Tom Western
@tomwestern.bsky.social
Writing about circles and circulations and anticolonial futures. Setting up an anti-genocide university
(Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL)
https://undercartographies.city/
(Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL)
https://undercartographies.city/
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A bit of a misnomer since the Israeli army has had an established occupation presence in the southern Syrian corridor since December 2024. They have put up checkpoints, rendered roads unusable, kidnapped Syrian civilians, killed Syrian civilians, and bombed countless civilian sites.
BREAKING: The Israeli army has launched an incursion into the countryside of Quneitra in southern Syria with five vehicles entering Syrian territory.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ovn8p0
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ovn8p0
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A bit of a misnomer since the Israeli army has had an established occupation presence in the southern Syrian corridor since December 2024. They have put up checkpoints, rendered roads unusable, kidnapped Syrian civilians, killed Syrian civilians, and bombed countless civilian sites.
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This is so good! You need to watch this interview from The Palestine Festival of Literature. Rare Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates talking about Baconi’s queer Palestinian memoir: youtu.be/eYW0Iy5jUcw?...
Tareq Baconi in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about "Fire in Every Direction"
YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is so good! You need to watch this interview from The Palestine Festival of Literature. Rare Baconi and Ta-Nehisi Coates talking about Baconi’s queer Palestinian memoir: youtu.be/eYW0Iy5jUcw?...
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Saw a banger of a presentation bout this at HM this year, please do browse! Its beautifully presented too
A wonderful historical resource on the Palestinian national liberation movement, seen through a UK-based magazine that appeared 1968-1984:
“Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution”, revolutionarypapers.org/teaching-too...
“Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution”, revolutionarypapers.org/teaching-too...
Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution
Free Palestine was a monthly magazine published in Britain from 1968 until 1984, after which it moved to Australia from where it continued publication until 1992. The magazine, little known by activis...
revolutionarypapers.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Saw a banger of a presentation bout this at HM this year, please do browse! Its beautifully presented too
Went back to this and it took me to this and it's all good
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Went back to this and it took me to this and it's all good
Qobuz is good if you want a non-genocidal (and less terrible for musicians) streaming service
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Qobuz is good if you want a non-genocidal (and less terrible for musicians) streaming service
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I’ll be in London in two weeks to talk about the politics of hunger in Sudan. I’d love to see some of my London fam (not necessarily for the talk :))
Why is Sudan—rich in land, livestock, and gold—facing mass hunger?
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
Join @nisrinelamin.bsky.social at LSE to unpack the extractive politics behind famine.
🗓️ 3 Dec | 6.30pm
📍Hong Kong Theatre & Online
#LSEEvents #Sudan
The politics of hunger in Sudan | Nisrin Elamin
6.30pm Weds 3 Dec | Nisrin Elamin | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
lse.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’ll be in London in two weeks to talk about the politics of hunger in Sudan. I’d love to see some of my London fam (not necessarily for the talk :))
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
Creative writing workshop to honour Dr Refaat Alareer, 5 Dec, hosted by the anti-genocide university ❤️
www.outsavvy.com/event/31718/...
www.outsavvy.com/event/31718/...
Creative Writing Workshop: Honouring Dr Refaat Alareer Tickets - London - OutSavvy
UCL students are invited to join a two-hour creative writing workshop in honour of our beloved alumnus, the Palestinian poet and academic Dr. Refaat Alareer. Drawing on Dr. Alareer’s pedagogical appro...
www.outsavvy.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Creative writing workshop to honour Dr Refaat Alareer, 5 Dec, hosted by the anti-genocide university ❤️
www.outsavvy.com/event/31718/...
www.outsavvy.com/event/31718/...
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#antireport
#17Νοεμβρη
Το χρονικό
16,17,18 Νοεμβρίου 1973
#Πολυτεχνειο
51 χρόνια μετά.
Το Πολυτεχνείο ΖΕΙ και θα ΖΕΙ.
Ο αγώνας συνεχίζεται.
#Athens
51 years later.
The uprising against fascism.
51 years after the Polytechnic Uprising that marked the fall of the military dictatorship in #Greece.
#17Νοεμβρη
Το χρονικό
16,17,18 Νοεμβρίου 1973
#Πολυτεχνειο
51 χρόνια μετά.
Το Πολυτεχνείο ΖΕΙ και θα ΖΕΙ.
Ο αγώνας συνεχίζεται.
#Athens
51 years later.
The uprising against fascism.
51 years after the Polytechnic Uprising that marked the fall of the military dictatorship in #Greece.
November 14, 2024 at 2:56 PM
#antireport
#17Νοεμβρη
Το χρονικό
16,17,18 Νοεμβρίου 1973
#Πολυτεχνειο
51 χρόνια μετά.
Το Πολυτεχνείο ΖΕΙ και θα ΖΕΙ.
Ο αγώνας συνεχίζεται.
#Athens
51 years later.
The uprising against fascism.
51 years after the Polytechnic Uprising that marked the fall of the military dictatorship in #Greece.
#17Νοεμβρη
Το χρονικό
16,17,18 Νοεμβρίου 1973
#Πολυτεχνειο
51 χρόνια μετά.
Το Πολυτεχνείο ΖΕΙ και θα ΖΕΙ.
Ο αγώνας συνεχίζεται.
#Athens
51 years later.
The uprising against fascism.
51 years after the Polytechnic Uprising that marked the fall of the military dictatorship in #Greece.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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UCL staff, students and alumni demand that UCL rescinds Demis Hassabis’ Honorary Fellowship. Sign our petition now, link and info at this link: shorturl.at/l0BCO
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
UCL staff, students and alumni demand that UCL rescinds Demis Hassabis’ Honorary Fellowship. Sign our petition now, link and info at this link: shorturl.at/l0BCO
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What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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There is no ceasefire.
There never was.
There never was.
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
There is no ceasefire.
There never was.
There never was.
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*acting surprised*
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to immediately carry out 'powerful' attacks in Gaza reut.rs/42X27uY
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
*acting surprised*
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
sudansolidarity.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
This is coming up soon
This year's Claire Dwyer lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social is with Dr Shabna Begum (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) – reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act of 1965
Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...
Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...
The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum
Eventbrite - UCL Department of Geography presents The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum - Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at Common Ground, London, England. Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is coming up soon
Getting some very exciting PhD proposals coming in at the moment 😍
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Getting some very exciting PhD proposals coming in at the moment 😍