tilly

phd candidate / research on everyday history of east africans in fascist italy / dubliner in scotland :)

[wennie @wenn_idk]

Afropessimist theory word for word lol. Blackness being structurally positioned outside full recognition as “Human”, thus narrowing the field of empathy within that order. Accompanied by the non-Black attitude of “haha they’re filthy animals, they don’t even matter.”

Vindicated.

[ontologoff 🛜 @ontologoff]

The product of universities treating Black studies as a DEI project, vulnerable to the axe, when the money dries up. Instead of treating Black Studies as an important field of study whose absence reveals incomplete programmes and curricula.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

This may be the first time non-French-speaking Africans are witnessing the full depth of French presidential condescension, but for us it has always been this way. Nicolas Sarkozy walked into a room full of university students in Dakar in 2007 and declared that “ the African man had not yet entered history”.
Emmanuel Macron asked Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, the then president of Burkina Faso, to go fix the air conditioning for him during a 2017 press conference, then proceeded to publicly humiliate Tshisekedi in the DRC in 2020.

These are not isolated moments of poor judgment. They are a pattern. The infantilisation of Africans is not a failure of one French presidential character. It is a feature of French presidential culture, so deeply embedded in the relationship between France and its former colonies that these men cannot suppress it even when the cameras are running and the entire world is watching.

They were never trained to see us as equals. And it shows, every single time, without exception, regardless of which French president occupies the room.

[Kehinde Andrews @kehinde_andrews]

SAVE #BlackStudiesBCU

@MyBCU has cut the MA Black Studies and Global Justice with NO notice or consultation AND targeted the 5 Black members of staff for potential risk of redundancy

Read the open letter to the Board of Governors and add your name:
https://t.co/nYcKxMMOas

[Race and Resistance @Race_Resistance]

Join us this Friday at R&R, where Mathilde Lyons will be presenting her doctoral research on the forms of resistance for Black individuals in Fascist Italy.

📍Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre
📅Friday 21st November, 1pm
@TORCHOxford

[tilly @tilly_lyons]

More info for anyone who wishes to present !

[tilly @tilly_lyons]

Excited to announce the launch of our interdisciplinary conference on race & racialisation in medicine and humanities held on 7 November at @dundeeuni and funded by @EthnicityUK to promote these conversations in Scotland. All welcome to submit a proposal/attend. Deadline 26 Sept.

[The Stuart Hall Foundation @StuartHallFdn]

We are pleased to continue our partnership with @uomsoss to offer a studentship for a PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester starting September 2025.

Learn more:
https://t.co/zbPzQB3jUX

[tilly @tilly_lyons]

@helpcentresnail this is what happens when u enforce bedtime

[tilly @tilly_lyons]

a taste:

[tilly @tilly_lyons]

A short piece I wrote for Swedish magazine 'Differens'.
https://t.co/5x3Ko4bwYz

[Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin @TCDsociology]

Thought provoking presentations on the Racial Dimensions of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum from @Phil_Mullen_ @EveDoran7 and Soraya Afzali #CitizenshipRef20yearson

[Arts Matter Bristol @UoBArtsMatter]

#ICYMI: PhD Italian candidate Tom Baker told us about working on the Italian terrorist trials of the 1970s & 80s with Prof @Footymac

This is the first in a new series of blogs spotlighting PGR internship projects carried out over the summer

Read more 👉 https://t.co/zhb9J9jsbb

[tilly @tilly_lyons]

Exciting to have received a copy of @AssocMRI very important book

(and fun to see my name in the acknowledgements hehe!! Very interesting project to collaborate on and I learned a lot. Thanks @conradbryan for including me in the process)

[Christopher @molochofficial]

oh? the historical period you study was one of rapid social transformation and stark contrasts? Yeah I bet it was.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“It’s horrific to be a product that people can sell and buy.”

Here’s how biracial babies born to U.S. soldiers and Korean women were often sent overseas for adoption.

Follow Kwon-si, or Simon, as he returns to South Korea in search of his family.

[Philomena Mullen @Phil_Mullen_]

CFP - the Centre for Forced Migration Studies @HoareRachel and Black Studies @TCDsociology invites submission for papers for a one day symposium on the racial dimensions of the 2004 referendum on citizenship. #BlackStudies #BHM2024 https://t.co/EW5b835HrK

[Catherine Sloan @cgsloan]

https://t.co/Tb3Gj8ekzm Black British History programmes are an essential for the future of our field, both a realm of scholarly excellence and an essential public good. Sign to protest the culling of essential courses at Goldsmiths:

[tilly @tilly_lyons]

Perfect end to a busy month of delivering conference papers in Sorrento, St Andrews for @EDP_UStA and Lyon with a trip to Fourvière Cathedral.