Michael Romyn

[Michael Romyn @michael_romyn]

Per the inanity of 'gentrifying nicely', here's my review of Alan Wieder's recent meditation on a community's resistance to urban displacement: https://t.co/ShQn4Qy4Ai

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I recommend Camberwell as a place to move to in London, especially if you're planning on having kids. It's gentrifying nicely but it's still pretty cheap. It's pretty well connected transport-wise and it has some excellent shops, restaurants, pubs and parks - two of the best pubs in London, in fact, and one of the best parks. I see loads of young families around, and I gather the primary schools are good.

[56a Infoshop @56aInfoshop]

Shout out to all those grassroots organising at home, at work, in their communities, in colleges, at the Job Centre, for Palestine, in food banks, on estates, in the streets.

These things are everyday and consequential. Party politics is where all that energy goes to die

[Sam Parikh ( PRIVATE ) @BlackPantheCap_]

Every time they mention their rules based international order, picture this

[Grenfell United @GrenfellUnited]

Today marks 91 months since 72 loved ones were taken from us at Grenfell.

We still have no clear road to Justice, and no adequate health monitoring to ensure all bereaved and survivors get to see it if it comes.

Will we see any improvements before the 8 year anniversary?

[Michael Romyn @michael_romyn]

New article on race and space in the work of documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams): https://t.co/rhRg2ngdrM

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

When I worked in homelessness people understood that if you called the police on your clients, your clients had a high chance of being hurt in some way. So we often handled incidents ourselves - often more successfully than calling the cops. That is aboltion.

[Decolonial Hacker @decolonialhackr]

Chris Jones (@56aInfoshop) pens an acerbic, poetic, and emphatic rebuke of the gentrification of Elephant and Castle, casting the London neighbourhood’s “regeneration” as reflective of the sterile desires of the ruling class and their contempt for the poor.

[Michael Romyn @michael_romyn]

My short review of Peter Barham's excellent, important new book.

[History of the Human Sciences @HistHum]

'Outrageous Reason... enjoins a revaluation of conceptions of pathology and dysfunction, as well as the hegemony of whiteness that upholds them.'

Michael Romyn reviews Peter Barham's Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020

https://t.co/2XXir7CT8Z

[Nadine El-Enany @NadineElEnany]

Pluto is currently making our book After Grenfell freely available #Grenfell

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

Newcastle Uni students are now 50 days into their protest against the war in Gaza. Give them a retweet

[Fight4Aylesbury @Aylesbury_exhib]

Open reports, not decisions behind closed doors! Contribute to Fight4Aylesbury's Open Report on the Future of the Aylebsury Estate. Demolition is not the answer, and together with residents&supporters we are imagining a just future for the estate. #RefurbishDon'tDemolish

[Sam Wetherell @samwetherell]

Finally reading @michael_romyn's extraordinary article about Black identity and the history of British basketball which I'm teaching this week, and struck by this incredible image of Michael Jordan at the Brixton Recreation Centre in 1985. https://t.co/9NytVfjt45

[Michael Romyn @michael_romyn]

@samwetherell Cheers Sam!

[Lou Calvey @LouCalvey]

A refugee from Sudan. Likely made homeless at the end of the asylum process like thousands of others. This man has survived war, likely a brutal journey & years warehoused in the asylum system, only to be stamped in the stomach & dragged across the ground like an animal.

[Oral History Society @OralHistorySoc]

Got your latest copy of #OralHistory 'Revisiting Shared Authority'? OHS Members get 2 issues every year and can download past issues back to 1972. We are so proud that #OralHistory is the oldest and only independent journal publishing the work of oral historians in UK and beyond!

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

This is so powerful. Watch👇

[Fight4Aylesbury @Aylesbury_exhib]

Aysen's high court victory this week: a summary 🧵 of the case and some thoughts about it.

First off, what happened?

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[Michael Romyn @michael_romyn]

@JacStJohn1 @dannyfortson @SamNeter Would love to read something along these lines - let me know if you come across anything.

[Fight4Aylesbury @Aylesbury_exhib]

💥We won 💥 Aysen's case against Southwark Council and Notting Hill Genesis was successful. Thank you for everyone's support! The Aylesbury regeneration scheme is dead - back to the drawing board SC: refurbish the estate and keep it as council housing. #Fight4Aylesbury

[Leonard @LeosBurner]

Just published: My review of Mike and Trevor Phillips' "Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain" (reprinted last summer to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush)! Thank you to the good folx at the @OralHistorySoc!
https://t.co/m2q74tIs34