Gabriel (@gabrielduplessix.bsky.social)

Spending the summer at @Stockholm_Uni, Sweden. Looking forward to the opportunity to spend the final months of my PhD immersed in writing, reflection, and exchange.

If there’s one book on Colonialism, by a historian, that I would recommend an undergraduate to read, then this is it! I keep learning so much about the historical trajectories of colonial questions every time I read the book. Indeed, a treasure trove that is relevant today!

Beautiful sunny day in Stockholm and my thesis is slowly taking shape - 5000 words to go 😊

23,000 words left on the PhD thesis draft. Writing from cloudy Windsor, fuelled by tea and existential dread.

Last chance to express your interest! Want to connect with other researchers or relevant stakeholders to form teams for our Digital Good Research Fund?  We are holding an optional online research team formation sandpit on 1 April. Apply here: digitalgood.net/digital-good-r…

🚨 2 YEARS?! 🚨 It's been TWO years since the Anti-Homosexuality Act passed! 💔 This week, we're diving deep into its impact, the struggle so far, and how we can finally repeal this cruel law. Today, let's start with a quick timeline update! 🗓️ #RepealAHA23 @SMUG2004

Today's a good day. I finally get to read @ochieng_ogutu's fantastic ' Decolonising Refugee Integration', troubling colonial practices and neocolonial understandings of integration used to inform policy actions in the Global South. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Excited to start the year as a visiting researcher at @OfficialUoM, exploring how queer and trans refugees use social media to foster community and drive meaningful activism. If you're in Manchester, let me know - I'd love to connect!

We are so happy to announce that the NQIfFM (iranqueerefugee.net) poetry collection "Rainbows on Rugged Terrains: Poetics of Queer Iranians in Exile" is now out! It features poetry from queer Iranians in exile in Turkey, the UK, and Canada. tplondon.com/product/rainbo…

Excellent discussion today focussing on mental health, exploitation, and violence.

Fantastic presentation by @Ty_Valiquette , focussing on social capital of LGBTQ+ Venuzuelan asylum seekers in Northern Brazil.

Here's a couple of organisations in Lebanon that I have just donated to - feel free to add others to this thread: Lebanon Resists is fundraising to support the healthcare sector, which has been significantly targeted by the Israeli military lebanonresist.com

BBC: “Kenya refugees: Abductions and expulsions taint safe haven image” As some of us have argued for some time, the safe haven image was a ruse all along—a fiction that has served the GoK, int’l donors & NGOs keen to get a piece of the humanitarian pie. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Really looking forward to this!

🟡 NOW: Palestine solidarity activists in Berlin push back under the slogan “No Halloween this year. The horror is real.” Protesters are using pyrotechnics and setting up barricades, reclaiming Berlin’s streets in defiance of heavy police repression of Palestine solidarity.

A small offering for those looking. Our Introductory Curriculum 'Palestine: Spaces and Politics' is online. For those in the fields of architecture, geography, urbanism, and planning we situate Palestine beyond colonial erasure. palestine.araburbanism.com

Join this important event on Participation and Digitalization: Opportunities and Challenges for Migrants and Refugees in the Netherlands, in Utrecht on 20 November, organized by Noemi Mena Montes

Italian court deems deportations to Albania unlawful (2 underage, 2 vulnerable, 12 at risk of violence in home country). yet the EC looks at offshore processing as a way to manage migration. how did we get so low?