Helena

It’s crazy they even tried to do this.

Palestinian author @susanabulhawa spoke at the Oxford Union in November 2024 about the Israeli genocide in Palestine. Over 250,000 people watched her speech. The oxford Union took it down and reuploaded an edited version cutting nearly two minutes without her consent and in breach of their own agreement. For 17 months, @susanabulhawa has demanded that the Oxford Union restore the full speech, honor its obligations, and respect the intellectual labor of an invited Palestinian speaker. The Oxford Union could restore the full speech tomorrow. Instead, it continues to erase part of a Palestinian author’s testimony from the public record. In times of genocide and war crimes, the historical record matters. Palestinian voices matter. They should not be treated as negotiable, editable, or disposable. Over 30 public figures and organisations have already signed the open letter calling for the full speech to be restored. JOIN them. Add your voice today: supportsusan.com

Botswana has officially removed colonial-era laws that criminalized same-sex relations from their Penal Code. The High Court first ruled these laws unconstitutional in 2019, and the Court of Appeal upheld the decision in 2021.

not enough people give a shit that a lgbt venue was burnt down in the UK last night and I feel like I’m going insane

Shouldn’t have to become content creators to be screenwriters and directors.

Guess who got a perfect score on the psychology exam at medical school despite all the suffering in Gaza?

Ghana is facing ecocide From the poisoning of our waters to the destruction of plant and forest life

the older I grow the more I dont play abt children like they're literally new here have some respect

Happy birthday Tortuguita! We love you, and carry you in our hearts as we continue your fight.

They could barely bring themselves to say her name and when they did used the dog whistle “Hezbollah aligned” in order to dehumanise Amal and justify her killing by I$rael. Amal Khalil was a friend to me and many others having worked in the field since the 2006 war. What she did was unique, reporting from the south and raising the voices of the people there who are subjected to brutal treatment and attacks from I$rael. Amal had herself received numerous death threats, some warning her to leave and if she didn’t her head would be removed from her shoulders. It’s a testament to her that she defied those threats and up until the end continued to expose I$raeli war comes. She was a brave and courageous journalist, a daughter of the south and her mic and her pen was a tribune of the people. This is what made her so dangerous, with I$rael fearing a camera and a pen more than a Hezb0llah fighter. Her body wasn’t “found under the rubble” as though it had been mysteriously placed there. I$rael targeted a car in front of her, when she sheltered in a building it was struck collapsing it, then the emergency operations were delayed for at least 7 hours as ambulances and civil defence workers were fired on. This was a deliberate assassination and a war crime. But try as they might they will never stop journalists here from reporting the truth.

BLAM UK turned 9 this week. I founded it at 22. Built in resistance. Built because we had to. 9 years of fighting school exclusions, defending Black British English, teaching Black history, and challenging the systems that try to erase us. Now extending into AI & digital rights

Amal Khalil was alive for hours. She phoned her family and the Lebanese military for help. People followed in horror as her colleagues updated the world on what was happening. And yet Israel blocked the Red Cross from reaching her for seven hours. That is stone cold murder.

Amal was under rubble and still conscious, she was speaking to family. The IOF fired on rescuers for 6 hours to make sure she couldn't survive.

Chasse aux immigrants noirs alors qu’ils vivent encore la ségrégation avec les blancs mdr

we badly need to build our own media infrastructures, independent of the technofascist warlords. we need to train our own journalists, news reporters, camera people. we need to be able to generate our own news and analysis on platforms we own and control.

"Joyless theocracy" -- and we're talking about a civilization that is thousands of years old that has influenced hundreds of millions of people in their poetry, language, art and architecture and still continues to create incredible feats of culture. Trash, racist rag.

Black women are the only demographic I've ever seen where it's ONLY black women who grieve, or even stop to care. No one else on earth reacts. It such a traumatizing experience to witness.

Two medical students from Gaza managed to restore the library of one of the oldest mosques in Gaza, which was bombed by Israel.

It’s not getting as much publicity as the last one so it’s important we amplify it and keep the world’s eyes on. They are, as always, at risk.

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