The greatest singer of Cabo Verde was Cesoria Evora, and it is because she mixed with melancholy with joy. Sodade: youtu.be/ERYY8GJ-i0I?....

OK I’ll say this: Theorists of all stripes from ‘most of the world’— political, feminist, social and cultural—have always theorised from the empirical realities of not only their own but also of ‘other’ worlds. They do because Eurocentred theories and concepts don’t ‘theorise’ ‘other’ worlds.

First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵

These are the numbers being cut from Humanities and Social Sciences at Exeter:

This looks terrific. It’s now on my ‘to read and teach’ list. Congratulations, @galarexer.bsky.social

Exact. Love the shout out to @serenekhader.bsky.social. “Khader’s alternative “feminism for the many,” defined by what it does rather than what it says, means winning concrete political victories for the many working-class women of color and immigrant women…’ whose labour holds up the world.

Not so much surprised, I have to say.

Yes. “We must stand firmly by our commitments under the 1951 refugee convention and the ECHR…”. No “performative cruelty”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On my teaching and reading list. doi.org/10.1093/9780... Congratulations!

Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

With hardly any media coverage one of Britain’s few world-leading sectors is, right now, being decimated. The university funding model does not work and anti-immigrant hysteria has deprived the country of the means by which we met the shortfall: international students.

World Refugee Day. The sublime Mahmoud Darwish ‘Think of Others’.

Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/

Maybe I’m in the minority, but it’s unfathomable to me and even somewhat shocking if I am absolutely honest, that academics are using AI to write their research manuscripts. A scholar’s work is attributable to someone. AI implies that there is no one behind the writing. It’s quite something, this.

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

Thinking of Helen De Cruz suddenly today, and their guiding words for doing philosophy: "We should write philosophy with a sense of urgency, a sense of survival, a sense of horror and wonder at the world." ❤️‍🩹

Hmm…Let’s start with the ‘stop and search’ figures, shall we? From the government’s latest figures: “…there were 24.5 stop and searches for every 1,000 black people, and 5.9 for every 1,000 white people…”.

The Africa exception in global reparations: “The west has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to pay reparations for the loss of what it once considered its African property – but never for the loss of the African person”. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

New report based on interviews with those sanctioned for their work with the ICC—including individuals in The Hague who now can’t book flights or hotels, and a Palestinian human rights organisation whose website and social media accounts were shut down. coalitionfortheicc.org/news/cicc-la...

The luminous and mesmerising Marjane Satrapi. Rest in power. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/16/marjane-satrapi-interview-persepolis-woman-life-freedom

❤️ “Kimberlé called LSE Gender her third home, and that this event felt like a homecoming in many ways.”

As the British government delivers its guidance on “single sex spaces,” here is a painfully clear reminder from Australia that it’s possible (and actually pretty basic!) to pass legislation that ensures trans people are not discriminated against and are recognised in their gender. It’s not radical.

Ah, I think about this endemic self referentialism quite a few times every week! Folks, do attempt to read a little bit outside your orbit on some of the things you’re suddenly discovering as interesting. And, perhaps, cite some of that writing too 😉

This sort of absolute vandalism is why we have been on strike. In what world does dismantling chemistry , materials science, and East Asian Studies make sense?

Remind me again, what’s the job spec of a university? Just horrifying wilful destruction.

Happy 98th Professor Wynter. Thanks for the courageous and luminous thinking and writing, and esp this: “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument” The New Centennial Review, Vol 3, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 257-337.

Shabana Mahmood has asked the PM to ‘consider’ his position. Really? My word, after leading the cruelty brigade from the front, this from Mahmood is almost surreal and even hilariously disingenuous. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

“This is why they’ve gone after critical race theory, because critical race theory says… discrimination, exclusion can happen in any number of ways that are presumably race-neutral”. Thrilled of course, that Professor Crenshaw is coming to @lsegender.bsky.social to launch her new book ‘Backtalker’!

“This is why they’ve gone after critical race theory, because critical race theory says… discrimination, exclusion can happen in any number of ways that are presumably race-neutral”. Thrilled of course, that Professor Crenshaw is coming to @lsegender.bsky.social to launch her new book ‘Backtalker’!

Just in case, you’re looking to come up for some *air* today. This is a marvellous 🎂 appreciation of a very special human. And, it helps if you’re a fan of Jarvis, I guess. So there… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vl8n?partner=uk.co.bbc

On the train going home to vote before the polling closes! 🗳️

It’s good to see work that tracks the inclusion of the global poor as citizens via financialised debt. The 📕asks if neoliberal welfare can repair historical & racial injustice? And how do recipients, in this case, Black South African women push back against these? www.dukeupress.edu/predatory-we...

05 May 1818 Happy Birthday Karl Marx.

Here we go again: The authoritarian right tightens its grip in the world’s largest electoral democracy. 154 million vote in 5 States—9 million could’ve voted but disenfranchised; 30% were Muslim. For the first time since 1977, no Left govt in any state in India. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/w...

How to strengthen interdisciplinary teaching, learning and scholarship? See below 👇🏽👇🏽 @lsegender.bsky.social

“If I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.” Yes, that too. Good point! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

“The Court’s judgement is a …devastating indictment of the impartiality and competence of the OfS, implicating its operations, leadership, governance, and strategy. It raises important and urgent questions for the government as it plans to grant ever more powers to the regulator”.

In the UK (and not just the UK) university sector, we're living, working, thinking and being made redundant (sic) with and by emergencies. Join Wendy Brown, Margot Finn, Eva von Redecker and Sasha Roseneil, convened by Paul Gilroy and John Sabapathy, for 'Learning in Emergency States'. 5 June. 1/2

Leading the free world…

“…the hatred of theory threatens not only to reshape universities ideologically but to replace them with a data-driven “machine empiricism. “‘

The systemic intersecting oppressions experienced by Palestinian refugee women are “underpinned by [an] anti-Palestinianism, a settler-colonial framework that normalizes Palestinian displacement, erases their history, silences their narratives, and subjects them to structural violence”. 👇🏽👇🏽

My latest in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the illegal US-Israeli war on #Iran: a war not only on a state, but on Iran’s sovereign development and the social achievements built by generations of Iranians. jacobin.com/2026/04/isre...

Go Hungary! 👏🏽 And, now, for those other right-wing authoritarian rulers… www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Apposite for the moment to bid farewell to India's B'wood singer Asha Bhosle who passed today. This was a hit in the late 90s; a tribute to her by the diasporans who made home in Britain. It's so 90s. Rest easy Asha Bhosle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBn...

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime. No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India that “among the many people and races who have come in contact with Indians and influenced India’s life and culture, the oldest and most persistent have been the Iranians.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on: Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory April 24-25, McGill University Pre-registration required: forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh...