Dr María del Pilar Kaladeen

Indian Indentured Labour and Reparatory Justice The ICwS was proud to support an event on Indian indenture and reparations in connection with the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes.

On 17 April 2025, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies was proud to support an event on Indian indenture and reparations in connection with the Serpentine Galleries’ recent presentation of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes.

Learn more here: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

‘I was in shock’: DC gallery pulls exhibits of Black and LGBTQ+ artists amid Trump DEI crackdown Art Museum of the Americas’ abrupt cancellation after anti-diversity order is ‘how fascism unfolds’, curator says

Andil Gosine's Nature’s Wild exhibition at the #ArtMuseumOfTheAmericas was cancelled.

"The decision to pull the exhibits coincided with an executive order issued by the Trump administration..."

#AndilGosine #AMA #DiversityEquityInclusion #DEI

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

Solidarity statement in support of Mahrang Baloch's release from detainment in Pakistan

We stand in solidarity with Mahrang Baloch, who was arrested and detained by Pakistani authorities on 22 March. Mahrang's essay 'Lumma! In Your Name', trans. by Mahvish Ahmad, from Wasafiri 118 – Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment, is free to access indefinitely:

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Y asi, sí o sí, nos tienen con el agua al cuello, trabajando muchas horas en condiciones muy precarias, sobre todo en los trabajos de cuidados

«Compuesta por cientos de historias de personas desplazadas obligadas a abandonar sus hogares, destruidos masivamente por las bombas israelíes en Gaza este año, Just in Case #2 explora los sentimientos de pérdida y exilio por medio del patrón de la llave».

Taysir Batniji, Just in Case #2

Aumentan al 33% los ciudadanos que se sienten discriminados por su origen racial o étnico en España El informe “Percepción de la discriminación por origen racial o étnico por parte de sus potenciales víctimas en 2024” ha sido presentado este miércoles durante la V Semana Antirracista que se celebra ...

Aumentan al 33% los ciudadanos que se sienten discriminados por su origen racial o étnico en España

Looking forward to learning about the history of the comic in the Caribbean & producing a comic book on heritage with other attendees as part of the exhibition I co-curated on the Caribbean and its British Diaspora. The exhibition has been extended due to popular demand and now closes on 12 April!

Women’s sexual pleasure is still taboo – but the Kamasutra tells a different story Often dismissed as a manual for sexual positions, the Kamasutra is, in fact, a radical text that champions women’s pleasure and autonomy.

Often dismissed as a manual for sexual positions, the Kamasutra is, in fact, a radical text that champions women’s pleasure and autonomy.

Battle for Higher Ed: webinar series with SSJ

The Battle for Higher Ed - a webinar series with Scholars for Social Justice / Freedom & Justice Institute
4/1 Premilla Nadasen
4/23 Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
5/6 Maura Finkelstein

"Living through a revolution in how Britain saw itself, Kureishi was the first to show how British-born children of migrants transform what it means to be British. He will be remembered as a writer who redefined Britishness."

In solidarity with @andilgosine.bsky.social and the artists whose exhibition was cancelled. Please take a moment to read the statement from @gafoorinstitute.bsky.social below.

We strongly object to the cancellation of Dr. Andil Gosine’s exhibition, Nature’s Wild, which was scheduled to open in the next couple of weeks at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, DC.

Please read our statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1nUhR...

📢 Call for Submissions: Brij V. Lal Prize📢

The prize, in memory of Prof Brij V. Lal, honours the best journal article on Indian indentureship, Girmit & Girmitya, and its legacies.

📅 Deadline: 15 May 2025
📖 Published in 2023/24? Submit your article!

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Berbice River Women Join Guyana SPEAKS for a celebration of three published women writers from Berbice, Guyana: Maggie Harris, Sharon Correia and Cosmata Lindie

Register to join Guyana SPEAKS via Zoom on Sunday, 30 March 2025 at 3:30 pm UK time for Berbice River Women. We will be celebrating three acclaimed women writers: Maggie Harris, Sharon Correia and Cosmata Lindie.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/berbice-ri...

Censoring Caribbean Artists at the OAS Museum: An Interview with Andil Gosine - Stabroek News Andil Gosine is an artist, curator, Professor of Environmental Art & Justice at York University, Toronto, and author of Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and

www.stabroeknews.com/2025/03/10/f...

‘Reopen these youth clubs’: Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso on nurturing young artistic talent Drummer and band leader used Brits awards stage to spotlight clubs that help musicians like himself to thrive

‘Reopen these youth clubs’: Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso on nurturing young artistic talent

El Brexit condena a una generación de jóvenes en el Reino Unido Cinco años después, tres de cada cuatro jóvenes culpa a esa decisión de limitar sus posibilidades de estudiar o viajar por el continente. Bruselas ofrece un Esquema de Movilidad Juvenil que Starmer rechaza

Cuando se cumplieron cinco años del Brexit, un sondeo decía que un 55% de los británicos se lamentaba de la salida de la UE. El dato más triste era que el 75% de los jóvenes que no tenían edad para votar entonces culpan a esa decisión de haber hipotecado su futuro

Deep Poverty - Dr Daniel Edmiston Since the 2007-08 global financial crisis, empirical sociology has made great headway to better understand economic elites and their bearing on social fragme...

Daniel Edmiston takes a closer look at the assumption that destitution is experienced only by people outside of Europe and North America.

🔎 The #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project provides free educational resources, including video lectures and lesson plans.

There’s so much South Asian talent out there. Why are football clubs still ignoring it? | Sanjay Bhandari There is more work to be done to help South Asian footballers feel included, and the game is missing out

There’s so much South Asian talent out there. Why are football clubs still ignoring it? | Sanjay Bhandari

Legacies of British Slave Ownership - Prof Catherine Hall For too long the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 and slavery in the British colonies in the Americas in 1833 have dominated the ways in which B...

Catherine Hall explores the toppling of #EdwardColston, the “disavowal” of history and who is or is not remembered.

🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers open-access educational resources, including video lectures, lesson plans and reading lists.

Education - The Black British Experience (Then & Now) Join us for an event that will delve into the historical and contemporary challenges faced by Black British students in the education system

Register to join us on Wed, 26 Mar (6-8pm). This event will include a discussion on ESN schools through to SENDs and present day school exclusion practices. The aim will be to foster a constructive dialogue around strategies for future success.
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FEB 26th | Cosmic Pumpkin | Open-mic Poetry| Royal Society of Art | 7pm | £5 entry...

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‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’ by Arthur Hugh Clough

Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten When people think about the Windrush generation, they are unlikely to imagine someone like my father, who was not black but a person of Indian-Caribbean heritage.

Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten
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Photograph of a pair of keys with a map of Palestine on bottom left corner, a pink unicorn on the right, and a little rainbow along with a metallic world map on top right.

🔻 We are excited to announce that you can now preorder our new issue "Return/العودة," where twenty Palestinians envision the liberation of Palestine through art, essays, fiction, and poetry.

The cover artwork is from 'Just in Case #2' by Taysir Batniji.

thefunambulist.net/shop/58-return

African Collections Futures - Collections Connections Communities

I'm very pleased that the African Collections Futures report, which focuses on the University of Cambridge, is finally out.

The report has been published in different formats including a summary version designed for viewing on a mobile phone.

www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Asbestos: a public health catastrophe In the UK, thousands of people are still dying every year from exposure to the asbestos fibres in our homes, schools and workplaces. My dad was one of...

I really poured my heart and soul into this piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk . When my dad was diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, which killed him just a few months, I set out to learn about asbestos. What I found out chilled me to the core. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...