Once, a collective of women of colour biz & management scholars who created anti-racist pedagogy & practice for HE (2018-2022). #BARCworkshop #BARCWorkshopGuide
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Announcing the Launch of the #BARCWorkshopGuide - offering anti-racist, intersectional feminist praxis for staff and students organising against racism in higher education contexts. Tweet us and tag #BARCWorkshopGuide to let us know if you will use it! barcworkshop.org/2021/07/06/…
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Morning friends, it’s been awhile! On this day off work for reasons we shall not mention, may we share this fun, free, supportive initiative for BAME postgrads and doctoral researchers? “Freedom School Online: Build Your Reputation and Your Community” forms.office.com/Pages/Respo…
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I often struggle with the final stages of a creative project - getting the work out into the world. In honour of where I have succeeded before, I am lifting this up, today barcworkshop.org/workshop-gu… @CollectiveBarc #BARCWorkshopGuide
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🧵 Today we publish a report showing that the majority of those men, women and children who cross the Channel on small boats would be granted asylum in the UK because they are fleeing war and persecution. Here’s how the Home Office tried to rubbish our report last night….
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This is such an important study.
The authors conducted a video experiment of 1,339 teachers in 295 US schools. They found that Black and Latino boys are perceived as more “blameworthy” for identical misbehavior. But that’s not all... 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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“Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week” theverge.com/2022/11/4/23439…
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Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.
I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,
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NEW: former Twitter employees sued the company for firing them with no advance notice and no severance pay, a lawsuit filed on Thursday claims. this is apparently the second Musk-owned company to fire people with no notice this year. #TwitterLayoffs
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Just because your work doesn’t easily translate to policy recommendations does not mean it is not extremely needed at this moment, mainly because we can’t legislate ourself out of this crisis. We need work that makes us think, feel, and dream otherwise. Find what’s past policy.
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🚨Today we launch our newest #StopTheSCANdal report with @YorksResists
❌ Finger printing devices allowed police officers to scan on the spot a person's fingerprints against the IDENT1 database without taking the individual into custody
Read report
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Another fund to help black students at Oxbridge only? Those unis have a combined endowment of £13bn, the black students enrolled already had the capital (social or economic) to get in and their graduate prospects are second to none. Elitism in the name of equality again.
Rapper AJ Tracey launches fund to help Black students at Oxford University theguardian.com/education/20…
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"As [Saidiya] Hartman points out, after slavery, there were two freedoms in the United States: freedom from bondage and the freedom to starve." -- @KeeangaYamahtta via @NewYorker
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Can I just ask… what happens to, for example, some disabled people who actually need 24/7 power in their homes for various machines/equipment?
#BREAKING Millions of UK households face rolling blackouts upto 3 hours long, the National Grid has warned.
Different customers would be cut off on different days to minimise disruption, with supplies to hospitals and vulnerable customers protected.
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the try guys describing their coworker cheating on his wife as their "trauma" is a great example of how the internet has taken important therapy language and bastardized it into silly little nothings
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This photo from London in 1973 feels just as sadly relevant today.
Housing is a fundamental human right, not a commodity to be used for profit - yet the interests of wealthy speculators are time and again put ahead of our right to a place to call our home.
ALT Graffiti on flats that says “Houses stand empty while homelessness grows. Who makes the profit? Somebody knows!”
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This piece by @AmritWilson exposes how the Hindutva-backed groups established themselves across dif sites in the UK, incl Leicester.
“…adulation for Modi is linked to Hindutva supporting vote banks in areas like Harrow, Brent and Leicester.”
ihrc.org.uk/from-nagpur-to-n…
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Please understand that Hindutva development in the UK is NOT a phenomenon that happened w/ the election of Mo*i. Its very slow and steady growth has been facilitated quietly in the most sophisticated, transnational ways and we are seeing this unravelling in Leicester.
This piece by @AmritWilson exposes how the Hindutva-backed groups established themselves across dif sites in the UK, incl Leicester.
“…adulation for Modi is linked to Hindutva supporting vote banks in areas like Harrow, Brent and Leicester.”
ihrc.org.uk/from-nagpur-to-n…