My first remarks since being arrested last night.

What would happen if we begin to put care at the very centre of life? Boi wants to know. #Caturday #Caremanifesto @andreaschatzidakis.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @lynnesegal.bsky.social

The Epstein scandal should have prompted political action to abolish billionaires. This case reveals something deeply wrong and sick about power and money. That there is no political movement to eliminate this class of hyper powerful oligarchs speaks volumes. A decent society cannot afford this

The director of Melania movie

So… big news. (Keep reading.)

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

Come hear Jess Martin talk about her first book on gender and austerity celebrity! Looking forward to chairing this one

Looking forward to talking to John Clarke about The Battle for Britain! This is the book I’ve quoted more than any others over the past 2 years. Reviewed it for Soundings here too, p101 journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vo...

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Well done to our PhD student @clareb82.bsky.social for writing so well in a range of different contexts including here in @bigissue.com about the benefit cap and single mothers www.bigissue.com/opinion/bene...

'After Technocolonialism' - a book panel @mediacomgold.bsky.social to discuss 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' published by @politybooks.bsky.social with Helen Kennedy, @andreamedrado.bsky.social Nirmal Puwar & @jolittler.bsky.social November 26th, 5-7pm, all welcome! ⬇️

"How smart became the new hot online" - includes quotes from our MCCS Prof @jolittler.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/social-media...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19”, authored by Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler.

“Forget about the polls. Go into the last eight days of this election assuming you are five points behind.” You heard the man: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

📅 Save the Date: 🎥 POWER, REPRESENTATION, RESISTANCE. Feminist Media Studies at 50: A Workshop with Leading Scholars  Hannah Curran-Troop, Rosalind Gill, @jolittler.bsky.social & @lennartspion.bsky.social 🗓 Nov 7, 2025 | 🕙 10:00–12:00 📍 JFKI, Room 203  registration: https://f.mtr.cool/frmeigfsqh

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution. This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s an interview I did for the S Korean newspaper @hankyoreh.bsky.social on meritocracy, authoritarianism etc in preparation for the event tomorrow on futures of democracy english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Thrilled to see the announcement for our new journal, Feminism and Organization, I will be co-editing with @profalisonpullen.bsky.social, and a legion of superb feminists around the globe everyone would be honoured to work with: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/new-journal-... @bupjournals.bsky.social

With my local MP Rachel Maskell now suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party, now is a great time to revisit her extraordinary speech from two weeks ago against the PIP cuts which she describes as Dickensian and cruelly immiserating the community she had sworn to protect.

What a wonderful degree show opening yesterday...! It's on all weekend and open to all, so come and see the fantastic student work in film, documentary, sreen fiction, audio, animation, journalism, promotional media, scriptwriting, creative writing, photography... www.goldsmithsmediashow.com

#quiltsky #juneteenth

My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods: doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

🚨Amiel & Melburn Lecture 2025 A special panel discussion on 'Resisting the rise of the Radical Right' with @zarahsultana.bsky.social, Costas Douzinas, Rob Topinka, @kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social, @afoggyplace.bsky.social 🗓️Wed 2 July 🕠17:30PM 📍Birkbeck University INFO & REGISTER 👇

“Blue Labour rhetoric likes to imagine that everyone in the UK who isn’t a blue-haired postgraduate is a churchgoing industrial worker, desperate to turn back the clock on multiculturalism and trans rights.”

Missed this last month: welcome evidence that somebody in the Democrats has a clue about digital politics (and recognition that in the US as in the UK liberal, progressive and left political groups are still about a decade behind. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Highlight of my day/week: Hearing @jolittler.bsky.social talk about inequality, including highlights from her 2017 book, "Against Meritocracy". The talk was so provocative, thought-provoking and inspiring that I now have an immense amount of thinking and reading to do now. Wonderful feeling.

We are the people who Wipe Your A**es! 🏥 @GaryYounge reflects on his Mother’s experience in the NHS as an Immigrant Worker… @nadinewrites1.bsky.social 🎧 Listen To The Full Episode - linktr.ee/overthetopun... (LINK IN BIO) 🔗 This episode is sponsored by @powertochange.org.uk

an excellent discussion with @jolittler.bsky.social about the myth of meritocracy, with hugely quotable pearls such as: "threads of truth within this quilt blanket of mystification". I recently got Jo Litter's brilliant book Against meritocracy #openaccess here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Trying to get my head round how this could make it to print. Many warning signs for all of us

As people die from deliberately induced famine in Gaza, this food is likely to be destroyed

5 yrs after the publication of The Care Manifesto, the Care Collective - incl Catherine Rottenberg + @jolittler.bsky.social, both @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - reflect on post-pandemic systematic 'care-stripping' across the political stage: @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025? Is academic life any easier for working-class women than it was three decades ago? 📺 WATCH Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of our new Conversations series. buff.ly/x6b6rzi

Instead of trying to outdo one another with more racist policymaking, we need a government with the courage to address the real problems of skyrocketing poverty and our crumbling national services.

I wrote a thing about why 'cultural' class analysis is badly equipped for challenging the cosplaying of working class culture by the far right & why working class formations are best conceptualised as multi-status. Part of a great SI on Beverley Skeggs' work: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very cool: @miroborn.bsky.social made a comic narrating findings from his research on class, social mobility and stigmatized neighborhoods. You can find it here in English and German: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic

Upcoming seminar ⬇️ Prof Jo Littler (Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis @mediacomgold.bsky.social) will outline The Care Manifesto (co-written with members of the Care Collective) & explore corporate carewashing. 📅 4pm, 15 May More: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/eb8... @jolittler.bsky.social

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 'Forum 2029: Building a living standards policy platform for the UK' These seminars will congregate progressive actors - from across parties, trade unions and campaigns - to build a simple and bold policy platform for the months and years to come 📃 👇 autonomy.work/forum-2029/

Cuts to Winter Fuel Payments, slashing the welfare state and squeezing public spending. These policies are all deeply unpopular and not what the Labour Party was founded to do. If the Government doesn’t change course, more defeats like Runcorn could be on the horizon.

I had a right old rant about Tony Blair's ignorant, self-interested statement on The Jeremy Vine Show today. I mentioned that he has worked as a lobbyist for PetroSaudi, earning Tony Blair Associates £41,000/month, plus 2% of any deal he brokered. Starts 9 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Democrats who think we should stop using the word "oligarchy" ought to watch this video. Even a system that calls itself a democracy can become an oligarchy if power becomes concentrated in the hands of a few very wealthy people and corporations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=inBW...

8th May - Please share & come to this free webinar on Palestine & sociology in a couple of weeks. And read the articles in the special section of the latest issue @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

Here are my top 5 right wing films - The Dark Knight Rises (critique of Occupy) - American Sniper (noble US warrior gets his feelings hurt, poor him) - Ghostbusters (entrepreneurs battle the state as well as ghosts) - Forrest Gump (history is immutable) - The Incredibles (Atlas Shurgged in spandex)

Dylan has a way with words.

Ursula drawing from the 1970s.