“All of this can seem intimidating. You feel like an imposter.” – Racially minoritised museum staff member
@bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social @roaa-ali.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social on the heritage industry, institutional whiteness and the limits of inclusion.
#OpenAccess buff.ly/NtDEu6L
📢 Fresh off the press!
The Endurance of Whiteness in a Museum
by me & @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social
out now @thesociologicalreview.org
We examine how whiteness persists in the UK’s CCIs, focusing on limits of decolonisation and anti-racism in museums.
🔗 buff.ly/NtDEu6L
#OpenAccess #RaceAndCulture
⏰ Reminder! Happening this Thursday:
The making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women’s cultural productions
🗓️ 19 June 2025
🕐 1–2:30pm (UK)
📍 Manchester & online
Exploring #ArabAmerican #Feminism, #Theatre, #CCIs.
🔗events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:g1y7-m8h9ru3...
📢 Giving a talk soon!
The making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women’s cultural productions
🗓️ Thurs 19 June 2025
🕐 1–2.30pm (UK)
📍 Manchester/online
Hosted by
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
👀 Join if you're into #ArabAmerican #Feminism #Theatre #CCIs
The UK’s Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) passed a BDS resolution today. 📣
It took an amazing group a lot work, but the vote was overwhelmingly in favour.
📺Recording now available of our latest seminar:
📌‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy
🗣Brett St Louis
@uomsoss.bsky.social
youtu.be/_QHx9wIXJFw
🚨 New blog: ‘Diversity Caused the Crash’: The Racism Disguised in Meritocratic Discourse.
Trump may have moved on to destabilising the world stage, but the racial logic that shapes his administration is alive and well.
Full post: preview.collateral-journal.com/index.php?co...
#racism #Trump
🗣Racial health equity & the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt (KCL)
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 15 May 2025 (hybrid)
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
@uomsoss.bsky.social @basssocial.bsky.social
"The frantic rush to turn our memories into a personalized Miyazaki greeting card is [..] even more pointedly a testament to our love for ourselves, and seemingly no copyright concern nor sanctity-of-art instinct can stop us from fulfilling it."
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Hello Bluesky community👋 I finally made it here. I research & write on diversity and ethnic inequality in CCIs. An open-access article I co-authored with the brilliant Bridget Byrne @culsoc.bsky.social might be a good intro to my work: The Trouble with Diversity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...