Dr María del Pilar Kaladeen
@mariakaladeen.bsky.social
Academic specialising in the history of indenture in the British Empire. Descendant of Indian indentured labourers, child of the Windrush generation, co-editor of The Other Windrush (Pluto Press) and We Mark Your Memory (University of London Press)
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Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten
When people think about the Windrush generation, they are unlikely to imagine someone like my father, who was not black but a person of Indian-Caribbean heritage.
theconversation.com
Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten
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We spoke to our British Latinx issue guest editors – writer and lecturer Karina Lickorish Quinn and poet Leo Boix – about their journeys of editing this landmark issue.
They discuss what led them to creating this issue, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, & more.
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They discuss what led them to creating this issue, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, & more.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:35 AM
We spoke to our British Latinx issue guest editors – writer and lecturer Karina Lickorish Quinn and poet Leo Boix – about their journeys of editing this landmark issue.
They discuss what led them to creating this issue, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, & more.
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They discuss what led them to creating this issue, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, & more.
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We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages.
Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below.
Application deadline: 15 February, 2026
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FUNDING CALL: Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026
The Sociological Review Foundation is inviting proposals for in-person, hybrid or online seminars that explore the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
Theme: Who & what is sociology for?
Deadline to apply: 31 January
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The Sociological Review Foundation is inviting proposals for in-person, hybrid or online seminars that explore the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
Theme: Who & what is sociology for?
Deadline to apply: 31 January
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January 6, 2026 at 8:01 AM
FUNDING CALL: Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026
The Sociological Review Foundation is inviting proposals for in-person, hybrid or online seminars that explore the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
Theme: Who & what is sociology for?
Deadline to apply: 31 January
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The Sociological Review Foundation is inviting proposals for in-person, hybrid or online seminars that explore the transformative potential of sociological thinking.
Theme: Who & what is sociology for?
Deadline to apply: 31 January
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📣 Orders are open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia — British Latinx Writing & Art!
Guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American and Latinx communities.
Guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American and Latinx communities.
Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia — British Latinx Writing & Art
Our winter special issue, guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn…
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January 6, 2026 at 10:27 AM
📣 Orders are open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia — British Latinx Writing & Art!
Guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American and Latinx communities.
Guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American and Latinx communities.
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Harshita Brella, a young migrant woman with NRPF, lost her life due to domestic abuse and alleged dowry abuse.
On her birthday, we remember the bright, kind human she was and stand with her family calling for justice and full accountability. 1/2
On her birthday, we remember the bright, kind human she was and stand with her family calling for justice and full accountability. 1/2
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Harshita Brella, a young migrant woman with NRPF, lost her life due to domestic abuse and alleged dowry abuse.
On her birthday, we remember the bright, kind human she was and stand with her family calling for justice and full accountability. 1/2
On her birthday, we remember the bright, kind human she was and stand with her family calling for justice and full accountability. 1/2
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Diagnosis rates are rising because the NHS pathway is overwhelmed and fragmented, not because distress is being exaggerated.
What looks like ‘overdiagnosis’ is really a system struggling to provide continuous care
Diagnosis rates are rising because the NHS pathway is overwhelmed and fragmented, not because distress is being exaggerated.
tcnv.link
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Diagnosis rates are rising because the NHS pathway is overwhelmed and fragmented, not because distress is being exaggerated.
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Imagine how differently readers would see the world, if they could access more than a tiny fraction of its literature in English translation.
At Words Without Borders, we have been working towards this vision for over twenty years.
Will you join us?
Donate today: wwborders.live/2025Appeal
At Words Without Borders, we have been working towards this vision for over twenty years.
Will you join us?
Donate today: wwborders.live/2025Appeal
December 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Imagine how differently readers would see the world, if they could access more than a tiny fraction of its literature in English translation.
At Words Without Borders, we have been working towards this vision for over twenty years.
Will you join us?
Donate today: wwborders.live/2025Appeal
At Words Without Borders, we have been working towards this vision for over twenty years.
Will you join us?
Donate today: wwborders.live/2025Appeal
#DistanceLearning The National Extension College made it possible for me to gain the qualifications to read English at the University of Leeds, having left school at 15 without ever sitting an exam. You can learn more about my story from there to PhD at: www.nec.ac.uk/insight/mari...
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#DistanceLearning The National Extension College made it possible for me to gain the qualifications to read English at the University of Leeds, having left school at 15 without ever sitting an exam. You can learn more about my story from there to PhD at: www.nec.ac.uk/insight/mari...
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My contributor’s copy of Callaloo, Volume 43, No. 2 finally arrived here in Port of Spain.
The issue features my new short fiction piece ‘The Windrush Generation’.
My thanks once more to the editors. ✨
#booksky #fiction #shortstory
@callaloojournal.bsky.social
The issue features my new short fiction piece ‘The Windrush Generation’.
My thanks once more to the editors. ✨
#booksky #fiction #shortstory
@callaloojournal.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My contributor’s copy of Callaloo, Volume 43, No. 2 finally arrived here in Port of Spain.
The issue features my new short fiction piece ‘The Windrush Generation’.
My thanks once more to the editors. ✨
#booksky #fiction #shortstory
@callaloojournal.bsky.social
The issue features my new short fiction piece ‘The Windrush Generation’.
My thanks once more to the editors. ✨
#booksky #fiction #shortstory
@callaloojournal.bsky.social
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'..a window into that transformative Peepal Tree treatment.' 🧡
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Illustrating the ‘postcolonial experience’: 40 years of Peepal Tree Press
As the publisher celebrates an important milestone, we chart its journey from an ‘expensive hobby’ to an international household name
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
'..a window into that transformative Peepal Tree treatment.' 🧡
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Thank you to Nesrine Malik for her interview with founder Jeremy Poynting and Fiction Editor Jacob Ross featured in this week's The Long Wave for the Guardian
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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Celebrate our forthcoming issue Wasafiri 124: Presencia & Resistencia, guest co-edited by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix. This special event @britishlibrary.bsky.social brings together leading British Latinx writers including Juana Adcock and @yararf.bsky.social.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Celebrate our forthcoming issue Wasafiri 124: Presencia & Resistencia, guest co-edited by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix. This special event @britishlibrary.bsky.social brings together leading British Latinx writers including Juana Adcock and @yararf.bsky.social.
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Nov 26th | Cosmic Pumpkin | Open-mic Poetry | Royal Society of Art | 7pm | £5 entry...
www.designmynight.com/london/event...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Nov 26th | Cosmic Pumpkin | Open-mic Poetry | Royal Society of Art | 7pm | £5 entry...
www.designmynight.com/london/event...
www.designmynight.com/london/event...
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In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD
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On 17 April 2025, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies was proud to support an event on Indian indenture and reparations in connection with the Serpentine Galleries’ recent presentation of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes.
Learn more here: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Learn more here: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Indian Indentured Labour and Reparatory Justice
The ICwS was proud to support an event on Indian indenture and reparations in connection with the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes.
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
On 17 April 2025, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies was proud to support an event on Indian indenture and reparations in connection with the Serpentine Galleries’ recent presentation of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes.
Learn more here: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Learn more here: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Andil Gosine's Nature’s Wild exhibition at the #ArtMuseumOfTheAmericas was cancelled.
"The decision to pull the exhibits coincided with an executive order issued by the Trump administration..."
#AndilGosine #AMA #DiversityEquityInclusion #DEI
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The decision to pull the exhibits coincided with an executive order issued by the Trump administration..."
#AndilGosine #AMA #DiversityEquityInclusion #DEI
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘I was in shock’: DC gallery pulls exhibits of Black and LGBTQ+ artists amid Trump DEI crackdown
Art Museum of the Americas’ abrupt cancellation after anti-diversity order is ‘how fascism unfolds’, curator says
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Andil Gosine's Nature’s Wild exhibition at the #ArtMuseumOfTheAmericas was cancelled.
"The decision to pull the exhibits coincided with an executive order issued by the Trump administration..."
#AndilGosine #AMA #DiversityEquityInclusion #DEI
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The decision to pull the exhibits coincided with an executive order issued by the Trump administration..."
#AndilGosine #AMA #DiversityEquityInclusion #DEI
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We stand in solidarity with Mahrang Baloch, who was arrested and detained by Pakistani authorities on 22 March. Mahrang's essay 'Lumma! In Your Name', trans. by Mahvish Ahmad, from Wasafiri 118 – Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment, is free to access indefinitely:
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March 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We stand in solidarity with Mahrang Baloch, who was arrested and detained by Pakistani authorities on 22 March. Mahrang's essay 'Lumma! In Your Name', trans. by Mahvish Ahmad, from Wasafiri 118 – Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment, is free to access indefinitely:
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Y asi, sí o sí, nos tienen con el agua al cuello, trabajando muchas horas en condiciones muy precarias, sobre todo en los trabajos de cuidados
El sistema educativo está hecho para excluir a las personas pobres y migrantes, para mantenernos siempre en la exclusión y que no subamos ningún escalón.
El racismo es un riesgo para la salud
El sistema educativo está hecho para excluir a las personas pobres y migrantes, para mantenernos siempre en la exclusión
www.pikaramagazine.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Y asi, sí o sí, nos tienen con el agua al cuello, trabajando muchas horas en condiciones muy precarias, sobre todo en los trabajos de cuidados
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«Compuesta por cientos de historias de personas desplazadas obligadas a abandonar sus hogares, destruidos masivamente por las bombas israelíes en Gaza este año, Just in Case #2 explora los sentimientos de pérdida y exilio por medio del patrón de la llave».
Taysir Batniji, Just in Case #2
Taysir Batniji, Just in Case #2
March 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
«Compuesta por cientos de historias de personas desplazadas obligadas a abandonar sus hogares, destruidos masivamente por las bombas israelíes en Gaza este año, Just in Case #2 explora los sentimientos de pérdida y exilio por medio del patrón de la llave».
Taysir Batniji, Just in Case #2
Taysir Batniji, Just in Case #2
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Aumentan al 33% los ciudadanos que se sienten discriminados por su origen racial o étnico en España
Aumentan al 33% los ciudadanos que se sienten discriminados por su origen racial o étnico en España
El informe “Percepción de la discriminación por origen racial o étnico por parte de sus potenciales víctimas en 2024” ha sido presentado este miércoles durante la V Semana Antirracista que se celebra ...
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March 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Aumentan al 33% los ciudadanos que se sienten discriminados por su origen racial o étnico en España
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Looking forward to learning about the history of the comic in the Caribbean & producing a comic book on heritage with other attendees as part of the exhibition I co-curated on the Caribbean and its British Diaspora. The exhibition has been extended due to popular demand and now closes on 12 April!
Today I will do something that makes me VERY proud and humbled. I am part of a comic workshop with @juanitacox.bsky.social and @salinajaneart.bsky.social for a very important exhibition "IN THE GRIP OF CHANGE" the Caribbean Diaspora's experience in Britain.
www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
March 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Looking forward to learning about the history of the comic in the Caribbean & producing a comic book on heritage with other attendees as part of the exhibition I co-curated on the Caribbean and its British Diaspora. The exhibition has been extended due to popular demand and now closes on 12 April!
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Often dismissed as a manual for sexual positions, the Kamasutra is, in fact, a radical text that champions women’s pleasure and autonomy.
Women’s sexual pleasure is still taboo – but the Kamasutra tells a different story
Often dismissed as a manual for sexual positions, the Kamasutra is, in fact, a radical text that champions women’s pleasure and autonomy.
tcnv.link
March 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Often dismissed as a manual for sexual positions, the Kamasutra is, in fact, a radical text that champions women’s pleasure and autonomy.
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The Battle for Higher Ed - a webinar series with Scholars for Social Justice / Freedom & Justice Institute
4/1 Premilla Nadasen
4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
5/6 Maura Finkelstein
4/1 Premilla Nadasen
4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
5/6 Maura Finkelstein
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Battle for Higher Ed - a webinar series with Scholars for Social Justice / Freedom & Justice Institute
4/1 Premilla Nadasen
4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
5/6 Maura Finkelstein
4/1 Premilla Nadasen
4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
5/6 Maura Finkelstein