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Hilary Robinson

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Prof. of Feminism, Art & Theory at Loughborough U. Cat lady, no kids. England, but have lived in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Pittsburgh. #AcademicSky

Hilary Robinson is a British academic and art theorist. She was granted the 2024 annual Award for Distinction in Femininst Art History by the College Art Association. She is Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory at Loughborough University's School of Social Sciences and Humanities. She was Dean of the School of Art and Design and a professor at Middlesex University, and previously served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the history, theory, and practice of feminist art. .. more

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Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social · 14d

Paywall.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14d

London folks: We are trying to find the location of an old fuel works people tried to burn down during the 1926 general strike. On North Street in Charlton/Greenwich: the Medway Oil and Storage Company. Could anyone help us find where this was? Thanks for any assistance!

Newspaper clipping about the incident

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Jan 10

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Jun 25

How on earth did JD Vance have the gall to lecture Europe about ‘free speech’

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Jun 25

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.

But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.

Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 21

Land artist Nancy Holt,
Sun Tunnels (1973),
Great Basin Desert, Utah at sunrise #WomensArt
#SummerSolstice

Photo looking through two large concrete tunnels at a golden sunrise in the still darkened and empty desert

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · Jun 20

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign…

guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · May 10

@christhomsbauer.bsky.social & I have started a spreadsheet where we're tracking the NEH awards from this new announcement: www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...
This came after over 1000 grants were canceled by DOGE on April 8: impact.ach.org

If you'd like to help/join us, please reply #AcademicSky

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pat592.bsky.social @pat592.bsky.social · May 10

#AcademicSky #Science #Doge

Elon Musk using a chainsaw (labled DOGE) to cut off the head of a Goose sitting on 3 golden eggs, labeled "science", "Rx" and "Tech"
Musk says: We're going to save billions in bird feed!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 15

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social · Apr 2

…and left women (talking from the UK) take communities with them 😉

Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social · Apr 1

That’s not my experience, and it’s not my point, either. My point is that wanting to fill roles with people who have been historically marginalised without addressing the structures that marginalised them in the first place is a deeply assimilationist approach, which changes nothing.

Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social · Mar 24

www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wo... (Though need to point out that here in the UK we have had 3 women Prime Ministers, all conservative. It's not women, it's their politics).

Women citizens arrest oil executives

Women conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives in London over alleged public nuisance offences

www.solicitorsjournal.com

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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · Mar 24

Women citizens arrest oil executives - Solicitors Journal

Women conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives in London over alleged public nuisance offences www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wo...

Women citizens arrest oil executives

Women conduct citizen’s arrests on oil executives in London over alleged public nuisance offences

www.solicitorsjournal.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Jan 12

I’ve often said Musk’s X is like Cambridge Analytica gone global, and it has the same backers - Steve Bannon and now Dominic Cummings

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TenaciousEye @tenaciouseye.bsky.social · Jan 10

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jan 10

BBC Verify has examined a 24 hour snapshot of Elon Musks timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.

The BBC's Analysis editor examines one day on the platform for the owner of X
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline

The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.

Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social · Jan 10

Plus: they don’t know how to communicate to us/general public.

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Prof Ksenia Chmutina @kschmutina.bsky.social · Jan 10

❣️Come spend a month with us!
@lboroias.bsky.social is now accepting applications for Residential Fellowships! You'll get to work on your own research, chat with amazing @lborouniversity.bsky.social
colleagues & drink coffee with me at the International House 🤓
www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

Residential Fellowships | Institute of Advanced Studies | Loughborough University

www.lboro.ac.uk

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Steve Starer @uncommonman1941.bsky.social · Jan 10

When free speech isn't protected by factchecking, it is no longer free speech. It's propaganda.

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it."
-- Joseph Goebbels

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · Jan 9

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jan 4

The enshittification of uk general practice. (He’s talking about our paper!!) led by @oohgpwales.bsky.social
bjgp.org/content/75/7...

The enshittification of general practice

It was Cory Doctorow, the author, who coined the term ‘enshittification’ when he used it to describe the evolution and, critically, the deterioration of tech platforms. In 2023 the American Dialect So...

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · Jan 3

SCOOP: A thread on how demands for national & local govt inquiries into child sex grooming gangs are more complicated than lots of people including Elon Musk want to beliefe. Via Telford.

Labour took over Telford council in 2011 & worked to improve child safeguarding after abuse dating back to 80s.

Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social · Dec 27

A couple hours drive NE from London (M25, A12): one of the small Suffolk coast villages - Orford, Walberswick, Dunwich…

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Dec 26

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Dec 13

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social · Dec 9

Love her work!

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Carolyn Jackson @carolynjackson.bsky.social · Dec 6

There's still time to submit an abstract for the Gender and Education Association (GEA) 2025 Conference in Manchester. GEA conferences are my favourite by a country mile 👇

www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...

Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education conference

The 21st Gender in Education Association conference. Discover the themes being discussed, key dates and how to get involved.

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j.l. feldman @jlfeldman.bsky.social · Nov 14

Please share this call for abstracts!

The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt & Black Political Thought

A conference at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities, Bard College – March 27-28, 2025

Feat. a keynote by Prof. Neil Roberts & a talk by Prof. Ainsley LeSure
bit.ly/HACSpring25

Call for abstracts
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s.
Black revolutionaries working under conditions of extreme repression to transform the societies they inhabited also found they had to rework and reinvent revolutionary theory and praxis. Retelling the history of the Black liberation struggle and working alongside the decolonial movements of their day, thinkers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Kwame Ture—to name a few people whose work can be found in Arendt’s library—as well as C.L.R. James, Walter
Rodney, Cedric Robinson, June Jordan, Angela Davis and many others—breathed new life into the concept of revolution. Like Arendt, these thinkers confronted a legacy of loss and disappointment. They also sought to reclaim from the history of revolutions past meaningful
insights that might inspire and renew contemporary revolutionary movements.

Arendt was often harshly critical of such movements, particularly those claiming the mantle of Black power. Nevertheless, in a testament to the power of Arendt’s ideas, a number of political thinkers working in the revolutionary tradition of Black political thought have found her a valuable thinking partner. This conference aims to bring together scholars engaged with—and in the spirit of—Hannah Arendt’s work in theorizing Black revolutionary politics, to address such questions as: How has the concern for beginning and durability animated Black political thought? What encounters between Arendt and Black political thinkers have been hitherto overlooked or misunderstood? How might concepts from within Black political thought illuminate the phenomena, events, and texts central to the Arendtian “archive” (e.g. the council system, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, or the work of Franz Kafka), and how might Arendt’s concepts illuminate revolutionary phenomena and events in the “archive” of Black political thought? How have the critical interventions of Black political thinkers challenged or enhanced our understanding of Arendt’s theory of revolution and vice versa? Where, if anywhere, do we find the revolutionary spirit today?

Please submit abstracts to this Google Form (bit.ly/HACSpring25) by December 1st, 2024. We encourage submissions from early-career scholars. Acceptances will be communicated by January 6th, 2025. Conference participants will be expected to pre-circulate papers by March 14th, 2025. We encourage prospective participants to seek external financial support for travel and lodging, as HAC has very limited funds to provide such support. Please reach out to jfeldman@bard.edu with any questions you may have.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Nov 29

83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed.

Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth.

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www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...

83% all plant life in Gaza destroyed: two devastating reports on Israel's genocide

Two reports detail the hideous consequences of Israel's Western-facilitated genocide. And yet the Western media bury or ignore them altogether.

www.owenjones.news