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Ruth Sinhal

@ruthsinhal.bsky.social

Ex-Primary Teacher on an antiracism journey since the 80s Founder of Project FREE -Connecting Communities CIC Leicester Schools Linking Projects Facilitator

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As the local facilitator of #SchoolsLinking at @projectfree.bsky.social here in #Leicester & #Leicestershire this is such excellent news!

05.12.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Any UK based #teachers / #educators here?
I’m trying to rebuild the incredible community I had over on the bird platform …. And connect with new people too
#education #schools #teaching #edusky

02.12.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you teach in #Leicester?
Are you looking for ways to ensure all your pupils #belong & #thrive?
Our #SchoolsLinking programmes do just this
Find out more - and join us - it's FREE
www.projectfree.co.uk/linking-proj...

25.11.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Teachers, how is your school challenging hate and anti- asylum seeker rhetoric?
#edusky

18.11.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Petition: Release the official court records relating to the Nottingham Race Riots of 1958 Unseal the official documents relating to Nottingham's Race Riots, so that academics in Nottingham can work with the community to restore the true narrative. Notting Hill's 1958 Race Riot files were r...

Unseal official documents relating to Nottingham's 1958 Race Riots, so academics in #Nottingham can work with the community to restore the true narrative. Other 1958 Race Riot files were released early, exposing extensive police failures & institutional #racism
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

17.11.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Caribbean reparations leaders in β€˜historic’ first UK visit to press for justice CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact

When most British people don’t understand the role Britain played in slavery it’s not surprising reparations are not favoured by them….
Again it’s the role of missing information in our education…
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

17.11.2025 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a deliberate tactic used by both the Conservative & Labour parties- get a child of immigrants to announce increasingly restrictive & racist immigration policies - they think it’ll negate accusations of racismβ€¦πŸ€”

16.11.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does your school actively challenge hate & racism directed towards people seeking asylum?
Join our FREE online event with @amdassu.bsky.social @bradford-scos.bsky.social & Springboard Youth Academy - sharing how to build belonging for all children & families
Register‡️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

16.11.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for your support πŸ‘πŸΌ and may amplifying just a tiny amount of the deliberately missing information help to disrupt the disinformation deliberately being spread to divide us

07.11.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FREE online event for #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth open to all looking to #FlipTheScript & challenge racist, dangerous rhetoric too commonly platformed against Muslims
Be proactive in your classroom & be part of the push-back
UK πŸ•” with break for Maghrib
Sign up www.projectfree.co.uk/learning-eve...

02.11.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Petition: Release the official court records relating to the Nottingham Race Riots of 1958 Unseal the official documents relating to Nottingham's Race Riots, so that academics in Nottingham can work with the community to restore the true narrative. Notting Hill's 1958 Race Riot files were r...

Unseal docs relating to #Nottingham Race Riots, so academics&community can restore the true narrative.
Notting Hill's 1958 Race Riot files were released early, exposing extensive police failures & institutional racism
Nottingham’s were sealed for 100 years!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

25.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Signed up and looking forward to this!

16.10.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Muslims have been part of our communities, all across the UK, for centuries. Our 3 speakers will share aspects of this history from #Wales #Scotland and #NorthernIreland
#FlipTheScript
Details in the sign up form ⬇️

11.10.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@iancushing.bsky.social

10.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Education as Resistance - Google Drive

Watch the recording and access resources here
drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mo...

10.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Project FREE’s recent online event β€œEducation as Resistance” was an opportunity for educators to explore how to resist traditional teaching practices, ditch deficit thinking, develop anti-racist practice, & build learner-led, collaborative spaces centring unconditional support & care.

10.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you are an educator looking for ways to address #Islamophobia then this FREE online event in Project FREE’s #ChangingTheNarrative series is a great opportunity to explore Hidden Histories of Muslims in The UK.
Sign up and more info in this link
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

10.10.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Understanding how ( a child’s) heritage is woven into our national story makes it easy to see why representation matters – and how recognising it can transform a pupil’s sense of #belonging.”

10.10.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whose values are they anyway?
#BritishValues #Belonging #edusky

10.10.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Always ask yourself what is NOT being included in the information you’re being given! What is really happening β€œup-stream” before the situation occurs that you’re focusing on? This is a brilliant… | R... Always ask yourself what is NOT being included in the information you’re being given! What is really happening β€œup-stream” before the situation occurs that you’re focusing on? This is a brilliant post...

This is worth reading if you’re interested in knowing how /why mosques are or more importantly aren’t protected @thelifeandlega1.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/ruth-s...

07.10.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hidden Histories of Muslims Across the UK Join us for a special collaboration event between Project FREE, Educate Against Islamophobia and Islamophobia Awareness Month where we’ll be 'flipping the script' and changing the narrative around the...

Sign up here
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

06.10.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much for sharing @nuthmani.bsky.social - really hoping to get people from #Scotland, #Wales & #NIreland attending as our amazing speakers will be sharing knowledge about the history of Muslims in all the nations of the UK

06.10.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As Assata Shakur said β€œNo one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
But @zinnedproject.bsky.social sure will try!

30.09.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leading SMSC - The Linking Network | The Linking Network Are you a Secondary teacher, based anywhere in the UK, with responsibility for #SMSC #PSHE #Citizenship or #PersonalDevelopment? If so, you are invited to join The Linking Network's National SMSC Lea...

Are you a Secondary teacher in the UK, responsible for #SMSC #PSHE #Citizenship or #PersonalDevelopment?
If so, you are invited to join our National SMSC Leaders Network. We meet online once a term & provide space to discuss SMSC Leadership & teaching
Find out more
www.linkedin.com/posts/thelin...

30.09.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK faces β€˜battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the β€˜politics of predatory grievance’.

β€œLet’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: β€œStop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying β€˜stop the bullshit’.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

26.09.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2836    πŸ” 852    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 70

No surprise- the hierarchy of racism is on display yet again in the Labour Party

13.09.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sickening- the act itself, the sentence decision and this report! How many β€˜excuses’ for the racist attack do we need to hear?!

03.09.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you a UK educator keen to share the histories of #Windrush? This Sunday Sept 7th, join a FREE online workshop that will leave you in no doubt why this is necessary in your classroom
#education #racism #antiracism #history #BritishHistory #BlackHistory

03.09.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Friere writes: β€œEducation (is )the β€˜practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

28.08.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve boycotted them for years now ….

28.08.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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