Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory

Very much looking forward to this conversation at SOAS on 17 March around Resisting Erasure. If you're in London, come join us and please share with friends and colleagues. Register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

January 2026 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke UP) edited by Sarah Bufkin & Ida Danewid theorises racial capitalism in (post)imperial Europe. My contribution discusses the relationship between racialisation of Roma through workfare & debtfare, and high industrial employment in Czechia

This looks like a fantastic issue and a very rich introduction that couldn't come at a better time!

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We celebrate the publication of issue one of the 125th volume of SAQ! "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe," edited by Sarah Bufkin and Ida Danewid, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/x1m3Ejx

✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson

LIVE NOW! Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Stream here:

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls…

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Loving this interview. Wow. Cuts deep into a lot of core concepts I’ve never had the opportunity to really study or deconstruct Thanks @thedigradio.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: I've spoken about-- TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

I have a new piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on James Baldwin, statelessness, and fugitive placemaking

Another amazing piece in our PMLA essay cluster on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture!

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Check out "Pearl Diving without Guarantees" by my colleague Ida Danewid. "While today [Stuart Hall and Cedric Robinson] are widely regarded as the two titans of the concept of racial capitalism, they often traveled in opposite directions." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

He did a whole two minute ad highlighting the life of Sylvia Rivera! That was backed by a banger of a track from Sophie, noting the murder of Martha P Johnson. Never mind not running away he embraced NYC trans folks. AND WON! youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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David Wearing@davidwearing.bsky.social · 9mo ago

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Fiona and I will be at Sussex University to talk about & make zines! thanks to @idanewid.bsky.social for inviting us! 🪸 #beautyasamethod #zine #creativemethodologies #qualitativeresearch

Lots of time and effort has gone into the Independent Water Commission, which reports tomorrow. Unfortunately, it's a largely wasted exercise, because the government insisted that renationalisation of the water companies was outside its terms of reference: ie, it was not allowed to consider it.🧵

More than 100 arrested across UK at #protests related to Palestine Action. #Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the #Terrorism Act 2000 | www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action

Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

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I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

Jocelyn Leitzinger@jocelynl.bsky.social · last yr.

When you're working 3 jobs while going to school full time and just barely making enough to feed yourself, ChatGPT offers an appealing way to make life a little bit easier without feeling like you're REALLY doing something wrong I'm increasingly getting a double bell curve in my classes

Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it. Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.

Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +

trans exclusionary feminism is fascist feminism

‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right

In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today

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UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed. www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...

UK Supreme court rules legal definition of a woman excludes trans women

The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.

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Victory for the far-right as Supreme Court rolls back trans women's rights by two decades The decision has all the hallmarks of TERF Island - and For Women Scotland seem to think that aligning themselves with famed misogynist Laurence Fox is a victory? www.thecanary.co/editorial/20...

Victory for the far-right as Supreme Court rolls back trans women's rights by two decades

Not content with sweeping up the far-right in their anti-trans campaign, For Women Scotland have got the Supreme Court to follow suit

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100 children killed or injured every day. That’s the equivalent of 2 buses per day, a whole school per week. How is this in anyone’s interests except those of the forces of fascism?

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last yr.

Israel continues its deadly attacks on Gaza, with UNRWA saying that at least 100 Palestinian children have been killed or injured each day in the besieged enclave since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/7n8dex

Great weekend read by @benehrenreich.bsky.social on the bi-partisan support for the genocide in Palestine helping open the door for outright fascism - and some of the parallels to Weimar #Brecht www.thenation.com/article/poli...

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza

Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

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🚨 DOCKWORKERS IN SOLIDARITY – ORGANISING LESSONS FROM WORKERS TAKING ACTION FOR PALESTINE 🚨 Speakers from @SDU_Sverige, @CGT_France, @ILWU & more. 🔗 Register now: zoom.us/webinar/regi... #WorkersInPalestine #UnionSolidarity

Very glad our VC is taking a robust stance. Don't imagine that what is happening to US higher education can't happen here as well. Either the whole sector takes a united stand now or the right-wing culture warriors will try to pick us off individually.

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · last yr.

This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...