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frajina.bsky.social
Fatima Rajina
@frajina.bsky.social
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Academic interested in British Bangladeshis/Bengalis/Muslims

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frajina.bsky.social
Latest podcast episode for the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre. In conversation with Marieha Hussain, discussing her trial, her placard (the one with the palm tree, coconuts and Suella and Rishi’s faces) and how she won her case!

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S2 E3: The Coconuts Trial with Marieha Hussain
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November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
frajina.bsky.social
THE EXHIBITION IS BACK AND RUNNING AT THE BLACKHORSE WORKSHOP CAFE IN WALTHAMSTOW. DETAILS BELOW 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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ethnicityuk.bsky.social
Still time to book for this event in Leicester on Friday on language policing and the right to satire 👇🏾
frajina.bsky.social Fatima Rajina @frajina.bsky.social · Oct 16
Coconuts & CocoNOTS: Police Racism, Protest, and the Right to Satire

Join us to explore how the policing of language is employed to silence Black and Brown activism by looking at Marieha Hussain's recent case.

📍 Trinity House, Leicester
⏰ 6-9pm

Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coconuts-c...
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
frajina.bsky.social
Coconuts & CocoNOTS: Police Racism, Protest, and the Right to Satire

Join us to explore how the policing of language is employed to silence Black and Brown activism by looking at Marieha Hussain's recent case.

📍 Trinity House, Leicester
⏰ 6-9pm

Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coconuts-c...
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
frajina.bsky.social
UKIP are coming to Whitechapel on the 25th. We need to come out and fight back. See you there!

📱 Share the flyer and the link to join this WhatsApp chat with your friends for updates nearer the time

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October 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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thesociologicalreview.org
As the tube strike hits #London, listen again to Romit Chowdhury on #CITIES for #UncommonSense. Including: how “walking the city” emerged as a revolutionary method, transport studies from Kolkata and Tokyo, and a celebration of urban enchantment

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Uncommon Sense: Cities, with Romit Chowdhury
thesociologicalreview.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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theguardian.com
Almost 900 people arrested at Palestine Action protest, Met police say
Almost 900 people arrested at Palestine Action protest, Met police say
Demonstration in central London on Saturday led to 857 arrests under Terrorism Act A total of 890 arrests were made at a demonstration against the banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist group in central London on Saturday. Police arrested 857 people under the Terrorism Act for showing support for a proscribed group, while 33 people were arrested for other offences, including 17 for assaults on police officers, the Metropolitan police said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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drnicgraham.bsky.social
“Seeing it raised today makes clear that it has become a political tool: a signal that Muslims and Asians, alongside asylum seekers, particularly in places like Luton, are not welcome. That is the true meaning of this so-called pride.”(@frajina.bsky.social)

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...
For UK minorities, the St George's flag remains a symbol of racist violence
From colonial humiliation to today's jingoism on Britain's streets, the red and white flag was never a harmless display of 'cultural pride' but a weapon of fear and exclusion
www.middleeasteye.net
September 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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bjsociology.bsky.social
📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur
September 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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davidstoreygeog.bsky.social
"When I see it flying from lamp posts or plastered across roundabouts, it does not speak of pride but power - namely, who belongs and who does not"
@frajina.bsky.social on flags as symbols of exclusion
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...
For UK minorities, the St George's flag remains a symbol of racist violence
From colonial humiliation to today's jingoism on Britain's streets, the red and white flag was never a harmless display of 'cultural pride' but a weapon of fear and exclusion
www.middleeasteye.net
September 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
frajina.bsky.social
My latest article analysing what the flag represents

“Others dismiss the displays as harmless, w/ some even plastering the flag on their doors as a form of protection. Either stance risks legitimising the act,or pretending it is benign when it is anything but.”
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...
For UK minorities, the St George's flag remains a symbol of racist violence
From colonial humiliation to today's jingoism on Britain's streets, the red and white flag was never a harmless display of 'cultural pride' but a weapon of fear and exclusion
www.middleeasteye.net
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Masked men putting up flags and demanding that passers by who challenge them tell them where they come from is not something to be celebrated.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why I am putting up Union flags on my high street in Sutton
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
Any restaurant that was good and expanded and then got bought by private equity and suddenly there’s 30 of them in the city with decreasing food quality and increasing prices
astoldbynai.blacksky.app nai THEE black barbie 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · Jun 6
10. What was ruined by popularity?
August 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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praxisprojects.bsky.social
EXCITING! A Migrant's Guide is now available in English, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Farsi & Pashto for £3 per copy.⁠

Created by migrants, for migrants, the guide connects people to essential services, offers practical advice, and so much more.⁠

📩Contact [email protected] to order
August 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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erinoverbey.bsky.social
read this carefully—the AFP was founded in 1944. they’ve just issued a statement saying that for the first time in history, their journalists face death by starvation #Gaza
AFP statement saying their journalists face death by starvation
July 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The crackdown on civil liberties continue in the UK with at least 90 people arrested in London for opposing the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Courtesy of Labour

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At least 90 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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neemabegum.bsky.social
20 years on from surviving 7/7 - my experience as a British Muslim
@uk.theconversation.com

With thanks to my editor @averyanapol.bsky.social

theconversation.com/i-survived-t...
I survived the 7/7 London bombings, but as a British Muslim I still grew up being called a terrorist
Four years on from the attacks on 9/11 - this was a time when, in the minds of many, Muslims were already associated with terrorism.
theconversation.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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wokekaren.bsky.social
'Police in London have been accused of abusing their powers to curb protest after research found that less than 3% of arrests . . . resulted in a prosecution.'
Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest'.

#FascismOnTheRise

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Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest’ after tenfold rise in nuisance law arrests
FoI requests also reveal that since 2019 less than 3% of those held under law in London were prosecuted
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July 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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aaronwinter.bsky.social
If universities are going to push and promise employability to students and their parents, they should probably treat their employees better. Exploitation, insecurity and redundancies are not a model or marketing strategy.
June 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
frajina.bsky.social
I was at @britishacademy.bsky.social’s Summer Showcase private viewing yesterday. Had many beautiful conversations. Do come along today from 5pm! I will be there by my exhibition!

Book tickets here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
June 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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britishacademy.bsky.social
This was the first of many highlights at the Summer Showcase - the British Academy's free festival of ideas.

Discover our full programme through the link below:

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
The British Academy Summer Showcase
Every year we throw open our doors for the British Academy’s annual Summer Showcase, a free festival of ideas for curious minds. Meet the researchers shaping our world through their pioneering social ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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thesinankose.bsky.social
I think it's so cool that we let this obviously deranged person both run a school and be granted a national platform to scream whatever far-right nonsense has infested her brain.
pantibliss.bsky.social Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Jun 16
This is the second time this woman (“Britain’s strictest headteacher”) has claimed there’s a secret school in London she won’t name that has replaced Shakespeare with me. It’s complete bullshit of course but why’s she so obsessed with me
Screen grab from the Times (London) Katharine Birbalsingh has criticised schools for failing to give pupils "a sense of British history” White guilt drives schools' diversity push, Birbalsingh says. 'Britain's strictest headteacher' says children are given no sense of our history and should be learning algebra not looking at each other's differences “The focus on diversity came at the expense of more important subjects, the 51-year-old headteacher said. She was aware of one independent school in London, which she declined to name, that had "abandoned all Shakespeare" in favour of teaching "the great works" of Panti Bliss, an Irish drag queen and gay rights activist.”
June 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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himalmag.bsky.social
Indian Muslims have been rendered electorally dispensable and therefore politically irrelevant; some might even go further and regard them a political liability, writes Harsh Mander:
The political erasure of Indian Muslims
INDIA IS HOME to 200 million Muslim people. More Muslims live here than in any other country in the world barring Indonesia and Pakistan.  Yet in 2023, the
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June 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM