Lisa Amanda Palmer

Headline: Equality Act blamed for surge in failed race discrimination claims.

Don’t Divide Us believes in “colour-blind anti-racism” and campaigns against “divisive” political ideas such as critical race theory being imported from America. The findings have been published as part of a wider report on equality laws by the organisation entitled “The Equality Act Isn’t Working: Equalities Legislation and the Breakdown of Informal Civility in the Workplace”.

Having stripped trans people of their right to be treated with dignity The Times is now coming for people of colour.

How to respond to the EHRC consultation Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...

The EHRC Guidance is a wicked exercise in removing rights from trans people - and is bad too for employers and service providers, those outside gender norms, people with disabilities and the economy.

We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9

Happy May Day!

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square. Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

If you are thinking about @naomiaklein.bsky.social’s The Shock Doctrine today, you should come to this on Tuesday:

Join @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org this evening to reclaim public space for multiple modes of mobility, and to have some fun!

All welcome. #CircleTheCity

Painting of two tulip blossoms in merging red and yellow on long thin stems with and botj with one long leaf, the flowers are side by side on a cream background

Tulips, Mary Moser (1744-1819), English painter-one of the most celebrated women artists of 18thc Britain #WomensArt #April

Monochrome photograph featuring a dark ish interior with a Black woman and girl sitting at a kitchen table both looking into small mirrors placed on the table and both appear to be applying make-up

Carrie Mae Weems, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990 #womensart

#WOMENSART blog:

Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance
womensartblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/w...

This is what Farage and Reform want for the UK. And they're coming to Birmingham in a bid for legitimacy.

It's easy to feel helpless, but together we can refuse this.

Friday, 6PM, Utilita Arena. See you there.

‘Many Rastas were chased away, but we’re determined to remain’: Ethiopia’s religious community under threat Rastafarians who sought a spiritual homeland in Shashamene face eviction and arrest for flying flag of Haile Selassie’s empire

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I talk all things lungi, funjabi & the thobe on the Thinking Allowed show on BBC Radio 4 🙌🏾

I draw from my research paper on clothing & British Bangladeshi Muslim men w/ @identitiesjournal.bsky.social and my dress chapter in my book w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social

Listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Marika Sherwood obituary Historian and anti-racism campaigner who wrote several groundbreaking books about Black British history

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

50 years ago, a French filmmaker documented the Indigenous Kuna people of Panama. The film disappeared, until now.

Watch The Lost Film of Panama here: aje.io/Panama

MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’ Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🔴 BREAKING: A UN probe finds Israel carried out genocidal acts by destroying Gaza’s fertility centre, imposing a siege, and blocking aid. Israel rejects the claims.

The university can’t be neutral. The university has never been a neutral place. Let’s pop that balloon right away. Refuse that bad fiction of the western university. It has been the site for the production of tremendous harm through “knowledge”.

Noura Erakat: Trump’s Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat responds to the arrest of Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and situates it in the long, bipartisan history of anti-Palestine suppression...

Noura Erakat: Trump's Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home

US President Donald Trump has declined to rule out the possibility that the world’s largest economy is headed for a recession amid market concerns over his “America First” economic agenda aje.io/o6et5e

‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy

"‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest —
tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Painting created with dots and dashes in vibrant colours depicting two Black girls in red and purple dresses walking with backs to the viewer with arms round each other

Sister and Friend, 2024 ♀
by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian feminist painter #WomensArt
#InternationalWomensDay ♀

#KeepEyesOnSudan

YouTube video by Islam Channel What men wear to the mosque & why it matters | Jumu'ah Aesthetics

A short video produced by Islam Channel looking at our Jummah Aesthetics exhibition and what Muslim men wear to Jummah. I talk about my own research in this area, its development and more!

What men wear to the mosque & why it matters | Jumu'ah Aesthetics

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ur21...

Roy Ayers, whose 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' charmed generations, dies at 84 The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.

The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.

If anyone is about 18th March I'll be giving a public seminar for the Manchester Uni history department. The talk will be exploring photographs of industrial struggle, race and resistance and discussing 'Bolton's Grunwick', a mill strike in 1978. All welcome! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

'Cause, 'cause we've been trodding on a winepress much too long
Rebel, rebel!
And we've been takin' for granted much too long
Rebel, rebel! - Robert Nesta Marley, Babylon System.