Tom Western
@tomwestern.bsky.social
Writing about circles and circulations and anticolonial futures. Setting up an anti-genocide university
(Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL)
https://undercartographies.city/
(Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL)
https://undercartographies.city/
Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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UCL staff, students and alumni demand that UCL rescinds Demis Hassabis’ Honorary Fellowship. Sign our petition now, link and info at this link: shorturl.at/l0BCO
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
UCL staff, students and alumni demand that UCL rescinds Demis Hassabis’ Honorary Fellowship. Sign our petition now, link and info at this link: shorturl.at/l0BCO
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What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
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As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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There is no ceasefire.
There never was.
There never was.
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
There is no ceasefire.
There never was.
There never was.
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*acting surprised*
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to immediately carry out 'powerful' attacks in Gaza reut.rs/42X27uY
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
*acting surprised*
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
sudansolidarity.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
This is coming up soon
This year's Claire Dwyer lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social is with Dr Shabna Begum (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) – reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act of 1965
Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...
Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...
The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum
Eventbrite - UCL Department of Geography presents The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum - Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at Common Ground, London, England. Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is coming up soon
Getting some very exciting PhD proposals coming in at the moment 😍
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Getting some very exciting PhD proposals coming in at the moment 😍
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Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.
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Join us for this workshop on UCL’s ties with DeepMind and links with genocide!
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Join us for this workshop on UCL’s ties with DeepMind and links with genocide!
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End UCL’s ties with Google DeepMind! Join BDS@UCL for a workshop to find out more about links with DeepMind and to work with others to write letters to UCL managers calling for an end to UCL’s ties with DeepMind. No need to register!
Dates below ⬇️
Dates below ⬇️
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
End UCL’s ties with Google DeepMind! Join BDS@UCL for a workshop to find out more about links with DeepMind and to work with others to write letters to UCL managers calling for an end to UCL’s ties with DeepMind. No need to register!
Dates below ⬇️
Dates below ⬇️
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Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together.
Join us.
In person or online.
October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.
events.yorku.ca/events/the-a...
Join us.
In person or online.
October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.
events.yorku.ca/events/the-a...
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Have you registered? We are going to make some necessary sounds — together.
Join us.
In person or online.
October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.
events.yorku.ca/events/the-a...
Join us.
In person or online.
October 30. Sound—at the Interregnum.
events.yorku.ca/events/the-a...
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Let's be clear here, the entire British Establishment, including the leaders of the three largest parties in parliament, are insisting that nowhere should be safe from Zionist violence and that Israel should face no consequences for committing genocide.
www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/202...
www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/202...
Government officials seek to lift ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at Aston Villa tie
Culture secretary to speak to Home Office as minister says barring Israeli supporters is 'utterly unacceptable'
www.dumptheguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Let's be clear here, the entire British Establishment, including the leaders of the three largest parties in parliament, are insisting that nowhere should be safe from Zionist violence and that Israel should face no consequences for committing genocide.
www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/202...
www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/202...
Enjoying this analogy of fugue as music of breaking closed structures and creating realities not imaginable before – in the intro to Said on Opera
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Enjoying this analogy of fugue as music of breaking closed structures and creating realities not imaginable before – in the intro to Said on Opera
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Israel is bombing southern Lebanon again
This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire
This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire
October 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Israel is bombing southern Lebanon again
This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire
This is what the Israelis call ceasefire: you cease, we fire
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This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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I see Etel Adnan in the background and I want to read this!
Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press
Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP
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October 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I see Etel Adnan in the background and I want to read this!
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the Israeli military literally killed a bunch of Palestinians this morning
Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
the Israeli military literally killed a bunch of Palestinians this morning
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If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
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Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...