Lecturer @kingscmci. Founder of #AbolitionistCurriculum. Member of @FriendsJoiners. Overuse of "faaaaaaaabulous" frequently occurs.
Joined November 2017
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6 May 2025
📢Conference Klaxon!📢 New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network are hosting the "American Dream/ American Nightmare" hybrid conference at University of Westminster 3-4 July - sign up below!
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11 Mar 2025
PhD Studentships for Black students who are eligible for home fees @KingsCollegeLon - apply by April 21st! kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/fundi…
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26 Nov 2024
Come along to this @OfficialBAAS event on Thursday - I'll be chatting along with @rachelizasykes and @RobynShooter...........glittery cowboy hats are encouraged but not required 😉🤠
Did you watch the Country Music Awards on the BBC iPlayer last week? Are you curious as to why country music is having 'a moment'?
Then join us on Thursday evening for 'From Cowboy Carter to Taylormania'!
Thu 28 Nov 2024 | 6:30 PM
bit.ly/4i1F73H
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15 May 2024
RT @DrMikeBankole: The Raheem Sterling Scholarship is open to Black British students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds from the G…
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13 May 2024
BREAKING: Our students at King's College London started their #encampment demanding @KingsCollegeLon to condemn Israel's war crimes in Palestine, boycott complicit Israeli academic institutions, pledge to help rebuild #Gaza's education sector & safeguard freedom of speech 🧵 1/7
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14 Nov 2023
Over 8000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel's brutal bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Nowhere in Gaza is safe.
Urge your MP to demand a ceasefire NOW, and the lifting of the total siege on Gaza so humanitarian supplies can reach the population. palestinecampaign.eaction.on…
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20 Jun 2023
truly awful. As a two-time UEA graduate, this is heartbreaking - solidarity with UEA folks
19 Jun 2023
At UEA, 31 out of the university's 36 academic staff redundancies will be coming from arts and humanities.
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Did you know that we are still open for submissions for the 2023 BAAS book prize?
If you published a book in American studies btw 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022 & you are a BAAS member, you can apply and win £500!
baas.ac.uk/awards/
baas.ac.uk/awards/
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The deadline is approaching for our Peter Boyle MA Graduate Assistantship.
Apply before 6 Feb to study 2 years (tuition free) at U Wyoming towards a MA in American Studies.
Am studies educators, make sure your students know of this opportunity!
Info at baas.ac.uk/awards/
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4 Jan 2023
🚨 BREAKING: GOVT LAUNCHES ATTACK ON RIGHT TO STRIKE
• New law will force workers to work against their will
• Nurses, teachers, firefighters & more targeted
• Workers to be sacked if they refuse to cross pickets
Join the campaign to fight back: wesayenough.co.uk/petition/
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4 Jan 2023
🔥 @ucu MEMBERS 🔥
EVERYONE read and share this blog on Discontinuous Indefinite Strike Action. Absolutely the best proposal I've seen!
GET THE WORD OUT
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21 Jul 2022
The punitive deductions machine in action: QMUL HR has pushed through payslips for July that show little humanity.
A 🧵of QMUL staff realities:
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7 Jun 2022
Come join @E_Devienne, @clloyd9 and myself as your (semi) glamourous hosts for this relaxed and fun event where we can celebrate some of the exciting American Studies scholarship being produced right now!
EVENT ALERT - #BAASAwards 2022, 17th June 2022, 4pm-5pm. (Online via Zoom) The event will be hosted by BAAS award subcommittee: Dr Jon Ward, Dr Elsa Devienne and Dr Chris Lloyd. Tickets available via Eventbrite at the following link: eventbrite.com/e/2022-baas-a… 1/2
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8 Mar 2022
To commemorate #InternationalWomensDay, some of my favourite pics of women being badasses. First up, Saffiyah Khan.
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8 Mar 2022
Our employer @KingsCollegeLon the whole time during our Industrial Action...
[by Branch Sec. Ryan]
#NotGoodEnough
#HEPayBallot
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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7 Jan 2022
Today we are launching our QTIPOC (Queer/Trans/Intersex People of Colour) Therapist Directory! 🎉 Fill out form here: form.jotform.com/22005510928… to receive a copy via email. Link is also in our bio.
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6 Jan 2022
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The state of hiring Black British staff in the U.K. is dire. I’m sympathetic on the potential pile on the recent case so I’ll broaden the discussion b/cuz ultimately Black scholars in the U.K. have been pointing out the pitfalls of the post-BLM hiring spree for long enough.
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19 Dec 2021
happy for every last photo to come out, sure, why not, but I think it’s been established that they regularly broke the laws they had passed. the question remains, how do we turn this into a real rupture? how do we make it matter?
19 Dec 2021
NEW: Downing Street staff and Boris Johnson pictured drinking wine in the No 10 garden last May when the rest of the country was limited to meeting just one other person socially outdoors.
Via @guardian
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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