Call for Papers: I'm running a workshop on Colourism in South Asia and South Asian communities at the University of York in November (with the intention of putting together an edited collection). Please circulate & consider submitting an abstract by 11 July 2025. #SouthAsia

The third lecture in the Gender and Human Rights Lecture Series, jointly hosted by the Centre for Law, Religion and Society (CLRS) and the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) will take place on Wednesday 5th November from 1pm - 2.30pm at CA005, Áras Cairnes. #ICHR

Last year, @SkyNews did a fairly accurate summary of what the Maccabi hooligans did in Amsterdam. Then they deleted it with no real explanation. Watch here:

My sister survived last night. And just messaged to say 'the party has just started' (party is a term we use in Gaza when Israeli attacks intensified). My sister added the F16s are going back and forth and throwing missiles. Children Scream. Sky filled with black smoke...

Really enjoyed talking and holding a discussion session on skin-lightening, colourism, and current state of the industry as part of Thackray Museum of Medicine Lates' Skinburn: The Science of Skin event. Also enjoyed discussing colourism with the local community.

"the normalization of Netanyahu, the constant whitewashing of Israel’s alleged war crimes... is why a man who has blood dripping from his hands...can be invited on to the Nelk Boys’ highly influential podcast to jokes about whether he prefers McDonald’s or Burger King."

C.M. Naim, May You Always Be Our Lodestar I wish I had another 90 years to learn from you, Naim Sahib. | Manan Ahmed Asif✍️ Read here:

2 days to submit abstracts #SouthAsia #colourism

We’ve been screaming it for months: They shoot at aid lines. They kill the hungry. No one listened…because we’re Palestinian. Now Israeli soldiers say it, & suddenly the world blinks. They dehumanized us so well, even our truth needed a translator.

Just over two weeks to submit abstracts, deadline is 11th of July. Please share and circulate with any scholars or activists who might be interested. #SouthAsia #colourism

"As Martin Luther King Jr wrote from a Birmingham jail: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” And the provision of weapons to facilitate genocide is more than unjust: it is an abyss of moral horror."

It seems with the collapse of any meaningful commitment to a rules-based international order - replaced instead by a raw-power dialogue shaped by might over right - every country in the global South watching Gaza burn and witnessing strikes on Iran is asking the same question:

A woman as old as my mother crawled through gunfire in Nitzarim for a bag of flour, for children who aren’t even hers, because hers were already killed. And what haunts me isn’t just the image of it; it’s how easily we’ve accepted that this is what motherhood looks like in Gaza:

"Every time we save a way of being or mourn the passing of a natural kind, whether a species or otherwise, we make decisions rooted in our emotional attachments, or our perceptions of that natural kind’s value – whether commercial, aesthetic, or ecological"- Sadiah Qureshi

There is a threshold at which medicine becomes murder. I have seen it. It is here. The World Health Organization was informed calmly and formally that the Israeli army has suspended medical coordination for all Palestinian males over the age of twelve. Twelve. At that age, a

European University Legacies is available open access for a few days. Ciaran O'Neill, Patrick Walsh & I contributed a chapter on the processes & challenges of a public-facing colonial legacies project @tcddublin. Fully OA & forthcoming in print in Sept

📢 @reetiks, featuring the work of @ClimateBrides, reveals how climate shocks—job loss, school closures, displacement—are fueling early marriages across South Asia. Calls for urgent adaptation to protect adolescents' rights and futures. #ClimateJustice #ChildMarriage @scroll_in

Great news, TCD dragged its feet but got there eventually. Well done to TCD staff and students!

‘Every Gazan child is the enemy… we must colonize Gaza.’ – Former Israeli MP @moshefeiglin ‘14,000 babies will die in 48 hours unless we reach them.’ – UN’s @TFletcher Yesterday, 5 aid trucks were allowed in but sat untouched as Israel denied UN permission to collect them.

Was wonderful to be back in Dartmouth to celebrate the incredible scholarship and mentorship of Douglas Haynes, my external PhD examiner. Enjoyed presenting and participating in the conference and meeting so many scholars I've long admired in person.