“All of this can seem intimidating. You feel like an imposter.” – Racially minoritised museum staff member
@bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social @roaa-ali.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social on the heritage industry, institutional whiteness and the limits of inclusion.
#OpenAccess buff.ly/NtDEu6L
01.07.2025 10:02 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Fresh off the press!
The Endurance of Whiteness in a Museum
by me & @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social
out now @thesociologicalreview.org
We examine how whiteness persists in the UK’s CCIs, focusing on limits of decolonisation and anti-racism in museums.
🔗 buff.ly/NtDEu6L
#OpenAccess #RaceAndCulture
17.06.2025 15:05 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
⏰ Reminder! Happening this Thursday:
The making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women’s cultural productions
🗓️ 19 June 2025
🕐 1–2:30pm (UK)
📍 Manchester & online
Exploring #ArabAmerican #Feminism, #Theatre, #CCIs.
🔗https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:g1y7-m8h9ru3v-2zen9c
17.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Giving a talk soon!
The making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women’s cultural productions
🗓️ Thurs 19 June 2025
🕐 1–2.30pm (UK)
📍 Manchester/online
Hosted by
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
👀 Join if you're into #ArabAmerican #Feminism #Theatre #CCIs
02.06.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
The UK’s Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) passed a BDS resolution today. 📣
It took an amazing group a lot work, but the vote was overwhelmingly in favour.
09.05.2025 17:47 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity
‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy: Brett St Louis CoDE seminar
📺Recording now available of our latest seminar:
📌‘Unhelpful & redundant’? Identity, inequality & the BAME controversy
🗣Brett St Louis
@uomsoss.bsky.social
youtu.be/_QHx9wIXJFw
14.04.2025 10:56 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
COLLATERAL
COLLATERAL provides a multilingual online platform for encounters between text and image, between art and analysis, and between critical and artistic research. COLLATERAL is committed to modes of meti...
🚨 New blog: ‘Diversity Caused the Crash’: The Racism Disguised in Meritocratic Discourse.
Trump may have moved on to destabilising the world stage, but the racial logic that shapes his administration is alive and well.
Full post: preview.collateral-journal.com/index.php?co...
#racism #Trump
08.04.2025 13:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🗣Racial health equity & the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt (KCL)
📆1-2.30pm Thurs 15 May 2025 (hybrid)
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
@uomsoss.bsky.social @basssocial.bsky.social
08.04.2025 10:52 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
The Miyazaki Maelstrom: OpenAI’s Ghibli Craze Signals a Troubling Future for Hollywood
Sure, it's just some cool images. But it shows the tide is with the customized and the automated — and away from originality.
"The frantic rush to turn our memories into a personalized Miyazaki greeting card is [..] even more pointedly a testament to our love for ourselves, and seemingly no copyright concern nor sanctity-of-art instinct can stop us from fulfilling it."
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
03.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality - Roaa Ali, Bridget Byrne, 2023
Diversity has increasingly become coveted in the Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs), with a significant presence in institutional and policy vocabularies. ...
Hello Bluesky community👋 I finally made it here. I research & write on diversity and ethnic inequality in CCIs. An open-access article I co-authored with the brilliant Bridget Byrne @culsoc.bsky.social might be a good intro to my work: The Trouble with Diversity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
03.04.2025 15:09 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Academic interested in British Bangladeshis/Bengalis/Muslims
DP by artbyjanibee
Associate Professor in Media at Birmingham City University
Evaluation - Research - Widening Participation - Fair Access - Higher Education - Schools
visiting fellow LSE Sociology · editor at @philosopher1923.bsky.social · co-convenor @bsarace.bsky.social · he/him/they · Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)/London
✍🏾 carcerality, borders, forced displacement, coloniality
share ≠ endorsement
🔗 linktr.ee/rpaulint
Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
Drama and Theatre Studies, Irish literature, Shakespeare, Ecocriticism. Works at University of Galway. Latest book: _Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene_ published Cambridge 2023.
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Writer | Academic | Bookworm | Expertise: Musical Theatre, Identity in Popular Culture, Black Studies & Music. Lots of talk about neurodivergence. Also, a rugby union nerd.
dramaturg, awards judge, theatre critic/editor, director, occasional producer 🎭
teacher/tutor/lecturer/coach with a PhD👩🏻🎓
angry about white supremacist heteropatriarchal capitalism✊🏻
neurodivergent London-based immigrant🌎
own views
🔹Academic in Drama/Theatre @ Royal Holloway University of London ➡️ https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/chris-megson
🔹Student of Analytical Psychology ➡️ https://www.thesap.org.uk/
🔹For 📸 & 📝 on London history ➡️ http://Instagram.com/chris.megson
actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
TETHYS GODDESS OF FRESHWATER
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
teatteritieteen professori, FHT-osaston johtaja, Helsingin yliopisto, teatterihistoria, historiografia, taiteiden tutkimus, inspehtori Keskisuomalainen Osakunta, Opettajien Akatemia
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/hanna-korsberg
Eighteenth-century & theatre historian; cat & child wrangler; immigrant.
PhD in women's cultural leadership in Scotland. Experienced teacher and facilitator. Big fan of Jesus, books, pizza and spreadsheets.
Theatre academic. Currently writing two books on free speech culture wars and digital performativity of extreme and far-right sub-cultures.
Gaming Democracy Project
@gamingdemocracy.bsky.social
Performing Arts Maker/Thinker/Educator
queer, nonbinary, AuDHD, parent-type person
pragmatic progressive
Buffalo, NY
🎵Singer of songs, maker of musick 🏳️🌈
📚 PhD student, researcher: Cathedral Music, gender, queerness and the voice ✨
Reader in Musical Theatre, Head of Doctoral Programmes at RCM, mum, data and digital humanities nerd, music ed advocate, tea drinker. About covers it
theatre music env arts & hums, ma
https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/drama/people/profile/index.php?username=eo230
