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Dr Natalia Farmer

@njfarmer.bsky.social

Lecturer in Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University | Research interests include social injustice, homelessness and migration | Music, photography, books, politics....| No one is illegal | Views my own.

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Play in Crisis: Toolkit in Arabic to Support Play Help children in Palestine and beyond exercise their right to play by supporting the translation of the Play in Crisis toolkit into Arabic.

Play in Crisis: Toolkit in Arabic to Support Play www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/play-in-cr...

04.08.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do stereotypes of β€œthe child” add to injustice? Why must we decolonise childhood? How can we think about agency and children? Hear counsellor and Sociological Review Fellow 2024-25 Brenda Herbert on all this and more as #UncommonSense reflects on #CHILDHOOD buff.ly/G4TA8ia

25.07.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€˜We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

#GazaIsBeingStarved There is only one word for this: criminal. And only one sane response: the Hague ICC trials for all those directly responsible and for their enablers

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

24.07.2025 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization
YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization

ICYMI, here's the recording from yesterday's seminar, featuring Wassel Borghol, @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social, Dayo Gore, @johnnarayan.bsky.social, & author @samklug.bsky.social.

Hosted by @taacs.bsky.social VP @yosra999.bsky.social and myself.

24.06.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Email your MP and tell them to attend child poverty debate next week! On the 11th June, MPs will have the chance to speak up on the immigration restriction No Recourse to Public Funds and how this cruel policy is pushing children into poverty. We see the devastating imp...

Big news! We’ve secured a debate in Parliament on child poverty next week. We need your help to get your MP in the room to speak out about No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), one of the most harmful policies facing migrant families.

πŸ“ Email your MP now: act.praxis.org.uk/email-MP-NRP...

06.06.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Social care and health sector call for ceasefire in Gaza Sector petition launched as BASW and SWU issue strong statement

Social care and health sector call for ceasefire in Gaza

new.basw.co.uk/about-social...

06.06.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sara Ahmed, 'No! The Art and Activism of Complaining' - in person QMUL Annual Catherine Silverstone Lecture: Sara Ahmed - an in-person lecture followed by reception; also available online (see link below)

So I'm pleased to share a livestream link for 'No: The Art and Activism of Complaining,' which I will be giving at QM next week. For those who can be there in person, sorry Bluebell won't be in pup. I would love meet & sign books & share killjoy solidarity. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sara-ahmed...

28.05.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

He speaks for millions of us who are breaking apart at the horror and helplessness inflicted by Israel
….those with children and grandchildren… and he speaks for the State of Palestine - It is intolerable.

28.05.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join BASW in demanding the UK Government scraps the NAAB Call to action for members to write to their MP

@basw-uk.bsky.social has been campaigning since the NAAB’s inception for it to be dismantled and actively discourages social workers from applying for and taking up roles within it: tinyurl.com/y6upn4sp

Follow their updates and look out for actions you can support.

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28.05.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.

Children represent the future. In Gaza that future is being snuffed out.

19.03.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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March 14th – The 142nd anniversary of Marx's death The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways – the point however is to change it. Karl Marx's contributions to the study of economics, politics, and philosophy are beyond measure. ...

Karl Marx died 142 years ago today.

We're honoring his life with a collection of indispensable works written by, about, and with inspiration from one of history's most important and influential thinkers. Bundle any of the titles and save up to 40%

14.03.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
BREAKING: Migrant parents screen video message across Westminster
YouTube video by Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees BREAKING: Migrant parents screen video message across Westminster

Great work @praxisprojects.bsky.social.
The hostile immigration environment is regressive, cruel, immoral, unworkable and actually costs the country more than abolishing it would.
#AllOurChildren deserve to thrive.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Y...

01.03.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Black History Month | Reading List During the final week of Black History Month we're offering a collection featuring both new and classic titles on Black History.Β  All titles below are marked down 40%. Buy two or more from this list a...

It's the final day of our Black History Month reading sale, featuring both new and classic titles on Black History - including Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism, a previously unpublished collection of Rodney’s essays on Marxism

28.02.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œFor us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others.”

@emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and β€œengaged walking”.

#OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p

πŸ‘‚ Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I

30.01.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rethinking JOY, in the latest #UncommonSense we look at joy and protest with Akwiugo Emejulu – Is joy a palliative for the world’s troubles or is it something more fleeting? buff.ly/4jkrhdl

22.01.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Tramway #Glasgow

11.01.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi Caroline! You too 😊. Finally made the switch over here!

28.11.2024 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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