Truly, madly, deeply (1990)

#OtD 6 Apr 1871 Paris communards seized the local guillotine and burned it as a symbol of "monarchist domination". While some today glorify the guillotine, it has mostly been used by the powerful against workers, like Nazi Germany who beheaded 16,000 shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship: Uncharted Voices Learn more about and apply for this fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship starting in October 2026

Royal Museums Greenwich is advertising for a fully funded collaborative doctorate: Uncharted Voices: Subaltern Cultures and Identities in Global Seafaring, 1880–1950 It looks like a great opportunity and theme to me. www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

An analysis of liminality in the context of Irish migrant women – Aisling Keavey An analysis of liminality in the context of Irish migrant women I completed a practice-led research Masters in August 2022, the purpose of the study was to explore and answer the question, “How hav…

Explore the lives of Irish migrant women, this Women’s History Month. Read more: womenshistorynetwork.org/an-analysis-... #WomensHistoryMonth

laleh khalili, lecture april 9 @yale

9 Aprill: LALEH KHALILI, "The Politics of Life and Death in Extractive Capitalism"

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'racisms & colonialisms in the longue durée,' a collaboration between ucl sarah parker remond centre and yale center for race, indigneity & transnational migration

🇦🇷 Argentinian demonstrators mark 50th anniversary of 1976 coup

Demonstrators carry a large banner with portraits of disappeared people during a march to Plaza de Mayo on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983).

The Inaugural Overland Readers' Survey

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This week, advocates gathered in Parliament House to demand the government make women’s safety a priority in the lead up to International Women’s Day and fully fund frontline services.

The Greens proudly and loudly back those demands.

New #Australian racial hatred inquiry established. There will be submissions.

Joy.

The reform to boost organ donation Australia’s human tissue acts are set for their first overhaul in 50 years, in a move that is hoped to remove hurdles to donation and medical and research innovation.

Australia's organ donation and human tissue laws have remained unchanged since 1977. With donation rates at record lows, the Australian Law Reform Commission is hoping a new definition of "medical death" will save lives. satpa.pe/bYXU7Rf

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Call for Papers: Transnational Black Feminist Thought - AAIHS Call for Papers: Transnational Black Feminist Thought Guest Editor: Rachel Afi Quinn, University of Houston Deadline: January 1, 2027 Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American...

Special issue of Global Black Thought on Black feminist theory around the world!

Guest edited by Rachel Afi Quinn

Submit papers by January 1, 2027

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

"Thanks to our growing insight into Epstein’s world, we have gained a clearer picture of the psychic and economic logic of the contemporary far right". Must read from Melinda Cooper www.equator.org/articles/eps...

We The Heartbroken - Pluto Press In this blog, Gargi Bhattacharyya writes on the state of being for a revolutionary in 2020. Inspired by a younger comrade admitting to heartbreak arising from the business of trying to make something ...

"Heartbreak is at the heart of all revolutionary consciousness. How can it not be? Who can imagine another world unless they already have been broken apart by the world we are in?" - Gargi Bhattacharyya

www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...

Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums. Edited by Sela Adjei & Yann LeGall. 320 pages. Published August 20, 2024 by Pluto Press. Non-fiction. If many museums today pretend to have embarked on a decolonial turn in their practice and in the ways they consider their collectio…

"If many museums today pretend to have embarked on a decolonial turn in their practice and in the ways they consider their collections, it is essential to remember that ethnographic museums per se are colonial institutions."

Colonial looting’s been in…

https://hararereview.wordpress.com/2024/11/2…

Meanjin has been saved from the Melbourne University capitalist death pit. Actual good things can still happen. Occasionally.

round green pompom at top; soft cap with neck cover; six green panels with organic embroidery in pinks, white, green, yellow and purple; ribbon trim

Girl's Hat https://collections.artsmia.org/art/79952/

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

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We’re looking for a researcher with a background in queer history to support an upcoming documentary exploring London’s Queer Global Majority & migrant histories (60-now).
💷 £350/day
🏳️‍🌈 Community-led, oral history–focused
Interested?
Get in touch: Blaise@elevatecommunityproductions.org

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‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list Aboriginal site featuring ancient quarry sits on transcontinental trading route connecting Gulf of Carpentaria to Flinders Ranges

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Government dumps plans for Kimberley short stay accommodation Leaders in Kununurra say the Cook Government's decision to dump plans for Aboriginal short stay accommodation in town could be putting more people at risk.

Leaders in Kununurra say the Cook Government's decision to dump plans for Aboriginal short stay accommodation in town could be putting more people at risk.

For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks.

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Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as more than 40 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah Helen Garner, Melissa Lucashenko and Zadie Smith are among the more than 40 writers to have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week in the last 24 hours.

News for bibliophiles outside Australia:

The Adelaide Writers Week board just removed Palestinian-Australian author & scholar, Randa Abdel-Fattah, from the program.

Many dozens of authors & institutions have now (rightly) left the festival in protest.

Story: www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

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