Finally! @BridgetByrne3 & my paper @CulSoc is out. It is Free (OA) titled 'The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality' Huge thanks to @EthnicityUK, our generous research collaborators, partner organisations & anonymous reviewers https://t.co/yRw4aCypdc

On the Ungrievability of Palestinian Life: https://t.co/njKmzTQGFl

Great to see the GM Skills Consortium relaunched @factoryintl Excellent reflections from the panel, inc Dr @roaaali_ on the key role that the education system can play with partners in the #creativeindustries sector to break down barriers & creative opportunities for young people

Highlights from our new @CreativePEC report on arts, culture and heritage include key data from Census 2021, @DCMS participation survey and ONS labour force survey

A privilege to work with @_CreativeAccess exec chair @josiedobrin & @lararatnaraja to discuss Positive Action in Creative industries today with reps from @EquityUK @Nutopia_tv @ace_national @factoryintl @OfficialUoM Massive thank you to all involved. Findings will be shared soon

A @NWC_DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award focused on thinking through digital sovereignty w. @World_Museum Global Cultures collection dataset supervised by me @DrLucaScholz @LifeOnBaars and in collab w. @o_backhouse Start: 01/10/24 #phd #ahrc #phdfunding https://t.co/NmbWvTlsim

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There's something hard for us, children of the colonised, to articulate because the world is upside down. Europe and its descendants, can't differentiate between principle and episode. This is why Germany (and much of Europe) is doomed to be genocidal. Here is what I mean. 🧵

South Africa is teaching the world what active solidarity looks like.

Public appointments should not be a gift of the government. That ministers rejected Ofcom’s preferred candidate without reason is deeply concerning, and serious questions need to be asked.

مستمرون رغم الوجع

Read this sentence. Then reread it. Then ask yourself how anyone is ok with this level of human suffering.

This gentle moral giant of a man! To bear so much horror, so much cruelty with such dignity, tenderness and grace.

Two journalists, Mustafa Thuraya and Hamza al-Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, were killed by an Israeli strike in southern Gaza on Sunday. In October, Wael lost his wife, daughter, another son and a grandson in an Israeli air strike

“22% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers working on the 250 top-grossing films, down from 24% in 2022” ⁦@guardian⁩ reports on the illusion of diversity, and new figures signalling regressions

Sociologists at the University of Manchester in Solidarity with the Palestinian people 📢📢 We call on the university to end academic partnerships and divest from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza 📢📢

For the first time ever the UN Chief is invoking the rarely used Article 99 of the UN Charter to urgently address Israel’s war on #Gaza - aimed at trying to avert the growing humanitarian catastrophe and to break logjam on #ceasefire

our @time people of the year: the journalists & humanitarian workers of gaza

Meanwhile many universities around the world remain silent, most notably in countries whose governments are complicit in this ongoing genocide.

It’s about life or death now I did what I could We are surrounded by the Israeli tanks

This made me weep. Liberation and justice for all.