📢 Massive thanks to the legendary Professor Paul Gilroy Paul Gilroy for his solidarity: "The butchering of Goldsmiths, University of London by inept management and cack-handed consultants provides a dismal example of the deterioration of UK Higher Education." JOIN US AT 3PM DTH GEN ASSEMBLY.📣

Some news! It's an absolute honour to be co-curating 'Benjamin Zephaniah - The Brighter Flame', an exhibition coming to Birmingham's streets this summer. With poetry, photographs & flags flying high, it will celebrate the city's great poet of the people colmorebusinessdistrict.com/2024/06/benjam…

We are excited to introduce one of our speakers for #JMSConference2024, Dr Francesca Sobande. She is a writer and Senior Lecturer of Digital Media Studies at Cardiff University. We are looking forward to hearing her speak. #JMSConference2024 #CuratingCircles #JMSCommunity

Job Klaxon! 🎉 Permanent lectureship in Japanese Studies (Teaching and Research). Come and join our thriving School and East Asian Studies cluster EAS Leeds Uni LCS Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

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Josephine Baker was born on this day in 1906. She was described as “The most sensational woman anybody ever saw or ever will.” Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine experienced poverty in childhood, living in cardboard shelters in the slums and dancing on the street to make

We are deeply sad to learn of the death of Elizabeth Freeman, author or editor of many books & journal issues with us, and former editor of GLQ. ow.ly/QStZ50S793w

Neutral knowledge, apolitical teaching, objectivity, non-ideological argument, universal values, academic/activist binary, collaborative and egalitarian north/south partnership … add to list of mythical concepts developed in the ‘imperial university’, a term loaned from S Maira.

Dasiba! Here's a soft copy of Nkrumah's book on neocolonialism and imperialism. Given how difficult it is to find Osagyefo's books in Ghana, we're very lucky to have this. Nkrumah never dies! ✊🏿 🇬🇭 Download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1PhtMpV…

Have you ever heard of "The Battle of Lewisham" ? It is a powerful moment in the fight against racism in the UK, 🧵

Kudos to the people who are parenting while doing their PhD. I don’t know how you do it.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Open Admissions" by @danicasavonick, which traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at The City University of New York in the 60s & 70s. #GenderStudies #BlackStudies ow.ly/wxfa50T43lP

A reminder to come along and join us for the #WasteStories celebration event next week 📅Tues 27 Aug, 4.30 - 6pm, 5th Floor Gallery, St Andrews Building

Good Night & Sweet Dreams ❤️💚🖤

This is one of the best episodes that feminist keywords has aired. Nash is an excellent scholar of intersectionality, given their critique and appraisal of the tool, including the articulation of its trajectory across the world.

'It’s important for younger people to know the history of the event. Older people know the history of carnival. They’ve lived through the struggle over many years to combat racism in all its forms'. The Notting Hill Carnival and its renewed importance. theguardian.com/culture/articl…