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Free Palestine, Sudan, DRC. End settler colonialism. Black Atlantic, Caribbean, slavery, white supremacy in the long 18thc. Holistic abolition. Wear a mask!!! Lib free zone.🇹🇹🇮🇪
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Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · Nov 19
I was honoured to edit and contribute to this cluster for @RomNetjournal and Kate Singer. Our essays on Hazel Carby's Imperial Intimacies and The Woman of Colour show "The entanglements of official, imperial structures with the intimate and personal." 1
ronjournal.org/articles/n82...
Introduction: Imperial Intimacies
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Dave Snow is out here telling a government committee that racist researchers are being sidelined.

But that's not the best part.

The best part is that the government committee is treating this as constructive feedback.

www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...
Dave Snow: I think that's exactly right. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, CIHR, whose definition of research excellence includes language of inclusivity and diversity on its research excellence framework page, has that research is excellent when it's inclusive, equitable, diverse, anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial in approach and impact. Now, probably most of us would say, “I'm not ableist. I'm not racist. I'm not a colonialist,” Those are good things, but these terms in academia.... I am familiar with progressive academia. These are very specific frameworks, often unfalsifiably formed, that have a particular way of looking at the world and are not, first and foremost, about knowledge creation. They're built on particular assumptions about how society is governed and how it ought to be changed. When you adopt that as your framework for all health and medical funding across the country, you are going to necessarily discourage certain forms of knowledge creation and encourage activist research that is not designed to help us achieve better medical and health outcomes and knowledge. I heard a presentation earlier today about how we don't want to leave anyone on the sidelines. Well, this is leaving on the sidelines scholars who don't use an anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial approach in their hard science research on health and medicine. If I had one recommendation of what should go within the agencies, it would be that component of that research excellence framework from the beginning.
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas: I'm tabling the following motion: That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
kerrysinanan.bsky.social
Glad to be a small part of this incredible report on suppressing Palestinian advocacy in CA Universities. Thanks to Azeezah Kanji and the task force. This is part of the record now:
www.institutionalcomplicity.ca
Palestine at Canadian Universities
www.institutionalcomplicity.ca
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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dropsitenews.com
Reuters confirms all 1,966 Palestinian captives and forcibly disappeared from Gaza set for release have boarded buses at Israeli prisons.

Al Jazeera:
➤ The Red Cross has entered Ofer Prison to evacuate one prisoner in need of urgent medical care.
➤ 12 West Bank detainees will be exiled; their...
Reuters confirms all 1,966 Palestinian captives and forcibly disappeared from Gaza set for release have boarded buses at Israeli prisons. Al Jazeera: ➤ The Red Cross has entered Ofer Prison to evacuate one prisoner in need of urgent medical care. ➤ 12 West Bank detainees will be exiled; their families were barred by Israel from traveling to meet them. ➤ Israel has not clarified when the 1,700 Gaza captives will be released. ➤ Some Gaza captives are still not included in the release. 🎥 Video: Security forces deployed inside Nasser Medical Complex to secure the reception of released Palestinian captives in Gaza.
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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divyampersaud.com
NGL, with Link banned, our reach for the giving circle has dropped. Translation: less support for six families & a displacement camp in Gaza.

So let’s turn this around. This is still a survival fund—not even a rebuilding fund! They’re hungry & homeless.

5 hours left 🚨 545/1000 for six families.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
A lot of white people are mourning this woman which is funny since she was a stalwart defender of a sexual abuser. And Annie Hall was boring as fuck
It’s funny how people gloss over the truth for the performance of morality in death
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/d...
Diane Keaton says ‘victim culture’ is a ‘horrible shame’
The star also spoke gushingly about controversial filmmaker Woody Allen
www.independent.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal
Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta
thenarwhal.ca
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
kerrysinanan.bsky.social
Having been completely ghosted for 6 months by a major journal after they accepted my article (no response to multiple emails asking for a timeline) I have just now received proofs with a *one week turnaround time*. In mid-term. Only some of us receive the care so many claim to promote on here.....
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
Flyer of Decolonial Queer Thinking. Image by Mario Patiño, artist. Image of a person of colour with a white veil and naked torso with a flower in their mouth.
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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decolonialconf.bsky.social
Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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decolonialconf.bsky.social
The Decolonial Conference is about confronting complicity and building coalitions.

It’s about organizing and fighting against domination, imagining new worlds, and putting radical thought into action.

Los Angeles, CA, April 6-8, 2026

#decolonialconference
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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brendancoke14.bsky.social
Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 19
In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w
Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
September 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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bookhoarding.bsky.social
YEP YEP YEP. Even the non-Bath events completely ignore the critical work many have done to include critique and documentation of the horrors of empire. It feels like some folks were more than ready to throw out the critical work people were working so hard on in order to get a speaker’s fee.
September 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
kerrysinanan.bsky.social
Thank you, Bianca, and so great to see Olivia Carpenter having a say in this conversation on Austen and her limitations! @theconversation.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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nikkihessell.bsky.social
We've taken our @marsdenfund.bsky.social "Poetics of Treaties" project on the road! Spending time today at the Agowiidiwinan Centre & at the Museum of Human Rights thinking about treaties in those contexts, then speaking tomorrow at UW.

Thank you to @kerrysinanan.bsky.social for hosting us there
kerrysinanan.bsky.social Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social · Sep 16
Very excited that I will finally meet @nikkihessell.bsky.social in person tomorrow and cannot wait to hear her talk with Carwyn Jones on how we can center Treaties in our work and on comparing different treaty experiences and knowledges in 'Canada' and Aotearoa
The BIPOC Network and the Department of English Special Programs present this talk which will look at issues around treaties in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. Carwyn Jones will talk about the example of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Waitangi Tribunal as an accountability mechanism, including the importance of understanding treaties as Indigenous law instruments. Nikki Hessell will talk about how historical settler ideas about treaty-making can be understood using Indigenous concepts that take in creative expression, including poetry, as part of the textual world of treaties.
September 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
kerrysinanan.bsky.social
These violent lynchings of a student, Trey Reed, and a homeless man are being hidden. There is a direct through line between the fascist response to Kirk's death, blaming everyone except their own, and these murders.
September 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
kerrysinanan.bsky.social
Very excited that I will finally meet @nikkihessell.bsky.social in person tomorrow and cannot wait to hear her talk with Carwyn Jones on how we can center Treaties in our work and on comparing different treaty experiences and knowledges in 'Canada' and Aotearoa
The BIPOC Network and the Department of English Special Programs present this talk which will look at issues around treaties in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. Carwyn Jones will talk about the example of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Waitangi Tribunal as an accountability mechanism, including the importance of understanding treaties as Indigenous law instruments. Nikki Hessell will talk about how historical settler ideas about treaty-making can be understood using Indigenous concepts that take in creative expression, including poetry, as part of the textual world of treaties.
September 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
The number of white progressives and liberals stumbling over themselves and crying is pathetic. We see you. And we know you won’t lift a finger to protect the same marginalized ppl you grift off of. HATE IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION. The fact that this has to be said is unconscionable
September 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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dem8z.bsky.social
This prompts me to go back and re-read Claudia Rankine’s JUST US.
September 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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profkfh.bsky.social
🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura
bcrw.barnard.edu
August 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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mondoweiss.net
Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials say the negotiating team survived the attack.

mondoweiss.net/2025/09/isra...

#Palestine #Israel
Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators
Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials...
mondoweiss.net
September 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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wesleymorgan.bsky.social
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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bookhoarding.bsky.social
And, of course, if you've ever swooned at an Austen estate, you have to read Tré Ventour-Griffiths's: National Trust in Jane Austen’s Empires of Sugar
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol11/is...
Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: National Trust in Jane Austen’s Empires of Sugar
By Tré Ventour-Griffiths, Published on 12/22/21
digitalcommons.usf.edu
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM