1st Black Children’s author born in Wales 🧜🏾♀️ Director | Historian | Translator @TranslatesLily Former PM Decolonising Collections @AmgueddfaCymru 😉
Wales, United Kingdom
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It’s #BlackHistoryMonth, a time to focus on and celebrate black communities in the UK. We spoke to Wales’ first Black children’s author @JDunrod to find out what #BHM means to her.
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A look back at the remarkable career of rugby league legend Sir Billy Boston after he sadly passed away aged 92 ❤️
#BBCRugby #BBCRugbyLeague
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Jason Arday is yet another painful example of how academia is still a tool of empire used to protect and defend white supremacy. We’ve been warning for years that the system can offer us a seat at the table without ever surrendering the pillars of injustice used to build it.
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Black people, please look after yourselves on social media and in real life. Do that in whatever way helps you. Block, delete, disengage and limit replies. Find a safe space. Have conversations with people who genuinely care
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Sending love to Jason Arday's family and friends.
He was subject of sustained and malicious media attacks which were no doubt more vicious because he was Black.
We must now reflect on the impact of a trial by some of the media and online on someone under extreme pressure.
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I’ve just pre-ordered Jason Arday’s book, Great and Unfortunate Things, because I want it to be a bestseller and for his kids to see the royalties. Haters, you can keep walking. waterstones.com/book/great-a…
At some point a conversation needs to be had about this pattern.
Institutions hire Black academics just to attack them behind the scenes as they are forced to stay silent continue doing the job they were hired for
they resign, attacks continued
@Plaid_Cymru @Heledd_Plaid
Can’t help but think @AmgueddfaCymru tried to do to me what they did to Dr Arday,
Hiring me to Decolonise just to put me through hell, assassinate my character.
Then AFTER I couldn’t take any more and resigned
They leaked a hateful false report to press
@Plaid_Cymru
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They're now triggered by a GoFundMe set up to support the family of Professor Jason Arday with funeral costs.
So far, £75,227 has been donated.
gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-…
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The death of Jason Arday hit so close to home that I had no words yesterday. But I woke up with words.
To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob.
And if you die from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you “accusations” to wash their hands of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching.
My latest at The Emancipator.
theemancipator.org/2026/08/1…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
To lynch means when an angry crowd or mob kills a person without a legal trial or lawful justice, usually by hanging them from a rope.
The tragic death of Jason Arday has been reported as a suicide following his resignation over allegations of plagiarism & data fraud.
telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…
While I’m on here ranting..
Would also like to express my utter disgust at the devastation caused but DELIBERATE lighting of Wildlife’s in Ferndale & across the Welsh valleys
Views like this from my house, every day for last few weeks
Our Firefighters must be exhausted!🏴
Can’t help but think @AmgueddfaCymru tried to do to me what they did to Dr Arday,
Hiring me to Decolonise just to put me through hell, assassinate my character.
Then AFTER I couldn’t take any more and resigned
They leaked a hateful false report to press
@Plaid_Cymru
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The only time I’ll ever thank god that no one cares about Wales, & rarely makes national news.
Thank god NC & @AmgueddfaCymru did not succeed & I’m still here
Free to tell what they did to me
(staff were ordered to sign NDA & not talk about decolonisation)
@Plaid_Cymru
Jason Arday, Cambridge University
Birmingham City University Black Studies Professor, Kehinde Andrews
Claudia Gay, Harvard
Tommy J Curry, University of Edinburgh.
All recent cases within last few years.
Examples of hiring then harming Black academics for doing their job
Can’t believe I’m watching on TB someone I know preparing to go to space & orbit the moon.
Good luck Jeremy! 🙏🏾🚀✌🏾
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Happy St David’s Day! 🏴
Today also marks 1 year since we launched “The Powerful Life of Billy Boston” in honour of the greatest rugby player on record.
Thank you @vaughangething for taking time out of your BUSY schedule to share St. David’s day in school with us
‘Twas an honour & pleasure to have you read Billy Boston’s book to pupils of his old primary school.
I really appreciate you, thank you! 🙏🏾
Happy St. David’s Day 🏴
This month marks 5 years since the publication of Your Hair is Your Crown 🥹🏴📚
Jessica Dunrod is from Cardiff and believed to be the first black and Welsh children's author. She writes books influenced by her Welsh-West Indian heritage and Wales' historical multicultural society. Her first book was Your Hair is your Crown. #BHCymru365
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Mae Jessica Dunrod o Gaerdydd ac yn cael ei hystyried yr awdures blant du Gymreig gyntaf. Mae hi'n ysgrifennu llyfrau sy'n adlewyrchu dylanwad ei hetifeddiaeth Gymreig, India'r Gorllewin a chymdeithas amlddiwylliannol hanesyddol Cymru. #BHCymru365