With all the love in the world, I wonder if our cis comrades really know what it means to “show up in any way possible” for trans people right now. Because it’s not just donating to crowdfunders, and it’s not just coming to marches.

In reality trans people trans (cross) imposed sexual barriers upheld as natural by current society routinely. Trans womens and trans mens experiences do not map onto cisgender mens and women's experiences because that crossing makes us both, differently, gender marginalised.

We’re too far into this escalation of state repression for comrades to still be reporting hate crimes to the cops ON DEMOS - it endangers all of your friends.

It’s mad that the SWP have the gall to publish anything on the Black Power movement and Asian antifascism in the 70s. At the time, they refused to meaningfully support the Bradford 12, claiming the Asian Youth Movements were reactionary Black nationalists and being similarly dismissive of UBYL!

Yesterday’s march through central London on International Women’s Day was a beautiful expression of anti-colonial feminism but fuck me the number of kids on bikes and blokes in cars screaming the vilest shit was pretty alarming, the anti-feminist backlash was organic on the streets and that’s fucked

If I see one more white queer doing the whole “this is why we still need Pride” caption with a vid that *names countries where gay marriage is illegal* I’m gonna shoot myself like look inward bitch it’s not going well here either!

USAID has been responsible for the debt-enforced opening up of markets in the global South from Mandela’s neoliberal turn in South Africa to the “green revolution” of Indian agriculture to Palestinian civil society post-Oslo. Trump is defunding it for racist reasons - still, be careful defending it.

I hope SZA is enjoying her meditation retreat but girl why are you doing promo for a Hindu supremacist just because he’s a brown man with a beard 😭 Sadhguru supported CAA, supports Modi and is part of the soft power matrix that is symbiotic with Hindutva paramillitaries and their political parties

Uncle opposite me on the train has been staring me down, presumably bc of my nails and general fag vibe, so I thought I’d roll a cig and do some direct eye contact in a show of shamelessness like “yeah and what” kinda thing except now uncle is REALLY staring, I may have misanalysed his interest 😭

Pranaam Shaheeda Nu. Intifada Zindabad ❤️

One of the Aunties asked my mum what I do for work and she tried her best and came up with “he’s on the extreme left and does a lot of work with the transgender community” lmao

As a femme who sometimes wears a turban and sometimes a dupatta, the fear of renewed pogroms has seeped into the fabric of daily life in Britain for me. Now, when I see Asians engaging in transphobia, I increasingly feel pity alongside anger, because it represents a staggering misanalysis from them

While Manmohan Singh was by all accounts a man of great personal integrity, it’s deeply jarring seeing how many obituaries fail to recognise that his deregulation of the Indian economy directly enabled the consolidation of a neoliberal Hindutva fascist state. Miss me with that Sikh representation bs

Me. I had to correct the acronym (they tried hst after hrt).

Realised how tired I am this morning when I started talking about HRT’s advance on Damascus and some pals had to gently correct the acronym

Just watched Paddington 3 in the cinema (don’t ask) and while it’s certainly not an inherently reactionary movie, it is interesting that on the migratised bear’s return to his indigenous (pre/non capitalist) community…1/

Jasleen Kaur used her Turner Prize winner speech to echo the calls of those of us outside protesting Tate Britain’s complicity in artwashing the genocide in Gaza.

NEW 🇲🇦🇵🇸 Moroccan dockworkers in the port of Tangiers have refused to load the NYSTED MAERSK after the vessel was found to have received at least 46 US military shipments for Israel during the genocide in Gaza, following an investigation by the PI and the Palestinian Youth Movement.

UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke

Last night cops in Bristol raided a squat party. Despite all attempts to negotiate with them around 100 cops in full riot gear, with a drone making announcements overhead, smashed through doors and windows, parva-spraying people at random, destroying furniture, and traumatising the residents.

When commentators talk about “the left” failing to make convincing arguments about police abolition, it’s important to remember that abolitionist politics emerge directly out of the experiences of those brutalised by the state, which are theorised and adopted by “the left”, not the other way round.

Clarification for anyone who needs it: Transfeminism isn't just general positive affect towards trans women as a category of human being, nor is it anything that a trans woman happens to say she supports.

Was girlmoding yesterday and got chatting on the street to a Pathan delivery driver in his 50s and he just straight up asked, so politely, “were you born a woman or did you choose to become one” IN PANJABI and am still riding that high 😭

The number of influencer musicians, singers and designers I’ve had to unfollow in seeing their unbridled joy at the Ayodhya Mandir inauguration today - a testament to Hindutva state capture and fascist street violence - is fucking chilling

My prediction for 2024 is that an XL bully will be elected to parliament, much to James O'Brien's chagrin.

Last week, over 1000 trade unionists blockaded 4 sites of British complicity in genocide: Glasgow, Preston, Brighton and Bournemouth. We’ll keep fighting, blockading and boycotting until Palestine is free ✊🏾🇵🇸 youtu.be/gdi8EL7mM-k?...

I think the subheading should not have a "but" in it. What follows that word is what Israel wants. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

It is so important that we continue to speak out about British complicity in genocide, but every time that is the main call to action I want to scream that for many people there are material, tangible actions that we can take that go far beyond speaking up.

Arms trade landlord shut down, offices re-decorated

I’m grateful to Shado Mag for commissioning me to write on direct action, Palestine and international resistance beyond a ceasefire. I hope it is useful, in some way, to those interested in organising beyond marches. 🇵🇸 shado-mag.com/act/beyond-a...

Normalise calling them petro-states

jfc this country

Always heartening to be reminded of all the direct action people have been taking to stop Israel. Glimmers of hope amid the horror.

I’m grateful to Shado Mag for commissioning me to write on direct action, Palestine and international resistance beyond a ceasefire. I hope it is useful, in some way, to those interested in organising beyond marches. 🇵🇸 shado-mag.com/act/beyond-a...

These are the three Palestinian university students who were shot yesterday near the University of Vermont. Academics, journalists, and politicians are responsible for contributing to the dehumanizing rhetoric against Palestinians.

Avoid transphobic street harassment with this one neat trick!* *be brown, wear a turban and experience gendering through re-racialisation** **”oi baba ji! taliban!”

Big up the noticeably uncomfortable white lady on the overground today! Is it queerphobia or racism? We’ll never know but probably both xo

I'm still reeling from the fact that people called him "Hamas Crisp Man" because he was sad a Palestinian footballer was killed by Israel in the West Bank. There's a section of UK press opinion that's frankly exited reality and should be summarily ignored.

just registered for the hybrid event 'COUNTERING PINKWASHING' w/ dearest Sa'ed Atshan and Rand (insta: officialjakegyllenhalal) i'd highly recommend everyone to join & share: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Tue Nov. 28th 6:30 - 7:45 PM EST s/o to NYU SJP & Queers for a Liberated Palestine

Hugs to @djmuel.bsky.social for the shoutout on the latest Red Planet, made me smile 😊

This Trans Day of Remembrance, I’m doing Ardas for our trans siblings in Gaza and the Occupied Territories. There is no trans liberation without Palestinian liberation. 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I am thinking once again of Brianna Ghey, murdered last February, and how the very worst thing about it is that all the evidence indicates that her family and friends accepted and affirmed and celebrated her; and it couldn't save her.

After murdering dozens, the apartheid forcibly removed Palestinians from Al-Shifa and then lied about it. Only a few Palestinians remain in the hospital. Al-Ahli hospital is currently being attacked by the IOF 200 murdered in an IOF attack on al-Fakhoora school. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Every single UK MP who failed to support or vote for a ceasefire ought to be hounded forever because they've provided part of the cover for this.

Last night, thousands of us called on Parliament to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. We will never forget nor forgive those who voted instead to enable genocide.

It’s a fucking trip to be so braced for transphobia and homophobia in my day to day life and then to start wearing a turban occasionally and be hit with the most brazen racism imaginable.