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Sociological Review Fellow 2024/25. Counsellor and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse

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Feminist Review @feministreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“… the colonial and patriarchal roots of the UK child protection system continue to ‘unmother’ marginalised women.” Read @mbherbert.bsky.social ‘Un/mothering: An ethnographic account of the role of colonialism, patriarchy and poverty in the child protection system in England' fully OA rb.gy/3cwd1a
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I helped write some names on the sidewalk the other day. Too many names
List of names of the 68 people directly killed in encounters with ICE since January 2025, written in chalk on a sidewalk in Northampton, MA
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Horrific
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Really looking forward to this pair of evening workshops next week on Live Sociology. There are still places; all proceeds go back to the Foundation to support sociology. @thesociologicalreview.org
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sorry to miss you Les. I’m there tomorrow.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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I Thought I Knew Gaza. Then I Went Back.
After nearly three years, I finally returned to my homeland. I wasn’t prepared for what I found.
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🤣
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This 👇🏾💯per cent
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Totally agree
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
None of this is okay. Not Gaza. Not Sudan. Not Haiti. Not wildfires. And scorching temperatures. Not billionaires. Not millionaires. Not ICE. Not concentration camps. None of it.
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Really excited that this is now out, in the latest issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television: my new article, '‘Solidarity Forever’? Histories of Gender, Sexuality and Industrial Action in Made in Dagenham and Pride'. A 🧵 on the article. #filmsky #skystorians🗃️
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‘Solidarity Forever’? Histories of Gender, Sexuality and Industrial Action in Made in Dagenham and Pride | Journal of British Cinema and Television
This article compares cinematic portrayals of British industrial relations history in Made in Dagenham (2010) and Pride (2014). It analyses the two films, and the metanarratives constructed around the...
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Look forward to reading this!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Netanyahu regime’s genocidal evil is being allowed to continue, above all by a morally bankrupt US regime and a powerless international community. Netanyahu-Trump-Putin: the early 21st century Axis of Evil.. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’
IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Un/mothering: An ethnographic account of the role of colonialism, patriarchy and poverty in the child protection system in the UK. (doi: 10.1177/01417789261459063) Building on the work of @hystericalblkns.bsky.social thank you @feministreview.bsky.social
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Un/mothering: An ethnographic account of the role of colonialism, patriarchy and poverty in the child protection system in England - Brenda Herbert, 2026
Gazing at the child protection system in England through the lens of Black feminists Christina Sharpe, Hortense Spillers, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and bell hooks, I...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Windrush generation is still fighting for justice after being accused of living in the UK illegally. Ayshah Tull speaks to Hannah Dankwa, who was wrongly stopped from entering the UK. ✉️ Read our latest newsletter:
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‘I am fearful’: 82-year-old woman on her fight to re-enter UK
The Windrush generation is still fighting for justice after being accused of living in the UK illegally. Ayshah Tull speaks to Hannah Dankwa, who was wrongly stopped from entering the UK.
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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Elderly Jamaican man dies after Home Office system leaves him without job or status www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/jamaican-m...
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Revealed | Elderly Jamaican man dies after Home Office system leaves him without job or status
After nearly 30 years in the UK, Robert White was left destitute when he lost access to his immigration status, with his solicitor blaming systemic failure for his death
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There are so many Radins in this world and those we killed. The children are all ours: Iranian, Palestinian, Sudanese, Congolese … they all deserve to live without wars.
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Residents proved their tap water carries sewage and bacteria. Federal funding dried up anyway. capitalbnews.org/cahokia-heights-wa…
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For 35 Years, This Black Town in Illinois Has Been Told Its Sewage Crisis Isn’t Real
Residents proved their tap water carries sewage and bacteria. Federal funding dried up anyway.
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Thread on settler nationalist violence in the West Bank, how it disrupts deep-routed ecological-cultural systems, and the role that co-resistance – literal standing together – can play in challenging it.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In the weeks prior to her death, Amisha wrote this.
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Fighting Cancer Has Given Me New Insights on the Anti-Fascist Challenge We Face
To resist authoritarianism, our work must be deeply relational. We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 20/04/2026
Why are colonial histories often sidelined in our understanding of the modern world? Join us on 27 May with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social & Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Part of our Conversation Series. Free & online! 🔗 buff.ly/lTcfQjW
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Select tickets – The Modern World after Colonialism – Zoom
The Modern World after Colonialism – Zoom, Wed 27 May 2026 - What does it mean to take colonial histories seriously in the making of the modern world? Why does it matter that processes of colonialism,...
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Cllr Hazel Chu @hazelchu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.
_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis."

https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Solidarity with the transgender & intersex communities in India after the Amendment Bill was bulldozed through houses of parliament replacing self-identification with mandatory medical certification. My #KilljoySolidarity with you in this fight. Friends, sign & fight! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Signing the Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026
Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026. Note: Translations of this statement in multiple Indian languages are available at the end. We, the concerned ...
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 15/03/2026
"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I’m lecturing on mourning and melancholia to my honours’ students this week and in the midst of writing my lecture I read Haley Mlotek’s essay in @thenation.com on Duras and on grief www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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The Greatest Love Is Grieving
I spent years as a labor organizer. Marguerite Duras’s war novel taught me that the strongest fighters are always the women hurting the most.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 01/03/2026
Are the British national media planning to tell the public at all that Israel already possesses nuclear arms❓ www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...
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The BBC isn’t telling the truth about Israel’s nuclear arms
The UK broadcaster is writing hundreds of articles on Iran’s budding nuclear programme while failing to inform the public about Israel’s actual nuclear weapons.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva, who was unlawfully detained by ICE earlier today, says she is “safe and okay”
Hi guys
I am so grateful for everyone of you. I just got out a little while ago. I am safe and okay. In an uber otw back home. I am so sorry but I am in complete shock over what happened and my phone is blowing up with calls from reporters. I need a little bit of time to process everything
I will come back soon.
But please don't worry I love you all
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Look forward to hearing your thoughts, Lisa.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”
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Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thank you!
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I don’t usually cross the steams of my academic and musical lives - but just so sickened by the sexual exploitation and misogyny of powerful and degenerate elites and their rotten tech bro empires - Funk the Patriarchy II 8th March, Glad Cafe www.instagram.com/reel/DU-_VWQ...
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Publication day!! Thank you to @thesociologicalreview.org who awarded me the fellowship to turn my thesis into a monograph with @policypress.bsky.social
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 19/02/2026
“Social struggles and oppressions are not abstract concepts: they usually emerge from our daily lives and often find us before we go looking for them.” Editors Iris Pissaride and Juliette Wilson-Thomas introduce our Magazine’s February issue. buff.ly/zMo9aU6
Phases of the moon against a black background.
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Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Join us on the 26th March!
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/02/2026
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
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Bdsucl @bdsucl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DUswuVQjVF... CWU members at Google Deepmimd took part in @palestinesolidarityuk Workplace Day of Action to call out Google’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza. They were joined by academics from UCL demanding their university divest from Google.
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cwunews on Instagram: "CWU @utaw_uk members at Google DeepMind took part in @palestinesolidarityuk Workplace Day of Action to call out Google’s complicity…"
CWU @utaw_uk members at Google DeepMind took part in @palestinesolidarityuk Workplace Day of Action to call out Google’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza, to demand a robust code of AI ethics and an end to unethical contracts. They were joined by academics from UCL demanding their university divest from Google while it maintains its unethical and military contracts.Workers make the AI, workers can shut it down!
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 12/02/2026
“Classroom teachers are no longer just educators; we’re therapists, crisis responders and case managers, all while trying to meet academic benchmarks.” In the February issue of the Magazine, former teacher Iza Munir Hamdani shares her experience of burnout. buff.ly/B76M3Xa
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
He’s got a lot to answer for
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
You are the best cheerleader 💜
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 07/02/2026
I've asked so many people to please quit substack, and if I see a substack link, I rarely, if ever, click on it. and I know amazing people that I love and respect and learn from are on there and it makes me so sad. in case it helps you to finally quit that place: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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mbherbert.bsky.social @mbherbert.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Thank you so much for supporting me 💜
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