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Gemma Bird

@gemmabird.bsky.social
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Reader in Politics & IR at the University of Liverpool. Activist scholar working on the politics of migration and solidarity in the EU & African political theory. Views my own. She/her

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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Lovely to be back at the @livuninews.bsky.social VG&M for British Science Week. I’m continuing to collect recipes as a response to the Project Armonia cook book. Food brings people together, tells stories and builds community. If you are in the area come and share a recipe!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Heading to the The University of Leeds for the day as the lovely people of the political theory seminar series kindly invited me to speak. Looking forward to testing out some of the ideas from the book I have been working on for the last eight years and that I am now in the final stages of editing!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“Cinema is a friend for life”. Never a truer word spoken from @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social at the @cinemaforall.bsky.social #100YearsGala
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Loved attending the opening of Lightbulb Moments at the The University of Liverpool yesterday and sharing an object in it. It’s a privilege to work with the amazing Project Armonia and to be able to bring their cook book sharing the power of food and stories to a whole new audience is very special.
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Some great summer reads!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Justice for the 97 run this morning in Liverpool with @davideschmid.bsky.social #YNWA #AlwaysRemember
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A very important lecture this evening at @livunipol.bsky.social as Professor Erika Harris talks to us about ‘Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas and Controversies’. This timely lecture is the first of a two day engagement with Erika’s vastly important work.
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Greatful to everyone who came to see the exhibition launch in Amsterdam yesterday. “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” will be exhibited at De Verbroderij all May, so please do go and see it and let me know what you think!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Very excited for this venue! Exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos opens tomorrow at 3!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Exhibition among the book shelves! A pleasure to be joining the @bisasee.bsky.social 20 year celebration workshop at @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social today with our exhibition A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos.
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Let’s go Bulls!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Something about the #FACup always feels special! #YNWA
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
10 years ago on this day I submitted my PhD. I wasn’t really sure whether I would make it as an academic or what the next decade would look like. But looking back now I am so grateful to everyone who has supported me since and for the opportunities I have had to pass it on!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In our new article “Theorising the migration fix” @davideschmid.bsky.social & I continue thinking about how to develop the concept of the “migration fix” as a tool for understanding the complex, often contradictory, relationship between political & economic logics & the the role of borders
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Such an excellent Saturday afternoon read. Beautiful artwork and lots to think about with the state of the world
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A huge congratulations to Sarah Elmammeri who passed her viva today with the project “Trapped Between Borders”. Hugely well deserved!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
NGOs on Samos report highest number of residents in the Closed & Controlled Access Centre on the island since it opened in 2021. This means people seeking asylum forced to sleep on the floor reportedly without blankets. These are flashbacks to the previous camp & this provision is not good enough
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A Sunday afternoon well spent! #Cheesecakes
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Thanks for having us Athens! It was lovely to show “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” in the big city. Had some brilliant and important conversations in the last few days. An important reminder that we persist!
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
We are open! “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” is up and running in Romantso. An exhibition about community, displacement, solidarity and borders. Do drop by and see us if you are in #Athens
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
As one exhibition comes to a close planning is well underway for the final #exhibition of a “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” being shown in #Athens on the 5th & 6th November in Romantso. Athens it would be great to see you. romantso.gr/event.php?id...
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” all set up at PaperCup Liverpool as part of the Liv Uni ESRC Festival of Social Science events! It’s great to be in this brilliant cafe so please do come down, see the photos and have a coffee www.ticketsource.co.uk/livunipublic...
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
An important reminder on the streets of Liverpool
“Welcome All Migrants”
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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Spotted from the harbour of Duisburg “more poetry, less police”
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