ellie middleton 🌻 I often have to remind people (at work) that asking why or asking questions is just to help me understand. I show them this so they realise it’s important to allow people to do their job…🙌

We all need to stop with the genre of „I am so busy“ post, hustle culture is out since about one global pandemic ago - I believe you have shit to do but the normalization of it contributes to everyone getting collective burnout. Say no to a thing today, take a nap, go for a walk.

Reading since days correspondences of freedom fighters from the 1970s/80s. The fights, messiness, failures, successes -the hopelessness, suicides and love stories. VERY timely. "The growth The light The pain The fight We love We fight We hurt We cry" youtube.com/watch?v=VW_UHY…

There's a #PhD position up at my chair for "Global Literature and Its Media" Freie Universität - 65%, 4 years, paid. #Application deadline: 20th November. #AcademicTwitter More info here: fu-berlin.de/universitaet/b…

I find many men (not all, but many) who are interested in history kinda treat it as a collection of fun facts. Like, they can talk about a war and its battles but not the effect those events had on people, how society shaped around them, how it changed art and culture.

We are fundraising! This is to support paying our bloggers and cover our costs (website), when our current funding runs out later thia year. Please donate if you can, and share widely. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/voices-of-ac…

Dripped Out Trade Unionists Opportunities to re-post this banger never cease.

🧵My best friend (Black woman) & I were pregnant at the same time 18 yrs ago. We both had preeclampsia, hers undiagnosed as her symptoms were written off. I was put on bed rest & hospitalized. She was told to relax. A week after she gave birth, the day my son was born, she died.

Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey, vice president of Student Affairs at Lincoln University-Missouri, reportedly died by suicide from “bullying and severe mistreatment” in her role University President John Moseley is now facing calls to resign hbcubuzz.com/2024/01/lincol…

10:00 bis 14:00 Uhr — Workshop SchwarzRund (keine/SR) - „Surviving white academia“ Empowerment Workshop für BIPoC kunstakademie-karlsruhe.de/aktuelles/info…

Cool so in my kindergarten class there was me (in a wheelchair), one person who used crutches, one person who was deafblind, multiple kids with autism, kids with behavioral conditions, etc. You know why you didn’t see those kids? They placed us in “special” classes.

It was also illegal for disabled people to be in public from the 1860s until the last ordinance was struck down in 1974, so maybe pipe down.

In den jetzigen politischen Zeiten, nach allen #metoo #ichbinrayhan #ichbinhannah enthüllungen bin ich einfach noch weniger bereit Wellness als Lösung für strukturelle Unterdrückung an Unis zu verkaufen. keine quacksalberei machen nur weil es kuscheliger klingt. Ratlos.

What we're seeing in Zamzam camp is absolutely catastrophic. We estimate at least 1 child is dying every 2 hours in the camp. A malnutrition crisis is occurring in North Darfur, #Sudan and an urgent response is needed now to save lives. theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

A full-scale military attack on #Rafah will be catastrophic for the 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering there after four months of war. Rafah is the end of the line. There is nowhere else to flee. #CeasefireNOW

#Rafah Es muss aufhören, die Bilder, die Geschichten, Namen. Es gibt keinen Kontext, der das hier rechtfertigen würde.

“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” - Toni Morrison, born on this day in 1931