The amount of work put into the composition of this photo to make it look like a Klansman. Fuck this company

Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social · 3d ago

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 2d ago

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

Preach

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d ago

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

🚨🚨Professor of Creative Writing job at University College London! Permanent aka tenure track equivalent 🚨🚨 Closed Oct 6 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · last wk.

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

When are the 80% of historians whose votes were vetoed THREE TIMES going to boycott the AHA? AHA dues are buying the support of a lobby group that works for Anduril, ffs. Time to leave and make your own org that actually serves the discipline

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 4w ago

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

Long, disturbing and very revealing thread on reactionary Right's assault on scholarship and defence of white supermacy (my terms, not theirs)

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4w ago

> From day one, everything pointed to the fact that Jason Arday, the Black neurodivergent Cambridge professor who died in August 2026, was being subjected to racist and ableist harassment — exactly the kind of targeting he himself had described. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/n

Health Ministry warns of 'complete collapse of the basic necessities of life' in Gaza as Israel's attacks continue https://aje.news/q9er2c

Thorough, clear and rigorous (unlike Cofnas' work) of Nathan Cofnas' suspension by the University of Ghent; well worth your consideration and support

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 4w ago

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

How have different radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and move towards alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri, our current managing editor, introduces new History Workshop series called 'Radical Horizons'.

Radical Horizons

This article is the introduction to a new History Workshop series called ‘Radical Horizons’.

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#sporthistory 🗃️ #skystorians 📍New article out! "More than Just an Extra: Peter Felix, a Caribbean Boxer and Actor in Australia" by Gary Osmond, The University of Queensland and Jan Richardson, Griffith University Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More than Just an Extra: Peter Felix, a Caribbean Boxer and Actor in Australia

Peter Felix (ca. 1866–1926), an African Caribbean man from the Danish West Indies, was a prominent heavyweight boxer in Australia for two decades. Less known is Felix’s even longer theatrical caree...

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#OtD 22 Aug 2016 Mapuche Indigenous eco-activist Macarena Valdés was found dead by hanging in rural Chile by her 11-year-old son. Police ruled it a suicide, but forensic pathologists found that she was already dead by the time her body was hanged stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9453...

The NTNU orchestra and branded macaroons - must be the opening of #ISHPES2026 in Taipei

WHAT DID THEY DO TO HER

Roberto Baldwin@strngwys.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Important crossover event

Elif Shafak on Helen of Troy, who "was hatched from an egg .. resides in a corner of our imagination" and on whom "we each project onto her our own perception and expectation of beauty", and not missing the beauty in the everyday open.substack.com/pub/elifshaf...

Helen of Troy and the Perception of Beauty

In the 1860s the British artist Frederick Augustus Sandys finished his painting of Helen of Troy — his version of Helen of Troy, that is.

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Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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writing back against the Guardian's recent 100 best novels of all time list, that struggled to get past the Anglo-sphere, or if it did, seemed to get stuck at Europe's borders (shifting as they are).... Te Whare Mātātuhi o Aotearoa has a much more engaging Southern Hemisphere set of the 100 best

The Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 – Academy of New Zealand Literature

The rest of ‘the greatest literature ever published in English’

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CFP: Gramsci: FASCISM, INTERREGNUM, DEMOCRACY. DECEMBER 16-17, 2026 Paris Deadline for abstracts: August 15. www.marshallpierce.info/gramsci-100-...

@fionatribe.bsky.social

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Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 2mo ago

1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.

on the many contradictions of football

Football is never the full story: The World Cup, power and profit - Tárlach Ó Ruiséil

The beautiful game can unite the world, but the institutions that govern it too often serve power, profit, and politics before the people.

diem25.org

What role do the humanities and social sciences play in tackling today's biggest challenges? The latest issue of the Journal of the British Academy explores climate action, higher education, the future of work, and more through interdisciplinary research. Read now 👉 https://bit.ly/3STRuXx

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

"He may well be the first black or African tennis player from anywhere in the world to qualify for Wimbledon" substack.com/@seanhjacobs...

Center Court

With Wimbledon reaching its climax, it's worth retelling how David Samaai became the first Black South African to play there in 1949, before Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.

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There are, no doubt, those out there who'll read this patronisingly as resilience - when it is better understood as respite (in the words of these young musicans) and more so as defiance and rejection of the Zionist genocidaire's tactic of the dehumanisation of Palestinians

Gaza’s musicians reopen bomb-shattered conservatory – in tents

Even though most of their instruments have been destroyed, teachers are restarting classes, using music to give relief to traumatised people

theguardian.com

OK, here is the men's World Cup reading list for the politically-inclined fans. I composed this by request from a reader, please enjoy! These lists always take way more work to put together than I think they will lol

a world cup reading list for the politically-inclined fan

the World Cup is about more than just football—here's what to read

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“The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley www.democracynow.org/2026/7/2/rob...

“The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley

Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we speak with the acclaimed scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, who examines how Black radicals have interpreted ...

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This is the language that the entirety of the mainstream UK media, including the "neutral" BBC, uses to talk about trans women and girls (less so trans men because, well, for obvious reasons).

Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On why & how language matters: Kavanaugh "never once calls the people involved in these cases 'transgender girls' or 'transgender women,' despite that being who he was failing to protect." Instead, he refers "to 'biological males who identify as' girls or women. This erasure is stigmatic..."