Lizzi O. Milligan
@lizziom.bsky.social
Professor of Education and Global Social Justice, University of Bath. Interested in language policy, education as and for environmental/social/epistemic justice, comparative education. Also here to post/follow on 🇵🇸, Long Covid, ⚽️ and netball. Views my own
New blog from Maria Balarin and me on the need for a greater focus on justice in education...
NORRAG@norrag.bsky.social · last yr.What does justice in education look like in times of global crisis? This week on the @NORRAG blog, María Balarin & Lizzi O. Milligan reflect on the JustEd project and call for a deeper shift—towards education as justice, rooted in rich pedagogy and epistemic equity. 🔗 buff.ly/PLrLXpc
I support Palestine Action. I hate all forms of violence. I wish no harm on anyone. I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world. Apparently this makes me a terrorist. But I am the opposite of a terrorist.
As always, @rachelshabi.bsky.social is so good. This pointing the finger of antisemitism at every criticism of Israel is so damaging because there are people who should be allies who now will not hear it when we call out REAL antisemitism- to them it’s all a smear. & meanwhile Gazans are murdered.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last yr.Rachel Shabi having to explain that 'death to the IDF' is not antisemitic is a sign of how far the smears have gone. And Rachel is right, there are dangerous consequences to that.
A girl’s future shouldn’t depend on a budget line. The UK’s legacy on #GirlsEducation is at risk. Our Director Professor #PaulineRose, #MalalaYousafzai #RichardCurtis #AnnieLennox #MyleneKlass #KevinWatkins & others are calling on the PM to act. Read & share: bit.ly/4lgaYOP #GirlsDeserveEducation
Speak up for Palestine 🇵🇸 🍉 Ways you can speak up...
100 years ago today, Tony Benn was born. This is from 2009 when he defied the BBC’s ban on a humanitarian appeal for Palestine. For 77 years, Israel has killed & displaced Palestinians & the BBC continues to dehumanise them. Benn saw this injustice clearly & stood against it 🇵🇸
"The climate and ecological implications of this shift are as disastrous as they are deliberate. We need an appropriate name for this new era of fossil and tech bros accelerating attacks on democracy and the planet: cataclysm capitalism." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger
The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne
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Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed by Israel today. This was his last post, for the shame of a world that allows Israel to do this.
1/We analysed GP Patient Survey data from>750K people in England: Around 1 in 20 people had #LongCovid & nearly 1 in 10 were not sure if they have it. We did adjusted analysis by social & demographic attributes to find out who's more likely to have LC or is uncertain about it. Here's what we found🧵
I wrote this two months: why I cannot mourn Gaza. Because we all knew Israel was note done with the genocide. www.hauntologies.net/p/this-moment
This Moment
Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza
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Our paper is here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Exploring Long Covid Prevalence and Patient Uncertainty by Sociodemographic Characteristics Using GP Patient Survey Data
Background The high global burden of Long Covid (LC) has significant implications for population well-being, health care, social care and national economies. Aim To explore associations between pa...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Interesting question from my MA teaching today: Is the 'transformative' in 'gender transformative education' the same as the 'transformative' in 'transformative climate/environmental education'? Thoughts? #education
Every time the world attention is turned towards Trump's antics, or any other distraction, Israel uses the opportunity to ratchet up the genocide of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of West Bank. PS I know "ethnic cleansing" started out as a euphemism, but is now understood as full crime against humanity.
Falastin Flip@tameeolivefern.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: Israel says as of this morning, it has laid siege to Gaza and two million Palestinians, preventing entry of all food supplies and other goods. This is GENOCIDE
An admirable and principled decision from someone who has long been a credit to the Labour Party. Defence spending must go up, but this is the wrong way to do it, and Anneliese is absolutely right to say so.
Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 2y agoEXCL: Anneliese Dodds, the international development minister, has quit her post over Keir Starmer’s decision to slash the international aid budget by almost half to pay for a generational increase in defence spending.
📢Our Call for Abstracts is now open!📢 Deadline 21 March. Lots of different presentation types & themes. Download the Abstract Writing Pack & sign up to join one of our Abstract Writing Drop-in Sessions 4, 5 or 6 March: www.ukfiet.org/conference/u...
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoTrump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."
Details of the 2025 @ukfiet.bsky.social conference are out with some brilliant sounding sub-themes and great people on the committee. Take a look #educationalresearch and #comparativeeducation folk: www.ukfiet.org/conference/u...
UKFIET Conference 2025
More information coming soon…
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
‘Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23 'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23 Israel did exactly what it said it would do, with full support from western allies
"Some people who have a very racist view of the world will not understand even the basic logic that if you care about human well-being you should care about all humans' well-being." Greta Thunberg, to me, on why she speaks out on Gaza, & not just the climate crisis.
‘Hope Is Something That You Create’: Greta Talks Gaza, Trump, and LA Fires
World-renowned activist Greta Thunberg joined Zeteo’s Town Hall to offer inspiration and draw connections between some of the world’s most pressing issues.
zeteo.com
#UNICEF is concerned about the number of children killed in #Gaza. More than 120 children have been killed in Gaza in the last two weeks. Nowhere does UNICEF mention WHO is killing the children in Gaza. It's Israel. Israel is killing the children of Gaza. 😔 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
All eyes on Gaza. The ceasefire agreement doesn’t begin for 72 hours and Israel is on a killing spree.
‘It’s about solidarity, not charity’: the Oxfam chief seeking to decolonise the aid sector
‘It’s about solidarity, not charity’: the Oxfam chief seeking to decolonise the aid sector
Halima Begum outlines her vision for what she sees as a ‘broken model’, with more power over spending given directly to the affected communities The outdated, elite-dominated international charity sector needs to hand over the money and power to those in…
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'We invite papers that carefully engage with the genocide in Gaza and other places experiencing war and genocide, and examine how we can learn through them to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures.' deadline for EoI 13/1/25. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal
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