Dr. Paul Leworthy of @newcastleuni.bsky.social has arranged the series of screenings and written this thoughtful piece about the film: scottishdocinstitute.substack.com/p/in-the-nam...

Looking forward to The German People on 29.04 at 18:00, a documentary about structural racism in Germany, brought to Leeds among others by the German at Leeds team, @goetheinstitut.bsky.social, @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social, and @boell.de hpph.co.uk/films/the-ge...

Good thread by Runnymede Trust, a necessary and also thoughtful anti-racist response to recent anti-Jewish attacks in the UK:

WTAF

Wenn du schon studieren willst, dann studier was Vernünftiges. "Jeder Taschenrechner kann Mathe. Auf einen Master in Gender Studies kann man wirklich stolz sein." Kolumne in Verteidigung der Künste und der Gesisteswissenschaften @taz.de taz.de/Berufswahl-b...

This is stunning 🤩

Watch Toheeb Jimoh read from The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran, the #InternationalBooker2026 shortlisted book written by Shida Bazyar and translated by Ruth Martin. youtu.be/bsOM3aKTSqk

Soz to keep banging the drum on this but the only way we’ll see more joyful trans stories is to show there’s demand for them so if you can afford to pre-order it’s super helpful thank ✌️🙂✌️

My children’s book Jacob’s Transition Goals comes out in 3 DAYS!! And you can pre-order here from Gay’s The Word if you’d like to support a queer bookshop 👇 www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...

I’m in the display cabinets (with many esteemed co-authors, co-editors & colleagues) and I have a lanyard! 🙌🏽🤩

Things are going well, nothing to see here.

Two weeks to go... #SoInEtwaIstEsGeschehen

When fighting the populist Far Right the aura around Starmer is that of a mildly petulant gerbil.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Warum lassen Menschen, die noch die Wahl haben, sich diese Welt gefallen? Warum lassen Menschen, die noch die Wahl haben, bösen Menschen die Macht? Warum lassen Menschen, die noch die Wahl haben, es einfach laufen, als hätten sie keine Macht? Warum?

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Educational institutions now being targeted for annihilation in Iran.

This! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Deutsche Medien: ein Trauerspiel

So this crazy thing happened! Started a new (permanent!) job yesterday (and now the university is closed for Easter)! 🤭 I will miss my wonderful ppl in Cambridge but already feel right at home with my fabulous new colleagues in Leeds 🙏🏽🤓

Iranische Geschichte in der deutschsprachigen Literatur 📚 @sigridgkoehler.bsky.social hat eine kleine Auswahl lesenswerter Texte zusammengestellt. Neugierig geworden? Dann schaut auf unserem Instagram-Kanal vorbei 👉 www.instagram.com/momentmal.ndl/

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

We remain remarkably, dangerously ignorant of such histories, treating every event as if it came out of the blue. Again and again our governments wade in, with their bombs and missiles and special forces, and congratulate themselves on their strategic brilliance, only to create further crisis.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Vielleicht findet sich angesichts der abrauchenden Welt ja auch der eine oder andere solidarische cis Mann zum Mitstreiken ein.

I do think one fundamental principle that all Green and Labour folks can come together on after this rather bruising election battle is: hahahahahha Matt you loser, go away.

Guten Morgen zusammen! ☀️ Die @greenparty.org.uk hat gestern mit einer Politik der Hoffnung eindeutig gegen Reform und Labour gewonnen. Die Kampagne war progressiv, humorvoll und diskriminierungskritisch. Könnten wir das bitte nicht auch in Deutschland ausprobieren? #HannahSpencer #Gorton #Denton

It was beautiful and heartbreaking #TheSeaIsThereButWeAreNot Thank you to everyone who made this possible. And watch out for the publication soon coming in autumn in S. Fischer Verlag

Alternatives ⬇️

"On behalf of those Goethe-Instituts worldwide that are no longer able to operate in their host countries, or only to a limited extent, the Goethe-Institut in Exile project ... aims to provide a platform and a space for encounters and dialogue" Ahh... Never mind ⬇️

Hi Germany, Goethe called and he wants his name back. Not to mention all the writers exiled in the 1930s and 1940s whose names (and experiences) you also like to appropriate when it’s useful… This is disgraceful. And cowardly. 😭😡

Unbeliebte Meinung: Die AfD regiert schon, bevor sie regiert, wenn Projekte wie Goethe-Institut in Exile quasi über Nacht gecancelt werden. 1/2

#Bafta❗ "Disability advocacy demands empathy & racial history demands reverence. These are not competing values & we don’t have to choose one over another to exist. They are coexisting obligations. The path forward is not for us to hunt for a villain. It’s to demand that our institutions do better"

The #Bafta situation 💔 From what I read, it absolutely could have been avoided if the organisers had taken the existence of ableism & racism seriously. Tourettes Action UK offers advice for example. And not editing the N-word from the pre-recorded broadcast? That was a choice. We must do better.

New scandal at #Berlinale. After Wim Wenders refused to comment on Israel/Palestine and requested the Berlinale to stay out of politics, now foreign office added next scandal, refusing visas for Sudanese filmmakers. A #Berlinale in Fortress Europe is not possible www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim...

❗Event recommendation @maazamengiste.bsky.social will give a talk about her novel-in-progress "A Brief Portrait of Small Deaths" on 17.02, 7.30pm It's a story which reimagines the lives of some of Berlin's marginalized populations as the Nazis came to power. @americanacademy.bsky.social More info⬇️

Hierlang für @isdbund.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMonth Termine in Berlin ⬇️und in ganz Deutschland ➡️ isdonline.de/events

⬇️ Or: Why diversity without a critique of discrimination is nothing more than a pretty picture. (But watch this for Zack - he is always worth listening to)

Thank you so much dear @katyderbyshire.bsky.social for recommending #AdasRoom translated by @jpolizei.bsky.social in your list (I came across this by chance!) And what an incredible honour to be mentioned alongside Sasha Salzmann, Karosh Taha, Ulrike Almut Sandig and @sasastanisic.bsky.social 🌼🌻🌷

And another petition, sadly 😪 You might be aware that the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University is under threat. More information and to sign the petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...

YOU SIGNATURE MATTERS! Help us save Modern Languages at Leicester. Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-moder...

Der Blick in die USA zeigt auch: So einen zivilgesellschaftlichen Widerstand würde es hier nicht geben. Unvorstellbar, dass sich hier Nachbar*innen in solchen Massen vor bedrohte Migrant*innen stellen würden.

Dazu @casmudde.bsky.social: „Focusing on the priorities and values of female voters (…) would transform the political debate: we would talk more about combating the climate crisis, for instance, and spend less time demonising immigrants.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two years today. Rest in peace, dear Hind 🕯️ #HindRajab #Gaza

I was always told that one of the central lessons of the Shoah is that legal, juridical regimes can still be immoral. The claim that Anne Frank was in Amsterdam "legally" is false, but more than that, the question "Was Anne Frank an illegal?" is so grossly missing the point of Holocaust remembrance.

Einiges, was hierzulande automatisch als Vergleich abgetan wird, ist vielleicht eher als erweckte Assoziation zu verstehen. Und Assoziationen zu regulieren ist ein ziemlich aussichtsloses - bzw. totalitäres – Unterfangen.

Sich jeden Vergleich zu verbitten ist halt genauso ahistorisch wie permanent Kontinuitäten herzustellen

Great to meet the brilliant @jacquioatley.bsky.social - graduate of German @lcsleeds.bsky.social who shared her expertise with alumni and students. Moving & engaging discussion of how resilience gained during year abroad in Tübingen led to a successful career in sports broadcasting. Danke schön! ⚽️🦉

24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to vote Green or Lib Dem. 0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.

First (to our knowledge) review of Rewriting Identities - and it’s a doozy! 🥂🙏🏽🙌🏽 Many thanks to Necia Chronister for this careful reading and resounding endorsement — and once again to our contributors and interviewees! 💥🫶🏽 DM me if you don’t have access! muse.jhu.edu/article/980051