“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”.
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
⭐️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:
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!
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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.’
‘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
@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
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
“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
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'
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
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.
‘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
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.
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
‘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.’
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_
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”
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...
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
"...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
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
“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
“Undifferentiatedness is not unity, for unity requires, even according to the Platonic dialect, diverse entities of which it is unity.”
#Adorno
#CriticalTheory
‘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
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.
.
@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.
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.
@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.
‘...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)
@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
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
‘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.’
“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
“If I could have my time again, I’d try to be braver. Coming to this country as an immigrant, fear plays a big part in your life. And fear causes inaction”
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
.
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