Arianne Shahvisi
@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social
Philosopher of gender, race, borders, science | Essays in LRB, Guardian, Independent | Author of Arguing for a Better World https://tinyurl.com/2mn3zw8k
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Advance article (open access): We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse by Arianne Shahvisi
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November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Advance article (open access): We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse by Arianne Shahvisi
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I reported on famine in South Sudan in 2017, traveling to rebel-held territory in Unity state where tens of thousands of people were judged to be in "IPC5", which is to say, totally without food and on the verge of death.
In Gaza 244,000 people are now in that stage
In Gaza 244,000 people are now in that stage
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I reported on famine in South Sudan in 2017, traveling to rebel-held territory in Unity state where tens of thousands of people were judged to be in "IPC5", which is to say, totally without food and on the verge of death.
In Gaza 244,000 people are now in that stage
In Gaza 244,000 people are now in that stage
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"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"
"Junior doctors condemn gender verdict as ‘scientifically illiterate’" Helen Joyce, of Sex Matters: “It’s terrifying that a group of young doctors, all of whom have been through several years of advanced education and training in biology, have been indoctrinated by trans activism to such an extent"
June 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"
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This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.
This jibes with contemporary reporting that the raids hit several residential buildings, in each case killing about 15 people and wounding more. Maybe a little more of the conversation should be about how cavalier we apparently are about bombing civilian homes? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
March 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.
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You absolutely should self censor, if the thing you are censoring yourself from saying is hate speech
March 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
You absolutely should self censor, if the thing you are censoring yourself from saying is hate speech
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These days you can’t even do hate speech in your place of work because of woke
March 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
These days you can’t even do hate speech in your place of work because of woke
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One of the most important things journalism can do these days imo is provide a timeline.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. This is how it happened, day by day
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March 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
One of the most important things journalism can do these days imo is provide a timeline.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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‘This government, like the last one, seems unable to put curiosity about causation before its impulse to cruelty.’
@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social on the cuts to personal independence payments, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social on the cuts to personal independence payments, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Arianne Shahvisi | A Labour Thing to Do
The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above the...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
‘This government, like the last one, seems unable to put curiosity about causation before its impulse to cruelty.’
@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social on the cuts to personal independence payments, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
@arianneshahvisi.bsky.social on the cuts to personal independence payments, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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‘The increased need for health and disability benefits is symptomatic of failures in the NHS, housing, food prices, wages. Ignoring all the root causes and slashing wildly at the last safety net takes a special kind of ineptitude.’
New from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social
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New from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social
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Arianne Shahvisi | A Labour Thing to Do
The anthropologist Margaret Mead was just over five feet tall and had to stand on a suitcase to be seen above the...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
‘The increased need for health and disability benefits is symptomatic of failures in the NHS, housing, food prices, wages. Ignoring all the root causes and slashing wildly at the last safety net takes a special kind of ineptitude.’
New from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social
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New from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social
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In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
March 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
Words of condemnation ring hollow.
The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
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If we didn’t cry wolf when there was obviously a wolf the wolf would’ve went away
I am not blaming Democrats for Republicans becoming fascists. I am blaming people who overused "fascist" for years for removing the power of that word and gutting it of meaning, and making it useless now that we need it.
Something I warned would happen.
Something I warned would happen.
March 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If we didn’t cry wolf when there was obviously a wolf the wolf would’ve went away
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Faculty, this is how NOT to do it. JFC.
March 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Faculty, this is how NOT to do it. JFC.
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The main source of protein for intensively farmed animals is soy, which is also a complete protein source for humans. The whole edifice of factory farming is nutritionally pointless - essentially a highly inefficient soy laundering operation.
January 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The main source of protein for intensively farmed animals is soy, which is also a complete protein source for humans. The whole edifice of factory farming is nutritionally pointless - essentially a highly inefficient soy laundering operation.
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The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something
February 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something
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Before we hurtle to the next stage of Gaza’s calamity, we owe it to them, and ourselves, whatever our politics, to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away. Goodbye to the children of Gaza.
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Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
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January 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Before we hurtle to the next stage of Gaza’s calamity, we owe it to them, and ourselves, whatever our politics, to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away. Goodbye to the children of Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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86 people survived 468 days of one of the most brutal campaigns of mass extermination in human history to finally hear news of a ceasefire. Then Israel killed them. Unforgivable.
January 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
86 people survived 468 days of one of the most brutal campaigns of mass extermination in human history to finally hear news of a ceasefire. Then Israel killed them. Unforgivable.
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Just for the record, my position is "Free Palestine" not "Say They'll Stop Bombing Palestine For A Bit But Continue To Regardless Because Nobody Will Face Accountability For The Genocide"
January 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just for the record, my position is "Free Palestine" not "Say They'll Stop Bombing Palestine For A Bit But Continue To Regardless Because Nobody Will Face Accountability For The Genocide"
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If your economic system is risking biological reproduction — such that people feel unable to have children — perhaps, just perhaps, it might be time to change that system?
January 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
If your economic system is risking biological reproduction — such that people feel unable to have children — perhaps, just perhaps, it might be time to change that system?
Two weeks left to apply for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the philosophy of inequality!
Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25
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PhD Project - Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, listed on FindAPhD.com
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January 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Two weeks left to apply for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the philosophy of inequality!
People in Jersey are having to undergo bloodletting to reduce their levels of forever chemicals, and the big US firm that made the chemicals is allowed to block the state from offering a health screening programme in case it leads to a class action lawsuit. What a fucking world.
January 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
People in Jersey are having to undergo bloodletting to reduce their levels of forever chemicals, and the big US firm that made the chemicals is allowed to block the state from offering a health screening programme in case it leads to a class action lawsuit. What a fucking world.
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"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."
NEW: How does the scale of harm in Gaza compare to other conflicts?
Our new report presents a unique analysis of where and how thousands of civilians were killed in the first 25 days in Gaza - and how these patterns are unprecedented in modern warfare.
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Our new report presents a unique analysis of where and how thousands of civilians were killed in the first 25 days in Gaza - and how these patterns are unprecedented in modern warfare.
gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org
Airwars Gaza Patterns of Harm
Airwars monitors, assesses and preserves civilian casualty claims resulting from explosive weapons use in multiple conflicts.
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December 13, 2024 at 2:24 AM
"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."
Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25
Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality at Brighton & Sussex Medical School on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 5, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25
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It would be awkward for someone who bragged about making the US the biggest fossil-fuel producer to acknowledge that part of his legacy is worsening climate change.
Obama’s “Our Oceans” on Netflix is amazing. Sure he talks about warming oceans, but doesn’t say what is causing it! What a missed science education opportunity. Sad.
November 26, 2024 at 1:35 PM
It would be awkward for someone who bragged about making the US the biggest fossil-fuel producer to acknowledge that part of his legacy is worsening climate change.