Saima Nasar

March: Women Strike Back | News and features | University of Bristol

Women Strike Back! New exhibition in Bristol explores histories of Black and South Asian feminist activists in Britain
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‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

Congratulations Tehila!

Thanks Priya!

New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers "Women Strike Back!"

Go @saimanasar.bsky.social! This new exhibition about Black & Asian women’s activism in Britain looks amazing! Excited to go check it out in #Bristol soon…

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Women's Grassroots Activism Toolkit 100+ Helping to enhance the lives of women and girls for another 100+ years

Thanks to all who joined us this evening to launch #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit. It's out in the world 🥳 & download your copy 👇. Incredibly grateful to members of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womensinstitute.bsky.social #ICA & WI Northern Ireland who made this project happen 🙏.

🔔 Next Thursday 19 March:

Dr Rochelle Rowe (Edinburgh) will be speaking @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social seminar on ‘The ‘West African Village’: Romancing Scottishness at the National Exhibition of 1911.’

In person and online. Book now and join us if you can! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Learning from the Lives of Threatened Plants Whose lives count in the modern history of extinction? Sadiah Qureshi considers what historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

Whose voices count in the modern history of distinction?

@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social considers how much historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

Thanks Priyanka!

Thanks so much for coming and for supporting the project! ♡

The best way to spend a grey Monday lunchtime! Art, history, feminism, poetry, jerk chicken, and more. Thanks to
@saimanasar.bsky.social, the 'Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism' exhibition team, and poet Vanessa Kisuule for this launch event at St Paul's Learning Centre.

New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers "Women Strike Back!"

Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news.

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New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers "Women Strike Back!"

Thanks to everyone who came to the ‘Women Strike Back! exhibition launch. And to the team that made this possible: Abi Freeman, Sarah Howard, Sreenanti Banerjee & Siza Dube. It will be up for a few weeks at St Paul’s Learning Centre and Bristol Central Library. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Our exhibition is today! We look forward to seeing you at noon!

Happy International Women’s Day!

Let's create a thread of women from history we think more people should know about.

We will start:

Una Marson (1905 – 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer.

Image: WikiCommons
#WHM26 #InternationalWomensDay

History and AI: Why Microsoft and the World Economic Forum get it wrong

My excellent @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague Leslie James finds a glimmer of hope in the ashes of the AI revolution...
www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢.
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom)
We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

We’re delighted to feature our story discs project at the #MovedToCare exhibition!

Join us at the launch this Thursday evening to say hi and fill in a disc. Prompts range from "I migrated here" to "My grandparents migrated here" and more.

Hope to see familiar faces and make new friends! ✨

Current exhibition | LSE Library Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

Congratulations Ben!

Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around!

Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research.

doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

Sending all good wishes to you all, Julia!

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Get tickets – The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the making of neoliberalism – St Katharine Cree The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the making of neoliberalism – St Katharine Cree, Fri 22 May 2026 - Tehila Sasson in conversation with Matt Thompson

Stir To Action has invited me to join their book festival on 22 May. I’ll be talking with Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) about charity, the economy, and what a genuinely solidaristic economy might require today.

Get your ticket here!

www.tickettailor.com/events/stirt...

Next month, I'll be speaking at the Graduate Institute about the research I've been working on recently. I'll be looking at sexual and reproductive health experiences in three English cities and asking what they tell us about Britain's decolonising decades. www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Struggles, Strikes, Solidarity Discover the challenges faced by women workers and the extraordinary efforts, often against the odds, to create an all-women trade union.

Struggles, Strikes, Solidarity 5 Mar: Join @cathyhunt.bsky.social for a fascinating talk that examines the challenges faced by women workers and the extraordinary efforts to organise them into an all-women trade union, led by the charismatic Mary Macarthur @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Our AHRC group is celebrating research on histories of internationalism with 3 events.

1. Our conference on ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ will take place 19-20 March at Birkbeck. We’re thrilled to be joined by an amazing line-up of speakers. Reserve your space via www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

A reminder that I help co-ordinate a writing group for early career scholars/PhD students working on global feminism (broadly conceived!).

We meet every second month over zoom and read someone's chapter or article and offer feedback.

You can join, drop me a line here! Reposts welcome.

For anyone who is UK-based and interested, SOAS has a PhD scholarship for ‘Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives’.

Scholarship application deadline: 27 March 2026.

www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...

@saltatchicago.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939