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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 7d

It seems Labour have now learnt the word 'racism', but this is utterly disingenuous given how they are pandering to Reform’s far-right agenda.

✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tact

The Labour Party can't out-Reform Reform, and if it genuinely wants to choose ‘decency’ over ‘division’, it needs to change tact.

www.bigissue.com

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 9d

True true! Sadly, all the ones I listed are in humanitarian stories about migration in the UK I've researched.

Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 9d

No criminal record, then volunteer, then learn the language and, ideally, bring an Oscar or an Olympic medal. Then we'll accept you - maybe you'll get citizenship...

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9d

Labour looking at Reform's racist policies and saying "we"ll have some of that". These aren't just discriminatory, by making migrants meet higher standards than the average person, they automatically treat migrants as if they are criminals on community service.
#r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Under the proposals, legal migrants will have to learn English to a high standard, have a clean criminal record and volunteer in their community to be granted permanent settlement status.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13d

#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 11d

#WordsMatter

Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social · 11d

Labour Party Conference kicks off tomorrow, so we thought we'd mark the occasion by going through some of the Prime Minister Keir Starmer's recent social media posts on the Government's #immigration policies. 👉 buff.ly/MshzSHQ

To Starmer’s Government: Your #WordsMatter.

Keir Starmer is complicit in stoking anti-migrant racism

Disclaimer: we had to edit this piece multiple times because the PM kept making more anti-migrant statements

open.substack.com

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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 12d

i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 19d

new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫

Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 13d

TUP has given us access to 25 online copies of our gendered linguistic ideologies paper in UK schools. Feel free to download!
el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...

Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 13d

That's why! Probably ours will be about 20% on week 8!!!

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 13d

Seriously? 70% for me - week 1 only though!

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Laura Filardo-Llamas @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social · 22d

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26d

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 26d

At the last 'Approaches to Language, Migration&Identity' conference, I discussed how we can go beyond the positive migrant 'storytelling canon'. Project Armonia is a great initiative supporting displaced people through food/cooking (and not linear storytelling)
projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Sep 8

A great article! Thanks for reviving it and sharing!

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Sep 4

Absolutely! They know it says racism but popularise it by (re)claiming it says England i.e. the narrative is 'we should separate patriotism from racism (that they are two different things)'. And that's how it becomes successful and normalised. The shocking part is how the government plays dumb :(

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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · Sep 4

Family unity is central to recovery, integration, and wellbeing. We stand with @rasvoice.bsky.social in urging the Home Secretary to recognise the human cost of this policy and to reinstate safe, legal, and timely pathways for families to be reunited.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘It kept me going’: halt to refugee reunion scheme in UK shatters hopes

Afghan man seeking asylum and permission to bring wife to Britain describes shock at home secretary’s announcement

www.theguardian.com

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Sep 1

Absolutely!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Sep 1

UK's family reunion route is already a farce which sees too many people denied ability to reach UK to seek asylum, including children.

Tightening it will only ensure even more, particularly women and children, are denied safety, and more families ripped apart. #r4todau

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Family reunion rules to be tightened in asylum cases

Yvette Cooper will outline her plans when MPs return to Parliament after the summer break.

www.bbc.com

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Aug 27

Can't wait to read it! Are you presenting it at all in one of your future events? I see there's one in Nottingham in November and I'd like to bring my daughter (year 4) who loves your poems (she was in the Y3 Rosen' class at school last year :)

Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Aug 24

So good news - in the gloominess of the world

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Aug 13

And it is available open access @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Aug 13

New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Revisiting herstory: from trailblazers and herstory makers to the pitfalls of popular post-feminism

We live in a moment where feminism is “done” everywhere we turn—be it online or offline, on billboards or on television, in music or in the press. In this moment, however, we are also experiencing ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Aug 13

New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Revisiting herstory: from trailblazers and herstory makers to the pitfalls of popular post-feminism

We live in a moment where feminism is “done” everywhere we turn—be it online or offline, on billboards or on television, in music or in the press. In this moment, however, we are also experiencing ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · Aug 11

We're proud to join over 200 organisations to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past.

Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.

Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · Aug 11

“Over the past 20 years or so, immigration demands have shifted from variations of “controlling our borders”//…//to demanding that zero migrants be allowed to enter” Point and important read by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik

He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · Aug 11

A really good read indeed!

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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · Aug 8

📢Dispatches from Calais today:
As the UK government begins detaining people under its “one in, one out” policy, our Racial Justice researchers are on the ground, speaking with people who could be subject to this inhumane policy next.

What we’re witnessing is fear, uncertainty and cruelty.

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