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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Marking the Stuart Hall Foundation’s 10th anniversary, we are delighted to announce our 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground. This year, join us to collectively consider the role of difference in broadening the intellectual and creative scope of social justice movements working today.

Stuart Hall Foundation | 10 years.
In Search of Common Ground: With Prof. Françoise Vergès, Mohammed Elnaiem, Brenna Bhandar, Hashem Abushama, Houria Bouteldja, Lola Olufemi, Gary Younge, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Aasiya Lodhi.
Supported by Comic Relief, Hollick Family Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), Pluto Press, Soundings and Words of Colour.

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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here is the latest call for papers for a special issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal, dedicated to communist festivals in the West. Please share widely!

Inspired by the Fête de l'Humanité, hosted by the French newspaper L’Humanité since 1930, Western communist newspapers have historically organized well-attended festivals that combine cultural, political and social elements featuring musical performances, the sale of regional foods and produce, theatrical plays, children’s entertainment, art exhibits, political debates, and activism. Seen as important expressions of working-class sociability, these festivals attracted communists and non-communists.
This is a call for articles for a special issue about these annual festivals organized by western communist newspapers/parties, including but not limited to Fête de l'Humanité (France), Festa de l’Unità (Italy), Waarheidfestival (The Netherlands), Fiesta del PCE (Spain), Avante! Festival (Portugal), Land og Folk Festival (Denmark), Odigitis Festival (Greece), and The People’s Festival (Great Britain).
In addition to discussing a festival's general history, we encourage authors to explore:
• How the balance between political and cultural elements evolved and whether this evolution reflected social and ideological shifts.
• The celebration of regional culture and traditions.
• The use of culture as a tool to communicate political messages and attract new members.
• The impact of the Cold War on the popularity of the festival.
• Organizers’ efforts to attract politicised youth in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and connect with other social and political movements.
• International visitors to such festivals and expressions of solidarity.
Authors are encouraged to use oral testimonies (organizers/attendees) if available/suitable.
Please submit an abstract of approx. 500 words by May 1, 2025. The abstract should include the title, state the problem or research question, outline the theoretical framework, state the main point or argument, and provide a rough indication of the methods and sources you intend to use.
Submit your abstracts to Elke Weesjes (emweesjes@gmail.com).

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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

As the temperatures plummet, we'd like to remind you that you don’t need to have a reason to come to GWL to spend time & keep warm – just come in, make yourself comfortable & let staff know if you need any help. We may not be able to meet all your needs but here’s what we can offer:

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A Warm Welcome awaits at Glasgow Women’s Library | Glasgow Women's Library

People who visit GWL regularly describe us as warm, welcoming and friendly. Everyone who visits is greeted by one of our staff team when they first come into GWL – it’s how we roll. Now…

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 03/01/2025

Sundari Anitha looks back at the #Grunwick strike and the role of South Asian women in challenging labour exploitation. 🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers free open-access educational resources, including video lectures, detailed lesson plans and reading lists. buff.ly/3P4F9uf

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Lawrence Wishart @lawrencewishart.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

📢The second book in our 2025 list is A Lens on Liberation: Photography as Resistance by Mark Sealy, director of AutographABP. In this new collection, Sealy argues that Western photography and its institutions are in crisis, having been forced to reckon with the medium's colonial history.

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New open access article by Twentieth Century Communism's former managing editor, Dianne Kirby, for the new Journal of Social Encounters, titled 'The Revolution is Not Over: Sudanese Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Belfast'. digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encou...

The Revolution is Not Over: Sudanese Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Belfast
Dianne Kirby
Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University
Female Sudanese asylum seekers and refugees in Belfast were instrumental in establishing a women’s collective, Anaka. The original goal was provision of a safe space where the founders could help women confronting the harshness of the asylum system alone and afraid, as they had been. The endeavour to mitigate the hard realities of a challenging system in a hostile environment led to the collective becoming an advocacy and campaigning group. The ethos was one of participation and empowerment, deploying skills, creative capacities and political insights forged in the fight for Sudanese democracy. The key issues confronting female refugees -- housing, health and education -- were equally those of the working-class communities in which they were placed. While politicians and mainstream media scapegoated new arrivals for societal deficiencies, through sharing and supporting the struggles of their neighbours, Anaka women established alliances with the potential to transcend racism and promote integration.

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Lawrence Wishart @lawrencewishart.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🚨Book announcement! 🚨We'll be announcing our 2025 books list over the next week, starting with this well-crafted, deft and insightful history, June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive by Onyeka Igwe, on the extraordinary career of curator, film programmer and archivist June Givanni.

Cover image of the book, June Givanni: The Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive. The cover is light blue and features the title and a graphic of a black film reel with the shape of the African continent superimposed in white over it.

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Lawrence Wishart @lawrencewishart.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy publication day to Land Body Ecologies! 'Stories of Solastalgia', written by over 50 collaborators within LBE's network embedded in Indigenous communities across the world, explores the connections between health, land, ecosystems, rights and culture in the context of environmental change.

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Lawrence Wishart @lawrencewishart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One month on from the publication of Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives, it's great to see all the places the book has travelled to. Get 20% off now when you order through our website using code AF2024, only until 28 November, or support indie bookshops by buying instore.

Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives as part of a book display of feminist texts

Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives on a shelf at a bookshop alongside other colourful books

A stack of books on a desk including The Place is Here, Speak Out!, Gerlin Bean: Mother of the Movement, Do you remember olive morris, and Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The University of Leeds in the UK is offering scholarships for Palestinians from Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduat...

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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship

We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).

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Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Great to read these generous and thoughtful repsonses by Kathi Weeks, @francescasobande.bsky.social, Janet Newman, Alison Hearn and Kate Soper to 'Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal + the Political' in Feminist Theory - #OpenAccess here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

For your comrades at Christmas, a print subscription to Twentieth Century Communism journal makes a great gift. A book length issue is published twice a year and looks fab on every discerning reader's bookshelf. Full of the latest research in communist history! journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/subscribe/

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Lawrence Wishart @lawrencewishart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello bsky followers. Enjoy 20% off *all* LW titles in our holiday season sale! ❄️Use code AF2024 at checkout, valid until midnight on 28 November. Some gift recommendations across our list🎁 A People's History of England, Poems from Spain, A Spanish Civil War Scrapbook The Radical Black Women Series

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