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Dr Isis Giraldo

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Cultural studies researcher. I work on Colombia from within globalised & long-term critical approaches. Interested in media, feminist theories, decolonial critique, the far right, & the global flow of ideas. Posting in Spanish as @isisgiraldoa.bsky.social

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Nov 17

The best professional news I've got this year.

I couldn’t be prouder to have my name officially linked to Stuart Hall, whose work and legacy have been crucial to my becoming the researcher and educator I am.
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Isis Giraldo receives 2023 SHF x Cultural Studies Award - Stuart Hall Foundation

The winner of the 2023 SHF x Cultural Studies Award is Isis Giraldo, who receives the award in recognition for her article ‘SoHo as virtual theatre: performing gender, race, and class in 21st-century ...

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 15d

#SPEP2025 Join Lambert Zuidervaart, author of ADORNO, HEIDEGGER, AND THE POLITICS OF TRUTH, today at 2:30 for a book critics panel.

He unpacks Adorno’s “dialectical constellation” of truth—set against Heidegger, Foucault, and the post-truth era.

#ReadUP tinyurl.com/y9kw2kv6

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · 18d

The CfP for the next #Crossroads in #CulturalStudies conference -which will, for the first time, be held in Latin America (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)- is out! I'm proud to be part of the scientific committee. Have a look at the beautiful website, submit your proposal, and share!

crossroads2026.com/en/

Crossroads 2026 EN

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · 20d

"Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l’État/When we are all enemies of the state." I worked with translator Nathalie Prévost to publish the French translation of Stuart Hall's 1974 speech on Walter Rodney in @afriquexxi.bsky.social. afriquexxi.info/Quand-nous-s...

« Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l'État »

En septembre 1974, lors d’une manifestation à Londres, Stuart Hall prononça un discours en soutien à son camarade caraïbéen Walter Rodney, un intellectuel du Guyana alors persécuté par les (…)

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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 25d

Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.

Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.

The Stuart Hall Essay Prize.

25 days left to enter.

Open to UK-based entrants aged 18-30, the Stuart Hall Essay Prize awards £2,000 to a selected writer whose essay best offers an original, radical critique of contemporary society.

Welcoming academic, journalistic and creative essays that resonate with the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued.

Inviting new and unpublished essays of 4500-5000 words connecting with Hall’s interests and his concern to address the current ‘conjuncture’.

Submissions due by November 3, 2025.

Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 Years.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 21d

📣 OPPORTUNITY: the Stuart Hall Essay Prize competition invites young academics, journalists, students and other writers based in the UK to reflect on Stuart Hall's groundbreaking ideas in an original critique of contemporary society.

📅 Deadline 3 November.
👇 Details below!

Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 25d

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · 22d

Excellent issue this one here, @thenation.com. I received it this week & read it yesterday. Unfortunately, there is a huge printing error. The last page of @jeetheer.bsky.social's piece on W.F. Buckley Jr (p. 80) is missing, while the last of Lalami's (p. 82) is printed twice. Really a pity.

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Sep 9

Fall Books features Matt Duss on the crisis of Democratic foreign policy, Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann, Laila Lalami on the Internet's lost souls, Sarah Chihaya on Susan Choi, Elias Rodriques on James Baldwin, and @jeetheer.bsky.social on William Buckley: www.thenation.com/issue/octobe...

Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · 25d

Nativists? You mean white settlers (ergo non-native) descendants?

Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 25d

Bourgeois nativists spend a lot of time pretending their opposition to immigration is about working-class jobs/wages, but show them a society where all the real work is done by foreign guestworkers with fuck all rights and they're like "omg this is paradise"

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25d

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 26d

Very cool books with very cool covers bombardment because we all need a little beauty and brilliance, surely

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Sep 10

No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · Sep 10

In June, @Google quietly signed a $45M ad contract w/ Israel to spread propaganda denying Israel's genocide & starvation of Palestinians in Gaza

Along w/ cloud & AI, Google’s ad machine—the world's biggest—is now in Israel's genocide supply chain

Statement by Google workers w #NoTechForApartheid🧵

Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Aug 19

Il pourrait même s'inspirer de l'idée 😵‍💫

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · Aug 19

More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.

BBC under pressure over Sally Rooney’s Palestine Action support

The author of Normal People, which was a big hit for the corporation, said at the weekend she would donate money from her work to the proscribed group

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 18

Holy shit.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · Aug 7

…a state that exists only on paper, that must be approved by its occupier, is not a state. It’s a lie and recognition without action is not diplomacy - it’s complicity…. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/inst...

Instead of sanctioning Israel, the West is retreating into the fantasy of a 'virtual state'

Western leaders offering recognition of Palestine instead of consequences as Gaza is obliterated is symbolism, not sovereignty

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 30

OMG

We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.

Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Jul 30

The starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime and must be stopped immediately.

Our Full statement on bit.ly/44SCwVk

#CeasefireNow #EndTheSiege

Weaponised aid is not aid

Stop the siege of Gaza

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Jul 30

Dans ce contexte, "Identitaire" n'est qu'un euphémisme pour "suprémaciste blanc" et son utilisation renforce le travail rhétorique des suprémacistes blancs.

Marie Turcan @turcanmarie.bsky.social · Jul 30

Il n’avait jamais formulé aussi clairement sa pensée identitaire nataliste. C'est désormais clair : la priorité du milliardaire d'extrême droite Pierre-Édouard Stérin pour la France ? « Avoir plus de bébés de souche européenne », dit-il avec le sourire.

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« Avoir plus de bébés de souche européenne » : le projet nataliste d’extrême droite du milliardaire Stérin

Au cours d’une conférence organisée par des catholiques intégristes, le milliardaire a dit que « son action prioritaire en France » était de stimuler une politique nataliste chrétienne et « de souche…

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm going to cite this as an epigraph in each one of my Syllabi next year.

Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · Jul 25

Outsource your mental capacities at your peril.

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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · Jul 25

Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University tells Isaac Chotiner that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been “a total failure”. No, it is working just as intended—as a technology of genocide and humanitarian camouflage.

Quote on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a total failure

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Jul 25

They live in a parallel dimension.

Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Jul 24

@support.bsky.team Hi there, I've been locked out of my second Bluesky account, tied to the same email account as this one. I've tried changing my pwd plenty of times. After doing it, I get the message that I can login w/ new pwd, but when I try it, it says wrong pwd.

Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Jun 22

The attack against Iran is not "Netanyahu's war".

It's Israel's.

The whole Israeli government supports it, as does the population.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jun 4

According to UNICEF, Israel has killed or injured over 50,000 children in Gaza. Those attempting to justify this have lost their humanity.

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Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Jun 20

The West (by which I mean its governments, media, institutions, and many high profile figures) is a fucking sick joke.

Pathetic genocidal pricks.

Dr Isis Giraldo @isisgiraldo.bsky.social · Jun 20

Oui, mais la singularisation aide à la déresponsabilisation des autres responsables. Le fait q la soi-disant "opposition" soutienne pleinement ls attaques contre l'Iran, ainsi q le soutien quasi universel de la population au génocide pendant très longtemps, démontre q Ntyh n'est pas le seul.