I felt discomfort reading this for one reason: Positionality statements and reflexibility have been used in quite radical ways by feminists and queer scholars of color outside of the core...

🎙️ alert! JASS ED Shereen Essof joins Feminist Centre for Racial Justice founding dir Awino Okech for a reflective 🗣️ on practicing #feminist leadership in the current contexts we are grappling with + what that means for feminist organising ✊🏾 & movements 👣
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In this episode, FCRJ Director Awino Okech speaks to Shereen Essof, from JASS - Just Associates. They reflect on feminist leadership, responding to multiple crises, and grappling with loneliness in leadership.

open.spotify.com/episode/5G1e2C…

Why would anyone pay this to live in central London?

Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary theguardian.com/world/video/20…

Not sure I agree with the analysis here. A longitudinal study on some of the African or global South institutions that received the gifts may be useful

fortune.com/2024/04/04/mac…

A great pity the US Administration did not do this 32,000 deaths ago. Now, this cannot be just words and real action must follow.

Joe Biden calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza and says Israel must protect civilians to keep US support
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

There is something about Thandiswa's voice

The only way this hospital is closing is if we put Oscar Mabuyane in-charge of its health department.

It is a very weird thing to see yourself cited. Very weird 😀

The inaugural lecture - 26 April 2024. Look forward to seeing you all there.

Hidden Voices: Female Swahili Poets in Islamic East Africa - sacredfootsteps.com/2024/03/25/hid… via Sacred Footsteps

Some of my worst immigration experiences has been crossing French borders. The hyper scrutiny of papers

We’re hiring! UK scholars work with us 🇬🇧@ SOAS where my Co-PI is head of the Law School. Research on Afro/Asian intimacies in British colonial archives. AFRO-ASIA GROUP more info: afroasiagroup.org/towards-an-int…

tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/25/bro…

I wrote a little bit about anti-intellectualism in British politics here, but at some point I’d like to update it with more explanation of how this became part of a culture war of deriding all arts and humanities academic research as simply “woke” nonsense
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza , it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

All things Haiti, and all things Vodou! In this #WomensHistoryMonth check (Eziaku) Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha's new book Vodou en Vogue by UNC Press #slaveryarchive uncpress.org/book/978146967…

We are excited to support this timely, community led project that builds connections between sections of the UK and Kenya. 👇🏿

So Kenya commissioned X country with a loan from X country and indebted to X country for this??