Join the discussion on '#Africa & World Politics' - this week's International System of Power Webinar with Lez Henry, Melanie-Marie Haywood, Dr Mark Ledwidge Claire Hynes, Inderjeet Parmar & Juvaria Jafri City Int Politics. 12th Nov at 4pm. Details/Register: city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Look forward to speaking to the wonderful Tsitsi Dangarembga

Please help find Harvey. Retweet and let’s get him home safely.

No Black woman - who is fighting or has fought her way to the top & suffered countless “challenges & indignities” en route - will remain dry eyed after watching this. FYI @OlivetteOtele @KGuilaine Sonia Meggie ✨ Prof Cynthia Pine CBE Angela Ferreira ( A Joy Media) #BlackExcellence #BlackWomen

Please help us spread the word about this fantastic new OU Arts & Social Sciences scholarship: NAWE, @[email protected], Bernardine Evaristo, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Irenosen Okojie, Claire Hynes, Yvvette Edwards, Louise Doughty

Look forward to speaking to Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C——— at Literature@UEA today about how we progress our UEA decolonising work (TEC lecture theatre, 1-2). Hope to see you there!

Within our community (in 🇬🇧), there is def a material difference in outcomes between those whose parents/etc were schooled here and those whose parents/etc were schooled back in the Caribbean… and that should automatically point you towards our history with the British state.

Also just in time for West Indian Emancipation Day, next Mon Aug 1 on BBC World Service at 9:32pm GMT & available online after @ bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c… hear Claire Hynes on her Antiguan enslaved ancestor, with a cameo by yours truly on Antiguan enslaved & freedpeople’s struggles

Ooh…My Granny, The Slave in the Radio Times about my BBC World Service doc next Tuesday with Antiguan historian Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬 and produced by Rajeev Gupta

Super chuffed that GUVNA B described my story My Granny, The Slave as ‘brilliant’ on R4 pick of the week bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

When thinking of a decolonial/decolonizing framework 3 questions to think about: 1) How has the history of colonisation shaped society?; 2) How do we reproduce this history through polices, beliefs, values?; 3) How do we resist & suggest alternatives? - Dr. Shose Kessi

Top Labour party officials messaged each other on WhatsApp to say I was “hideous”, “truly repulsive”, “literally makes me sick” and “a very angry woman”. To this day ⁦Keir Starmer⁩ Starmer has never apologised to me personally independent.co.uk/voices/black-h…

Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, directs us to legitimise other formations of knowledge.

So pleased to be in conversation with Pamela Roberts at the launch of her excellent book uncovering Antiguan history with The Kanneh-Masons, BLACK OXFORD UNTOLD STORIES and Antigua and Barbuda High Commission, UK

Surely this is hate speech. It's so deeply misogynistic and as John Bishop says, 'a blatant appeal to incite humiliation and violence on a woman'. Complaints to the Independent Press Standards Organisation - [email protected]. theguardian.com/media/2022/dec…

Signposting people to this excellent new anthology, What The Water Gave Us. Edited by the brilliant Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou & @BarnesElodie Featuring mentors Yvonne Battle-Felton Emily Midorikawa So Mayer @Jennychambles Claire Hynes Susan Barker Denise Rose

Great to see Claire Hynes & her mentee You reading in the same line up. Claire Hynes reads from ‘Swimming with Heavy Bones’, her essay in #FromWhetTheWaterGaveUs: ‘I don’t really see people like us swimming’.

Perhaps that is too late for the fall term, but if you are looking for a short text to assign on the concept of violence, my essay for The Philosopher may be what you are looking for. It covers both traditional and recent debates about the concept: thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-new-b…

Coming up soon…

New Chapter Alert: delighted to be part of sharing our decolonising work UEA and HUM Research UEA internationally