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Since the start of the genocide in Palestine, a group of staff and students have been organising for Palestine at Western Sydney University. You can find a link to our activities, including the open letter signed by over 430 staff and students here.
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I helped co-edit a blog series over at the Identities blog on Gaza, Solidarity and the Right to Protest. The series brings together five posts by Ronit Lentin, Clive Gabay and Rachel Solnick, Waqas Tufail and Sherene Fernandez, Tom Six and Anna-Esther Younes. You can access each of these fantastic…
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I published an article in Black Agenda Report based on the talk I gave to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the publication of Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition by Cedric J. Robinson. I hope to share a redcording of the event at which I was honoured…
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I spoke to Andy Fleming and Cam Smith on the Yeah Nah Pasaran podcast about Gaza and why, among other things, actual direct action is not the same as talking about direct action.
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Please join us for the 6th and final seminar in the Radical Antiracism Today: New Books in Abolitionist, Anticolonial, Internationalist Antiracism online seminar series. Thursday 16 November at 9 AM-10.30 AM AEDT / 5PM Wednesday (Toronto) Register here About this event: Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson join us to…
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I was asked to speak at the Structural Inequalities in the Clinical Neurosciences Course Conference, St George’s University of London on 3 November 2023. Here are my remarks. I would like to thank Jeremy Isaacs, Catherine Doogan and the team of the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience Practice for inviting me to…
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I am delighted to announce that Ruth Wilson Gilmore will be joining us on October 19th at 9 AM (Sydney) / October 18th 6PM (New York) to discuss her book Abolition Geography for the 5th instalment of our online seminar series, Radical Anti-Racism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist…
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The lead-up to the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to parliament is replete with text-book case after text-book case of what I have called ‘Not Racism™’. Not Racism is something anyone who has faced racism knows about. In an article I published in 2017 on the subject, the title the editors…
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We were delighted host Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean in conversation with Maria Giannacopoulos for the fourth in our seminar series, Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist antiracism. Under discussion was Aviah and Shanice’s brilliant and thought-provoking, but also highly practical, book Abolition Revolution. Please…
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I spoke to Momodou Taal of The Malcolm Effect podcast about the ‘History of the word ’woke’ and the modern war on it.’ We chatted about where the term came from, the history of contestation around it that reveals a lot about the connection between antiblackness and anti-red politics. I…
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