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Ashley Lance
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Yurok and Wiyot. Race and Aristotle. PhD student in Classics @ Cambridge. She/Her.
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nisrinelamin.bsky.social
An appeal to folks on this platform…pls consider supporting grassroots mutual aid work regularly in Palestine, Congo and Sudan. I recommend @friendsofthecongo.org.web.brid.gy and
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social and @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
but there are so many others too! Bcm a monthly donor! (1/2)
July 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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workshops4gaza.bsky.social
We have three urgent requests today:

1. Contribute to a trusted org or individual fundraiser. Don't keep scrolling..

We know that the many requests can get overwhelming - like your contribution won't make a dent. But we have strength in numbers.

Here is one: chuffed.org/project/1132...
South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
chuffed.org
July 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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bdsmovement.bsky.social
Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Anti-ICE Protestors.

Let's escalate boycott and divestment campaigns against companies complicit in ICE's brutal oppression of immigrant rights in the US and in Israel's genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.

bdsmovement.net/news/palesti...
Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Anti-ICE Protestors
From Palestine to Mexico, All the Walls Have Got to Go! Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Anti-ICE Protestors
bdsmovement.net
June 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Our giving circle transfers funds directly to 6 families + a mutual aid team and isn’t involved in how that money is used, because Palestinians know best what they need & how to get it. But here’s a glance at SOME of the ways the funds are used.

Give 👉🏾 tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
• buying drinking/non-drinking water from trucks that deliver from the last functioning desalination plants
• firewood to cook with in the absence of fuel since March 2
• charging phones, laptops, assistive devices at charging points
• tents - a tent gets worn out in about 3 months
• whatever medicine, sanitary items, hygiene products people can find
• disability needs (eg, adult diapers)
• rent (people still have to pay it)
• small furnishings for tents/apartments
• clothes, shoes
• school supplies like notebooks and pens
• solar panels for electricity
• fees to use internet cafes to connect to remote jobs, university studies; get the news; relax a bit
• dignity items (gifts for children; curtains for tents or shelter which are usually bombed-out and therefore lack privacy, etc)
• healthcare (seeing specialists can incur fees)
• for one project, we fuelled a garbage truck to clear waste from a displacement camp for local public health & dignity
June 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
aerl.bsky.social
Excited to be presenting at this conference!
durhamclassics.bsky.social Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · Mar 21
💥 Join us for next week's conference on 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy '!

👉 Full programme on our website: shorturl.at/88nVH; further info on the 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy' project website: aristotlebeyond.co.uk

📅 Weds 26 + Thurs 27 Mar

🔗 Ritson Room / hybrid on Teams: shorturl.at/wLUao
March 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'A new landmark book celebrating Māori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative work by Indigenous New Zealanders ever published, it is also the first wide-ranging art history written entirely by Māori scholars.'
‘Our people were so innovative’: Māori art celebrated in landmark book
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediums
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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javalac.bsky.social
Tomorrow is the WCC’s virtual conference! Should be good! The program looks great!

www.wccclassics.org/wcc-virtual-...
General 6 — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
www.wccclassics.org
February 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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pscupdates.bsky.social
Tomorrow Cambridge University will go to the High Court seeking to impose an unprecedented ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university. This is a major assault on longstanding principles of freedom of expression and assembly on campus. (1/8)
February 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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luxmea.bsky.social
We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com
Society for the Study of the Past
A new history of the world...
societyforthestudyofthepast.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
aerl.bsky.social
This is today!!
February 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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isisnaucratis.bsky.social
🚨Join us on zoom on Feb. 18 for an urgent conversation in solidarity w 🇵🇸 on the theme "In the Ruins of History"
w Fadel Alutol @gmandreou.bsky.social Yasmeen Elkhoudary Marc-André Haldimann, Atalia Omer @aditilrao.bsky.social Ali Shahwan, S. Sayyid & @luxmea.bsky.social
rsvp: tinyurl.com/nhd8n34h
February 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
aerl.bsky.social
Thanks so much for speaking to us @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social and putting us in contact with all the great people at Wikipedia!
tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social · Jan 31
Funny time to start an event on a Friday, but #ClassicsBeyondTheCanon is kicking off in the Classics Faculty at Cambridge! We've got papers from Emily Hauser, Amara Thornton and me, then Wikipedia training, then reception! Wikipedia workshop tomorrow 10-5 #WCCWiki #BeyondNotability
February 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
aerl.bsky.social
Extremely excited to being speaking at the upcoming raceb4 race symposium on Indigeneity next week at ASU!! Really grateful to be able to engage in this type of work with so many amazing scholars and thinkers.
Image is a schedule of a conference on a white background with black text. the page is divided in half with the left side showing the schedule for Friday February 7th. The schedule for Friday reads: 9:00 - 9:30 am Registration and coffee 9:30 - 10:00 am Opening remarks Ruben Espinosa and Scott Manning Stevens 10:00 - 10:45 am Tarren Andrews Proto-Settler Colonialism and the Language of Empire: Reframing Early Medieval England through Indigenous Methodologies 11:00 - 11:45 am Jamie Paris Unaccommodating Settler Ecologies: On Indigenous Ecological Justice and Shakespeare’s King Lear 11:45 am - 1:30 pm Lunch break 1:30 - 2:15 pm Ashley Lance Autochthony, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in Plato’s Laws 2:30 - 3:15 pm Mónica Domínguez Torres Visualizing Caribbean Indigenous Cultures 3:30 - 4:15 pm Dominique E. Polanco Indigeneity in the Archives of Abya Yala: New Ways of Approaching and Honoring Mesoamerican Indigenous Histories in Spanish Colonial Records The Right hand side is the schedule for Saturday February 8th which reads: 9:00 - 10:00 am Registration and coffee 10:00 - 10:45 am Malinda Maynor Lowery Thinking with Indigeneity: Foodways and Nostalgia in the Italian Peninsula and the American Southeast After 1493 11:00 - 11:45 am Di Hu Dangerous Liaisons: Subverting Spanish colonial prohibitions of inter-caste cooperation in the Age of Enlightenment 11:45 am - 1:30 pm Lunch break 1:30 - 2:15 pm Melanie J. Newton “This Island’s Mine By Sycorax, My Mother”: The Tempest, Gendered Diplomacy and the Cartography of Slavery, 1550-1662 2:30 - 3:15 pm Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan The Wound of Memory: Settlerhood, Indigeneity, and Civic Memorialization in the Aftermath of the 1704 Deerfield Raid 3:30 - 4:15 pm Heather M. Kopelson Making Objects, Tending Relations 4:15 - 4:30 pm Closing remarks Ayanna Thompson 6:00 - 7:00 pm An Evening with Tommy Orange Image is a bio page with a white background and black text on the left side and a photo of me (I am in a robe and have flowers in the background). The text reads Ashley Lance is a final year PhD student at the University of Cambridge in the Faculty of Classics. Her PhD is on the concept of race in Aristotle and its implications for his ethical, political, and biological works. She also has research interests in the philosophy of race, social epistemology, and Indigenous philosophy. Ashley is of Wiyot and Yurok descent and an enrolled member of the Blue Lake Rancheria.
January 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
aerl.bsky.social
Gearing up for this upcoming Wikipedia Edit-a-thon I got to help co-organize with @solveighilmars.bsky.social and others! We're taking registration and suggested topics until Thursday!

www.tickettailor.com/events/crass...
Registering interest – Classics beyond the canon – a Wikipedia edit-a-thon – Faculty of Classics
This event aims to edit or create Wikipedia pages for people who are of significance within the classical world or the classica...
www.tickettailor.com
January 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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opietasanimi.com
there are lots of places to donate and participate in mutual aid. one to consider is Altadena's seed bank - a project which under normal circumstances aims at free seed exchange for equity and education in land stewardship - but now also aimed at reseeding Altadena with native plants
Skylight Booksellers Union & Skylight Books in partnership with Altadena Seed Library: SEED DONATION DRIVE Donation Requests: Native to Southern California plant seeds Drop off details: Please drop off at the registers in either 1818 Main store or 1814 Arts Annex If you do not have seeds, please consider donating to their gofund me. The link is in their bio @altadenaseedlibrary Seed equity, education & distribution. love y'all, stay safe, let's help reseed Altadena.
January 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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January 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
aerl.bsky.social
any and all advice for writing a conclusion for a dissertation would be welcome rn
December 2, 2024 at 11:02 AM
aerl.bsky.social
Feels weird that on Thanksgiving I officially signed the contract for my contribution to the Cambridge Companion on Classics and Race. My chapter is called "Navigating Classics and Negotiating Indigeneity from Aristotle to the Present"
November 28, 2024 at 5:26 PM
aerl.bsky.social
Post this on the other site but we're taking submissions until Friday 💫

Please reach out if you have any questions!!

resdifficiles.com/rez-diff-ind...
‘REZ Diff’: Indigenous Perspectives CFP
At the 2024 Society for Classical Studies (SCS) annual meeting in Chicago, we held a panel on ‘Indigenous Perspectives: Ancient and Modern,’ with support from the Mountaintop Coalition. The panel e…
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November 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
aerl.bsky.social
Please reach out if you're interested!!
opietasanimi.com Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Oct 29
A reminder to get in touch with Ashley and Tara if you'd like to submit your work on Indigeneity in Classics for the "Rez Diff" issue of #ResDiffJournal
opietasanimi.com Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Aug 28
It is my great pleasure to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Res Difficiles, The Journal guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells: 'Rez Diff.' We invite submissions on topics of Indigeneity in Classics. Due 15 Nov.
#ResDiffJournal

resdifficiles.com/rez-diff-ind...
November 1, 2024 at 11:12 AM
aerl.bsky.social
wow, about to finish the first chapter I started my first year of the phd. time flies!!
September 24, 2024 at 11:36 AM
aerl.bsky.social
So excited to be working on this with everyone. Please feel free to reach out 💫
opietasanimi.com Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Aug 28
It is my great pleasure to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Res Difficiles, The Journal guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells: 'Rez Diff.' We invite submissions on topics of Indigeneity in Classics. Due 15 Nov.
#ResDiffJournal

resdifficiles.com/rez-diff-ind...
‘REZ Diff’: Indigenous Perspectives CFP
At the 2024 Society for Classical Studies (SCS) annual meeting in Chicago, we held a panel on ‘Indigenous Perspectives: Ancient and Modern,’ with support from the Mountaintop Coalition. The panel expl...
resdifficiles.com
August 28, 2024 at 11:15 PM
aerl.bsky.social
can't believe an institution that billed part of its restructuring as centering Indigenous knowledge has the audacity to be so hostile and call the same cops that contribute to violence in humboldt (i can believe this but pissed this isn't part of the conversation around cal poly humboldt)
April 30, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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opietasanimi.com
It is my pleasure to announce the program for ResDiff5 (March 22, 2024), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Dominic Machado (@dominicmachado.bsky.social). resdifficiles.com/res-diff-5-2...
Poster for Res Difficiles 5. Text in poster appears in subsequent parts of the thread.
February 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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isisnaucratis.bsky.social
🚨SAVE THE DATE: Jan. 23 4-6pm GMT on Zoom

In solidarity w Palestine : A rountable w Critical Ancient World Studies and Everyday Orientalism
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 8, 2024 at 1:09 PM