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Jo Littler

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5 months

‘It’s about community, it’s about solidarity, it’s about equality’ Massive turnout and very vocal crowd for ⁦ @faizashaheen ⁩ in Highams Park. This isn’t going away

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4 years

Out of the way, neoliberal feminism! Feudal feminism is back

Standing behind his wife, Philip defined a different kind of masculine ideal | Gaby Hinsliff

It’s a stretch to call him a feminist icon but the Duke of Edinburgh allowed his wife the spotlight as husbands of public figures rarely did

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2 years

The new advertising: you’ve never had it so bad

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2 years

I wrote a piece on the revitalisation of left feminism (incl Enola Holmes 2, strikes & the demise of the girlboss) for the @guardian :

From Enola Holmes on Netflix to Britain’s union leaders, why feminism for the 99% is thriving | Jo...

Instead of ‘leaning in’, a new generation is taking aim at economic and gender inequality, says Jo Littler, professor of social analysis and cultural politics at City, University of London

www.theguardian.com

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6 years

⚡️Extremely happy (and surprised) that my book Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility is now available to download for FREE! under @creativecommons license ⚡️:

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5 years

I'm on strike. 51% of university staff are now on casualised contracts. Our gender & BAME pay gap is atrocious. The workload is nuts. Meanwhile, £££ is pumped into #shinybuildings &corporate contracts. Oh, & they’re still fleecing us over our pensions. #UCUStrikesBack #ussstrike

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2 years

First time ever I think I’ve got a copy of a book before publication day! And in time for #WorldBookDay thanks @LW_Books . ‘Left feminisms: 8/10 cat owners said their cats preferred it’

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4 years

Our book 'The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence' (which I co-wrote with @lynne_segal @Chatzidakis_A , Catherine Rottenberg & Jamie Hakim) is out with @VersoBooks in September. Read all about it here:

The Care Manifesto

The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care—childcare, healthcare, elder care—to care for the natural world. We live in a world where careless...

www.versobooks.com

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5 years

V happy that a new interdisciplinary Centre for Gender & Sexualities Research will be formally launched @CityUniLondon / @CitySociology this autumn, building on our previous activities, & directed by me, @RosalindGillLdn & team. Follow us on @GSRC_City

The Gender and Sexualities Research Centre | City, University of London

This Centre analyses how gender and sexuality and other identities intersect in a rapidly changing world.

www.city.ac.uk

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7 years

We’re striking because they're slashing pensions by 40% & extending marketisation. Who benefits from uni marketisation? VCs on astronomical salaries; an expanding bureaucracy; financial services; contracted corporations. Not lecturers, not students, not education. #USSstrike @ucu

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1 year

I'm VERY much looking forward to joining @MediaComGold one month today as Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis! Thanks to those good people in @CitySociology &beyond who I learnt a lot from in the last 11 yrs & who made the difficult landscape of UK HE more bearable

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2 years

🎈It’s publication day for Left Feminisms: conversations on the personal and political🎈 Big thanks to everyone involved! Read more about it here:

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4 years

Disappointing lack of coverage of Biden’s beauty routines and pants selections so far

Women's Equality Party

@WEP_UK

4 years

First woman of colour to make Vice President and the Telegraph gives the story to its beauty editor. Go figure.

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6 months

Great to see journalism on UK universities in crisis. But what still needs writing is an investigative piece on the 100s of millions spent by UK unis on private consultancies etc. Public money on corporate outsourcing is a key part of the picture.

The universities spending millions on consultants like PwC

UNSW spent $38 million on consultants in 2022, while the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland each paid out more than $37 million.

www.smh.com.au

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5 years

Glad ⁦ @chakrabortty ⁩ has written this - there needs to be a much wider wising up to how no even vaguely left leader can look good in this right wing media landscape

If you can’t abide Jeremy Corbyn, learn from the moral of Ed Miliband | Aditya Chakrabortty

This time the stakes are even bigger, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Jo Littler

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10 months

I just looked through my photo collection and found these pictures of Antonio Negri talking 20 years ago at the European Social Forum; opening our minds to what alternatives to capitalism could be, could look like.

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1 year

Starting my one year Research Fellowship on 'Ideologies of Inequality' today and it's the first time I've had more than 12 weeks research time for over 20 years, many thanks @LeverhulmeTrust . Looking forward to a lot of library time.

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5 months

There is NO convincing financial justification for proposed redundancies @GoldsmithsUoL In fact new HESA data shows it's doing well given the sector Time to stop giving millions to private consultancies & reverse the cuts! #NotADoneDeal @GoldsmithsUCU

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1 year

I wasn't expecting the Met to be doing better than UKRI at saying No to Braverman's authoritarianism

Met police chief defies calls to ban pro-Palestine Armistice Day march in London

Sir Mark Rowley says there is insufficient intelligence pointing to a risk of serious public disorder

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2 years

Thank the [legacies of municipal socialism] for lidos! Saved my sweltering skin today in this London heat☀️💦 🙏 #PublicLuxury

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2 years

‘Left Feminisms’ is being published in February. Very glad it’s now in production! Thanks to all the contributors incl @AkwugoEmejulu @angelamcrobbie @Finn_Mackay @lynne_segal @Gargi_at_home @hilarypepper @vronsta @veronica_gago

Lawrence Wishart Books

@LW_Books

2 years

Coming soon from LW Books: @littler_jo 's 'Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political' brings together conversations with 14 feminist academics and activists. It's a vibrant, interesting and accessible record of feminist theory and action. #Leftfeminisms

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5 months

I spent election night 2019 with many other pple in Chingford &WG helping get the vote out for the hugely popular @faizashaheen . This baseless Orwellian action is part of a wider undemocratic authoritarian purge of the left & is rightly widely seen as misogynistic & racist

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New: Doctor Faiza Shaheen, after winning a democratic selection, has now been blocked by the leadership and @Keir_Starmer from standing as Labour’s candidate in Chingford.

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1 year

Academics 'are frequently stuck on insecure, poorly paid, temporary contracts [...]Meanwhile the pay of VCs ballooned as universities reconfigured themselves as businesses with interests in property development as well as education'

The Guardian view on universities: arts cuts are the tip of an iceberg | Editorial

Editorial: Ministers are ultimately responsible for weakening humanities courses in universities. They are taking the country backwards

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7 years

My book 'Against meritocracy: culture, power and myths of mobility' is out now:

Against Meritocracy: Culture, power and myths of mobility

Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the...

www.routledge.com

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1 year

There has been a lot of work on this in cultural, media and gender studies. For eg, @angelamcrobbie , The Aftermath of Feminism; Ros Gill on post-feminism; Allison Phipps on lad culture; or @sbanetweiser & @kat_hig ‘s new book ‘Believability’

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1 year

Someone really should write a history of British sexual culture since the nineties, from Lads & Ladettes to Me Too. A sexual revolution which, like the '60s, was fun for some but in 2023 we're still living with its ugly consequences.

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3 years

I’m getting over Covid but what makes me more tired is the erosion of teaching + learning conditions in universities, which is why I'm on strike from today #OneOfUsAllOfUs #UCUstrikes @CityUCU @ucu

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2 years

Anyone who works in universities sees students increasingly being forced into doing ‘degrees on the side’ & juggling an array of jobs. As well as increasingly stark divisions between as well as within universities. The lens needs to move beyond ‘the top’

One in five students at top universities consider dropping out over cost of living

A quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, a new Russell Group Students’ Unions study reveals

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

‘For most of my political life, Labour has attempted to cattle-prod me to the polls with the threat that if it lost, things would be much worse. It is a relief to have a party woo me with the notion that if it wins things could get much better’ @garyyounge

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5 years

Extremely happy that this article I wrote is now out: 'Mothers behaving badly: chaotic hedonism and the crisis of neoliberal social reproduction' in Cultural Studies. Here's the 50 open access copies download link:

Mothers behaving badly: chaotic hedonism and the crisis of neoliberal social reproduction

This article focuses on the significance of the plethora of representations of mothers ‘behaving badly’ in contemporary anglophone media texts, including the films Bad Moms, Fun Mom Dinner and Bad ...

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4 years

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3 years

A new article by @Chatzidakis_A and I, 'An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19’ has just been published in @IJCS_journal . 🧵 below (1/9); read it #openaccess here:

An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19 -...

This article defines ‘carewashing’ as commercial branding strategies which commodify care and attempt to increase corporate profit, and provides the first theor...

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1 year

Today’s UK news - 1 million children now classified as ‘destitute’ - ceiling is lifted on banker bonuses

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3 years

An interview I did with Sheila Rowbotham has just been published (so enjoyed doing this, pre-Covid, it's taken a while in the works..) & is free to view right now:

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2 years

Suspended for caring about students in what looks like a blatant attempt at union busting. Des and Gholam are exemplary academics, teachers and colleagues. They must be reinstated now.

Goldsmiths UCU

@GoldsmithsUCU

2 years

Please read our motion in response to the de facto suspension of Head and Deputy Head of MCCS Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany for sending an email to students to clarify the impact of our boycott and provide support. Escalations to follow:

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3 years

New out: a short interview I did with @angelamcrobbie on a wide range of issues, including Covid, welfare, queer theory, decolonisation, rad fem & social media bickering. 'Beyond anti-welfarism and feminist social media mud-slinging' in @EJCS_Journal :

Beyond anti-welfarism and feminist social media mud-slinging: Jo Littler interviews Angela McRobbie...

In this wide-ranging interview, which took place in spring 2021, Angela McRobbie talks about her work in relation to social politics, the contemporary conjunctu...

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Jo Littler

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2 years

Thanks to everyone who came along! (Including my daughter who tried to break into the room)

Lawrence Wishart Books

@LW_Books

2 years

Thank you to Nancy Fraser, @veronica_gago and Sophia Siddiqui for an inspiring conversation at the launch of Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political by @littler_jo , cohosted by @feministlibrary . Get your copy of the book from today🎉

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5 years

Day 1 of self-isolation with the kids and they're going to home school each other. I'm thinking Lord of the Flies meets Paulo Friere

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6 years

"Meritocracy is an obfuscatory neoliberal mantra which has been used for decades to powerful effect, providing a key justification for increasing privatization and inequality in the interests of a few." Piece I wrote for @DiscoverSoc :

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2 years

If you’re at #britsoc23 tomorrow and interested in social mobility, @SolGamsu @ingram_nicola @SamFriedmanSoc & I have co-organized this discussion at 11am in 3.209

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4 years

Stuart Hall: Heritage 'inevitably reflects the governing assumptions of its time & context. It is always inflected by the power & authority of those whose versions of history matter. These assumptions + co-ordinates of power are inhabited as natural -' 1/4

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7 years

My new book Against Meritocracy is out in August . Shorter @guardianopinion version here:

Against Meritocracy: Culture, power and myths of mobility

Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the...

www.routledge.com

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4 years

🌟It's publication day for The Care Manifesto! 🌟 @VersoBooks @Chatzidakis_A @lynne_segal @digintimaciesUK Gratuitous kitten photo:

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4 years

Three cheers for Jacinda Ardern, Andy Burnham and Movimiento al Socialismo Bolivia for giving us political hope this week

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1 year

Looking forward to talking w Sophie Lewis @reproutopia about care & the economy next Tue, 3rd Oct for this online Alt School of Economics event w @WhitworthArt

We are not a burden to each other, with The Alternative School of Economics

Join The Alternative School of Economics (Ruth Beale & Amy Feneck) with leading feminist speakers Jo Littler and Sophie Lewis.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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4 years

This is a difficult time of year for many people. So I'm going to put on my < mom voice > 1/3 Your brain is part of your body. If it’s physically possible make sure you get some exercise and daylight every day. Cheesy chart:

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4 years

we have taken the decorations that you put on the tree and which you were probably saving for Christmas forgive us they were so shiny so sparkly so there

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5 years

Yesterday at our #FeministHope event we had to get security to remove someone who was v purposefully shouting transphobic abuse & trying to shut down any & all discussion. It was hard to deal with, but not as hard as having to live your entire life at the end of that vitriol. 1/2

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4 years

In case anyone needs to see kittens

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2 years

Online book launch for 'Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and the political' w/Sophia Siddiqui @IRR_News , Nancy Fraser & @veronica_gago & me, Mon 6 March Register here:

Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political - Book Launch

Left Feminisms Online book launch and Discussion with Jo Littler, Nancy Fraser, Verónica Gago and Sophia Siddiqui.

www.eventbrite.com

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3 months

Similarly I tuned into R4's Today this morning and heard very negative coverage of the French elections and an interview with someone from Le Pen's party being given lots of airtime for far right views on migration. Guys, Suella Braverman isn't in charge any more

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To hear Kirsty Wark mutter that it was wrong to call Mrs Le Pen's party 'far right' - and that they should be considered 'right wing' - sent a shudder down my spine this morning on @BBCRadio4 Broadcasting House...

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5 years

'We do not have to be vicious, competitive or managerial.' An interview I did with the wise & witty @AkwugoEmejulu is now out in @SoundingsJourn & discusses political education, activism, feminism, racism and universities. Free to view:

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3 years

A new article by @EmmaHCasey and I has just been published open access in @TheSocReview : 'Scouring away the crisis? Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework' You can read it here:

Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring...

This article extends sociological and feminist accounts of housework by examining the social significance of the rise of the ‘cleanfluencer’: online influencers...

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4 months

According to this university finance expert's reading of the latest HESA data, Goldsmiths is in a very safe financial position (in fact just in the 'excess reserves' category.) There is no need to force redundancies. @GoldsmithsUCU #notadonedeal

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4 months

A quick and dirty chart based on HESA data for 31 July 2023. This shows cash days at each established UK HEI. The ones on the left have cash too low for comfort. Potential "distress" The ones on the right have "excess reserves" (CC19 guidance).

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7 years

Sociology on the march! Just a few of the many @CitySociology staff who were on the @ucu #USSstrike demo today. @RosalindGillLdn @Rachellaracohen @EmmelineRTaylor

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5 years

‘No-one is coming to save us...we have to do it ourselves’. @AkwugoEmejulu & @Chess_Ess talk eloquently about black feminism in Europe & their new @PlutoPress bk @HousmansBooks

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3 years

I was just introduced at a talk as 'Jo Littler, who is often controversial' 🧐

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6 years

..from my book Against Meritocracy: Short version ( @guardian article):

The Sociological Review Foundation

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7 years

Equality is not achieved by meritocracy and social mobility, but by sharing the wealth, anti-discrimination and democracy all the way down. New piece I wrote for @GdnInequality @guardian

Inequality is under attack - but what should equality really look like?

In 2017 inequality was highlighted like never before. Now we need to open our political imaginations to determine what a more equal world really is

www.theguardian.com

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7 months

"it is time to remove the vocabulary of the market place, the student as customer & the ethos of competition in what needs to be re-framed as a public good. The post-war period saw the growth of a world-leading sector...The free-market model of recent years has little to offer"

Des Freedman

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7 months

Fantastic article from @angelamcrobbie on the devastating consequences of the proposed mass redundancies at @GoldsmithsUoL both for people's livelihoods and prospects for a critical & inclusive higher education system

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7 years

Finally got a copy! If not a manicure.

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4 years

I reviewed Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit and Peter Mandler, The Crisis of the Meritocracy for Political Quarterly: . Pre-print version accessible here:

What's wrong with meritocracy?

Review article for Political Quarterly Michael Sandel (2020) The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? Allen Lane. Peter Mandler (2020) The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transi...

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9 months

New work: I wrote this experimental/summary piece, 'The female entrepreneur: fragments of a genealogy' for @EJCS_Journal 's shortform 'cultural commons' section. It's part of a special issue on 'Freelance Feminisms' being published soon. Open access:

The female entrepreneur: Fragments of a genealogy - Jo Littler, 2024

This short article, based on a lecture, offers fragments for a genealogy of female entrepreneurship in the Global North. It argues that in business and manageme...

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4 years

My article 'Mothers behaving badly: chaotic hedonism & the crisis of neoliberal social reproduction' is now out in print in the new issue of @CulturalStdJrnl alongside lots of other very interesting feminist work. Here's the '50 free copies' link:

Mothers behaving badly: chaotic hedonism and the crisis of neoliberal social reproduction

This article focuses on the significance of the plethora of representations of mothers ‘behaving badly’ in contemporary anglophone media texts, including the films Bad Moms, Fun Mom Dinner and Bad ...

www.tandfonline.com

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6 years

Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall..

Yannis Gourtsoyannis

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6 years

As the Honours list is announced let's briefly salute some who declined to accept an honour: Michael Rosen, Danny Boyle, Michael Faraday, J.B Priestly, Amartya Sen, Stephen Hawking, Ken Loach, C.S Lewis, Virginia Woolf, Jon Snow, L.S Lowry Dorothy Hodgkin, Benjamin Zephaniah...

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5 years

I nearly died in childbirth at this hospital and saw so many highly skilled staff struggling against the effects of pointless privatization & savage cuts. The cuts, privatization and the Conservatives all need to go

Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley

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5 years

My friend Omar had to wait 2 hours for his 7 day old daughter to be seen. There was only 1 Registrar on the ward. Then Boris Johnson turns up on a press junket. @omarsalem was right to speak truth to power

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3 years

The Greek edition of The Care Manifesto, out soon…

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2 years

Out now! An interview I did with @veronica_gago on @NiUnaMenos_ femicide, #feminism , gender, neoliberalism, debt... Read it open access in @SoundingsJourn here:

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Back from canvassing, went to E17 Chaiiwalla for chips. Started talking to other pple who’d also been out canvassing. A guy at the counter said ‘You’ve all been out 4 LABOUR? I’m voting TORY!’ . But then...’Only messing! I’m not a MASSIVE RACIST!’ ❤️E17, canvassing &masala chips

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It feels like the right time to be co-writing ‘The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence’ for @VersoBooks — or rather it would be if I had any time to be working on it due to caring responsibilities

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4 years

A new piece I co-wrote with Catherine Rottenberg, 'Feminist Solidarities: Theoretical + Practical Complexities' is now out & rn is open access in @GenderWorkOrg What does feminist solidarity mean, what forms is it taking, and how might it proliferate?

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1 year

Great to read this thoughtful and engaged review of Left Feminisms in the new ⁦ @RedPeppermag ⁩ - thanks ⁦ @marinscarlett_ ⁩ ⁩

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7 years

An interview I did with Wendy Brown discussing Trump, libertarian authoritarianism, #MeToo & neoliberal feminism has now been published in the new issue of @SoundingsJourn & is free to view here:

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4 years

The launch event for our new book The Care Manifesto (which I co-wrote w/ @lynne_segal @Chatzidakis_A @digintimaciesUK & Catherine Rottenberg) is a month today, 24 Sep, 8pm BST, with @AnnPettifor Free but you need to register here @VersoBooks

VERSO LIVE: Ann Pettifor and The Care Collective

The politics of radical care

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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5 years

🌧 At an extremely wet ⁦ @CityUCU ⁩ , ⁦ @DrJoGrady ⁩ says that up & down the country the picketlines are bigger than last time and the rain will not dampen our spirits! 🌧 #USSStrikesBack

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1 year

Very happy to have been interviewed by @vronsta about the 'Left Feminisms' book...... out now in the new issue of @SoundingsJourn at

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I'm happy to be starting my term as a trustee this month for the Amiel and Melburn Trust, which seeks to advance public education on socialism and class. Read more about the Trust and what it funds here:

About - Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust

The Trust was founded in 1980 by Norman Melburn and named for his friend and fellow Marxist, the lawyer Barry Amiel.

amielandmelburn.org.uk

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

4 years

Next Thursday! Launch event for our new book The Care Manifesto (which I co-wrote w/ @lynne_segal @Chatzidakis_A @digintimaciesUK & Catherine Rottenberg) with @AnnPettifor 24 Sep, 8pm BST Free but you need to register here @VersoBooks

VERSO LIVE: Ann Pettifor and The Care Collective

The politics of radical care

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

5 years

Up now on the ⁦ @VersoBooks ⁩ blog: a piece that we (The Care Collective - @lynne_segal @Chatzidakis_A , Jamie Hakim & Catherine Rottenberg) wrote on the care crisis and #COVID19 Drawing on our book, The Care Manifesto, forthcoming w/Verso

COVID-19 pandemic: A Crisis of Care

We are in a global crisis: a new historical moment. The days pass, the virus expands its reach, fatalities rise and the world goes into unprecedented lockdown. Yet the current crisis is not only the...

www.versobooks.com

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

6 years

Daughter’s Easter egg entry / social commentary on Breggsit

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

4 years

It’s good to make the case for soc sciences, arts + humanities when they’re under attack. But sticking ‘the economy’ on the end & having reality TV guru Bazalgette promote it turns it into 3rd way corporate boosterism. The E should've been 'environments’.

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

6 years

'Nobody asks me: “When did you come out as straight?” or “How did you balance travelling as a foreign correspondent with raising children?” because straight men don’t get asked that.' @garyyounge on identity politics

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

4 years

This will be good: @lynne_segal on our Care Manifesto alongside @alpashah001 Diane Elson of @WomensBudgetGrp & @MBunting_ @LSEInequalities @VersoBooks

Building a Caring Economy

6pm Thurs 4 Feb | Madeleine Bunting, Diane Elson, Lynne Segal | Registration Required | Free online public event at LSE

www.lse.ac.uk

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

5 years

I keep thinking that literally anyone not on the right now has to find better and smarter ways of working together and to become less factional and sectarian. But right now I'm just opening the Xmas chocolate early.

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

5 months

The Care Manifesto, now out in Croatian :

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

4 years

The vaccine programme has worked well so far in the UK primarily because of socialised infrastructure + public funding (NHS & university research), despite what Gordon Gekko wants us to believe. Textbook ideology in action, down to the Trump-style dismissal of comments as banter

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

7 years

It’s snowing but @CityUCU and @CitySociology are still here! ❄️❄️ #fromthepicketline #USSstrike @ucu @Holly_PJ ❄️❄️❄️

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

2 years

Having Covid keeps me away from the #ucustrikes picket lines today, but the scale of action is making me feel better… Half a million pple across multiple sectors! People have had enough. Dear UK government, ICYMI: stop giving all the £ to your rich mates & share the wealth.

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

3 years

Pleased to announce that I have released the baby toads that my daughter brought home from school in her lunchbox back into the wild

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

2 years

4 weeks on and the Head & Deputy Head of the Media Department @lazebnic @gkhiabany are still suspended simply for telling the truth about the impact of the @GoldsmithsUCU marking boycott. Sort this out @GoldsmithsUoL & reinstate them NOW #FreeDesAndGholam

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

5 years

🙌 This is great news! “Labour would replace the social mobility commission, which is chaired by Dame Martina Milburn, with a social justice commission, the party said” 💫

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

7 years

Thinking about all the people who have turned down #NewYearsHonours , including Doreen Massey and Stuart Hall. It's no honour to be honoured in the name of the brutality of empire. When is this archaic system going to be re-named?

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

6 years

Catherine Rottenberg, ⁦ @DeBenemene ⁩ & ⁦ @sbanetweiser ⁩ help us understand new forms of feminism and misogyny — great book launch last night for these two brilliant books:

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

4 years

This is tonight, hope to sense your presence there, bring your own wine

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

4 years

This Thursday! Join @AnnPettifor @lynne_segal @littler_jo and the rest of the Care Collective for this essential event about RADICAL CARE 8-9PM (UK) streamed live >>

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Jo Littler

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1 year

It was a pleasure to co-examine, w/ @tomslater42 , @miro_born 's PhD on 'Placing Meritocracy: Urban Marginality and the Ideal of Social Mobility' yesterday. It's going to make an excellent book.... Congrats Dr Born! (& @davidjmadden @SamFriedmanSoc @LSEsociology )

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

5 years

Thanks to the audience and speakers for making their opinions known and acting on them, and for a day showing that collaborative learning is better than individual posturing

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

4 years

‘Shailaja says a test in Kerala produces a result within 48 hours. “In the Gulf, as in the US and UK – all technologically fit countries – they are having to wait seven days,” she says. “What is happening there?”

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

2 years

"the cost of restoring benefits has fallen to a new low of 24.4%. This compares with the 31.4% currently being paid in contributions towards the package of cuts forced through by VCs in April this year." says @DrJoGrady So it's cheaper to restore our pension benefits! #ucuRISING

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

6 years

Dear @Eurostar , I ❤️ traveling on yr trains. However I don’t ❤️ yr cartoon ad showing a businessman working on a laptop whilst a woman applies makeup; nor how, so far, the only humans on yr Odyssey VR are white. Pls bring yr animation into the 21st century! Thanks, merci 😘

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

7 years

So very proud of, and grateful to, our City UoL students who are in occupation, joining many other students around the country who are sick of the behaviour of UUK, their false valuations, & the erosion of public universities #citysitin #StudentsDemandAction #WeAreTheUniversity

Juvaria Jafri

@juvaria

7 years

Students at City occupy the VC’s office! #NoCapitulation #USSstrikes #ucustrike

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Jo Littler

@littler_jo

4 years

Can we just fast forward to 2028 and President AOC

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