My latest column on Gaza-> “While you may find the news hard to keep reading, think of the people in Gaza, the children especially, who are being starved of food, deliberately” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Find me at Cambridge University this Friday! I'll speak on a #IWD2024 panel with Sohela Nazneen and Dr Lisa Vickers about women’s representation and participation in the Indo-Pacific, hosted by Centre for Geopolitics and FAMES_Cambridge. eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-p…

Senegal's recent electoral disruption, categorised as an institutional coup, challenges its democratic exceptionalism. Or does it? Scholar activist @drlandislife situates this coup within a hyper presidential system that goes as far back as Senghor. africanarguments.org/2024/03/democr…

If you're defending the mass starvation of children in Gaza, then it's time to take a step back & look at your moral compass: "Surely it is impossible for us, as normal human beings, to watch children starve to death without making an effort to save them." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📢 Members UCU Edinburgh just passed a motion by a large majority committing the branch to work towards: Ending The University of Edinburgh's investments, contracts or cooperation agreements with weapons companies supplying Israel Building links with the Palestinian education sector

Celebrate the Transgender Day of Visibility with us this Sunday! 🌈🎉 Let's come together to support and celebrate the transgender community. 📍Augustine United Church, 41-43 George IV Bridge 🕓 Sunday 31 March, 2-4PM Find the full event details here: augustine.org.uk

We're holding our first ever writing retreat! 🥳 Good luck to everyone getting that writing done! 💪

The Staff BAME Network also asked to join but was politely declined.

Excited to announce that we will host a promotion workshop for the racialised academic staff at the University of Edinburgh on June 19 at 12:00pm at CMB! Speakers include Emily Sena, Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), @[email protected], Szu-Han Wang, @JliRobertson, and Sarah Liu @drsarahliu.bsky.social. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We held a successful promotion workshop and launched an amazing promotion buddy system/promotion mentorship program two years ago. Would love to replicate that again this year by getting more of our @uoebame academic staff promoted! 💪 Sign up today! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

My first book initially published in 2018 *now in paperback* 'Crossing the Border to India: Youth, Migration and Masculinities in Nepal. tupress.temple.edu/books/crossing…

Proud to announce that we won the People of CAHSS Award in the "Community Impact" category! This would not have been possible without our members' contribution and engagement. We look forward to growing our presence and strengthening our support for one another at The University of Edinburgh!

American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited, too theconversation.com/american-slave… via The Conversation U.S.

📖BOOK LAUNCH📖 Tomorrow (Wed 19 June) at 14:30 BST Join us online to celebrate the publication of "Essays on Decoloniality", the first collection to emerge from IASH's Institute Project on Decoloniality! essaysondecoloniality.eventbrite.co.uk

Today we hosted our promotion workshop. Our panelists (Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), @[email protected] Emily Sena @JliRobertson Szu-Han Wang Sarah Liu @drsarahliu.bsky.social) shared valuable insights and advice on navigating the promotion process. Here's to many of us getting promoted in the next academic year! 🥂

🚨 New paper out in Ethnic and Racial Studies 🚨 While #Taiwan has been praised for its #COVID success, Tsung-Lun Alan Wan (萬宗綸) and I challenge that what "success" means by examining how migrants are (not) included and represented in the Taiwan parliament. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢The RACE.ED Co-Director application date has been extended to 26th June. 📢 For further information on the role and to find out how to apply, please visit: edin.ac/3wNRjSN

I am a refugee in #GreatBritain My life has inspired many lives around the #World #Refugees deserves dignity that’s why I stand for #RefugeeRights Sabir Zazai 🧡 Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ Ali Wilson 🍃💚🍃 Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 #WorldRefugeeDay

A Theatre of the Oppressed exercise for anti-racist solutions in times of white supremacist riots. Suggest, create, and show solidarity. #racismintheUK

Fascist violence tears society apart & serves no one! The mentality of scapegoating & hatred, driven by a false narrative of victimhood spread by the press and policy rationales, inevitably leads to intolerance, prejudice, and violence. It creates an unsafe society serving none!