I was in NYC last night, and I didn’t even know how much I (and everyone else) needed a shared political moment that just felt hopeful and exciting (and not cynical, for once!) 🥲 we need feelings like this on the left, too!

Join us @sociowarwick.bsky.social for the 2025 Annual Social Theory Centre Lecture with Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (who is one of the most important contemporary sociologists, if you ask me)

When: October 13, 4-6 pm
Where: A0.23 Social Sciences
Tell you friends in the Midlands!

@sophiemng.bsky.social came to visit @sociowarwick.bsky.social today to lecture on Black feminism and resistance for my module on “Race, Resistance and Modernity”

Meine 85 jährige Oma 🥹

Last week in “Race, Resistance and Modernity” students collectively mapped the emergence of Third Worldism (League against Imp, Bandung, Cairo). This week, we focused on the Black Panthers, thinking them in a broader anti-Imperial context & exploring what Black power as a cultural form means today

This weeks “Race, Resistance and modernity” teaching was on Fanon and Decolonization. My lecture slides matched my outfit as well as the Coventry train station bathroom 🤭

Tomorrow’s teaching for “Race, Resistance and Modernity”: from Du Bois on democracy, to the Haitian Revolution and how it defines our theoretical vocabulary today, to Haitian futures with @ednabonhomme.bsky.social

First time teaching a full undergraduate class in years! This is from the intro session to “Race, Resistance and Modernity” @sociowarwick.bsky.social - very exciting!

A very exciting event I am co-organizing at UCL: "Queering Science: A view from the bench" Drs. Max Liboiron and Alex Bond will discuss theorizing and practicing queering science from two different but overlapping perspectives as scientists in plastic pollution research and conservation.

I spoke with Xine Yao about their (multiple!) award-winning book Disaffected (Duke University Press, 2021) for the SPRC podcast. This is such a brilliant book to demonstrate what interdisciplinary work can do, and how to approach literary and cultural text *as* theory. Xine reflects on 1/

Last week of vacation commences 🥲

Dreaming up an Intro to Sociology class in which I would show Born in Flames (1983) and Bread and Roses (2000) to teach racial capitalism, borders, migration, gender, intersectionality… will keep adding to film list for when I’ll get to do this

New SPRC podcast with Prof. Akwugo Emejulu! We discuss fugitive feminism, solidarity & coalitional politics, counter-storytelling, & the difficulties of staying in the liminal space of fugitivity as a mode of ambivalence and disidentification from the figure of the Human
https://tinyurl.com/3u7j64bk