Uppity: The Intellectual Playground

An alternative exploration of arts, culture & politics - all deep-fried in unashamedly high-brow Blackness. IRL focussed.

Founder: @NelsAbbey

Insta: @UppityHQ

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Introducing our Christmas Card range!

[Ms B @rubeeeeeees]

Had the upmost pleasure meeting one of my heroes @misanharriman in the company of my wonderful uncle @DeleOgunAuthor and his beautiful wife at the incredible @UppityHQ with @nelsabbey #inspired #thepowerofvoices #thepowerofcommunity

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

"Whatever you do, take your blood-pressure tablets before you go to Uppity!" - Festus Akingbusoye.

"Nels is a creative provocateur" - Symeon Brown

@UppityHQ is extensively profiled in the physical edition of this week's @ObserverUK .

Uppity returns on the 30th June. Join us!

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

@labour and Britain's ethnic minorities: divorced or on a break?

Join us at @UppityHQ on Tuesday, 26th May, for a deep dive into what the local election results reveal about the (criminally underreported) fall of Labour's Black & Brown wall.

Full details below.

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

We are delighted and honoured to announce that investigative journalist Paul Holden, author of The Fraud (@StarmertheFraud), will serve as Lead Eulogist at the Starmer Memorial Ceremony as part of next week's edition @UppityHQ.

Join us in mourning. Link below.

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@LaceyL22222 @nelsabbey Here you go:

Uppity: The Intellectual Playground

Date: 26 may • 18:30

https://t.co/qH5d6bYVTU

[Axel Reigns ❤️‍🔥 @axelreignsdom]

It was a privilege and an honour to debate at @uppityhq.

Thank you to the audience and my fellow panel members for engaging in the topic of OF (& the wider online SWork debate that quickly ensued) in such a thoughtful and non-judgmental way.

I’ll be back in June, see you soon

[Samar @TheMJAP @TheMJAP]

My good brother @nelsabbey asked me to speak about the Michael Jackson movie at this months @UppityHQ event… I had to represent for the fans…

👊🏽

#MichaelMovie #MichaelJackson #JaafarJackson

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Uppity: The Intellectual Playground

18:30, Tuesday 28th April.

RichMix, Shoreditch.

https://t.co/y6Njmev5OW

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Did you hear the one about the (white) British man who had his citizenship stripped by the (browm) Home Secretary?

One giant leap forward for diversity or one chess move closer to the mass citizenship stripping of ethnic minorities?

We'll talk about it at Uppity. Link below.

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On Tuesday 24th March 2026, @ZackPolanski spent over 90 minutes taking questions from the Uppities. There was no preperation, no advance briefings, no taboo topics. Nothing was off the table.

The full unedited video will be released shortly.

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

Tomorrow evening, at RichMix in Shoreditch, the Uppity Prevent Unit will attempt to deradicalise Sajid Javid.

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Tickets can be acquired here:

https://t.co/p6m4cN6RQv

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The Rules-Based Order is dead. But how should the children of the colonised remember the era of international law, decolonisation, freedom of speech, equality, sovereignty and a slew of other illusions?

Join us in mourning at Uppity in Shoreditch on Tuesday 24th Feb.

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See you on Tuesday.

https://t.co/p6m4cN6RQv

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The What's Going On Edition of Uppity.

Tuesday 24th of February.

RichMix, Shoreditch.

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

Anyway, we'll discuss this @uppityhq in Shoreditch on the 24th of Feb. We'll see if we can get Eni Aluko to come along.

Join us!

https://t.co/16hFJ7xQ58

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

The children of those who went through actual colonisation will discuss this and more at @uppityhq (staged at RichMix in Shoreditch) on Tuesday 24th Feb. Join us.

https://t.co/uYsFIflpIZ

[Samar @TheMJAP @TheMJAP]

@PriyamvadaGopal Yes! At last month’s @UppityHQ I told this story - Years ago I tweeted that “oh God, these Asian MPs trying to keep racists happy” and someone (a Black woman, importantly) responded with something like “you do know that some Asians ALSO hate Black & Brown people?!” 👀@nelsabbey

[Nat @malaikadiva]

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