'we get a structure where all that matters is the image, the brand of the university and the ability to attract funding and students”
Academia must tackle its ‘collective narcissism’, campaigners say timeshighereducation.com/news/academia-… via Times Higher Education

BREAKING: The UN General Assembly has just overwhelmingly voted in favour of Palestine’s bid to become a full member of the UN.

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Bristol Uni colleagues - please sign! Hoping to see more Profs on this list soon... especially all those who made their careers writing about 'decolonisation' 🤔

Thrilled to finally be able to share this paper ‘On the Embodied Experience of Anti-abortion Laws and Regulations: The Gendered Burden of “Abortion Work”’. Available now open access in Body and Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

❤️ #GloriaAnzaldúa

Universities have increasingly emphasized the importance of societal impact and relevance in recent years. The violent repression of the Gaza solidarity protests shows this notion of impact means technocratic and sterile project management that does not threaten the status quo.

Sacramento is part of the CSU system, which, along with the UC schools, represents 660k undergrads. This should set a precedent for public education in California.

Love her work! 💜

Just directed one of my PhD researchers to this excellent book. Thank you Srila Roy for your work.

📢 University of Bristol staff, sign this letter of solidarity with the brilliant Bristol Students Occupy 4 Palestine 🇵🇸🍉 student encampment and demand that the University end its complicity in Palestinian genocide.
Changing the coat of arms is not 'decolonisation'. 📢
forms.gle/EpQeYxxM9gvGK1…

As I am starting my process of labour, I think of all the Gazan mothers who have endured loss, displacement, famine & bombardments. I think in particular of the women who gave birth during the genocide but also buried their newborns in this genocide due to an Israeli attack.

BREAKING: In a historic victory for Trinity College students in Dublin, Ireland, their institution commits to cutting ties with Israel.

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Looking forward to speaking at the launch of this important resource, sharing abolitionist strategies for addressing gender-based violence ✨ Join us (online) on 4th June 📢

The bureaucracy in the UK is next level exhausting. Yikes.

Join me in celebrating my supervisor (and dearest person in all of the UK), Dr Roxani Krystalli whose book ‘Good Victims’ is now published!

She examines victimhood beyond its conventional lens, as a means of relocating agency, narrative, care.

academic.oup.com/book/56328/cha…

“390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive'

read that again: “buried alive”

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Important read.

My latest article on #ObstetricViolence available online. So pleased this research made it to publication!

‘Everything is Obstetric Violence Now’: Identifying the Violence in ‘Obstetric Violence’ to Strengthen Socio-legal Reform Efforts academic.oup.com/ojls/article/d…

The New Inquiry is seeking dispatches (1k-1.5k word blend of reporting and analysis) from people active in the current anti-genocide protest movements. Send pitches to [email protected]. Anonymity can be preserved, and pitches by groups or collectives are welcome.

A brief response to Zadie Smith's recent essay, 'Shibboleth.'

stevesalaita.com/our-your-pitif…