Sandra Simpson🇯🇲

A topic close to my heart also, Black women. We are worthy. We deserve respect, rest and love that is not contingent upon our labour. I will be presenting my paper in person at the JUSWAC conference. Details below and I look forward to seeing you.

I'm here for this.

@ian_cushing Congratulations 🎊 Well deserved!

i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. 🌸 leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP

Last Thursday, I facilitated our first regional Communities of Practice(CoP), focusing on connecting adult social care workers with research in the West Midlands. I am still buzzing!Such great discussions with great members. I look forward to the next session!

I was on the antiracist demonstration against Far Right Tommy Robinson from start to finish – including the police kettle on Whitehall. Some thoughts: 1. There were not millions on the TR demo. He is, and always has been, a pocket-sized Pinocchio. 2. The turnout was higher than the police figure of 100k. It was the size of a big Palestine solidarity demo – around 250–300k. 3. It was, without doubt, the biggest Far Right demonstration in British history. 4. I’ve been saying for weeks it would be. Robinson has been doing the podcast circuit to build it, and of course it’s been backed by the richest man on the planet. 5. Tommy Robinson works for the interests of the super-rich. Musk wants a divided Britain, as do the super-rich broadly, so they can keep getting away with profiting from gross inequality. 6. Musk doesn’t care about free speech – Tesla is the only major American car manufacturer whose workers aren’t represented by a union – but then, fascists don’t like unions. 7. Nor do Robinson and many of his supporters, who sought to target antiracists exercising their free speech at the other end of Whitehall. 8. The violence from Robinson’s street thugs was significant: openly clashing with police, throwing bottles and flares, and more. 9. There should have been far more than nine arrests. Of course, Robinson’s supporters aren’t pensioners with Palestine signs – so the mass of those guilty of violent disorder live to fight another day. The bottom line is this: we have to turn the tide on the Far Right radicalisation happening in Britain. And with foreign billionaires backing them, it is not going to be easy. We will have to do things differently, and be different, to mobilise the antiracist majority in Britain. But doing nothing is not an option.

There’s me wanting to make social work a more inclusive profession, encouraging those with lived experience etc to join when im constantly disadvantaged & having to continually question if I’m in the right career due to being neurodivergent 😩

I reckon I am biased but I think this list of speakers for the upcoming @SWU_UK Conference on 6th September in Manchester is really superb. Looking forward to the opportunity to talk all things solidarity and activism. More details and booking (free) here: swu-union.org.uk/swu-conference

So it is almost the start of the school holidays for my partner. I will just pretend i'm on holiday & watch from the bench😔. He goes into work today for a work BBQ.I'm not envious. Not me🎻😭🤣 The bonus is that I will have latés, decent lunches, quality time for 6 wks.🥰

My website is up and running. swpracademic.com/about/ Please check out the link share with people who maybe interested in my training and work I do. Big shout out to Jason Lawrence who designed the website with my small budget. Thanks to my friends who gave feedback.

@ZakiyaMedia I hope a good time was had 😊

@ZakiyaMedia What bottle did you get?

In solidarity with Jamaicans, my feet will never touch the sand on a Sandals resort.

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Child Q: Three Met officers could be sacked over strip-search of Black school girl Child Q -a 15 year-old Black girl - was strip-searched by Met officers while she was on her period at school in Hackney voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2…

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The come back from New York Knicks against Miami Heat was 🔥

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Attention social workers in England! 🚨🚨 There are big changes coming to our training and development frameworks, and not necessarily good ones. "Say Goodbye to the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF)" - my new article out in @SWU_UK newsletter today.

There is hardly any fraud in the disability benefits system. In response to my parliamentary questions, the DWP says just 0.2% of personal independence payment (PIP) spending is due to fraud. Today I called for an end to the scapegoating of disabled people on benefits.

@mskahin1 Thank you 😊

Today is my first day in my Research Engagement Lead post for @WMadassresearch @wmadass #Blackwomeninleadership Because we can. Because we do. Because we are leaders 🙌🏿✊🏿