Expatiating upon a theme, copiously. Head of Progamme @LSFF Fellow @theRSAorg
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Rayna Vallandingham is a 13-time American Taekwondo Association champion, and holds a fourth-degree black belt.
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Paul Gilroy, one of the foremost theorists of race and racism, has very generously donated several hundred books from his university office library. We will be selling these books, priced mostly from £1-5, from the 18th of January onwards. Come find a hidden treasure!
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when Anthony Bourdain said free Palestine and called out the racist vilification of Palestinians by the media and political class: "The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity."
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Leila Khaled is an icon of the Palestinian liberation movement—but why exactly? In 1969, she became the first woman to mastermind a daring yet bloodless airplane hijacking in the name of Palestinian resistance.
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People usually dismiss programs of action as "utopian documents." But the @ProgIntl New International Economic Order isn't a wishlist - it's a *Manual for Mutiny*. From sellers' clubs to coordinated treaty withdrawals, the South is already building what this document proposes 🧵
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Joun us from tomorrow for a three day programme at VIENNALE🔥🎥
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos. MONOGRAPHIE /VIENNALE Sun Oct. 20,2024 - Tue Oct. 22, 2024 Austrian Filmmuseum & Metro Kino Wien🇦🇹📽️ Tickets📍 viennale.at/en/gast/colectiv… |#Viennale2024
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Say her name: Wafa al-Udaini, one of the most prolific Palestinian journalists working in the English language (including for Middle East Monitor), who was martyred today in Central Gaza and who is about the 175th journalist murdered by US-Israel over the last year.
ALT Say her name: Wafa al-Udaini, one of the most prolific Palestinian journalists working in the English language (including for Middle East Monitor), who was martyred today in Central Gaza and who is about the 175th journalist murdered by US-Israel over the last year.
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Pluto is currently making our book After Grenfell freely available #Grenfell
📚FREE EBOOK!📚
After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response
With contributions from activists, academics and artists, this book discusses the legacy of the fire that revealed the violence of the British state.
Download your copy here: plutobooks.com/9781786804617…
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Applications are open now for my annual (free) Arab film development workshops, held in London June 24&25 in collaboration with @SafarFilm. Deadline for applications is June 1, please help us spread the word.
arabbritishcentre.org.uk/med…
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How do Brazil's media operate as "mirrors of whiteness?" I spoke with Mauro Porto about his book Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, & the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil (@UPittPress) for @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksAnthro: newbooksnetwork.com/mirrors-…
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Too many radical artists convince themselves they're fighting for liberation, but in fact they're only desperate for mainstream acceptance. They consider "representation" the goal rather than merely a stage in a revolutionary process.
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We are pleased to announce the newly created Frantz Fanon Dissertation Award. This award aims to advance scholarship that is politically and theoretically committed to unsettling modernity, colonialism/coloniality, racial capitalism, & heteropatriarchy.
App. period: Fall 2023
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Our thoughts & duaas are with those who have been affected by the devastating Kahramanmaraş Earthquake and its many aftershocks.
We will be donating 100% of the sales from the Khidr Collective shop in aid of the relief organisations working on the ground in Turkey and Syria. 1/2
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OPPORTUNITY:
The sixth Stuart Hall Library Artist Residency in collaboration with @Iniva_arts commences in May 2023.
The successful artist will receive funding to pursue research at the Stuart Hall Library, responding to "the living archive".
Apply now:
stuarthallfoundation.org/opp…
all the wonderful people, in one room! go, if you can. *gutted to miss this!
This week COUSIN will be in Portugal at Batalha Centro de Cinema for our first European screening series. Join co-founders Sky Hopinka and @adam_piron as they present work by COUSIN artists and friends. Full details on films and performances here: batalhacentrodecinema.pt/pro…