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From race, to books, to healing, I write about whatever moves me, perhaps it might move you too
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Birthday Musings (opens the original)
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It’s officially Libra season. I posted on Threads last night and asked if I should stay up and wait to welcome my birthday in the quiet of night or fall asleep to wake the next morning in the delight of daylight. Someone named Jacky told me to look up and go outside and look at the stars. And so I did.I almost wish I had taken a photo - the sky was beautiful, the darkness was so bright.Although I couldn’t see the stars or the moon behind the cover of cloud they were resplendently lighting up the
5 Years of The Good Ally and Being A Published Author (opens the original)
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It’s stunning to think The Good Ally has been out in this mad and beautiful world for 5 years already.I look at all 448 pages and sometimes wonder how I had the fortitude to even get to the end - it feels like such an enormous feat. I mean - it did take almost 3 years to write and 2 weeks to record in the recording studio. So it is no small feat.It takes such courage to publish a book - writing it is the easier part, as you get to be in solitude and intimacy with your words and your work - but p
Just Jason (opens the original)
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The title of Jason’s book is so prophetic. Oddly (or perhaps not) the title of his book is one of the first things I thought of when he died, because Jason was by his nature, very prophetic. I’ve been seeing digital vigilantes in social media comments getting upset about people dropping the title ‘Professor’ - but Professor Jason Arday was just Jason to me. First a colleague, then a friend.We met just a month after his Professorship at Cambridge had begun. I had been invited to attend an event w
Digital Lynchings, Racism in British Media and Academia and an Urgent Invitation to Apply Critical Thinking Skills (opens the original)
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We covered worthiness, the public disembowelment of Professor Arday, Nathan Cofnas and racist eugenics, why we should stop placing academic institutions on a pedestal as the arbiter of intelligence. We also explore the impunity of systemic racism in British media and the lack of accountability tackling systemic racism - specifically anti-Blackness and h… Read more
What Britain Got Away With is Morally Repulsive: Thoughts on Reparations, Suella Braverman and Historical Illiteracy (opens the original)
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Britain made global news this week following former Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, stating that Britons should not have to bear the responsibility and pay reparations for the crimes against humanity that Britain enacted under the transatlantic slave trade. And instead, suggested that former British colonies should pay back the British for (in her words) “the considerable investment, effort, and contribution that this country made…” Diabolical. I share my full thoughts and calls to actions, in
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