I'm pleased to share this cfp from Soapbox (graduate journal in Cultural Analysis)
Between Bodies and Homes
— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —

‍https://www.soapboxjournal.net/page/call-for-papers-7-0-between-bodies-and-homes

Cracking the Magafacists code

We’ve put together a starter pack of alternative media outlets. Follow these to get a different take on the news. 👇

Now available in open access: The Future of Cultural Analysis, edited by Murat Aydemir, Noa Roei, and Aylin Kuryel, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Great piece (in Dutch) by @cineville-nl.bsky.social 's Maan Melker on Raoul Peck's new film, 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' - and the still unresolved mystery of how Cole's lost archive suddenly appeared in the vaults of a Swedish bank www.cineville.nl/magazine/int...

Palestinians don’t need your sympathy or your pity or your symbolic gestures. We need you to cut ties with our killers and colonizers. We need you to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. Yes that includes academic institutions, whose commitment to genocide and apartheid is well documented.

What a day. What a club. The Reds 😍❤️❤️❤️

www.melkweg.nl/en/agenda/so... Superb film - twisting the kaleidoscope on familiar and unfamiliar sounds and images to produce 2hrs of cinema that honours the ongoing histories of decolonization and exposes both the cynicism and pantomime of geopolitics - and their painful entanglements with jazz.

"We cannot separate the question of reparations from decolonization. What good is a transfer of stolen land from settlers to victims of kidnapping? We have to return to a transformative vision that sees reparations discourse as diagnostic..." Robin D. G. Kelley

Something most people do not know is that there are almost no Black Studies degree courses at UK universities. Birmingham City University has recently cut its only undergraduate course.

Been considering authorship practices in academia, and I think "Guest, Gift and Ghost authorship" no longer describes the full range of unethical issues that we see. Here's a draft longer list. Would love opinions.
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#researchintegrity #academicsky

Just a reminder:

Demonstration against higher education and research cuts
Monday November 25, 1300. Malieveld, The Hague

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Mati Diop's Dahomey at IDFA Amsterdam. Superb film, superb conversation between Diop and Quinsy Gario. What does it mean that 90% of one continent's material cultural legacy is buried in the dark of the catacombs under another continent? Dahomey one answer to the enormity of that fact. #restitution

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

And on November 25, we will still go to protest all of us together, in The Hague, and we will be with many more than originally envisioned.

We will resist these stupid, illogical, unnecessary, harmful, and illegitimate budget cuts -- until they are gone.

#WOinActie

The frustration at Dutch universities is tangible today. Being faced with huge, irrational, shortsighted cutbacks is frustrating. Being denied the opportunity to protest these cutbacks adds to the frustration. But while today’s huge demonstration may be cancel, the protest is not 🟥

Getting ready for national protest tomorrow against the shortsighted cuts in higher education and research in the Netherlands.

You can still join. Details below ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

stand with striking workers! NYT games and cooking are a no-go during the tech guild strike