Spain joins Italy: “The government of Spain insists that international law be respected and… “Tomorrow we will dispatch a naval vessel from Cartagena with all necessary resources in case it was necessary to assist the flotilla and carry out a rescue operation." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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

@sumimadhok.bsky.social welcoming our new cohort this morning ❤️ @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social

147 states already do. And, now there are 150 of them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“While fights over gender and feminism are playing out across the world, from the US to Europe, South Korea has become ground zero for gender wars…and for some of the most toxic anti-feminist communities, turning virtual hatred into real-world violence”. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

“We are clear: racism, whether on the streets, in our schools, in workplaces, or embedded in policy, harms us all…Calls to “unite” ring hollow when they are based on exclusion, scapegoating, and denial of justice”.

Exciting event coming up featuring our Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social! ⬇️⬇️

After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.

Additionally, the entire framing of the racist march, & of the open expression of racism more generally, as a free speech issue is drawn from the far right itself, which is obsessed with the entirely fabricated idea that it is suffering oppression at the hands of shadowy forces linked to foreigners

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”' Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Iam so immensely shocked and heartbroken. I’ll miss his fierce intellect, ethical backbone, political commitment, high energy, and that famous irreverent wit. Rest in power, Professor Gearty.

Ursula von der Leyen: [T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.” “Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.

Had a great time talking to Linda Mulchay of Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies about Law, Arab Drama and Translation frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/looking-at-l...

Ursula von der Leyen: [T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.” “Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.

Thoughtful review of ‘Palestine 1492.’ “The capacity to imagine multiplicity that does not ultimately collapse into one sort of static container of universalism is possible only by taking a view in which worlds are continually made and remade from the Below rather than maintained by a power Above”.

You‘re invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social! Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂 Details below! ⬇️

Delighted to receive my copy in today’s post.

I’m no historian of the French Revolution but my goodness, this is a riveting read! @lrb.co.uk

These sanctions against Al-Haq, Al-Mezan and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights will cripple them. They will severely impact their ability to function, to pay their staff, to document abuses, and to engage with international organisations, governments and civil society. Which is the point.

“Though its coverage of race, gender and stigmatised groups is limited…” Oh well, here we go again having to ask the same questions again: *Equality of whom? Who is talked of when questions of equality are discussed? Whose equality struggles matter for theorists? blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Super news! Really looking forward to reading this @sandeepbak.bsky.social 🎉

“Though its coverage of race, gender and stigmatised groups is limited…” Oh well, here we go again having to ask the same questions again: *Equality of whom? Who is talked of when questions of equality are discussed? Whose equality struggles matter for theorists? blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Sorry who are these “lots of people” with flags up at home? Do they go to another school?

"This echoes the darkest chapter of the 1990s when the council was rebuked for its failures during the genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica." "Today, the same question will be asked of us in our failure to act." Remarkable speech. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1r...

... before proposing 'enmeshed rights' as an alternative to the dominant metaphor of possessive rights. My work is in conversation with Sylvia Wynter and María Lugones, as well as @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, and @hvoegele.bsky.social, amongst others!

Remarkable comments from Judge Sebutinde of the International Court of Justice, who dissented in various orders issued by the Court in the South Africa v. Israel genocide case. "....the Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel". www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...

‘Can a kind word change your life’? Well, now there’s some research to back this. www.ft.com/content/ad92...

‘People in Gaza are walking corpses’. This unrelenting horror has been allowed in our name. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The wonderful rise of Zohran Mamdani has me reaching out to my bookshelves for Mahmood Mamdani’s excellent ‘Citizen and Subject’… All kinds of associations, I guess…

Surely, this is breaking the Parliamentary rules on MP’s ‘code of conduct’, which requires MPs to take decisions ‘without discrimination or bias’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Resistance and change often begin in art And, very often they begin… in the art of words…”

Great keynote by @sumimadhok.bsky.social on an anti-imperial imperative for feminism

JOB: We’re hiring a LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Details 👇🏽 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/... Do please share with anyone who might be interested to apply!

This morning’s rose—The Albrighton Climber.

Letter to UK PM by 800 lawyers: “urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza”. “The UK’s actions to date have failed to meet [those] standards” of international legal obligations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

We were so happy to be part of this Special Issue on anti-imperial Epistemic Justice edited by Sumi Madhok. Olga Mun and I contributed a paper on Central Asian knowledge production. take a look journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJW/curr...

📢Hot off the Press: Special Issue: Conceptual Diversity and Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice. journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJW/curr... Concepts 👇🏽 *Wujud *Namús *Zulm, *Azadi *Coloniality of Gender *Territorio- Cuerpo-Tierra’ *Asar *Jeong *Middle-ness; Middle-lives @lsegender.bsky.social

Latest migration figures show a 17% drop in international student applications. An unbelievable act of economic self harm that is destroying the crown jewel of Britain's modern economy. UK #HigherEd generates around £265bn per year. Around 250x more than fishing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

“Extractivism is empire by other means. Her argument is not just about economics and those who make money from these trades, but about the injustice suffered often by those whose hands labour for the extraction of these same resources”. Such a good review of Laleh Khalili’s ‘Extractive Capitalism’.

The annihilation of the Palestinian people on our watch. Anyone with a conscience, this is unconscionable. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

“Island of Strangers”. Half a century on from a divisive conservative politician’s “ rivers of blood” speech, a labour Prime Minister takes a leaf out from its vile appeal to racial hatred. The shame of it.

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

Rosa Luxemburg reading afternoon. The Junius Pamphlet, 1915

Rome Statute, ICC. War Crime: “Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions”. www.ft.com/content/48dc...

Meanwhile, in the world’s largest ‘electoral autocracy’: “In a clear violation of the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press, the Government of India has blocked access to thewire.in across India”.

nergy, Extractivism and Empire day school. 18 May 10am–5pm, London Register: www.outsavvy.com/event/26792/... Organised by Workers in Palestine & WeSmellGas, this day school will strategise, build solidarity with labour movements, & organise against energy imperialism in Palestine.

Mosab Abu Toha, Pulitzer Prize Winner 2025. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...