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Fatima Rajina
@frajina.bsky.social
Academic interested in British Bangladeshis/Bengalis/Muslims

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Coconuts & CocoNOTS: Police Racism, Protest, and the Right to Satire

Join us to explore how the policing of language is employed to silence Black and Brown activism by looking at Marieha Hussain's recent case.

📍 Trinity House, Leicester
⏰ 6-9pm

Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coconuts-c...
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
UKIP are coming to Whitechapel on the 25th. We need to come out and fight back. See you there!

📱 Share the flyer and the link to join this WhatsApp chat with your friends for updates nearer the time

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October 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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As the tube strike hits #London, listen again to Romit Chowdhury on #CITIES for #UncommonSense. Including: how “walking the city” emerged as a revolutionary method, transport studies from Kolkata and Tokyo, and a celebration of urban enchantment

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Uncommon Sense: Cities, with Romit Chowdhury
thesociologicalreview.org
September 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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“Seeing it raised today makes clear that it has become a political tool: a signal that Muslims and Asians, alongside asylum seekers, particularly in places like Luton, are not welcome. That is the true meaning of this so-called pride.”(@frajina.bsky.social)

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...
For UK minorities, the St George's flag remains a symbol of racist violence
From colonial humiliation to today's jingoism on Britain's streets, the red and white flag was never a harmless display of 'cultural pride' but a weapon of fear and exclusion
www.middleeasteye.net
September 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur
September 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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"When I see it flying from lamp posts or plastered across roundabouts, it does not speak of pride but power - namely, who belongs and who does not"
@frajina.bsky.social on flags as symbols of exclusion
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...
For UK minorities, the St George's flag remains a symbol of racist violence
From colonial humiliation to today's jingoism on Britain's streets, the red and white flag was never a harmless display of 'cultural pride' but a weapon of fear and exclusion
www.middleeasteye.net
September 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My latest article analysing what the flag represents

“Others dismiss the displays as harmless, w/ some even plastering the flag on their doors as a form of protection. Either stance risks legitimising the act,or pretending it is benign when it is anything but.”
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...
For UK minorities, the St George's flag remains a symbol of racist violence
From colonial humiliation to today's jingoism on Britain's streets, the red and white flag was never a harmless display of 'cultural pride' but a weapon of fear and exclusion
www.middleeasteye.net
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Masked men putting up flags and demanding that passers by who challenge them tell them where they come from is not something to be celebrated.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why I am putting up Union flags on my high street in Sutton
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Any restaurant that was good and expanded and then got bought by private equity and suddenly there’s 30 of them in the city with decreasing food quality and increasing prices
10. What was ruined by popularity?
August 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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EXCITING! A Migrant's Guide is now available in English, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Farsi & Pashto for £3 per copy.⁠

Created by migrants, for migrants, the guide connects people to essential services, offers practical advice, and so much more.⁠

📩Contact migrantsguide@praxis.org.uk to order
August 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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read this carefully—the AFP was founded in 1944. they’ve just issued a statement saying that for the first time in history, their journalists face death by starvation #Gaza
July 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The crackdown on civil liberties continue in the UK with at least 90 people arrested in London for opposing the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Courtesy of Labour

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At least 90 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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'Police in London have been accused of abusing their powers to curb protest after research found that less than 3% of arrests . . . resulted in a prosecution.'
Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest'.

#FascismOnTheRise

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Met police accused of ‘assault on right to protest’ after tenfold rise in nuisance law arrests
FoI requests also reveal that since 2019 less than 3% of those held under law in London were prosecuted
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July 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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If universities are going to push and promise employability to students and their parents, they should probably treat their employees better. Exploitation, insecurity and redundancies are not a model or marketing strategy.
June 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I was at @britishacademy.bsky.social’s Summer Showcase private viewing yesterday. Had many beautiful conversations. Do come along today from 5pm! I will be there by my exhibition!

Book tickets here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
June 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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This was the first of many highlights at the Summer Showcase - the British Academy's free festival of ideas.

Discover our full programme through the link below:

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...
The British Academy Summer Showcase
Every year we throw open our doors for the British Academy’s annual Summer Showcase, a free festival of ideas for curious minds. Meet the researchers shaping our world through their pioneering social ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I think it's so cool that we let this obviously deranged person both run a school and be granted a national platform to scream whatever far-right nonsense has infested her brain.
This is the second time this woman (“Britain’s strictest headteacher”) has claimed there’s a secret school in London she won’t name that has replaced Shakespeare with me. It’s complete bullshit of course but why’s she so obsessed with me
June 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Indian Muslims have been rendered electorally dispensable and therefore politically irrelevant; some might even go further and regard them a political liability, writes Harsh Mander:
The political erasure of Indian Muslims
INDIA IS HOME to 200 million Muslim people. More Muslims live here than in any other country in the world barring Indonesia and Pakistan.  Yet in 2023, the
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June 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I will be there on the 20th, so pop along to see the Jummah Aesthetics exhibition!

Link for booking tickets is below.
The exhibition on Jummah Aesthetics has been selected for the British Academy Summer Showcase 2025 this June! If you are interested in attending, then book your tickets here:

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/summe...

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June 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Join us at the British Academy for our Summer Showcase 2025 on 20-21 June.

See our funded researchers share their innovative social sciences and humanities research that is shaping the society we live in – and informing the one we want to create.

Book your free tickets here:

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May 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM