Roaa Ali

“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.

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📢 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

⏰ 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

📢 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

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.

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

🚨 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

🗣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

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...

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/...