Research Group, Northumbria University UK. All gendered subjects. Own feminist views, not necessarily employer's https://xitter.cf/t.co/9FIemgiCD4
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Joined October 2012
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#OnThisDay in 2014, same-sex couples were finally able to legally marry for the first time in Scotland. The legislation was passed in Holyrood in February 2014, & on December 16 2014, The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 came into effect.
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I don’t know where the dance world would be without Judith Jamison. Alvin Ailey made “Cry” specially for her & all Black Women. Her legacy & what she brought to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as a dancer & director changed culture as we know it.
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Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”
ALT Illustration of a tiger, wearing a snazzy red jacket, smoking a pipe
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At last! #mrloverman @PenguinUKBooks is arriving in your living room on October 14 on @BBC 1. You can binge-watch the entire series on #bbciplayer. Starring #lennieJames #ariyonbakare #sharondclarke @fablepicsuk @Sony (Sorry, comments blocked, you know what it's like on here...)
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A 2024 study found that it takes women 15 years longer than men to become full professors at Russell Group universities. I’m delighted to have made it to Reader! The best job title in the world 📚 📖
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Parts of Antarctica are quickly turning green with plant life as the climate warms up the continent, find researchers. @AndyShep_CPOM spoke to @guardian saying it’s a tipping point for the region as life now has a foothold
theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
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On 4 October 1936 the Battle of Cable Street occurred. #OTD the march led by Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists was disrupted by anti-fascist counter demonstrators.
Women were part of these counter protests.
Read more here: eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog…
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James Butler (@piercepenniless) on Grenfell in the new 𝘓𝘙𝘉.
Read it here: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/…
One of the most shocking opening paragraphs I have ever read about British governance.
#Grenfell
🎩 @piercepenniless @LRB
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To end the 1st week of Black History Month, I am remembering Olive Morris who campaigned for the rights of Black people in South London & Manchester. She was a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African & Asian Descent (OWAAD) & the Brixton Black Women's Group.
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On Wednesday 9 October 2024, the @ucu Branch at the University of Sunderland will be meeting to discuss the redundancies that have been announced.
Solidarity messages: [email protected]
ucunorthern.org.uk/sunderlan…
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The website for my @BritishAcademy project 'Sing You Now After Me: Catch-Singing and Community in Britain c1550-1650' is live. For research info and resources for community/school singing, head to: hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/s…
@NorthumbriaUni @NorthumbriaMus @NorthumbriaHist
ALT Screenshot of website home page. The title 'Sing you now after me: Catch-Singing and Community in Britain, c.1550-1650' is set against a backdrop of people in early modern dress gathered around singing and making music together merrily.
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Dorothy Lawrence journalist who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I- making her the only known English woman on the frontline during The First World War. She was born #OnThisDay in 1896
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The latest episode of #NowandMen is out today! We speak to @proftinamiller about her research on gender & caregiving. How is parenting intensifying? Why is it still so unequal? How can we help men take up more care work? What are refugee dads' experiences? now-and-men.captivate.fm/epi…
ALT Episode 46 of the Now and Men podcast with Professor Tina Miller, 'Making Sense of Parenthood, Caregiving, and Gender'
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Such a fun and energizing interview about Shakespeare with the combat champion of Lamda… bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023g6…
Born to play Coriolanus - David Oyelewo on his obsession (and mine) with a role he OWNS at the @NationalTheatre. On tonight's @Bbcfrontrow 715pm
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“When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is more than twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled”. Spot on @GeorgeMonbiot - Labour should repeal these draconian laws now👇 theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Outrageous and unacceptable. Solidarity with our colleagues at @SunderlandUCU Our members I am sure are not the only ones wondering, where is @bphillipsonMP and what is she doing about this?
Sunderland University 'to make 1 in 10 academics redundant'
“Saying things are being decimated is pretty much an accurate depiction for where we are.” - @jonbryan from @ucu bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl8…
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Fanny Tribble, cartoonist for many feminist publications including Spare Rib, Manchester Women's Liberation newsletter and Sour Cream, on the power of playfulness
from our Activist Legacies roundtable, May 2023, Northumbria University
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In 1935, Lady Ademola MBE (née Moore) became the first Black African woman to achieve a degree at Oxford.
Lady Ademola, who studied English at @StHughsCollege, was a lifelong advocate for women’s education and social reform.
#BlackHistoryMonth
ALT Image of Lady Ademola.
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An excerpt from our colleague, Edward Anderson's new book, 'Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora' (@PenguinIndia, @HurstPublishers, @OUPHistory).
The Virat Hindu Sammelan: A spectacular moment in the overseas Hindu nationalist movement.
Read an excerpt from @edanderson101’s book "Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism."
caravanmagazine.in/excerpt/v…
