Amna Kaleem

We have organised this exhibition with our students to archive and celebrate the Sheffield encampment that ran for 92 days last year. If you are around Sheffield on 22-23 July, please visit us at Bloc Projects on Eyre Street #FreePalestine

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Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.

Honoured to have received this award along with my co-conspirators @amnakaleem.bsky.social and @rmkhan.bsky.social !

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Sheffield UCU took part in the Workers Day of Action on Trans Rights from our picket lines today! The UK Trade Union movement stands behind our trans siblings
#tradeunionists4transrights

@eyeofraf.bsky.social

Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Sheffield friends, please check out the Gaza Remains the Story exhibit. It’s curated by the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank and brought to Sheffield by Annapurna Menon as part of the Festival of Debate. The exhibit runs until 9 May (11am-4pm) at Soft Ground, The Moor.

A poster with a solidarity fist in trans rights colours. Text: Emergency Demo Trans Liberation 2pm Sat 19th April Sheffield Town Hall

We're not the organisers of this protest but we'll be there showing our support on Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

My beautiful friend Shon Faye

Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.

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...

A BBC report on the reduction of Just Stop Oil founder Roger Hallam's prison sentence from five years to four years, upon appeal.

BBC News excerpt: We are closing our live coverage of former BBC presenter Huw Edwards, who has been given a six-month sentence - suspended for two years - for child abuse image offences. The 63-year-old faced chief magistrate Paul Goldspring at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, two months after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children. Today we heard remarks from the prosecution and defence outlining the case, plus mitigating factors. After being told his reputation was in "tatters", Edwards was given a six-month suspended sentence for a period of two years.

BBC News excerpt: A former assistant head teacher has been jailed for more than two years after she sexually assaulted a pupil. Catherine Pearl, from Abingdon, had been working at Didcot Girls' School whilst the victim was a pupil at the school. The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a girl as an adult abusing a position of trust in November last year.

BBC News story excerpt: A "coward" who repeatedly bit and beat his girlfriend during a terrifying attack has been jailed. Brandon Holding, 25, also suffocated and stamped on the woman during the half hour ordeal in May last year, Newcastle Crown Court heard. The woman, who was left with multiple injuries, said she feared she was going to be killed and had been left traumatised. Holding, of Shafto Street in Newcastle, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for two years and four months. Holding and the woman had known each other since school and had been in a relationship for two years, prosecutor Joe Culley said.

If nothing else, the sentencing of climate change protestors in the UK makes it very clear who and what the state values and protects here.

You may think AI is useless but this new study just discovered that history is not just facts but also interpretation! Just think about how many more basic foundations of existing scholarship we might be able to “discover” if we let chat gpt burn through all of earths remaining fossil fuels!

Where is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya? What is Israel doing to him?

Crips for eSims for Gaza Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

“we are funning low on funds again and have 4600+ active eSims, many of which need to be regularly topped up to ensure continuous Internet.

these eSims go to hospitals, journalists, students, professors, families.”

bit.ly/eSimsRUs

Universities should not silence research and speech on Palestine Universities play an indispensable role in supporting the free inquiry needed to do the essential work of analysis, evidence gathering and recording of war crimes.

"Western universities are increasingly prioritizing ideas of neutrality over a principled commitment to free speech and the pursuit of truth".

theconversation.com/universities...

#Palestine #EndGenocide

Islamophobia: the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK Perspectives paper highlighting how Islamophobia is growing in the UK, and its structural nature across British society.

I wrote the foreword for Runnymede's excellent report on Islamophobia, published today.

www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

I’ve created a starter pack for those working on terrorism, counterterrorism, etc. let me know if you’d like to be added !

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We collectively agreed to donate all royalties to Gaza. Please order Handbook for your library (publication July 2025).
My chp theorising coloniality of sexuality will be of interest, but another far better chp on decolonising/ debrahminising queerness enacts epistemic transformation.

Editors’ Introduction: Decoloniality, criticality, and abolition - can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”? Published in Critical Studies on Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2024)

If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Speaking at this tonight

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A reading list of 15 articles, made open access by Journal of Palestine Studies. Articles provide historical context and analysis of the 17-year Israeli blockade of Gaza.

#Polisky

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpa...

Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Statement on Gaza. Full text is available at https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/cst/news/critical-studies-terrorism-working-group-statement-gaza

Since the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group has not officially migrated to BlueSky yet, I am sharing our statement on Gaza here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

A rally in support of Palestine liberation at Sheffield City Hall

Sheffield stands with Palestine

Palestinian flags at a rally in solidarity with Palestine outside Sheffield Train Station.

Sheffield stands with Palestine ❤️