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a black xborg • theory without practice ain't shit
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visiting fellow LSE Sociology · editor at @philosopher1923 · co-convenor @bsarace.bsky.social · he/him/they · Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)/London

✍🏾 carcerality, borders, forced displacement, coloniality

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An excellent opportunity to share your work!
The BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group is excited to launch #criticalcurrents:, a new monthly online seminar series for sharing and discussing work-in-progress on #race and #ethnicity.

Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Deadline: 2 December 2025

#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
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LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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It's live! To be added, if you're a member, please complete this form: forms.gle/gLVci4AUE9mw...
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest

Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.

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November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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We would like to start our own Starter Pack 🦋, please join it by completing this form:

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#AcademicSky #Sociology #BSA #ESRC #StarterPack
BSA RESG Starter Pack 🦋
Join Our Starter Pack on Bluesky Please complete this form if you would like to be added to our Starter Pack on Bluesky. To be included, you must be a member of our Race and Ethnicity Study Group (mem...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic.

Read the collection with #FreeAccess:
www.tandfonline.com/...

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Asylum accommodation: "The Home Office has undoubtedly been operating in an extremely challenging environment, but its chaotic response has demonstrated that it has not been up to the challenge", MPs report. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
The Home Office's management of asylum accommodation
publications.parliament.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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As the BSA Race and Ethnicity Convenors, we express our full support for the demands outlined by Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians. This letter was sent to Professor Rachel Brooks (BSA President) and Professor Les Back (BSA Vice President).
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
An excellent opportunity to share your work!
The BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group is excited to launch #criticalcurrents:, a new monthly online seminar series for sharing and discussing work-in-progress on #race and #ethnicity.

Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Deadline: 2 December 2025

#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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A dispatch from SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania about the time Luigi Mangione arrived at the prison.
When Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison
Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.
prisonjournalismproject.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sometimes I think about the conditions in which one becomes an academic today. (1/4)
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Join our next screening at the Chestnut Community Centre in Haringey! Free for all!
‘No One Leaves Home Unless…’: Our Autumn Series on Migration
This summer, our first series of film screenings, focused on recent local history in Haringey and Tottenham in particular. We began with The Hard Stop (2015), which took an intimate look at the liv…
haringeycommunitycinema.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Fiona and I will be at Sussex University to talk about & make zines! thanks to @idanewid.bsky.social for inviting us! 🪸 #beautyasamethod #zine #creativemethodologies #qualitativeresearch
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I've updated my academic website! ☻

ghostlylivesaproject.wordpress.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
After years of helping people navigate the #hostileenvironment, I'm raising money for my own battle against it. Donate/Share if you like!

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £2500 to my visa fees! – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to my visa fees!. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🥳 Officially a Dr! Thanks to my supervisors, Prof Chetan Bhatt & Dr @sarasalem.bsky.social, to the generous engagement with my thesis by Prof @jean23bean.bsky.social and Dr @kojokoram.bsky.social 🙏🏾
August 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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replugging this in the week of Fanon's 100th birthday, because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night

www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/h...
Rahul Rao · Review article: How settler colonialism ends (2024)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The lack of representation of Black faculty staff and students in British HE is endemic. An important reading on a new report.
#AcademicSky #racism #UK #antiblackracism

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform
Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I've recently joined the @bsarace.bsky.social as co-convenors. If you're a sociologist working on #race and #ethnicity, follow us! More to come.
hello Bleu🦋, we're BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group! #AcademicSky #UK #BSA #Sociology
August 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
✨ 🎨 Thrilled to share this poster I've made for this amazing event at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social, co-organised by my brillant friend/colleague @cindyxma.bsky.social! #RaceMedia
#AcademicSky
🎨🎤 Excited to share the poster and confirmed keynotes for our Race & Media Conference @leedsunimedia.bsky.social next April! We are currently accepting proposals for papers, panels, and practice-based presentations. Find out more: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia...
August 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As 'asylum hotels' are being attacked across the UK, I wrote this piece on housing and migrant justice was published on LSE blog. #HostileEnvironment #UK #Asylum

blogs.lse.ac.uk/vcb/2025/07/...
Guest Blog: Why Housing Matters When it Comes to Migrant Justice - LSE Volunteer Centre
In this blog, you can read about the LSE Homelessness Initiative's panel event with the Hackney Migrant Centre, Hackney Night Shelter, and Refugee Action on the barriers migrants might face to access ...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
July 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Raising £800 to help Lindi cover 1 month of school & boarding fees for her daughters 💛

This gives her space to heal, knowing her girls are safe 🦋🦋🦋

Please donate or share if you can 🙏
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
#MutualAid #RefugeeSupport #HostileEnvironment #UK
July 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM