Oof. It's kicking off in the Humanities & Social Sciences building...

Student debunks Malayan independence myth | St Catharine's College, Cambridge caths.cam.ac.uk/malaya

HK transgender activist gets new ID card after 7-year legal battle hongkongfp.com/2024/04/29/hon…

The warmest welcome of all ❤️

Join diplomat & researcher Douglas Janoff with myself to discuss his book Queer Diplomacy, on 1 May from 3.30-5.00 in Room 916, 42 Bute Gardens (formerly Adam Smith Building). Details and registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-diplom…

Decolonising RIBA. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Amazing moment... Ralph Ottey's memoir is soon to be launched! Has been a joy and privilege to work on it with him. Thanks to Lincoln Record Soc University of Lincoln, UK Reimagining Lincolnshire

Critical damage

I externalled University of Lincoln, UK, and it was hands down one of the most pedagogically inspiring HEIs I have ever encountered, which to this day informs how and what I teach. HEI managers want to destroy what makes their institutions special in the name of extractive profit.

'Reading Biggar’s attempt at a Christian apologetics for colonialism, I cannot but wonder whether adjusting the spacing of first two words of subtitle to Amoral might have done more justice to contents of this morally & historically vacuous book' --Canon of Worcester Cathedral

Congratulations to you, Nymphia Wind Nymphia Wind 妮妃雅瘋, for being so accomplished in the difficult art form of drag, and for being the first Taiwanese to take the stage and win on RuPaul's Drag Race.

Right after being crowned queen, you said “Taiwan, this is for you.”
Taiwan thanks you

For the first time in its 78-year history, the #UnitedNations Security Council received a full briefing in a regular session on security issues impacting LGBTQ people in a conflict setting.

Get the full press release here. outrightinternational.org/press-release/…

Top Ugandan court upholds anti-gay law
dw.com/en/top-ugandan…?

THREAD: What is happening in UK universities is astonishing. Right now about quarter of universities are laying off staff. Almost all universities expect to make a loss this year. And the entire thing is happening in an effort to deceive the population about migration statistics.

Of course, we’re all in this together, right? “Rishi Sunak will accept inflation-busting 5.5% MP pay rise” theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

'Homophobia is not rooted in Uganda but influenced by extreme western churches' – Frank Mugisha Q&A | Uganda | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/live/201…

The Rebel’s Clinic by Adam Shatz | Book review | The TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-r…

melbourneasiareview.edu.au/re-reading-ta-…

Certain politicians and writers are intent on reviving justifications for British colonialism in the past and suppressing knowledge of it in the present. Liberal British reformers, we hear, ended slavery and policed its abolition around the world, freed Indian women from sati,