Tom Six
@tomsix.bsky.social
Scholar of race, politics and performance. https://linktr.ee/tomsix
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Tom Six
@tomsix.bsky.social
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D-Econ: Diversifying and Decolonising Economics
Diversifying and Decolonizing Economics
d-econ.org
It was a pleasure to join an event organised by Decolonizing Economics a week or so ago. The recording is up here. My contribution on why the university cannot be decolonized until the world is, and what that means in relation to Zionist genocide, is the second of three short talks. d-econ.org
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Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
British Theatre Before and After Covid
www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Hear, hear!
RIP
RIP
The extraordinary theatre maker and political activist Margaretta D'Arcy has died. May her memory be a revolution.
www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--...
www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--...
Obituary: Margaretta D’Arcy – actor, playwright and activist
Irish actor, playwright and peace campaigner whose activism permeated her work in theatre
www.thestage.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hear, hear!
RIP
RIP
Hard agree.
Of course it’s structural too, but academics need to reflect on why we are collectively so hopeless at refusing to accept the structural conditions we are offered.
Of course it’s structural too, but academics need to reflect on why we are collectively so hopeless at refusing to accept the structural conditions we are offered.
25 no response out of 30 requests to review!
Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media
Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hard agree.
Of course it’s structural too, but academics need to reflect on why we are collectively so hopeless at refusing to accept the structural conditions we are offered.
Of course it’s structural too, but academics need to reflect on why we are collectively so hopeless at refusing to accept the structural conditions we are offered.
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
2 dozen *of the most right-wing and compliant PLP that there has ever been*…
Two dozen Labour MPs have now spoken out against the government's reforms to the asylum system – follow our tracker with the latest updates
Asylum reform: Full list of MPs opposing government’s immigration proposals – LabourList
More than 20 Labour MPs have expressed criticism of the government's radical reforms to Britain's asylum system. Shabana Mahmood has proposed sweeping new reforms to…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
2 dozen *of the most right-wing and compliant PLP that there has ever been*…
‘We were really concerned about the misuse of potential fur coats as family pets, so we actually managed to rescue 101 dalmatians from ideological capture…’
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘We were really concerned about the misuse of potential fur coats as family pets, so we actually managed to rescue 101 dalmatians from ideological capture…’
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Edward Wadie Said would have turned 90 today -
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
November 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Edward Wadie Said would have turned 90 today -
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), 1/2
Ladies and gents… the not-at-all-authoritarian-dogmatic-racist-ableist-or punitive ‘centre ground’… www.theguardian.com/education/20...
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Ladies and gents… the not-at-all-authoritarian-dogmatic-racist-ableist-or punitive ‘centre ground’… www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Let’s do something about violence against women and girls by [checks notes] getting yet more (white) men to dominate the public sphere by talking to men about being a man. 🤔
Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons
Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons
The Emmy-winning actor will work with psychologist Orly Klein to compile the letters into a book exploring masculinity and the challenges facing boys today
Stephen Graham, the Emmy-winning actor best known for Netflix hit Adolescence, has launched a new project asking fathers to write letters to their sons about what it means to be a man, to form a book about masculinity.
The project invites fathers around the world to write personal letters to their sons, reflecting on their experiences of fatherhood. Graham will work with psychology lecturer Orly Klein to compile Letters to Our Sons, a book due to be published by Bloomsbury next October.
To submit a letter, visit letterstooursons.co.uk Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Let’s do something about violence against women and girls by [checks notes] getting yet more (white) men to dominate the public sphere by talking to men about being a man. 🤔
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If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.
Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'
AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff
AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff
October 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.
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It's long past time to tackle the British arms industry. I didn't say it on the podcast, but how about a punitive windfall tax on UK arms manufacturers to fund a British reparations scheme for Gaza and Yemen?
Ep.3 of the New Economics Podcast is out now!
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Khem Rogaly from @transitionsec.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @davidwearing.bsky.social from Sussex University to discuss how the UK became a global arms dealer.
🎧Listen now: neweconomics.org/2025/10/how-...
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Khem Rogaly from @transitionsec.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @davidwearing.bsky.social from Sussex University to discuss how the UK became a global arms dealer.
🎧Listen now: neweconomics.org/2025/10/how-...
October 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
It's long past time to tackle the British arms industry. I didn't say it on the podcast, but how about a punitive windfall tax on UK arms manufacturers to fund a British reparations scheme for Gaza and Yemen?
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This is why the "Jews aren't white" discourse is so batshit. Whiteness is possibly the most socially constructed of the racial categories, given how many groups move in and out of it over time. It doesn't matter what Jews look like, if Jews are group-racialised based on their ascribed Jewishness.🧵
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Very sad news. A wonderful director, always gutsy, canny and creative, and the driving force behind some of the best British theatre of the twentieth century.
The great Yvonne Brewster has left us.
A giant on whose shoulders we stand.
Rest well.
A giant on whose shoulders we stand.
Rest well.
October 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Very sad news. A wonderful director, always gutsy, canny and creative, and the driving force behind some of the best British theatre of the twentieth century.
This was a really clarifying discussion. UK politics folk: have a listen.
The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman , @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me is now online and in every podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t....
The Starmer Disaster
A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government electe…
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October 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This was a really clarifying discussion. UK politics folk: have a listen.
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I didn’t want to believe it was true. Say his name: Saleh Al-Jafarawi. He had the most beautiful smile. He was not among the 270+ journalists killed prior to the latest ceasefire. He was ebullient that the bombing stopped. And now he’s been killed.
October 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I didn’t want to believe it was true. Say his name: Saleh Al-Jafarawi. He had the most beautiful smile. He was not among the 270+ journalists killed prior to the latest ceasefire. He was ebullient that the bombing stopped. And now he’s been killed.
He does a good job here of exposing the reality of someone who claims to have nothing against trans people while laughing at the idea that they could even exist. It’s not that’s hard, but I can’t think of another politician doing it consistently on these kinds of platforms.
Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
He does a good job here of exposing the reality of someone who claims to have nothing against trans people while laughing at the idea that they could even exist. It’s not that’s hard, but I can’t think of another politician doing it consistently on these kinds of platforms.
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Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
September 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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How to actually do something about ongoing genocide, a simple guide: www.alanalentin.net/2025/09/18/f...
Fundraising for Gaza: How to get started - Alana Lentin
Since September 2024, I have been raising funds and sending them directly to the Al-Aqra family in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza. They are Iman and Ibrahim, Joury (8), Hamous (6), Marah (4) and Sanad (2). Here ...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
How to actually do something about ongoing genocide, a simple guide: www.alanalentin.net/2025/09/18/f...
I, for one, am looking forward to seeing evidence of Kasha’s ‘aggressive interview posture’…
Kash Patel on a note the FBI ‘believes’ existed: “The written note we believe did exist.. evidence of its existence we now have learned existed before the shooting… even though it has been destroyed we have found forensic evidence of the note…”
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I, for one, am looking forward to seeing evidence of Kasha’s ‘aggressive interview posture’…
Requiring people to care about the death of one white supremacist is requiring people to care about white supremacy. It’s really as simple as that.
September 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Requiring people to care about the death of one white supremacist is requiring people to care about white supremacy. It’s really as simple as that.
Peter Mandelson was UK ambassador to the US??!! 🤯
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Peter Mandelson was UK ambassador to the US??!! 🤯
The collective brain fade at @ucu.org.uk HQ showing no signs of abating. 🧵 👇🏼
🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
September 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The collective brain fade at @ucu.org.uk HQ showing no signs of abating. 🧵 👇🏼
