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Meghan Tinsley

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Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester | author: bit.ly/3HKURWE | memory, nationalism, post/decoloniality | she/her

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Mancs on Bluesky, I need your help! My parents are coming tomorrow, with dreams of Christmas markets and festive cheer. . . but the markets are closing today. Where can I take them that's Christmasy (and, ideally, warm & dry)? So far I have Alty Christmas Market and Manchester Craft & Design Centre.

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N: Akureyri 🇮🇸 S: Melbourne 🇦🇺 E: Nadi 🇫🇯 W: Juneau 🇺🇸

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If he does, I can always say he devoured my book!

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New book review! My nephew hasn’t started talking yet, but I think I can safely say that he likes my book. The cat on the windowsill is reserving judgement, though.

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Ever more invasive, ever more hostile. Visa monitoring continues at the University of Manchester. mancunion.com/2023/11/27/s...

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It was fun chatting with Chantelle about what statues mean, and why toppling them isn't 'erasing history'.
Have a listen to this episode of Surviving Society about the research Gary Younge, Chloe Peacock, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Sadia Habib & I conducted for CoDE!
open.spotify.com/show/4MktUtJ...

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I was delighted to nominate Vicky Blake for General Secretary, and I'm looking forward to voting for her!

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I like the veg soup with dumplings, but it’s very divisive. 😂 What I like is that it’s hearty! I don’t like spicy lentil on principle, because whilst it’s tasty, it’s not even remotely spicy.

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I keep a stock of Suma soups in my office! Ill-advised, maybe, but better than buying a sandwich every day. At least it’s a hot meal!

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occupied Jerusalem, and issued the Balfour Declaration, and negotiated the Sykes-Picot Agreement. In so many ways, Britain bears responsibility for what's happening in Gaza today. Will acknowledging that history be part of 'respecting' Remembrance Day? 3/3

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about 'respecting' dead First World War soldiers; it's about falling in line behind a government that has no respect for dead Palestinian civilians. There's a special irony, though, to the government's focus on the FWW, because it was during that war that British soldiers 2/

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Calling antiwar protests on Remembrance Day 'disrespectful' is 0% new and 100% on brand. State-led commemorations of war are all about taking control of national memory and delegitimising counter-memories. They're also about delegitimising dissent in the present. This isn't 1/

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Everyone will look familiar to you (but with a few more dragons)!

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I thought the chai would calm my rage, but it's just caffeinating it . . .

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I’m full of rage and masala chai this morning.

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It's heinous. This isn't new--there's been attendance monitoring for int'l students since 2009--but it gets worse every year. The sector has completely failed to resist the hostile environment, and we're all complicit.

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Visa monitoring creates fear, distrust, and division. It's racist. It's xenophobic. It undermines pedagogy, critical thought, and pastoral care. And it gets more intrusive every single year. This is going to continue until unis start resisting the hostile environment. 4/4

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and should be a place where students have the freedom to think critically, and collectively, about the world. But they're continually reminded that they're not on equal footing. The uni itself reminds some of them, every single day, that they're being watched and policed. 3/

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I had spent the past hour lecturing on postcolonial theory can challenge and deepen the way we see the social world. My students are a curious, engaged group of postgrads from 5+ countries, and it's wonderful to see them connect with each other and with the material. Uni can 2/

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After this morning's lecture on the postcolonial critique of sociology, I walked past a group of my students on my way to my office. The British students were waiting outside whilst the international students were having their visas checked. They have to do this twice a week. 1/

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It felt particularly special to me that this event was held at the uni where I discovered sociology, and that the speakers ranged from my own MSc supervisor to current colleagues and friends. A really encouraging reminder of the shared experiences that brought us all together.

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What a wonderful celebration of John Solomos! It's so unusual to have an intergenerational conversation about what it has meant--and what it could mean--to be an anti-racist sociologist working within higher ed. The room was full of camaraderie and solidarity.

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John Solomos’ retirement symposium. It’s been a wonderful day of reflections and discussions!

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At the LSE to celebrate the brilliant John Solomos and catch up with many of the sociologists of race and ethnicity he’s influenced. Who else is here?

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As of 6.42pm today, I, Meghan Tinsley, have no unread emails in my inbox for the first time since July. Please clap.

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Reposting this because this site has grown a lot in the past few weeks! The politics crowd still seems to be a lot more organised than the sociology crowd. Anyone know if there's a list of sociologists on bluesky that I can join/follow?

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Powered by apple butter, I joined trade unionists, socialists, anti-racists, migrant rights activists, climate justice activists, & LGBT rights activists in a massive anti-Tory march this afternoon. Fantastic to see such solidarity. And it didn’t even rain!

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Today is for resting and saving my energy. So I’m cooking fragrant apple butter in my warm kitchen. Tomorrow will be for channeling that energy into rage in a very large and very wet anti-Tory demo.

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“This is gruesome, I know, and it is always worse than you imagined,” he said. “Like, you thought enslaved Africans had to endure one mark — well, they had to go through this twice.”

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Tomorrow! Please join UCU members & comrades worldwide for a teach-out on the global crisis in higher education. Phethani Madzivhandila and Ivette Hernandez Santibañez will share lessons from student and academic workers' movements in South Africa & Chile.
27.10.23, 4-5pm BST | zoom.us/j/95747340845

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It’s happening. I will not be intimidated by mystery seeds (or other organic matter)!

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Ok, phew! Thanks for your reassurance 😊 Now I’m going to eat it, but I’m still curious about what the seeds are.

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So you’ve already eaten it and lived to tell the tale?

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No, it’s from my trusty veg box. I’m not sure what they’ve planted nearby

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Ok, another unpleasant possibility eliminated! I’m feeling better about this kale . . .

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You really want to ruin this kale for me, don’t you? 😂

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Weird! Are you eating it? I want to eat it. Washing it was so much trouble!

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Just looked it up, and it’s a different shape. Guess I can eliminate the worst possible scenario!

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What’s on my kale? Every stem in this bunch is sprinkled with what look like seeds. They’re not insects. I’ve been washing them off, but it’s hard to get them all—they keep hiding in the leaves! Other than this, the kale is fine. Any ideas?

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I voted yes, UCU. I don’t believe Grady will use another mandate in any meaningful way. But I’ll always vote yes, because we should always have the right to strike, and because we still need to act on casualisation, pay, and equality.

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Onward to the second week of strike action. My students are set to miss their first lecture and seminar on Monday. When we finally do meet, I look forward to making the connection between the strike and the course topics: capitalism, power, violence, race, & gender.

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