Ana María Sánchez-Arce (she/her)
@anamsanchezarce.bsky.social
Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University. Contemporary lit, authenticity, censorship, postcolonialist, Almodóvar, feminist. Occasional rants and cat references. Looking for kindred spirits.
This 👇 I will write to my Labour MP too. How low can they stoop? Taking people for a ride following Reform and Conservatives in scapegoating a tiny minority. Labour should focus on the real issues. They won’t win votes but they’ll certainly lose many if they continue to pander to the far right.
![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This 👇 I will write to my Labour MP too. How low can they stoop? Taking people for a ride following Reform and Conservatives in scapegoating a tiny minority. Labour should focus on the real issues. They won’t win votes but they’ll certainly lose many if they continue to pander to the far right.
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JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
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Tomorrow, @acjsissons.bsky.social and I are publishing an essay on how to fix Britain's economy. @guardianheather.bsky.social has a great column on one of our arguments - that services inflation has its roots in producers knowing more than consumers
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK watchdogs need to step in on rip-off bills, which are bad for consumers and the economy | Heather Stewart
From mobiles to insurance and subscriptions, firms are able to exploit the fact they know more than customers
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Tomorrow, @acjsissons.bsky.social and I are publishing an essay on how to fix Britain's economy. @guardianheather.bsky.social has a great column on one of our arguments - that services inflation has its roots in producers knowing more than consumers
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The fact Truss and Farage are siding with Trump tells us all we need to know. No surprise there though.
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The fact Truss and Farage are siding with Trump tells us all we need to know. No surprise there though.
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The most important thing is that it is OUR money he is trying to take. It is OUR BBC. We must defend it with all our might.
I also suggest doing what Canada is and boycot as many American products as possible.
I also suggest doing what Canada is and boycot as many American products as possible.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The most important thing is that it is OUR money he is trying to take. It is OUR BBC. We must defend it with all our might.
I also suggest doing what Canada is and boycot as many American products as possible.
I also suggest doing what Canada is and boycot as many American products as possible.
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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I think I need to print copies of this and wave them threateningly at SUVs as I walk around town...
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think I need to print copies of this and wave them threateningly at SUVs as I walk around town...
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Strike Day 3: Great question in Now Then article about our dispute: 'Sheffield Hallam Staff are going on Strike but will the University listen?'
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/she...
Pickets today 8-11 at Owen & HoTC.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/she...
Pickets today 8-11 at Owen & HoTC.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
Sheffield Hallam staff are going on strike – but will the university listen?
This week marks the first of strike action at Sheffield Hallam. Now Then headed down to the picket line to find out why staff are choosing to swap their lanyards for placards over the next few weeks.
nowthenmagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Strike Day 3: Great question in Now Then article about our dispute: 'Sheffield Hallam Staff are going on Strike but will the University listen?'
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/she...
Pickets today 8-11 at Owen & HoTC.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/she...
Pickets today 8-11 at Owen & HoTC.
#SaveSheffieldHallam
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📢 Solidarity in Action: Day One Strike Highlights
Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!
#SaveSheffieldHallam
Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!
#SaveSheffieldHallam
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
📢 Solidarity in Action: Day One Strike Highlights
Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!
#SaveSheffieldHallam
Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!
#SaveSheffieldHallam
Today 16 years ago, I interviewed for and got my current job. I’ve been at Sheffield Hallam University for 20 years. Unfortunately, today I was on a picket line outside, striking. Main objective: secure agreement from my employer that there won’t be redundancies until at least Spring 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Today 16 years ago, I interviewed for and got my current job. I’ve been at Sheffield Hallam University for 20 years. Unfortunately, today I was on a picket line outside, striking. Main objective: secure agreement from my employer that there won’t be redundancies until at least Spring 2026.
Horray! At least some countries are fighting for the rights of their creatives. Writing next please. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Horray! At least some countries are fighting for the rights of their creatives. Writing next please. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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🚨 STRIKE ACTION BEGINS TODAY 🚨
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
UCU Sheffield Hallam University | UCU Hallam
ucuhallam.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🚨 STRIKE ACTION BEGINS TODAY 🚨
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
Join us on the picket lines to secure Hallam's future. After 1,000 job losses, we demand change.
✊ No Compulsory Redundancies
✊ Protect Academic Conditions
✊ Restore Career Progression
✊ Ensure Transparent Management
ucuhallam.org
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Estoy pensando en hacer un proyecto pan-americano de estudios globales.
Si tu trabajo académico encaja (ver abajo 👇) y tienes curiosidad, responde aquí para así poder componer una lista!
Si tu trabajo académico encaja (ver abajo 👇) y tienes curiosidad, responde aquí para así poder componer una lista!
Estoy buscando investigadores/académicos en America Latina que esté en las humanidades (y particularmente literatura y teoría) trabajando sobre temas de la globalización, política, imperio, el medio ambiente, literatura contemporánea, etc. para conectar por aquí.
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Estoy pensando en hacer un proyecto pan-americano de estudios globales.
Si tu trabajo académico encaja (ver abajo 👇) y tienes curiosidad, responde aquí para así poder componer una lista!
Si tu trabajo académico encaja (ver abajo 👇) y tienes curiosidad, responde aquí para así poder componer una lista!
Enjoying current read A LOT. It’s been sitting on my shelf since it came out and finally I’ve got to it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Enjoying current read A LOT. It’s been sitting on my shelf since it came out and finally I’ve got to it.
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Acaban de hallar los restos de 23 republicanos asesinados con ensañamiento por la represión franquista en Villanueva de la Serena en Badajoz. Sus restos han sido encontrados amontonados unos encima de otros y con las manos atadas. Barbarie fascista.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Acaban de hallar los restos de 23 republicanos asesinados con ensañamiento por la represión franquista en Villanueva de la Serena en Badajoz. Sus restos han sido encontrados amontonados unos encima de otros y con las manos atadas. Barbarie fascista.
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‘Britain needed to demonstrate that its diverse empire was free of racist legislation. The evidence produced by civil servants and colonial administrations to prove Britain’s non-racist credentials was thin.’
Colin Douglas on how the Race Relations Act came into being
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Colin Douglas on how the Race Relations Act came into being
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Colin Douglas | Sixty Not Out
The Race Relations Act was introduced on 8 November 1965, part of a wave of liberal social reforms of the 1960s. It was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
‘Britain needed to demonstrate that its diverse empire was free of racist legislation. The evidence produced by civil servants and colonial administrations to prove Britain’s non-racist credentials was thin.’
Colin Douglas on how the Race Relations Act came into being
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Colin Douglas on how the Race Relations Act came into being
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Thank you so much! Last year, Isabelle Brasme, Florence Marie, and I co-edited May Sinclair in Her Time, and it's available here: books.openedition.org/pulm/26762?l...
May Sinclair in Her Time
May sinclair has been typically considered as a liminal author, positioned between two eras: the 19th and the 20th centuries, Victorian culture and modernism, traditional and avant-garde writing and t...
books.openedition.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Thank you so much! Last year, Isabelle Brasme, Florence Marie, and I co-edited May Sinclair in Her Time, and it's available here: books.openedition.org/pulm/26762?l...
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In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact.
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact.
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Empire with David Olusoga, Series 1, Episode 1
David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Don’t forget to watch this much needed and long overdue series on the British Empire. Remarkably, it’s not based on the opinions of a travelling ‘personality’, but on what historians who’ve actually researched it say!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
October 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.
➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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This isn’t a story about university losing its value. It’s a story about Britain becoming a lower wage economy.
University still pays off – even in lower-wage Britain
This isn’t a story about university losing its value. It’s a story about Britain becoming a lower wage economy.
tcnv.link
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This isn’t a story about university losing its value. It’s a story about Britain becoming a lower wage economy.
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New Job: Editor, Non-commissioning (12 month FTC) - Hodder & Stoughton Publishers
City: Sheffield, London
More here ⬇️ jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28386... #PublishingJobs #JobsInBooks
City: Sheffield, London
More here ⬇️ jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28386... #PublishingJobs #JobsInBooks
Editor, Non-commissioning (12 month FTC) - Hodder & Stoughton Publishers - Sheffield, London
Editor, Non-commissioning (12 month FTC) - Hodder & Stoughton Publishers - Publisher - Editorial - £34,000-£37,000, dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)
jobs.thebookseller.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.