America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, CNN projects, turning to a veteran voice who has projected calm and compassion and pledged to stabilize American politics after four years of Donald Trump's White House chaos. #CNNElection cnn.it/3eD65yw

America, I’m honored that you have chosen me to lead our great country. The work ahead of us will be hard, but I promise you this: I will be a President for all Americans — whether you voted for me or not. I will keep the faith that you have placed in me.

This election is about so much more than Joe Biden or me. It’s about the soul of America and our willingness to fight for it. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Let’s get started.

So now we’re corporatising feminism? 🙄

I'm helping to run this network over the next two years with my amazing collaborators Aroosa Kanwal Şima İmşir Lucinda Newns and Esra Santesso. If you're interested in Muslim women's writing and/or genre and popular fiction, please check out our website and get in touch!

Do share widely with your networks! Looking forward to some great discussions on the 16th of May!

CFP deadline approaching -- Breaking Convention: Diasporic Fiction and the Re-Making of Genre King's College London. Get your abstracts in by Wed, 22 Feb! more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/b… Muslim Women's Popular Fiction Network Rehana Ahmed Claire Chambers @clarachambara.bsky.social/

Abstract deadline TODAY for Breaking Convention: Diasporic Fiction and the Re-Making of Genre King's College London more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/b… Muslim Women's Popular Fiction Network We're looking forward to reading everyone's proposals!

We’re aware some people have been delayed in getting their abstracts in for the Breaking Convention workshop due to the sudden pause in the UCU strike this week. If you can send it by Monday we’ll still consider it! Muslim Women's Popular Fiction Network more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/b…

55 years ago today, Enoch Powell gave his poisonous "Rivers of Blood" speech, filled with claims about 'alien inflows' and 'fraudulent entry'. We were founded the same year. The 'Illegal' Migration Bill returns to Parliament next week, with that same dehumanising rhetoric. 🧵

Just published in Interventions journal: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…! Part of forthcoming special issue on "Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces". Thanks to the editors, reviewers and King's College London for making it open access!

Thanks to everyone for a great conference on Muslim Women's Popular Fiction! Muslim Women's Popular Fiction Network It was great to see the breadth and diversity of research around this topic. Looking forward to seeing all these ideas in published form and to future events!

At Oxford Uni giving a talk tomorrow on my work about the ‘Necropolitical Ecologies’ of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean and am slightly unnerved by the Wi-Fi password I was given!

I'm editing a special issue of Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly JCL) on Genre Fiction in a Global Frame. CFP below! Deadline for abstracts 15 July.

Reminder! Deadline approaching for Breaking Convention: Genre Fiction in a Global Frame, special issue of Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (JCL) Get your abstracts in by 15 July! CFP 👇

Really nice to see our hard work recognised by Time Out Group timeout.com/uk/news/the-un…