Community organiser & academic. Queer. Feminist. Anti-racist. Abolitionist. Author of Unsafe: The carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash (Haymarket Books)
Police racism, sexism and homophobia is widely seen as problem of 'bad apples' and ‘poor service provision.’ But this neglects the core issue. To address police racism, we need to confront the function of policing itself. https://t.co/vUbgEa1pXd
Race Forum at Birkbeck & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Public Lecture, ‘Wrongs not righted: how might we think about repair?’' by Catherine Hall, Tuesday 5 November at 6.0 | https://t.co/I1WFQl45qt
Bookclub is back and we are beyond excited to read the wonderful @leahacowan's amazing book 'Why would feminists trust the police?' We will be discussing the book over 3 sessions Tues 22 Oct, 12 Nov & 3 Dec - join us online 7:30pm-9pm (GMT)
https://t.co/pv7GgWCvcE
We are each other's business
Kyle Lee-Crossett
Insta: tryingtoslwwp
“We are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond”. I love this line because I think it makes visible the beauty of collective care for abolitionist futures.'
How do #neofascist leaders gain support? What does it have to do with #gender? How do #lesbians, #feminists, and #trans people in China, Hungary, UK, Argentina...resist ongoing attacks on them? Our Special issue on Neo-Fascism's Gender Ideology is out!
New post on the risks inherent in ramping up policing powers and how 'It is not enough to argue against a policing solution: we must represent the tangible alternative infrastructure for supporting our communities'
https://t.co/JffHS7uQsF
With the British Labour Party promising tougher sentencing for hate crimes against LGBT+ and disabled people, a reminder that this will not make us safe:
https://t.co/w2HREtuAdR
✨ Join us for a launch of 🌱 Addressing Gender-Based Violence —Carceral Reforms vs Abolitionist strategies 🌿
✨ Tuesday 4th June
✨ 7pm-8:30pm / Online
✨ w/ @leahacowan, @lolaolufemi_, & Billy (Frontline GBV worker)
More info & registration here: https://t.co/Tdn3KZcLjJ
'We call upon our friends and colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide in occupied Palestine, to work alongside us in rebuilding our demolished universities.' https://t.co/5iBjCZ5HCn
Race Forum at Birkbeck & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Public Lecture
The destruction of life in Gaza: Evidence from the ground up
by @OmarFerwati & @NourAbuZaid89, @ForensicArchi, @Viscult
Tues 11 June 6– 7.30 pm, Birkbeck
Free, open to all.
Book: https://t.co/2kw9jIKB8R
My latest on 'gender critical' politics in Britain - and why we need to reckon with the cross-political nature of anti-trans organising: https://t.co/cEulaLworo
🚨 JOIN THE PHONE BLOCKADE - LONDONMETRIC IS COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE - CALL THEM & DEMAND THAT THEY EVICT THE ARMS COMPANIES! 🚨
Script & instructions here: https://t.co/AGe1ovoC0n
Join me signing @PSCupdates petition calling on the UK government to #StopArmingIsrael and make public information it has on Israeli war crimes https://t.co/drsPsIDrnG
⏳ One week to go until this petition closes!
Can we get it to cross the 90k mark tonight? We know we can!
✍️ Sign + share to support calls for a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite families & offer sanctuary until return is safe
https://t.co/5tkSGezFsO
🚨 We’ve got 12 days to get this urgent petition to 100k signatures. We know we can do this!
We need a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite families & offer sanctuary until it is safe to return.
Sign + click on the link sent via email after to confirm: https://t.co/5tkSGez7Dg
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨
Health Workers For a Free Palestine are blockading NHS England HQ to protest their contract with Palantir, a US spy tech company that is resourcing Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
Cancel the contract! ❌
No genocide enablers in the #NHS!
BREAKING: Hundreds of trade unionists are blockading major arms factories in England and Scotland that manufacture weapons supplied to Israel.
We will not stand by as weapons made in Britain are used to commit genocide against the Palestinian people! #ShutItDown4Palestine
The Bent Bars Project is collecting gender-affirming clothes for trans prisoners in England & Wales. If you have new or good quality second-hand clothing to spare, please consider donating! https://t.co/eoLuXiKL3H