Day 41 of Amu’s hunger strike. Still, the Justice Secretary refuses to meet with me.

Hi! Sharing my call out for participants for my PhD research. Looking for women involved in care/ and or activism during the AIDS crisis in UK or US! #research #aids #women #feminism #phd #callforparticipants #interview #history

Hi! Sharing my call out for participants for my PhD research. Looking for women involved in care/ and or activism during the AIDS crisis in UK or US! #research #aids #women #feminism #phd #callforparticipants #interview #history

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says: "Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Today was the first archive trip of my PhD research! At Sheffield city archives!

Spent the last week in Naples with my bestie. Eaten a lot of pasta, swam in the sea and enjoyed some time off!

The documentary that the BBC refused to air showing the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities was broadcast by Channel 4 last night. Amnesty International researcher, Budour Hassan, explains the use of secret sites by the Israeli authorities.

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

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Honoured to have won the runner up for the early career prize awarded by BISA & their colonial, postcolonial and decolonial ( CPD) working group. My paper examines the importance of social reproduction for Palestinian women. Looking forward to being at BISA’s conference in Belfast

How I used to go and sit on my best friend and roommates bed when we lived together during uni to gossip and strategise

fighting tears

My first and last word on her or her stupid fucking wizard shit

Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She's Killed in Israeli Strike

I grew up queer in a small rural village in North Yorkshire. My past research has always tried to navigate the complexities of growing up surrounded by homophobia, without out queer & trans ppl or community. But also not wanting to homogenise the idea of what our communities must inherently be like

Tapering off antidepressants after nearly 10 years on them (so many different kinds) I am really excited/nervous/ scared but looking forward to it. First, I have to deal with SSRI withdrawal symptoms, though!!!

Things I’m find keeping me going through doing a PhD ( cats of course!) working to good music ( esp on vinyl) & fresh flowers

Recently visited Women in Revolt at The Whitworth gallery in Manchester. Here were some of my fav bits as someone doing their PhD focusing on women’s role in providing care/ activism in AIDS crisis of UK and US #history #feminism #activism #art

I’m currently working my way the through the ACT UP oral history transcripts focusing on women’s role in activism for my PhD! Such an amazing resource! Thank you to @sarahschulman.bsky.social for the amazing work

Happy belated Mother’s Day

Had to run for a train that I very nearly missed because I was too busy watching persuasion (2007)

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

New fav cap!

Recently watched crip camp, a documentary looking at the role of a summer camp for disabled youth in shaping disability activism and legislation in the US. Does anyone have any good recommendations on crip work/ disabled ppl caring for each other?

When is Francis Lee's supposed horror film about queerness and class coming out!!!! :(

For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s really disappointing how many academic or even supposedly radical spaces have completely removed online access for events and only seem to host them in London or other major cities. Did we learn nothing about accessibility from the pandemic?

I know I reposted this yesterday but I cannot stop thinking about this sentence ‘Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world.’ Like it’s written so perfectly and manages to capture this for what it is. I love it so much.

Yesterday I chaired my first ever academic panel, which was very anxiety inducing and I was so close to cancelling because I was convinced I couldn't do it- but I did! and I'm glad I did it and it went ok!! :)

Cadbury every Easter:

Paris Is Burning (1990) filmed during the ongoing AIDS crisis of the 1980s in New York, this documentary explores 'ball culture ' and the African-American, Latino, gay, and trans communities that found within it community, care and meaning.

'Stop the Ethnic Cleansing': Watch and Read the Most Powerful Oscars Speech for Years

Incredible moment when Israel's occupation, Israel's apartheid, and Israel's destruction of Gaza are called out at the Oscars!

📌 Join us next week! We present our joint article recently published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics - on Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches 📅 March 6 at 5pm GMT 📍At @SOAS SALT & Zoom 📷Info and registration➡️: shorturl.at/djuB5

Unfortunately my father in law is in hospital for a little while so meet his beloved cat little mi who is coming to live with us for the time being!

An integral campaign in my research is ACT UP’s women don’t get aids they just die from it which challenged the limiting definition of HIV/ AIDS in the US by the centre of disease control which denied the specific ways HIV presented in cis women & denied women involvement in treatment research

Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa | South Africa | The Guardian Horrific

🌟New Publication! Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social. 📖Displaced Lives⤵️

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

one of my favourite visual representations of my research area (social reproduction) is by See Red Women’s Workshop a collective formed in 1974 and which created art looking at a variety of different economic/ political/ racial/ and gendered issues. Poster circa 1975

A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic.

a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com

Every time someone proudly posts "so I asked chatgpt" they're saying something *incredibly* fucking embarrassing without realizing it. It's like walking into a party absolutely covered in dogshit and not understanding why all these people are being so mean and rude

Poster advertising the conference on welfare organized by the New York Wages for Housework Committee on April 24th,1976. Silvia Federici Papers, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University.

This looks so interesting!

Greatest moment in football history and it is not close.

This is why I love Ian Wright, always says the things every other pundit is too cowardly to.

An insight into my photo albums