This is such a transformative piece of writing - moving, affirming, real. Educators, do read and heed this wisdom! Academia is for all of us.

Fortresses were never meant to last forever. The humanities' disconcerting position on AI and the serious threat it poses to the systemic and cultural change that the academy so desperately needs. #DecolonizeTheAcademy blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/11/...

I can’t wait to get my hand on a copy of this. @conorbrockbank.bsky.social is a thoughtful and passionate thinker — cannot wait to read his piece!

JD Vance is refusing to condemn racist and antisemitic messages from Republican groups and Trump's press secretary is saying the Democratic Party is filled with "Hamas terrorists" and "violent criminals."

In a sane reality, this insane comment would’ve ended the career of any other press secretary. In this reality, it’s just another Thursday. But when the Trump fever breaks, and it will break, these people will have to reckon with the digital footprints of their own depravity.

Oklahoma drops plan to force schools to teach Bible lessons in social studies classes - buff.ly/fqEvoF0

Substack keeps feeding me ghosts of assimilation—voices longing for lost respectability, mistaking obedience for belonging. I trace their grief, their drift rightward, and reclaim the simple, ungovernable act of reaching for myself. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar this Friday from QUB’s @jamielukas.bsky.social. Do note the room change for this week only. Honoured to be asked to chair the seminar this week. More details & sign up to join online via link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

New blog: 'On AI and the Academy: Dragging heels ‘til they outsource themselves out of a job.' Colleges investing in AI and assessing students = big wins, greater investments, happier students. Anti-AI campuses = departmental breakdowns and revenue losses. blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/09/...

The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom. trib.al/VSbmOMm

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

This could have been us America.

Funny how this keeps happening?

When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious.. www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...

"The politicians and pundits who crack the whip on immigration need to be asked, right now, where this ends." @jonathanliew.bsky.social is absolutely right here. Long past time to stand up to the dangerous racism infecting our political discourse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Research papers and position statements debate methods, but students remain unheard. This essay follows echoes—from old battlefields to today’s classrooms—naming how fidelity cultures erase voice, and why access is the fight. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

👏🏾 "[...] Language that cuts through the fidelity culture of curriculum publishers, who would rather train teachers to withhold support than risk deviating from the pacing guide. Fidelity—how that word stings. It is presented as virtue, but in practice it is often erasure."

Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), a vocal critic of his uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is calling on the Health and Human Services secretary to resign.

My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Academic journals gatekeep knowledge. The AutSide builds something else: open, rigorous, needs-based writing shaped by lived experience. We don’t need more prestige—we need trust, access, and solidarity. We already did the work. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

The most New York commentary: www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...

In a moment when the foundations of American democracy are being shaken – and its past reshaped to serve partisan ends – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins us for a conversation on the erosion of democracy and the tools for resistance. @nhannahjones.bsky.social

New blog: If research doesn’t serve, connect, or empower, then who is it really for? I wrote about the disconnect between academia and community, and why decolonial research must be accessible, inclusive, and relational. blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/07/... #DecolonizeTheAcademy #BlackInAcademia

@jdportes.bsky.social outstanding job on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social just now. So grateful for you standing your ground. I watched the hosts joke about migrants sinking on boats, and watched Bev Turner this morning refer to migrants as "cultural vandalism" in London. Thank you for bringing facts!

As the conclave begins to elect the next Pope, the world is once again focused on the colour of smoke announcing the decision of the Cardinals. It makes you wonder how did others experience previous conclaves, away from the livestream footage of news … 1/ #Catholicism #skystorians #conclave

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

We had an amazing book launch on Tuesday at @qubhistory.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Fantastic presentation by the author @mihatsch.bsky.social, great questions from the audience, and great final picture by @jamielukas.bsky.social @shiftingsovs.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Proud to join more than 300+ scholars in this letter on the trump Regime's efforts to erase LGBTQIA+ people from our parks, our monuments, our communities – and, more broadly, American history. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ shorturl.at/ljOYW

"Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy students or Dean’s Interest List—a list of applicants whose relatives have donated to Harvard, the existence of which only became public knowledge in 2018" and 75% of them would not have been admitted otherwise