Abolitionist Feminism - Dissent Magazine An interview with Kathi Weeks.

New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book.

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Thanks to @alcs.co.uk for my annual swimming lessons

Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

January.

Pale green background. Dark green text says: The Future of Independent Presses.

In collaboration with UK Small Press Futures – a collective of UK independent publishers – Wasafiri is hosting an afternoon of panels dedicated to the future of independent presses.

When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT
Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
Tickets: £15

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One of my favorite things about Feminist Studies is our commitment to art. We regularly publish art essays with full color spreads of art work (have an idea to pitch us? Please send!) and our covers are stunning. Shout out to Duy-Khuong Van, our graphic designer.

Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26 Open for Submissions! The Institute of Historical Research’s History Lab is excited to announce the call for papers for the Olivette Otele Prize for the 2025/26 academic year. The prize offers the chance for fast-tracked publication of an article and a cash prize of £250 and is open to Black UK-based PhD students working in history or related disciplines, exploring any place or period.

Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26 Open for Submissions! We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 400 words for a 40 minute paper by Friday 28th November 2025 to ihrhistorylab@gmail.com. Timeline: Abstract deadline of no more than 400 words due by 28th November 2025 Shortlisted scholars will be notified by Friday 19th December 2025 and asked to submit a full paper of no more than 8000 words by Friday 27th February The winner will be announced by the end of March 2026

Prize and Recognition The winner will receive a £250 cash prize, will be invited to speak at History Lab’s annual conference in summer 2026, and to submit their paper to Historical Research, the leading generalist historical journal and flagship publication of the Institute of Historical Research. Shortlisted scholars will receive a £30 book voucher and the opportunity to present their research at a History Lab seminar.

About the Prize The Olivette Otele Prize was created in 2020 in response to the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report’ which highlighted racial inequality in the field of history. The prize was named after the UK’s first Black woman history professor and was designed to both raise participants’ profiles as well as financially reward labour involved in academic research. We look forward to reading your applications!

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26!

Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions!

📆Key dates:

- Abstracts due on 28th November
- Notifications on 19th December
- 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb

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my phd student, a puppeteer, graduated with flying colours and I got a red cat

Thinking border epistemologies with co-conspirators Di and Ally on 23 Oct. Join us for collectively curating future activities, registration link in the poster—

Got my copy! This brilliant book is now available open access here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

... is a baby owl

my writing bud in the forest

Call for Creative Submissions: Solidarities Wasafiri invites creative submissions in fiction, nonfiction…

Wasafiri invites creative submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in response to navigating interlinked global systems of oppressions and seeking to forge transnational solidarities across various boundaries.

DEADLINE: Sunday 24 August, 2025 11.59pm BST

Fascinating to see Kara Walker and Otto Dix next to each other — Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart

Caste, Protest, Pedagogy — Peopling the Palaces Festival Swati Arora in conversation with Malavika Priyadarshini Rao An online event, with an in-person screening option. A link will be provided after tickets are booked. As state surveillance and ideolog...

Caste, Protest, Pedagogy

We spoke about the spatial and affective politics of Dalit protests and their significance for educational institutions and transnational movements of freedom today. Malavika's brilliant book on it is out next month.

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About (Kill)joys, Grievances, and Resistance CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

Hi Glasgow – I'll be at the Centre for Contemporary Arts on Wed for a roundtable on imagining institutional change. Come say hello if you're around.

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Sara Ahmed, 'No! The Art and Activism of Complaining' QMUL Annual Catherine Silverstone Lecture: Sara Ahmed - an in-person lecture followed by reception

I am not sure whether Bluebell is coming to this lecture (ok, I know she isn't) but hey, she loves me. Come along & say no 🔊I am so glad to be honouring Catherine Silverstone's life & work.That no, when amplified, picks up her emphasis on history and haunting.
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So pleased to be back on home ground today, and what timing—

needed to blast abida parveen on headphones at 8am to make it to work today

let's make 'em beasts

my students are the best 😭

“how to live
how to gather
untethered
to meander together
through fields
&forms of learning

we repair we
lend an ear
to the earth
and shelter
otherwise.”

Omar Berrada, “A Practice of Errantry

but is actual poetry pure tho

The new performance studies reader is here and I'm in *such* gorgeous company. An absolute joy to be snuggling up to my fave @saranahmed.bsky.social too 💛

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exactly.

Internship Opportunity: Wasafiri CHASE Editorial Placement An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement.

🚨 Internship Alert! 🚨
An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. Full details on the placement, and how to apply, here:
www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...

These final weeks before publication are the strangest times of being an author. Part of you wants to protect the book you’ve been quietly loving into being for so long. And then there’s the part which knows you have to take a deep breath and hoof it out the door

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Book Launch: Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms Join us for the launch of a groundbreaking exploration of decolonial, intersectional, and transnational feminist dialogues.

Our beautiful collaborative project is out in paperback and we're gathering next week to celebrate ✨

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