Desiree

London-area friends: I’m looking forward to launching the UK edition of my book THE CROWN’S SILENCE at Waterstones @ Gower St on Jan 30th with Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social Please help spread the word! www.waterstones.com/events/the-c... www.waterstones.com/events/the-c...

Being jealous of ICE agents:

This reflects findings from PEP Research Fellows, who have highlighted the urgent need to rethink what equitable collaboration really means. 🔗 Read the full paper: Leading the Way: Fostering Fair North–South Research Collaborations (shorturl.at/rPtfs)

People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom. This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/

Fascinating special issues on petitions as an intricate negotiation over discrimination & stake-holding between colonial subjects and imperial authorities in the British (and also Spanish) Empire. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

Happy pride munth. Sashay into deals today!

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

There is only one man who can offer us guidance right now

He's a messy, messy bitch

"How do you make sure that a cisgender straight white man is always assumed to have earned his place? By making sure that the success and belonging of everyone else is constantly questioned and countered at every turn."

Can we call white South Africans the "Dutch and British diaspora" instead of Afrikaaners?