On
@SkyNews
Press Preview, I spoke about the governmentβs
#RwandaDeportation
policy:
βThere are reports that children could be deported there. We need a humane immigration and
#refugee
system in this country that is aligned with the law and aligned with decency and human rights.β
Three Hijabis walk into a bar to watch the Three Lions thrash Ukraine. What an incredible evening and an absolutely brilliant win by a magnificent England team! Well done, lads! A thread on the importance of an anti-racist, inclusive
#England
β½οΈ team & why
#RepresentationMatters
Eight years ago today, Savita Halappanavar, 31, was admitted to hospital in Ireland. She was miscarrying her baby and asked for an abortion. Staff refused. Days later, she died from an infection. RIP Savita. Solidarity with women around the world denied safe and legal abortion.
13.10.23
Statement of resignation from the Labour Party from Cllr Shaista Aziz, Cllr Amar Latif, Oxford City Council.
We stand in solidarity with the people of Israel and Palestine and call for and end to violence and the humanitarian crisis.
Doreen Lawrence βMy son was murdered because of racism and you cannot forget that. Once you start covering it up it is giving the green light to racists. Whatβs going to happen on our streets with our young people? You are giving racists the green lightβ
Asked whether the BBC was institutionally racist, Munchetty said: βIβm going to turn this on its head: find me a large organisation, and find me an employee from a minority group who feels they are able to bring their true self to work today.β
#NgoziFulani
bravely shared her story and nobody has once tried to suggest her story isnβt true. Itβs widely accepted she told the truth. Yet look at the smear campaign and hate against Ngozi. This is exactly how so many victims of racism are treated daily. Vilified, dehumanised.
THREAD What happens when you refuse to perform for the media and become part of the spectacle that is racism. Earlier I received a text message from a producer working for a national radio station. Iβm not naming the radio station as the producer is only following instructions.
The racism and misogyny being thrown at
@DawnButlerBrent
is yet another reminder of the daily contempt and hate Black women face in this country. This peaks if you are Black woman in political or public life and dare call out structural racism and bigotry.
#IStandWithDawnButler
Mena Mangal, a prominent Afghan journalist and political adviser has been gunned down in Kabul, just days after she warned on social media that she feared for her life.
She was shot dead in broad daylight in a public place.
Central Oxford Mosque
#Oxford
issue statement after Islamophobic attack on the mosque. A petrol can with words βIDFβ and βIDF ruleβ scrawled on it was thrown over the gate of the mosque. Mosque calls on PM, MPβs and politicians to stop dehumanising Palestinians and Muslims
#Gaza
#Pakistan
is expecting 800,000 Afghan
#refugees
to arrive in country in coming days. Pakistan is already βhostingβ 3 million Afghan refugees. The Afghan refugee crisis, a human rights crisis, will of course be framed as βEuropeβs refugee crisisβ just as Syrian crisis is/was.
to the way this team conducts themselves on and off the pitch - theyβre creating a team that is playing for ALL of us. Their vision is an inclusive vision and this matters more than EVER and itβs why I feel proud of this team and why theyβre so cherished and loved by many of us.
As we wait for
#GeorgeFloydTrial
verdict letβs also remember that in the UK, this Thursday, April 22nd, marks
#StephenLawrenceDay
.
We need to work harder than ever to action anti-racism across society and tackle institutional and systemic racism in Britain.
#BlackLivesMatter
None of this deterred me from attending a match because as anyone who knows me can vouch for, Iβm a stubborn git when I need to be and I absolutely refuse to let bigotry define my life or reduce and minimise my life. I never have and I never will.
The girls loved it and felt safe and to be there. This made me happy! This is one more reason why this England team is changing so many things for so many people. By refusing to give in to toxic, vile racist push back by many in government and elsewhere to them taking the knee
Two doctors who are father and son are both working with
#COVID19
patients at Torbay hospital in Devon. Tayyib Mubashar, first-year junior doctor, was inspired to follow in the footsteps of his father Yahya, who moved to the UK from Pakistan 20 years ago.
When I was growing up many, many people and communities of colour would avoid going out when an England match was on due to knowing we werenβt safe and would absolutely be at risk of verbal and physical racism dished out by so called England fans. Sadly this risk still exists.
Vanessa Nakate: βI cried because it was so sad not just that it was racist, I was sad because of the people from Africa.β
βIt showed how we are valued. It hurt me a lot. It is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life.β
On my way out of
@UKParliament
I bumped into another formidable leader, Mick Lynch. We had a chat.
I told him my dad was life long member of
@RMTunion
and had a few good natured rows with the late Bob Crow. βOh, weβve all had them!β replied Mick. Solidarity with all workers βπ½
I have the immense honour of being part of the FAβs Refugees and Asylum Seekers Football Network. I get to work with people opening up space to bring people and communities together through the beautiful game. Powerful and transformative work is being done across the country.
Gareth Southgateβs
@England
is winning so many hearts. By taking the knee, by standing against homophobia & bigotry, this team is playing for all of us. My
@guardian
piece on football, anti-racism, belonging, and
#ThreeHijabis
cheering on the
#ThreeLions
𧡠.
@OxfordCity
unanimously voted for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in
#Gaza
, at Full Council this evening. Thanks to all the guest speakers and councillors who spoke and thanks to all the councillors who worked together to amend and support the motion put forward by
On BBC Politics Live I spoke about humanitarian crisis in
#Gaza
and why Cllr Dr Amar Latif and I resigned as Labour councillors over Labour leader and his senior MPs endorsing collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza. Palestinians and Israelis human rights matter equally.
White supremacy does not manifest in a vacuum.
#Islamophobia
, anti Muslim, refugee and migrant hate doesnβt βjust happen.β Terrorism against racialised and othered bodies is direct outcome of bigotry and hate - mainstreamed in our public and political discourse.
#NewZealand
Well said
@jessphillips
. The men abusing you lack basic manners and think itβs ok to shout down a woman. They should be condemned by everyone. When I resigned as a Labour councillor over Gaza, Jess was the first Labour person to check on me, ask how I was and show me solidarity x
"They didn't do it because they were Muslim, they did it because they were idiots."
A still emotional Jess Phillips reflects on an emerging form of guerrilla campaigning which 'incites other people to do the same', after she was verbally abused during her re-election on Friday.
This is beyond horrifying. Zayna Iman,
says she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Greater Manchester Police. She has obtained CCTV of her 40-hour detention but there are three hours of missing footage. Why wonβt GMP let her see the missing footage?
In 2019, I had the immense honour of taking my nieces to Wembley for their first ever football match. We went to watch the England Lionesses take on Germany. The girls invited two of their friends, we were a tribe of inter-generational daughters of immigrants.
Even now communities of colour feel this way. Speak to any working class taxi drivers of colour and they will tell you about the racism and abuse many experience after a match inc physical violence.Same goes for many supporters of colour attending England matches, home & abroad.
βHe was being light heartedβ is Lionel Shriverβs disgraceful response to Boris Johnsonβs racist targeting of Muslim women who wear burka. Well done to these sisters for calling her out and making it clear the consequences we face are increased racist physical & verbal violence.
βFrom that rhetoric, I get told to go back to my own countryβ
βI canβt see how you can blame Boris Johnson for thatβ
This
#bbcqt
audience member clashes with Lionel Shriver over the Prime Ministerβs past comments about women in burkas.
Please sign and share our petition calling on racists to be kicked out of football. Ban racists for life from all football matches in England. Our inclusive
@England
team stood up for all of us - now we must stand up for them.
#TheThreeHijabis
#ThreeLions
βIβve always said if any of his victims were blonde and blue-eyed it wouldnβt have taken this long,ββWomen of colour tend to be lowest on the totem pole when it comes to subjects of domestic violence and sexual abuse.β
#MeToo
#RKelly
Iβve attended England matches at Wembley, Iβve felt extremely tense & anxious - not just because of whatβs happening on the pitch but what was happening off it too with racist, homophobic chants by England βfansβ & racist booing of England players by so called βfansβ around me.
Iβve written to my MP &
@UKLabour
Shadow Women & Equalities Minister
@AnnelieseDodds
and
@jessphillips
about allegations of sexism, misogyny, threats against
@ApsanaBegumMP
during her trigger ballot process. Women, esp women of colour & Muslim women in politics must be defended.
I arrived back in the UK in time to vote.
My mum and I went to vote before the Polling Station closed tonight.
This is the first time in the history of many generations of my family that nobody has cast a vote for the Labour Party.
π§΅
#LocalElections2024
#LocalElection
Iβm honoured to be awarded
@ChurchillFship
2023!
My research will examine the barriers preventing
#Muslim
#women
and girls from accessing football and how to make
#football
equitable for them. My research is focused on the UK, France, and Pakistan β½οΈβ½οΈβ½οΈ
We just voted πΉ
#GE19
Mum is one of many immigrant women who built Britain. Our vote is for hope, for a more equal Britain and to create a country
#forthemanynotthefew
. A Britain where women arenβt depending on
#foodbanks
to feed their kids and where people arenβt dying homeless
I keep repeating myself: There is more outrage at being called a racist in this country than there is at actual racism. From booing England players for taking the knee to racist βcommentaryβ about a 3 day old Royal baby. Racism is relentless and exhausting as is the gaslighting.
4. I'm not interested in being part of YET another media discussion where a woman of colour is gaslighted and told that racism isn't racism. All the best, Shaista
The footage from
#ClaphamCommon
showing police violently dragging women, jostling, and pushing women while they held a vigil for a woman who herself was dragged from a street while she was walking home in Clapham is beyond disgraceful.
#ReclaimTheseStreets
#SarahEverard
#VAWG
On my way to see a friend I came across a woman at a tube station sobbing her heart out facing a wall in the tunnel. She was distressed.
I stopped a short distance from her and said βHello. I see you are not ok. How can I help? Do you need help?β She turned around and nodded.
Outside the supermarket a few minutes ago a man looked at me and said βare you the councillor?β I replied βyesβ. He said βI would like to shake your hand and thank you for speaking for all of us. We want the killings to stop. He told me his name is John, heβs of Jewish heritage.
#ShamimaBegum
is British, the Home Office may have stripped her of her nationality, but sheβs still British, a product of Britain and this country canβt wash its hands of her or the reasons and circumstances that created the situation we are in.
Matt Hancock is basically telling
@DrRosena
, a member of the shadow cabinet and serving A&E doctor, to stay in her lane.
This is a text book example of tone policing by a White man in power and something WOC in particular experience on the regular.
A second ex
@YorkshireCCC
player of South Asian heritage has come forward to say he was subjected to racism. He recalls βI had a player p*ss on my head'. The player told the Daily Mail he doesnβt want to be named because he does not want his family to know what he endured.
Fatema Mernissi: βIf womenβs rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite,β
Since the election result, friends have told me about racism theyβve faced. Yesterday friends 16 year old daughter was called a βArab N***** by white man walking past. She asked her mum if it was linked to the election. Today, I helped friend report racist neighbour to police.
Just burst into tears at Victoria.
Tried to get the lift to the platform, a white guy was yelling at a black man & woman that they were in his way (theyβd merely walked out the lift and round his giant suitcase), then started saying something about how they were βthe problemβ
My family in Burnley are heartbroken at desecration of Muslim graves, as we all are. My aunt has said how scared she is and my 12 year old nephew (cousinβs son) has shared his fear about our family being hurt by far-right racists. My cousin says βheβs very scared.β
#RaceRiots
Rana Ayyub (
@RanaAyyub
), global opinions writer for the
@washingtonpost
is the recipient of the 2020 McGill Medal for journalistic courage.
She will accept the award at Grady on April 22.
LINK:
This is a text book example of how eloquent and βnon angryβ Black women have to be when facing disgusting gaslighting and being lectured on what is and isnβt racism. The word βracistβ is more triggering than actual racism and letting a Black woman speak truths. Solidarity, Dawn.
.
@AGlasgowGirl
is on point: βIt seems that much of Britain desperately wants to be absolved its racist history without doing any work to combat racism β treating marginalisation and discrimination like imagined annoyances not worth confronting.β
A thread on Israel and
#Palestine
and why the mediaβs βboth sideingβ and false equivalency between the occupier and the occupied means the average person in this country has no understanding of the basic facts surrounding the worlds longest running military occupation.
3. Me: Hi, is the discussion going to focus on analysing the evidence which clearly shows the racism or is it a discussion about if the actual evidence can be denied as racist? If you could let me know how this discussion is being framed I can then decide if I want to take part.
More proof white people really donβt like being racialised and described as white. Britain has zero ability to hold a truthful, open, nuanced national conversation about racism. Jon Snow's 'white people' comment is most complained about broadcast of 2019
Nadia Nadim (on the right) arrived in Denmark as a refugee from Afghanistan after the Taliban killed her father. Sheβs one of Denmarkβs most successful football players. There are so many stories of beauty, resistance, belonging and joy, through the beautiful game
#DENENG
#Eng
β½οΈ
Those saying Priti Patel is a woman of colour and experiences racism and so
#TyroneMings
shouldnβt call her out are failing to understand how anti-Blackness and racism works. Racism is about power. Poc are perfectly capable of minimising, denying and fuelling racism too.
31 years ago today, Black teenager Stephen Lawrence, 18, was murdered in a racist attack in South-East London. He was killed on the streets of Britain for being Black.
This poem by Josephine Corcoran impacted me since I first read it.
RIP
#StephenLawrence
#StephenLawrenceDay
Obscene. βThird worldβ migrant workers are dehumanised daily in Saudia Arabia and the Gulf region. This βstuntβ by Saudi oil company turning a migrant worker into a βwalking hand sanitizerβ feeds racist, classist, narrative around the
#coronavirus
and βdiseasedβ carrying bodies.
This story sums up reality of gentrification, inequality and segregated communities.
London youth club credited with saving children from rising knife violence faces calls for closure from new residents who think it would be better used as a coffee shop.
Iβm honoured to be considered as Nottingham Eastβs next Labour MP, a city I know through family and friends. Work with me to fight austerity, child poverty, homelessness and stand up with the people of
#NottinghamEast
to create a community
#ForTheMany
πΉ
6. Me: Ok, but for clarity is this because you and the team have decided to drop the subject or because I've asked for clarity on how the story is being framed and discussed? Shaista
#RishiSunak
is the new Prime Minister, the first person of colour to become prime minister, and on
#Diwali
too. This is a hugely symbolic and representative moment for many, many people, and not just the usual suspects, those on the right of politics. π§΅
I'm no royalist but the racist, bullying and misogynist treatment Meghan has received from the British media, commentators and online trolls is absolutely abhorrent. It also reflects treatment dished out to Black women and woc in public life. Racism fuels even more misogyny.
Students
@UniofOxford
have organised this petition calling on Oxford to rescind the Sultan of Bruneiβs honorary degree over human rights abuses and the persecution of
#LGBTQI
+people.
Iβm delighted to have been selected for the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme. I knew Jo, we worked together at Oxfam for 5 years.
Jo was kind and brilliant. I looked up to her and respected her immensely. She will never be forgotten ππΉ
1. A fair few women have piped up to say criticism of Laura Kuenssberg in relation to the story about Dominic Cummings breaking lockdown rules is misogynistic and sexist. This is as appalling a βhot takeβ as LKβs response to this story.
Iβm sharing this here because I know the vast majority of people in my position wouldβve done the same thing, stopped and checked on the distressed woman. You may not know how to help someone suffering a panic attack. This excellent link offers good advice
The absolute state of this.
@Jamelia
on Newsnight trying to talk about racism while being told itβs not so bad in Britain. When Black people and poc use the word racism to describe...racism itβs astonishing to see how triggered so many white journalists and commentators become.
βRacism is all over the worldβ¦we are not so bad as othersβ -
@robertlacey_com
βIβm sorry I cannot possibly accept that... That is a terrible way to thinkβ¦ As far as Iβm concerned we do live in a racist societyβ -
@Jamelia
#Newsnight
Shukri Yahya Abdi, 12, arrived in UK as refugee from Somalia. She drowned in a river in Bury last week. Shukriβs mum says she was being bullied at school, says police are not fully cooperating with family demand for investigation
@mwolferobinson
reports
Thereβs a doubling down of racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and all three combined, over the past few weeks. Itβs organised, orchestrated, targeted bigotry being thrown at us. Iβm experiencing it as are many women and sisters I know including
@AyoCaesar
My
@guardian
piece on why
#AzeemRafiq
's devastating testimony should shine a light on
#racism
&
#Islamophobia
in EVERY workplace. His experience of institutional racism isnβt exceptional. What marks him out is he is finally being listened to and believed
Seven weeks ago, we came together as football fans and
@England
fans to drown out the racists. We launched
#TheThreeHijabis
petition calling on racists to be banned from football and 1.2M of you joined us! Sign here and follow us
@THijabis
#AntiRacism
A six-year-old boy has found a fossil dating back millions of years in his garden after receiving a fossil-hunting kit for Christmas. Siddak Singh Jhamat said he was "excited" to find the fossil in his garden in Walsall after digging for worms.
We did it! 1 million of you signed our
#TheThreeHijabis
petition calling for racists to be kicked out of football.
THANK YOU!
Please keep signing the petition and help build this powerful anti-racism movement on and off the pitch.
An imam and a priest are not the same thing. Any man can be called an imam if they lead the prayer. A woman can also lead the prayer. There are women imams in the UK, theyβve been around for a very long time. We need to see much better religious literacy across our media.
The details from the
#GhislaineMaxwell
trial and conviction are beyond horrifying. The bravery and tenacity of the women determined to be believed & and speak the truth is extraordinary. Many were children when they were violated and abused by powerful, wealthy and famous men.
Iβm one of more than 167 journalists and writers of colour who signed this letter protesting the Society of Editor's denial of racism in the British media industry. There is more outrage at being called a racist in this country than there is at actual racism and tackling racism.
167 journalists of colour sign letter saying the Society of Editors' statement that there's no racism in the British media is 'laughable', Guardian and FT eds
@KathViner
and
@khalafroula
also disagree, and board member says 'tone deaf':
Posh, white woman columnist lives out orientalist fantasy describing her βweek in a BURKAβ. Because talking to and actively listening to women who chose to wear niqab (face veil) doesnβt reduce women to individuals, minimise their stories and agency. And we canβt be having that.
Priyanka Chopra is a
@UNICEF
Goodwill Ambassador yet puts out a pro war tweet. This is yet another example of how the use of celebs for βdo-goodingβ with NGO and UN sector needs urgent examination.
@UNICEF
do you have a response?
#NGOSafeSpace
@WritersofColour
@je_ne_tweet_pas
Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut called for "Pakistan['s] destruction" after 40 Indian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack. Priyanka Chopra praised India's army.
Are these actors advocating for war with Pakistan?