Senior Lecturer in Criminology @CitySociology researching police racism & the criminalisation of Black music culture(s)
*Tweeting in a personal capacity*
Jun 7, 2024 • 38 tweets • 7 min read
🧵1/25: Thread warning on @UKLabour's latest party propaganda video👇
2/25: This would be cute, party propaganda that we should simply drown out by the sound of our laughter & by not voting Labour!
But, seeing it endorsed by @BellaSankey who is a human rights campaigner & committed to the welfare of people in immigration detention
May 2, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 on Left intellectuals (hold tight!)
A lively & thoughtful debate has unfolded here recently on Left intellectuals- and one that I have followed with keen interest, albeit as a latecomer (sorry!)
In the spirit of de/anti-colonial thinking & politics, which has served as a
necessary corrective to white supremacist & heteropatriarchal conceptions of intellectuals, however, I wonder how adequate our approach to intellectuals and intellectual life actually is.
I fear that much of it replicates dominant, Eurocentric conceptions of who is/can be an
