Anupama Ranawana
@msamrc.bsky.social
She/her. Feminism, anti-colonialism, critical international development. Liberation theology. Postdoc at Durham. Mother to a grumpy cat
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focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh (School of History, Classics and Archaeology):
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh | MEMOs
The University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
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November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
focus on the history of the Caribbean and/or the history of Atlantic slavery
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If you've ever asked the question: 'What's the point of wasps?' you should watch our most recent #Nature Seminar, 'The Natural Capital of Wasps'. @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner will convert you! youtu.be/ELI_8KkwJm0
The Natural Capital of Wasps. Seirian Sumner
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
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November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you've ever asked the question: 'What's the point of wasps?' you should watch our most recent #Nature Seminar, 'The Natural Capital of Wasps'. @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner will convert you! youtu.be/ELI_8KkwJm0
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Are the press going to run front pages and news items for months to ensure this man never reaches high office or is that only for Jeremy Corbyn ?
How else is racism delivered than in "a hurtful or insulting way”?
So reassuring to see again how how easy it is for racists to forget their funny bantz from decades ago and dress it yup as schoolboy japes. Not so easy for those who suffer it
This timeline too:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So reassuring to see again how how easy it is for racists to forget their funny bantz from decades ago and dress it yup as schoolboy japes. Not so easy for those who suffer it
This timeline too:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline
Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Are the press going to run front pages and news items for months to ensure this man never reaches high office or is that only for Jeremy Corbyn ?
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : ""We have a housing crisis, a climate crisis and an inequality crisis, and what we all want to see from this budget is not tough choices for working class communities, for migrants, for disabled people, but tough choices for multi millionaires & billionaires"
Good article on the rise of Buddhist extremism. I would only correct that it's not rising but risen...please ask minorities in Sri Lanka and Myanmar for example www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Good article on the rise of Buddhist extremism. I would only correct that it's not rising but risen...please ask minorities in Sri Lanka and Myanmar for example www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
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Queering UK Refugee Law
Queering UK Refugee Law - Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration; In the context of a global backlash against migrant and LGBTIQA+ rights , this book examines the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people in...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
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As #India transforms into a hub for artificial intelligence, the datacentre boom is creating a toxic hell and ruining the health of its people.
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
As #India transforms into a hub for artificial intelligence, the datacentre boom is creating a toxic hell and ruining the health of its people.
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Breathtaking cruelty.
Breathtaking cost.
Entirely predictable craven politics from no one's favourite Labour Party.
Breathtaking cost.
Entirely predictable craven politics from no one's favourite Labour Party.
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Breathtaking cruelty.
Breathtaking cost.
Entirely predictable craven politics from no one's favourite Labour Party.
Breathtaking cost.
Entirely predictable craven politics from no one's favourite Labour Party.
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Jimmy Cliff, légende du reggae, est mort
Jimmy Cliff, légende du reggae, est mort
L’auteur-compositeur et interprète de reggae jamaïcain de renommée internationale s’est éteint à l’âge de 81 ans. Il était notamment connu pour « Many Rivers to Cross », « The Harder They Come », « Reggae Night », « I Can See Clearly Now » ou encore « Hakuna Matata ».
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November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Jimmy Cliff, légende du reggae, est mort
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Four years and the only thing which has changed is that anti-asylum policies and rhetoric have got worse.
Four years and genuine solutions to reducing channel crossings, reducing the loss of life, haven't changed, and have continued to be ignored 👇
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Four years of hostility.
Four years and genuine solutions to reducing channel crossings, reducing the loss of life, haven't changed, and have continued to be ignored 👇
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Four years of hostility.
Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.
Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Four years and the only thing which has changed is that anti-asylum policies and rhetoric have got worse.
Four years and genuine solutions to reducing channel crossings, reducing the loss of life, haven't changed, and have continued to be ignored 👇
bsky.app/profile/dani...
Four years of hostility.
Four years and genuine solutions to reducing channel crossings, reducing the loss of life, haven't changed, and have continued to be ignored 👇
bsky.app/profile/dani...
Four years of hostility.
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Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
We’re standing with trans people against hate at Hampstead women’s pond | Good Law Project
It’s almost crunch time for a legal challenge from an anti-trans pressure group which could see trans people banned from Hampstead women’s pond. We’re not backing down.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Quite why Maya Forstater thinks her views are more important than the sizeable majority who voted to keep the ponds trans inclusive, as they always have been. But she does. She and her gazillionaire backers have a hearing in the High Court next month - and we're fighting back. goodlaw.social/vs0d
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Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Feels like a good time to remind people: pensions are deferred wages. Moving someone forcibly to a worse pension is wage theft. Always unjustifiable, but particularly appalling in the context of years and years of real-terms pay cuts. Why do they NEVER have any solution other than paying us less?
It's not really surprising because we know how academia is.
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It's not really surprising because we know how academia is.
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"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
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November 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe"
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...
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It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It would have been hard to believe, when I moved to the UK over 15 yrs ago to start my PhD at Edinburgh, that successive Conservative and Labour governments would actively undermine one of the UK's most successful and strategic sectors and run it to the ground. Unbelievable, really. And here we are
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If the system worked properly and fairly, this man would have been recognised years ago, been able to bring his family here and be a British citizen. Instead, he now faces being caught up in the Home Secretary's plans to switch refugees into what seems to be a minimum 20 year route to settlement.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If the system worked properly and fairly, this man would have been recognised years ago, been able to bring his family here and be a British citizen. Instead, he now faces being caught up in the Home Secretary's plans to switch refugees into what seems to be a minimum 20 year route to settlement.
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“The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.”
Seeking asylum isn’t “illegal.” It’s a human right and governments should stop treating it as a gift they bestow on the “deserving.”
Seeking asylum isn’t “illegal.” It’s a human right and governments should stop treating it as a gift they bestow on the “deserving.”
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.”
Seeking asylum isn’t “illegal.” It’s a human right and governments should stop treating it as a gift they bestow on the “deserving.”
Seeking asylum isn’t “illegal.” It’s a human right and governments should stop treating it as a gift they bestow on the “deserving.”
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#BBCNews - UN #climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
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#cop30 #ClimateChange
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#cop30 #ClimateChange
COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
#BBCNews - UN #climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#cop30 #ClimateChange
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#cop30 #ClimateChange
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Anyone trying to shut down criticism of Labour by saying "Reform would be worse" is, at this point, merely helping Labour smooth Reform's path. Anyone who actually wants to stop Reform will recognise that the path to that goes through stopping this iteration of the Labour Party
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Anyone trying to shut down criticism of Labour by saying "Reform would be worse" is, at this point, merely helping Labour smooth Reform's path. Anyone who actually wants to stop Reform will recognise that the path to that goes through stopping this iteration of the Labour Party
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New collections added pt 1
• Negro World Newspaper Collection (1920s Garveyism)
• Pan-African Federation/Congress
• Manchester Observer (1818-22)
• LGBT Center Collection (NYC)
• Palestine Perspectives (Palestine Information Office/Education and Research Center)
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
• Negro World Newspaper Collection (1920s Garveyism)
• Pan-African Federation/Congress
• Manchester Observer (1818-22)
• LGBT Center Collection (NYC)
• Palestine Perspectives (Palestine Information Office/Education and Research Center)
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radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
New collections added pt 1
• Negro World Newspaper Collection (1920s Garveyism)
• Pan-African Federation/Congress
• Manchester Observer (1818-22)
• LGBT Center Collection (NYC)
• Palestine Perspectives (Palestine Information Office/Education and Research Center)
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
• Negro World Newspaper Collection (1920s Garveyism)
• Pan-African Federation/Congress
• Manchester Observer (1818-22)
• LGBT Center Collection (NYC)
• Palestine Perspectives (Palestine Information Office/Education and Research Center)
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
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Regular tapping of the sign: please, please read ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w... by @notrightruth.bsky.social and amazing collaborators. Particularly if you haven't read the source materials. Particularly if you haven't lived as an out trans person through the the times of Raymond onwards...
TERF Wars
“A powerful, exciting and much-needed salvo in one of the most urgent battles against bigotry.” – Sandy Stone The emergence of trans-exclusionary movements raises many questions for feminism …
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November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Regular tapping of the sign: please, please read ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w... by @notrightruth.bsky.social and amazing collaborators. Particularly if you haven't read the source materials. Particularly if you haven't lived as an out trans person through the the times of Raymond onwards...
So on trans remembrance day, in an award sponsored by Scottish Power the Herald newspaper chose to make For Women Scotland campaigners.of the year
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So on trans remembrance day, in an award sponsored by Scottish Power the Herald newspaper chose to make For Women Scotland campaigners.of the year
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JOB> Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, University of St Andrews www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219
Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219,
School of Modern Languages
Salary: Reader Grade 8 £59,967 - £67,469 per annum / Professor Grade 9 by negotiation
Start Date: August 2026
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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
JOB> Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies, University of St Andrews www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...