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The UK's online ID plans: expensive, intrusive, unnecessary | Gracie Mae Bradley Of all the ways to reshape society after the pandemic, a digital identity system should not be anyone’s priority, says Gracie Mae Bradley of Liberty

for a longer case against ID systems, see my @theguardian.com article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i spoke to @lbc.co.uk this evening on ID systems, given that a 2021 quote of mine has done the rounds this week.

starmer's proposal would most likely function as a massive population database, backed by biometric surveillance.
wouldn't deal with undocumented migration, would make us all less free.

There are no safe categories I am infuriated by last week's Supreme Court ruling, and by the stance of those who argue that "woman" is a safe space into which cis women can retreat from the depredations of the world.

i'm infuriated by those who argue that "woman" is a safe space into which cis women can retreat from the depredations of the world. solidarity with my trans friends and with everyone else working for a feminism made to the measure of the world.

inrelativeopacity.substack.com/p/there-are-...

Angels, fellow travellers, & friendship on the move An interview with Gracie Mae Bradley

"It's not just about doing political work with people that we're not friends with, it's also about doing political work for or in solidarity with people that we're not actually that keen on."

The brilliant @graciemaybe.bsky.social interviewed in our latest blog post:
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Library Session / Gracie Mae Bradley and Hannah Proctor — THE COMMON GUILD Following the recent screening of Steve McQueen’s ‘Grenfell’ in Glasgow, this session brings together perspectives on how art can act as a memorial, support visibility, and make demands for justice. S...

glasgow, i'll be in conversation at @thecommonguild.bsky.social on 24th April with Hannah Proctor, thinking in response to Steve McQueen's 'Grenfell' on the role art can play in memorialisation: thecommonguild.org.uk/programme/li...

it's maddening but i can't say i'm disappointed as i had no expectations 🙃

Locating Legacies Episode 3: 'Identity Politics' with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Stuart Hall Foundation In episode 3 of Locating Legacies, series host Gracie Mae Bradley speaks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. They discuss how politics moves between the world of ideas and the material world, the process by which r...

otherwise read Elite Capture and if you cba listen to the chat i had with Olufémi on this very topic here: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/resource/loc...

in the book we concluded "maybe we are expending too much energy talking about the wrong ‘identity politics’."👀

look at the unfolding threats i've just outlined. there are many more i could have listed. they're all more urgent than what did or didn't happen one time at TWT

UK state agencies are rolling out CCTV equipped with facial recognition. UK govt demands are forcing tech companies to withdraw encrypted services. Govt is drafting powers to surveil bank accounts. Tony Blair will not shut up about ID cards.

fwiw this is what Luke and i reflected on 'identity politics' in Against Borders, following our discussion of digital ID, databases and algorithms

Turning the year I fell asleep to the beating wind, asking myself: is this what I resolved to use this time for?

i have no idea what blusky does with substack links, or if there are many literature people on here, but in case there are, a new post from me, on turning the year and my creative process: inrelativeopacity.substack.com/p/turning-th...

Reading "Against Borders" by
@graciemaybe.bsky.social &
L de Noronha. Loving it. Thought provoking, compelling, inspirational. I recommend it to anyone interested in anti-racism, migration, intersectional justice - whether abolitionism is your cup of tea or not
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

glasgow // london folk: i’m doing a couple of events next week with Goldsmiths and the inimitable
Mount Florida Books, see you there

mine and Minnie’s collective analysis of the borders bill 👇🏾- unimpressed, but there are opportunities

Khaled 'Abu Diaa' Nabhan, a Palestinian man who moved many last year while saying goodbye to his killed three-year-old granddaughter, Reem, has been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza.

🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/l31q2z

Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivors Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead

some victims of the cyclone in Mayotte were afraid to come forward for support because they thought it could lead to their deportation.

we've heard this time and again under the UK's hostile environment & we'll hear it more globally as climate breakdown worsens.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

disgraceful but no surprise to read that Britain's protest crackdown legislation has inspired other nations. this government should be rolling back the legislative excesses of its predecessors, and defending the freedom to protest: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

sheltering from the storm today! an energising discussion on the UK migrant solidarity movement’s wins, and how we take on this government’s hostility.

many of the insights in Against Borders still ring true: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

thank you for having me @amnestyuk.bsky.social ✨

nice to see you on here simon. i was pleased when you came back to twitter for 5 minutes a little while ago to share wisdom on anti-fascist organising.

this govt is following in the last's footsteps, rolling back those wins: reopening detention centres and ramping up mass deportations and raids. but pretty recent history tells us is that these attempts can be successfully opposed - we should recognise how we did that (and understand our mistakes)!

the impact was an end to routine detention of children and pregnant people, two detention centres closed, thousands fewer people entering immigration detention and remaining free in their communities. no, it wasn't all detention centres closed forever, nor was it a time limit, but it was progress...

i'm thinking about immigration detention in particular - massive civil society campaigning on child detention before the 2010 election, people who'd survived detention coming forward to campaign against its harms, civil society movement for a time limit, abolitionist grassroots mobilisations...

i'm prepping notes for my @amnestyuk.bsky.social talk this weekend on what it means for the migrants' rights movement to win, and i realise that one of the many effects of the last govt's escalating violence towards migrants has been to suppress movement memory of relatively recent wins

two people - one in a green cardigan and one in a zebra print jumper signing books - Why Would Feminists Trust the Police and Border Abolition Now!

delightful times @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Bookfair with Leah Cowan on thinking, writing and organising towards flourishing futures 💫

advance warning that my posts are likely to be infrequent, and on the subject of books, civil liberties, philosophy and my dreams (this week i dreamed Gordon Brown had marseille hex tiles in his kitchen...) BUT let's give this place a go