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Posts by Yasmin Gunaratnam

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BREAKING THROUGH: Support for global majority researchers and creative practitioners navigating the journey to scholarly publication, 30 April – 5 June 2026 A programme of online workshops, a hybrid roundtable, and a handbook supporting global majority researchers and creative practitioners co-organised by Feminist Review Collective and the UAL Decolon…

Register for free workshops to BREAKING THROUGH: Support for global majority researchers and creative practitioners navigating the journey to scholarly publication, 30 Apr–5 June 2026, co-organised by the FR collective and the DeAI UAL:

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Key Words: Peoples’ Tribunals - Red Pepper Yasmin Gunaratnam explores a tradition of ordinary people holding governments, employers and institutions to account

I love this collaboration between @redpeppermag.bsky.social & the Raymond Williams Foundation on their Key Words series.

I wrote on People's Tribunals

www.redpepper.org.uk/law-police-j...

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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

An important & very clear analysis @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social esp on the existential & geo-cultural stakes #iran

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

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'Our earliest and most formative experience with the problem of other people is the sibling relationship'

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Sunday 10 May 2026 - Hackney History Festival Sunday 10th May 2026 We will have three exciting talks running concurrently. All tickets can be claimed or purchased by clicking through to our ticketing website from the title of the event. All talks...

hackneyhistoryfestival.org/sunday-10-ma...

Looks like the day passes are sold out but the individual tickets are affordable

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Join Red Pepper in marching together against the far right 🌶️

We will be at the protest this Saturday with a banner at Start Zone G - welcoming any readers, friends, and indie media allies who want to walk with us 🪧

📆 Saturday 28th March
📍London

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A great read, loved the piece on Raymond Williams & community education especially. But so much more too

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Postdoc on queer of colour movement intellectuals in the Netherlands and the UK Do you want to delve into the archives of writers, artists, and filmmakers involved in queer of colour movements in the 1980s and 1990s? Come join our team!

Postdoc on the work and archives of queer of colour intellectuals active in the Netherlands and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Resisting Erasure: Palestine, Neutrality, and the Politics of Silence

Webinar 16th March @rafeefz.bsky.social and Sara Marzagora

www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/pales...

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Index of Repression: A database on the systematic repression of Palestinian Solidarity in Germany A database on the systematic repression of Palestinian Solidarity in Germany

A database on the systematic repression of Palestine Solidarity across UK and Germany.

European Legal Support Centre with @forensicarchi.bsky.social

www.index-of-repression.org

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PhD in Gender Studies in Sweden 2026 – Fully Funded Doctoral Position at Lund University - Global South Opportunities Study Gender, Sexuality and Democracy in Europe at a Top-Ranked University

Fully funded PhD within the Division of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund

www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2026/03/01/g...

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Questions from Palestinian Children in Gaza - Visualizing Palestine [Jan 2025] [Updated Feb 2026]. Palestinian children in Gaza are asking questions no child should have to ask. Our latest series, created in collaboration with the #NoChildATarget campaign, features Pa...

Questions from Palestinian children

visualizingpalestine.org/visual/quest...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Here's the CfP for a SI on solidarity that I am co-editing with Clare Hemmings.Details below

journals.sagepub.com/page/fty/cal...

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Love, creativity and abolition in and beyond academia - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

two-days of love as a creative politically-engaged practice 'in the wake of contemporary social and student freedom movements'

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48045/

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Our new article is out!

Stuart Hall helps us to examine how evidence & expertise are used to help race slide into the mainstream in policies on integration & migration in Sweden & the UK

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Protests to be held against Oxford Union for hosting controversial politician Protests have been organised against the Oxford Union for hosting a controversial politician.

I suppose this is not really surprising, but disappointing that Oxford union are hosting Namal Rajapaksa tomorrow, whose family oversaw terror & war crimes in Sri Lanka against Tamils. His visit to the Cambridge union has been cancelled www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2587525...

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The Underground Sea by John Berger, Tom Overton, Matthew Harle - Canongate Books The Underground Sea by John Berger, Tom Overton, Matthew Harle - hardback (9781805302995) published by Canongate. A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger’s writing on mineworkers...

Reading this new collection of John Berger's writing on miners & strikes (ed Overton & Harle). Includes an article written by JB in 1968 for the New Statesmen 'The nature of mass demonstrations' on prefigurative politics as a rehearsal of revolutionary consciousness
canongate.co.uk/books/5120-t...

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Shaking up the sector: an interview with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland - Red Pepper A coalition of art workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

"It’s [the cultural boycott] about manifesting a united cultural front against genocide and imperialism"

A coalition of artists, gallery employees, and other culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

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SISP Statements SISP letter to the British Sociological Association 18th September 2025 On the 18th September 2025, the SISP collective sent the letter below to the President of the BSA (Professor Rachel Brooks) a…

Are you are member of the British Sociological Association? Going to the annual conference? Take a look at the demands that have been made on the BSA to turn up the volume on #BDS

socispal.wordpress.com/sisp-stateme...

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A wonderful historical account if you want to know about the significance of US imperialism in Cuba today & also it's Latin American context 'Without Cuba, then, no Venezuela and without Venezuela, no Bolivia, no Ecuador, and no rebirth of Sandinista Nicaragua'

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Counting the dead in Gaza – October 2023 to May 2025 – Wilmar's Blog

Death in Gaza - 'taking all information into consideration, the actual death count (as of June 2025) is likely between 326,544 and 575,259 deaths'

biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=5002

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Palestine talks – Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies

The series features lectures, discussions, panels and documentaries with academics and experts who explore the historical, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict

www.middleeast.ugent.be/en/newsandev...

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You can donate through the link in this article via Crowd Justice, which goes straight to the lawyers

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The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing & Community Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and Stuart Hall Archive Project Online Panel Event

The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing & Community

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-asian-...

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My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary … The autobiography of a revolutionary Leila Khaled. "The…

'Who's that?'

When I went into @waterstones.bsky.social in #oxford this afternoon to try & get a copy of Leila Khaled's autobiography

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www.goodreads.com/book/show/79...

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Keir Starmer’s Weakened Position Opens the Door for the Left Britain’s Labour prime minister is severely wounded by his disastrous appointment of a Jeffrey Epstein–associated US ambassador and could soon be ousted. But the party needs more than a makeover.

This is good on the sway of unaccountable elites, inc
Jamie Dimon CEO of JPMorgan who on Mandelson's advice 'mildly threatened' Chancellor Alastair Darling on plans to tax bankers’ bonuses. Also Starmer's awarding of an untended £240 mil contract to Palantir

jacobin.com/2026/02/star...

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Cover of Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America by Vikki Bell. The upper part of the design features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it. The title is below the image in large, gold serif font, and the subtitle and author's name in smaller white text on the right side.

Cover of Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America by Vikki Bell. The upper part of the design features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it. The title is below the image in large, gold serif font, and the subtitle and author's name in smaller white text on the right side.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, which examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past. buff.ly/qZp8Um0

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Is that the resident of Monaco Sir Jim Ratcliffe?

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Be Collegial, Or Else How a word that once meant self-governance in the profession came to mean compliance

This is a great read on the manipulation of the collegial

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Been waiting for this analysis & it requires re-readings. The citations alone stage 🔥 refusals

'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'

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