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Lovette 🏳️‍🌈 @lovettejallow.bsky.social · Apr 26

Today’s post isn’t just history. It’s a correction.

#StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself.

Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social · Apr 24

Just had a doorstep chat with the local Labour team and told them Keir had lost my support before the general election because of the party’s stance on various equalities legislation. And that I couldn’t renew a vote for local Labour given the ongoing attack on trans rights.

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Apr 24

Have a listen, you will learn!

Lovette 🏳️‍🌈 @lovettejallow.bsky.social · Apr 22

Many people are practicing patriarchy in a dress & calling it matriarchy.

After my last post, it became clear: #matriarchy is still being misread. What’s often being performed is #gynarchy a system where women occupy patriarchal roles, reproduce hierarchical power & call it liberation.

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Are You Practicing Feminism or Just Gynarchy? | Matriarchy vs Patriarchy Explained

Listen now | Are you practicing feminism—or just patriarchy in reverse?Lovette Jallow breaks down why gynarchy mimics domination, while matriarchy redefines power through responsibility, memory, and c...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Apr 21

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.

This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · Apr 22

The Battle for Higher Ed 👉🏾 “Becoming Unloved & Dangerous: Black University Life in the Age of Palestine Protest” w/ Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, April 23 @ 6pm EDT. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Apr 22

This, especially the last point.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Apr 22

trans women are women
trans men are men
nonbinary people are nonbinary
and keir starmer is an absolute fuck

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Apr 22

Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.

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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · Mar 20

Coming soon... January 2026

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When Trees Testify: Reckoning with Black History Through the Science and Wisdom of Plants

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Feb 22

🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal

UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim

www.theguardian.com

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Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social · Feb 22

Crushing account of what's happening in UK #HE. The most awful part is that nothing in this unbelievable account is unbelievable, reminding us about what has been normalised right across and beyond the UK

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 21

Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Feb 22

Something people in UK need to wake up to is how racism affects whether or not you get a job, whether you will be promoted and how long you will stay promoted.

MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · Feb 22

Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · Feb 22

Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL

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Prof Ann Lopez @drannlopez.bsky.social · Feb 22

Join the CLD for this important conversation

Centre for Leadership and Diversity @cldleadership.bsky.social · Feb 21

5 days to go 👀

Centre for Leadership & Diversity presents it's symposium on February 26, 2025@6:30 pm, with a host of esteemed panelists & moderated by CLD's Director @drannlopez.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social 👏

Link to register ⬇️
oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 21

My latest column for @newscientist.com is about how categories are made by humans, whether we are talking about how to organize stellar types or human sex identity.

With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

We need to think more carefully about how we categorise the universe, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

www.newscientist.com

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Feb 21

Lol it is helpful!

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Feb 18

So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?

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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · Feb 17

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨

✅ two-years full-time PAID research
✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits
✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers
✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds
✅ dedicated mentors
+ more!

z.umn.edu/minds
Please share ✨

A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This diverse group of historically marginalized scholars are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 29

But do actual conversations happen? It feels so anti-social here

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 29

It is so dull, no dialogue, no fun.

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 28

I have given up here...

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jan 27

Returning to their homes—to their land.

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · Jan 22

✨ soft life ✨

The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress.

Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · Jan 22

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sudanese women fleeing civil war face rape and abuse in Libya

The BBC hears about horrific violence five women experienced in Libya after fleeing war-torn Sudan.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Jan 19

If you are or know of any UK Black women profs promoted in Sept 24 to date, please let me know. This is for our Black women professors list!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jan 11

Fanta was created so coke could sell soda in nazi Germany around a trade embargo. IBM sold the machines that were used to track and tabulate holocaust victims. Henry Ford inspired Hitler. Big business has always collaborated with fascism. Today's businesses are bastards who are no different.

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