There is a whole literature on (& living memory of) how sexual violence against white women has been used to justify massacres, colonial violence, lynchings, collective punishment, exclusion, & other forms of brutality against men *& women* of colour 1/ Also, the systematic rape by white men of women of colour as part of projects of colonisation & enslavement has been buried, disavowed & glossed over. Women of colour can never be recognised as victims, unless their abusers are not white &/or read as geopolitical enemies 2/

This special issue of @JournalPolitics on Race & Climate Change began as a workshop back in 2019 (!) We're proud of contributions from across the Global South & grateful for all the collective labour which made it possible.. 🧵on the articles below:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… Bikrum Gill develops a "political ecology of racial capitalism approach to further our understanding of the underlying systemic relations and logics of power driving planetary ecological crises." @bikrumsinghgill
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Everyone involved in, or speaking on, HE issues needs to read Free Speech & Koch Money by Ralph Wilson & @isaac_kamola, especially folks still taking 'cancel culture' in good faith without a power & $$$ analysis
plutobooks.com/9780745343013/… 2/ The book meticulously details the flows of cash behind the manufacture of free speech panics on campus through the funding of racist/transphobic provocateurs, media amplifiers, lawyers & academics

The media tells me the queen is the embodiment of 'grace' & 'dignity', & has maintained a 'dignified silence' through adversity during her reign - but what does this really mean for the head of an imperial state which will not face its crimes, past or present? 1/ In her lifetime she kept a dignified silence through the 'Malayan Emergency' and the Batang Kali Massacre, she held her grace through the Bengal famine and the partition of India – the millions of victims of these atrocities did not trouble her poise 2/

All solidarity with Birkbeck students who are currently being bombarded with vile abuse from the supporters of one of their own Profs

Students should never be left in the midst of alt-right culture wars in the first place

@BBK_SARN @BirkbeckUoL The first thing I learned when I landed in the same dept as Kaufmann is that if you criticise anyone in the "white racial interest politics" circles, they quickly send an army of abusers to intimidate you

https://twitter.com/Tilley101/status/1130347347500777474

1/ Fascism advances through alternating frontiers – one minute Islamophobia, the next anti-Blackness, the next transphobia and so on. *Some* of the signatories to *that* Harpers letter are actively fash-adjacent through their promotion of racist pseudoscience, anti-Trans work etc 2/ Evidently some have quite different figures in mind when they envisage who ‘the silenced’ actually are. Where some clearly want to preserve ground for racists and transphobes; others might envisage fractal intra-left struggles as being damaging to liberation projects.

A thread for the young scholars in my DMs who are intimidated by the backlash against race critique ~
Scholars of colour have spent decades building a rich parallel discipline in the face of this kind of hostility. Their archive and the spaces they've created are there for you.. Some wonderful intellectual works to start with:
Race & Racism in IR by Nivi @ManchandaNivi Robbie @RobbieShilliam & Alex Anievas

1/ So, Gilley, advocate of re-colonisation of the Global South, spoke on 'academic freedom' (no statement of irony on this contradiction prefaced his talk) here are the take home points:
First, he notes his infamous piece is his “most highly cited work ever, so it’s awesome!”

https://twitter.com/Tilley101/status/1203940318648918016

2/ The rest of the talk is dedicated to how a more dominant presence of "conservatives" can be *enforced* in the Academy. On calls for “a culture of tolerance” he says “I would reverse that.. formal policy change is what we need…change comes about through the use of power”