Today’s post isn’t just history. It’s a correction. #StockholmSyndrome was never about “falling in love” with captors. It was about how #Sweden, its police, its politicians, even Olof Palme betrayed its own survivors to protect itself. Survival was pathologized to cover up state failure. 1/2 🧵

Just had a doorstep chat with the local Labour team and told them Keir had lost my support before the general election because of the party’s stance on various equalities legislation. And that I couldn’t renew a vote for local Labour given the ongoing attack on trans rights.

Have a listen, you will learn!

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Battle for Higher Ed 👉🏾 “Becoming Unloved & Dangerous: Black University Life in the Age of Palestine Protest” w/ Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, April 23 @ 6pm EDT. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This, especially the last point.

Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.

Coming soon... January 2026

🙃 Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal: UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Crushing account of what's happening in UK #HE. The most awful part is that nothing in this unbelievable account is unbelievable, reminding us about what has been normalised right across and beyond the UK

Something people in UK need to wake up to is how racism affects whether or not you get a job, whether you will be promoted and how long you will stay promoted.

Fraser Nelson blocked me on Twitter because he wrote an article about how the UK is the best place to be Black so I sent him a picture of the all white Spectator staff in LONDON and asked if this was you he said “I hire on ability” LOOOOOL

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My latest column for @newscientist.com is about how categories are made by humans, whether we are talking about how to organize stellar types or human sex identity. With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

So in the UK would psychology be considered a STEM subject? Anyone know?

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I have given up here...

Returning to their homes—to their land.

✨ soft life ✨ The radical choice to embrace calm over chaos, rest over resistance, and serenity over stress. Slow down. Breathe deeply. Move with intention.

If you are or know of any UK Black women profs promoted in Sept 24 to date, please let me know. This is for our Black women professors list!

Fanta was created so coke could sell soda in nazi Germany around a trade embargo. IBM sold the machines that were used to track and tabulate holocaust victims. Henry Ford inspired Hitler. Big business has always collaborated with fascism. Today's businesses are bastards who are no different.

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Luxembourg can afford a pension more than 5x the UK, even Spain is nearly 3x. The problem is greed. Luxembourg £5202 Spain £2709 Belgium £2698 Liechtenstein £2148 Switzerland £2148 Iceland £1894 Denmark £1651 France £1564 Cyprus £1507 Bulgaria £1486 UK £958

A 26 year old nurse has been breaking the bones of premature Black babies. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

It has only taken over a decade but my cat finally slept in one of the four cat beds that I bought for her instead of sleeping in a random cardboard box. I noted her love for cardboard boxes and decided to place a cat bed on top of a different cardboard box and suddenly the bed box combo is king.

Adulting is being sensible, making a food plan, stocking your fridge and cooking the food in it. I did all but the last step, and ordered nandos for dinner. Maybe adulting will find me next year.

Musk and Vivek have been calling white right people irrevocably stupid and lazy for the past week. Now the white right want Musk and Vivek deported. Leopard face something something

Friends who came over with me from twitter - how are the blue skies treating you? I am struggling, are you?

International #EpidemicPreparednessDay There is no epidemic preparedness until we make sure Global South countries have access to lifesaving vaccines & medicines www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of my highlights this year! Best launch ever with the most amazing people

Woke up to the best news ever. My book is officially the Number 1 Top release in the category of Political and Protest Poetry. Wouldn’t have been possible without you all 🎉📚

“We acknowledge that we should have been clearer” comes the apology 45 days late “and that the use of the footage here was intended to illustrate the general disorder, and are happy to correct the record.” Unlike the Christ child We were not born yesterday.

The kids got a tumbling mat and now my husband and I are being put through a gymnastics routine.

This app is not just not fun. Maybe my social media days are coming to an end.

Really?

Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language. So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks? Start calling these folks pro-segregation.

FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 42 www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose...

Halep playing in qualifying?

Universities becoming de facto govt and police surveillance units is just so disturbing. Academic freedom is being eroded.

Look at Ireland, doing the thing.

The fact that we don't openly laugh at the US and allow its politics to influence us is so wild to me. They literally do things like this for optics and USians lap it up because a large section of the electorate vote based on who entertains them most.

More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...

Omg I just found the detach quote function! Amazing stuff.

So chuffed to get a mention in Nick's great review of Dragonmeet! 🥰 You'll definitely be seeing more of @scienceandsorcery.bsky.social at cons & expos in the years to come! 🤩

Here is an early Christmas present. Our 2022 research report. Impact of the Ethnicity Pay Gap on Black Women. ethnicitypaygapcampaign.com/resources-2/ Your welcome 🙂

‘Racial justice demands collective action.’💬📢 The UN has launched the Second International Decade for People of African Descent in January 2025. A renewed push for racial justice, #equality, and confronting the legacies of #colonialism and enslavement. news.un.org/en/story/202...

My last blog post of 2024 is a reflection on the uses of despair in the neoliberal university. I use a couple of stories, experiences, and arguments to consider the question: How do we deploy hope in response to racial injustice in the midst of despair? folukeafrica.com/what-is-the-...