Find out about the 4 secrets of success in academia with Heidi Safia Mirza

Read more about how she got into the world of Higher Education and where she is now: career-advice.jobs.ac.uk/career-develop…

#inspireinclusion #womenleaders

🎙️BERA Podcast episode

Introducing Intersectionality: In conversation with Heidi Safia Mirza, author of Young, female and Black (1992)
Heidi Safia Mirza Saima Salehjee Mabel Encinas

#InternationalWomensDay

Listen here: bera.ac.uk/media/introduc……

Diane Abbott's support of Black literature & the arts, social justice & education is just one of her precious bequests to public life in the UK & beyond. Never forget, always protect.Diane Abbott MP Words of Colour Operation Black Vote SuAndi Kadija George Heidi Safia Mirza Gary Younge

MA in Black British Literature Diane Abbott MP Words of Colour Operation Black Vote Kadija George Heidi Safia Mirza Gary Younge I had the honour of being commissioned by @Goldsmiths to write a poem celebrating #DianeAbbott as the first Black woman M P. It was an amazing day packed out. The title Strong Black Women'. Which she is. afshan d’souza-lodhi Alexandra Lyyli Ankrah

only makes sense when we know our society was founded on colonial genocides & the ruling class in particular has an infinite appetite for racial violence. 2/

The other day, Al Jazeera showed footage of two little orphan amputees in Gaza - brothers crying their little hearts out as they face a future absent of parents & limbs.
I see them every time I close my eyes.
That the UK now seeks to starve them by ending UNWRA aid 1/

Brillant Palestinian scholar Edward Said in 1990s on searing words of Frantz Fanon in 1950s exposing White imperialist impulse to destroy vs role of the proud native to resist. What would our intellectual soothsayers say now? #WhatwouldFrantzFanonsay ? #WhatwouldEdwardSaidsay ?

Not only does it want to crush our present & destroy our future, Israel is attempting to obliterate our past. Cultural heritage sites in Gaza have been deliberately targeted, & in the West Bank Israeli occupation army & settlers are systematically raiding archeological sites.

If there's #justonething you do today watch this powerful lecture by #ChrisHedges on the wonton Israeli Genocide of Palestinians in plain sight in the context of the historical continum of capitalist White Western settler colonialism and its impulse to destroy all in its wake.

Heidi Safia Mirza Chris Hedges 'The Genocide in Gaza' youtu.be/ly6lfhOxTe0?fe… via YouTube

According to estimations from the Norwegian Refugee Council, clearing the rubble alone will take one year

Anyone who entertains the idea that this isn't one of the worst violations of the Geneva Convention in modern history is a liar, a fool, or both

Every university in Gaza destroyed. 94 academic colleagues (many more under rubble), thousands of students dead.

We are publishing papers posthumously. Our collective work destroyed. The plans for my guest lectures to students are ghosts in my diary euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6108

This is completely abhorrent. Blair’s appointment also shows that USA, UK, EU are not even bothering to pretend and gaslight the world any more.

Makes the geopolitical choices for the Global South much clearer

Remember these images next time the Western world utters the words 'self-defence'.
Remember the translation is the elimination of all life.

Listen to American philosopher Dr Cornel West arguing that Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli army should be brought before the International Criminal Court on charges of #genocide

#Gaza #Gaza _life_matters

So all you cheerleaders for 'the most moral army in the world' with your claims of 'pinpoint accuracy.' Take a look at what you enabled. This is the Genghis Khan model of warfare: total destruction, mass slaughter of civilians, complete eradication. Netanyahu says he has barely…

This is what happened at the Nakba in 1948. Its exactly the same playbook. First the Israelis drove out the Palestinians with atrocities & mass murder. Then they demolished the villages & built settlements over the ruins. Then they denied the Palestinians had ever been there or…

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True Christmas message like no other. What are we celebrating? Where is peace on earth? Suffer the Palestinian children. Thank you Munther Isaac منذر اسحق for reminding us Jesus was a Palestinian who shone love & forgiveness in the face of political greed. Shame on us, shame on the world