What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

“…anti-colonial knowledge, perhaps especially the work of nationalist intellectuals in the Third World, but not exclusively, is considered tainted, or derivative, or “activist,” or some other excuse for not taking it seriously as knowledge. All the while, colonial knowledge can claim neutrality.”

@sumimadhok.bsky.social joins this keynote lecture to explore what it means to develop richer, more substantive frameworks for human rights accountability that transcend the boundaries between law, politics, and moral claims ⬇️ futureproofinghumanrights.org/keynote-lect...

Absolutely. I would love to be able to listen again to BBC News without despairing at how craven it is to a right wing agenda and language. For instance, persistently mis-describing asylum seekers as ‘illegal migrants’

Yes. And, should be obvious, no? It’s always about how to think about the bigger picture, i.e. most of the world… blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

“If this happens to the head of state, to our supreme commander, to our president of the republic, it also happens silently every day to thousands of women in our country”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Our student Mahnoor Omer featured in The Guardian on her work challenging Pakistan’s ‘period tax’ ⬇️ @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The fact that the candidate was of a racialised minority, attempting to withstand a barrage of racism from his opponents and come through on a platform of egalitarianism, is something that is bound to resonate worldwide in this historical moment. I'm not clear why this should need to be explained?

🧑‍⚖️ Join us on 18 November for a conversation with @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @smrodriguez.bsky.social, Prof Nicola Lacey and Prof Susanne Baer! 🥂 Drinks reception after the event! 🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

It was unmistakeable and flashed across my mind, too.

Amidst horror show upon horror show, so good to know that there are also the principled brave who walk amongst us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3

A case study in far right propaganda success. Tory governments run down public services over decades & then the the populist right breeds in ruined communities by scapegoating Black & brown immigrants. Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rafeef Ziadah writes on “Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future”. @rafeefz.bsky.social www.merip.org/2025/10/hard...

Join us for our event with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social, co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social 🌳

Apply to study with us at the absolute cutting-edge and state-of-the-art intersection of the social sciences and the humanities!

I’m always inspired by our brilliant students @lsegender.bsky.social. 👏🏽

This was a lot fun. And, a dazzling book, which you should read!

Zack Polanski reciting Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘The British’. And, the Greens are surging up in the polls. Tells you something!

🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social! ➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice. ➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them. And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A wonderful Sunday morning listening. ‘The point of creativity is imperfection’… besides, so much other thoughtful thinking. mihttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002k4kh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

And, Yes! The Nobel Peace 🏆 👏🏽https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1l80g1qe4gt

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️

In this sense, the Academy is honoring tradition: The Nobel Prize “continues to be basically [devoted to] European Pride, with varying degrees of curiosity regarding the rest of the planet.”

“A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine” All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to UNRWA. www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

Our brilliant graduate Annetta Jackson is highlighted in Antigua News for her achievement of the MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities! 🎓🇦🇬 antigua.news/2025/10/03/j...

New Alumni Spotlight! Everyone say hi to Megan, an MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation 2017 alum! 👋🏻 Including a very special shoutout to @sumimadhok.bsky.social 🥰

Alex de Waal: "The global consensus against the starvation weapon took decades to achieve. Now, international apathy risks letting it collapse at the moment it is most needed." www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/return...

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers. Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

A point of sorrow in all we’re witnessing is the systematic shredding of hard won democratic freedoms. All of these gained through protest and political action, of course. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

yet another way that the war on academic knowledge is a war on the past & a violent thinning out of historical experience — you’re taking years & often decades of slow-building expertise (& the investments that made it possible) and just tossing it in the bin

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act. “The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

No Pasarán! “Many antifascists who took part in the Battle of Cable Street donated money or travelled to Spain to join the International Brigade to fight fascism… The strong links between the movements can be seen in the adoption of the “They Shall Not Pass” slogan from the “No Pasarán!”

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act. “The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“…Labour risks a migration politics that divides society into the fully entitled and the permanently probationary. In this hierarchical system of belonging, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals”.

"There is a war on children" A clarion call for action and accountability from Dr. Thaer Ahmad who served in Gaza. He reads the 'will' of a 10-year-old girl who Israel killed, as a way to honour her. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

This lot are to use Stiig Larsson’s words : ‘Men who hate women’. “Earlier this month they removed books written by women from the country's university teaching system as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment”.

Strange convoluted logic of her speech that blames immigrants for the racism on the streets. Racism needs to be checked by limiting immigration, she says. Ah, OK. www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/shabana-mahmood-calls-nigel-farage-worse-than-racist-over-dog-whistle-politics

“It’s just same old, same old. I wish the media would stop talking about this as an unprecedented movement. There’s nothing unprecedented about it. Anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of 20th-century history should know that.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The feminist historian Joan W. Scott tells a personal story of resistance against authoritarianism. And, of the imperative of fighting for a democratic education system. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

“The alleged abuses by British forces range from murder, torture, expulsion and collective punishment which the submission says repressed the Arab Palestinian population amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity”.

The ICC is not perfect but the proposed US sanctions present a dangerous turn for international law and its institutions. The US sanctions would “transform[ing] a system designed to hold the most powerful accountable for atrocity crimes into one that instead shields the powerful”.

Lots of good writing in the @lrb.co.uk “Recognition is not an endpoint. It cannot, by itself, end violence... But recognition remains the necessary first step – an acknowledgment that Palestinians will remain on our land. We cannot, and will not, disappear”.

“The deepfakes proliferating across far-right social media…are fascistic dream machines”. They are a product of fascist desire and not of bad information ( or so much, at any rate).

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social speaking on South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production and Queer Organising for this year‘s Welcome Lecture chaired by @sumimadhok.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️