
Anthropologist, queer Marxist, senior lecturer at Uni of Essex, author of The Gentrification of Queer Activism. Shareholder @FriendsJoiners.
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Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
BREAKING: First Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉
Zoë Garbett has been elected Mayor of Hackney – huge congratulations!
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
The Greens win our first ever directly elected Mayor - a huge historic victory.
Huge congratulations to Zoë and the entire team.
Two party politics isn't dying. It's dead and it's buried.
And we're making hope normal again.
"Today we start the fightback, in this election over and over, people kept telling me that they felt let down"
Green Party's Zoë Garbett becomes her party's first mayor, winning the contest in Hackney
Follow live results and analysis: bbc.in/3PtfEGT
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
The Call for Submissions for the 2027 ISA Annual Convention is open!
🏳️🌈 We’re really keen to see proposals that engage LGBTQIA+ perspectives in/and the international 🏳️⚧️
🕒 The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2026.
You can find more details here: isanet.org/Conferences/ISA20…
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
The Call for Submissions for the 2027 ISA Annual Convention is open!
🏳️🌈 We’re really keen to see proposals that engage LGBTQIA+ perspectives in/and the international 🏳️⚧️
🕒 The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2026.
You can find more details here: isanet.org/Conferences/ISA20…
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
Nominations are now open for our 2027 LGBTQA Caucus Book Award 📚
👉 The Award recognizes books advancing research on LGBTQA politics, queer theory & sexuality in global politics published in 2025 & 2026.
👉 The deadline for nominations is 1 June 2026.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
Y’all - Submit your books for the LGBTQA caucus Book award! I’m part of the e-board and very excited to see and learn new research in LGBTQIA+ studies!!!
Nominations are now open for our 2027 LGBTQA Caucus Book Award 📚
👉 The Award recognizes books advancing research on LGBTQA politics, queer theory & sexuality in global politics published in 2025 & 2026.
👉 The deadline for nominations is 1 June 2026.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
New campus scams and international agent scams didn't bring unis down.
It was claiming to creditors that the scams would make money, borrowing money on that claim, spending the money before any income materialised, and using that spending to boost personal managerial careers.
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
Zack Polanski, "It's not enough to just be hopeful... It's about having hope and a plan"
"I also disagree that left wing policies are popular"
"Didn't you - Jeremy Corbyn - get 3,000,000 more votes than Keir Starmer got?"
Jeremy Corbyn, "The highest vote this century for Labour, it was 2017"
Zack Polanski, "That's 3,000,000 more people who wanted to move wealth away from private capital, to nationalise our water services, nationalise our public services, and that's very popular in this country"
"Broadband is a good example of how the media jumped on saying it's not possible, not pragmatic. And that's their number one weapon, to always make people think that better isn't possible, and that change isn't possible"
"And we know why. The multimillionaires and billionaires who pump money into wars, or oil and gas, or into arms companies, or into gambling companies"
"Once they've bought up the assets, they buy the media, then they buy our democracy"
"I guess we're here tonight to say that they're taken our power, they've taken our democracy, they're taken our media"
"But collectively, we are going to take it back"
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Zarah Sultana uses parliamentary privilege to bypass court reporting restrictions and expose details of the Filton 24 re-trial.
UK media has been banned from reporting key information.
Zarah Sultana: “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that.”
An MP going into Parliament to reveal what the press legally can’t report is rare - and explosive.
This raises serious questions about transparency, justice, and what juries are - and aren’t - being told.
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
Such an incredible teaching and movement resource, especially now. Rich with insights on histories of the Arab world, including (and so rarely done, the Gulf), and political thought within and about movements and revolutions. Abed Takriti is a remarkable scholar and narrator.
In 2024, the Dig launched Thawra, a 19-part series on 20th century Arab radicalism.
We are now releasing the Thawra digital study guide, replete with readings, films, archival materials, & discussion Qs for collective or individual study.
Check it out➡️ thawraproject.com
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
“Vengo de Argentina. Vengo del futuro. La ultraderecha viene a destruirlo todo.”
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
I just returned from Jordan, with unprecedented clarity about what - from and through Palestine - the Israel/US axis is doing to the entire region. It pains to see what is unfolding. How come so many did not see it coming?
Greater Israel, unveiled.
The world's two rogue states, Israel and the USA, have started a war not against Iran but against the whole world. We stand with Iranians, with Humanity, against the notion that Israel and the US can bomb anyone their fancy takes them to bomb. aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.
The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.
Replying to @AJEnglish
BREAKING: The number of students killed in an Israeli attack on an elementary girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, has now risen to 40.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/wllmt7
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
We are pleased to announce that Matt Goodwin is still a total LOSER.
open.spotify.com/episode/0ms…
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
Replying to @ShabanaMahmood @UKLabour
How's that working out for you Shabana? 🌱
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
"Muslim sectarianism" is when the majority of a diverse community vote for a working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish guy 💚🌱
Olimpia Burchiellaro retweeted
Really long in the making, pleased to share this Insight in World Development sciencedirect.com/science/ar… - many inspired this piece, and special thanks to Jairus Banaji and Rohini Hensman, Silvia Federici, Leopoldina Fortunati, and Shirin Rai. @SOASDevelopment @SOASpolitics



























