Columba Achilleos-Sarll
@drcachilleos
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) @BhamPolsis | Researching WPS, NGOs, gender, race, (in)security, FFP & visual global politics | Feminist Killjoy | Anti-war | She/her
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As always, this is a good time to promote this amazing book by Robbie Shilliam which explains the baked-in racism and perfidy of the Labour Party and the way racialisation distinguishes the “deserving” from the “underserving” poor and working/class: politicalscience.jhu.edu/faculty-books/…
📣 We are recruiting for two very exciting positions in Medical Aid for Palestinians's Advocacy and Campaigns Team: 1) Head of Advocacy and Campaigns 2) Head of Communications Job ads posted in 🧵 below, please share with anyone you think would be a good fit for our amazing team!
Proud to share my article written for Dr Rabea M. Khan and Sarah Gharib guest-edited special issue of Taylor & Francis Research Insights Critical Studies on Terrorism: Instrumentalising race: why critical terrorism studies continue to have a race problem tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG Research at University of Liverpool
my piece on Imane Khelif, the violence of binary gender, its racialised, colonial and classed underpinnings, and the urgent need to free feminisms from fragility and from racist, misogynist, transphobic, and imperial attachments The Contrapuntal thecontrapuntal.com/imane-khelif-r…
Making Space for Palestinian Happiness "For those who are not meant to survive, how do you imagine happiness? When living is impossible, how do you smuggle life back in?" lithub.com/making-space-f… via Literary Hub
Working on your syllabus? Consider including a piece from our “Asian American Abolition Feminisms” double special issue Frontiers Journal. The issues bring together scholarly inquiry, movement artifacts, creative works that orient us towards abolitionist world-making.
Every few days, white men kill white women in the UK. Barely reported, nobody riots for these women, or attacks 'white' spaces/communities in response, nobody presents these as a collective pathology of 'honour killings' Pure, violent, ambient patriarchy. theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…
In the latest Tribune, Husam Zomlot Rana Ayyub Jeremy Corbyn Grace Blakeley, Francesca Newton, Ilan Pappé and more explore what unites structures of oppression from Palestine and Ireland to South Africa and Kashmir — and how they can be defeated.
Event Alert! 150 researchers, 5 yrs of work on gender, justice & security – join GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub for the launch of: “Structural Challenges, Feminist Innovations and Radical Futures” Thursday, 29th Aug, 17:30-19:00 BST at LSE, The Marshall Building, MAR 2.04 eventbrite.co.uk/e/structural-c…