emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 07/05/2025www.abc15.com/news/region-... @tamigraph.bsky.socialabc15.comFamily uses AI to create video for deadly Chandler road rage victim's own impact statementChristopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing. 020
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 01/05/2025www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202... @kimatiwagner.bsky.socialaljazeera.comFrom Gaza to Vietnam, what is the value of a photo?Two maimed children, two iconic images – and no end to barbarity in sight. 020
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 16/04/2025My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...wearequeeraf.comUK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country 441726858
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/04/2025It's notable that these topics always become shocking for academia when it's white academics from the Global North who are impacted. But if you work in the UK, there are people at your university who cannot travel to archives or conferences because of their immigration status! For sure! 2656107
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 27/03/2025spent the last two days at the 'Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI Studies Workshop', organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social at the Oxford Internet Institute - so many brilliant papers and generative conversations - and enjoyed presenting my own research on Nigeria 031
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/03/2025AI chatbots are still anti-thinking plagiarism machines that are wrong most of the time. I don’t care who uses them or says they’re great or thinks they’re our collective future. My future involves a lot of thinking, original work, and getting things right, so I have no use for them 191789543
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Does anyone have access to Samaila Suleiman’s article ‘Archives as spaces of power: The social life of National Archives of Nigeria’? Published in Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, vol. 31, no. 1 (2021). Thanks in advance! #historiansky #nigeria 010
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 24/01/2025CFP: double issue of journal "Lusotopie", entitled "African Independences and the Avatars of Coloniality" Deadline prop: 31 January 2025 AfroLuso Afriposlky #Africa #Lusophone #History #sociology #anthropology #Portugal #Angola #Mozambique Details: journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/7907journals.openedition.org2025-1&2 African Independences and the Avatars of ColonialityGuest EditorsVíctor Barros, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa / IN2PAST – Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inova... 0116
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... Really enjoyed this episode @joshuacitarella.bsky.social and Mike Pepi, with an interesting critique of Bluesky towards the end…podcasts.apple.comAgainst Platforms w/ Mike PepiPodcast Episode · Joshua Citarella · 09/01/2025 · 48m 031
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024This from @christophersmith.bsky.social will (like the blog-post immediately before it) be of interest for @kawulf.bsky.social , @alanlester.bsky.social , @sathnam.bsky.social , @nevillemorley.bsky.social and others. Good to see the inherently collaborative nature of historical research recognised.anatomiesofpower.wordpress.comFuture proofing the present through the pastHistorical research has always been political and indeed the very act of memorialization is necessarily partial, selective and therefore exclusionary. No-one can write a comprehensive history… 28733
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024@eryk.bsky.social's ‘The Hypothetical Image’ essay is a great read. I am currently writing a thesis chapter that uses similar frameworks of generative AI, nostalgia, imagination, and history, to analyse historical meaning-making through photography and generative AI in Nigeria. 281
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈jae @fiadhaich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024TODAY: phone & email blockade organised by the dyke project on wes streeting between 12pm and 5pm. everyone should be able to find some time today to send an email or make some phone calls. mass involvement is key phone and email script available here: bit.ly/3ZyWGQ5 insta post: surl.li/cahdyn 21500391
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 17/11/2024the title of my project has changed since i made this BUT i am still looking for more people to interview about Nigerian history and social media! please share and get in touch if you know someone who might be interested 🙏🏻 #nigerianhistory #nigeria #phdresearch 033
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024In this book chapter, some of the women used auto-ethnographic methods to describe the experience. Santos tried to have the book retracted. www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academiaPDF | To our readers: thanks for considering to support this Open Letter to Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group: Academic censorship on sexual misconduct... | Find, read and cite all the research you n... 23921
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024People of Bluesky - @thecontinent.bsky.social is your thing: a *finishable* weekly English-language paper, readable in Signal/WhatsApp, full of crisp, excellent #journalism from across #Africa. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 13114
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 18/11/2024There's also a great article by Tayo Agunbiade (who sadly died recently) about the feminist anti-colonial politician Margaret Ekpo and her role in the dispute: www.aljazeera.com/features/202...aljazeera.comRemembering Margaret Ekpo and the Enugu strike massacreAfter the killing of 20 protesters during a mining strike in Nigeria, Ekpo made her name as a feminist and activist. 162
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 18/11/2024ooo will definitely be reading this!! thanks for sharing 🙏🏻 020
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 18/10/2024My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...lareviewofbooks.orgThe New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of BooksIn the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern. 8419172
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024This is happening now in Beirut. X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative. 8613425
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 17/11/2024the title of my project has changed since i made this BUT i am still looking for more people to interview about Nigerian history and social media! please share and get in touch if you know someone who might be interested 🙏🏻 #nigerianhistory #nigeria #phdresearch 033
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024"I did amputations on people who just had to take paracetamol after the operation as pain relief.. one of my colleagues took maggots out of a childs throat in intensive care" Yesterday Professor Mamode explained to MPs how Israel blocks medical aid from entering Gaza & what the consequences are 11426261
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I’ll be on this panel about the environmental costs of AI infrastructures at NYU’s IPK next Thursday, November 21 from 5:30-700 PM ET It is hybrid and open to the public, so you can join on Zoom ipk.nyu.edu/events/discu...ipk.nyu.eduDiscussion | Exploring the Environmental Costs of AI – Institute for Public Knowledge 075
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 12/11/2024I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here! 54319129
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 17/09/2024very excited to be joining the Young V&A for a 3 month Collections Development Placement, starting in October! 🥳 010
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 05/09/2024Paul Gilroy dedicates 'Postcolonial Melancholia' to the memory of Rachel Corrie and Thomas Hurndall... </3 010
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 03/09/2024it was an honour to present my work on the Nigerian Nostalgia Project at #ASAUK24 on the AI panel, organised and convened by Prof George Karekwaivanane 🙏🏻 030
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 13/08/2024Does anyone have access to a digital copy of ‘The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces’ (2022) eds. Mlotshwa and Ndlovu? I’m away from Oxford so can’t access the physical copy there…thanks in advance! 010
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 05/01/2024The book is not out till May, but here are the galleys for 'Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History' - the story of the Bud Dajo Massacre in the southern Philippines in 1906, during which more people were killed than at Wounded Knee and My Lai combined... 24614
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2023www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast...radicalhistoryreview.orgA Dying PostcolonialismBy Esmat Elhalaby Perhaps it’s apt that a dying political ideology seeks redemption in a dead discipline. As the Israeli government and public become ever more vocal and defensive about their… 010
Reposted by emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈Caroline Lenette @carolinelenette.bsky.social · 25/09/2023It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.organticolonialresearchlibrary.orgAnti-Colonial Research LibraryWelcome to the Anti-Colonial Research Library This Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube… 3398298
