Dalia Gebrial

@daliagebrial

I study race, gender & work | PhD on digital economy @ LSE | Editor | bylines | dgebrial@gmail.com

Croydon. Cairo.
Joined March 2010
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    Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Geography at , joins Paul Gilroy for a conversation on Covid-19 and state violence, touching on the desire for learning as activism, political geography of mobilisation and double consciousness.

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    Jun 9

    Many of our applicants have been made homeless as well as jobless, and we still have 20 people waiting for help. We need £4000 to pay those who are left, and many are without money for rent or food. Pls keep donating @ and help us keep spreading the word!

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    13 hours ago

    The financial impact of covid19 is unevenly distributed by race + class. If you're doing okay PLEASE consider donating to this amazing solidarity initiative! 🔥 Currently 19 childcare workers on the waitlist in urgent need - almost all migrant women w no access to public funds

    Many of our applicants have been made homeless as well as jobless, and we still have 20 people waiting for help. We need £4000 to pay those who are left, and many are without money for rent or food. Pls keep donating @ and help us keep spreading the word!
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    14 hours ago

    The rapper Wretch 32 has shared a video of his 62-year-old father being Tasered by police at his home in north London in April

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    14 hours ago

    + More care workers are dying due to COVID than workers in any other occupational category. + Care home mortality rates are still high. We unpack the gender, ethnicity and working conditions of care workers in our study:

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    Jun 9

    Siobhan O’Neill reviews 'Decolonising the University', edited by , and Kerem Nişancioğlu

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    Jun 3

    Some people are highlighting our episode on teaching the history of Empire in schools, with and . Anti-racism in the UK must include understanding our imperial past.

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    Jun 9

    When conversations to defund as a move to abolish the police are taken seriously here, funding of public services and community safety must go hand in hand with decriminalising drugs, sex work, homelessness, public order offences and other laws that need police violence to exist.

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    Jun 9

    I'm depressed and reflecting on how to regroup about the city budget. Hoping for some amazing reporting in the next 24 hours that helps untangle what happened so we can figure out where to go from here. And still focused on police divestment in UC.

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    Jun 9

    With Bernie Sanders just now announcing his endorsement for progressive congressional candidates Jamaal Bowman, Charles Booker and Samelys Lopez, and give the lowdown on the candidates and races to watch this June and July.

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    Jun 9

    The sound of the helicopters during this livestream from the protest in Oxford during the moment of silence for George Floyd is so loud and stark - the police and state letting it be known there are there, hovering, choking.

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    Jun 8

    Have been thinking about how we can draw on the successes of the defund movement in the US and apply them to the UK context. In London, we could begin with the demand to disband the Met’s Territorial Support Group [TSG]. A thread:

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    Jun 7

    in response to the recent barrage of communication from about their commitment to antiracism and support for BLM, I sent a few suggestions about how the university could commit to police abolition

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    Jun 9

    Struck by how much Marx and Engels bang on about 'abolition' in the old Communist Manifesto. 'Abolish this, abolish that...nations, the family, private property'. Legends.

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    Jun 9

    'We did the petitions, we did the protests, we did the lobbying, we did the letter writing. When that process is constantly blocked - what do you expect people to do next?' on

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    Jun 8

    Protestors who torn down the statue of a slave trader aren't "thugs". They did us all a favour in a country that continues to glorify Empire.

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    Jun 8

    "America, This Is Your Chance": Michelle Alexander is devastating on the inextricable link between battling for racial justice and struggling for democratic socialism

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    Jun 8

    Shukri Abdi ❤️

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    Jun 8

    I wrote a whole book about how Britain is the spoils of empire. It's not just the that's up for grabs. It's all of it.

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