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Richard Herring

@herring1967.bsky.social

Retro RHLSP with the cool and brainy @EmmaDabiri is now up as a FREE full video on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pRp... or listen here shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...
Ball Back comes to Chelmsford, Durham and Newcastle this week richardherring.com/ballback/tour. Yes there are still tickets!

Emma Dabiri - RHLSTP 358

YouTube video by Richard Herring

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April 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM

M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧

@marcusjdl.bsky.social

As race discourse is clapped on here let’s do some reading! I thought this was very interesting by Emma Dabiri.

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Because I recognise racial categories as the pseudoscience that they are, I reject defining myself as 'mixed race', a category which attempts to disguise ideology as biology. I instead refer to myself as Irish and Black. While perhaps you are thinking that the same accusation could be levelled against the category black, I understand it as different, in that white is a category organised around fantasises of racial purity, fantasies which the category "mixed race" attempts to do the work of upholding. Black on the other hand can accommodate plurality, rather than enshrining purity. As such I find it a far more interesting proposition, replete with promise and possibility.
Blackness has the necessary components to be part of the ontological mutiny that has to occur in order to transform our understanding of society

July 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM

Juliet Mabey

@jule9.bsky.social

Join @FunmiFetto and @EmmaDabiri to discuss Funmi's debut collection of short stories, Hail Mary, on Thursday 15th May!

Buy tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hail-mary-...

April 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM

Michael Kaufman

@kaufmanwrites.bsky.social

Jay-Z and Beyoncé crossing a picket line to party shows how shallow celebrity activism really is. Thoughtful commentary by @EmmaDabiri

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/jay-z-beyonce-picket-line-party-celebrity-activism-oscars-chateau-marmont @guardian

Jay-Z and Beyoncé crossing a picket line to party shows h...

The couple’s Oscars afterparty saw celebrities bypass Cha...

www.theguardian.com

November 24, 2024 at 8:02 AM

Pen vs Sword Magazine

@penvsswordmagazine.bsky.social

Emma Dabiri - writer, scholar and voice on race and identity - pvsmagazine.com?p=6834 - Explore Emma Dabiri and her journey as Irish-Nigerian author and broadcaster, championing Black identity, natural hair and inclusive media. - #Author #EmmaDabiri #literature

Emma Dabiri – Don't Touch My Hair And Black Identity

Emma Dabiri's Don't Touch My Hair examined Black hair as a site of political resistance. Her writing, broadcasting and work on race and identity in Britain

pvsmagazine.com

July 2, 2026 at 7:16 AM

Sethina Watson

@sethina.bsky.social

@EmmaDabiri Why do we feel it acceptable to tell people how they do not conform to standard. Their natural self is not good enough. Black women’s hair is deeply persona/ I have a long history of acceptance, rejection & a complex sense of self worth related to it. I don’t need it...

November 24, 2024 at 8:25 AM

Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸

@phillm.bsky.social

.@EmmaDabiri have you seen this?
.@FutureAcademies tried to ban afro hair at @PimlicoAcademy! Students forced a climb-down.

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January 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Ivan Corbett

@wintermute.productions

These really were pretty cool.

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December 9, 2024 at 8:58 PM

Diana Johns

@crimsonchat24.bsky.social

Love this time of year - the Melbourne Writers Festival is on again, and online! Looking forward to @Rumaan, @viet_t_nguyen and @EmmaDabiri 🤩Join me online... http://tickets.mwf.com.au/ #MWF21 via @FerveTickets

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Melbourne Writers Festival is on sale now | 8–12 May 2024

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November 23, 2024 at 7:17 PM

Peter Feature '26 🏳️‍🌈

@petephilip.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/DVLUzuT...

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emmadabiri on Instagram: "I could quite easily be a populist rabble rouser too but I choose not to be. Not to “placate” anyone but because that is the antith…"

I could quite easily be a populist rabble rouser too but I choose not to be. Not to “placate” anyone but because that is the antithesis of what this moment in time calls for ! The anger at how Black people specifically are disregarded and disrespected is so very very real but don’t allow your legitimate anger to be weaponised against you to make us even more vulnerable ‼️ + beware false prophets who stoke your anger further while growing their platforms‼️

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February 25, 2026 at 4:09 PM

Sethina Watson

@sethina.bsky.social

It’s the small things that build up #microaggressions. ‘It’s only a book. Don’t be so sensitive. It wasn’t meant like that’. And so on. Not thought through @Usborne

@EmmaDabiri @Dr_Ronx @afuahirsch

December 1, 2024 at 6:33 AM

Sethina Watson

@sethina.bsky.social

@EmmaDabiri

https://metro.co.uk/2021/07/01/all-hairdressers-to-learn-to-cut-and-style-afro-hair-as-standard-14857191/

All UK hairdressers to learn to cut and style Afro hair a...

Hair professionals will now be taught to work with Black ...

metro.co.uk

November 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM

Sethina Watson

@sethina.bsky.social

Genuinely shocked by this - ⁦@thismorning⁩ hosts should know better. Black women’s hair is not a source of amusement or entertainment. Must read ⁦@EmmaDabiri⁩ book to understand why this is offensive https://www.instagram.com/p/CSeks-WoBza/?utm_medium=share_sheet

November 29, 2024 at 4:35 AM