Dr Isis Giraldo
@isisgiraldo.bsky.social
Cultural studies researcher. I work on Colombia from within globalised & long-term critical approaches. Interested in media, feminist theories, decolonial critique, the far right, & the global flow of ideas. Posting in Spanish as @isisgiraldoa.bsky.social
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Dr Isis Giraldo
@isisgiraldo.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Isis Giraldo receives 2023 SHF x Cultural Studies Award - Stuart Hall Foundation
The winner of the 2023 SHF x Cultural Studies Award is Isis Giraldo, who receives the award in recognition for her article ‘SoHo as virtual theatre: performing gender, race, and class in 21st-century ...
www.stuarthallfoundation.org
The best professional news I've got this year.
I couldn’t be prouder to have my name officially linked to Stuart Hall, whose work and legacy have been crucial to my becoming the researcher and educator I am.
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/awards/isis-...
I couldn’t be prouder to have my name officially linked to Stuart Hall, whose work and legacy have been crucial to my becoming the researcher and educator I am.
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/awards/isis-...
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NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
NEW: Israel has committed at least 497 ceasefire violations, killing at least 342 Palestinians since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel & Hamas went into effect on Oct. 10.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
An Israeli ‘kamikaze’ drone targeted a car on a busy Gaza City street on Nov. 22, killing 5 Palestinians.
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He admits "causing grievous bodily harm with intent, affray, wounding with intent and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm", while "victims include two babies and six other children". But it's still a "crash" and not an "attack", because whiteness.
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
He admits "causing grievous bodily harm with intent, affray, wounding with intent and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm", while "victims include two babies and six other children". But it's still a "crash" and not an "attack", because whiteness.
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The Max Planck Institute says over 100,000 have been killed and life expectancy slashed for Palestinians as a result of the Israeli genocide.
Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy
Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account
www.mpg.de
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Max Planck Institute says over 100,000 have been killed and life expectancy slashed for Palestinians as a result of the Israeli genocide.
Why is the Guardian publishing articles about the "scoop" that Farage "was" a Hitler admirer in his youth?
In what fucking parallel universe is that piece of news surprising?
What would truly be surprising is if he didn’t admire Hitler, not only back then, but today.
In what fucking parallel universe is that piece of news surprising?
What would truly be surprising is if he didn’t admire Hitler, not only back then, but today.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Why is the Guardian publishing articles about the "scoop" that Farage "was" a Hitler admirer in his youth?
In what fucking parallel universe is that piece of news surprising?
What would truly be surprising is if he didn’t admire Hitler, not only back then, but today.
In what fucking parallel universe is that piece of news surprising?
What would truly be surprising is if he didn’t admire Hitler, not only back then, but today.
Bankrolling pedagogies of cruelty.
The majority of the UK media, encouraged by the UK's equality body, is waging a campaign to encourage the public, employers and health providers to harass anyone who doesn't fit their definition of what a woman should look like.
This is what JK Rowling is funding.
This is what JK Rowling is funding.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Bankrolling pedagogies of cruelty.
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The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30
uncpress.org/978146969484...
uncpress.org/978146969484...
Another year in which we have snow in November.
The previous years, this has been followed by temperatures of around 12°C in mid-January, in the Alps!
The previous years, this has been followed by temperatures of around 12°C in mid-January, in the Alps!
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Another year in which we have snow in November.
The previous years, this has been followed by temperatures of around 12°C in mid-January, in the Alps!
The previous years, this has been followed by temperatures of around 12°C in mid-January, in the Alps!
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Labour's politics of hatred know no limit.
The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Labour's politics of hatred know no limit.
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I do sometimes feel resentment at the fact that so many of us have been beating the drum about US policing and fascism for decades to no avail.
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I do sometimes feel resentment at the fact that so many of us have been beating the drum about US policing and fascism for decades to no avail.
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#SPEP2025 Join Lambert Zuidervaart, author of ADORNO, HEIDEGGER, AND THE POLITICS OF TRUTH, today at 2:30 for a book critics panel.
He unpacks Adorno’s “dialectical constellation” of truth—set against Heidegger, Foucault, and the post-truth era.
#ReadUP tinyurl.com/y9kw2kv6
He unpacks Adorno’s “dialectical constellation” of truth—set against Heidegger, Foucault, and the post-truth era.
#ReadUP tinyurl.com/y9kw2kv6
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#SPEP2025 Join Lambert Zuidervaart, author of ADORNO, HEIDEGGER, AND THE POLITICS OF TRUTH, today at 2:30 for a book critics panel.
He unpacks Adorno’s “dialectical constellation” of truth—set against Heidegger, Foucault, and the post-truth era.
#ReadUP tinyurl.com/y9kw2kv6
He unpacks Adorno’s “dialectical constellation” of truth—set against Heidegger, Foucault, and the post-truth era.
#ReadUP tinyurl.com/y9kw2kv6
The CfP for the next #Crossroads in #CulturalStudies conference -which will, for the first time, be held in Latin America (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)- is out! I'm proud to be part of the scientific committee. Have a look at the beautiful website, submit your proposal, and share!
crossroads2026.com/en/
crossroads2026.com/en/
Crossroads 2026 EN
Crossroads 2026 EN
crossroads2026.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The CfP for the next #Crossroads in #CulturalStudies conference -which will, for the first time, be held in Latin America (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)- is out! I'm proud to be part of the scientific committee. Have a look at the beautiful website, submit your proposal, and share!
crossroads2026.com/en/
crossroads2026.com/en/
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"Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l’État/When we are all enemies of the state." I worked with translator Nathalie Prévost to publish the French translation of Stuart Hall's 1974 speech on Walter Rodney in @afriquexxi.bsky.social. afriquexxi.info/Quand-nous-s...
« Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l'État »
En septembre 1974, lors d’une manifestation à Londres, Stuart Hall prononça un discours en soutien à son camarade caraïbéen Walter Rodney, un intellectuel du Guyana alors persécuté par les (…)
afriquexxi.info
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Quand nous sommes tous des ennemis de l’État/When we are all enemies of the state." I worked with translator Nathalie Prévost to publish the French translation of Stuart Hall's 1974 speech on Walter Rodney in @afriquexxi.bsky.social. afriquexxi.info/Quand-nous-s...
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Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.
Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.
Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
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📣 OPPORTUNITY: the Stuart Hall Essay Prize competition invites young academics, journalists, students and other writers based in the UK to reflect on Stuart Hall's groundbreaking ideas in an original critique of contemporary society.
📅 Deadline 3 November.
👇 Details below!
📅 Deadline 3 November.
👇 Details below!
Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025.
Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📣 OPPORTUNITY: the Stuart Hall Essay Prize competition invites young academics, journalists, students and other writers based in the UK to reflect on Stuart Hall's groundbreaking ideas in an original critique of contemporary society.
📅 Deadline 3 November.
👇 Details below!
📅 Deadline 3 November.
👇 Details below!
Excellent issue this one here, @thenation.com. I received it this week & read it yesterday. Unfortunately, there is a huge printing error. The last page of @jeetheer.bsky.social's piece on W.F. Buckley Jr (p. 80) is missing, while the last of Lalami's (p. 82) is printed twice. Really a pity.
Fall Books features Matt Duss on the crisis of Democratic foreign policy, Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann, Laila Lalami on the Internet's lost souls, Sarah Chihaya on Susan Choi, Elias Rodriques on James Baldwin, and @jeetheer.bsky.social on William Buckley: www.thenation.com/issue/octobe...
October 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Excellent issue this one here, @thenation.com. I received it this week & read it yesterday. Unfortunately, there is a huge printing error. The last page of @jeetheer.bsky.social's piece on W.F. Buckley Jr (p. 80) is missing, while the last of Lalami's (p. 82) is printed twice. Really a pity.
Nativists? You mean white settlers (ergo non-native) descendants?
Bourgeois nativists spend a lot of time pretending their opposition to immigration is about working-class jobs/wages, but show them a society where all the real work is done by foreign guestworkers with fuck all rights and they're like "omg this is paradise"
UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.
Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP
No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.
But here's Tice calling us decadent
Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP
No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.
But here's Tice calling us decadent
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Nativists? You mean white settlers (ergo non-native) descendants?
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Very cool books with very cool covers bombardment because we all need a little beauty and brilliance, surely
October 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Very cool books with very cool covers bombardment because we all need a little beauty and brilliance, surely
In June, @Google quietly signed a $45M ad contract w/ Israel to spread propaganda denying Israel's genocide & starvation of Palestinians in Gaza
Along w/ cloud & AI, Google’s ad machine—the world's biggest—is now in Israel's genocide supply chain
Statement by Google workers w #NoTechForApartheid🧵
Along w/ cloud & AI, Google’s ad machine—the world's biggest—is now in Israel's genocide supply chain
Statement by Google workers w #NoTechForApartheid🧵
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.
BBC under pressure over Sally Rooney’s Palestine Action support
The author of Normal People, which was a big hit for the corporation, said at the weekend she would donate money from her work to the proscribed group
www.thetimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.
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…a state that exists only on paper, that must be approved by its occupier, is not a state. It’s a lie and recognition without action is not diplomacy - it’s complicity…. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/inst...
Instead of sanctioning Israel, the West is retreating into the fantasy of a 'virtual state'
Western leaders offering recognition of Palestine instead of consequences as Gaza is obliterated is symbolism, not sovereignty
www.middleeasteye.net
August 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
…a state that exists only on paper, that must be approved by its occupier, is not a state. It’s a lie and recognition without action is not diplomacy - it’s complicity…. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/inst...
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The starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime and must be stopped immediately.
Our Full statement on bit.ly/44SCwVk
#CeasefireNow #EndTheSiege
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#CeasefireNow #EndTheSiege
July 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime and must be stopped immediately.
Our Full statement on bit.ly/44SCwVk
#CeasefireNow #EndTheSiege
Our Full statement on bit.ly/44SCwVk
#CeasefireNow #EndTheSiege
Dans ce contexte, "Identitaire" n'est qu'un euphémisme pour "suprémaciste blanc" et son utilisation renforce le travail rhétorique des suprémacistes blancs.
Il n’avait jamais formulé aussi clairement sa pensée identitaire nataliste. C'est désormais clair : la priorité du milliardaire d'extrême droite Pierre-Édouard Stérin pour la France ? « Avoir plus de bébés de souche européenne », dit-il avec le sourire.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
« Avoir plus de bébés de souche européenne » : le projet nataliste d’extrême droite du milliardaire Stérin
Au cours d’une conférence organisée par des catholiques intégristes, le milliardaire a dit que « son action prioritaire en France » était de stimuler une politique nataliste chrétienne et « de souche…
www.mediapart.fr
July 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Dans ce contexte, "Identitaire" n'est qu'un euphémisme pour "suprémaciste blanc" et son utilisation renforce le travail rhétorique des suprémacistes blancs.