dubravka
@dubravka.bsky.social
architect and educator, programme lead of MA City Design at Royal College of Art, London
minorplanning, spatial literacy, and spatial social contract
some poetry and a lot of music
minorplanning, spatial literacy, and spatial social contract
some poetry and a lot of music
I am so hyped about City Design in Conversation vol.2 MINORPLANING – the practices of designing the city that support the liberation and emancpation of those who live and struggle in cities.
2 December 1 PM GMT, online
On Spatial Literacy with Iva Čukić
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-desig...
2 December 1 PM GMT, online
On Spatial Literacy with Iva Čukić
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-desig...
City Design in Conversation – MINORPLANNING
Join us online for the second series of City Design in Conversation. Hosted by Dubravka Sekulić, Head of Programme.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I am so hyped about City Design in Conversation vol.2 MINORPLANING – the practices of designing the city that support the liberation and emancpation of those who live and struggle in cities.
2 December 1 PM GMT, online
On Spatial Literacy with Iva Čukić
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-desig...
2 December 1 PM GMT, online
On Spatial Literacy with Iva Čukić
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-desig...
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"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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WOW! Do jump all over The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum, shaped by Christina Sharpe ofc, feat. Glenn Coulthard, Madeleine Thien, Canisia Lubrin & Immanuel Wilkins. Just brilliant; the world as a different, possible, homely place. Watch/listen >c18m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
WOW! Do jump all over The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum, shaped by Christina Sharpe ofc, feat. Glenn Coulthard, Madeleine Thien, Canisia Lubrin & Immanuel Wilkins. Just brilliant; the world as a different, possible, homely place. Watch/listen >c18m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
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WOW! Do jump all over The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum, shaped by Christina Sharpe ofc, feat. Glenn Coulthard, Madeleine Thien, Canisia Lubrin & Immanuel Wilkins. Just brilliant; the world as a different, possible, homely place. Watch/listen >c18m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Ethnic cleansing is now the official political position of the British and German center-right.
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ethnic cleansing is now the official political position of the British and German center-right.
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What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
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Simply unbelievable.
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
The D’Angelo Cycle by I. Augustus Durham
The Digital Home for Duke University Professor and Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal
www.newblackmaninexile.net
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Simply unbelievable.
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔
There are no words but this was my offering, once.
For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social:
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...
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New Celebrate People's History poster in the shop by UK artist Rachael House! "Sisters Uncut" was an ntersectional feminist British direct action group opposed to cuts to UK govt. services for domestic violence victims. justseeds.org/product/sist...
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
New Celebrate People's History poster in the shop by UK artist Rachael House! "Sisters Uncut" was an ntersectional feminist British direct action group opposed to cuts to UK govt. services for domestic violence victims. justseeds.org/product/sist...
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“But I want to be a kind of reader as I write. That means not knowing what’s up ahead.”
– Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
– Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
September 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“But I want to be a kind of reader as I write. That means not knowing what’s up ahead.”
– Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
– Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel
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A report in HuffPo says ICE is evacuating a DHS facility it was using outside of Chicago for its operations. Protests and direct action once again drive Trump out of #Chicago. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...
Protests Lead Trump Administration To Evacuate ICE Facility Outside Chicago
Homeland security communications show officials want to move operations following a protest in which demonstrators said they were hit with teargas.
www.huffpost.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A report in HuffPo says ICE is evacuating a DHS facility it was using outside of Chicago for its operations. Protests and direct action once again drive Trump out of #Chicago. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...
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Israeli airstrikes are targeting Gaza City’s last high-rise towers - among the only structures still able to shelter thousands of displaced families. Most are surrounded by tent areas, making strikes deadly for those inside and around them.
September 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Israeli airstrikes are targeting Gaza City’s last high-rise towers - among the only structures still able to shelter thousands of displaced families. Most are surrounded by tent areas, making strikes deadly for those inside and around them.
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The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
September 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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This is the replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family
It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday
The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces
It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday
The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is the replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family
It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday
The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces
It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday
The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces
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"Let’s not sit inside our sorrows, let’s not describe things to death. My orientation is activism. Other than that it’s like a kind of vanity or a decadence." - June Jordan
August 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Let’s not sit inside our sorrows, let’s not describe things to death. My orientation is activism. Other than that it’s like a kind of vanity or a decadence." - June Jordan
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Drawing on oral testimony, archival records and fieldwork, my colleagues at FA developed novel methods for the reconstruction of historical landscapes to make visible the long-term environmental degradation experienced in Namibia since German colonisation.
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Drawing on oral testimony, archival records and fieldwork, my colleagues at FA developed novel methods for the reconstruction of historical landscapes to make visible the long-term environmental degradation experienced in Namibia since German colonisation.
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
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"We are invited to consider [NYC's proposed skyscraper jails] as good neighbors, sites of life opportunity . . . anything but facilities for human caging." Jarrod Shanahan & Zhandarka Kurti reveal how NYC jail boosters abuse decarceral talking points. w/ @haymarketbooks.org
The Dystopia of the World’s Tallest Jails - Jarrod Shanahan & Zhandarka Kurti - Inquest
New York City’s plan to replace Rikers with skyscraper jails is a cautionary tale of how decarceral talking points can be misappropriated.
inquest.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"We are invited to consider [NYC's proposed skyscraper jails] as good neighbors, sites of life opportunity . . . anything but facilities for human caging." Jarrod Shanahan & Zhandarka Kurti reveal how NYC jail boosters abuse decarceral talking points. w/ @haymarketbooks.org
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To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship.
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...
Seeds of another world
The nexus of radical inequality, social atomization and male victimhood has been exploited before. But why now, on such a scale? To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the...
www.eurozine.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship.
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...
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#OtD 20 Jul 1925 Frantz Fanon, revolutionary psychiatrist and pioneering anti-colonial theorist was born in Martinique. He served in the Free French Army, experiencing racism and joined the Algerian independence movement. Learn more in this biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
July 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OtD 20 Jul 1925 Frantz Fanon, revolutionary psychiatrist and pioneering anti-colonial theorist was born in Martinique. He served in the Free French Army, experiencing racism and joined the Algerian independence movement. Learn more in this biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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“If you are not careful, and if you are not tapped into your own humanity and that of others, it can be tempting to mistake people for symbols.”
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“If you are not careful, and if you are not tapped into your own humanity and that of others, it can be tempting to mistake people for symbols.”
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
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The “big beautiful bill” has $160bn in new anti-immigrant measures including $8bn for ICE personnel, $15bn for deportations and $45bn to build detention facilities. Current total ICE budget is ~$8bn. They want to scale up this terror to an unimaginable level.
www.wola.org/analysis/160...
www.wola.org/analysis/160...
$160 Billion to Detain and Deport: Congress’s “Reconciliation” Bill is a Betrayal of Priorities and Will Harm the Most Vulnerable - WOLA
This piece focuses on the incredible scale of what the U.S. Congress is proposing to spend on enforcement and border security. The reconciliation bill’s mammoth dimensions are not getting the attentio...
www.wola.org
June 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The “big beautiful bill” has $160bn in new anti-immigrant measures including $8bn for ICE personnel, $15bn for deportations and $45bn to build detention facilities. Current total ICE budget is ~$8bn. They want to scale up this terror to an unimaginable level.
www.wola.org/analysis/160...
www.wola.org/analysis/160...
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my wonderful department @cumediastudies.bsky.social
is thinking ahead to fall 2026 and we would love your help getting the word out about our MA and PhD programs! Boulder remains a relatively safe place & students can join any of our labs/centers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
is thinking ahead to fall 2026 and we would love your help getting the word out about our MA and PhD programs! Boulder remains a relatively safe place & students can join any of our labs/centers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MDST Graduate Programs Recruitment
University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2026! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applications fo...
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June 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
my wonderful department @cumediastudies.bsky.social
is thinking ahead to fall 2026 and we would love your help getting the word out about our MA and PhD programs! Boulder remains a relatively safe place & students can join any of our labs/centers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
is thinking ahead to fall 2026 and we would love your help getting the word out about our MA and PhD programs! Boulder remains a relatively safe place & students can join any of our labs/centers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
if you are in london join us this week for a 3 day Take Back the Land Symposium where we will be exploring the role of architecture in taking back and working with communities in struggle.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/take-back-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/take-back-...
May 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
if you are in london join us this week for a 3 day Take Back the Land Symposium where we will be exploring the role of architecture in taking back and working with communities in struggle.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/take-back-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/take-back-...
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happy birthday to the brilliant and beautiful and kind Sylvia Wynter!
May 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
happy birthday to the brilliant and beautiful and kind Sylvia Wynter!
nourishing and phenomenal Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez with Pat Thomas at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social tonight 💜💜💜
April 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
nourishing and phenomenal Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez with Pat Thomas at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social tonight 💜💜💜