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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

2 months

I was annoyed by the NYT list… so I’ve made my own (60) Best Books of the 21st Century. I’ve considered several gaps in their list including age of readers, geographic spread, genre novels, and diversity of form. It’s not at all perfect but it was a lot of fun. 1/2

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 months

This photo is … something.

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Taylor Swift and Prince William's new backstage selfies at the London Eras Tour concert shouldn't come as a surprise for anyone who knows their history. The pair famously joined forces on stage many years ago, resulting in a viral moment.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Can we not “as a Brit, I can’t believe…” tweet? A mother is crowdfunding for a *finger* for her child because of racist bullying. Our deportation system is already at send people before appeal. We are en route to losing the right to protest. We don’t have moral high ground

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

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4 years

Fascinating how British academics think the free black uni is segregation but appear not to have noticed that they have no Black colleagues and no Black students and when they do, there is one person and we are treated abhorrently.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

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2 years

Lena Horne was pushed out by MGM because she refused to testify against Robeson. The fallout being that she made only THREE films in the three DECADES between 1948 and appearing InThe Wiz in 1978. At the height of her (short) film career, she made four of five films *a year*.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

I wish academics got Pedagogy Leave where you some spend weeks reading all the new articles/books, learning new learning tech, and auditing loads of other people's teaching so that you can learn and improve and grow in a focused way.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

I would LOVE to see Federer and Nadal - read the tennis establishment - show up to support Naomi Osaka. Refuse to attend the press events. Don’t answer any questions if they do. Pay her fine. Let’s see who shows up. I’d love to be surprised.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

A Black child was heckled while they were singing in a performance at the ROH last night. Can I encourage mutuals not to circulate the child’s name and photo? We can be outraged and comment without tying the name and image of a child with no say or agency to it. Please.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 months

There’s an Indonesian weightlifter Nurul Akmal who has the most beautiful transcendent natural smile. I hope she knows it. None of the press photos which are posed communicate how gorgeous it is. Hope she gets a medal.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Happy news. I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor. Not for now, but I want to name that this has been a fraught and deeply violent process. So much love to the friends, colleagues, and allies who’ve kept me going. Time to rest, heal, and stand with whoever we can boost next.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

I’ve backed away from many “decolonising the curriculum” events this year because the first question is always “what should we include?” and not “what are the underlying assumptions of what and how we teach now?”. We have to unlearn first and I’m still at the beginning of that

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

🌟 So tomorrow, I begin my next adventure! I become Director of Black Studies at @UniofNottingham @AmCanNotts ! I can't wait to work with the existing PhD cohort to nurture a safe, uplifting, and powerful space for new Black Studies research over the next three years. 🌟

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 months

I really need the average white Briton to understand how scared people are. Had so many conversations about not going out alone, about staying home, about messaging single friends who are living on their ones. It doesn't matter if it didn't kick off locally. It only takes one.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

Reader, he married me.

Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Only I would *accidentally* date someone who’s surname is roughly translated as ... The Lion King 😂❤️

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

I think I’ve found a contender for the most peak “she is Black” prose by a white person in fantasy. “Her skin was smooth and golden brown, and her hair, which curled like wood shavings, sat thick and dark on her shoulders.” Which. Curled. Like. Wood. Shavings.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Story time. My first day of postdoc fell on a UCU strike week in 2018. I agonised about what to do but decided I needed to go in. Why? Because I’d been living below the minimum wage for *years*. It was late Feb/early March in Sheffield and I hadn’t had heating for weeks. 1/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

I’m also on strike because no one likes to talk about negotiating salaries or what they get paid. I only found out how lowly I was paid because a friend of mine a grade below mine realised he gets paid more than me. The culture of silence is harming vulnerable, precarious staff.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

@temilasade Because they know they get the funding

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

"If we can find the will to send people to the moon or solve complex problems like curing male baldness, then we can solve simple problems like letting people eat."

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At last, our world has a leader. She is Mia Motley, Prime Minister of Barbados, and *this* is a speech:

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 months

The Cass Review is a farce. A review by the Yale Law School and School of Medicine suggest that it “repeats spurious, debunked claims” and its “errors conflict with well-established norms of clinical research and evidence-based healthcare.” Come on!

Wes Streeting MP

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Cass Review found there is not enough evidence about the long-term impact of puberty blockers for gender incongruence to know whether they are safe or not, nor which children might benefit from them. The evidence should have been established before they were ever prescribed. 2/9

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Ooft - that is the beginning of my dad’s story. And I am crying. Love you, dad. Fuck this place, man. #SmallAxe

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

It’s Lewis Hamilton in the corner though

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@katehalliwell

3 years

to be a fly on the fucking wall

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

PhD Application season is upon us. A reminder that I have created a basic, open access, template for PhD proposals. This is intended for Arts and Humanities students in the UK though I hope it'll be useful to lots of people. You can download it here:

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PhD Resources: PhD Proposal Template PhD Proposal TemplateDownload This is a basic resource specifically designed for prospective PhD students hoping to study in the arts and humanities in UK unive…

hannahmarierobbins.com

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

#WhyWeStrike It’s Day 5 of the @ucu strike action and I’m finally ready to say something. I’ve found it particularly isolating this time and I am worried that there are already too many fires alight. 1/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Imagine if we stopped writing reports about racism and actually wrote actionable policy to prevent and take action against it.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

CN: transphobia. I know we knew but this made me so sad. And the thing that worries me the most here is the conflation between "truth" and "freedom of expression". She knows the difference.

‘I believe literature is in peril’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie comes out fighting for freedom of...

As the BBC prepares to air her hard-hitting Reith Lecture, the celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun talks about truth, trans rights and our ‘misogyny-drenched’ planet. Plus: read an extract

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

Associate Professor Thuraisingam Robbins will see you now. 🎉

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Striking because it is normal to develop long term chronic health conditions. Striking because it is commonly said “I don’t know how I’ll make it to the end of term.” Striking because widespread exhaustion causes tense environments for all workers and students.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

I can’t believe I’m doing this but if you send me a work email and you aren’t a personal friend, do not message me on Twitter to remind me of your email. Especially when I have an Out of Office on and it’s been less than two working days.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

One of my biggest complaints about all these people going “woke young people ruining our freedoms” is … where there is offence given, people often complained AT THE TIME. There was stringent criticism of Evita when it came out. Protests and negotiations with Miss Saigon. Sigh

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

I need friends/colleagues to examine why UCU pickets are so ubiquitously white. And why we create a righteous narrative about striking when we’ve been out for years with little movement on anything. I will strike because I believe in the union but no one has shown me value. 6/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

This is an extreme and (I hope) unrepresentative story. BUT I am concerned at how many women of colour, migrant, first gen, queer, *near destitute* people the emphasis on holding the picket line has lost and will lose again. 5/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 months

Reported to Ofcom as bullying and diminishing Islamophobia on my lunch break. Easy to do. You can complain here:

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

2 months

. @zarahsultana rightly says politicians should call whats happening as racist and Islamophobic. Ed Balls forgets he's meant to be the interviewer and gets annoyed because politicians and the media are being held accountable for where we are now #GMB

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

SUCH a disappointing tweet from someone whose books I have admired. Telling lots of authors of colour that they are overreacting to racist, ableist language is gaslighting. It’s also exacerbating a problem. We know people don’t report such things when people with power do this

Philip Pullman

@PhilipPullman

3 years

@gilly_partridge @ProfSunnySingh @chimenesuleyman @monisha_rajesh @KateClanchy1 @goodreads If you look hard enough, you'll find something to be offended by in every book ever published. A better way of reading is to see the whole picture, the tendency of the entire book. Clanchy's book is humane, warm, decent, generous, and welcoming.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

White academics are all about "not seeing" my mixed heritage until they call me "exotic" and run their fingers through my hair at conferences. #BlackintheIvory

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Honestly thunderstruck to report that I have been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Small Grant. The funds will help develop part of Book 2 and Projects 2 & 3 currently summarised as Cultural Policy, Media, and Musicals during the Obama Era. @UoNMusic @UoNBAME @UoNBlackStudies

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

I am delighted to announce that I am setting up a research space - a Centre for Black Studies - at @UniofNottingham . This will serve as a support base for our PhD cohort + any staff/students interested in the discipline. More info to come! @UoNArts @AmCanNotts @UoNHumanities

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

No U.K. institution wants to treat Black Studies like a long established discipline because then there’s an infrastructural need like a department, budget, multiple permanent staff allowed to develop medium term plans, and student expectations about standards and content.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

I find it super interesting when people show up to call out people like Jack Monroe and then show that they’ve never been poor. They always go after sophistication or cheaper uncooked options. Never do they consider time costs, energy, or shelf life.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Just a small note to say that critical race theory isn’t an ideology - you can’t “live by it”. Critical Race Theory covers a *vast* range of ways to understand how the world works.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

A few months ago, I sent a joyful congratulations message to a person via a staff mailing list. Within one hour, I got five emails telling me I was out of line because l everyone would expect praise. U.K. academia just isn’t ok.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

So much room for books ♥️

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Just had an interesting conversation about being "neutral" while researching racial diversity. Here is your reminder that "neutral" is often code for "in line with the status quo". Academic "neutrality" accepts whiteness as apolitical while BIPOC research is judged as reactionary

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Something REALLY tiring about attempting to buy a house is that on most forms, they put “Miss” and when I’ve said it’s Dr, they’ve updated my male partner’s record. Had to raise a formal complaint because they’re addressing him Dr Adam as lead on the sale of a house *I* own alone

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

My first graduation as a Dr and a member of staff! Such an honour to introduce the legendary @RebelDread Don Letts who received an honorary doctorate from the @UniofNottingham this morning.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

Five years a PhD. Five home moves. Three jobs. Four months of total isolation in the first lockdown. Long Covid. Gained a partner. Became a dog parent. Cancer scare. Crazily cyberstalked. One week to wedding. Ten days to Associate Prof. Fucking chaos of a half decade.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

On the final #UCUstrike day, I want to encourage everyone to reflect on the pay gaps and access to promotion. I've shared quite widely about the sexism, racism, and ableism I've experienced as an academic. Today, I'm going to think about how these intersect with age

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

The way academia sleeps on brilliant people who aren't able/don't want to play the system is a crime.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Reader, he’s marrying me!!

Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Only I would *accidentally* date someone who’s surname is roughly translated as ... The Lion King 😂❤️

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Despite the comments and racist abuse I have received, my Hamilton piece has had over 40,000 views since it was published on Monday afternoon. You can check it out here.

Hamilton – the diverse musical with representation problems

It may have a diverse cast but it erases the Black and Indigenous people who were there in the room and relegates women to the sidelines.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 months

When ending child poverty was right there…

Keir Starmer

@Keir_Starmer

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Wealth creation is my number one priority.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

And where is the Queen getting this money from?

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 months

Good. Let’s get the pressure going. We have to call out the bullying and hypocrisy as far as we can. They have to stop feeling comfortable behaving this way.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

I believe in the union. I am so glad to have an amazing and diligent local branch. But I cannot believe that there has been no substantive change in strategy. We need to unnerve the VCs. We need to shame institutions. I want us to win. But I’m not sure we know how. 8/8

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

*cries* you don’t understand what this means. I have a house.

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@drhannahrobbins

2 years

But one FULL PROFESSOR “lalala”d me. These people with a combined £180k screamed at me when i couldn’t buy life altering medications. After, one of them refused to have conversations with me where they didn’t bring up UCU and striking for the next year. 4/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

There’s a piece in the Guardian about a situation which began when a well loved white author attacked a Goodreads reviewer for pulling antisemitic quotes from her book. The author claimed they weren’t from her book. But they were. 1/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

5 months

*taps mic* Dear ADHD family, Send that email you've been avoiding. The one that will only take two mins but makes your stomach hurt. I've just done mine. You can do yours and then, we've basically won Friday. xxx

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@drhannahrobbins

1 year

🌻❤️👑

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@drhannahrobbins

1 year

Again for people in the back, UoN have told students that if they reject their derived marks and staff are not available to mark their work in time, they will be forced to resit their assessments or they will fail the year. Absolutely appalling. Literally punishing students.

James Hutchcraft 🔶🇬🇧

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University of Nottingham seem to be forcing students to choose between accepting wildly inaccurate guesstimate grades or contesting them to receive marked and accurate grades but with the threat that we may not progress to the final year if we do so... #markingboycott #strikes

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Completing my PhD was a trial. I had really a rough time and didn’t believe I’d get to the end. It’s been three years + the sense of finding my voice and energy again as I finished has been integral to everything since. Dunno how long I’ll be an academic but today: cheers! 🌻🎉

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Day 10 of this round of @ucu strikes. Tired. Worried about returning to work. Worried about what action we have to take next. Angry that our employers are gaslighting us while THEIR OWN DATA shows their failings towards their employees.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Hello if you made it this far. This thread is now muted as it has received a lot more attention than I could have imagined. I understand some feel I’ve compromised the Union by sharing in this way. However, I know that there are a lot of people who don’t feel able to speak at all

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@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Lol the passive aggression of “parents/carers” and suggesting following procedure in this tweet. The well-worn language of you only get a right of reply on our terms regardless of who the harmed and the harmer might be.

Bishop Challoner Catholic College

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Bishop Challoner Catholic College is very clear that braids are allowed to be worn in school. If parents/carers have any issues, there are clear procedures in place which they can follow for their concerns to be addressed.

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2 years

STRIKE THREAD: It has become pretty comfortable for *most* UK academics to say Black, trans, part-time, disabled staff have it worst. But I’m not seeing people show up + ask how we make change or examine how and when these communities and their intersections are hurt most. 1/

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1 year

💡We are running a summer school for @UniofNottingham undergrads and MA students who are Black or from minoritised ethnic backgrounds interested in PhD study. Meals & accommodation covered plus help with childcare costs. Spread the word! Apply here:

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@drhannahrobbins

4 years

It’s gonna be a time in the British press. Whatever you think about them, the stories about mental health, self concept, abuse, and gaslighting will recall awful experiences for lots of Black women. It’s clear that U.K. anti-Blackness is going to dial up so take care, please.

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@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Beautiful winter scenes on my walk across @UniofNottingham campus this morning.

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@drhannahrobbins

3 years

If you are an early career academic of colour starting out at an institution, ONLY do the citizenship you want to do. It’ll be hard but turn down those committees and meetings because the institution will not reward you for your service. Sew your energy wisely.

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2 years

UK universities currently operate on a system where management supports ideas in name but will only partially resource, or quickly withdraw resource, so that its schemes/programmes/ventures *exist* but cannot function. Then, they blame the staff for those failures. #UCUstrike

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@drhannahrobbins

4 months

It's giving university EDI committees.

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@Keir_Starmer

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Labour is ready to deliver the change Britain needs.

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2 years

Thread: Things you may not know about applying for a PhD in the Arts and Humanities in the UK Some of this may seem obvious but there is a lack of democracy/transparency about PhDs in the UK. Everything is here in this blog post if you prefer this format

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@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Sula has arrived!! More photos to follow. She’s a Sagittarius with monster paws and we love her. (Note: the grass is our garden, she isn’t “out”.)

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@britishmuseum "China’s hidden century has been a complex exhibition to stage and we have worked with over 400 people from 20 countries to produce its content and display, including 30 lenders and numerous other contributors." Did you manage to credit and renumerate everyone else first time?

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

So I was today old when I learned that Claudia Jones (amazing activist and organiser of Notting Hill Carnival fame) was born Claudia *Cumberbatch*. Yes, as in... Yes, they were. 😑

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@drhannahrobbins

1 year

I hope UK-based arts and humanities colleagues are paying attention to the pushback from the British Museum for not crediting a translator whose work appears to be essential to the copy of an exhibition linked to an AHRC project.

British Museum

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We were recently alerted to a copyright issue linked to our exhibition about 19th-century China. We have apologised to the translator for this unintentional human error and offered them a fee. Full statement:

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@drhannahrobbins

1 year

Should have been front page news across the country. But not all murders and murderers get the same coverage.

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BREAKING: Jamie Barrow, 31, has been jailed at Nottingham Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 44 years for the murders of Black woman Fatoumatta Hydara and her two daughters, Fatimah and Naeemah Drammeh, after setting fire to their flat.

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My (latest) beef with the REF is the undervaluing of chapters in edited collections. They provide new readers with so much to respond to and the potential to identify new research avenues quickly.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

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The way we've moved from "you did a racism and faced consquences" to "is this Black person questionable?" is white supremacy in action. You know that Part B (dubious in of itself) does not change Part A, right? Names and heritages can be messy too. It's giving racial purity vibes

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

Well meaning does not cut it. Every peer review I have ever had has commented on the "inappropriate" inclusion of race contexts in my work. Race is relevant to feminism and queerness. It is vital to understanding how popular culture works in the UK and US. Do the work yourself!

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

I really feel in my soul that white academics have absolutely no comprehension of the gaslighting and hostility Black academics face. I know how much my light privilege protects me and I have wildly different times to most white academics. Extrapolate that experience. Violence.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

4 years

I know everyone is talking about ditching the Queen but this is worth attention.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

5 months

Deleted my undergrad dissertation two days before deadline. Rewrote the whole thing in a particularly dark 36 hours. Won dissertation prize and got the highest mark in my degree 🥲

jas🇧🇩🇯🇲

@jasmingoss_

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ADHD people, name a time where it has actually come in clutch for you😭 I’ll start, I completed a 5000 word assignment 4 hours before submission one time

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Lol. This is the most amazing tweet. I’m going to use this in my next class. What an amazing example of deliberately misaligning what privilege and power in storytelling means.

Philip Pullman

@PhilipPullman

3 years

@DBodepudi I can assure you, I don't write from a position of power and privilege. That would mean I could order people to read my work. I write from a position of wanting to tell this story as well as I can - that's all. If they want to read it, I'm very glad.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

For anyone interested in academic research, I wrote a whole chapter about reclaiming Lena Horne’s Blackness in the face of the systemic racism she experienced and I’m very happy to share an e-copy!

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

One thing Queer Eye will never be defeated on is JVN always taking Black clients to Black salons and barbers and keeping those stylists visible in pretty much all the shots.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Oh I absolutely love the official photo for Dr Don Letts’s graduation. Pictured with Baroness Lola Young (Chancellor of @UniofNottingham ) and Dr Vince Wilson, who nominated Don for the award. More graduations like this, please!

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Oh and the posts saying “we need to remember the good things [insert Black player’s name] did” are peripherally part of the same narrative. We do not and should not need measures of contribution to exempt any person from receiving racist abuse.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

There's no way that loads of *famous* white authors aren't seeing what's going down and chatting about it. But they aren't stepping up. But apart from Joanne Harris, I don't see any bestselling heft pulling their weight on this.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

Thrilled to announce that Black Studies and related interdisciplinary fields have been designated a priority area for the @UoNArts @UoNHumanities Research Fellowships this year. Please have a look and share.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

I’m honestly not super chill about non-Black people reporting it was a child and then using a photo as a mic drop. That’s a child who went through something shocking. Name it for what it is. Don’t use his image like that.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

The way I cackled at the suggestion the next REF will measure “healthy, dynamic and inclusive research environments”. Are you mad? The REF has historically limited or hamstrung the careers of colleagues of non-traditional backgrounds, especially doing research in inclusive ways.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 months

Hi @Channel4News , what is the reason that Reform has a label for four votes but the Green Party is not shown at all?

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

I'm about to leave the office for two days of strike. Here's my Out of Office: Thank you for your email. I am currently participating in strike action and will respond if I can when I return to work. 1/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

“More devastated than the lady who complained”. That should be a title of a chapter in a book about white women’s tears.

Anna Blewett

@annie_knowsbest

2 years

Quite gobsmacking defence of Lady Susan Hussey by Petronella Wyatt on @BBCPM 'She will be devastated; far more devastated than the lady who complained." Where have these people BEEN?! Onlooker @ManduReid said "we have an experience that makes us feel...like trespassers."

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

1 year

And that’s it. The prep is done. The parents are here. It’s just chaos, dinner, sleep and we are on!

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

These days in November are for what? To show them we’re serious. More serious than when we’ve taken action before? UCU isn’t yet a leader on any four fights issue that has seem sector level change. Pensions? They made the cut anyway. We need to adapt, not “lalala” 7/

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

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I'm back! Sharing a starter information sheet for prospective students thinking about a PhD in the arts and humanities in the UK. This is *specifically aimed* at people without institutional support or mentorship. Full (free) download on my website below:

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

3 years

My friend has been campaigning for years after being viciously strip searched. She was arrested for trying to give a teenager a legal aid card when she thought he might be being racially profiled under "stop and search". CN: assault, sexism, abuse

Met apologises to woman for ‘sexist, derogatory’ language in strip-search

Force pays compensation to Dr Konstancja Duff for language used after CCTV captures officers’ comments

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

Our violences may look different but they are the same.

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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)

@drhannahrobbins

2 years

So I went. I was conflicted about it but this was my first decent wage. I was 27 then. Three profs (not my dept) had formed a picket *with dogs* outside my building and they screamed at me. They shamed me. They boo’d me. For three days. The first day, I tried to talk to them 3/

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