Yasmin G
@anilsghost.bsky.social
Writer, sociologist. Yoga & mindfulness teacher. Gaza & Colonial Aphasia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251333918
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Yasmin G
@anilsghost.bsky.social
· May 1
“It’s not so much being lost for words. Though that too. More the sense of how our anticolonial criticality has become inexorably glitchy and unreliable.”
@anilsghost.bsky.social on #Gaza, sociologists and empire, and the imperative of situated knowledge.
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@anilsghost.bsky.social on #Gaza, sociologists and empire, and the imperative of situated knowledge.
#OnlineFirst buff.ly/161xGVT
TY for sharing, the article is about the shattering of life by explosive violence!in Gaza & so a critique of situated know/l, part of a bigger thinking through of explosive whiteness, which includes how explosivity was honed in Europe, on other whites, before its colonial uses
‘In one course video uploaded to the website, a voiceover presenting the material suddenly morphs into a Spanish accent for about 30 seconds, before switching back to a British accent’
'Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI.' 1/3
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
‘In one course video uploaded to the website, a voiceover presenting the material suddenly morphs into a Spanish accent for about 30 seconds, before switching back to a British accent’
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Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC
Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
‘“I grew up my entire life in authoritarian regimes,” he said. “It makes me very sad that the institution I’ve invested tens of thousands of pounds with, the institution I’ve learned for years in, is acting like a Trumpian authoritarian regime.”
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
King’s College London Withdraws Pro-Palestine Student’s Visa, Risking His Torture, After Pressure From Israel Lobby Group | Novara Media
EXCLUSIVE: KCL suspended Usama Ghanem after pressure from the pro-Israel Campaign Against Antisemitism, despite knowing he would be sent back to Egypt where he was previously imprisoned and tortured. ...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
‘“I grew up my entire life in authoritarian regimes,” he said. “It makes me very sad that the institution I’ve invested tens of thousands of pounds with, the institution I’ve learned for years in, is acting like a Trumpian authoritarian regime.”
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
Mechanisms and mechanics of racial hierarchy: focusing on the “How” of racism
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva & Amanda E. Lewis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva & Amanda E. Lewis
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References: Mechanisms and mechanics of racial hierarchy: focusing on the “How” of racism
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October 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Mechanisms and mechanics of racial hierarchy: focusing on the “How” of racism
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva & Amanda E. Lewis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva & Amanda E. Lewis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...
If you’re a postgraduate researcher you can join @ucu with full or free student membership
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UCU - Join UCU Today
Welcome to UCU’s Membership Portal where you can join the union, manage and update your personal information and find answers to the most frequently raised questions relating to Membership, Employment...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
If you’re a postgraduate researcher you can join @ucu with full or free student membership
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Podcast with Hannah Ishmael on antiracist education & Len Garrison, activist, archivist & a founder of the Brixton Cultural Archives thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/sid...
Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism: Len Garrison, Archives and Self-Esteem
Hannah Ishmael talks on the Sideways Sociology podcast about the Black activist, educationalist and historian Len Garrison.
thesociologicalreview.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Podcast with Hannah Ishmael on antiracist education & Len Garrison, activist, archivist & a founder of the Brixton Cultural Archives thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/sid...
Universities in the UK reassured arms companies that they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uni...
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uni...
UK universities offered to monitor students' social media for arms firms, emails show - Liberty Investigates
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October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Universities in the UK reassured arms companies that they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uni...
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uni...
A powerful analysis @alasirriyeh.bsky.social ‘bringing into conversation theoretical interventions on ‘making’ the migrant – migratisation – and ‘unmaking’ the child – unchilding’ in British immigration politics
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October 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A powerful analysis @alasirriyeh.bsky.social ‘bringing into conversation theoretical interventions on ‘making’ the migrant – migratisation – and ‘unmaking’ the child – unchilding’ in British immigration politics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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It’s weird how UK unis are now encouraging academics to use AI (parking climate concerns). Unis are soon going to be one AI model talking to another “But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically”
olivia.science/ai
olivia.science/ai
Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
olivia.science
October 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s weird how UK unis are now encouraging academics to use AI (parking climate concerns). Unis are soon going to be one AI model talking to another “But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically”
olivia.science/ai
olivia.science/ai
‘Medicine is more than science—it is a moral duty. And when that duty is under threat, silence becomes betrayal’ @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Gaza's healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent
The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with the apparent deliberate targeting
of health-care infrastructure and personnel, has highlighted a profound challenge
to the global medical community. ...
www.thelancet.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‘Medicine is more than science—it is a moral duty. And when that duty is under threat, silence becomes betrayal’ @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Every year when I teach the work of Stuart Hall, I ask my undergrads who has heard of Hall before? This year is the first year in a long time when a gaggle of hands went up. This bodes well for these times
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Every year when I teach the work of Stuart Hall, I ask my undergrads who has heard of Hall before? This year is the first year in a long time when a gaggle of hands went up. This bodes well for these times
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Strangely I came across this again today! From his book on how Thatcher exploited discontent with Labour's record in office & with aspects of the welfare state to devise a potent authoritarian, populist ideology.'
September 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Strangely I came across this again today! From his book on how Thatcher exploited discontent with Labour's record in office & with aspects of the welfare state to devise a potent authoritarian, populist ideology.'
Practicing Community, Untraining Commodity
‘We are going to need to practise being in community with one another more than ever for our bold and brave movements’
healingjusticeldn.org/methodology/...
‘We are going to need to practise being in community with one another more than ever for our bold and brave movements’
healingjusticeldn.org/methodology/...
Building Brave and Beautiful Movements - Healing Justice Ldn
Movement-making is returning to our native state of deeply belonging to one another. In the midst of crisis, trauma, humanity and remarkable creativity - we
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September 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Practicing Community, Untraining Commodity
‘We are going to need to practise being in community with one another more than ever for our bold and brave movements’
healingjusticeldn.org/methodology/...
‘We are going to need to practise being in community with one another more than ever for our bold and brave movements’
healingjusticeldn.org/methodology/...
Meeting Stuart Hall, I love these tributes, "Stuart Hall was a welcome reminder of the possibility of academia’s better self, the one where we remember to be kind and welcoming and to nurture new ideas and people" @writersofcolour.bsky.social mediadiversified.org/2014/02/14/m...
Meeting Stuart Hall
We have come together as black feminists to commemorate Stuart Hall who died on 10 February, 2014. ~ Sara Ahmed, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Yasmin Gunaratnam,Vera Jocelyn, Patricia Noxolo, Pratibha Parma…
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September 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Meeting Stuart Hall, I love these tributes, "Stuart Hall was a welcome reminder of the possibility of academia’s better self, the one where we remember to be kind and welcoming and to nurture new ideas and people" @writersofcolour.bsky.social mediadiversified.org/2014/02/14/m...
This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter
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How To Do Social Research With...
www.gold.ac.uk
September 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter
www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Thanks to @socispal.bsky.social for highlighting this gem of a resource “why boycott Israeli universities?”
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September 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Thanks to @socispal.bsky.social for highlighting this gem of a resource “why boycott Israeli universities?”
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No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine @socispal.bsky.social
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EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration
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September 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine @socispal.bsky.social
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Please share: final 7 hours ‼️
One link, six families and a camp, support every week. Now, the giving circle is helping Mai’s, Ghadeer’s, and Akram’s families urgently flee north Gaza.
Every dollar is hope to survive the next minute of this hell. Nothing less. 792/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
One link, six families and a camp, support every week. Now, the giving circle is helping Mai’s, Ghadeer’s, and Akram’s families urgently flee north Gaza.
Every dollar is hope to survive the next minute of this hell. Nothing less. 792/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Please share: final 7 hours ‼️
One link, six families and a camp, support every week. Now, the giving circle is helping Mai’s, Ghadeer’s, and Akram’s families urgently flee north Gaza.
Every dollar is hope to survive the next minute of this hell. Nothing less. 792/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
One link, six families and a camp, support every week. Now, the giving circle is helping Mai’s, Ghadeer’s, and Akram’s families urgently flee north Gaza.
Every dollar is hope to survive the next minute of this hell. Nothing less. 792/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...
A letter from @socispal.bsky.social to British Sociological Assoc, asking them to take a clear stance on the ongoing Palestinian genocide, the proliferating racist violence of Zionism & the repression of pro-Palestinian solidarity. BSA members please support socispal.wordpress.com/sisp-stateme...
SISP Statements
SISP letter to the British Sociological Association 18th September 2025 On the 18th September 2025, the SISP collective sent the letter below to the President of the BSA (Professor Rachel Brooks) a…
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September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A letter from @socispal.bsky.social to British Sociological Assoc, asking them to take a clear stance on the ongoing Palestinian genocide, the proliferating racist violence of Zionism & the repression of pro-Palestinian solidarity. BSA members please support socispal.wordpress.com/sisp-stateme...
Happy Monday to all ‘at risk’ SHAPE scholars ‘Higher education regulators should monitor subject provision through an ‘at-risk’ regional subject register and funding for ‘at risk’ subjects’
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University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report
A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy Monday to all ‘at risk’ SHAPE scholars ‘Higher education regulators should monitor subject provision through an ‘at-risk’ regional subject register and funding for ‘at risk’ subjects’
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...