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@bayan_bdg

6 years

Advise from an ‘expert’ on the BBC about how to spot a terrorist: “if a person is acting odd, call the police. You’ll just know because it’s kind of like a sixth sense” Let’s not forget that yt people’s sixth sense is racism.

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9 months

The watermelon Starbucks cup isn’t new but it’s now the focus of people’s outrage. The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was being by carpet bombed last night. At this point, corporations should serve as nothing more than background noise. Boycott them but don’t let them steal focus

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4 years

This so horrible to say this straight after but I know the nature of this app so I need to say it: If any footage/pictures turn up of dead or injured people from the explosions that happened in Beirut, please don’t share or quote tweet them

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

I think poets should have entrance music like all other violence-based sports.

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@bayan_bdg

7 years

Muslim women do not owe you an explanation of Islam. They're not Google, they're not Ask Jeeves & they're not the here to subdue your fears.

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

Looks like he is doing amazingly well without Juilliard. Perhaps we can let go of the idea that only white institutions nurture talent

Jay Arnold

@jayfarnold

4 years

Imagine if this child had a chance to go to Juilliard 💙

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4 years

‘Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.’ - Jamie Anderson

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

@andywatts1010 Andy, please don’t disrupt my day at Weatherspoons like this. Me and the family are cheersing Allah as instructed by Boris.

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@bayan_bdg

8 months

Just so we’re clear, you can create art as long as it supports or makes no mention of the British Empire’s current or historical atrocities.

Arts Professional

@ArtsPro

8 months

APNews: Arts Council England ( @ace_national ) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)

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@bayan_bdg

6 years

Sharing the video of the mosque killings is a voyeuristic consumption of Black and Brown deaths. We don’t need to see the killings to understand that people died and deserve to be mourned. Let us grieve without facing the violence over and over again.

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@bayan_bdg

8 months

The people who are mentally unraveling at the thought of incarcerated people having access to the same resources and papers as them just highlights how some academics would prefer to hinder any small movement towards mass liberation in order to keep their fragile egos intact.

JSTOR

@JSTOR

8 months

Exciting news! #JSTOR is now free in 1,000 correctional facilities worldwide, benefiting over 500,000 incarcerated individuals, demonstrating JSTOR's commitment to inclusive #education . Learn more about the #JSTORAccessInPrison program:

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1 year

@maxinethepoet Brixton. No other answer. Someone sat down and helped themselves to my filet-o-fish and asked me if I wanted some of my own food

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@bayan_bdg

11 months

Palestinians filmed every horror, hope, love, loss, fear, anger, grief and murder they experienced all because the world demanded they prove themselves to be worthy of our care and attention. The very least we owe them is to not stop working with them to secure their liberation.

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@bayan_bdg

3 years

@__hibaq I’m screaming loooool ‘Baby I heard you, I'm here to serve you’ I will sing but I will not feel

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@bayan_bdg

10 months

Non-Palestinians can’t lose hope. You don’t have the right to despair. You can mourn, be enraged and be moved but you don’t have the right to lose hope. You are not in the epicentre of disaster and we owe it to Palestinians to share their vision of their complete freedom

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@bayan_bdg

1 year

I don’t think we can ever give back enough to the Palestinian journalists who are covering the genocide. How easy it is to forget that they are also caught in its brutality. His colleagues gently removing his ‘Press’ vest so he can mourn as a citizen is heartbreaking.

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

1 year

Ramallah | Journalist Mohammed Farra in Ramallah received the awful news that his wife and children were all killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younes, South Gaza

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5 years

Gotham wouldn’t have so many criminals if he just distributed his wealth

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7 years

This isn't funny. This isn't cute. This isn't clever in any way. This is fucking harmful and dangerous. Who the hell is responsible for this mess?

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@bayan_bdg

10 months

Benjamin Zephaniah openly advocated for the destruction of different modes of oppression regardless of the harm it may have caused his career.Some of you writers who are hand in hand with the empire and who are posting up his picture need to understand that he meant your arse too

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

Where I’m from, we still call that ‘state sanctioned violence’

Nikola

@niktaylorde

4 years

. @JoeBiden says police should be trained to "shoot unarmed people in the leg instead of the heart".

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5 years

@ahliesof Congratulations! I’m so proud! 💛 (I can’t believe you concealed the news of getting accepted for a masters in a story about your dad)

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

Considering that her husband sold millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Turkish Military who used it to carry out an assault which destroyed over 3000 Kurdish villages, I suggest her and her spawn stay the hell out of Kurdish business.

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@bayan_bdg

6 years

Good morning, Wyt people will not hesitate to apply for: a) opportunities they are not qualified for b) opportunities they do not need And since institutions won’t hesitate in giving them these things, it’s time we adopt the same level of confidence.

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

Despite all I say about Edgware Road, I truly respect a part of London that made English an inconvenient language. There’s nothing like seeing a rushed, size 10 font, English translation under bold large Arabic words. Thrilling.

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@bayan_bdg

2 years

You ever like “I’m going to try and improve my life” but living in the U.K is also like “No. Die ❤️”

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

Eid Mubarak! Be kind to yourselves and remember while ‘they plan, Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners.’

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@bayan_bdg

6 years

We can laugh at Katie Hopkins discovering Edgware Road has Middle Estern shops/restaurants but let’s not overlook the danger of what she’s actually doing. Her followers are racist and she’s pointing them in the exact direction of where they can take their violence.

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

Remember last year when DJ Khaled released an album during Ramadan and put Allah down as an executive producer.

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@bayan_bdg

6 years

When someone hands you a poem to edit and there are unnecessary gaps in between the words and you have to figure out what purpose do these gaps have?

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@bayan_bdg

4 years

I can’t believe Yawm al-Qiyamah is just going to be one long ‘this you?’ but starting from when I hit puberty

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5 years

“And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal. Enter into the happiness, and burst.” - Mahmoud Darwish

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@bayan_bdg

5 years

Try crying on public transport. The only place where God, the public and yourself all come to an unspoken agreement that you’re pathetic

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4 years

‘Poetry is difficult yet possible, but it cannot change the world. However, it can light little candles in the dark. It is true that poetry is fragile, but it has the strength of silk and the sturdiness of honey.’ - Mahmoud Darwish

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@bayan_bdg

6 years

The most inspirational Mufti Menk quote: “How many of us want our women to look nice but YOU look like a tramp. Allah Akbar”

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@bayan_bdg

9 months

The ‘we are not our ancestors’ brigade always work within the assumption that somehow, they are pinnacle of defiance where the previous generations ‘failed’ and yet, all they ever manage to accomplish is erasing the pure violence that their parents survived.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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'Dear colonisers, we did not inherit the silence of our parents!'

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5 years

‘You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?’ - Anne Carson Extract from The Glass Essay

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@bayan_bdg

8 months

Tell the whole truth. The Royal Society of Literature’s annual magazine was pulled from print at the last minute because there was an article inside which was critical of the Israeli government. Then they fired the editor shortly afterwards.

Bernardine Evaristo

@BernardineEvari

8 months

Just published, my piece on the Royal Society of Literature, which has been under attack by a group of fellows who rolled out their grievances in the media last week. It's been terrible. Please do show support for @RSLiterature

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3 years

‘People struggle to imagine what accountability looks like without prisons but we must…Accountability is an act of love and community.’ If there is anything that must be read before the week is through, it’s definitely this piece.

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5 years

Eid Mubarak! Remember that Islam hates capitalism and encourages us to distribute wealth in order to prioritise the community’s wellbeing 💛

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6 months

It’s almost unbearable that we will never see any more work from Palestinian poets such as Refaat Alareer and Heba Abu Nada but their murderers will have a published anthology full of poems written during and about a genocide they’re carrying out. It’s beyond sickening.

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

6 months

An anthology of poems published by the IDF includes ones which paint the battle in Gaza as a religious war

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@bayan_bdg

5 years

It’s honestly heartbreaking to know that my family and others in Iran woke up to the news of a possible war and that they’re literally waiting to know what happens next and people are on this app making inappropriate jokes.

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@bayan_bdg

5 years

Just a cow enjoying her rotating cattle brush 💛 🐄

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@bayan_bdg

9 months

Some of you have to learn that protests don’t exist to sway an individual’s political standing. InSha’Allah you will learn soon because it won’t stop until something changes & you are going to get swallowed up in that ever growing chasm between you and your comfortable routine

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

9 months

NEW: New York City driver goes off on pro-Palestine protesters, calls them a bunch of "idiots" for blocking traffic and then gets out of his car to push them out of the way. This guy represents how most Americans feel. "You are disrupting traffic, you idiots. You can't do that.

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2 years

Hoping we can move through this collective grief into something better. It’s going to be hard but just as Mariame Kaba said ‘hope is a discipline’ - we have to choose it everyday and when we can’t, I hope we have others to help us survive into the next day and the day after that

haaniyah angus

@_haaniyah_

2 years

I can’t even talk about this in a genuine intellectual way bc I’m deeply sad about how much we’ve regressed

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4 years

Once again: if you’re leading a poetry workshop and you’re not equipped to deal with trauma, do not lead your poets through writing exercises that will take them through something and then offer zero aftercare.

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One of the worst traits of the British media is that it will purposefully spread misinformation, discredit any sources that don’t fit their narrative and then years later, they will film a documentary ignoring their own complicity and act like they’re revealing new information.

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