Sumi Madhok

Our brilliant graduate Annetta Jackson is highlighted in Antigua News for her achievement of the MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities! 🎓🇦🇬

antigua.news/2025/10/03/j...

New Alumni Spotlight!

Everyone say hi to Megan, an MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation 2017 alum! 👋🏻

Including a very special shoutout to @sumimadhok.bsky.social 🥰

The Return of the Starvation Weapon The collapse of global norms fueling the catastrophes in Gaza and Sudan.

Alex de Waal: "The global consensus against the starvation weapon took decades to achieve. Now, international apathy risks letting it collapse at the moment it is most needed."

www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/return...

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

A point of sorrow in all we’re witnessing is the systematic shredding of hard won democratic freedoms. All of these gained through protest and political action, of course.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

yet another way that the war on academic knowledge is a war on the past & a violent thinning out of historical experience — you’re taking years & often decades of slow-building expertise (& the investments that made it possible) and just tossing it in the bin

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act.

“The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

No Pasarán!

“Many antifascists who took part in the Battle of Cable Street donated money or travelled to Spain to join the International Brigade to fight fascism… The strong links between the movements can be seen in the adoption of the “They Shall Not Pass” slogan from the “No Pasarán!”

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act.

“The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“…Labour risks a migration politics that divides society into the fully entitled and the permanently probationary. In this hierarchical system of belonging, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals”.

Doctor Who Served in Gaza Reads the ‘Will’ of a 10-Year-Old Girl Who Was Killed Dr. Thaer Ahmad gives an emotional statement at a high-level UN event about Israel's war on children in Gaza.

"There is a war on children"

A clarion call for action and accountability from Dr. Thaer Ahmad who served in Gaza.

He reads the 'will' of a 10-year-old girl who Israel killed, as a way to honour her.

open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

This lot are to use Stiig Larsson’s words : ‘Men who hate women’.

“Earlier this month they removed books written by women from the country's university teaching system as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment”.

Shabana Mahmood calls Nigel Farage ‘worse than racist’ over ‘dog-whistle politics’ Home secretary also tells Labour conference fringe event of the abuse her family have been subjected to recently

Strange convoluted logic of her speech that blames immigrants for the racism on the streets. Racism needs to be checked by limiting immigration, she says.

Ah, OK.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/shabana-mahmood-calls-nigel-farage-worse-than-racist-over-dog-whistle-politics

Something inside so wrong: Labi Siffre tells Tommy Robinson to stop using anti-apartheid anthem Exclusive: UK singer, 80, says it is ‘absurd’ as a ‘positive atheist, homosexual black artist’ for far right to claim his work

“It’s just same old, same old. I wish the media would stop talking about this as an unprecedented movement. There’s nothing unprecedented about it. Anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of 20th-century history should know that.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

The feminist historian Joan W. Scott tells a personal story of resistance against authoritarianism.

And, of the imperative of fighting for a democratic education system.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

“The alleged abuses by British forces range from murder, torture, expulsion and collective punishment which the submission says repressed the Arab Palestinian population amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity”.

The ICC is not perfect but the proposed US sanctions present a dangerous turn for international law and its institutions.

The US sanctions would “transform[ing] a system designed to hold the most powerful accountable for atrocity crimes into one that instead shields the powerful”.

Lots of good writing in the @lrb.co.uk

“Recognition is not an endpoint. It cannot, by itself, end violence...
But recognition remains the necessary first step – an acknowledgment that Palestinians will remain on our land. We cannot, and will not, disappear”.

“The deepfakes proliferating across far-right social media…are fascistic dream machines”.

They are a product of fascist desire and not of bad information ( or so much, at any rate).

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social speaking on South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production and Queer Organising for this year‘s Welcome Lecture chaired by @sumimadhok.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece.

Spain joins Italy: “The government of Spain insists that international law be respected and…

“Tomorrow we will dispatch a naval vessel from Cartagena with all necessary resources in case it was necessary to assist the flotilla and carry out a rescue operation." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

@sumimadhok.bsky.social welcoming our new cohort this morning ❤️

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UK recognises Palestine as an independent state Keir Starmer’s announcement comes seven decades after end of British mandate in Palestine and creation of state of Israel

147 states already do. And, now there are 150 of them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Men don’t know why they became unhappy’: the toxic gender war dividing South Korea Toxic masculinity is a global phenomenon, but nowhere is it more virulent than in this hypermodern, connected society. What can other countries learn from this ‘ground zero’ of misogyny?

“While fights over gender and feminism are playing out across the world, from the US to Europe, South Korea has become ground zero for gender wars…and for some of the most toxic anti-feminist communities, turning virtual hatred into real-world violence”.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Research Chair in Transgender Studies - Victoria, British Columbia (CA) job with UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA | 398896 The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease.

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Exciting event coming up featuring our Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social! ⬇️⬇️