Dr Beyer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋

🏳️‍⚧️Ally. Intersectional Feminist. Immigrant. Prize-winning author. UCU equality rep and case worker. CWA Dagger judge. Editor. Own views here.

[Dr Beyer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @beyer_char]

Thank you @BACLS_official ! I am so thrilled and incredibly honoured to have won the BACLS Edited Collection Prize for my edited book Decolonising the Literature Curriculum. I am also grateful to the book’s outstanding contributors. This really means everything to me and them.

[bacls @BACLS_official]

Charlotte Beyer's edited collection Decolonising the Literature Curriculum (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) won our collection prize - congratulations to Charlotte and the contributors!

https://t.co/7juvRERbuu

[African @ali_naka]

“If the USA didn't want other Countries citizens in the US they shouldn't have bid for the Fifa world cup 2026” Didier Drogba

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

10 years ago Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death in Birstall by a far right thug.
Do you remember the Farage \ Tommy Robinson riots that followed it,
No me neither.

R.I.P. Jo

[Prof. Lopa Leach @LopaLeach]

UK universities warn of cuts for impoverished students if dire funding issues continue https://t.co/y6gAwt0fRI

[UCU @ucu]

Today @DrJoGrady and @AndreaEganGS have written to Keir Starmer demanding emergency intervention as 15,000 jobs are lost across higher education and 2,700 staff face the axe at Nottingham alone.

When British Steel was at risk, the government nationalised it overnight. Where's that urgency now?

Read the full the statement here: https://t.co/VnHVUuu9Z0

[UCU @ucu]

Powerful scenes in Nottingham today.

Picket lines are up at the University of Nottingham.

2,700 staff have been told they are at risk of redundancy. More than 700 jobs are under threat.

These cuts are not inevitable. They are a choice.

Staff are fighting back. Solidarity matters.

[21group @21percentgroup]

"UK universities are precious commodity. Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where pieces land is not an education policy...It is neglect bordering on vandalism ... Westminster needs to wake up"

Royal Historical Society lands an enormous punch

https://t.co/2uJwXGFEaJ

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Nearly half of our universities are forecasting deficits.

Institutions across the country are closing departments and issuing redundancy notices.

The government don’t yet consider this a crisis.

How many more jobs and courses must be lost before ministers act?

[Dr Beyer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @beyer_char]

@Malcolm_theCat Oh Percy 🥹♥️

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

Astonishingly, Cardiff University is adding insult to injury in its cuts by closing their Humanities library with a three-week notice. Do sign the petition against it: https://t.co/KvitUpF4VA via @38degrees

[21group @21percentgroup]

Cuts have already devastated arts, humanities & social sciences in universities

The fire is spreading & “blue skies” science is next

This isn’t a tired “humanities vs sciences” battle

We must all stand together or the flames will consume us all

https://t.co/WcyiMljfVF

[UCU @ucu]

Watch the whole conversation @DrJoGrady and @LopaLeach on youtube: https://t.co/ttQkPu2e94

[UCU @ucu]

"This is vandalism."

2,700 staff at the University of Nottingham have received letters putting them at risk of redundancy.

Members describe shock turning into anger and organisation.

The message from staff is clear: these cuts are not necessary, and alternatives have already been put forward.

[Dr Beyer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @beyer_char]

@kehinde_andrews @PaperWhispers @makeitplainorg Absolutely appalling. Standing with you in solidarity.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Yesterday Keir Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel and save 2700 jobs.

The Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy.

This is just one university.

Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving.

Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Cities and towns will be devastated by these job losses.

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

An apology that’s welcome outside Hungary too - including among historians who have tried to be honest and holistic about Britain’s colonial past, and who have been misrepresented, maligned and insulted by Orban-funded right wing culture warriors.

https://t.co/7O1KqikTMy

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

🚨 NEW: Panorama investigated Christopher Harborne’s £10m donation to the Brexit Party back in 2020 - now, years later, fresh questions are being raised under strikingly similar circumstances.

The old clip of Nigel Farage hanging up on a BBC interviewer when pressed about Harborne is resurfacing again.

[Dr Beyer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @beyer_char]

@CleeWeezy Sending love and healing vibes to little Clee 🥹♥️

[Dr Beyer (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦋 @beyer_char]

@MinxMarple So sorry to hear it 😔

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

Other disciplines are important but the humanities, fitting their name, are disciplines that can never be replaced by automation or algorithms because excellence demands we mine our humanity rather than training it out of ourselves to perform a task. We’re losing ourselves here.

[Matt Harrington @MattHar65517869]

@odavies9 How can a university shut down its English department and still be a university?