Dr Sadia Habib

Thank you, dear Manuela, for all your support ❤️

Young people in museums: representation, anti-racism, and poetry as pedagogy Museums in the UK perpetuate inequalities through colonial collections, problematic artefact narratives and institutional whiteness. Within this context, young people from racialised backgrounds re...

Check out this #ERSNew #OpenAccess paper below:

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#Museums have a representation problem. Colonial narratives & institutional whiteness exclude young people from racialised backgrounds.

Sadia Habib @manchester.ac.uk asks: can #poetry be a tool for anti-racist change?

Yes. It’s about reclaiming space, rewriting narratives, and sharing power.

Our new issue is out! 🎉

The latest issue is now out, focusing on "Anti-racist pedagogy in early years and childhood settings."

22 articles by 54 researchers from 9 countries.

Fully Open Access and Free.

👉 Read and share:
doi.org/10.37291/271...

#EarlyChildhood #AntiRacistPedagogy #OpenAccess

Super proud to have co-edited this new collection on anti-racist education in early years and childhood. A joy working with my fantastic colleague-friends Ümit and Mehmet, and all authors and reviewers.

Join us for our online launch:
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[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship:

'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre

Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott

Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025
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The Cat That Slept for a Thousand Years at Manchester Museum. Touched by all the messages I received in the last few weeks of good folk spotting my two purr-fect beauties on gallery wall! 😻😻

If you're feline in the mood, catch the cats before they fall back into a catnap for another millenium! 🐈🐈‍⬛

Why academic institutions are cutting ties with Israel The following article written by Dr. David Landy was published in The Irish Times on 19th June, 2025. Messages from colleagues from Gaza and the displaced Palestinian students on our campuses have …

academicsforpalestine.org/2025/06/19/w...

The image features a light green background with various graphics and bold text. At the top right, there is a red and green watermelon slice. Below it, black and red text reads "Stop Israel-US Imperialism!!!" An arrow points down from this text to a red phrase, "The liberation of Palestine & the sovereignty of Iran are connected struggles!" Another arrow raises up from this phrase to a pomegranate on the lower left. The pomegranate is detailed with seeds spilling out. On the lower right, larger black text states, "End Genocide in GAZA! Stop War in IRAN!" A logo in the bottom right corner includes a mortarboard and text.

The liberation of #Palestine & the sovereignty of #Iran are connected struggles❗

Print off our poster.

Colour and black & white versions available (copy & paste link): tinyurl.com/4fmjyeka

Stop Israel-US Imperialism❗

End Genocide in GAZA ❗

Stop War in IRAN ❗

Reminder for our seminar on Mon 19 May: @drsuriyah.bsky.social on Muslim masculinities and her book 'Bartered Bridegrooms' (join in person/online) - see below
@uomsoss.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

Israeli troops shot at Gaza aid workers from 'point-blank range', leaked documents reportedly show Documents reviewed by Israeli newspaper Haaretz show that IDF investigators were "not convinced" by a deputy commander's claim that he misidentified aid vehicles as Hamas.

The reason even outlets like Sky news have started to report the truth about Israeli war crimes is because everybody now knows that nobody will stop Israel, no matter what they do news.sky.com/story/israel...

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

This whole piece by @benehrenreich.bsky.social is so excellent that it is difficult to find a single excerpt to share that would do it justice in its entirety.

And a relevant extension—

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Not having to wear masks is the essence of American freedom. Here’s why my agents cover their faces while kidnapping students on college campuses.

by Donald Trump

Rumeysa Ozturk was kidnapped in plain sight & sent to Louisiana to be locked in the same detention center Mahmoud Khalil was sent to.

She's a peaceful protestor, grad student, & my constituent who has a right to free speech & due process.

Now she's a political prisoner. Free her now.

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week Israel continues to batter territory in renewed offensive as Palestinian officials say death toll of war has passed 50,000 Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week. There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow essential aid to flow or ease the new offensive in Gaza, which started on Tuesday with a wave of airstrikes that killed 400 people, mostly civilians, ending two months of relative calm. On Sunday, Palestinian officials said the total death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict had passed 50,000. Continue reading...

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In. Cornell student Momodou Taal’s lawyers said the demand was “retribution” for his lawsuit against the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.

Speak up for Momodou Taal. Your silence will not protect you.
Academics outside the US esp have a moral duty to publicly come out in support and organise. ICE will disappear Momodou Taal.
Your trips to the US can wait, seriously!

theintercept.com/2025/03/21/t...

Thank you so much 😊

<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five-year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of c....

I am pleased to share my new article on young people, cultural inequalities, representation, and activism. #museums #education #culture

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@uomseed.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @educationuom.bsky.social

Beautiful Iftar at the Manchester Museum. Alhamdulillah for blessings like these 🤲🏽❤️

🗣 The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system - @david_conn

📆3-4pm, Weds 19 Mar 2025, Uni of Manchester

All welcome. Pls share🙏🏾
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

YouTube video by Declassified UK Pro-Israel bias at the BBC, Guardian and Sky: The inside story

Speaking exclusively to Declassified, half a dozen current and former staff at the BBC, Sky, ITN, the Guardian and the Times have disclosed the extent of anti-Palestinian prejudice in their newsrooms.

Watch
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxtg...

*No Other Land* airs on *Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March.* Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.

Absolute privilege to hear about the work done by @darrenchetty.bsky.social to promote anti-racist education in the area of Philosophy for Children. We loved hosting Darren at @official-uom.bsky.social and were pleased that as usual our seminar was attended by students, staff & activists!

My Museum colleagues boldly & beautifully curated an event honouring Palestinian stories & voices pointing to our responsibility as cultural workers, educators, human beings, custodians of artefacts & stories. Our values - care, imagination and inclusion mean we must keep talking of #Palestine 🇵🇸 💚

UMUCU branch motion in detail, 7 points of resolve connected to BDS.

On Wed 29 Jan 2025, the Univ of Manchester’s UCU branch passed a BDS motion, calling on the institution to support BDS & academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. To read the motion in full, follow link or scan QR-code in visual.

#Palestine 🇵🇸

The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by Israeli security forces. Mahmoud and Ahmad Mina have been taken to custody. Anyone who’s visited Palestine knows how serious this is for freedom of speech and cultural organising in Palestine and Israel.

Colonial Vocabularies Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior...

I'm pleased to announce that Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970, edited by Karène Sanchez-Summerer, @rachelmairs.bsky.social, Lucia Admiraal and me, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, is now available open access from www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Why Palestine is a feminist issue: a reckoning with Western feminism in a time of genocide Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This, you guys, is 💫💥