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May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement. But what about her creative, feminist anti-racist work across Europe?
How did this exemplify 'cosmopolitanism from below'? Prof. Tiffany N. Florvil on Ayim's life and vision:
🧵5/5
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/may...
How did this exemplify 'cosmopolitanism from below'? Prof. Tiffany N. Florvil on Ayim's life and vision:
🧵5/5
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/may...
May Ayim’s Cosmopolitanism from Below in Europe
May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s. But how did her work across borders exemplify cosmopolitanism from below? Tiffany N. Florvil explores the life and ne...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement. But what about her creative, feminist anti-racist work across Europe?
How did this exemplify 'cosmopolitanism from below'? Prof. Tiffany N. Florvil on Ayim's life and vision:
🧵5/5
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/may...
How did this exemplify 'cosmopolitanism from below'? Prof. Tiffany N. Florvil on Ayim's life and vision:
🧵5/5
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/feminism/may...
Yeah that's horrid and I'm so sorry. I'm afraid even in the 2000s I remember some similar dynamics in my own SU. I fear some of these dynamics at universities may not have changed much...
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Yeah that's horrid and I'm so sorry. I'm afraid even in the 2000s I remember some similar dynamics in my own SU. I fear some of these dynamics at universities may not have changed much...
Oh gosh, I hadn't heard about that, how awful. I also didn't know it was part of the university - let along voting at DUSU! Now many of the buildings have that creepy feel of abandoned halls of residence right next to Pugin chapels...
September 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Oh gosh, I hadn't heard about that, how awful. I also didn't know it was part of the university - let along voting at DUSU! Now many of the buildings have that creepy feel of abandoned halls of residence right next to Pugin chapels...
All very much deserved and sometimes it's good when others say nice things - the world needs more of that! 🥰
September 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
All very much deserved and sometimes it's good when others say nice things - the world needs more of that! 🥰
Go! Ushaw is also an amazing site just outside Durham, a former seminary where Hearn was at school in the 1860s, before he made a name as a writer in the US and Japan.
September 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Go! Ushaw is also an amazing site just outside Durham, a former seminary where Hearn was at school in the 1860s, before he made a name as a writer in the US and Japan.
Congrats, this is amazing!! As for the text, show me the lies 🤷🏻♂️
September 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Congrats, this is amazing!! As for the text, show me the lies 🤷🏻♂️
Ahhhh! Letter from America is my favourite single of theirs, with particular fondness for the line "from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia". The version from the movie Sunshine on Leith gets me every time.
August 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ahhhh! Letter from America is my favourite single of theirs, with particular fondness for the line "from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia". The version from the movie Sunshine on Leith gets me every time.