I don't think I have come across Faiza Shaheen before (I was living away for a while... not that it's an excuse), but she sounds like an amazing woman with an important insight and perspective. I will certainly be checking out her book.

“The book is called Know Your Place,” she says, “but what I want people to do with that knowledge is get angry and collectively say: ‘We are not going to be put in our place any more.’

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/29/social-mobility-is-a-fairytale-faiza-shaheen-on-fighting-for-labour-and-hating-oxford

#Labour #ToriesOut #KnowYourPlace #workingclass

“There was an end-of-year award ceremony at my school when we were kids,” Shaheen recalls, “and they got Norman Tebbit in to give out prizes. Me and my brother had won loads of them, and so had lots of the children of immigrants. Every time they read out the prize, another black or brown person came up to receive it. My dad couldn’t stop laughing. He said: ‘This is the best revenge…that he has to give my children prizes."
Faiza Shaheen
#UKPolitics #Racism #KnowYourPlace

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/29/social-mobility-is-a-fairytale-faiza-shaheen-on-fighting-for-labour-and-hating-oxford?CMP=firstedition_email

JuSt AcCePt YoU'rE PoOrEr

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/19/food-prices-will-soon-overtake-energy-in-driving-uk-inflation-report-predicts
#CostOfLivingCrisis #KnowYourPlace #UKPolitics #BankOfEngland #Inflation

@chris But she did do it with such grace! And Charles sat with such majesty! Fawn, fawn, grovel...
Who are we mere peasants to question the monarch whom God himself hath ordained to rule us? #coronation #peasants #KnowYourPlace

@elfin @spacehobo @juliewebgirl

double width front door
SUVs feel right at home
servants to the rear

#poetry #smallpoems
#knowYourPlace

@threalist
No. It's about money that flows from the rulers. That's all.
They pick.
You vote.

That's what this is about.
#knowyourplace

Why do they always threaten to contact my school trying to put an intelligent, confident, Black woman back in her place. #KnowYourPlace #StayInYourLane #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #AcademicMastodon

PSA: If you are #Trans, you may speak for Trans people. If you are #Jewish, you may speak for Jewish people. If you eat toast, you may speak on behalf of toasters. If you are white you need tae understand that the #Black and #POC community dosnae need you tae speak for them. #KnowYourPlace