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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 5h

She has finally flown the nest! New paperback edition of my first children’s book out today with @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social 🦉🏺

Cover of my first children’s book: A Journey Through Greek Myths

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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 22h

"For centuries, the colonized peoples of the Caribbean had to prove they were neither savages nor animals, a demand which, as theorist Saidiya Hartman argues, never truly liberated the flesh, but served instead to discipline bodies under the guise of recognition."

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s the last day of @plutopress.bsky.social’s Occupy the Curriculum event today, which means it’s also the last day when you’ll get 40% off pre-orders of my little yellow book 💛🤓 www.plutobooks.com/product/clas...

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Classicism - Pluto Press

History is written by the victors. But what happens when the story they tell is a lie?

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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Five people have been killed in an Israeli attack on a taxi in Gaza, according to reports. The strike targeted a civilian vehicle, leaving multiple dead. Details on the identities of the victims and the exact location remain limited.

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TRT World made this little clip of when I joined them to discuss how the British Museum’s despicable erasure of Palestine is part of the broader project of historicide that is integral to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians 👇🏻

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Parti des Indigènes de la République @partiindigenes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DE LA PALESTINE À L’AFRIQUE : EN FINIR AVEC LE COLONIALISME ! ✊🏿 Pour son meeting de rentrée, l’Espace Malcolm X vous invite à une rencontre autour des liens entre Palestine, Afrique et décolonisation. 📅 Vendredi 2 octobre 🕢 À partir de 19h30 📍 23, rue du Maroc, 75019 Paris

DE LA PALESTINE À L’AFRIQUE : EN FINIR AVEC LE COLONIALISME ! ✊🏿

De la Palestine à l’Afrique, les mêmes histoires de dépossession, de domination et de résistance continuent de se répondre.
Comprendre la Palestine, c’est aussi regarder en face les héritages du colonialisme en Afrique, les rapports de domination qui perdurent et les complicités qui les rendent possibles.
Pour son meeting de rentrée, l’Espace Malcolm X vous invite à une rencontre autour des liens entre Palestine, Afrique et décolonisation.

📅 Vendredi 2 octobre
🕢 À partir de 19h30
📍 23, rue du Maroc, 75019 Paris

🎙️ Avec :

Raouf Farrah écrivain, chercheur et militant algérien, spécialiste de l’Afrique du Nord et du Sahel. Il a codirigé avec Suraya Dadoo Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation (Pluto Press, 2026) et est coordinateur de l’impact politique de la Global Sumud Flotilla.

Amzat Boukari-Yabara, historien, auteur et militant panafricaniste, président de la Ligue Panafricaine-Umoja. Ses travaux portent notamment sur l’histoire des luttes africaines, les pensées panafricanistes et les enjeux contemporains de la décolonisation et de la souveraineté africaine.

Deux voix pour penser les liens entre Palestine et Afrique, les héritages du colonialisme et les résistances qui lui font face.

Venez nombreuses et nombreux !

Mayibuye iAfrica ! ✊🏿
Tahya Falasteen !

L’espace Malcolm X est un espace politique anticolonial autonome et souverain qui comprend le Parti des Indigènes de la République (PIR), Perspectives musulmanes (PM), La Ligue Panafricaine-Umoja (LP-U), la Brigade Panafricaine pour la Palestine- BPPA, et CAGE International.

@super fans

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the ways I know history teaching is in crisis is watching the exact same millions of people who fell for “they are making WMDs!!!” fall for “they are making nukes!!!” having learnt precisely nothing from even very recent, well-documented history 🙈

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little update 🤓 I’m not in a position to give advice but if I were I would say: don’t fall into the trap of waiting “until it’s safe” to do the work you need to do (until you’re permanent / tenured / whatever). Those days of “safety” may never come and if you do it they might come anyway. ✊🏻🇵🇸

The word “Senior” has been added to my “Lecturer” job title

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Disraeli (and Said) was right: “The East is a career.”

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The literature scholar Refaat Al Areer would have been 47 today, if he had not been murdered by genocidal Israel. I think about his expo marker every day - it’s the best image I have for the kind of scholar I would like to be. ✊🏻🇵🇸

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 22/09/2026

Trump's speech at the U.N. checked all his usual boxes... ✅Warmongering ✅Islamophobia ✅Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric ✅Election lies We watched it so you don't have to. Here are some of the lowlights (we couldn't fit them all.)

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is sooooooo enraging. A US anthropologist (who had been a CIA agent and was married to a US diplomat) basically robbed Nepal of its cultural and religious heritage, and in contravention of Nepalese laws and donated these to US museums. www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...

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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Special delivery by owl post today - the paperback edition of my first-born book! 🦉🏺 It’s out next week, you can get it wherever you get your books. 📚 Thank you @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social for my copies! 😊

A journey through Greek myths, paperback edition.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 21/09/2026

"The state is trying to reframe Palestinian solidarity as terrorism. The aim is to create an environment of fear. " Really important guest post this week from Liam Mullany - one of the Filton 25. Well worth a read. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-state-...

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The state is trying to scare pro-Palestine activists into submission. It won’t work.

Filton 25 political prisoner Liam Mullany explains why the British state is targeting him and his fellow activists - and why they’re fighting back.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quick reminder that academic freedom gives researchers (certain) rights to make these kinds of gross arguments. It does NOT require anyone else to like or respect them for having made gross arguments.

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New author-fear unlocked: the terrifying moment when your publisher sends proofs of your book out to your heroes to review it for the front cover - absolutely terrifying! 😬

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Parti des Indigènes de la République @partiindigenes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pour Elias et tous nos frères et sœurs pris pour cible par le pouvoir colonial Pour notre droit à l'apologie de la libération et de la décolonisation RDV aujourd’hui à partir de 12h30 jusqu'au soir, Cour d'Appel de Paris - 10 Bvd du Palais ! #SoutienElias

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just can’t pretend to you that I ever imagined Ed Sheeran’s politics would be good, I’m sorry.

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think I forgot to tell everyone that my first-born book 🦉🏺 is coming back in a new paperback edition in a few short week’s time! You can pre-order wherever you get your books: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-jo...

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A Journey Through Greek Myths

Delve deep into the mythology of ancient Greece in this stunning compendium of tales. From the heroes of Athens and Sparta to gods and goddesses, take a magical illustrated journey through the Mediter...

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rendez-vous mercredi, à la Cour d’Appel de Paris! ✊🏻🇵🇸

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The old way is to say antiquity created the West. This subtitle gets it right

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m pretty sure that if nothing else it will be the yellowest book of 2027 🤭💛 www.plutobooks.com/product/clas...

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Classicism - Pluto Press

History is written by the victors. But what happens when the story they tell is a lie?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Arday was telling the truth is as stupid an argument as Israel is settler colonialism” would be a useful comparison for the Spectator… if Israel was not a settler colonial occupation. Can’t imagine how embarrassing it must be to work for the Spectator! 😂🙈

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Confronted with the fact that actual journalism by MEE has unearthed that - surprise surprise - it was the white supremacist who told us all he was lying who was actually lying, rather than Jason, the Spectator has gone for the classic silly parting shot of the sore loser: “you’re stupid!!”.

Spectator headline: Middle East Eye seems to get stupider and stupider

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