On July 15, 12 pm (UK GMT), current fellow Swati Arora (@swatiarora) invites artists, scholars, and activists, to collaboratively explore border-thinking and border epistemologies during an online workshop. More info: https://www.psi-web.org/on-smuggling-infrastructures-for-spatial-justice/

this mural in Margate station pointing out that tseliot is an anagram of toilets won a Margate civic society town pride award

Now that Barnes & Noble has ousted itself, has any academic publisher made similar claims? Has anyone categorically said they won't publish AI stuff?

“I’m looking out at my garden and I’m thinking what makes me write is what makes me go and do the garden, which is to perpetuate and reiterate life,” Dionne Brand 💐

Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing.

bless the alpine cows for their abundant gifts to humankind

New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Thanks to @alcs.co.uk for my annual swimming lessons

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

January.

In collaboration with UK Small Press Futures – a collective of UK independent publishers – Wasafiri is hosting an afternoon of panels dedicated to the future of independent presses. When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London Tickets: £15 buff.ly/YJJorHv

One of my favorite things about Feminist Studies is our commitment to art. We regularly publish art essays with full color spreads of art work (have an idea to pitch us? Please send!) and our covers are stunning. Shout out to Duy-Khuong Van, our graphic designer.

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26! Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions! 📆Key dates: - Abstracts due on 28th November - Notifications on 19th December - 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb (1/3)

my phd student, a puppeteer, graduated with flying colours and I got a red cat

Got my copy! This brilliant book is now available open access here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

my writing bud in the forest

Wasafiri invites creative submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in response to navigating interlinked global systems of oppressions and seeking to forge transnational solidarities across various boundaries. DEADLINE: Sunday 24 August, 2025 11.59pm BST

Fascinating to see Kara Walker and Otto Dix next to each other — Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart

Caste, Protest, Pedagogy We spoke about the spatial and affective politics of Dalit protests and their significance for educational institutions and transnational movements of freedom today. Malavika's brilliant book on it is out next month. www.airsupplycollective.com/thursday/cas...

Hi Glasgow – I'll be at the Centre for Contemporary Arts on Wed for a roundtable on imagining institutional change. Come say hello if you're around. www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/ab...

I am not sure whether Bluebell is coming to this lecture (ok, I know she isn't) but hey, she loves me. Come along & say no 🔊I am so glad to be honouring Catherine Silverstone's life & work.That no, when amplified, picks up her emphasis on history and haunting. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sara-ahmed...

So pleased to be back on home ground today, and what timing—

needed to blast abida parveen on headphones at 8am to make it to work today

my students are the best 😭

“how to live how to gather untethered to meander together through fields &forms of learning we repair we lend an ear to the earth and shelter otherwise.” Omar Berrada, “A Practice of Errantry

The new performance studies reader is here and I'm in *such* gorgeous company. An absolute joy to be snuggling up to my fave @saranahmed.bsky.social too 💛 www.routledge.com/The-Performa...

exactly.

🚨 Internship Alert! 🚨 An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. Full details on the placement, and how to apply, here: www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...

These final weeks before publication are the strangest times of being an author. Part of you wants to protect the book you’ve been quietly loving into being for so long. And then there’s the part which knows you have to take a deep breath and hoof it out the door open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...

Our beautiful collaborative project is out in paperback and we're gathering next week to celebrate ✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

joy 🖤🖤

"If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present."