Divya P Tolia-Kelly
@delightfuldivya.bsky.social
Equity and Equality warrior. Anti-Racist, pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide, Professor of Geography and Heritage at Sussex University, teaching Black Lives Matter and geographies of ‘Race’ and ‘Racisms’
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Rage across Britain at Supreme Court’s attack on trans+ rights socialistworker.co.uk/lgbt/rage-ac...
Rage across Britain at Supreme Court's attack on trans+ rights
Across Britain, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of against the Supreme Court ruling that attacks trans+ rights.
socialistworker.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Rage across Britain at Supreme Court’s attack on trans+ rights socialistworker.co.uk/lgbt/rage-ac...
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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Houston says no to fascism and Trump's crimes against humanity. #3E #FiftyFiftyOne #EndImpunity #EndOligarcy #EndAutogenocide
April 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Houston says no to fascism and Trump's crimes against humanity. #3E #FiftyFiftyOne #EndImpunity #EndOligarcy #EndAutogenocide
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1.3m people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts.
We are all one accident/illness away from needing benefits. It is in our own interest to oppose.
It wasn't in the manifesto.
Mobilize your MP to oppose this cruel cut. Tax the rich.
We are all one accident/illness away from needing benefits. It is in our own interest to oppose.
It wasn't in the manifesto.
Mobilize your MP to oppose this cruel cut. Tax the rich.
1.3 million ill people could lose PIP under Labour's disability benefit cuts
Labour's benefit reforms could see thousands of people with cancer and more than 200,000 people with arthritis lose their PIP payments.
www.bigissue.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
1.3m people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts.
We are all one accident/illness away from needing benefits. It is in our own interest to oppose.
It wasn't in the manifesto.
Mobilize your MP to oppose this cruel cut. Tax the rich.
We are all one accident/illness away from needing benefits. It is in our own interest to oppose.
It wasn't in the manifesto.
Mobilize your MP to oppose this cruel cut. Tax the rich.
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‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
Palestinians trying to access Christianity's holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem face restrictions and hostility
As the bells rang out across the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the priests began to sing a deep, low prayer. Heads bowed over candles, and escorted by people bearing aloft large gold crosses, they made their way to a platform at the heart of the ancient square.
The ceremony on Holy Thursday, in which the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem washes the feet of 12 monastic priests to commemorate the Last Supper, is one of many Easter rituals that have taken place in the Old City of Jerusalem for hundreds of years. For Christians, there is no holier place to commemorate Easter than here, the site where they believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown
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Holocaust Survivor tells his sheriff and Trump’s Deportation czar disappearing people that history “is not on your side.”
April 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Watchdog raises concern over DWP plan to deduct benefit overpayments.
Govt wants 24/7 access to benefit claimants bank accounts, remove money without agreement or court order, right to appeal. Banks will charge fees.
People could be left without money to pay for essentials.
Govt wants 24/7 access to benefit claimants bank accounts, remove money without agreement or court order, right to appeal. Banks will charge fees.
People could be left without money to pay for essentials.
Watchdog raises concern over DWP plan to deduct benefit overpayments
Committee says impact on poorest people of taking money directly from accounts has been understated
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Watchdog raises concern over DWP plan to deduct benefit overpayments.
Govt wants 24/7 access to benefit claimants bank accounts, remove money without agreement or court order, right to appeal. Banks will charge fees.
People could be left without money to pay for essentials.
Govt wants 24/7 access to benefit claimants bank accounts, remove money without agreement or court order, right to appeal. Banks will charge fees.
People could be left without money to pay for essentials.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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How a Muslim housing plan in Texas became the target of right-wing hysteria - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-muslim-texas-housing-plan-became-target-right-wing-hysteria-how
How a Muslim housing plan in Texas became the target of right-wing hysteria
A proposed Muslim neighbourhood was branded a threat, once again exposing the enduring machinery of American Islamophobia more than two decades after 9/11
www.middleeasteye.net
April 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
How a Muslim housing plan in Texas became the target of right-wing hysteria - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-muslim-texas-housing-plan-became-target-right-wing-hysteria-how
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A good piece- particularly relevant for GLAM and other orgs that heavily utilise volunteers.
The importance of institutinal memory - or, how not to lose a canal: on.ft.com/4jfsIcB
The value of institutional memory
[FREE TO READ] Why some organisations are condemned to repeat the same mistakes over and over again
on.ft.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A good piece- particularly relevant for GLAM and other orgs that heavily utilise volunteers.
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‘In the 17th century, fistfights would break out on the Forth foreshore over who had the right to collect “sea-ware for manuring the ground”. These days rotting kelp and bladderwrack are less sought after.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on building a compost heap: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on building a compost heap: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
‘In the 17th century, fistfights would break out on the Forth foreshore over who had the right to collect “sea-ware for manuring the ground”. These days rotting kelp and bladderwrack are less sought after.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on building a compost heap: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on building a compost heap: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.
April 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.
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And still Starmer and Lammy clap along. #GuiltyMen
"Katz has simply once again admitted to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts. There is no other interpretation, no way of reframing it, no leeway."
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-say...
#BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-say...
#BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine
Israel says it's deliberately starving Gaza
How many confessions do the Western media and political elite need before they call this what it is?
www.owenjones.news
April 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
And still Starmer and Lammy clap along. #GuiltyMen
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Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on social media that there will be no ceasefire agreement with Hamas and that humanitarian aid will be blocked from entering Gaza, where over two million civilians are already enduring severe starvation.
April 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on social media that there will be no ceasefire agreement with Hamas and that humanitarian aid will be blocked from entering Gaza, where over two million civilians are already enduring severe starvation.
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Many new advance reviews just up @enghistrev.bsky.social, incl. this warm appreciation by Ryan Hanley of my longtime colleague @uclhistory.bsky.social Catherine Hall's 'magnificent' last book.
Ryan Hanley reviews 'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism', by Catherine Hall
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Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, By Catherine Hall
The father of English racism was an historian. In his lifetime, Edward Long wished to be known as a West Indian planter and a respectable businessman, a pa
academic.oup.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Many new advance reviews just up @enghistrev.bsky.social, incl. this warm appreciation by Ryan Hanley of my longtime colleague @uclhistory.bsky.social Catherine Hall's 'magnificent' last book.
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Unique interdisciplinary opportunity. Apply now! Applications close 22 April.
Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
PhD Studentships 2025
We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.
placememory.net
April 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Unique interdisciplinary opportunity. Apply now! Applications close 22 April.
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NGOs in Gaza warn food stocks are running low as malnutrition expands. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has called it “likely… the worst humanitarian crisis in the 18 months” since Israel's war began.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/rs8omv
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/rs8omv
April 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
NGOs in Gaza warn food stocks are running low as malnutrition expands. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has called it “likely… the worst humanitarian crisis in the 18 months” since Israel's war began.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/rs8omv
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/rs8omv
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NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data
By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
1.3 million ill people could lose PIP under Labour's disability benefit cuts
Labour's benefit reforms could see thousands of people with cancer and more than 200,000 people with arthritis lose their PIP payments.
www.bigissue.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data
By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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A useful reader on decolonising geography - a tip from @malangwa.bsky.social to finish the #GAConf2025 Now on my post event ‘to read’ list along with lots of other tips from teachers - thank you @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A useful reader on decolonising geography - a tip from @malangwa.bsky.social to finish the #GAConf2025 Now on my post event ‘to read’ list along with lots of other tips from teachers - thank you @geographicalassoc.bsky.social
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Desecration of Muslim graves at UK cemetery condemned as 'Islamophobic attack' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/desecration-muslim-graves-uk-cemetery-should-be-treated-islamophobic-act-says-ngo
Desecration of Muslim graves at UK cemetery condemned as 'Islamophobic attack'
Children's grave plaques were destroyed at Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery in Watford in an incident that has left the Muslim community there shaken
www.middleeasteye.net
April 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Desecration of Muslim graves at UK cemetery condemned as 'Islamophobic attack' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/desecration-muslim-graves-uk-cemetery-should-be-treated-islamophobic-act-says-ngo
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‘The ambition was no longer simply to return home a qualified lawyer, doctor or civil servant, bearing the “golden fleece” of education. There was work to be done in Britain itself.’
Gazelle Mba on the history of West African emigration to Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Gazelle Mba on the history of West African emigration to Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Gazelle Mba · Some Beneficial Influence: African Students in Britain
In the interwar years, the emerging concern of this group of young students was Britain’s inconsistencies: the...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
‘The ambition was no longer simply to return home a qualified lawyer, doctor or civil servant, bearing the “golden fleece” of education. There was work to be done in Britain itself.’
Gazelle Mba on the history of West African emigration to Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Gazelle Mba on the history of West African emigration to Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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'From a legal base in Florence, which reflects Italy’s long-standing leadership in cultural heritage, E-RIHS Eric will coordinate research efforts in the field across Europe by offering access to facilities, expertise and data for conservation, restoration and historical analysis.' 2/2
April 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'From a legal base in Florence, which reflects Italy’s long-standing leadership in cultural heritage, E-RIHS Eric will coordinate research efforts in the field across Europe by offering access to facilities, expertise and data for conservation, restoration and historical analysis.' 2/2