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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

As many have pointed out already, this action was in solidarity with SUDAN. Please, the war in Sudan has already been ignored, dismissed and erased enough. Do not contribute to this further.

Abier

@abierkhatib

1 month

Let's just take a moment to appreciate this legend 🇵🇸

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@yassmin_a

2 months

The thing that concerns me as a visibly Muslim hijabi black woman who travels for work is not bumping into a riot, but the casual, random, wanton violence. The stabbing at a train station. Acid in your face by a passing car. That sense that if shit goes down, you’re on your own.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

4 months

It’s been so demoralising seeing Sudan’s war ignored by so many, for so many reasons. Glad to see this piece by Declan Walsh w these devastating images by @ivorprickett make the front page

Declan Walsh

@declanwalsh

4 months

Coverage of the Sudan war across five pages in today's NYT, with sweeping display of @ivorprickett 's stunning images.

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@yassmin_a

2 months

I despair at the thought that all the places I know in Sudan have been destroyed. The hospital I was born in. The flat I took my first steps in. The hall I married in. My favourite spot on Nile street, our regular guy in Souq Omdurman. All that remains are rubble, memories.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

4 months

The situation in Sudan brings me to my knees, every single fucken day. Every time I kneel to pray, I am brought to tears. And then I get up, write some emails, go to meetings, act like all is normal. And sometimes I wonder - does anyone give a f my family is still in a war zone?

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

Some ticket inspectors seem to revel in their power. On an @LNER train to London, woman is haranguing two young Black men for their tickets. They seem to not have tickets, so I offer to pay. Then and there. She refuses. Calls the police to meet us at the station.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

If she hadn’t gotten on her high horse and just accepted my money, @LNER would have won, the boys walked away calm, no police need to be involved. Now, where are we? Who wins? Honestly, shame shame shame.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

Anyway, they ended up bolting. She says to the police, get the camera footage. She’s on a crusade to nail these boys, and YET. I was offering to pay for their fare, repeatedly. Smells like racism.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

5 months

"The world knows but doesn’t really care." Ain't that the repulsive truth. #KeepEyesOnSudan

The Observer view on Sudan’s civil war: a humanitarian disaster we choose to ignore

Ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Darfur have left 25 million people in urgent need, yet the west’s attention is elsewhere

www.theguardian.com

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

I’m like I WILL PAY FOR THEIR TICKETS this is not a police matter. She’s like That’s not going to happen. Why? No reason. She doesn’t like their behaviour, says it’s a welfare matter. It’s 350 quid she says. I will pay, I say. Nope. She won’t take it. Wants to make a police ting.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

Thinking about all the Black and brown and Muslim drivers and the gig economy folks who are out on these streets tonight, often the most vulnerable. May Allah protect them all <3

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@yassmin_a

1 month

‘My 30s are littered with the gravestones of former friendships. That sounds dramatic. But in many senses it is sadly true, and it is a reality I have been doing my best to grapple with over the past few years.’ My latest for @onlinehyphen :

Some friendships last only a season, while others bloom with a lifetime of possibilities

As we age our lives naturally become littered with former friendships, but how should we process this loss?

hyphenonline.com

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

You don’t NEED to reach out to your Black and brown and Muslim colleagues to check how they’re doing when riots against their very existence are raging across the country. But if you do, it’s welcomed. It’s noticed, and its absence… is also noted.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

Have we just kinda moved on from the riots, or what? I feel like there’s a collective sense of ‘well, bunch of people got arrested, there were a few anti-racism turn outs, all good now.’ I feel a weird sense of whiplash about it all, tbqh.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

4 months

Don't say you didn't know. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Drar Adam Drar

@draradam1

5 months

The RSF and its allied militia have burn Shik Elnil village to the ground. the burn village is inhabited by indigenous African tribes.⁦ @hrw ⁩ ⁦ @DNforHR ⁩ ⁦ @handsudan_org ⁩ ⁦ @freedomhouse ⁩ ⁦ @UNHumanRights ⁩ ⁦ @BBCWorld ⁩ ⁦ @hiba_morgan ⁩

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@yassmin_a

2 months

These days, I’m begging anyone to ask me where I’m from, just so I can tell them about what’s happening in Sudan.

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@yassmin_a

5 months

I flipping hate this move so much. Sudanese people have stood alongside Palestinians for *time*, and are almost never the people peddling this line - the folks doing this as bad faith actors using a horrific situation to make a gotcha political point, not bc they care about Sudan

Nesrine Malik

@NesrineMalik

5 months

Extremely galling to have these people sanctimoniously mention Sudan not getting attention because of Gaza when they know very well it wasn’t getting any attention before Gaza either

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

Many of the Sudanese men I know who’ve arrived via boat to the UK have fled awful violence. There’s a genocide and famine right now in Sudan, and they thought they’d find safety here. That is, after all, what Britain likes to tell the world. I have no idea what to tell them.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

4 months

The situation in Tigray is one I have tried to platform over the years, but it is sadly another one of the tragedies that is invisibilised in our global context. The level of atrocity boggles the mind, and how much do we know about it??? Not enough, I'd wager.

Matthew Amha 🌺🌺

@AmhaMatt

10 months

@SavetheChildren Let's begin here: It's likely the case that the # of dead children in Ethiopia’s Tigray region outnumbers these combined totals by *many* orders of magnitude. The reason we don’t have these #s is due to Ethiopia’s years-long effort to block all outside attempts at investigation.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

@LNER Will do.

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@yassmin_a

2 months

This! Bc it implies that these responses would be legitimate if a Muslim or a trans person was involved. But these responses are never legitimate. Let’s be clear. This is bigotry, intolerance, institutionalised discrimination against some of the most marginalised in our community

guy

@guymrdth

2 months

“the perpetrator wasn’t even muslim” and “imane khelif isn’t even trans” are both very plain examples of how fascists manipulate well meaning liberals into conceding ground. islamaphobia and transphobia are wrong regardless of if they are misdirected

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

Inshallah, i’m just overthinking it. InshAllah, I’m being over cautious. But only takes one, and there are a lot of ‘only ones’ out there at the moment. Khair, inshallah

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

Once again, for those in the back: a single person cannot be ‘diverse’. You cannot be a ‘diverse writer’ or a ‘diverse actor’. If the person is not from the dominant culture in your industry, say that.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

3 months

I can’t keep up with what is happening in Sudan. I can’t make sense of it, or rather, I don’t want to, because to understand is to be terrified, and I cannot imagine what it is for those on the ground… ya Allah.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

This. I’m frankly quite sick of pundits saying things like ‘of course it’s fine to have questions about the level of immigration’ because the framing and the context is 100% driven by racism. You’re not talking about the number of Scandinavians, are you.

Zoe Gardner

@ZoeJardiniere

2 months

The fact is, it is of course possible to talk about immigration policy without being racist, I do it literally every day. But most conversations in the UK about immigration are driven by racism. And that has been denied for too long, now it can’t be denied any longer. #r4today

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

An important piece, but I must reiterate that not all Muslims in the UK are South Asians, and not all South Asians are Muslims. Headlines that conflate the two perpetuate the erasure of Black and African Muslims - often those seeking asylum + many other Muslim communities in UK.

Deadline

@DEADLINE

1 month

"The Culmination Of Years Of Dehumanizing Brown People": Why UK Riots Were A Brutal Reminder Of How Film & TV Failed South Asian Creatives

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

As always, a reminder. If you do see shit go down to somebody from a minoritised community, DO see if they’re okay afterwards. Do everything you can so they don’t feel so alone. You don’t have to ‘save’, but genuinely seeing them - seeing US - can make the world of difference

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

2 months

@BeeBabs I love this for both of them. The admiration and respect and love visible at the highest level of competition… these are the goals!

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

5 months

not the mini-shredder 😭😭😭 habibi, are you not ashamed?

Benjamin Alvarez

@BenjAlvarez1

5 months

Israel's UN Ambassador takes out a mini-shredder at the General Assembly podium to shred pages of a pocket-size UN Charter.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

4 months

people ask how I’m doing and I don’t know what to say. ‘well my family in Sudan is still alive, last we heard, which was a while ago because telecoms have been down for months now… but it’s not just my family I’m thinking about, it’s all our families, and who is keeping watch?’

Munchkin

@BSonblast

4 months

Today’s quick update [May 19]: - Reports out of Omdurman’s Almanara neighborhood indicate RSF shelling yesterday claimed 11 civilian lives. - Clashes continue in Elfashir; heavy RSF shelling injured 9 people & caused severe damage to Elfashir OBGYN hospital. #KeepEyesOnSudan

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

4 months

I was going to say unbelievable, but then I’ve been alive long enough to remember two decades of reporting inc post 9/11, Iraq, etc etc etc… yeh, pretty flipping believable. I hate all of this shit so much.

Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

4 months

The New York Times reports Israeli military is torturing people by impaling them with hot metal rods in their rectums and tying them to electric chairs. This information is buried at the end of a single article where these details are unmentioned in the headline or subheadline.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

4 months

Does anyone stop to think about the hundreds of thousands of my people starving to death - MILLIONS, by the year’s end - in the land of my birth? I guess not. And, hell. I don’t expect anything else. I just continue to do the smol smol things I can, and pray.

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Yassmin (is away writing).

@yassmin_a

1 month

I hate war so, so much. I don’t know that I have the words to describe my profound, visceral opposition to the wars that have destroyed the very fabric of our lives, families, communities, for generations to come, and for what? For what? For fucken what?

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