Fatima Rajina
@frajina.bsky.social
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Academic interested in British Bangladeshis/Bengalis/Muslims DP by artbyjanibee
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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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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/
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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
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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
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.”
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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
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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.

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Why I am putting up Union flags on my high street in Sutton
www.bbc.co.uk
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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
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10. What was ruined by popularity?
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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
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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
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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
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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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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.
frajina.bsky.social
Kolapata and Hajji Nanna Biryani are superb. The latter has the best kachchi biryani. Both on Whitechapel Road and totally worth it. On Brick Lane, I’d recommend Amar Gaon or Cafe Grill - they mostly have Bengali dishes.
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...
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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
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.”
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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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frajina.bsky.social
That’d be lovely!
frajina.bsky.social
I will be there on the 20th, so pop along to see the Jummah Aesthetics exhibition!

Link for booking tickets is below.
frajina.bsky.social
The exhibition on Jummah Aesthetics has been selected for the British Academy Summer Showcase 2025 this June! If you are interested in attending, then book your tickets here:

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

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