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Sociological Review Fellow 2024/25. Counsellor and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse
“… the colonial and patriarchal roots of the UK child protection system continue to ‘unmother’ marginalised women.” Read @mbherbert.bsky.social ‘Un/mothering: An ethnographic account of the role of colonialism, patriarchy and poverty in the child protection system in England' fully OA rb.gy/3cwd1a
I helped write some names on the sidewalk the other day. Too many names
Really looking forward to this pair of evening workshops next week on Live Sociology. There are still places; all proceeds go back to the Foundation to support sociology. @thesociologicalreview.org
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 2mo agoWhat if qualitative research could expand beyond the interview? Join Professor Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring Live Methods - creative, contemporary approaches to qualitative research. 📅 4 & 18 Aug 💻 Online 🎟️ Register by 1 Aug: buff.ly/csttcLH
None of this is okay. Not Gaza. Not Sudan. Not Haiti. Not wildfires. And scorching temperatures. Not billionaires. Not millionaires. Not ICE. Not concentration camps. None of it.
Really excited that this is now out, in the latest issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television: my new article, '‘Solidarity Forever’? Histories of Gender, Sexuality and Industrial Action in Made in Dagenham and Pride'. A 🧵 on the article. #filmsky #skystorians🗃️
‘Solidarity Forever’? Histories of Gender, Sexuality and Industrial Action in Made in Dagenham and Pride | Journal of British Cinema and Television
This article compares cinematic portrayals of British industrial relations history in Made in Dagenham (2010) and Pride (2014). It analyses the two films, and the metanarratives constructed around the...
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The Netanyahu regime’s genocidal evil is being allowed to continue, above all by a morally bankrupt US regime and a powerless international community. Netanyahu-Trump-Putin: the early 21st century Axis of Evil.. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’
IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Un/mothering: An ethnographic account of the role of colonialism, patriarchy and poverty in the child protection system in the UK. (doi: 10.1177/01417789261459063) Building on the work of @hystericalblkns.bsky.social thank you @feministreview.bsky.social
Un/mothering: An ethnographic account of the role of colonialism, patriarchy and poverty in the child protection system in England - Brenda Herbert, 2026
Gazing at the child protection system in England through the lens of Black feminists Christina Sharpe, Hortense Spillers, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and bell hooks, I...
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The Windrush generation is still fighting for justice after being accused of living in the UK illegally. Ayshah Tull speaks to Hannah Dankwa, who was wrongly stopped from entering the UK. ✉️ Read our latest newsletter:
‘I am fearful’: 82-year-old woman on her fight to re-enter UK
The Windrush generation is still fighting for justice after being accused of living in the UK illegally. Ayshah Tull speaks to Hannah Dankwa, who was wrongly stopped from entering the UK.
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Elderly Jamaican man dies after Home Office system leaves him without job or status www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/jamaican-m...
Revealed | Elderly Jamaican man dies after Home Office system leaves him without job or status
After nearly 30 years in the UK, Robert White was left destitute when he lost access to his immigration status, with his solicitor blaming systemic failure for his death
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There are so many Radins in this world and those we killed. The children are all ours: Iranian, Palestinian, Sudanese, Congolese … they all deserve to live without wars.
Residents proved their tap water carries sewage and bacteria. Federal funding dried up anyway. https://capitalbnews.org/cahokia-heights-water-crisis-sewage-tap-water/
For 35 Years, This Black Town in Illinois Has Been Told Its Sewage Crisis Isn’t Real
Residents proved their tap water carries sewage and bacteria. Federal funding dried up anyway.
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Thread on settler nationalist violence in the West Bank, how it disrupts deep-routed ecological-cultural systems, and the role that co-resistance – literal standing together – can play in challenging it.
Standing Together@standing-together.bsky.social · 5mo ago🔴 Settlers in the West Bank are taking over large areas of land via the establishment of “farm outposts,” pushing Palestinian shepherds and farmers out of grazing land they have used for generations. (1/8)
Why are colonial histories often sidelined in our understanding of the modern world? Join us on 27 May with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social & Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Part of our Conversation Series. Free & online! 🔗 buff.ly/lTcfQjW
Select tickets – The Modern World after Colonialism – Zoom
The Modern World after Colonialism – Zoom, Wed 27 May 2026 - What does it mean to take colonial histories seriously in the making of the modern world? Why does it matter that processes of colonialism,...
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Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.
Solidarity with the transgender & intersex communities in India after the Amendment Bill was bulldozed through houses of parliament replacing self-identification with mandatory medical certification. My #KilljoySolidarity with you in this fight. Friends, sign & fight! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Signing the Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026
Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026. Note: Translations of this statement in multiple Indian languages are available at the end. We, the concerned ...
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"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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I’m lecturing on mourning and melancholia to my honours’ students this week and in the midst of writing my lecture I read Haley Mlotek’s essay in @thenation.com on Duras and on grief www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Greatest Love Is Grieving
I spent years as a labor organizer. Marguerite Duras’s war novel taught me that the strongest fighters are always the women hurting the most.
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Are the British national media planning to tell the public at all that Israel already possesses nuclear arms❓ www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...
The BBC isn’t telling the truth about Israel’s nuclear arms
The UK broadcaster is writing hundreds of articles on Iran’s budding nuclear programme while failing to inform the public about Israel’s actual nuclear weapons.
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Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen
Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva, who was unlawfully detained by ICE earlier today, says she is “safe and okay”
i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch
Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 7mo agoI am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.
“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’
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I don’t usually cross the steams of my academic and musical lives - but just so sickened by the sexual exploitation and misogyny of powerful and degenerate elites and their rotten tech bro empires - Funk the Patriarchy II 8th March, Glad Cafe www.instagram.com/reel/DU-_VWQ...
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