🔊 Rishi Sunak made history as the UK’s first Indian-heritage and person of colour to become Prime Minister in 2022 With polls predicting a Labour landslide, we are keen to hear from South Asians on their thoughts on Sunak’s time as Prime Minister theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Really poor framing from John Ray describing voters who voted for an Independent candidate in Dewsbury & Batley as "voting with their religion." Opposing genocide or opposing Labour or mainstream party is not "voting with their religion."

UK elections on the brain? Check out Dr Neema Begum 🍉 & Maria Sobolewska 🇺🇦 's new article about the experience of ethnic minority UK local councillors in "Ticking Two Boxes, Fighting Two Battles" 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our new Prime Minister started his tenure by appreciating how much harder it is to be a minority ethnic politician. For an example of exactly how much harder, why don’t you try this paper with my excellent co-author Dr Neema Begum 🍉

You know how Germany still refers to 3rd/4th gen Turks/Kurds as people w/ a migration background (Migrationshintergrund), this is what Bidwell and others are doing. We’re given an aggregated identity in the UK as a semblance of belonging when this is untrue. Tis a whole facade.

Horrific Air strike on Gaza school, breaking all norms of international humanitarian law, slaughters at least 16 people bbc.com/news/articles/…

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It is a fact that certain national achievements are enabled by fantastic and super talented people with migrant heritage. It's important to note that migrants (and their descendants) shouldn't have to be conspicuous achievers to be worthy of dignity.

TW: Labour candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul says Reform UK supporters ‘spat at him’, tore up his leaflets & ‘interrogated’ where he was ‘really from’ during his campaign in Clacton, Essex, which left him fearing for the safety of those around him. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Omar Khan Exit poll does not do this kind of analysis. BES collects data by ethnicity so will be able to do some. But a proper, representative EMBES is still needed Maria Sobolewska 🇺🇦

Omar Khan Rob Ford (Not the Canadian one. Or his brother.) Sadly, having now unsuccessfully applied to every major grant maker in social sciences to run one, I concluded their (sometimes publicly stated) commitment is weak… if not non-existent.

“Insurgency”, “sectarian politics”, “divisive” and so many other words used in the past few days to describe Muslims’ participation in politics is nothing short of dog-whistle politics.

This is so important, but a Stuart Hall reading of representation and essentialism brings nuance to the representation = outcomes equation. Representation matters, but its the actual policies, rather than the personalities, that will ultimately make that representation material.

An important message from our new PM. It would be great if such a message could be shared about the children of Palestine too, of which more than 13,800 have been killed in Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Keir Starmer asked in the football dressing room about Palestine. “I think there should be a ceasefire…” he says. “Why aren’t you stopping it? Let’s get it done…” Ordinary people in London holding the prime minister to account more than mainstream journalists.

it’s so surreal Ukraine and Gaza are happening at the same time because we get to witness right before our eyes which children’s lives actually matter and which don’t

I was supposed to write a 3-5000 word reflection and it ended up being 11,000 words. I guess I had a few things to say. Let me know if you need a copy.

Enjoyed presenting a chapter from my forthcoming book (2025) on Black Masculinities and Colonial Legacies at #ECPG2024 A packed room and a great opportunity to explore my adoption of Intersectionality on expanding Feminist Methodologies in Researching Black Masculinities

My maiden speech as Mother of the House 👇🏾

Three women from charity Southall Black Sisters who complained about a violent racist attack on the Tube & were then charged themselves with assault, have had the case against them dropped by CPS after nearly 10 months standard.co.uk/news/crime/tub…