Dr J. Michelle [email protected]

Beyond ecstatic that my new book, Louise Michel in America, is now under contract with Rutgers UP for their Reinventions of the Paris Commune series edited by Kristin Ross. 🎉🎉🎉

I'm standing for a @ucu National Executive Committee (NEC) role in this election because I believe we can build a better union & wage a stronger fight for our sector. If you share that vision, I'd be grateful for your vote. But whomever you support, please make your voice heard.

I posted my @ucu NEC ballot today. I voted for @dyfrig & a slate of candidates who acknowledge the crisis that our sector is in & how urgently we need to work together to address that at a local, national & UK policy level. THAT gives me hope in an otherwise dark time.

🚨Calling all UCU members🚨 You should now be receiving your NEC postal ballot papers. I am strongly supporting @dyfrig for VP, Andrew Feeney for Treasurer and this slate of candidates: dyfrigjones.com/necslate The most important thing is to have your say and vote 💪💜❤️ #Ucu

So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. Do I have this right?

We've told the pay review body schools cannot afford more cuts. Any pay rise must be fully funded to avoid detrimentally affecting children's education. Read our evidence here: neu.org.uk/advice/your-ri…

1. Want some fun news before the Monday inauguration that you won't have heard anywhere else? The antitrust enforcers (Lina Khan et al) went full Tony Montana on big business this week before Trump people took over. Here's just part of what they did.

#OtD 17 Jan 1915 @IWW organiser Lucy Parsons led a march against hunger and unemployment in Chicago. It was during this protest that famous union hymn "Solidarity Forever" was completed by Ralph Chaplin. More IWW music in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/bo…

I'm running for a spot on UCU's National Executive Committee (NEC) because I believe in the power of our collective action, transparent leadership & long-term strategies to protect our sector. Ballots open 27 January. #UCUNEC

this is literally the point all those protesters throwing paint on works of art for years have been making; as it currently stands, in this climate crisis, the existence of all art is ultimately temporary and will inevitably be lost to fires or rising waters

In 1875, 11-year-old chimney sweep George Brewster was forced up a flue measuring just 12x7.5 inches. His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act. Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed, were it not for “red tape”.

We must abolish the death penalty.

A shout-out to @crvardy for introducing me to @helen_charman extraordinary new book _Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood_, which I’m currently reading as part of a reading group with a few dear neighbourhood friends I was so lucky to meet through mothering.

NEXT FRIDAY! 🌟 & there's still⌚ to RSVP for this event.

“I’m reminded of ⁦@MichaelRosenYes⁩ point that fascists don’t turn up in fancy dress….However marginalised the rioters this summer might have been: and however marginalised the communities they came from might have been: they fed off mainstream encouragement.”

Grateful that our @Amer_UoM Summer Reading Group has been reading Adrienne Brown’s brilliant new book, The Residential is Racial. So looking forward to her 2024-5 Henry Box Brown lecture @OfficialUoM in May!

U.S. Olympians are using their trip to the Olympics to get the basic preventative healthcare they can’t afford to get in the U.S. We should be embarrassed that we’re the only industrialized country without universal healthcare — all because lobbyists pay off our politicians.

Saw this today:

This is one of the best and most eloquent articulations of why the riots have occurred and what needs to be done to prevent them in the future. Well done @labourlewis

85 People safely onboard Louise Michel The survivors reported being at sea for 4-5 days in an unseaworthy wooden boat. 📷 @sara.creta / Mantaray Film #SAR #HumanRights #SafePassage #SolidarityAtSea #Freedomofmovementforall

Unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel to be published 65 years after her death The novelist’s final work, The Life of Herod the Great, will be published in January theguardian.com/books/article/…