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Mary Edwards

@mary-l-edwards.bsky.social
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Philosophy Lecturer, Cardiff University | feminist philosophy, continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, philosophy of technology | she/her

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 28/08/2026
Some good news...
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Philosophy at Dundee Saved—In Part, For Now (guest post) - Daily Nous
"A small programme with a large international reach has bucked the trend of closures across the arts and humanities." Over the summer, administration of the University of Dundee announced a plan to cu...
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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Final week to apply to the Ireland Fellows funding program - and our Women's Studies MA is one of the application options! If you are an international student with an interest in women's & gender studies, then check out the IFP website here…
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Here is a petition to stop redundancies at the University of Exeter c.org/f6L4P4nv8S
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!
7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
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Dan Tappin @oitappin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake. A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL)
Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...
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Nick Clanchy @nickclanchy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A paper I wrote in 2023, “Against Hermeneutical Gatekeeping: Or, How to Be a Materialist About (Some) Epistemic Injustices”, has finally escaped from reviewing limbo into the world at Synthese! Pre-print available here: philpapers.org/rec/CLAAHG /1
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Nick Clanchy, Against Hermeneutical Gatekeeping: Or, How to Be a Materialist About (Some) Epistemic Injustices - PhilPapers
Recently David Ludwig has argued that spending finite attentional resources on the question of how to achieve epistemic justice can contribute to sidelining the question of how to achieve material jus...
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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 13/05/2026
Please contact your TDs and ask them to support the bill up for voting this evening to end the 72 hour waiting period. It has no basis in medical practice or legal requirements. #spéirgorm #repeal #abortionishealthcare
ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK) 
THE 3 DAY 
WAITING PERIOD 
is medically unnecessary, and forcing people to travel for care. 

More than 10% of the people who contact ASN from Ireland have been pushed over the limit by the 3 day wait.
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I was once a SWIP-I Student Rep and learned so much from being involved in the committee! This is a terrific opportunity for ECRs in #philosophy and #Ireland
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Was happy to contribute to this BBC piece on the AI industry's usual bullshit
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Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Three year postdoc going at @qmulsse.bsky.social working with @karlpike.bsky.social on ‘Politics and mythmaking: disentangling myth from ideology’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Details here:
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Very excited for what I'm calling 'Rosa Campbell Week' in Edinburgh in May, where @rosavcampbell.bsky.social will be in town for a number of events to launch her new book on Shere Hite - including a talk at @lighthousebks.bsky.social chaired by me! lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...
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Lighthouse | The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Rosa Campbell on Shere Hite and the Hite Report
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I've just discovered that the paper I wrote with Luna Dolezal on fetal ultrasound has been subjected to some (conservative, male) misinterpretation and nastiness on X. doi.org/10.1017/hyp....
Image of a fetal ultrasound scan with the question, Why don't we think of fetal ultrasound as an intrusion?
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
If you missed this week's Bring Your Own Project workshop on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance, you might like to know that I'm running a second overflow session next Tuesday at 1.30pm over Zoom. Sign up here: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/byop-epistem...
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Free online Epistemic Injustice Workshop for Social Researchers
Join us on 21 April for a free workshop to troubleshoot and hone your theoretical lens while connecting with other researchers working on similar topics
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Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab @philmoralpsych.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Hi Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab, based at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. We use experimental philosophy and moral psychology methods to study morality, with the aim of contributing to normative and philosophical debates in ethics. Follow us to keep up with our work!
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our next PAS talk will take place next Monday: We've got Anneli Jefferson from Cardiff coming to talk to us: "Working out how blame works" ⏰ 18.15, 2 March 2026. 📍 Swedenborg Hall (20-21 Bloomsbury Way) 🔗https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2025-26-programme/anneli-jefferson/
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
⏱️the countdown begins…we are 1 year in to the Multispecies Mutualisms project & next week we will advertise four 3-year post doc positions. The posts will start in Sept 2026. Keep a look out for the adverts & get in touch if you have fully completed your PhD & are interested in working with us ⬇️
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Why don’t we think of fetal ultrasound—the production of images of the inside of our reproductive organs—as an intrusion? Luna Dolezal and I argue that we should doi.org/10.1017/hyp.... #OpenAccess
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Fetal Ultrasound as Intrusion | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Fetal Ultrasound as Intrusion
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Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Hot on the heels of the @parisreview.bsky.social piece featuring an excerpt from Kathleen Colllins's unfinished novel "Blue Obstacles," ASAP/Journal has published a longer version of the draft materials with scholarly notes and a contextualizing essay. It's open access! 🎉🎉🎉 doi.org/10.1353/asa....
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Dr Daisy Dixon's new book –– DEPRAVED: The Story of Dangerous Art –– an analysis of the varieties of immoral art and the ways that we should respond to it –– is now available to preorder! Waterstones are offering a 25% discount until 20 February – used code FEB26: bit.ly/Dixon-DSDA #philsky
Bright red book cover with the title and author's name in black.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Funding status
Open for applications
Career stage
Early-career
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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Important project happening at @ucc.ie right now: www.ucc.ie/en/deepfake-...
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Deepfake Real Harms Toolkit | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Another. Once upon a time there would have been consequences for a company that knowingly enabled this, including a consumer revolt.
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 More feminist rage! A President, a head of state, a woman, cannot walk on the street without being sexuslly harassed! #killthepatriarchy www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“Women do not need full rights but rather the freeing privilege of serving men, their community, and their nation through dutiful reproduction” — Great analysis of some very troubling trends on the Right by @aselrod.bsky.social
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
✨CFA✨ I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract! Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🎈Book launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by Jonathan Webber Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30 Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
Detail from the book's cover art.
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Rethinking Existentialism @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
1 October 1945: The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board. The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.
Cover of the first issue of Les Temps Modernes.

Blank white page with the following column of centred text:

Les Temps
Modernes

1re année    REVUE MENSUELLE    n° 1

1er Octobre 1945

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE - Présentation.
RICHARD WRIGHT - Le feu dans la nuée.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY - La guerre a eu lieu.
FRANCIS PONGE - Notes premières de l'homme.
RAYMOND ARON - Les désillusions de la liberté.
JACQUES-LAURENT BOST - Le dernier des métiers.
VIES
Vie d'une sinistrée.
TÉMOIGNAGES
JEAN ROY - Les morts.
EXPOSÉS
F. PASCHE, RAYMOND ARON, JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
LEENHART, PHILLIP TOYNBEE, IVAN MOFFAT, JEAN POUILLON.

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Rédaction, administration : 5, rue Sébastien-Bottin, Paris
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Here, I review the final instalment of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s student diary as well as Margaret A. Simons’s treatment of the sexual assault it alludes to.
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The latest issue of Sartre Studies International has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 31, Issue 1 here: bit.ly/4pC8gX1 Featuring a Review Essay by @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social @uksartresociety.bsky.social
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Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Excited to share "Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds" forthcoming in For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions edited by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social & Thomas Szanto tinyurl.com/374skfza
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Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds
In Australia, divisive debate on the matter of religious freedom has come to the fore following the introduction of marriage equality in 2017 and increasing protections against trans and gender divers...
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Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland @swip-i.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Only 4️⃣ days left to submit to the 10th SWIP Ireland Conference on Ways of Knowing: Epistemologies & Pedagogies 📅 5–6 Dec 2025 📍Maynooth University 📝 Abstracts (max 300 words) due 1 Sept. 👉 www.swip-ireland.com/events #CFP #Philosophy
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Events — SWIP Ireland
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Don’t miss @philosofemme.bsky.social on Simone de Beauvoir and French Existentialism @ Blackwells Oxford 11am Saturday 3rd May - free event #philosophyinthebookshop www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy...
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Kate Kirkpatrick and Nigel Warburton
Our regular Philosophy in the Bookshop series this month features Kate Kirkpatrick on Simone De Beauvoir and French existentialism.
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British Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · 03/03/2025
“Phenomenologies of Mental Health, Well-Being, and Flourishing” Call for abstracts and proposals - Interdisciplinary Conference September 19-20, 2025, Lehigh University, College of Health www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/phenomenolog... #Phenomenology
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The International Simone de Beauvoir Society @beauvoirsociety.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Given the current political environment, essays devoted to the theme of complicity and resistance are especially encouraged. 🔥
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction by Emma Borg and Sarah Fisher Wednesday, 26 February 2025 18:00-19:00 Cathays, Cardiff Full details ––
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Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction
Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book co-authored by Cardiff University philosopher Dr Sarah Fisher.
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British Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · 25/02/2025
Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying Phenomenology (Dublin, Ireland | 27 – 29 August 2025) Call for abstracts – papers, panels, posters, books Joint international conference: British Society for Phenomenology & University College Dublin sites.google.com/view/licdubl... #phenomenology
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 24/01/2025
Do you have a stellar track record in #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology (inc. AI)? Want to be my colleague at University College Dublin? Good news: we’re hiring! Full details below, with further information about the Ad Astra programme at www.ucd.ie/adastrafello.... #PhilJobs #PhilTech #AIEthics
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
And it includes @nonamename.bsky.social’s brilliant paper on silencing conversational silences! 🙌
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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Opening next week: the first solo exhibition of paintings by Hélène de Beauvoir in London. Her work was first exhibited in Paris in 1936 in the Galerie Jacques Bonjean—a gallery cofounded by Christian Dior in his first career as an art dealer. artplugged.co.uk/helene-de-be...
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Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed
Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed marks the artist’s first solo show in London, revealing decades of overlooked work and a legacy intertwined with feminism
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Jonathan Mitchell @mitchellphilosophy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
amzn.eu/d/8kTB7Oh Ever wondered what Emotions are? #philosophy - look no further!
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Emotion as Feeling Towards Value: A Theory of Emotional Experience
Buy Emotion as Feeling Towards Value: A Theory of Emotional Experience by Mitchell, Jonathan (ISBN: 9780192846013) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Image Works @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Looking forward to our evening discussionof tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fandom, trans affect, and more at Tramshed tonight! Tickets free and a few still available (eventbrite link below)💫 #cardiff
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Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
TOMORROW! Heads up; if you're attending online you need to register -- otherwise the Zoom link won't work. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/online-dig... @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
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Dr Louise Richardson-Self @lvself.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/online-dig...
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(ONLINE) Digital Transformations: Identity, Gender, and Affectivity
An exploration of the digital aspects of human lives, and the ways in which identities, communities, and collectives form in online spaces.
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 12/11/2024
Resources for Bluesky philosophers 1. Some recommendations to get you started bsky.app/profile/did:... 2. Philosophy and subject-specific feeds bsky.app/profile/did:... (uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other hashtags) 3. A list of philosophers on Bluesky (under construction) bsky.app/profile/did:...
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A. @nonamename.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
For years now we've seen increasing criminalisation of drill music & artists in the UK and the US. Tareeq Jalloh, Ethan Nowak & I are organising a hybrid, interdiciplinary event surrounding these issues, focussing on social justice, freeom and rap. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folks-need...
Brown background with pink and beige writing on it that reads: 
Cardiff University and Stanford University Present 
Folks need to Chill about Drill 
Discussions on Rap, Freedom & Social Justice 

Speakers include: 
Lambros Fatsis
Tareeq Jalloh
Ethan Nowak
Latoya Reisner
Joy White 

December 6th, Workshop 10:30-17:00; Panel discussion 18:00-19:30
Please register via QR code [but you can also register via the link in the post]

There is a drawing of a microphone hovering behind the word "freedom"
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