The UK government could literally pay every refugee a £30,000 annual salary for life, and it would be cheaper than sending them to Rwanda. We're burning money just to enjoy the cruelty.

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I have never seen Columbia's campus like this. Such a clear and courageous expression of solidarity.

Columbia University administrators, this is a test. Your response will go down on your permanent record. Don't fail it

this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in RIS, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse).
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The US returning stolen #Tibet an religious art objects to China is like giving them back to the original thief. #Buddhism #Tibet
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We condemn the intensified repression of students, stand in solidarity with campus escalations, and call to end universities' institutional complicities with Israeli genocide & occupation!
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Full statement:
dukeforpalestine.org/2024/04/22/end…

Moment of clarity: it’s the year 2024, and there are credible reports of genocide.

Universities are trying to punish students and faculty who are trying to stop it.

I’m finally reading my thesis one more time before making it available online so anyone who wants to read it can do so.

It’s entitled ‘Banal Utopia: urban gardening as a practice for materialising utopic city spaces’

I’m struck by how much more hope I have than before I started

Visit our website for the full statement and to register for more information:

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Sigh: declined FOI request states that university senior management are being “harassed” by the, er <checks notes>, undergraduate editor of an esteemed student newspaper doing his (excellent) job.

Solidarity Josh.

We're very proud to be hosting the creme-de-la-creme of transfeminist artists in Scotland this Friday. Come and join us!
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A thread about the arrest of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian:

UCU is deeply concerned by the wrongful arrest of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor and Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, in Israel. We condemn any attempts to stifle freedom of speech on the war in Gaza and demand that diplomatic access is

Next month Janja Komljenovic and I have a report out on digital platforms, intellectual property and academic freedom in HE with Education International - details on the online webinar with Janja on 6 May here ⬇️

This Passover, join Na'amod’s London Seders as we join our comrades around the world to recommit ourselves to fighting for true freedom - collective liberation for Jews, Palestinians, and all people.

There is no day now that an academic isn't cancelled because of stating the absolute obvious: a state's killing tens of thousands of innocent people in what has for decades been an open-air prison maintained with the help of the countries now prohibiting free political expression

Looking forward to being in conversation with Ilan Pappé drawing on Professor Hall's classic essay. Online. The essay is available to read for a limited time, see below.

Our hearts, our voices, all of it, are with every student at Columbia facing down state violence, university violence for Palestinian liberation