been followed by the police in Cambodia, but we have never encountered anything like this" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
Palestine Action documentary makers fear being criminalised under anti-terror laws
Exclusive: Directors of To Kill a War Machine take legal advice as Home Office plans to proscribe protest group
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Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover
Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover
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Latest Tricontinental Dossier, The Bandung Spirit In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left? thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...
The Bandung Spirit
In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of ...
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Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread,meat,shoes,coal,& light” In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything" I was on Return to Bandung podcast on how societies are being beat back into poverty open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZ...
Can we fulfill the aspirations of Bandung without bringing forth a post-capitalist system of economic, social, and political relations? www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
How Can the Global South Fulfill the Promise of Bandung in the 21st Century? | Common Dreams
To celebrate the spirit of Bandung is not simply to mark 70 years since the Asia-Africa Conference, but to affirm what being faithful to its principles and ideals means today.
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So this looks good: a Bandung conference at LSE. Kuan-Hsing Chen, Noer Rachman, Hilmar Farid, Su Lin Lewis, John Munro, Jesook Song, Priyamvada Gopal, Ashwani Sharma ('independent scholar' -- way to go), Ling Zhang, Zhiguang Yin. #Bandung
Ash Sharma@ashdisorient.bsky.social · last yr.www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... Might be of interest.
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Palestinians. www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...
“Pools of Blood”: Israel Kills 100 Palestinians in Gaza, Incl. Attack on Restaurant and Marketplace
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Pale...
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Except that no credible biologist would support this definition of "biological sex." Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.
Reem Alsalem@unsrvaw.bsky.social · last yr.I welcome this decision by the @supremecourt.uk holding that the term "man" "woman" and"sex" in the Equality Act of 2010 refers to biological sex. It represents the triumph of reason and facts based deliberations and the return of common sense. www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
