WE DID IT!! Together, with your incredible donations and bids, we successfully raised £19,000 GBP ($25,330 USD) through the Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction. Alhamdulilah!!!

Reminder last few hours on the auction: app.galabid.com/creatives4su... We're at 16.5k... let's see how much we can raise inshallah!!!

Reminder last few hours on the auction: app.galabid.com/creatives4su... We're at 16.5k... let's see how much we can raise inshallah!!!

Proud to be taking part in this. There are so many wonderful things by so many wonderful artists that you can bid for! For my part, I’m giving away a first edition copy of THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY, signed by me. Place your bids now! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

9 days to go, y’all - go check it out, here’s some v cool stuff been donated

There's a lot of good things worth bidding for here, in the #creativesforsudan auction, please take a look and help fundraising for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. @yassmin.bsky.social, via @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

BID4SUDAN!!! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

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Despite hundreds and thousands of Sudanese people being slaughtered and we know this is happening, and yet there is no action, it begs the Q: have we really moved on from the colonial era of the 19th/20th centuries? @yassmin.bsky.social shares a powerful call to action for Sudan. Watch & share 👇

An auction fundraiser for Sudan. Items in the UK, USA and Australia (and possibly other places). Check it out Organised by @yassmin.bsky.social

For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin.bsky.social) reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease. Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...

For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. @yassmin.bsky.social reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease ⬇️

This news is about as bad as it gets. After over 550 days of SIEGE, #Elfasher has now been taken by the Rapid Support Forces (a rebranded Janjaweed, who committed the 2003-5 genocide in Darfur)... and the violence that has followed is horrific. www.bbc.com/news/article...

UN pleads for safe passage for civilians trapped in war-hit Sudan city www.bbc.com/news/article... #ElFasher #RSF Some of the footage dripping out from there is horrendous

I don't trust ChatGPT with shit, and yet the UK GVT seems happy to let the MINISTRY OF "JUSTICE" onto it? I CANNOT www.cityam.com/uk-justice-m...

how loud do people need to be talking in a quiet coach for you to justify saying something to them? 🤔

Kevin roose is obsessed w anthropomorphising LLMs. Why??

A teen wizard runs a magic makeup business with resources from his Fae, Merfolk and Undead friends. When he learns someone is stealing these same items–and there’s a link to his missing dads–he must find the thief or risk losing his friends, his business and the chance to find his parents #DVPit #GN

When two ex-best friends are reluctantly crowned persons of honor, their petty feud escalates into all-out sabotage. When the bride vanishes a day before the wedding, they’re forced into a frantic search, only to discover the one thing they can’t sabotage is their feelings. #DVPit #romcom #MF #Black

I’d be embarrassed 🤭

A huge thank you to @alomshaha.bsky.social and Rebecca Struthers, on their launch for their book- ABOUT TIME. A brilliant book concept for young readers, about the history of telling time and clocks. The venue - Watches Of Switzerland on Regent Street was super cool!! Take a bow, Alom and Rebecca...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MTo... you have to listen...watch nowww god this made me weeeeeep with pride, nostalgia, joy... I fucken love being sudaniaaa

This is unsurprising. When I first started on the patch in 2012, they needed two MWDs (workers) per rig. By the time I moved job two years later, one MWD was responsible for four rigs, via remote platforms etc. I was almost completely automated out in a tiny period of time.

Anytime folks bang on about Denmark’s gender equality and what not, I like to remind them of how they treat Greenlander folks. This story is terrible, but not surprising: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I am ashamed to be living in this time. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sudan's war is about everything, and don't you forget it. Oh, you've already turned away? Mashallah 3alayk, mashallah. substack.com/home/post/p-...

England doesn’t even have a map of who owns what land (individuals, not shell companies/obscure bodies) - imagine this!

My iPhone is all but unusable only four years after I bought it new. An iPhone 12 mini. It’s been laggy and slow for about two years, and no matter how much space I make on it, its battery lasts barely a few hours…this forced obsolescence makes me so mad. Build things to LAST!

Another shout out for this excellent event happening next week in Sheffield, where the Sheffield Sudanis at??? www.englishpen.org/posts/events...

Thrilling panel at @edbookfest.bsky.social with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! @yassmin.bsky.social was our chair & interlocutor. For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/ 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest

A brilliant few days @edbookfest.bsky.social. We talked all things demonisation, dehumanisation - and, of course, Gaza. Thanks to all who came and to @yassmin.bsky.social for chairing. Signed copies of 'Anywhere But Here' are in the festival bookshop now.

@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social's ANYWHERE BUT HERE should be required reading for anyone who wants to publish words about immigration or asylum seekers. She and I are speaking at the #edbookfest later today. www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

"I am reminded of the death of a marriage. When there is an argument there is the hope for progress, because at least the parties are engaged with each other. When there is silence, when all sides have left the table, then you know the battle is lost." yassmin.substack.com/p/the-battle...

If Elon Musk called me right now, told me to drop everything and come work on his project,” I said on the phone as I paced the cold, concrete sidewalks of Melbourne, “I’d do it. No questions asked.” 2005? Same @yassmin.bsky.social. Sudan is not alone in its reliance on Musk. #AusPol

Listening to @TheNewsAgents podcast talking anything to do with migration is a joke. 'There are some cultures where they treat women badly so we shouldn't let them in...' and yet the meaning is clear - they aren't talking about THE USA, they're talking bout *majority muslim country here*

A year or two ago I asked a senior news editor in Perth ABC why they seldom if ever covered events from Africa, Sth America, much of Asia… He said words to the effect, “I know. We should do better.” They didn’t. They don’t. They won’t. I can’t help wondering if racism has something to do with it.

How to write about Sudan ❤️‍🔥 @yassmin.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

Love that when outlets like the Atlantic or the NYT finally get around to writing a long piece on Sudan, they never, ever, ever, EVER, get a Sudanese person to write it. Despite Sudanese ppl pitching them 1000x over the last few years. And oh, let’s play ‘How to Write About Sudan’ bingo…

Folks in YORKSHIRE (esp SHEFFIELD)! Would love to see you at this special event, talking about Sudanese literature... www.englishpen.org/posts/events...

Join us at 6.30pm, 27 Aug, in partnership with @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social Sheffield, for an evening of readings and discussion with @yassmin.bsky.social, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Salma Ali, Adil Babikir & @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social. Book now ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/events...

When this shit happens I’m like, KEEP SUDAN’S NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!!!

Reminds me of the article by @yassmin.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

Loved this piece by Yassmin. A sharp, sardonic critique that playfully captures the sheer ridiculousness Sudanese people face in navigating a world that simply does not care about them. The level of patience it requires to not pull your hair out when facing this daily is otherworldly.

Thanks so much for sharing - really proud of this one 💕

academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-... Incredible piece by @yassmin.bsky.social

maybe I'm being an asshole, but if you see someone who is in the middle of writing something, on a computer, in a workspace, and you are curious, please for the love of GOD do NOT interrupt them to ask them 'are you a writer?'

I feel such mixed feelings about this idea of ‘swole girl summer’… and I’m not proud, but I don’t have time to pitch a piece so I’m just gonna think aloud here. Spurred on by listening to: open.spotify.com/episode/6Roj...