"You cannot hope to benefit from a “shared history” with someone if you completely refuse to entertain, even for a second, just what their experience of that history was."
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#MustRead from Giroux
“A society that embraces cruelty as virtue, ignorance as governance and violence as destiny risks losing its capacity for judgment. Under such conditions, democracy does not simply erode. It is obliterated, giving way to forces that make #fascism possible.”
#CulturalStudies
Please sign and share this petition to set up an independent inquiry into the unfair placement of West Indian children into Educationally Subnormal (ESN) schools from the 1950s to the early 1970s. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
#OTD in 1942, Walter Rodney was born. In this post I reflect on his life through one of his most popular works, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". I consider the imperative of the continuous process of learning and unlearning and a Sankofa state of mind.
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Thank you for sharing this - I was not aware of her amazing work and now very much want to read it and to listen and learn more!
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1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder.
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“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam
No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
One of the things I talk about in my work is how we erroneously believe that the passage of time is what brings about change. In actual fact, it is our action to change things that brings about the passage of time. Otherwise, we are trapped in repeating and expanding patterns.
A quote from Jesse Shera about the moral imperatives on librarians.
Siddarth Soni starting his keynote with a Jesse Shera quote contextualising his idea of activist librarians and radical librarianship. #CopimConference
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
Book covers of Bremner & Maudlin, Inner Empire: Architecture & Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950 and Robinson-Dunn, An Inner Empire of Many Cultires: Baha’is, Muslims, Jews & the British State, 1900-20
Latest additions to the Studies in Imperialism series:
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The BBC removed part of Akinola Davies Jr.’s winning speech at last night’s #BAFTAs:
“Archive your loved ones. Archive your stories yesterday, today, and forever. For Nigeria, for London, the Congo, Sudan, free Palestine.”
(deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-...)
If you weren't around at the time and never heard what Jackson's oratory was like, this is what it was like.
If you heard it before, you know you want to hear it again.
Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The old and the new, RNLI lifeboats past and present off the coast of Whitby.
I get so angry with people (the usual suspects) having a go at organisations like the RNLI or National Trust. One claimed that the lifeboats were for the use of English people only. Sorry nothing could be further from the truth. The original resolutions of the Royal National Lifeboat 1/3
This is a fab explainer of many of the issues HE is facing. Solidarity to our @unisonmmu.bsky.social colleagues who are fighting for us all. Brilliant to see the student support and solidarity too.
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every single librarian on this site whether they work primarily with academics or the public or practitioners has had to patiently explain — while their expertise is questioned — that hardly anything is digitized, actually.
Beautiful timeline cleanse 💜
Racism is not a mental health condition or a cognitive issue, it is simply racism. Implying that it is a form of pathology is a great distancing tactic to avoid engaging with your own role in it!
Typical! Grrr...Sigh.
Recommended reading for all those of us working at the technofeudalist coalface of Higher Education...
“Written w/ the precision of an archival historian & the moral urgency of a political intervention, the book dismantles one of the key myths of British national identity: that the monarchy stood above, apart from, or uneasily adjacent to the transatlantic slave trade.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...
A friend reached out to me to ask if I could help bring attention to the plight of queer and trans refugees in South Sudan and her gofundme for her and her friends whose need for #mutualaid is incredibly urgent. Please share this post and donate to the campaign. Sophie & her friends need your help.
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
