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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · 3d

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · 16d

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Looking forward to this next Monday

How the singer Ganavya infused jazz with spiritual soul

The Tamil Nadu-raised artist explores the devotional in song

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Sep 10

Book chapter!

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 28

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ABOLITION WEEK 2025: BORDERS – Scalawag

Incarcerated and systems-impacted writers explore the violence of borders alongside relationships between ICE, the IDF, and U.S. carceral systems, imperialism, and capitalism for Abolition Week 2025.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 28

‘The problem with the interpretation of the verb “support” by the police and courts in Britain today is that the state accepts no limit to its meaning.’

David Renton on the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Renton · Short Cuts: What is the meaning of support?

With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 28

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The Dystopia of the World’s Tallest Jails - Jarrod Shanahan & Zhandarka Kurti - Inquest

New York City’s plan to replace Rikers with skyscraper jails is a cautionary tale of how decarceral talking points can be misappropriated.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Maria Gaspar On Abolition and the High Stakes of Working with Incarcerated Communities

Both an educator and practicing artist, Maria Gaspar has put collaboration, compassion, and critical thinking at the center of her work.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Aug 24

Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo

As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 15

A thoughtful post in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on Diane Abbott, antisemitism and the complex ways in which race is imagined and understood.

By three scholars of antisemitism: @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and David Feldman.
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Diane Abbott's Suspension Highlights the Complexity of Different Types of Racism

Rather than a zero sum approach, we need a 360 degree politics of solidarity.

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Caspar wore his skills lightly"
Indeed he did Les.

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 14

❤️ Caspar he was so generous with his time. A true lover of music and culture. Missed greatly.

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 12

The joy of buying second hand books

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 9

I am!

Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 9

My brother and I climbed Ben Nevis with John Hartson a few years ago. It's hard going but the views make it worthwhile. I'd imagine 22y.o is at least four beers deep by now.

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 9

Some more images from Ben Nevis.

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 9

22y.o did Ben Nevis today.

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 9

‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit

Thanks to its sense of romance and camaraderie, Killeagh went viral on TikTok and spent 18 weeks in the Irish Top 10. The band explain how a studio jape has united Ireland

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 8

Glasgow graffiti

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Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 8

Only in Glasgow

Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Completely unacceptable" is what you say to a toddler throwing a tantrum not a powerful nation committing genocide.

Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · Aug 8

Any institution, he writes, involved in the ‘allocation of resources within a system of property rights regulated and guaranteed by governments ... ultimately rests on the threat of force’.