a black xborg • theory without practice ain't shit

I've updated my academic website! ☻

ghostlylivesaproject.wordpress.com

Help raise £2500 to my visa fees! – JustGiving Crowdfunding Iʼm raising money to my visa fees!. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

After years of helping people navigate the #hostileenvironment, I'm raising money for my own battle against it. Donate/Share if you like!

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Yet the thesis concludes: empires ultimately fall as struggles for life-affirming world-making and freedom will always prevail🥁🐉. (4/4)

I began this project in a global pandemic and finished it amid genocide. Its title speaks to the ghostly matters of empire and coloniality haunting the monstrous time we live in. (3/4)

thanks to my family, comrades, friends and colleagues for supporting me in what was the most challenging and transforming experience of my life 😵 (2/4)

🥳 Officially a Dr! Thanks to my supervisors, Prof Chetan Bhatt & Dr @sarasalem.bsky.social, to the generous engagement with my thesis by Prof @jean23bean.bsky.social and Dr @kojokoram.bsky.social 🙏🏾

Rahul Rao · Review article: How settler colonialism ends (2024)

replugging this in the week of Fanon's 100th birthday, because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night

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‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

The lack of representation of Black faculty staff and students in British HE is endemic. An important reading on a new report.
#AcademicSky #racism #UK #antiblackracism

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I've recently joined the @bsarace.bsky.social as co-convenors. If you're a sociologist working on #race and #ethnicity, follow us! More to come.

✨ 🎨 Thrilled to share this poster I've made for this amazing event at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social, co-organised by my brillant friend/colleague @cindyxma.bsky.social! #RaceMedia
#AcademicSky

Guest Blog: Why Housing Matters When it Comes to Migrant Justice - LSE Volunteer Centre In this blog, you can read about the LSE Homelessness Initiative's panel event with the Hackney Migrant Centre, Hackney Night Shelter, and Refugee Action on the barriers migrants might face to access ...

As 'asylum hotels' are being attacked across the UK, I wrote this piece on housing and migrant justice was published on LSE blog. #HostileEnvironment #UK #Asylum

blogs.lse.ac.uk/vcb/2025/07/...

Raising £800 to help Lindi cover 1 month of school & boarding fees for her daughters 💛

This gives her space to heal, knowing her girls are safe 🦋🦋🦋

Please donate or share if you can 🙏
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#MutualAid #RefugeeSupport #HostileEnvironment #UK

Universities aren’t often spoken of as ‘brands,’ but Warwick leans into that idea. What does thinking of a university as a brand unlock—and what can it achieve when done well? Seeing a university as a brand unlocks coherence and confidence. A brand is about more than design, it’s about identity and consistency. When you align your values, your story and your impact, you become more than a place, you become a movement. At Warwick, brand isn’t just a communications tool, it’s a strategic asset. It helps us attract brilliant minds, forge global partnerships and create a distinctive space in a competitive world. When done well, a brand doesn’t limit, it liberates.

What drew you to the world of higher education, and how do you see its role evolving in society today? My journey from the world of luxury into higher education has been one of purpose and transformation. After years of working with global brands, I was drawn to higher education as the next frontier of influence, a space where knowledge, identity, and opportunity intersect. Universities aren’t just places of learning, they are platforms for societal impact. Their role today is to be both anchor and catalyst: rooted in rigorous teaching and research, yet agile enough to respond to global challenges and cultural shifts. How has your background in the luxury sector shaped the way you approach storytelling and brand building at the University of Warwick? Working across premium and luxury sectors—fashion, real estate, travel and beyond—taught me the value of emotion, detail, and differentiation. In those worlds, a brand isn’t just a badge, it’s an experience, a feeling, a story that lives in people’s hearts. At the University of Warwick, I’ve brought that same mindset to higher education: crafting narratives that are both strategic and human.

I can't quite believe it, but, it appears that the person responsible for this at the University of Warwick has had a Vogue photoshoot about the rebrand, explaining his 'journey from the world of luxury [goods marketing] into higher education' vogue.sg/university-o...

It took 24 months to the #DailyExpress to get a conscience. I'm proud of my borough for spontaneously organising a protest today to call for the end of the #genocide. We're asking #Haringey Council to divest from I$raH33l.

Cover of Omar El Akkad’s “ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS” showing a you girl reaching up as a bomb drops from the sky.

I just read Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone will Have Always Been Against This.”

It’s a book detailing the failings of western liberalism and blind self-interests. It’s a book that needs to be read and digested, causing us to look at ourselves.

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The #Starmer and #Macron ‘one in, one out’ deal is bound to fail. Deterrence doesn’t work. The real issue isn’t the crossing — it’s the UK’s broken asylum system.
#immigration #ChannelCrossings #UKPolitics #borders #SafePassage #NoOneIsIllegal #HostileEnvironment #France

The UN Made AI-Generated Refugees The AIs are designed to teach people about atrocities in Sudan.

There’s so much wrong here, but in particular it’s noted in the article that the creator of this project met with a bunch of stakeholders who told him the idea was shit, and he did it anyway.

For all zinemakers and zinelovers, a call for contributions for this amazing book proposal !
shorturl.at/OtaYf
#zine #AcademicSky #creativemethods #pedagogies #feminism

This ban can't be applied retrospectively. You can't be targetted under the Terrorism Act for previously supporting or taking part in @palaction.bsky.social events.

If it comes into force, it'll criminalise support for Palestine Action - but there are protections for people calling for it's repeal

Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food,...

More than 400 people in Gaza have now been killed trying to reach food at sites run by the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’. “The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence,” says Jonathan Whittall, UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).
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US and Israel have 'blown up' diplomacy, says Iran's foreign minister Iran's foreign minister said Israel and the US have "blown up" diplomacy with their airstrikes in recent weeks. Seyed Abbas Araghchi responded to calls from the UK and EU for Iran to "return" to the negotiating table, by saying Iran had never left it, nor "blew [it] up". In a post on X, he said: "Last week, we were in negotiations with the US when Israel decided to blow up that diplomacy. "This week, we held talks with the E3/EU when the US decided to blow up that diplomacy. What conclusion would you draw? "To Britain and the EU High Rep, it is Iran which must "return" to the table. But how can Iran return to something it never left, let alone blew up?"

This is Iran’s statement. You don’t need to like anything about the Iranian regime to recognise that these are just facts.

Again: Iran never left the negotiating table. Israel bombed them unilaterally. And the US just joined.

The official UK and EU statements are simply lies.

Progressives and the Attack on Universities

Join us for an important discussion on the recent attacks on universities #Trump's Amerika.

www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/progr...

#freedomofspeech #humanrights #Harvard #ColumbiaUniversity #academia #SkyAcademia #culturewars

The obvious problem with Starmer's 'island of strangers' immigration speech Far from 'strangers', new statistics show that people seeking safety in the UK have deep roots here, writes Refugee Action's Tim Naor Hilton.

These policies aimed at shutting out people seeking safety on the basis they are "dangerous" are racist. In countries like the US and UK, that have caused so much strife for the global majority, asylum is an issue of racial justice (4/4). Our latest article on this: www.bigissue.com/opinion/immi...

📚TODAY📚

Join us for live readings, conversation, and excerpts from We, the Heartbroken—a searing, tender meditation by Gargi Bhattacharyya

🗓️Thurs, June 5
⏰7 pm
📍Pelican House
🎟https://buff.ly/9WOQW5v

this is excellent

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.

Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.

Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

Call to Senior University Administrators to Refuse the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism We, the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and allies, are a group of scholars, including those with expertise in histories of antisemitism, genocide, the Holocaust, the history and sociolo...

Academics: pls sign this Call to Senior Uni Admins to refuse IHRA df of antisemitism. This df is internally contested, self-contradictory, with an enormous impact on the political realm. 🧵https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZxGhOjFVyTvTKgTnByNGDwszDcRSAj1-uFyphwqMtNCTPFA/viewform
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We will be screening Life Is Beautiful for #RefugeeWeek!
#HaringeyCommunityCinema
#PalestineWillBeFree #Gaza #FreePalestine
haringeycommunitycinema.uk/2025/05/24/h...

Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools This article unpacks the nature of racialised (un)belonging experienced by law students – why for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. F...

Pleased to share my new article! I reflect on what our responsibility is, as legal academics, to students experiencing racism and how we can surface the ways racism plays out "politely" such that the law school feels like a space to which they cannot fully belong.
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It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.