Dayo Akingbade

One thing that annoys and depresses me is how utterly unimaginative, uncreative, trite, predictable, uninspiring, unproductive, self destructive, unclever, uninsightful, unoriginal, stagnated, pedestrian, antediluvian and uncivilized racism and racists are.

The normalisation and mainstreaming of racism aches me. This is not new, but the brazenness of it today is chilling.

High standard of English to be required for leave to remain, Mahmood to pledge Home secretary to set out proposed tougher conditions including not taking benefits and ‘spotless’ criminal record

This is grim - inc making volunteering a requirement when people are working long hours and facing high childcare costs, exacerbated by visas limiting labour mobility and no recourse to public funds, and penalising claiming benefits for those who have that option www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

White supremacy is not a “legitimate view.”

Vilifying migrants is not “reasonable debate.”

Eugenics is not a “controversial belief.”

Genocide is not a “justified action.”

These are all examples of violent racism. We should recognise this basic fact and reject such politics unapologetically.

"...among its myriad functions, jurisdiction also operates as powerful racial technology."

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting! We are sad to see the meeting come to a close…but we look forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco next year! #LSACHICAGO2025 #GlobalCommunity #LawAndSociety

More MLS staff updates from the annual #LSA conference in Chicago, including presentations by
1) Dr Rossella Pulvirenti: 'Prosecuting Witnesses' Suspicious Deaths at the ICC'
2) Dr Kay Lalor: 'Prefigurative Legalities and Transnational LGBTQI+ Rights [...]'

At the annual #Law&Society conference in Chicago, MLS staff member @senthorun.bsky.social launched the Queer Judgment book, contributing to important discussions on law and justice! Pictured here with a number of colleagues, including MLS staff member Dr Kay Lalor.
#LSAChicago2025

Fascinating presentation by Dr Adedayo Akingbade (MLS) titled 'Trapped in the Migration Lens: The Misguided Approach to the Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking' at the annual #Law&Society conference in Chicago.
#LSAChicago2025 #anti-trafficking&coloniality

I think if you keep telling people that they are rubbish, being strangers is the best you can hope for...

Infamy persists because of a lack of bravery.

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.

Let's tackle those lies:

Law, Necropolitics and Possible Worlds Otherwise: Contemplating an end to the art of structural death Law’s extensive entanglement with deciding who may live and who must die

This essay contains thoughts that led to a chapter I wrote, “Educating for the End of a Necropolitical World" (link in essay). My question remains: does and can the work we do open up possibilities for living differently in the world? Or is it all more of the same?

folukeafrica.com/law-necropol...