Dr Kay Sidebottom 🌿🕷⛸
@KaySocLearn
Lecturer in Education, lead for MSc Education @StirUni. Tweets mine. Posthuman PhD, pedagogista, poet. Volunteer @credit4refugees ❤️ #SaintsFC
Absolutely thrilled to have this article by myself and @LouMycroft published @AJEnviroEd today: [Birdsong]: Pedagogies of Attunement and Surrender with More-than-Human Teachers cambridge.org/core/journals/…
“Forget the MPs who rebel over cutting disabled people’s benefits - remember those who don’t. Just as Iraq was for Blair, disability cuts is the moral stain that will mark Starmer and his government for years to come, whether they succeed or not.” My col. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
If you are not concerned by the proscription of @Pal_action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong. This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
.@ZoeJardiniere lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning @Pal_action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.
Oh fuck this toxic positivity shite.. I’m sorry but they need to stop coercing people into this “work will set you free,” Neoliberal bullshit. My (in)ability to work quite literally is defined by my disabilities, as is most of my life. Denial of this is ableism.
"Don't let a condition define the person that you are and want to be" Our welfare reforms will help those who can work, into work
For all teachers/educators/those wanting to learn: An open, free Education course (from the University of Stirling) Sign up from today; further details in the link: futurelearn.com/courses/educat…
A school of fish who doubt the sea… Simon Gibbs reviews 'Against School: Thinking Education Differently' by Stephen J. Ball & Jordi Collet-Sabé @ColletJordi @SpringerNature bps.org.uk/psychologist/s…
Great to present @ImRobWalker and my thoughts on Adolescence, the manosphere, and the use of Posthuman affirmative ethics to counter micro-fascist practices at @StirUni Social Sciences Research Day :)
Enoch Powell in the ‘rivers of blood’ speech: ‘But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For they found themselves made strangers in their own country.’
'We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.' Sir Keir Starmer announces measures which he says will help control the number of immigrants coming into the country to live and work.
The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.
Is Starmer competing with Enoch Powell’s rivers of blood speech ? ‘ Island of Strangers’ ? Is this what 10 months in powers has reduced him to ? Instead of redistributing wealth & fighting corruption he’s become a shameful mouthpiece for obscene wealth & inequality.
Politicians who refer to foreign care workers as 'low skilled' should be forced to work in an understaffed care home for a week
Most people don’t work - if you include children and pensioners - so why does PM use this phrase? Barely better than previous government’s ‘hardworking people’. Perhaps children, pensioners, full time parents, unemployed people, many disabled people, and the idle rich won’t be…
The threat Russia poses to our national security cannot be underestimated. To ramp up the pressure on Putin, I’m announcing the largest package of sanctions yet. I will always do what it takes to safeguard working people. Security at home. Strength abroad.
Excited to be presenting this webinar next Weds 14th May at 4pm: ‘Towards Posthuman Education: Curriculum-Making for a World to Come’ Sign up here: tickettailor.com/events/faculty…
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Man City defender Ruben Dias on how Southampton played today: “They don't even try anything. They just sit and they don't even want to win the game. They just want to be there. It's not good for the show. It's not good for themselves. It's not good for anyone.” #saintsfc
Don't debate fascists & provide a platform for them & their ideas. There's no need as we know them (hence the invitation) & no one ever defeated fascism & racism in a debate, one individual or event at a time. It's a fallacy that does their work & harm. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really wonder how they sleep at night.