Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel’s war in Gaza. Read the full list of known names of children killed in the war: wapo.st/4o4Tc3k

INSPIRE panel at #IPSA2025 — thanks to our presenters and discussant ‪@kathaesa.bsky.social‬, lively exchange on Intersectionality & Participatory Deliberative Democracy with plenty of fresh angles. Thanks to everyone who contributed! We’ll keep you posted! #InspireDemocracy #PDD #Inclusion

Naoimh McMahon will deliver a talk on 'Rethinking the thinking on inequalities' for the Racial Equity in Policy Network on July 23rd at 12.30pm. Her work sets out what might be keeping inequalities in place and, importantly, provides ideas on how to disrupt institutionalised ways of thinking

In light of attacks against CRT both here in the UK and the US, this was a really engaging read! www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/critica...

New in Innovations in Public Policy from @deseonu.bsky.social on anti-racist institutionalism. www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-in.... With racial equity largely silent from the devolution debate so far, how can English regional institutions use their power to reduce racial inequalities?

I look forward to listening to this.

#Petition in solidarity with staff at #Newcastle University, who are being put through some twisted 'academic hunger games' to keep their jobs against the threat of draconian compulsory redundancies. More info and petition: chng.it/754BbStwZp

I completely missed that Inua Ellams wrote an episode for Doctor Who. I just watched the episode and my goodness, my fave episode ever! It’s so beautiful, so nuanced, so true! Anyone read a more articulate review, please send my way! Read his process here. www.okayafrica.com/inua-ellams-...

Absolutely insane headline. This is what genocide looks like. This is what our ruling classes have decided will be normal.

Register now for INSPIRE's webinar on the 29th of May at 13:00 GMT. Visit tinyurl.com/INSPIREdemoc... to secure your spot. #InspireDemocracy #PDD #Inclusion

What a fantastic piece, a call to action in the face of increasing authoritarian measures…”when working within the system becomes working for the system”!

Great first day @PolStudiesAssoc conference, lots of great conversations within and outside of panels. Ended the day with a panel from @PSA_Race inc a paper on institutional racism, similar thoughts to my article on anti-racist institutionalism (doi.org/10.1111/spol.1…#PSA2525

What a fantastic offering to us by @folukeifejola.bsky.social, rich insightful reflections and collation of resources to navigate and think through what decolonisation is. It’s one of the best I have come across. Thank you so much.

The Racial Equity in Policy Network will be holding its quarterly meeting on the 31st of March at 12noon, as an online brown bag lunch event. I will be curating a space for policymakers to reflect on the current political climate. Register at: www.trybooking.com/uk/EQEX

This is such a great video highlighting the coloniality of power, knowledge and being. It really brings together the work of learning and unlearning I continue to undertake…

It was a pleasure to be in conversation with this fantastic group of people and to share some of our practices with those who attended the teaching cafe.

Wonderful day in Birmingham with these two 🔥 facilitators: rehearsal for @horizon-inspire.bsky.social Legislative Theatre proj. w/West Midlands Combined Authority, on equity in employment opportunities! RSVP for the event on 24 March at @unibirmingham.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/InspireLT

Happening next week Tuesday! I have enjoyed the planning conversations & look forward to sharing our insights with you. I am also keen to hear others experiences so if you want to know more about engaging with racially diverse groups whether you are teaching or practicing public participation!

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

“I found her ring in the rubble, blackened, but I could still see our names engraved inside. I held it so tight it cut my palm. I didn’t feel it. All I felt was her absence.” I talked with twenty people in Gaza after the ceasefire, who shared raw, heart-wrenching stories of grief, loss, and hope.

This is a really interesting article. I can see connections with Nasar Meer’s book on the cruel optimism of racial justice.

It’s great to be part of this project!

I have been appalled & disgusted by the silence of academic colleauges on the genocide in Gaza (but not surprised). So I expect little from them. For everyone else who cares about knowledge, humanity & truth, this is an powerful film on the scholasticide perpetrated by Israel youtu.be/G5MmIDc1LXE

A fascinating book by Matt Ryan on why citizen participation succeeds or fails. The big question for political action, beyond the scope of this research is: what do we do when politicians' commitment is absent? @adrianbua.bsky.social @sbussu.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com

In 467 days, Israel has killed 46,788 Palestinians in Gaza (excluding thousands more whose deaths remain unreported, missing, or buried under the rubble) and injured 110,453 individuals.

A massive thank you to Prof @jowolff.bsky.social for accepting my invitation to come to Lancaster to talk about your co-authored book. My brain is buzzing with so many ideas on what this means for what I do. Available open access here: academic.oup.com/book/55798

Looking for a more radical reading of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham City Jail? The Review of Democracy and I got you covered: revdem.ceu.edu/2023/04/16/n...

A crucial read from @truthout.org: "With these choices, corporate media outlets make a rightward societal shift appear inevitable. Movement media’s role is to resist that tendency, and offer an alternative. We have a responsibility to remind people of what we have lost, and what we could still win."

I am currently reading this and honestly! It’s helping me articulate why I am so passionate about ‘imagination’ when working with young people on issues of racial inequalities.

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif removes his helmet and announces a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. His voice steady as his fellow Palestinians lift him into the air in celebration. For 15 months, the Al-Jazeera correspondent has reported on the genocide of his people in Gaza.

It has been great to sit on the board, learning lots about the democracy sector and sharing my expertise on making democratic processes more inclusive. If you want to find out more, message me.

Foreign influence and industrial pumping of disinformation on a scale we’ve not previously seen. He’s tweeted re UK politics over 200x in the last 9 days. He’s the richest man in the world and owns one of the world’s biggest social ‘media’ platforms. We must fight back www.ft.com/content/dd4b...

In our final Digest piece for the year, we feature a conversation between @katyrubin.bsky.social & Stuart Dunne with our very own @Sonia Bussu 🤩 On engaging young people in #participatory processes 🎧 www.publicdeliberation.net/building-mea...

Almost 4 years after finishing my PhD, I can now share one of the key conceptual contributions from my PhD. I argue for the need for a new strand of new institutionalist theory, anti-racist institutionalism.

This is great! One to share with my students on my lecture series: politics of race, racism and anti-racism.

Some people expect Palestinians, including me, to be sane and act or behave normally. Do you think we don’t want to be normal? Who on earth could endure the genocide of their family, relatives, friends, and city—and remain unaffected? Who? How dare you ask or expect this.

In 2025, praying and hoping that oppressors will experience defeat from Sudan to Congo to Palestine to Ukraine and everywhere there is a struggle for freedom.

Billionnaires stole your living. Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion. Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.

If all you want for Christmas is a new job, then I have just the thing. Come work with me on the Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact project. Join a great dept at Southampton, and an international team researching the European wave of climate assemblies. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Fucking hell... Seriously, there's no going back from this. If it were not from Haaretz, nobody would believe it. Worse part? Nobody fucking cares. archive.ph/NVG4p#select...

I should probably also mention I've been working with @designresearch.works on the new AI, Society and Global Challenges MA which is part of our exciting new Global Leadership interdisciplinary programme of courses. More info and application details here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

I have often lamented how unaware our colleagues in UKHE are about the conditions of their own colleagues who hold non-UK passports—especially "Global South" ones. So, I am writing a quiz on common misconceptions. Please DM me with any suggested questions.

Always golden nuggets from @folukeifejola.bsky.social As one who likes to remain hopeful, I am reminded that “Acknowledging despair means that we must do something...jumping quickly to expressions of hopeful futures only serves to obscure the depth of trauma and harm in the past and the present”

Delighted to see this, and hugely honoured and grateful that royalties from Mackie’s last book will go to Philosophy in Prison ( check it out at philosophyinprison.com ) Thank you to the editors and to Hilary and David for their generosity. #philsky global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A very different week and I am reminded why I enjoy my job, from sharing my research with colleagues at a Collaboration Cafe, delivering training to PGRs on anti-colonial participatory research and finally, a paper acceptance after rejections and R+R. I am excited for this to be in the world.