Dr Natalia Farmer
@njfarmer.bsky.social
Lecturer in Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University | Research interests include social injustice, homelessness and migration | Music, photography, books, politics....| No one is illegal | Views my own.
Play in Crisis: Toolkit in Arabic to Support Play www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/play-in-cr...
Play in Crisis: Toolkit in Arabic to Support Play
Help children in Palestine and beyond exercise their right to play by supporting the translation of the Play in Crisis toolkit into Arabic.
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August 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Play in Crisis: Toolkit in Arabic to Support Play www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/play-in-cr...
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How do stereotypes of “the child” add to injustice? Why must we decolonise childhood? How can we think about agency and children? Hear counsellor and Sociological Review Fellow 2024-25 Brenda Herbert on all this and more as #UncommonSense reflects on #CHILDHOOD buff.ly/G4TA8ia
July 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
How do stereotypes of “the child” add to injustice? Why must we decolonise childhood? How can we think about agency and children? Hear counsellor and Sociological Review Fellow 2024-25 Brenda Herbert on all this and more as #UncommonSense reflects on #CHILDHOOD buff.ly/G4TA8ia
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#GazaIsBeingStarved There is only one word for this: criminal. And only one sane response: the Hague ICC trials for all those directly responsible and for their enablers
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
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July 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
#GazaIsBeingStarved There is only one word for this: criminal. And only one sane response: the Hague ICC trials for all those directly responsible and for their enablers
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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ICYMI, here's the recording from yesterday's seminar, featuring Wassel Borghol, @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social, Dayo Gore, @johnnarayan.bsky.social, & author @samklug.bsky.social.
Hosted by @taacs.bsky.social VP @yosra999.bsky.social and myself.
Hosted by @taacs.bsky.social VP @yosra999.bsky.social and myself.
The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization
YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham
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June 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
ICYMI, here's the recording from yesterday's seminar, featuring Wassel Borghol, @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social, Dayo Gore, @johnnarayan.bsky.social, & author @samklug.bsky.social.
Hosted by @taacs.bsky.social VP @yosra999.bsky.social and myself.
Hosted by @taacs.bsky.social VP @yosra999.bsky.social and myself.
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Big news! We’ve secured a debate in Parliament on child poverty next week. We need your help to get your MP in the room to speak out about No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), one of the most harmful policies facing migrant families.
📝 Email your MP now: act.praxis.org.uk/email-MP-NRP...
📝 Email your MP now: act.praxis.org.uk/email-MP-NRP...
Email your MP and tell them to attend child poverty debate next week!
On the 11th June, MPs will have the chance to speak up on the immigration restriction No Recourse to Public Funds and how this cruel policy is pushing children into poverty. We see the devastating imp...
act.praxis.org.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Big news! We’ve secured a debate in Parliament on child poverty next week. We need your help to get your MP in the room to speak out about No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), one of the most harmful policies facing migrant families.
📝 Email your MP now: act.praxis.org.uk/email-MP-NRP...
📝 Email your MP now: act.praxis.org.uk/email-MP-NRP...
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So I'm pleased to share a livestream link for 'No: The Art and Activism of Complaining,' which I will be giving at QM next week. For those who can be there in person, sorry Bluebell won't be in pup. I would love meet & sign books & share killjoy solidarity. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sara-ahmed...
Sara Ahmed, 'No! The Art and Activism of Complaining' - in person
QMUL Annual Catherine Silverstone Lecture: Sara Ahmed - an in-person lecture followed by reception; also available online (see link below)
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May 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
So I'm pleased to share a livestream link for 'No: The Art and Activism of Complaining,' which I will be giving at QM next week. For those who can be there in person, sorry Bluebell won't be in pup. I would love meet & sign books & share killjoy solidarity. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sara-ahmed...
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He speaks for millions of us who are breaking apart at the horror and helplessness inflicted by Israel
….those with children and grandchildren… and he speaks for the State of Palestine - It is intolerable.
….those with children and grandchildren… and he speaks for the State of Palestine - It is intolerable.
The Palestinian ambassador to the UN broke down as he talked about the number of Palestinian children murdered since March.
And while he was talking about dead Palestinian children the camera panned to the Israeli ambassador, who was yawning.
And while he was talking about dead Palestinian children the camera panned to the Israeli ambassador, who was yawning.
May 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
He speaks for millions of us who are breaking apart at the horror and helplessness inflicted by Israel
….those with children and grandchildren… and he speaks for the State of Palestine - It is intolerable.
….those with children and grandchildren… and he speaks for the State of Palestine - It is intolerable.
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@basw-uk.bsky.social has been campaigning since the NAAB’s inception for it to be dismantled and actively discourages social workers from applying for and taking up roles within it: tinyurl.com/y6upn4sp
Follow their updates and look out for actions you can support.
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Follow their updates and look out for actions you can support.
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Join BASW in demanding the UK Government scraps the NAAB
Call to action for members to write to their MP
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May 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
@basw-uk.bsky.social has been campaigning since the NAAB’s inception for it to be dismantled and actively discourages social workers from applying for and taking up roles within it: tinyurl.com/y6upn4sp
Follow their updates and look out for actions you can support.
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Follow their updates and look out for actions you can support.
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Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report
Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.
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March 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.
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Karl Marx died 142 years ago today.
We're honoring his life with a collection of indispensable works written by, about, and with inspiration from one of history's most important and influential thinkers. Bundle any of the titles and save up to 40%
We're honoring his life with a collection of indispensable works written by, about, and with inspiration from one of history's most important and influential thinkers. Bundle any of the titles and save up to 40%
March 14th – The 142nd anniversary of Marx's death
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways – the point however is to change it. Karl Marx's contributions to the study of economics, politics, and philosophy are beyond measure. ...
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March 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Karl Marx died 142 years ago today.
We're honoring his life with a collection of indispensable works written by, about, and with inspiration from one of history's most important and influential thinkers. Bundle any of the titles and save up to 40%
We're honoring his life with a collection of indispensable works written by, about, and with inspiration from one of history's most important and influential thinkers. Bundle any of the titles and save up to 40%
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Great work @praxisprojects.bsky.social.
The hostile immigration environment is regressive, cruel, immoral, unworkable and actually costs the country more than abolishing it would.
#AllOurChildren deserve to thrive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Y...
The hostile immigration environment is regressive, cruel, immoral, unworkable and actually costs the country more than abolishing it would.
#AllOurChildren deserve to thrive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Y...
BREAKING: Migrant parents screen video message across Westminster
YouTube video by Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees
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March 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great work @praxisprojects.bsky.social.
The hostile immigration environment is regressive, cruel, immoral, unworkable and actually costs the country more than abolishing it would.
#AllOurChildren deserve to thrive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Y...
The hostile immigration environment is regressive, cruel, immoral, unworkable and actually costs the country more than abolishing it would.
#AllOurChildren deserve to thrive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Y...
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It's the final day of our Black History Month reading sale, featuring both new and classic titles on Black History - including Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism, a previously unpublished collection of Rodney’s essays on Marxism
Black History Month | Reading List
During the final week of Black History Month we're offering a collection featuring both new and classic titles on Black History. All titles below are marked down 40%. Buy two or more from this list a...
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February 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It's the final day of our Black History Month reading sale, featuring both new and classic titles on Black History - including Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism, a previously unpublished collection of Rodney’s essays on Marxism
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“For us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others.”
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I
January 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“For us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others.”
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I
@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”.
#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p
👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I
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Rethinking JOY, in the latest #UncommonSense we look at joy and protest with Akwiugo Emejulu – Is joy a palliative for the world’s troubles or is it something more fleeting? buff.ly/4jkrhdl
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Rethinking JOY, in the latest #UncommonSense we look at joy and protest with Akwiugo Emejulu – Is joy a palliative for the world’s troubles or is it something more fleeting? buff.ly/4jkrhdl
January 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
