Lisa Amanda Palmer
@lisaapalmer.bsky.social
Black Cultural Studies | Lovers Rock | Black Feminism | Community Archive Practices | Handsworth Epistemologies | Allotments and Green Spaces
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The family of Alejandro Carranza filed the first complaint against the boat bombings. What barriers stand in their way? https://aje.news/3sg89q
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The family of Alejandro Carranza filed the first complaint against the boat bombings. What barriers stand in their way? https://aje.news/3sg89q
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Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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Having stripped trans people of their right to be treated with dignity The Times is now coming for people of colour.
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Having stripped trans people of their right to be treated with dignity The Times is now coming for people of colour.
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The EHRC Guidance is a wicked exercise in removing rights from trans people - and is bad too for employers and service providers, those outside gender norms, people with disabilities and the economy.
We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
How to respond to the EHRC consultation
Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...
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June 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The EHRC Guidance is a wicked exercise in removing rights from trans people - and is bad too for employers and service providers, those outside gender norms, people with disabilities and the economy.
We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
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Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
April 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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If you are thinking about @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s The Shock Doctrine today, you should come to this on Tuesday:
Trump's Hammer, Our Hope 🌱
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the cascading crisis and how we can fight back.
Tuesday, April 8 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, & @astra.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the cascading crisis and how we can fight back.
Tuesday, April 8 at 5:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
April 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If you are thinking about @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s The Shock Doctrine today, you should come to this on Tuesday:
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Join @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org this evening to reclaim public space for multiple modes of mobility, and to have some fun!
All welcome. #CircleTheCity
All welcome. #CircleTheCity
April 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Join @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org this evening to reclaim public space for multiple modes of mobility, and to have some fun!
All welcome. #CircleTheCity
All welcome. #CircleTheCity
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Tulips, Mary Moser (1744-1819), English painter-one of the most celebrated women artists of 18thc Britain #WomensArt #April
April 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Tulips, Mary Moser (1744-1819), English painter-one of the most celebrated women artists of 18thc Britain #WomensArt #April
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Carrie Mae Weems, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990 #womensart
March 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Carrie Mae Weems, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990 #womensart
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March 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This is what Farage and Reform want for the UK. And they're coming to Birmingham in a bid for legitimacy.
It's easy to feel helpless, but together we can refuse this.
Friday, 6PM, Utilita Arena. See you there.
It's easy to feel helpless, but together we can refuse this.
Friday, 6PM, Utilita Arena. See you there.
March 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is what Farage and Reform want for the UK. And they're coming to Birmingham in a bid for legitimacy.
It's easy to feel helpless, but together we can refuse this.
Friday, 6PM, Utilita Arena. See you there.
It's easy to feel helpless, but together we can refuse this.
Friday, 6PM, Utilita Arena. See you there.
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I talk all things lungi, funjabi & the thobe on the Thinking Allowed show on BBC Radio 4 🙌🏾
I draw from my research paper on clothing & British Bangladeshi Muslim men w/ @identitiesjournal.bsky.social and my dress chapter in my book w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I draw from my research paper on clothing & British Bangladeshi Muslim men w/ @identitiesjournal.bsky.social and my dress chapter in my book w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I talk all things lungi, funjabi & the thobe on the Thinking Allowed show on BBC Radio 4 🙌🏾
I draw from my research paper on clothing & British Bangladeshi Muslim men w/ @identitiesjournal.bsky.social and my dress chapter in my book w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I draw from my research paper on clothing & British Bangladeshi Muslim men w/ @identitiesjournal.bsky.social and my dress chapter in my book w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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50 years ago, a French filmmaker documented the Indigenous Kuna people of Panama. The film disappeared, until now.
Watch The Lost Film of Panama here: aje.io/Panama
Watch The Lost Film of Panama here: aje.io/Panama
March 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
50 years ago, a French filmmaker documented the Indigenous Kuna people of Panama. The film disappeared, until now.
Watch The Lost Film of Panama here: aje.io/Panama
Watch The Lost Film of Panama here: aje.io/Panama
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🔴 BREAKING: A UN probe finds Israel carried out genocidal acts by destroying Gaza’s fertility centre, imposing a siege, and blocking aid. Israel rejects the claims.
March 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🔴 BREAKING: A UN probe finds Israel carried out genocidal acts by destroying Gaza’s fertility centre, imposing a siege, and blocking aid. Israel rejects the claims.