Lars Atkin

Lecturer @UniKentEnglish.19thc. literature and history, race history, colonial print culture and book history. Transmasc. Views my own.

[Lars Atkin @LaraAtkin]

Undisciplining 19th century studies is always a work in progress, so I welcome all feedback on my own small effort. @Bigger6Romantix @V21collective @ciscstudies @SAModernism @deephomework @ronjaunee @global19c @PalgraveLit @UniKentEnglish @DrFarihaShaikh @JasonRRudy

[VPR @VPReditors]

VPR’s special issue “Race and Transnationalism” is hot off the press! Read guest editors Lars Atkin and Matt Poland’s introduction, “On Not Mastering Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies,” here: https://t.co/543QuYA0Ou @RS4VP

[Lars Atkin @LaraAtkin]

@Kat_Says_Stuff @supergutman @OwenJones84 Zionism is just the right of Jews to have a state within the internationally agreed borders of the State of Israel. If you think that’s ‘hateful’ you’re antisemitic.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Gaza protesters were disrupting Kamala Harris’s speech.

Kamala: “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise I’M SPEAKING”

See, it’s very easy for politicians to stare these people down

https://t.co/Jmg5ZDvFon

[Lars Atkin @LaraAtkin]

@aljhlester As a Jew with family in the conflict zone, I wouldn’t call mass chants of ‘from the river to the sea’ peaceful. The left needs to take ownership of its part in all this as well.

[Jack Lubner @JackLubner]

One of the first political events I went to was the counter-demo to a far right rally against the ‘Jewification’ of Golders Green and Finchley, back in 2015

Ten years on, it’s coming from the far left too

The appearance has changed but the essence remains the same

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

A thread -

Now is the time to please check in on your Black, Brown and minority friends, family, neighbours and colleagues.

In many parts of the country, they don’t feel safe.🧵

[Clive Chijioke Nwonka @CJNwonka]

Considered not going with the 8-year-old to @Arsenal but it became one of the safest and joyous spaces for Black/brown people in London this evening. We fight racism by protest and policy, but we also need the everyday communal spaces of integration, racial difference and unity.

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

Amazing reporting from Tom Witherow: he tracked down the person who started the rumours that started these riots. She's a mother of three in her fifties who lives in a £1.5m house in Cheshire: https://t.co/x2nGB5AFQR

[stellacreasy @stellacreasy]

This is a very powerful and important piece about the connections between misogyny and far right activism- when we look beyond stopping the violence of this week this analysis needs to be part of the national conversation as to how we defeat this hatred 👇https://t.co/pBhO6PInt8

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Everyone's timeline needs a cleanse and it doesn't get cleansier than Snoop Dogg dancing for a horse at the Olympics:

[stellacreasy @stellacreasy]

When I say Walthamstow is the house of love believe me the first time.

Thank you to all who have kept our community safe this evening including police and public services and to every one of you who has shown solidarity in many ways to reveal who we are - honoured to be our MP.

[Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies @ciscstudies]

We are delighted to announnce the Call for Contributions for the Indigenous Nineteenth Century Book being put together with @VDR_Net

Deadline on August 30th

[Lars Atkin @LaraAtkin]

@officialAliRed @TheHawickPaper @natpoetrylib @PoetrySociety @scotslanguage @CABNScotBorders @thereiversroad @ClashCityClarky @LiveBordersLA @BlackmansReview @BrianFilling Pringle’s a fascinating character with a complicated legacy and it’s always great to see more people working on him. I’d also recommend Zoe Wicomb’s novel ‘Still Life’, for a postmodern take on Pringle and his legacy in SA and Scotland.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Live from Downing Street: Watch my first speech as Prime Minister https://t.co/t2fQjytLBH

[Fawcett Society @fawcettsociety]

Congratulations to @RachelReevesMP, the UK's first woman Chancellor 👏

“To every young girl and woman reading this, let today show that there should be no limits on your ambitions.”

We look forward to supporting her and seeing the positive impact she will make in this role 💪

[Fawcett Society @fawcettsociety]

Huge congratulations to @HackneyAbbott MP, who takes up the mantle as Mother of the House – the longest-standing woman MP.

Diane is a trailblazer, first elected in 1987, and we look forward to working with her in her new position.

[Sayeeda Warsi @SayeedaWarsi]

This is so personal for me -It’s taken 14 years to see another Muslim woman take a seat at that Cabinet table- I’ve waited to see this moment and we got the best ❤️
So proud to see @ShabanaMahmood become the first BAME Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary
Huge role - brilliant appointment.
And a warrior for the battle won #BirminghamLadywood #GeneElection2024

[Harriet Harman @HarrietHarman]

Now record 264 women MPs!
Chance to work cross party on women’s priorities.@fawcettsociety will convene meeting for all women MPs enabling them to embark on process of setting up powerful Women’s Caucus. *Childcare, *violence against women, *equal pay. Now is the time for change!

[Lars Atkin @LaraAtkin]

@IanDunt First Muslim woman to be Lord Chancellor and first PM to celebrate Shabbat! Also the first Jewish ‘first lady’

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.