Anupama Ranawana
@msamrc.bsky.social
She/her. Feminism, anti-colonialism, critical international development. Liberation theology. Postdoc at Durham. Mother to a grumpy cat
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Anupama Ranawana
@msamrc.bsky.social
· Nov 30
LK Floods_November 2025
Sri Lanka floods - November 2025 Note: All of the individuals and/or organisations on this list have been contacted and verified by myself and/or trusted individuals. If you want to support from over...
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As #CycloneDitwah's aftermath unfolds, humanitarian relief is vital. Amalini De Sayrah has curated a list of mutual aid appeals across #SriLanka. If you can help, please do so —and stay safe. #FloodSriLanka2025 ( via @politylk.bsky.social )
tinyurl.com/LKfloods25
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Boycotts are all very well. But this is a police matter now
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Boycotts are all very well. But this is a police matter now
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to be an annoying academic for a second
the racial aspect of invading/not respecting the sovereignty of a majority-Inuit is so obvious and yet under-discussed
the racial aspect of invading/not respecting the sovereignty of a majority-Inuit is so obvious and yet under-discussed
January 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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to be an annoying academic for a second
the racial aspect of invading/not respecting the sovereignty of a majority-Inuit is so obvious and yet under-discussed
the racial aspect of invading/not respecting the sovereignty of a majority-Inuit is so obvious and yet under-discussed
January 7, 2026 at 3:11 PM
to be an annoying academic for a second
the racial aspect of invading/not respecting the sovereignty of a majority-Inuit is so obvious and yet under-discussed
the racial aspect of invading/not respecting the sovereignty of a majority-Inuit is so obvious and yet under-discussed
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After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
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Donald Trump’s relative silence about Venezuela’s political prisoners is making family members anxious about the fate of their loved ones—and their democracy. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/e1_7NB
What Will Become of Venezuela’s Political Prisoners?
Jésus Armas, a prominent opposition leader, has been in prison in Caracas for the past year. With the country in turmoil, his mother worries about his fate.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
January 7, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Donald Trump’s relative silence about Venezuela’s political prisoners is making family members anxious about the fate of their loved ones—and their democracy. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/e1_7NB
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Ed Davey, "Did Trump break international law by attacking Venezuela"
Keir Starmer waffles like Boris Johnson used to waffle, a pair of cowards #PMQs
Ed Davey, "The Prime Minister just looks ridiculous when he won't tell the truth that Trump has broken international law"
Keir Starmer waffles like Boris Johnson used to waffle, a pair of cowards #PMQs
Ed Davey, "The Prime Minister just looks ridiculous when he won't tell the truth that Trump has broken international law"
January 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Ed Davey, "Did Trump break international law by attacking Venezuela"
Keir Starmer waffles like Boris Johnson used to waffle, a pair of cowards #PMQs
Ed Davey, "The Prime Minister just looks ridiculous when he won't tell the truth that Trump has broken international law"
Keir Starmer waffles like Boris Johnson used to waffle, a pair of cowards #PMQs
Ed Davey, "The Prime Minister just looks ridiculous when he won't tell the truth that Trump has broken international law"
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“As a human rights scholar and practitioner it makes me very frustrated when people claim that human rights are a Western thing. In fact many of the important developments within the international human rights system came as a result of the hard work of countries and people in the Global South.”
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Kiran Kaur Grewal | The Im/Possibility of Justice in the Current Global Order
Kiran Kaur Grewal is a human rights lawyer and scholar who is currently Visiting Professor in Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
polity.lk
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“As a human rights scholar and practitioner it makes me very frustrated when people claim that human rights are a Western thing. In fact many of the important developments within the international human rights system came as a result of the hard work of countries and people in the Global South.”
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Please help if you can !
I am once again asking for people to help support my fundraiser for queer refugees in South Sudan. Not much has come in during the last week. gofund.me/ec0d14660
Donate to Aid for Erisa and other LGBTQ Refugees in South Sudan, organized by David Jekel
Message from the beneficiary: Hello everyone, my name is Erisa and … David Jekel needs your support for Aid for Erisa and other LGBTQ Refugees in South Sudan
gofund.me
January 7, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Please help if you can !
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Also, a shameless plug, A Rocha international has a whole plastics toolkit with some theological resources. resources.arocha.org/resource/pla...
Plastics Toolbox - Resources
This plastics toolbox will help you contribute to global efforts to fight plastic pollution in the oceans, as an individual, family, group or church.
resources.arocha.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Also, a shameless plug, A Rocha international has a whole plastics toolkit with some theological resources. resources.arocha.org/resource/pla...
If Denmark wasn't quasi occupying Greenland would we see all this sound and fury from NATO? Nope if it was just the Greenlanders NATO would probably help Trump with his imperial plans.
January 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
If Denmark wasn't quasi occupying Greenland would we see all this sound and fury from NATO? Nope if it was just the Greenlanders NATO would probably help Trump with his imperial plans.
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More Glasgow, in the evening this time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossings-...
Crossings: An encounter with Liz Rosenfeld and João Florêncio
Artist Liz Rosenfeld and academic João Florêncio present an expanded conversation and book launch on and around cruising and making
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:13 PM
More Glasgow, in the evening this time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossings-...
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Shulamith Firestone wrote the first book of the women’s liberation movement to propound a feminist theory of sex. She would have turned 81 today.
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
The Death of a Revolutionary: Shulamith Firestone
Susan Faludi's excellent obituary of Shulamith Firestone, originally published in the New Yorker.
www.versobooks.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Shulamith Firestone wrote the first book of the women’s liberation movement to propound a feminist theory of sex. She would have turned 81 today.
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
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Today is International Day to End Conversion Therapy (aka #IDECT).
Conversion practices are ineffective, unscientific and cause actual harm.
Governments since 2017 have promised to bring forward a ban - but we’re still waiting.
Keep the pressure on.
Get all LGBTQ conversion practices banned in 2026.
Conversion practices are ineffective, unscientific and cause actual harm.
Governments since 2017 have promised to bring forward a ban - but we’re still waiting.
Keep the pressure on.
Get all LGBTQ conversion practices banned in 2026.
January 7, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Today is International Day to End Conversion Therapy (aka #IDECT).
Conversion practices are ineffective, unscientific and cause actual harm.
Governments since 2017 have promised to bring forward a ban - but we’re still waiting.
Keep the pressure on.
Get all LGBTQ conversion practices banned in 2026.
Conversion practices are ineffective, unscientific and cause actual harm.
Governments since 2017 have promised to bring forward a ban - but we’re still waiting.
Keep the pressure on.
Get all LGBTQ conversion practices banned in 2026.
Ah snowy weather in the UK. When your train status simply updates to "not departing"
January 7, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Ah snowy weather in the UK. When your train status simply updates to "not departing"
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Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women's spaces, study finds - LGBTQ Nation
“This is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
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This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
January 6, 2026 at 7:48 AM
This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
Funny how European and Canadian leaders can rush to be in unequivocal solidarity with Denmark but not with Venezuelans. Maduro is/was a dictator but Trump blatantly violated international law.
January 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Funny how European and Canadian leaders can rush to be in unequivocal solidarity with Denmark but not with Venezuelans. Maduro is/was a dictator but Trump blatantly violated international law.
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NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
www.importantcontext.news
January 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
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Statements like “international law is gay” are why we need gender studies
right. and like it's not like they're hiding it now. all of the major pundits (knowles + walsh) basically think the takeaway from Iraq War was not that PNAC was right to want to build democracy, but a world that is explicitly built around turning America into an empire
January 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Statements like “international law is gay” are why we need gender studies
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"He was in pain, in crisis & he begged, ‘Someone call 911, please.’ Instead of compassion, instead of care, he was met with tasers, chokeholds, fists & the crushing weight of officers pinning him down face-first on burning asphalt until he could no longer breathe," his mother, Angelica Lujan, said.
January 6, 2026 at 4:46 AM
"He was in pain, in crisis & he begged, ‘Someone call 911, please.’ Instead of compassion, instead of care, he was met with tasers, chokeholds, fists & the crushing weight of officers pinning him down face-first on burning asphalt until he could no longer breathe," his mother, Angelica Lujan, said.
I feel this.. sometimes it takes months to get 2 reviews in. I feel for authors too
I'm handling a manuscript and have invited seventeen reviewers. So far, the responses are: no response, declined, declined, no response, declined, declined, declined, declined, declined, no response, no response. One person has turned in a review and I'm still trying to find a second reviewer.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I feel this.. sometimes it takes months to get 2 reviews in. I feel for authors too
Eleven Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus
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UPDATE: Eleven Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus
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January 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Eleven Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus
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Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
www.politico.eu
January 6, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
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There's an online launch for The Feminist Art of Walking Weds 28th Jan 6.30 on zoom. I'll be joined by some amazing artists and activists celebrated in the book so its gonna be special. More info TBC, sign up here for the link (free) tinyurl.com/FAoWONLINE @plutopress.bsky.social #NewBook #Feminist
January 1, 2026 at 4:33 PM
There's an online launch for The Feminist Art of Walking Weds 28th Jan 6.30 on zoom. I'll be joined by some amazing artists and activists celebrated in the book so its gonna be special. More info TBC, sign up here for the link (free) tinyurl.com/FAoWONLINE @plutopress.bsky.social #NewBook #Feminist
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.