Ida Danewid

Check it out--the issue contains some fantastic pieces:

✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson

Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls… Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.

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Loving this interview. Wow. Cuts deep into a lot of core concepts I’ve never had the opportunity to really study or deconstruct

Thanks @thedigradio.bsky.social

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once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

Congratulations, Barbora! I’m so excited to read this 😊

“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti-apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predom...

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I have a new piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on James Baldwin, statelessness, and fugitive placemaking

Another amazing piece in our PMLA essay cluster on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture!

He did a whole two minute ad highlighting the life of Sylvia Rivera! That was backed by a banger of a track from Sophie, noting the murder of Martha P Johnson. Never mind not running away he embraced NYC trans folks. AND WON! youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Fiona and I will be at Sussex University to talk about & make zines! thanks to @idanewid.bsky.social for inviting us! 🪸 #beautyasamethod #zine #creativemethodologies #qualitativeresearch

Lots of time and effort has gone into the Independent Water Commission, which reports tomorrow. Unfortunately, it's a largely wasted exercise, because the government insisted that renationalisation of the water companies was outside its terms of reference: ie, it was not allowed to consider it.🧵

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

More than 100 arrested across UK at #protests related to Palestine Action. #Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the #Terrorism Act 2000 | www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it.

Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.

Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +

‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today

trans exclusionary feminism is fascist feminism

UK Supreme court rules legal definition of a woman excludes trans women The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.

UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed.
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Victory for the far-right as Supreme Court rolls back trans women's rights by two decades Not content with sweeping up the far-right in their anti-trans campaign, For Women Scotland have got the Supreme Court to follow suit

Victory for the far-right as Supreme Court rolls back trans women's rights by two decades

The decision has all the hallmarks of TERF Island - and For Women Scotland seem to think that aligning themselves with famed misogynist Laurence Fox is a victory?
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100 children killed or injured every day. That’s the equivalent of 2 buses per day, a whole school per week. How is this in anyone’s interests except those of the forces of fascism?

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

Great weekend read by @benehrenreich.bsky.social on the bi-partisan support for the genocide in Palestine helping open the door for outright fascism - and some of the parallels to Weimar

#Brecht

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Webinar poster announcing an event titled 'Dockworkers in Solidarity – Organising Lessons from Workers Taking Action for Palestine.' The event is scheduled for Wednesday, 16 April 2025, at 6:30 pm (GMT). The speakers listed include Erik Helgeson (National Vice-Chair, Swedish Dockworkers Union), Anthony Tetard (Coordinator, European Dockworkers Council and CGT Docks and Ports Federation member), a representative from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10, and Workers in Palestine representatives. A QR code is present at the bottom for registration. The background image is a faded photograph of cranes and shipping containers at a dock.

🚨 DOCKWORKERS IN SOLIDARITY – ORGANISING LESSONS FROM WORKERS TAKING ACTION FOR PALESTINE 🚨

Speakers from @SDU_Sverige, @CGT_France, @ILWU & more.

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#WorkersInPalestine #UnionSolidarity

Very glad our VC is taking a robust stance. Don't imagine that what is happening to US higher education can't happen here as well. Either the whole sector takes a united stand now or the right-wing culture warriors will try to pick us off individually.

🚨Research talk🚨
On Wed 12th March at 4pm in Manchester, the Politics Research Group and the MJMCE are hosting
@idanewid.bsky.social for a talk on "A place where freedom means something": James Baldwin's global maroon geographies. Come along if you're in the area, of DM me for info to join online!