Well this was devastating.

#OtD 6 Oct 1912 Emma Goldman began to hold a Yiddish and English Sunday lecture series in New York City on topics including psychology, the failings of democracy, economic efficiency, venereal disease and more . Check out this selection of her writings: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Just completed.

Grateful to have got through the week having managed to end it with a haircut.

Cut vinyl text in exhibitions is the bane of every install.

Always loved, and will continue, Rachel's. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

We're happy to see that this important project covering the plight of journalists in Gaza has been recognised with an award. You can read Bellingcat's contribution here, which includes explorable 3D models of Jabalia Refugee Camp and Al-Shati Refugee Camp. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

‘I don’t think it’s possible to find a genocide-life balance,’ Plestia Alaqad tells The Cut. In her memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza,’ the 23-year-old journalist who documented Israel’s bombardment for an audience of millions grapples with leaving her home.

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that this is the plan unveiled today but this is the Blair sponsored AI slop that BCG made out of commission months ago and has ever since tried to disavow itself from

The British Labour Party's membership voted for a resolution deeming the war on Gaza a genocide, urging the Labour government to recognize it as such and take further action against Israel.

Dear community, erasing our Academia online profiles is just a start. this symposium on collective infrastructures and feminist approaches to publishing on4th Oct in London provides hopeful alternatives

So far today: grocery shopping, meal prep for part of the week, emails, scheduling, trying to work despite lack of sleep.

The foxes 🦊 are really going for it tonight.

So the V&A Storehouse is not a good place to go if you experience vertigo.

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata": I dream of your freedom as my victory and the victory of all dark women who forego the vanities of silence 👇Here's the whole poem

As someone who works as both an academic and a curator at a university, the level of inoperability of systems, seems to me to be at its highest. Aided somewhat by sharepoint and onedrive.

ID cards? really?

My flat faces the west so I'm getting these incredible autumnal sunsets at the moment. Such a joy to return home to.

Museum studies people: are there any scholarly texts on new forms of museum interpretation -- Specifically label writing?

Day one of autumn term where we (2 permanent contracted staff, one full time, one 0.6) teach 2 separate cohorts, each one 55 (approx) students. We have HPL (hourly paid lecturer support), but the coordination involved is bananas 🍌

9 emails scheduled in the drafts folder. Yes, it's been that kind of day.

After losing all six of my children, my mother, father, and siblings I have been struggling for two years to survive with my baby amid genocide and starvation Please, I beg you to donate and share my post so it can reach more people🙏🏻 gofund.me/b4901a75

feeling nostalgic and considering going to see Tortoise when they play in the UK.

In June last year, Bellingcat assessed the loss of cultural heritage sites in Gaza due to the conflict. Many more sites have now been impacted since. In February 2025 the World Bank reported that fifty-three percent of heritage sites were damaged or destroyed. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/06...

As a matter of life-or-death urgency, Palestinian civil society calls on you to block highways, ports, and facilities of complicit corporations — to end business as usual with a rogue, apartheid state and its livestreamed genocide. We urgently call on you to #DisruptComplicity now.

They are not evacuating, they are occupying.

Seriously considering buying a heated clothes dryer/airer thing.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

What truly dismal Sunday evening weather. Still I bless myself that I no longer have to commute for work on the weekend.

Reading an article by Jonathan Jones is similar to reading an account of someone revived after a coma of many years. For some reason or other he can never 'quite' understand what is going on, despite the fact that he's been paid for many decades to write about it.

‘More than a hundred groups co-ordinated to try to shut DSEI down. There were banners from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Global Women’s Strike and Quakers for peace, among others.’ Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Interesting that the MET isn’t using facial recognition during the fascist march today. Presumably they don‘t want to identify their colleagues.

Once again, Palestinians have been the first line of repression, as Bluesky developed banning/ mod capacities and comms strategy around "fighting spam" by taking down Gazan accounts, now it's anyone who they think is politically out of line. Sahar doesn't have an account, but still needs you

Was not prepared for the dramatic increase in work emails this week.

Nothing like an online staff development day to make you question your life decisions

Missing the possibility for any discourse on the best current TV show: Foundation.

‘The conditions in the hotels are very bad: most residents share rooms with complete strangers, have no laundry or cooking facilities, no choice about when or what they eat, with any visits strictly policed by security.’ Helen Charman on ‘our girls’ vs asylum hotels: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Another day of Labour acting shamefully. The blood of every Palestinian 🇵🇸 murdered in this genocide is on their hands.

Arriving back to London 9 hours ahead of body clock. Getting home from the airport is going to be so much fun!

The best endorsement at a conference is having someone you don't know come and say they enjoyed your presentation a day later.

What's happening TODAY (!) in Gaza City is as shocking as anything from the last two years: the deliberate, genocidal destruction of entire tower homes. It's not that buildings are more important than ppl. But in full view of the world, US-Israel is brazenly & cruelly making Gaza uninhabitable.

Lara Kothe introducing the panel ‘Reimagining Archives’ yesterday, as part of #4S2025

Seattle is big, clean, quiet and therefore, a little creepy.

Think the font for the new version Wuthering Heights hints at the direction? Looks very similar to Lace/Flowers in the Attic era novels..

Like all people presenting at a conference, I'm up early, to finish writing my script and slides.

Made it to Seattle!