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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Without Gaza, our scholarship loses its value. Without Gaza, our education loses its meaning. Without Gaza, our values lose their mooring. Without Gaza, our world loses its order. Without Gaza, our words lose their holding"
#GazaMatters #GazaGenocide

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Reparative Praxis with Gaza

This guest post by Dr. Khawla Badwan asks: What does it mean to repair with Gaza?

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · May 27

I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.

Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.

Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid...

Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾

BAICE Presidential Workshop Series

Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education

baice.ac.uk

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · May 27

I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.

Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.

Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid...

Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾

BAICE Presidential Workshop Series

Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education

baice.ac.uk

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · May 15

Introducing the Dialogues on Educational Justice podcast, brought to you by the Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed) team 🎧

In the podcast, the team talk to people about how schooling systems and practices can be reimagined.

Listen to the first 3 episodes ➡️ podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/dialo...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Apr 9

A deportation system like Amazon prime but with human beings.
A deportation system like Amazon prime but with human beings.
A deportation system like Amazon prime but with human beings.
A deportation system like Amazon prime but with human beings.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Apr 9

The acting director of ICE told the Border Security Expo that his dream is to make the deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

He added, “We need to get better at treating this like a business.”

The depravity of these folks knows no bounds.

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The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Mar 19

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I am a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana. I am being targeted for my activism | Mahmoud Khalil

The Columbia graduate and green-card holder, held in Louisiana by immigration agents, dictated this letter to family and friends

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Mar 16

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Rocks and racism? How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudice

Kathryn Yusoff sparked a culture war with her latest book, suggesting slavery and white supremacy informed the work of geology’s founding fathers. Here, she and other experts suggest that attitudes ha...

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Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · Mar 11

I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan.
Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending.

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Feb 27

Racial capitalism x settler colonialism

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Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land

As Israel deploys tanks in the West Bank for the first time in 20 years, we reveal how two of the world’s biggest travel companies are helping settlers commercialise stolen land

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Feb 9

The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri

Details in link.

Please share :)

Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize

Since its inception fifteen years ago, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has awarded some of the most exciting new voices in life writing, poetry…

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Dec 5

Digital futures of education are often defined by the edtech investment industry in terms of market value forecasts made with predictive technologies

Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Algorithmic futuring: predictive infrastructures of valuation and investment in the assetization of edtech

Futures of education are increasingly defined through predictive technologies and methods. We conceptualize ‘algorithmic futuring’ as the use of data-driven digital methods and predictive infrastru...

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Dec 9

Am I old fashioned?! If you host an online talk, do you stay online for a few minutes at the end to debrief with the speaker after participants have left? A little human connection. Or do we all just hit the "leave meeting" button and get back to our emails?!

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Dec 4

This! (I am in Seoul now and last night was mad...my head was spinning as I was working out what it meant to be under martial law).

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Dec 4

This is legendary from @sarahjeong.bsky.social. I appreciate her drunkenly walking the world through a coup attempt and then writing it up. www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

6 hours under martial law in Seoul

On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

www.theverge.com

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Dec 4

And perhaps the highlight was Refat Sabah's powerful insights on peace education: "There is no peace without social justice. Peace without social justice is a declaration of war"

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Dec 4

Really enjoyed the school visits, meeting students and teachers, and eating delicious school lunch with the kids!

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Dec 4

It was an eventful trip to South Korea for the UNESCO Futures of Education forum! Heading home after three days of talks about #education and social justice. It was a privilege to discuss ideas about Reparative Futures...

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Dec 4

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Dec 3

Oh wow! 😊 Thanks for sharing this! Would love to hear more... Wish I had been able to come.

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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · Nov 27

Me too! (For the most part 😂)

Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social · Nov 21

Ok, looking for starter packs for:
children's books
diverse books
children's literature scholars
philosophy of education
philosophy for children / dialogic pedagogy
antiracist education
Welsh football fans
Welsh music fans

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hunger is a violation of basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis.

Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.

1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...