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@JackBicker

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...just another millennial philosopher, seeking to be existentially reassured by a reliable WiFi connection / #CriticalTheory #Mind #Philosophy #Education

Lecturer @UCL @IOE_London
Joined May 2010
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8 years
What Odysseus hears has no consequence: he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds; yet it is too late #Adorno
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“I don’t bring my neurodivergence into the workplace, because Black and ethnic-minority people are often judged as not having the same level of competence as their white counterparts... it’s for fear of having anything further weaponised against me”.
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A great, informative, must-read from @RachelCargle on checking oneself when navigating necessarily difficult conversations about racism and racialisation. Firm and positive writing that looks squarely towards collective liberation... via @harpersbazaarus
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@JackBicker
Jack Bicker
1 year
⭐️JOB ALERT: Lecturer in #Philosophy of Education at University College London UCL has an opening for a philosopher/theorist whose work speaks to #education (broadly construed). Great faculty with colleagues working across the social sciences More here:
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3 years
JOB ALERT: My department at the UCL Institute of Education is looking for four new lecturers… with potential specialisms in sociology, philosophy, anthropology, history & childhood studies… It’s a super-exciting place to work… come join us!
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6 years
On the streets of #Paris , thousands of impassioned folk, emblazoned in their yellow vests, emboldened by the solidarity of the collective, storm the proverbial barricades to demand economic justice from their political masters... ...meanwhile in #London #giletsJaunes #santacon
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7 years
I’ve been waiting for a paper like this, my entire teaching career; from the outstandingly good new collection edited by @rapclassroom & J Suissa. “Knowledge and racial violence: the shine and shadow of ‘powerful knowledge’” #education #BLM #mind
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7 years
"Personal debt to disposable income is at record levels; how can u call that an achievement?" @MazzucatoM to #Tory MP Chris Philp #newsnight
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1 year
JOB ALERT: Lecturer in Philosophy of Education... University College London An amazing opportunity for a philosopher or theorist whose work speaks to work in education, to join our department and lead the MA in Philosophy of Education.
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5 years
This excellent piece on the work of @UCL @BartlettUCL ’s @MazzucatoM is hugely inspiring... reminds me of the importance of academic voices impacting on, and leading, change...
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@JackBicker
Jack Bicker
7 years
Got called a 'cis white male' on twitter yesterday eve, and then a 'black cunt' on the way home from uni last night... in the space of two hours 😂 The philosophy lecture I'm giving this morning is on the unreliability of perception.
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7 years
Privileged to have published a paper in Judith Suissa and @rapclassroom ’s race/racialisation special issue of Ethics and Education. 'Teacher-Led codeswitching: Adorno, race, contradiction and the nature of autonomy.’
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2 years
“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.” Ruha Benjamin
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7 years
Literally makes difficulties & frustrations of being an early career #academic (read:workhorse) worth it ten times over #HigherEd #PhDChat
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'Why Black Minds Matter'; my #philosophy seminar at @ucl / @IOE_London this coming Wednesday. #blm @PhilOfEdGB
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5 years
What I want to know is how much they pay their office cleaning staff...
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3 years
‘Did I believe that escape was possible? I suspect not. But I had no option but to proceed as if it were.’ Stuart Hall
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7 years
Great #PESGB17 conference Honoured to have been voted onto the @PhilOfEdGB exec.committee, & grateful for the constructive academic feedback
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My dad (on the left); barely 20, newly in #London , way back in the 1960s. #Windrush #Caribbean #blm
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5 years
I wrote some brief thoughts on #Brexit #philosophy , #education and freedom for the new @PhilOfEdGB newsletter… ...also featuring some very good words from @ded6ajd , @malcolmrichards , @annapagess , and @ArzhiaH . #Educhat #philofed
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7 years
Came across this from my last weeks at @UCL ; early morning, coming in from a fire drill, someone asks 'didn't you used to play the #piano ?'
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8 years
Gotta admit, that all things being considered, I'm very relieved to wake up to the #NYPrimary result... #ImWithHer
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3 years
‘Fanon grasped his own life only by understanding the life of other living and nonliving beings, for only then did he himself exist as a living form [able to] rectify the asymmetry of relations, introducing into them a dimension of reciprocity and care for humanity’ Mbembe
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4 years
#Berlin sunset last night...
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3 years
@bear_roar @tbamz97 Somewhere in here is the distinction between 'training' & 'education': YouTube easily does the former, whereas education involves joining a community, being initiated into discourses, discipline specific practices, getting access to excellent resources... being challenged to grow
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4 years
Black. Lives. Matter.
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7 years
At the University of Frankfurt today, and made the necessary pilgrimage to the #Adorno memorial... #criticaltheory #philosophy
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4 years
Excellent work on @BBCRadio4 by Lucrece Grehoua on the demand placed on black professionals to code-switch... ...a must listen... ...featuring great contributions from @lastpositivist @ebananuka @nelsabbey & @_SandraWallace .
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4 years
HARD TO REseArCH: Black Inclusion in Research Members of the Centre for Co-production in Health Research @UCL explore diversity in Blackness and how to make research more accessible to different Black communities. @UCL_CoPro
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@JackBicker
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7 months
“I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential [...]. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.” Elizabeth Catlett
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Jack Bicker
7 years
Revisiting @rapclassroom ’s excellent paper on how the idea of ‘reasonableness’ is all too often racialised, acting as an exclusionary barrier to genuine dialogue about ‘ #race ’; relevant both for #education & beyond. @SAPERE_P4C #p4c #BLM #philosophy
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@JackBicker
Jack Bicker
5 years
Hugest congratulations! 👊🏾
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Jack Bicker
5 years
Very much looking forward to this new book project from Darren Chetty ( @rapclassroom ) of #TheGoodImmigrant fame, and Jeffrey Boakye ( @unseenflirt ), author of 'Hold Tight' and ‘Black, Listed'. BOOK LAUNCH: 'What Is Masculinity? And Other Big Questions'
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1 year
Stonewalling Our Story Upcoming public lecture on the struggle against Section 28 legislation, from Dr Nathaniel Coleman* at @PembrokeOxford …very pleased that this talk will be hosted by my old college. @natcphd
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3 years
Back in my office @UCL for the first time in 18 months… Bloomsbury’s spookily quiet, but with a low-key ‘in preparation’ vibe. Felt like I was returning to something familiar, although a time-atrophied muscle memory meant I had to do a second take finding my way across campus.
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7 years
Two recent covers that are v. positive, while interesting re. the simultaneous inclusion, foregrounding & obscuring/masking of the subjects
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Jack Bicker
7 years
1/2 Diane @HackneyAbbott was one of my most important role models growing up: wldn't have applied to Oxford without her example & eloquence.
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6 years
This new #FrantzFanon collection just arrived; not only does it majorly resonate with (and furnish) a new writing project, but it’s also kinda 🔥 ...Particularly love the back-cover review from @bungatuffie #BLM #Decolonisation #Psychiatry #psychoanalysis #antitacism #CRT
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7 years
Just another late night at the office... @ucl @UCLLibraries #IoE
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7 years
Cover for my philosophy seminar at @UCL / @IOE_London seminar the evening; 'Why Black Minds Matter'. Nervous! #BLM
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4 years
‘Nationalism does not completely believe in itself anymore, and yet it is a political necessity because it is the most effective means of motivating people to insist on conditions that are, viewed objectively, obsolete.’ Adorno
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3 years
Just got round to reading this from @taoleighgoffe ...totally inspiring, and gave me a new lens through which to think about the entanglement of racialisation, exploitation, fixedness and, therefore, stolen time.
@taoleighgoffe
Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋
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My newest article just published! 🔥 ⏰🌊 South Atlantic Quarterly 2022 is finally here. BLACK TEMPORALITY IN TIMES OF CRISIS @DukePress “Stolen Life, Stolen Time: Black Temporality, Speculation, and Racial Capitalism” by Tao Leigh Goffe
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5 years
‘When the abuser is a publicly known creative person... The work itself argues against you... You are challenging his successes and everything his work means to anyone who has gained from affiliation, and have decided that he and his work are essential to their own identity.’
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Jack Bicker
7 years
"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced" #JamesBaldwin
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Jack Bicker
8 years
This week I started a new job teaching at Cambridge; the heavens had something of a foreboding message for me...
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Jack Bicker
7 years
An absolute pleasure to chair the panel discussion for a packed audience at the launch of #dwellingtogether , a great film documenting discussions on race by @rapclassroom Abigail Bentley and @_meghna_
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Jack Bicker
6 years
This is about the estate I grew up on… my 18y/o self leaving there, suitcase in hand, for an Oxford College was a little bit more than a ‘culture shock’… ”In the 1990s... if you were black and went there you’d come out in an ambulance”
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Jack Bicker
6 years
This week's daily blockade of #TottenhamCourtRoad by taxi drivers protesting against semi-pedestrianisation, has the ironic effect of demonstrating how calm, and clean-aired and generally pleasant a pedestrianised Tottenham Court Road would actually be...
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Jack Bicker
7 years
Interesting (critical) commentary on the genealogy of the term ‘white privilege’ from David Roediger. Demonstrates (perceived) practical tensions between the demands of ‘race’ & class liberation. ‘Class, Race and Marxism’ [2017], pg. 20. #race #class #WhitePrivilege #Marxism
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6 years
Outstanding journalism from @tej_adeleye , showcasing an impressive new generation pushing hard at the vanguard of London #jazz ; AND* giving an important shout-out to vital #musiceducation projects like @Tom_Warriors , where many young musicians got started.
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6 years
Important piece from ⁦⁦ @kehinde_andrews ⁩...
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Jack Bicker
6 years
Very impressed by this recent book from Brandon LaBelle ( @GoldsmithsPress ); drawing analogies between sound (an analogy itself) and new possibilities for radical social and political organisation. Clearly an heir to Attali’s ‘Noise’ (1977) despite its different political focus.
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@JackBicker
Jack Bicker
4 years
Throwback to #lockdown ... when the air above #London was the cleanest I’ve known it, and the sky that little bit bluer... #lockdown2020 #southbank #londoneye #shotoniphone
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3 years
Terrifying displays of antisemitism in London today... ...reflecting an all-too-common mindset that refuses/is unable to do the necessary work to distinguish between Israel’s illegal occupation, and the diversity of Jewish people that live in Israel and across the world. (1)
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Jack Bicker
4 years
Last days of summer... #B öcklerpark #Kreuzberg #Berlin
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Jack Bicker
6 years
Met with a very cool senior colleague today. Great piece of advice was that we should respect, yet look beyond institutional boundaries: they exist for management purposes, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t reach across them to find creative and intellectual collaborations.
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"...her silence stirred my own questions about memory and slavery: What is it we choose to remember about the past and what is it we will to forget? Did my great-grandmother believe that forgetting provided the possibility of a new life?" Saidiya Hartman
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Jack Bicker
8 years
We desperately need more of the kind of critical & penetrating #EUreferendum analysis Pascal Lamy offered on #newsnight tonight. #Remain
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Jack Bicker
6 years
Revisiting @zaranosaur 's opening paper in @rapclassroom & Judith Suissa's recent #race focused SI of #Ethics & #Education . A must for my reading lists next year: great primer on the theory of 'white ignorance' as it appears in #philosophy of Charles Mills
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Jack Bicker
7 years
Good article on, 'Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of US Black Politics' by Juliet Hooker #BLM
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Jack Bicker
6 years
Recording of last week's launch of the #Ethics & #Education 's special issue on Critical #Philosophy of #Race is available here… With contributions from @arathings (15:30) and @rapclassroom (25:10), and myself (43:05) before a Q&A
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Jack Bicker
7 years
Great to hear @JudeDibia in conversation with @elnathan_john this evening, taking books, writing, and being gay in Nigeria.
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8 years
#Brexit themed/Fawlty Towers inspired cover for the @NewYorker is way too painfully appropriate... #EUref
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Jack Bicker
4 years
As well as effortlessly eclipsing me (her nerdy younger sibling), my sister Sonia also makes these beautiful wool collars, which have found their way to peeps around the world. She’s on Instagram... @soniabicker
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Jack Bicker
6 years
“If one considers how visits from royalty, who no longer have any real political function, induce outbreaks of ecstasy in entire populations, then one has good reason to suspect that the authoritarian potential even now is much stronger than one thinks” #Adorno #CriticalTheory
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Jack Bicker
8 years
My workplace today...
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Jack Bicker
7 years
Just finding the work of philosopher Achille Mbembe. "the Euro-American world has made Blackness & race... two sides of a codified madness"
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7 years
Important thread...
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4 years
Dame Jocelyn is not someone that I‘d heard of before... but what a totally amazing person, life, and contribution...
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7 years
Totally sobering: no teaching, no marking, no admin, no office hours for 3 months; so no excuses - just me, research & writing til October 😶
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6 years
“Undifferentiatedness is not unity, for unity requires, even according to the Platonic dialect, diverse entities of which it is unity.” #Adorno #CriticalTheory
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5 years
‘If barbarism itself is inscribed within the principle of civilisation, then there is something desperate in the attempt to rise up against it’ #Adorno #CriticalTheory
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Jack Bicker
6 years
Just come across this v. cool 2014 collection: 'The #Philosophy of #Creativity '. Edited by @Columbia 's @elliotspaul & @Penn 's @sbkaufman . Can recommend to anyone interested in #mind , philosophy, creative practice and creative education.
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Jack Bicker
6 years
As an undergrad at @UniofOxford , and then later when lecturing at @Cambridge_Uni , I only met one other person from the #Caribbean among (too few) #BAME peers. A colleague, and good critical #race theorist, once accused me of playing ‘divide & rule’ politics for bringing it up.
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@JackBicker
Jack Bicker
4 years
. @British_Airways I was refused entry on a flight to Berlin on May 25th. The check-in staff didn't know what my German residence permit was, & refused to listen when I tried to explain. Went straight to @lufthansa , booked a flight and came home to Germany a day later.
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Jack Bicker
7 years
Meeting Babu at a coffee collective in #Tanzania July '15; learning about coffee production and exploitative #EU markets. #ThrowbackThursday
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@JackBicker
Jack Bicker
5 years
Just getting to this excellent new book from Adam Ferner ( @IAMMoskovitz ) & Darren Chetty ( @rapclassroom ). A beautifully produced textbook/guide brimming with theory, while also demonstrating how #philosophy can help us to disagree more constructively. Really recommend a look.
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@JackBicker
Jack Bicker
4 years
@lufthansa were obviously properly informed about the necessary documents, and were really helpful. I've tried to contact you, but can't get help. I'm an Executive club member, and to be honest, the treatment I received was pretty awful. I need to organise an immediate refund.
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6 years
Totally inappropriate and characteristically shameful...
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5 years
‘...nationalism... is so evil because in the age of international communication and supranational blocs, nationalism cannot really believe in itself anymore & must exaggerate itself to the extreme in order to persuade itself & others that it is still substantial.’ #Adorno (1966)
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8 years
"A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form for us before the light fell on them" Susanne Langer (1969)
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Jack Bicker
7 years
@HackneyAbbott 2/2 So glad she was returned with a 75% vote share in my hometown of Hackney... despite the shameful-stupid-Daily-Mail-vitriol #election2017
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Jack Bicker
7 years
This #BBCsalaries thing is a total distraction.
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Jack Bicker
8 years
Great piece from Ian Hislop on Orwell and #PostTruthPolitics in this week's @NewStatesman
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@JackBicker
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1 year
Characteristically empowering and excellent scholarship from @natcphd on show @TORCHOxford this evening. 🙏🏽
@ChantelleJLewis
Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis
1 year
✊🏾Legendary @natcphd providing lecture zero of - “Don’t Die of Ignorance: A New History of 'Section 28' in Four Gay Lessons“. They really are one of the best!!! @TORCHOxford @Race_Resistance @PembrokeOxford @JesusOxford
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6 years
Very much looking forward to this from @natcphd , guest speaker at the University of #Cambridge 's Faculty of Education next month… ‘What was the meaning of #RhodesMustFall and of Dismantling the Master’s House?' @CamEdFac #decolonise #blm #CRT @Cambridge_Uni #HigherEd
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Jack Bicker
4 years
Anyone else totally embarrassed by our government right now?
@BorisJohnson
Boris Johnson
4 years
Let’s make the EU take their threats off the table. And let’s get this Bill through, back up our negotiators, and protect our country 🇬🇧
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Now she's a backbencher, and arguably has a little bit more time on her hands, Theresa May has to be directly held to account for shamefully overseeing the #HostileEnvironment policy as Home Secretary. Too many questions remain unanswered... #Windrush #windrushgeneration
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Jack Bicker
6 years
‘How people would react to a large, muscular, dark-skinned black man – I would be so conscious of it and it would upset me. It affected my energy for the rest of the day. In order to protect myself from having to manage other people’s fear, I would do things to preempt that.’
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The Guardian
6 years
Mahershala Ali: ‘I had to protect myself from people’s fear of me’
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Jack Bicker
8 years
Genius... The 'Downfall' version of @BorisJohnson HQ as #EUref result comes in... #brexit
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Jack Bicker
6 years
“What we call identity politics is produced by a state which can only allocate recognition and rights to subjects [who are already] totalized by the particularity that constitutes their plaintiff status” #JudithButler
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Jack Bicker
7 years
Experience tells us that it's too early to say, and that this is way too good to be true; but if it could please be true 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾 #Election2017
@BritainElects
Britain Elects
7 years
EXIT POLL: Con: 314 Lab: 266 SNP: 34 LDem: 14
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6 years
One of my all time favourite performances of any song, ever...and when she tosses the coat and reaches... 😲 RIP to the #QueenOfSoul , the irreplaceable #ArethaFranklin .
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Jack Bicker
6 years
Revisiting and working through Humboldt philosopher Rahel Jaeggi’s awesome work on alienation. “Overcoming alienation does not mean returning to an undifferentiated state of oneness with oneself and the world; it too is a relation: a relation of appropriation.” #philosophy
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