Thank you to everyone who joined Day Two of Psychic Tombs as we practised Moving the Centre by centring community knowledge and culture. Special thanks to Nana Essi for the ancestral table, Munay for acupuncture, and all our community leaders who shared their work.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Day One of our Psychic Tombs Lecture Series at the University of Leeds. A powerful day of reflection on migration, memory and loss, with special thanks to Meron Estefanos, our speakers, partners and community voices.
Meet the panellists for Day Two! ✨
Details:
📅 Thursday 8 October
📍 Leeds
🕥 10:30am–4:00pm
🔗 Register via the link in bio
What does it mean to Move the Centre in practice?
On 8th October, activists, academics and community voices will come together to explore what comes after remembrance and how we move towards resistance, repair and more liveable futures.
📍 Leeds
🕥 10:30am–4pm
🔗 Link in bio
Join us for our screening of 'Europe’s Immigration Disaster', a documentary on the aftermath of the 2013 Lampedusa tragedy.
The screening will lead into wider conversations on migration, borders, memory and justice.
📍 University of Leeds
🕤 9:30am–4pm
🔗 Link in bio
Join us for two days of art, film and community conversation inspired by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
Day 1: People, Not Numbers: Remembering Lampedusa
Day 2: Moving the Centre: Resistance and Repair
📅 7th - 8th October
📍 Leeds
🔗Link in bio
#PsychicTombs #MovingTheCentre #Lampedusa
We mourn the untimely death of Professor Jason Arday with deep sadness and anger. His death calls on us to reflect on the conditions that left him vulnerable, and on our collective responsibility to stand alongside and protect one another.
Read our full statement on our website.
We are saddened and enraged by the death of Professor Jason Arday. A peer, friend and former trustee of the Racial Justice Network.
We send our sincerest condolences to his family and friends during this devastating time.
May Professor Jason Arday rest in power.
This reflective piece honours Dr Pious Nyandoro's legacy while confronting the ongoing impacts of empire, restrictive border policies, and systemic racism, challenging readers to consider how these forces continue to determine whose humanity is recognised and protected.
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Thank you so much to everyone who joined us in celebrating the Racial Justice Network's 10th Anniversary ✨
We are incredibly grateful to have shared this milestone with so many of you❤️
WHAT’S ON AT RJN THIS JUNE ✨
This June, we’re bringing together communities, organisers, artists, academics, facilitators, and activists for two major gatherings centred on racial justice, solidarity, and collective action.
Here’s a glimpse of what’s to come at the Northern Race Equality Conference 2026 ✨
This is only a small snapshot of the workshops, discussions, and conversations taking place across the day.
Explore the full programme and register via the link in our bio. 📅
Join us as we celebrate 10 years of the Racial Justice Network
An afternoon of storytelling, performances, exhibition and community as we reflect on a decade of organising and look towards the futures we still need to build together.
📅 12 June 2026
📍 Leeds
🎟️ Link in bio
There’s now less than two weeks to go before we stop selling tickets for the Northern Race Equality Conference 2026! ✨
Join us for a day of workshops, political education, discussion, and collective organising.
🔗 Get a ticket via the link in our bio.
Meet the speakers 🇧🇷🇬🇧✨
For our Afro-Diasporic Futures launch, hear from organisers in Salvador, Brazil redefining care & community-led practice.
🔗Sign up via the link in our bio!
🫂 10 years of dismantling racism & challenging colonial systems.
Join us to celebrate a decade of movement building & collective action.
Centred on racialised & diasporan communities - on justice, resilience & relationality.
📅 12 June | 2–7pm | Leeds
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In a couple of weeks, we launch Afro-Diasporic Futures: Black Women’s Leadership Across the Atlantic.
Join us to explore building relationships across borders, grounded in trust, care & shared commitment.
🌍 Session held in both English and Portuguese
🔗 Link in bio
This Thursday we begin Module 2 of our racial justice training ✊🏽
Movement Building: how movements start, grow, sustain, and lose momentum. Plus organizing, mobilizing & action planning.
Ready to get practical? Sign up via the link in our bio.
Tomorrow is our second & final Systems of Oppression session 🫂
Last week we unpacked the structures shaping our lives and grounded ourselves in storytelling as a tool for organising. This week, we go deeper into racial oppression, its intersections, and its dynamics.
Join us!
Tomorrow we begin with our first module; Systems of Oppression where we'll be diving into the structures, rules, and norms that shape our workplaces, communities, movements, and everyday lives✊🏾.























































