Duncan Lees

Asst Prof @WarwickAppLing Shakespeare + drama, intercultural comm / language education, China #EMCA #tarantulas Neurodivergent @[email protected]

[Duncan Lees @DuncMLees]

Almost six years after I started it, and a little over a year after I finished it, yesterday I finally got to have my PhD graduation. A brilliant day with some unexpected familiar faces, and definitely worth waiting for! @WarwickAppLing @Warwick_Edu

[alexandre afonso @alexandreafonso]

This is how the Home Office tells a 6-year-old girl that she won't get a visa to join her mom who got a permanent job in a British university.

[Ben Curtis @DrBCCurtis]

'Dulce Et Decorum Est', by Wilfred Owen. Unflinchingly horrifying; viscerally excoriating; heartbreakingly poignant. Still the best and most powerful poem I've ever read.

[Duncan Lees @DuncMLees]

Fearful about what might happen in London today. Bigotry and violence will not honour the fallen, nor help the people who were murdered or kidnapped on Oct 7 and the people slaughtered and starved in Gaza since. The only people violence today will help are fascists and terrorists

[Duncan Lees @DuncMLees]

The cynicism - and utter narcissism - of the Home Secretary weaponising the memory of the fallen for her own political game-playing is bad enough, but the desperation of her and others to turn a manufactured culture war into actual hatred and violence is truly dangerous

[Dr Khawla Badwan @KhawlaBadwan]

‘ Let me be clear - the world cannot afford double standards. We must instead insist upon the universal standards against which we must assess this situation - international human rights laws and international humanitarian laws’

[Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬 @DrDadabhoy]

Western academic orgs have any comment on this?

[Duncan Lees @DuncMLees]

When it is obvious that thousands will not be able to "temporarily relocate" south, this is not an urgent plea - it's an attempt to pre-emptively excuse killing yet more Palestinian civilians

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Thank you for your good wishes, I'm afraid we have not heard from my in-laws.

My concern is for all the innocent people suffering for a crime they did not commit.

If you did not vote for peace, while children are dying, then I do not know how you sleep at night.

#CeasefireNow

[Khadija @khadljasays]

How many more accounts will never post again after this? How many more??? This website has become a gravesite of Palestinians who used their final words begging for the world to care.

[Hanna Alshaikh - هناء الشيخ @hanna_alshaikh]

Not a single phone in Gaza can be reached right now. Israel completely cut off all communications to Gaza. No internet, no landlines. This is a total blackout. Every person you know from Gaza has completely lost contact with their loved ones.

We know what comes next.

[Dr Khawla Badwan @KhawlaBadwan]

‘The generations to come will know that we watched this human tragedy unfold over social media and news channels. We will not be able to say we did not know. History will ask why the world did not have the courage to act decisively and stop this hell on Earth’

[Duncan Lees @DuncMLees]

@mncantarutti 🎉🎉🎉 Well done to you, and to your colleagues for supporting you! 🎉🎉🎉
(and something less complimentary to those responsible for the system that makes all of this even more stressful)

[Duncan Lees @DuncMLees]

The idea that it's easy to make statements about violence when you're sat safely thousands of miles away is in many ways right. It is - or at least it should be - easy to say "that was wrong, and this is also wrong". And this collective punishment of Gaza is most definitely wrong

[Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬 @DrDadabhoy]

In the wake of 20+ years of the War on Terror Muslim scholars have developed a rigorous framework to define and expose anti-Muslim racism. Please use this language over Islamophobia because it is more than personal animus. It is systemic, institutional, and legalized racism.

[Arun Kundnani @ArunKundnani]

Racism is not about causing hurt feelings to a group of people because you said something that upset them. It is a power relationship organized through the state. The denial of the most basic humanity to Palestinians is a correlate of Western imperialism.

[The Hands Up Project @HandsUpProject]

The messages we’re receiving from English teachers in Gaza daily are asking us to do one thing - tell the world their stories before it’s too late. Listen to them on our podcast: Hands up from Gaza.

https://t.co/RHvcj3NGZT

[Duncan Lees @DuncMLees]

@KhawlaBadwan Any words I could choose feel horribly insufficient, but my thoughts are with you