Tom Six
@tomsix.bsky.social
Scholar of race, politics and performance. https://linktr.ee/tomsix
Ladies and gents… the not-at-all-authoritarian-dogmatic-racist-ableist-or punitive ‘centre ground’… www.theguardian.com/education/20...
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Ladies and gents… the not-at-all-authoritarian-dogmatic-racist-ableist-or punitive ‘centre ground’… www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘What on earth could have prompted this outburst?’ nobody wondered.
August 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
‘What on earth could have prompted this outburst?’ nobody wondered.
This is what it said before she deleted it.
August 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is what it said before she deleted it.
Melanie’s deleted her post.
August 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Melanie’s deleted her post.
Excellent alternative preface to Ronit Lentin & Lana Tatour’s new book, Race and the Question of Palestine here: ronitlentin.net/2025/06/11/l... One of the most succinct, factual accounts I’ve read of the last 600+ days.
June 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Excellent alternative preface to Ronit Lentin & Lana Tatour’s new book, Race and the Question of Palestine here: ronitlentin.net/2025/06/11/l... One of the most succinct, factual accounts I’ve read of the last 600+ days.
An excellent evening at Pelican House with Yasmin Ashraf, Alana Lentin, Momodou Taal and Amar Singh Dhillon for the London launch of Alana’s The New Racial Regime. Get a copy - it’s brilliant. www.plutobooks.com/978074534797...
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
An excellent evening at Pelican House with Yasmin Ashraf, Alana Lentin, Momodou Taal and Amar Singh Dhillon for the London launch of Alana’s The New Racial Regime. Get a copy - it’s brilliant. www.plutobooks.com/978074534797...
Watch out for the whitewash (screenshots from Judith Butler in the LRB) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Watch out for the whitewash (screenshots from Judith Butler in the LRB) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Unsurprising, but also 🫨🫨🫨
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Unsurprising, but also 🫨🫨🫨
Basel Asta’s face while his lib Zionist colleague makes it all about him speaks a thousand words… #nootherland #oscar
March 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Basel Asta’s face while his lib Zionist colleague makes it all about him speaks a thousand words… #nootherland #oscar
Blocked for a fact-check. Nothing so fragile as a liberal Zionist.
February 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Blocked for a fact-check. Nothing so fragile as a liberal Zionist.
This is Chevalier’s (not great) translation. (My father-in-law’s copy from 1969.)
February 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This is Chevalier’s (not great) translation. (My father-in-law’s copy from 1969.)
If we had something like Young Panthers to give them an analysis and an organisational structure, we might get somewhere. Unfortunately, the closest thing to that currently looks like being Reform…
February 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If we had something like Young Panthers to give them an analysis and an organisational structure, we might get somewhere. Unfortunately, the closest thing to that currently looks like being Reform…
Or, ‘Labour attacks immigrants because it wants to’
February 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Or, ‘Labour attacks immigrants because it wants to’
Here’s some praise reposted by PB. FYI we aren’t ’after’ the ‘destruction of Gaza’, which is actually a euphemism for genocide. But yay for your moral glow-up!
February 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Here’s some praise reposted by PB. FYI we aren’t ’after’ the ‘destruction of Gaza’, which is actually a euphemism for genocide. But yay for your moral glow-up!
And, as if the subsumption of the arts into the ‘creative industries’ weren’t hostile enough, you can see here what the Labour right thinks of the role of culture in ‘soft power’ (a typical justification for funding). Tl;dr: they think it’s a waste of money. 3/3 www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
February 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
And, as if the subsumption of the arts into the ‘creative industries’ weren’t hostile enough, you can see here what the Labour right thinks of the role of culture in ‘soft power’ (a typical justification for funding). Tl;dr: they think it’s a waste of money. 3/3 www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
The arts is a small player in the ‘creative industries’ (see list of ‘industries’ from the Creative Industries Council), which is primarily a way of describing sectors of the economy that produce and exploit intellectual property (see definition from the Scottish government). 2/?
February 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The arts is a small player in the ‘creative industries’ (see list of ‘industries’ from the Creative Industries Council), which is primarily a way of describing sectors of the economy that produce and exploit intellectual property (see definition from the Scottish government). 2/?
I can exclusively reveal that 100% of this is racist and made up.
January 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I can exclusively reveal that 100% of this is racist and made up.
Just call me Nostradamus.
December 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Just call me Nostradamus.
November 30, 2024 at 12:28 PM