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Reposted by Jo Littler, Owain Jones

nela-smolovic.bsky.social
Thrilled to see the announcement for our new journal, Feminism and Organization, I will be co-editing with @profalisonpullen.bsky.social, and a legion of superb feminists around the globe everyone would be honoured to work with: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/new-journal-... @bupjournals.bsky.social
Bristol University Press
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Reposted by Jo Littler, Sarah Marie Hall

peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Labour MP Rachael Maskell close to tears as she 'pleads' with the government to abandon planned welfare cuts

'These Dickensian cuts belong to a different era and a different party', she said

How on earth has it come to this?
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Reposted by Jo Littler

mediacomgold.bsky.social
What a wonderful degree show opening yesterday...!

It's on all weekend and open to all, so come and see the fantastic student work in film, documentary, sreen fiction, audio, animation, journalism, promotional media, scriptwriting, creative writing, photography...

www.goldsmithsmediashow.com
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Reposted by Jo Littler, Sabine Pahl

profkfh.bsky.social
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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miroborn.bsky.social
My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods:
doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social
Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood
The ideal of a meritocratic society continues to exert significant normative power in political and public discourse, including in discussions about marginalised spaces and neighbourhoods. However,...
doi.org
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liamshrivastava.bsky.social
🚨Amiel & Melburn Lecture 2025

A special panel discussion on 'Resisting the rise of the Radical Right' with @zarahsultana.bsky.social, Costas Douzinas, Rob Topinka, @kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social, @afoggyplace.bsky.social

🗓️Wed 2 July
🕠17:30PM
📍Birkbeck University

INFO & REGISTER 👇
Annual Lecture 2025: Resisting the rise of the radical right - Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust
Join us on Wednesday 2 July 2025 with Costas Douzinas, Liz Fekete, Rob Topinka, Zarah Sultana MP and Kojo Koram. Chaired by Esther Leslie.
amielandmelburn.org.uk
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by Jo Littler

jolittler.bsky.social
“Blue Labour rhetoric likes to imagine that everyone in the UK who isn’t a blue-haired postgraduate is a churchgoing industrial worker, desperate to turn back the clock on multiculturalism and trans rights.”
jemgilbert.bsky.social
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · May 24
labourlist.org/2025/05/blue...
'Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge' - LabourList
Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way.
labourlist.org
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Reposted by Jo Littler, Martin Shaw

jemgilbert.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/05/blue...
'Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge' - LabourList
Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way.
labourlist.org
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Reposted by Jo Littler

profafinlayson.bsky.social
Missed this last month: welcome evidence that somebody in the Democrats has a clue about digital politics (and recognition that in the US as in the UK liberal, progressive and left political groups are still about a decade behind. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Opinion | I Worked for Harris and Biden. Here’s the Missing Link for Democrats.
www.nytimes.com
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by Jo Littler

jolittler.bsky.social
thank you so much! It was such a good event
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Reposted by Jo Littler

protexblue.bsky.social
Highlight of my day/week: Hearing @jolittler.bsky.social talk about inequality, including highlights from her 2017 book, "Against Meritocracy".
The talk was so provocative, thought-provoking and inspiring that I now have an immense amount of thinking and reading to do now. Wonderful feeling.
Jo Littler gives a lecture about inequality; behind her is a slide featuring highlights from her book "Against Meritocracy"
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by Jo Littler

jolittler.bsky.social
thank you!

Reposted by Jo Littler

journolinguist.bsky.social
an excellent discussion with @jolittler.bsky.social about the myth of meritocracy, with hugely quotable pearls such as: "threads of truth within this
quilt blanket of mystification". I recently got Jo Litter's brilliant book Against meritocracy #openaccess here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
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Reposted by Jo Littler, David M. Schultz, David Dunning , and 12 more

rachaelking70.bsky.social
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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mediacomgold.bsky.social
5 yrs after the publication of The Care Manifesto, the Care Collective - incl Catherine Rottenberg + @jolittler.bsky.social, both @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - reflect on post-pandemic systematic 'care-stripping' across the political stage:
@versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Care-stripping: Beyond the Pretence of Care
Five years ago, we published The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. It was a small volume that provided a large overview of what we described as the ‘structural carelessness’ of our worl...
www.versobooks.com
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Reposted by Jo Littler, Silke Roth

thesociologicalreview.org
What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025?
Is academic life any easier for working-class women than it was three decades ago?

📺 WATCH Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of our new Conversations series.

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overunderpod.bsky.social
We are the people who Wipe Your A**es! 🏥

@GaryYounge reflects on his Mother’s experience in the NHS as an Immigrant Worker… @nadinewrites1.bsky.social

🎧 Listen To The Full Episode - linktr.ee/overthetopun... (LINK IN BIO) 🔗

This episode is sponsored by @powertochange.org.uk
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Reposted by Jo Littler, Jessica A. Gephart

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
(Reuters) - Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation.

www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...
Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
www.reuters.com
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jemgilbert.bsky.social
Here's me and @profafinlayson.bsky.social talking on a podcast. Come for the analysis of the UK local government election results; stay for the 300-year history of liberalism and its current, possibly terminal, crisis.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/05/13/t....
You can listen online or subscribe.
The Crisis of Liberalism (and the 2025 UK local elections)
Alan Finlayson returns for an in-depth discussion of the crisis of liberalism as an effective and legitimate philosophy of government, as exemplified by the success of the right-wing populist Refor…
culturepowerpolitics.org
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Reposted by Jo Littler

dspi-oxford.bsky.social
Upcoming seminar ⬇️
Prof Jo Littler (Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis @mediacomgold.bsky.social) will outline The Care Manifesto (co-written with members of the Care Collective) & explore corporate carewashing.
📅 4pm, 15 May
More: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/eb8... @jolittler.bsky.social
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runnymedetrust.bsky.social
Instead of trying to outdo one another with more racist policymaking, we need a government with the courage to address the real problems of skyrocketing poverty and our crumbling national services.
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lwestheuser.bsky.social
Very cool: @miroborn.bsky.social made a comic narrating findings from his research on class, social mobility and stigmatized neighborhoods. You can find it here in English and German: www.anthonymiroborn.com/comic
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lbc.co.uk
'That is a serious, serious defeat for Labour.'

'If the polls continue like this, we are on course for a hung parliament.'

After Reform's big by-election wins, @natashaclark.bsky.social analyses the 'teal tidal wave' that has become 'a headache for both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch.'
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I had a right old rant about Tony Blair's ignorant, self-interested statement on The Jeremy Vine Show today. I mentioned that he has worked as a lobbyist for PetroSaudi, earning Tony Blair Associates £41,000/month, plus 2% of any deal he brokered.
Starts 9 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radio 2 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 2 on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk
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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by Jo Littler

rbreich.bsky.social
Democrats who think we should stop using the word "oligarchy" ought to watch this video.

Even a system that calls itself a democracy can become an oligarchy if power becomes concentrated in the hands of a few very wealthy people and corporations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=inBW...
What is Oligarchy? | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
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Reposted by Jo Littler

autonomy-institute.bsky.social
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 'Forum 2029: Building a living standards policy platform for the UK'

These seminars will congregate progressive actors - from across parties, trade unions and campaigns - to build a simple and bold policy platform for the months and years to come 📃
👇

autonomy.work/forum-2029/
Poster for Forum 2029. It lists speakers, as well as event topics and the launch event.
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by Jo Littler

jolittler.bsky.social
see you there!
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olimould.bsky.social
Here are my top 5 right wing films

- The Dark Knight Rises (critique of Occupy)
- American Sniper (noble US warrior gets his feelings hurt, poor him)
- Ghostbusters (entrepreneurs battle the state as well as ghosts)
- Forrest Gump (history is immutable)
- The Incredibles (Atlas Shurgged in spandex)
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Reposted by Jo Littler

ursulakleguin.com
Ursula drawing from the 1970s.
A notebook with blank pages is open to a page labeled THE RULER. A figure in a fancy, fur-trimmed robe is floating above a pipe, tied to it by his feet.
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stephenunwin.bsky.social
Dylan has a way with words.
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