“Cinema is a friend for life”. Never a truer word spoken from @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social at the @cinemaforall.bsky.social #100YearsGala

Loved attending the opening of Lightbulb Moments at the The University of Liverpool yesterday and sharing an object in it. It’s a privilege to work with the amazing Project Armonia and to be able to bring their cook book sharing the power of food and stories to a whole new audience is very special.

“#Gaza is being obliterated, reduced to a wasteland. Gaza is being emptied from its starving population forced to move into the so called “humanitarian” area of Mawasi.” Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Some great summer reads!

“I had to break the news to my wife. She hasn’t been able to stop crying since she heard the news. What is the value of this life if you have to be separated from the people you love? Both of us are completely shattered by this." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

They tried students and they tried care workers, but that wasn't enough. Now they're coming for families. My impassioned thoughts on today's sickening family reunion announcement. open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...

This is appalling! People flea unimaginable horrors, claim asylum and will then face another awful challenge of fighting to be back with their family. This is just an added layer of cruelty in a broken system that no longer truly gives the refuge it should! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“All of those who have influence must use it with determination and a sense of moral duty. Every hour counts," says UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. The amount of aid entering the #Gaza Strip is insufficient to meet the scale of humanitarian need. This can be reversed. Let aid in.

Condemnation and words are not enough. Political figures worldwide need to do so much more in the face of these constant atrocities! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“In Gaza, to be an academic today is to refuse to be reduced to a statistic.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The British media keeps calling the situation in Gaza a hunger crisis, but this underplays the reality. What we are witnessing is a starvation crisis, this is an active choice not to deliver aid, not a passive outcome with an unknown cause!

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...

Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'

What more will it take for the world’s leaders to respond than the killing of children waiting for water! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Suspension of processing of #asylum applications just announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is illegal! #Greece The Greek government announced today that emergency legislation will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow, Thursday, 10 July, for the suspension of asylum processing of (1/6)

10 years after the so-called long summer of migration, the deadliness of the European border regime is back in full swing. @alraven.bsky.social from our Research and Investigations team tries to put a figure on the extent of the suffering this regime has brought. borderviolence.eu/blog/tallyin...

Me for Metro: The crucial point is deterrence & border violence has never & will never work We need safe routes & the right to work legally for asylum seekers - IT IS SCREAMINGLY OBVIOUS But pressure might be working, we must press harder than ever for a humane policy💪 metro.co.uk/2025/07/02/a...

“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, this report shows why Israel’s genocide continues: because it is lucrative for many,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I did an interview with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book. We talked about contemporary feminism, masculinities, gender-based violence and abortion rights in northern Ireland. @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social Recording here - newbooksnetwork.com/womens-troub...

A great listen, and a pleasure to be included in this conversation. Thanks for having me!

Very proud to know and have had the pleasure to engage with Dr Sarah Elmammeri’s excellent thesis “Trapped between Borders” who is now the very deserving winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence thesis prize for 2025! @sarahelm.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/new...

People starving and waiting for food aid are being killed as they wait! This is horrific! The world cannot keep ignoring what we are witnessing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

🎓 Are you heading to #BISA2025? Don't miss what the South East Europe Working Group has in store!

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening every day. 🚨 People are reportedly fainting on streets from hunger. 🚨 Over 2,700 children under the age of 5 face acute malnutrition. Humanitarian access must be urgently restored. #Gaza must not be forgotten.

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

Justice for the 97 run this morning in Liverpool with @davideschmid.bsky.social #YNWA #AlwaysRemember

Just watched the excellent Afloat at @unitytheatre.bsky.social in Liverpool. It’s showing again tomorrow and well worth seeing. A stark reminder of the cruelty of the asylum system, but also of the hope and solidarity that exists in community. www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/afl...

If sending asylum seekers to countries they have never been to, and have no connection with, is „respecting the EU’s values“, then I‘m really not sure what these values are anymore. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Really looking forward to our workshop tomorrow Languages, Objects and Homes: Transnational Communities in Border Scapes. This collaboration between @livunilanguages.bsky.social and @livunipol.bsky.social includes great talks, so if you are around do drop in. www.ticketsource.co.uk/lcf/language...

It’s not enough to just stop trade talks when this is happening! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A very important lecture this evening at @livunipol.bsky.social as Professor Erika Harris talks to us about ‘Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas and Controversies’. This timely lecture is the first of a two day engagement with Erika’s vastly important work.

Absolutely abhorrent, morally, and counter-productive, politically. Center-left parties will never profit from "control immigration" policy as long as they buy into, and strengthen, the far-right "immigration is a threat" narrative. Decades of academic research don't lie!

Josep Borrell arguing that what we are witnessing in Gaza is the “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war in order to create a splendid holiday destination” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Great first day of conferencing at @mpc-eui.bsky.social. Particularly enjoying engaging with citizenship scholarship and thinking through questions of movement and belonging through a range of disciplinary lenses. Good to have an excuse to venture outside of our academic silos.

Greatful to everyone who came to see the exhibition launch in Amsterdam yesterday. “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” will be exhibited at De Verbroderij all May, so please do go and see it and let me know what you think!

Very excited for this venue! Exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos opens tomorrow at 3!

She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Solidarity this 1st of May! An important day to remember that the struggle for rights and freedoms for all is as important and necessary now as it ever was!

What a city! What a club! #You’llNeverWalkAlone

Next Sunday (4th May) Simone van den Akker, Andrew Foreman and I will be taking audio exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” to #Amsterdam. If you’re around please do join us. deverbroederij.nl/agenda/24-04...

Asylum camps like Wethersfield are dangerous, traumatising & cruel. Every day they stay open is another day of suffering, at huge cost to the taxpayer. We signed this to remind @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social that people deserve to live in communities, not camps www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🔔Reminder: Deaths along routes to Europe are not an "accident". They are a direct consequence of European asylum and migration policies, which are increasingly focused on deterrence and border control rather than providing protection to those in need.

This deportation will put Fatou’s life at huge risk. Systems of detention and deportation of asylum seekers and refugees are intentionally cruel but they are also extremely dangerous! #Stopdeportations

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics

So pleased to invite and feature exhibition created by @gemmabird.bsky.social and the team! Thank you! Such an emancipating story.