In our first blog post we present a model of how the far right appropriates archaeology and how we can fight it! We use the recent 'looksmaxxing' trend as a case study to explore this. Give it a read and feed back what you think! 🏺
#AntiExtremistResearch
So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
All the other Brady Feigls are just imitating
This is the kind of thing we don't hear about when we're told what the public (supposedly) thinks and wants. Fascism depends on keeping people - all people - in a state of fear, and making them feel isolated and helpless. In reality, there are always good people helping each other.
“The truth is that the global far right have spent the past few years using a billionaire-owned social media platform to deliberately whip up racist violence on Britain’s streets and now they are finally starting to succeed.”
@adambienkov.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/t...
ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast.
In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack!
Please share!
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with the Men's football World Cup descending into totalitarian charade, it's not the only mega-event where there's dissent: things are kicking off for the Brisbane #Olympics in 2032, with, as is so often the way, First Nations at he forefront....
In 2017, Hull City of Culture commissioned Duckie to hold community workshops making parade icons of 50 local/national 🏳️🌈 figures (marking decriminalisation* 1967) for Hull Pride.
Our workplace group had David Hockney, who didn’t deserve me steering him into a big tree by the Tesco Express.
Second time this year: 🇭🇹 Winter Olympics team couldn’t wear design with Toussaint L’Ouverture.
Problem this time is apparently an illustration of the last battle in the Haitian Revolution (⚔️ 1803 Vertières)
Technically, we were commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 partially decriminalising private sex between men aged 21+ in 🏴/🏴 unless in armed forces or merchant navy, but try fitting all that into a sentence in front of Radio Humberside.
Daniel Brown and Jacob Blewett Design, editing, and formatting by Melina Katsoulakis At the end of 2025, a trend exploded across far-right and mainstream internet spaces; young men were smacking th…