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DrRizvi

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Academic @LJMU www.drsanarizvi.com Researching racism, Islamophobia, disability justice, care-giving, structural injustices. Everything is political-it takes privilege to ignore that. Dream of lachha parathas and kachori,and a good sleep

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
He admits "causing grievous bodily harm with intent, affray, wounding with intent and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm", while "victims include two babies and six other children". But it's still a "crash" and not an "attack", because whiteness.
BBC headline: Paul Doyle pleads guilty to Liverpool parade crash that injured more than 130
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Saba @drsabafatima.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check me out on @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social
How Academia Sustains American Ignorance by Saba Fatima
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This paper provides insights into what happens when racial gatekeepers commit acts of internalised racism towards racialised staff and students in academia and the affect it has on dismantling the Masters house. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“It Gave Me a Crash Course in Terms of This Is Warfare”: Making Sense of Internalized Racism Among Racialized Staff and Students in UK Universities
It is revealing how white supremacy can embrace diversity. The internalized racism experienced by racialized faculty and students in higher education in the UK frequently goes unreported, inducing ...
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🌹As Muharram approaches👇
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/... worthy cause
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We’re suing Farage’s Reform in the High Court | Good Law Project
Update (25 March 2025): We’ve just filed a landmark legal claim against Reform UK at the High Court.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?
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NHS 'to test trans young people for autism and ADHD'
Trans young people will allegedly be 'screened' for autism and ADHD according to planned NHS guidance on youth gender clinics.
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A powerful read about the Supreme Court ruling on trans women who will no longer be considered women under existing equality laws. www-thenation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.then...
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The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Children’s services must urgently provide clear guidance on trans rights in the light of the Supreme Court ruling, particularly for foster carers and staff in children’s homes www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If Britain is now resetting the clock on trans rights, where will that leave us? | Gaby Hinsliff
There is both joy and dismay after the supreme court judgment. Compassion and leadership are really needed now, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 14/04/2025
Churches Together in England have written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley calling for a meeting to discuss the police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House on 27 March. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Churches Together in England stand with Quakers
Churches Together in England have written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley calling for a meeting to discuss the police raid on Westminster Quaker Meeting House on 27 March.
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
'Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound. When I die, I promise to haunt your forever. One day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own them.' by Noor Hindi adarshbadri.me/letters/poem...
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Poems That Tell a Tale of the Struggle for Palestine – Adarsh Badri
Poetry evokes emotions. Perhaps when the world turns a blind eye to the horrors in Palestine, it is crucial to read poems.
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Hey All, now is the time to be most vocal about social justice. I would strongly recommend @ljmuofficial.bsky.social MA Education and Social Justice Programme. We are doing an online information event on 8th May 2025 for enrollment in Sept 2025. www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
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MA Education and Social Justice Discovery Event - online
Education and Social Justice Discovery Event - online
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I will try learning from X and engage in self-care. Please do not expect me to follow you back if you are antiPalestine, racist, ableist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and basically actively perpetuate all the 'isms'. I can't do 'we agree to disagree' stuff if you are attacking any liminal group.
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 07/04/2025
In 2025 I published my first novella. Not a drop of AI and lots of revising, workshopping, critiquing to make it a tight self contained narrative in 18,000 words. I would not feel the same had I used AI. Get a DRM free copy here for only 2.70 usd ko-fi.com/s/5432b72ebe
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The Artistry of Magic by Helen De Cruz - The Pink Hydra's Ko-fi Shop
A romantasy novella of 18,000 words. Since his youth, Maarten has wandered the Low Countries, living from one handful of silver stuivers to the next. ...
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I find it bleakly amusing when commentators remark on how “even doctors” say people are overdiagnosed with mental illness etc. As if the medical profession hasn’t repeatedly been at the forefront of dismissing and gaslighting disabled patients, especially women. Wildly ignorant.
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Eid Mubarak! Azadi for all oppressed. Ameen.
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 20/03/2025
In my recollection voting for far right in Europe began when left and center parties gave up on public services and living standards and began to dismantle public services and welfare provisions as "unaffordable". Foreigners were depicted as a reason that things had become unaffordable.
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Charlotte Walker @charlrwalker.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵 1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Councils habitually talk about a “placement market” - effectively, a market in children and young people in care
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Tens of thousands of people will be hit by “knock-on impact” of PIP cuts. Unpaid carers face losing carer’s allowance if their family member loses eligibility for disability benefits - a devastating double loss. Me and @patrickjbutler.bsky.social report. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade
Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for many
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Austerity with a red rosette is not the “change” people voted for.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.
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Dr Sadia Habib @sadiahabib.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I am pleased to share my new article on young people, cultural inequalities, representation, and activism. #museums #education #culture bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @uomseed.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @educationuom.bsky.social
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<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five-year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of c....
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Apart from the fact "scientific" is really a euphemism for eugenicist here, the current (also eugenicist) reality of age assessments is that many people are wrongly assessed as *older* than they are, for entirely racist reasons. This is not about "science" or accuracy, it's about racist exclusion.
Screenshot of a Telegraph headline and sub-head, which reads: "Asylum seekers face scientific age checks under Tory plans. Proposal aims to stop adult migrants from boosting their chances of staying in UK by pretending to be children".
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
UK military is simply unable to manage significant increase in budget without huge cost overruns and waste. Story of the next decade will be billions of pounds disappearing into a deep black hole. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...
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UK defence spending to rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, funded by cut in international aid - live updates
The announcement comes ahead of a high-stakes meeting between Keir Starmer and Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
‘Working class’ does not stand in for white working class men. There are women, queers, transfolks and non-white communities in the category of working class. It’s a tendentious overreach to make the analytic signify white men.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sam Nordquist didn't deserve this. Sam was reported missing on Feb. 9, 2025. Over that period of time, Sam was tortured and sexually abused repeatedly. Five people were charged with murder. Sam was transgender. This is what hate does. RIP Sam.🙏🏽🕊😪 www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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New York police find body of missing man they say was tortured for more than a month by 5 people
New York State Police charged five people Friday with murder in the killing of a missing man who authorities said died following repeated acts of violence and torture for more than a month by multiple...
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Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The kids are alright. Gen Z think UK is racist and would not fight for their country. www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
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Gen Z think UK is racist and would not fight for their country
Definitive Times research gives a voice to a young generation who have become disillusioned with national institutions
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Dr Sadia Habib @sadiahabib.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Why Palestine is a feminist issue: a reckoning with Western feminism in a time of genocide
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We must reckon with the failures of previous administrations including Democrat ones which, despite their promises, failed to close the facility,apologize for the torture that occurred there...under the pretext of national security sabafatimaphd.medium.com/what-guant%C...
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What Guantánamo’s Dark Legacy Teaches Us: Progressives Must Confront Trump — and Obama and Biden
On January 29, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to repurpose Guantánamo Bay, the infamous U.S. military…
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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 31/01/2025
Pls dm me if you are interested in a free review e copy, which you can get for providing an unbiased review on eg Amazon , GoodReads, or any platform of your choice! This novella is cozy romantasy without elves, high lords etc. See how ordinary ppl fall in love in a beautiful secondary world
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... This is horrible news but then what did we expect?
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Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization
The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run. …the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/01/2025
I hope that the ceasefire deal truly means an end to the vicious, murderous bombardment of Palestine and I also know that there are not enough ceasefire deals to cover the dead. The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them. Never forget. Free Palestine!!!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
2/3rds of the people in the UK on 'benefits' are State Pensioners. Of the other 1/3rd 60% are working. The other 15% are the long term disabled people that you get in every country. Don't listen to the Daily Mail.
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Once again, we feel the need to remind politicians that irresponsible rhetoric puts people’s lives at risk. The racist, Islamophobic violence of last summer’s riots proved this.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Feels like all the attention on Elon Musk recently has distracted us from the giant shit which is Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s a timely reminder that Meta is deeply dangerous and arguably has a much larger reach in spreading disinformation and destabilising democracy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death
Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases
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DrRizvi @drsanarizvi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Collective anti-immigration bias attitudes stems from strategic misinformation. We need to have a better understanding of human rights. Check these facts out by @refugeeaction.bsky.social www.refugee-action.org.uk/about/facts-...
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Facts about refugees and asylum seekers
What's the difference between a refugee and an asylum seeker? Should people claim asylum in the first safe country they reach? We answer some of the most frequently asked questions about refugees.
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We stand with many others urging the Home Office to keep processing asylum claims by people from Syria. Through our services, we're hearing first-hand how fearful the community is that they may be asked to leave. Many have already waited over six months, unable to work or rebuild their lives.
Text overlaid on an image of people marching with the Syrian flag says: Why the government must restart processing asylum claims from SyriaText overlaid on an image from Syria says: Many people from Syria are celebrating the end of the authoritarian regime 

But many do not feel safe to return. There is no stable government, and much of the infrastructure is still destroyed. Text overlaid on an image of a map of Syria says: Syrian asylum claims are complex and can relate to more than the atrocities committed by the Assad regime.

Pausing asylum claims will leave many people from Syria at risk of human rights violations and feeling distressed about their future here.Text overlaid on a photo from Syria says: Home Office data shows that more than 5000 people from Syria are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim.

One in two have been waiting for longer than six months, unable to work or rebuild their lives here.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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