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Despicable #brokenbritain

Kant and feminism?! You betcha! 👇🤓👇

'... studying abroad has been enriching and refreshing due to the change in environment, academically as well as personally.' This article in Varsity features our German at Cambridge & @germancambridge.bsky.social student Jam Greenland who is currently studying Leipzig! Read more below 👇

Nur weil euch persönlich etwas nicht gefällt (legitim) heißt das nicht, dass die Person überbewertet oder untalentiert ist. Euer Geschmack ist nicht das objektive Qualitätskriterium für Musik.

solidarity with the students whose institutions want them in their diversity brochure but call in police as soon as they start protesting on their lawns

WTAF 😳

Brick Lane after the death of Altab Ali was heavily policed, including the Special Patrol Group.

In July 1978, Brick Lane was the most heavily policed area in the UK outside of Northern Ireland. It even became a training ground for police from different areas.

Super proud of my dear frolleague Stephanie Galasso for getting this brilliant book out into the world 🥳🥂 We miss you here Cultural Production & Social Justice & German at Cambridge & @germancambridge.bsky.social 🥹 Sending congratulations across the pond!

As is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court.

SCHREIB (NICHT) MIT GEDICHTEN DIE GESCHICHTE - GESPRÄCHE ÜBER DIE BESCHISSENE GEGENWART UND IHRE ZUKUNFT - unsere Veranstaltung vom 13.04. 🅛🅒🅑
hier für Deutschlandfunk Kultur von Lara Sielmann. Danke an alle, die den Tag on & off gemeinsam gestaltet haben!

deutschlandfunkkultur.de/literatur-als-…

das Problem an einem Duell zwischen einem CDU- und einem AfD-Mann ist, dass es einer von beiden gewinnt

Academics should really be speaking out about this. It’s bad research!

‘Remember, first, foremost and above all: it’s not you. It’s them. Don’t feel bad. You’ve not failed. You’ve been failed.’ Many brilliant points here. It shows why disabled&marginalised people need to heard. We’ve been talking about this for a while voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…

That was D*wkins ‘choosing his words carefully’… 🙄🤬🤢

14. In short, if you are truly 'anti-racist' (or a liberal democrat, for that matter), you are concerned about BOTH antisemitism AND Islamophobia - and you reject anti-antisemitism that is grounded in Islamophobia. #TheEnd

13. Moreover, 'anti-antisemitism' plays two vulnerable minorities against each other, while weakening the civil rights that liberal democracies relies on to make a pluralist society work. Hence, it does not really protect Jews, while it does harm Muslims (and others).

Solingen 😔