Dr Désha A Osborne
@desha_osborne
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Chancellor's Fellow, Uof Edinburgh. Researching links b/w Caribbean 🇻🇨 & Scotland. VP of @Early_Caribbean Society. Lead judge of James Tait Black Bio Prize
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2012
My interview with Time Travels on BBC Radio Scotland is available to download. Thanks to Louise and Susan for the interview and Lisa Williams @edincarib for being her brilliant self!
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RT @balumcarnes: surely academics at Edinburgh University have highlighted for years the racist undertow to the enlightenment so why doesn’….
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Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories
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The racist buffoonery on display is astounding.
McMahon: The office of civil rights investigated and found them to be in violation. We have the Scottish Highlanders, we have others—they don't go after them. That are only going after the Native Americans so that's a violation of civil rights
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RT @Saganismm: The role of intellectuals was to challenge authority, not serve it. What went wrong?.
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RT @LeftSentThis: Fanon argued that colonialism creates a "thing" out of the colonized, leading them to internalize the colonizer's values….
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RT @KhaledNash1993: Today I stand upon the ruins of my soul and the ashes of my city to declare my disavowal of you all. I disavow our kil….
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RT @openpoetrybooks: ✨ Thanks to Christina Sharpe's $500 match @Workshops4Gaza raised more than $1.5k in the last match! And now the wonder….
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INCREDIBLE NEWS: THIS MATCH HAS BEEN INCREASED TO $11,000! July 26: Our friends at the Refaat Alareer Mobile Library – a traveling, volunteer-operated, liberation library and mutual aid project...
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RT @Workshops4Gaza: 🌾 An urgent plea to our followers here and anyone who has taken a workshop with us, bought a book from our bookstore, o….
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RT @upholdreality: French army leaves Senegal, ending 365 years of French military presence in West Africa
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Why is this not getting more attention?.
Police have charged a 20-year-old man following the murder of a woman in Dundee. 39-year-old Dr Fortune Gomo, who lived locally, was found with serious injuries on the city's South Road just before 4.30pm on Saturday. She died at the scene.
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RT @thekayanova: I just hope one day we finally take ‘Black Excellence’ off its pedestal so we can finally make room for Black integrity in….
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Good morning to all the good folks out there, except everyone involved in the making of this film. Shame on every single one of you.
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RT @bummy200812: Can yall stop using grok. Its literally poisoning a black community in Tennessee.
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RT @MikeNellis: Brad Lander shouting “Good fucking riddance” to Andrew Cuomo is the energy I want from every Democrat in 2026 and 2028. htt….
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RT @KhaledNash1993: Even if the night of injustice stretches long, its dawn is inevitable. Behold Gaza — the blossom of cities — erased bef….
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🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨.
Creolized languages aren't "broken". They have their own grammatical.structures and vocabulary, often incorporating elements from various source languages including native languages, actually making them more complex than colonizer's languages. Its great to see Universities and
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RT @DrKarimWafa: The Gaza freedom flotilla is rescuing Sudanese refugees. Our causes are linked. We are one. From Sudan and Palestine to H….
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Good thing I started wearing socks instead of slippers at home: was watching the new Jane Austen documentary and had to throw my sock at the TV when they actually tried to make the case that her alignment with the abolition movement caused her to write Mansfield Park!.
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RT @LeighanRenaud: We are less than a month away from the annual @SocCaribbean conference and I am excited! Our keynote lecture will be giv….
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