We wrote a paper that used double helix metaphor, "Our findings illustrate that both educator response & education policy create a double helix of oppression...that make it incredibly difficult for Black girls to be protected from racialized sexual harassment"-this was our note on Watson's citation

In my latest blog post I contrast @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social rhetorical style with @barackobama.bsky.social style suggesting a shift in how politicians of color position themselves that offers a possible new path of resistance to Trump’s fascism educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...

@durhamimh.bsky.social it would be nice if your finance department answered emails about reimbursements, I've been emailing since Aug alongside other fellows, many of us are independent scholars or students so this shit matters!

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

1000% respectfully disagree. White supremacy is a move to hoard power. By labeling it a mental illness, we are 1) making it less safe for people who have mental illness, 2) disregarding & endangering all the Black folks & folks of color with mental illness who don't subscribe to white supremacy.

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“I cannot describe how awkward I feel when I am asked ‘what I do’. My #health means I can no longer #work, and despite the fact that is nothing to be ashamed of, I still feel #shame.”: buff.ly/asgcSCA By whatapain #ChronicPain #NEisVoid #disability

Fantastic video from Shawn Grows: This film traces how humanity’s craving for sweetness reshaped the world. From ancient India’s first crystallized sugar to the rise of Caribbean plantations & the birth of global empires, sugar transformed from a rare luxury into an addiction that fueled revolution.

More anthology news! A lovely review of VERSUS VERSUS for Write Out Loud, by Kathy Owston, retired Teacher of the Deaf and volunteer trainer of the national Down Syndrome Table Tennis squad. VERSUS VERSUS is available to purchase from bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...

France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

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Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...

A concrete example of how intersectional oppression is not simply a case of addition: This report into salary gaps between UK parliamentary officers indicates women being paid £1,000 less than men, POC £2,000 less, but Black women £6,000 less. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

I'm so excited about this upcoming volume by @wardasworld.bsky.social and have asked my subject librarian to pre-order it. Farah's book works at the nexus of race, neurodiversity and culture to rethink speech language therapy practices. www.routledge.com/White-System...

1/3 Why do so many parents only realize they’re autistic or ADHD after their child is diagnosed? Because children are not clay to mold. They are mirrors genetic, ancestral, unflinching. #AutismDiagnosis #ADHDParenting #Neurodivergence #AutismAcceptance #IntergenerationalHealing #CureCulture

4/When I get my sht together it’s over for you h**s. But no one knows when that is, cos 1 minute I’m writing essays at 3am, next plotting beef with your grandma. Whatever superpowers y’all claim we have…YOU end up becoming tge kryptonite we have to wade through. We aren’t new. 🫵🏾 are tiring.

New essay out now: on what happens when unhealed childhood wounds steer adult relationships how trauma, whiteness, and emotional displacement keep people recreating the same unsafe spaces they try to escape. Both written and audio versions available. open.substack.com/pub/lovettej... 1/3 ⤵️

Partisan’s strategy is shaped by young peer researchers with lived experience — bridging community insight + academic rigour. Read how we developed it (the things that went well + the challenges) in our latest guest blog: lnkd.in/gu-d5UM4 #PeerLed #CommunityResearch #YouthVoice

Looking forward to speaking, sharing my research and practice about professionally received wisdom about child development, SEND, Speech & Language Therapy and the very purpose of education 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 www.wholeschoolsend.org.uk/events/londo...

Delighted to start my new job as Postdoc Fellow @shu-sioe.bsky.social, under the excellent mentoring of Prof @abihackett.bsky.social. My research will focus on developing Artful Sensing Practices, attuning to nonlingual children’s synaesthetic languages in movement, extending my PhD: bit.ly/4gXRbTE

Indescribably proud to lead this team! @spencerfoundation.bsky.social study on Black WL teachers accepted to AAAL 2026 in Chicago! Aminah Raysor & @queendomteaching.bsky.social are brilliant emerging scholars. Let's hear it for them!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 #TeacherEducation #LanguageEducation #BlackWorldLanguaging

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo

After 5 yrs of writing, my book is here: White System, Black Therapist. I stopped many times , silenced, reported, harassed. Then I realised: white supremacy thrives on silence. So I kept writing. This book is the result. 📖 www.routledge.com/White-System...

Sudan and its people need our help too #alleyesonsudan #keepeyesonsudan

The answer is always more testing, never tackling the root causes. Better resourcing, and better pedagogy through an educational rather than an attainment focus needed. Commonly said in Scotland’s AifL programme, you don’t make your pig grow by repeatedly weighing it, but we never seem to learn

One Neoliberal approach to mitigating the optics of mass layoffs is to give the laid off some free counselling on their way out the door. Emotional resources as human resources. Reminds me of all the cupcakes folks are given when their contract isn't renewed.

I've uploaded a free preprint for a forthcoming article, Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Actvism. It will be published in History Workshop Journal next year. I'm proud of this and see it as the start of a new, much bigger project. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Word this world Let words be Lest we forget #GazaGenocide #KeepTellingofGaza

Salam, peace to a land that never knew peace #GazaGenocide‌ #Palestine

In episode 7 of Talking Inclusion... with @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social, Rachel de Souza (@childrenscomm.bsky.social) talks to Geoff about her new #ChildrensPlan and what it means for more inclusive education. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6qaz... 📄 www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/the...

Just wrapped up delivering our third workshop with Virgin Media O2 this year 🚀 A huge thank you to the wonderful team Excited to keep building on the momentum together, because Health, Healing & Joy Matter! We ended our session by watching Antoine Hunter, My Disability Justice | The Dancer ! 🌿

“When I am ready, I speak by dancing or writing. It’s easier than speaking.” This statement isn’t about what’s missing. It’s about what’s present, movement, silence, dance, writing. All of it matters.

One Black man hanging from a tree in Mississippi is a shame. Two is a pattern.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

This article shows that autistic employees are "more likely to take action when they witness an operational inefficiency or an ethical problem in the organization," thus explaining why we keep getting fired from our jobs. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

This was such a wonderful project to be a part of, thinking and writing with colleagues in the university and in practice.

@abihackett.bsky.social, Christina MacRae, Maggie MacLure and I have a new article out open access in Journal of Early Childhood Literacies, sharing data from a collaboration with the Humber Museums Partnership.

So proud to have contributed!

in analysing 563 behaviour policies from the 34 largest multi-academy trusts in England, i show how 'misbehaviour' is associated with a constellation of linguistic features - these are of course not empirically connected, but ideologically connected.

This bird with a gotdamn jheri curl been killing me since yesterday.

'“The humanities are where people learn to think critically, to analyse systems, to question authority,” @desfitzgerald.bsky.social says. “What happens if that disappears? What happens if you can simulate critical thinking without actually engaging in it?”'

Off to #AEC2025 in Dublin. Looking fwd to meeting old friends & new. You can find me at the these events: ✴️ Thurs 3:30-4.30 Symposium on Fostering Neuroinclusivity in Schools ✴️ Fri 12.30-1.30 Everyday experiences of autistic children in mainstream schools #AutismEuropeCongress2025 #AutismEurope

Watching RFK reminded me of @profkori.bsky.social: "Because American culture has never encouraged white people to hold themselves & each other to higher standards, merit is manufactured for them all & innocence is manufactured for white people who don’t even have the decency to be mediocre"

And with thanks to @lotierneyart.bsky.social for the beautiful front cover and illustrations

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Our new book is published! You can read the first chapter for free here www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

amazing to work with @khawlabadwan.bsky.social @wardasworld.bsky.social @davidbenshannon.bsky.social Vishnu Nair, Christina MacRae, Rachel Holmes, Rosie Flewitt and Ruth Churchill Dower in our big, interdisciplinary and compassionate editorial team

www.entanglecollective.co.uk Join us