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Posts by Yasmin Gunaratnam
I love this collaboration between @redpeppermag.bsky.social & the Raymond Williams Foundation on their Key Words series.
I wrote on People's Tribunals
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An important & very clear analysis @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social esp on the existential & geo-cultural stakes #iran
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'Our earliest and most formative experience with the problem of other people is the sibling relationship'
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Looks like the day passes are sold out but the individual tickets are affordable
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
A great read, loved the piece on Raymond Williams & community education especially. But so much more too
Postdoc on the work and archives of queer of colour intellectuals active in the Netherlands and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s
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Webinar 16th March @rafeefz.bsky.social and Sara Marzagora
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/pales...
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
Fully funded PhD within the Division of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund
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Here's the CfP for a SI on solidarity that I am co-editing with Clare Hemmings.Details below
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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/
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
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...
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
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"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
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
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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'
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
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
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You can donate through the link in this article via Crowd Justice, which goes straight to the lawyers
The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing & Community
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'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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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
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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.
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
Is that the resident of Monaco Sir Jim Ratcliffe?
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..'