Rhiannon Lockley (she/her)
@illdoitanyway.bsky.social
Mum, trade unionist, lecturer, Ed D student | Chair of BCU UCU, Vice Chair West Mids UCU, UCU NEC | Social reproduction feminism, reproductive labour, education activism. V tired.
See you tomorrow @bcu-ucu.bsky.social , @markpendleton.bsky.social and @suzitoole.bsky.social ! #NoRedundancies
University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 3w agoThe only Black staff in their division. The only staff at risk of redundancy. BCU's Board of Governors meets tomorrow. 🔁 Share this ✍️ Sign the petition: bit.ly/4xtsK8l 📢 Get down tomorrow: 12:30, Parkside Building, Cardigan Street, Birmingham to show your support to staff.
Stourbridge and Halesowen very excited for the Black Country boys tonight!
Amazing sunset over Stourbridge tonight 🤩
Court of Appeal judges here demonstrate complete ignorance of the reality of the suffrage movement. Far from operating transparently the militant suffragettes covertly ran destructive arson and bombing campaigns that harmed both property and people. Learn some history before quoting it fgs.
PRESS RELEASE: UCU Hallam secures major win as Sheffield Hallam University drops plans for subsidiary company. See ucuhallam.org/ezm8 for more info.
The only immigrant we need to worry about is the South African billionaire based in the United States who is encouraging this by quote tweeting the UK's most famous fascist who is currently holidaying in Russia.
No ifs, no buts! No Education Cuts! @bcu-ucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk members, students and supporters came together today to stand with colleagues in Architecture, Black Studies and Biomedical Engineering as university leaders met to review redundancy consultations.
Support @bcu-ucu.bsky.social tomorrow at noon. We are calling on BCU leaders to remove all colleagues from risk of redundancy, including - Architecture and the Built Environmentt - Black Studies - Biomedical Engineering It’s not too late!
Horrified to hear there has been an arson attack outside Salma Yaqoob’s family home in Brum and sending her lots of solidarity. This is terrifying.
Kid is off to her first pride in Wolves today ♥️
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If a white murder victim dies while being treated with unnecessary force by the police, this does not mean the police are suddenly “woke”. It’s a different iteration of the same issues when there are Black deaths & unnecessary force at the hands of the police.
Maria #chondrogianni, UCU president, opening the 2026 #ucu Congress in #harrogate with a barnstorming, inspirational speech and call to action against job cuts, precarity, and broken funding models all across post-16 education
How long before we get the Covid meme of lashes Burnham & the mobile phone but the text he is looking at is Reform taking the Makerfield seat? 😬
In what universe is Wes Streeting the answer… to anything? 🤦🏻♀️
Open letter and petition to save the BCU Black Studies MA, and the Black sociology staff members who teach on it, here: www.change.org/p/save-black...
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Save Black Studies at Birmingham City University
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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago'An open letter has been signed by about 150 figures around the world in protest at the decision, including prominent names such as activist Akala, author Yomi Adegoke, and Wanda Wyporska, the chief executive officer of the Black Cultural Archives.' 2/2
"More than 100 academics, writers and activists from around the world have signed an open letter condemning plans to close an MA in Black studies and global justice at Birmingham City University (BCU), just months after it was first launched." www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA
More than 100 figures sign open letter criticising closure, just months after MA was launched
theguardian.com
Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Birmingham City University urged not to axe Black studies MA
More than 100 figures sign open letter criticising closure, just months after MA was launched
theguardian.com
Swans nest in a bank of irises on the cut yesterday 🦢💚💛
If it’s public interest for BBC to report tallies of migrant crossings on a regular basis, why isn’t it also public interest to report daily UK theft of global resources, or profits the multinationals take while keeping their workers on wages requiring state subsidy to be liveable for that matter?
Once you start seeing the eagerness with which some people want to cut others out of civil society, you can’t stop seeing it.
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3mo agoSpeaking on R4, new Reform Essex councillor Peter Harris says the party will be looking (among other places) at the £43m spent on taxis to schools as part of wider efforts to "potentially reallocate some... funds to meet with our priorities." The bulk of that will be transport for Send pupils.
Says the man who has let his boat be dragged into an enormous whirlpool filled with icebergs.
