Lesage

It's no longer a question of knowing the world, but of transforming it.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

If leave you must, leave.

Protecting your sanity, safety, and health should be your priority. Always.

[Race Reflections @RaceReflections]

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Comrades,

I am interrupting my break to share this fabulous community news.

Over the past two years, we have been reflecting on how to make our Certificate in Working with Racial Trauma/Foundation course in Group Analysis more accessible to the community.

To break down financial barriers, we are shifting from a traditional training structure to a sustainable, community-based social impact model.

We are excited to introduce our new Community Pathway:

•Accessible Pricing: Spreading the cost to £45/month (plus a £150 registration fee), instead of a high upfront cost.

•Extended Support: A 15-month online learning phase, followed by a mandatory 12-month supported local implementation phase to turn theory into action.

•Deep Community Connection: Joining a growing collective of practitioners focused on implementing long-term racial justice and healing locally 

If you are at all interested in joining the only depth and approved course on racial trauma and race dynamics in the U.K., whether you are a clinician, a community educator, organiser, or self-funded practitioner…looking to cascade learning, join us online for our

Opening Day on 14 September 2026 from 16:00 to 19:00.

Where you’ll find out more about the pathway.

Please help us share the news so it can reach those who have the potential to have the greatest impact.

https://t.co/57r2NRw59G

[Lovette✍🏾 @lovettejallow]

White academics are afforded individuality when they fail, exaggerate, behave badly or commit misconduct.

Their behaviour does not become evidence about the intellectual capacity of white people collectively.

Black academics deserve precisely the same individuality.

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

The circus of vultures feasting off Jason Arday are either going to kill him or get him killed. For what? Not Plagiarism he’s cleared for. Accusations of lies/errors/inconsistencies? This isn’t accountability - it’s a public execution. A relentless onslaught for over 2 wks. Back to back coverage from a media that never has time for missing Black children or murdered Black women. Racists are gleeful with joy that Arday is a perfect poster boy for their agenda to destroy DEI.

[Julia Thee Junglist Historian @Miss_Toppin]

If you could appeal on academic judgement a lot of Black, female, working class, and LGBTQ students would fare better because many many many middle class white lecturers mark these students down.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@karenmitchell__ I tried to explain that insidious dynamic to a legal counsel.

They were genuinely puzzled.

Or just feigned it.

They seemed incapable of understanding how what we improperly call "reactive abuse' works

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Friends, I’m here to tell you that they’ll still do that even if you have those receipts and accolades. They’ll invent things if they have to. I’m here to let you know that whatever you achieve doesn’t stop them from doing this.

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

Yeah but he's a white senior manager so nobody is going to make this into a political scandal, no thoughtful pieces about what this says about the state of UK academia

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

A very good point. Also interesting when the 'Race Realists' broke the Arday story: just when this Orr story hit the stands.

Orr requires as much, if not more scrutiny. Will our media do it?

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@AgbogaVictor "There will always be one more thing."

Toni Morrison

But I get your point.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@aChildOf2Worlds The Venn diagram between those "who feel diversity has blocked their own advancement." and those "who believe in the unfulfillable promise of Meritocracy" is a Circle

[IJ | mwen pa sòt online @aChildOf2Worlds]

“The mass investigation into Arday’s PhD may be presented as the pursuit of public and intellectual integrity, and yet the origin of this is grievance politics from those who feel diversity has blocked their own advancement.”

Exactly.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

That's why I call them Chronophages.

[Dr Karen Mitchell PhD @karenmitchell__]

When a narcissist/psychopath (human predator) decides to target you, the amount of work involved in trying to extricate oneself from the complex, controlling behaviours & relentless sadistic engagements is exhausting, time-consuming, depleting & all consuming.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@karenmitchell__ This is true in workplace setting too.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@lequipe The irony!

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@Vhoyde My thought too when I read the FFE thing.

As if Football isn't commodified enough.

Neoliberals know no boundaries.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@lenasituations @Technikartmag Lena, dans cette creation Art Deco-esque, a quelque chose de Claudia Cardinale.

J'adore!

[Race Reflections @RaceReflections]

Post 2: Injustice and Intergenerationality

This is the second post in a series of reflections on injustice and racial trauma. In the first post, I proposed that the sense of injustice is central to how traumatisation happens. Most existing frameworks focus on loss of control, overwhelm, chronic exposure, (or fear or pain) to explain the wounds racism inflicts. I posit that injustice is significantly under‑recognised as a unique source of harm in its own right.

It is essential to understand this not just as part of racial trauma, but as a component needing attention in collective, mass and group‑based violence. These experiences inflict profound moral injury: a fundamental breach of our sense of ethics, lying at the very heart of trauma and that connection to injustice may be ever so present.

This connects closely to what is known in social psychology as justice sensitivity: the tendency to notice, feel, and respond intensely to fairness or unfairness, experienced from four perspectives when we are wronged ourselves as victim, when we see others wronged as observer, when we gain from unfairness as beneficiary, and when we cause harm as perpetrator. This framework of injustice sensitivity was developed by core authors including Schmitt, Gollwitzer, and Maes. It is not simply a reaction we learn; it is a fundamental way we are oriented to the world.

There is value in acknowledging that individuals may vary in how they relate to justice and injustice, but the danger is in over‑individualising this as an idiosyncratic personality trait or an inborn temperamental disposition.

Instead, I want to suggest that our sensitivity to injustice engages multiple levels of human functioning. Of course the personal is always relevant when we speak of individual responses, but these responses are always situated within broader relational, structural and historical contexts.

I have observed that for those who consistently call out injustice, attempt to hold systems to account, and seek redress in ways the system routinely deems inappropriate and of course often dismisses as unreasonable, there is often an initial injustice needing recognition.

In a way, this is akin to trauma repetition. That injustice created the wound; the original injury may in fact evade consciousness, and that wound gets reactivated with every subsequent moral injury or injustice encountered. Every attempt made to seek redress is also an attempt to repair the original wound.

Seeking justice is not only a way to address the harm in the here and now; it is also an attempt to address moral injury and injustice that happened in the then and there, though once more this is not always known or clear.

This is not to say contemporary acts of injustice carry no weight to injure or harm morally; rather, that new harm will be mapped onto an injustice template already needing repair.

I spoke about this in an article I wrote a few years ago, about the treatment of Diane Abbott by the Labour Party, and the profound impact it had on the Black community, and particularly on Black women. Partly this was because prior personal experiences but in particular because the treatment of earlier generations, including our own mothers, grandmothers and older forbears were reactivated in people’s memories.

When we seek justice, we are often not only seeking it for ourselves or for wrongs we have experienced personally. There is a communal or group element engaged, one that takes us beyond individual harm, psychic makeup or personal histories.

This connects us to the collective struggle, to role designation and to the wrongs that have been done to groups across time and their impact, taking us to an Afroanalytic lens, a topic I will explore in a further post.

If you are experiencing injustice, would like to explore the place and role of injustice in your life, and how it may have shaped you as a person, get in touch. Similarly, I am available for referrals.
https://t.co/eulzOFTQyK

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@RRDirector Not at all.

It's boiling even under these trees.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@karenmitchell__ To delay being found out:

Do you think that these dark tetrad people, especially those holding decision-making mandates in bureaucracies, avoid being photographed or their images being disseminated, at all costs and by all means?

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@karenmitchell__ I hesitated to tag you when I saw that exact photo of him.

[Lesage @lesageencourage]

@RRDirector I was in Lille.

Try local markets to check if they overprice too.