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Meghan Tinsley

@meghanetinsley.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester | author: bit.ly/3HKURWE | memory, nationalism, post/decoloniality | she/her

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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Well done to @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, @meghanetinsley.bsky.social & Professor Andreja Zevnik, highly commended in the “Outstanding contribution to equality, diversity and inclusion” for their project, “Decolonial Praxis”, challenging colonial legacies in international research and teaching.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report
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UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report
Experts put estimate for economic harm done by 200 years of chattel slavery at $2tn, but stress this is ‘not an invoice’
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🗣️‘The Big Payback: Reparations and how money shapes our morality and views on racial justice’ - Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge 📅3pm–4.45pm Wed 6 May 2026 (Manchester, in person only) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-big-pa...
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The Big Payback: Reparations
Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge, on reparations and how money shapes our morality and our views on racial justice
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New office door decor from @monicabyrne13.bsky.social
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wonderful to see this in print! I wrote the chapter on decolonisation in Interrogating the Global Social Challenges, a collective effort by @uomsociology.bsky.social showcasing the breadth of our research and its political urgency.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
My latest article in Social Science History revisits the toppling of two controversial statues in Virginia and Martinique. I argue that statue topplings are not shots fired in a 'culture war', but a response to a longer crisis of historical subjectivity. doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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Setting Empire in Stone: Commemoration and the Crisis of Historical Subjectivity | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Setting Empire in Stone: Commemoration and the Crisis of Historical Subjectivity
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This new book features: @meghanetinsley.bsky.social on decolonialisation; @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social & Siobhan O'Neill on racialised injustice & @bcernusa.bsky.social & Bhallamudi on technology & work. All welcome at the book launch on 8 April!
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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
S4P rejects ASA leadership's authoritarian decision to bypass its own procedures & membership engagement re: our BDS resolution. If the resolution is not considered via existing procedures we will BOYCOTT the 2026 meeting. SIGN ON TO JOIN US: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Response to ASA's Letter to Membership on "ASA Policy, Member-Led Petitions, and ASA's Future"
NAMES WILL NEVER BE SENT TO THE ASA WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, DATA WILL BE SUMMARIZED & SHARED PLEASE INDICATE BELOW IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HAVE YOUR NAME INCLUDED IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE ASA To memb...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Shabana Mahmood to limit refugees to 30 months in UK
Shorter asylum period can be renewed under hardline policy aimed at stopping rise of Reform UK
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
First Postcolonial Theory lecture of the semester done! It feels good to be teaching again after two years of buy-out/research leave. I had to update my lecture slides, though: it no longer feels accurate to say that neo-colonialism is often less explicit than colonialism. 😖
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Its literally the foundation of the United States. Like please let's not erase centuries of Black and indigenous genocide in this moment that's a fruit of those labors.
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🎧Listen to @meghanetinsley.bsky.social discussing the ethics of researching the far right on the latest episode of the #EthicsUnboxed podcast @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I enjoyed this thought-provoking conversation on the ethics of researching the far right. We recorded it in June, and it seems even more pertinent now. @aurelmondon.bsky.social @antoniavaughan.bsky.social @joanbraune.bsky.social www.podbean.com/ew/pb-sn5nf-...
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Ethics, Unboxed 2 - Ethics of researching the far-right with Dr Meghan Tinsley
Dr. Meghan Tinsley (University of Manchester) discusses the ethical implications of researching extremist and far right political groups, drawing on her co-edited book The ethics of researching of the...
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Expressions of Interest are OPEN! Are you an early career researcher in the arts & humanities with bold ideas? Apply for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship through UoM and join a world-class research community. EOI deadline: 26.1.2026 www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It was a pleasure to catch up with @greencitizen.bsky.social and discuss the tensions and contradictions of anti-colonial statues. You can listen to our conversation here: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4f9nm...
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Meghan Tinsley on postcolonial statuary, memory, and nationalism
Meghan Tinsley on cultural policy in Africa and the Caribbean, imperial memory, patriotism, and nationalism You can read about her work here: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/meghan.tinsle...
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Excited to dive into my new reading material from MUP @manchesterup.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social @claireblencowe.bsky.social
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@meghanetinsley.bsky.social comments on the importance of representation in memorials in this article about delays to a proposed Muslim war memorial by @weronikas.bsky.social in @hyphenonline.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/11/05/m...
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Muslim war memorial: ministers’ delay leaves trust to find £1m - Hyphen
Long-awaited project could help counter far-right myths about Muslims not being part of Britain’s history, argue supporters
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/10/2025
well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
NOVEMBER 3, 2025
THE ART WORLD
RECONSTRUCTED
In "Monuments," the Confederacy surrenders to nineteen artists.
By Julian Lucas
6:00 AM

Picture is the statue described in img 2•he hirst thing you see is a horses
- ass, protruding, upside down, trom the thorax of a monster. A man's arm descends from the beast's stomach, his gloved hand clutching the blade of a fallen sabre. There's no sign of a rider's face, but a head of well-coiffed hair dangles from the creature's eyeless muzzle. Every part of the work comes from a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that was removed from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021. It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher's diagram. The finished sculpture, "Unmanned Drone"—on view at the Brick, in Los Angeles, as part of a joint exhibition with MocA called
"Monuments" —is at once an act of carnivalesque retribution and a recognition of the Confederacy's zombie-like persistence. A rebellion defeated more than a hundred and sixty years ago refuses to stay dead; between the creature's legs, a horse head emerges from a gape in the bronze, like a new Jackson already foaling.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
What are your favourite interdisciplinary journals that invite submissions outside the conventional article format? I’m thinking of poetry, reflection pieces, even visual art. @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Friendly reminder at Anchorage airport security to leave these everyday items at home. #Murrica
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The @greenparty.org.uk internal election results have given me a renewed sense of hope. With @zackpolanski.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social & a strongly trans-inclusive, pro-Palestine GPEx, the Greens are creating space in party politics to fight the far right.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Not “an American city.” A city. Any city. It shouldn’t be normal for armed US military to engage in law enforcement in any city, anywhere. But much of the outrage taking hold right now treats the US empire-state as exceptional.
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VeGn (Vegan Greens) @vegangreensuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Kudos to the vegan society for curating this brilliant exhibition on the past, present and future of veganism 🌱! The exhibition is a great way to learn about veganism and also teach your kids about it. The exhibition ends on August 23rd. #vegan #govegan #vegangreens #vegangreensuk
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I’m in there. A billionaire at Meta stole six publications from me, including the first article I ever published as a PhD student. I’ve just added my name to the potential lawsuit.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It’s 2 weeks since my 40th birthday, and I’ve made the pleasant discovery that it’s now slightly harder for mansplainers to dismiss me with ‘In MY day, young lady . . .’ I can talk about ‘my day’, too, mate. And capitalism has always been the problem.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
‘The removal of statues is not a symbol of decolonization, but an act of it.’ theintercept.com/2025/08/08/t...
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Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again.
Monuments to racism license racist violence. White supremacists, for their part, know this well.
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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Congrats to our colleagues Andreja Zevnik, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @meghanetinsley.bsky.social for winning the BISA 2025 EDI Prize Their Decolonial Praxis project is transforming how we think about equity, knowledge & collaboration in international studies 🔗Read more below:
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University of Manchester team wins BISA 2025 EDI prize for Decolonial Praxis Project
The British International Studies Association (BISA) has recognised The University of Manchester’s outstanding commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by awarding its 2025 EDI Prize to a t...
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I actively discourage my students from postgrad study in the US. Even if they get a visa, they’ll face surveillance on campus. This isn’t to excuse the UK (where pro-Pal speech is also under attack), but to dispel illusions about the US as a land of opportunity. www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-chan...
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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications
The move has been heavily criticised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin who described it as “excessive”.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Delighted to have received my contributor copy of The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789! Gemma King and I have a chapter about a particularly ambivalent postcolonial ruin. It was a pleasure to work with @kory-ory.bsky.social @amandasvincent.bsky.social & Erin-Marie Legacey.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It feels a bit surreal to be writing about the contestation of statues in Martinique inside the Bibliothèque Schoelcher, directly across the street from Joséphine’s broken plinth.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is what happened when I used an English-language AI tool to transcribe a French-language interview. The good news is that I don't think AI will be taking over the world any time soon. The bad news is that I might be having a stroke. 😂
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Heading back to Manchester after a wonderful week of fieldwork and workshops on decolonial praxis at the University of Ghana.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I am begging people to acknowledge the fact that US foreign aid and “humanitarianism” has coexisted with a decades long bipartisan (!!) track record of destroying democracies and propping up dictators and authoritarians across the globe. The “aligning” did not begin with Trump and Elon Musk.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
When ex- @labouruk.bsky.social voters say ‘they’re all the same’, this is what they’re talking about. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Britain can learn from Trump’s positivity, says Rachel Reeves
Under-pressure chancellor says she is challenging people to be more positive on the UK’s strengths
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I just received Miguel Montalva Barba’s new book from @brisunipress.bsky.social. Looking forward to this timely read from the Decolonisation and Social Worlds series. @alimeghji.bsky.social @jairofunez.bsky.social
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Really enjoyed listening to Ajmal Hussain present his research on memory, belonging, and (not) being ‘left behind’ in Stoke-on-Trent. Looking forward to reading his book! @ethnicityuk.bsky.social
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
My new hobby is jumping on US citizens who complain about needing a ‘visa’ to visit the UK. 1. ETA is absolutely nothing like applying for a UK tourist visa. 2. The US has required the equivalent for 15 years. 3. Passport privilege is alive and well. 4. #abolishborders
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
What is apparently a ‘distant era’ for the NYT is literally every day in Palestine.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The government is pressing on with eVisas for non-EU migrants despite not completing an equality impact assessment Campaigners warn the switch to eVisas could cause problems for older residents and those lack reliable internet access By me, for the Observer: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK rollout of eVisas could leave non-EU migrants ‘vulnerable’
Home Office is issuing digital visas without completing necessary checks, Freedom of Information quest reveals
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
'Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his extremist far-right politics have been successfully mainstreamed in France' Great piece by @aurelmondon.bsky.social theconversation.com/jean-marie-l...
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Jean-Marie Le Pen died knowing his extremist far-right politics have been successfully mainstreamed in France
The former leader of the National Front has died, aged 96.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 19/12/2024
Thorough (positive) review of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right by David Renton - really pleased he found the book useful! @antoniavaughan.bsky.social @meghanetinsley.bsky.social @joanbraune.bsky.social livesrunning.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/m...
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Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Get to Know
When Manchester University Press announced the publication of this book, I could see at once that a book like this needed to be written. It is made up of 32 essays all asking how researchers can st…
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
SEMINAR 📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city 🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain 📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome) @uomsociology.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...
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Leaving being ‘left behind’:itineraries of operation & resistance in Stoke
Ajmal Hussain shares his research on race and class in Stoke-on-Trent, popularly known as the 'Brexit Capital of England'
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Follow @ethnicityuk.bsky.social folk with our starter pack: go.bsky.app/JVeXtKu
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A timely read in France and Britain alike, as Starmer continues to cosy up to Farage.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
CfP from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social: In the face of the genocide in Gaza, how can we mobilise our sociological imaginations to “envision radical alternatives” and work towards “the future we wish to see”? thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Today, the @britsoci.bsky.social Postcolonial and Decolonial Study Group is in Edinburgh to host ‘Palestine calling: How do we respond? Sociology in a time of genocide’. Participants will discuss history, pedagogy, and activism on and off our campuses. We’ll theorise for the sake of organising.
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
If antiracism is to survive the attacks on it – and build foundations that will last beyond feel-good vibes – it needs to be more than ANTI something. What is the future that it is FOR? Join the conversation with John Solomos ↓ @baggieyiannis.bsky.social See more: www.politybooks.com/...
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yep. Once the veil lifts, you realise how much you’d normalised that fear. I’m still anxious about health insurance and gun violence whenever I visit the US, but now I’m conscious of it. And knowing that these are deliberate, totally avoidable policy choices makes me really, really angry.
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Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Fascinating piece on fetishising and rewriting the past. theconversation.com/what-the-not...
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What the Notre Dame restoration says about France’s past – and its future
Both sacred and secular the cathedral illustrates the conflict between tradition and reform in France.
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