One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.

Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague Wanjirū Doseline, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please RT and share. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

“recent report by the @RoyalSociety found academic visas were often rejected for “arbitrary and subjective” reasons.” African nationals applying for a visitor’s visa needed to attend UK research conferences were 3 to 4 times more likely to be rejected than applicants in east Asia

Our (New Walk Editions's) last call for tonight's FREE launch reading, at 7pm UK time on Zoom, with Blake Morrison and Derron Sandy: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Excited to announce another free screening of Nadine White' documentary 'Barrel Children' in Bristol this December.🥳 You can get your free ticket here: headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/easto…

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the brilliant Derron Sandy and his new pamphlet "The Chaos" from New Walk Editions Read two hard-hitting poems from the collection here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2023/12/derron… Jonathan Taylor Rory Waterman Everybody'sReviewing English, University of Leicester

Poet #BenjaminZephaniah is remembered on this week's edition of BBC Radio 4's Last Word with Matthew Bannister. Qian Zephaniah and Bloodaxe Books editor Neil Astley, Benjamin's publisher of over thirty years, pay tribute. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

🧵(1/10)In Honor of Edward Baugh (1936-2023) We in the Small Axe Project join many, in Jamaica and the world over, in mourning the passing of Edward Baugh who died on 9 December 2023 at the age of 87. Eddie, as he was fondly known, was a legend in the arena of Caribbean letters:

94 academics killed in the Gaza Strip. All universities destroyed or damaged. 4,327 students killed and 7,819 others injured. 231 teachers and administrators killed. 281 state-run schools and 65 UNRWA-run schools completely or partially destroyed. maktoobmedia.com/world/israel-k…

Please do come to our New Walk Editions launch for fabulous Jamaican poet Shannon T. Smith's debut pamphlet Sandbound – this Sunday at 7pm UK time (1pm in Jamaica). The launch is shared with Penny Boxall, whose pamphlet is also excellent. Link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Hello everyone. I'm sure, like me, you're devastated by the images we're seeing in the wake of Hurricane Beryl. I've set up a gofundme as a way of starting a roof fund for Carriacou. Please share and donate however you can x gofundme.com/f/hurricane-be…

🧵 a thread of ways to help Carriacou, Petite Martinique and the Grenadine Islands for UK based folks 🧵 * please reply with anything I've missed

If you add up the total number of jobs at risk in UK universities using UCU's latest update, you'll see that 2263 jobs could go - a huge crisis. If govt & unions are pressing Tata for jobs guarantees, why isn't the same being done for Higher Education? ucu.org.uk/your-support-i…

Goldsmiths, University of London loves to roll out its ‘flagship’ course–the Black British History MA MA Black British History –yet the reality on the ground is this course has been relentlessly squeezed over years and now faces its final blow, management are proposing axing the convenor Dr Kesewa John.

Over 200 in less than 6 hours!! The support has been incredible, thank you so much everyone. This is just the start of the campaign 💪🏽 please sign today chng.it/gpR6WD2LNg MA Black British History Dr Kesewa John Dr Hannah Elias

Please sign this petition to save the Black British History MA at Goldsmiths! Our very own Dr Kesewa John is at threat of redundancy, and needs our support.

BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…

i think many people mistakenly believe that what has radicalised israelis into this current fever pitch of violence against palestinians is basically last october 7th. but it isn’t; it’s 70+ years of brutal occupation violence. that’s what creates this

This year, because of funding from the Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio, we are delighted to be awarding a limited number of bursaries for doctoral students based at institutions in the Caribbean to attend the conference! Full details here: community-languages.org.uk/scs/caribbean-…