If western wildlife charities had always been in charge of the world's largest ecosystems then we would have all died a long time ago. The communities that have lived in reciprocal relationships with the land for centuries are the reason we are alive today and

THIS BREATH YOU TAKE is entirely impossible without the people of Congo. Without their liberation and their thrival. The sovereignty of the communities of this land, the dismantling of their oppression and repression, and the reparations [for the oppression that www.worldbank.org/en/news/feat...

I've completely burnt out. I was so afraid to say it before, but the way things are in my life and in society has pushed me to the end of my energies. I can't even get through a paragraph of writing, barely even one line some days, before I lose the ability to think and it just dissappears.

I think what's so interesting about the differences in butterfly and moth cocoons is the way they are formed and why - essentially, if moths as a group are older than butterflies, and butterflies evolved from them seemingly to feed on different kinds of nectar and flowers

It's me and queering ecology !!! This episode was an absolute joy to record ! 🦋🪲🧡

All of this queering ecology malarkey seems a little performative...perhaps that's the point? Perhaps the performance is a process...but then does that process provide soil for regenerative movements to emerge? Does it unearth the toxicities present in colonial ecology?

I need to get a van with "queering ecologies" with a big cross through "queer" and a circle around "ing" to highlight the action of "dismantling queerness", and not a static understanding of colonising queerness...then I can travel around doing my research and talks and workshops and seeing bugs...

Thing is, the Internet made a lot of places, ideas and communities accessible to those who society and governments have sidelined, and to those who have had a lot of mainstream living made completely inaccessible and difficult to be a part of.

They do not deserve our misery and our hopelessness. They deserve what little we can do, the redistribution of wealth and platform. Life is hard, today I could barely breathe and I could barely see a way forward, but it isn't being dragged from my body at the capacity that it gofund.me/027e39cf

Sorry everyone been a bit absent on here bc life has been very difficult! Will be back as soon as I can !

Nah but the whole Contrapoints drama is a bit uninteresting. Cos we've been telling u that whiteness as an oppressive structure is not erased by transness or queerness, and that white trans women are still capable of recycling this oppression (and often do), and that the "left" in the heart of

Reimagining our relationships and interactions is important alongside mutual aid and alongside redistribution of wealth and resources. The biggest obstacles that western hemispheric colonialism places before groups - in tandem with systemic strangling of wealth - is the limitation of mindset.

So about Kier starmer and his continued mission to take down trans people - this is for a purpose. This labour government is Not For the Working People or Liberation. It seeks to appease funders (elite think tanks, resource exploitation organisations, etc.) and neoliberal democratic process.

Hello entities of the net, I need some help updating my website as it is not showing literally ANYTHING I've done recently, and I'm so exhausted from everything else I've not been able to do it up myself. Up till now it's just been me, myself and I with all my admin, all my work and all my stuff,

What a load of rubbish about mamdani and sharia law I'm seeing online. Let's get this straight- "sharia law" is not a linear thing anyway, literally every SINGLE muslim country that even uses it DISAGREES or DIFFERS on most of what it actually is, and doesn't use ALL of it (whatever that means) and

So happy to be returning to The Common Press on the 1st to perform some of my poems, I've missed spoken word so much, and amidst the ecology walks and talks it's been difficult to get it in 🦋🐛🙏🏽

Once again, it doesn't matter who you are, or even if you're from elsewhere - the most evil part of living in a colonialist empire is that you don't get a CHOICE in being complicit, we all just are by default of living and existing here...you know why? Capitalism.

I keep thinking I should learn how to use social media properly to get followers for work, etc. but I think my stubborn want of long form rambles and inability to comply with short and shiny pieces is one of the FEW things I'm finding joy in myself in these days

Been writing a LOT (in private) about growing up with no future planned and living day by day, and how it keeps you from dreaming beyond your tomorrow, and how being trans, racialised and muslim is soaked in this in western colonial society...the future often is not spread before us magnificently bc

It's too hot today I can barely breathe let alone write an article

🐛The Keeping it Wild Collective will be exploring the ecosystems of Sydenham Hill woods through a queer lens with a guided tour led by queer ecologist Jazmeen Qureshi, and then a chance to discuss the walk’s learnings while building your very own bug hotels🪲 www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...

How are people dealing with the reality of multiple (PREDICTED AND WARNED AGAINST) catastrophes playing out in the most extreme forms at the same time from all sides (FOR YEARS), and on top of that watching people who have shown vicious hatred of you and your communities, starting to learn about

Returning slowly. Life's been an absolute bag of pesticide lately my god. Next week and the week after busy busyyy with bugs and queering and talks awaiting 🪲🦋🤎

Liberation movements always progress further when liberation is considered beyond the human identity, but then also when the identity of "human" is deconstructed too, in order to find the source of how we have been cut up into shapes that are apparently not "nature" but instead "human"

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Linear borders are what limit our growth, we are like the butterflies that float across the currents of heat and beyond the sea, we are organisms too, and we move with land and water as we're meant to, to cut us up is to linearise us and can only ever be a form of control.

Someone who has previously come out with the worst Islamophobia I have seen or heard in a professional context. Many of you will know how important CSF is to me. It is gutting to be missing my first one since 2015. But this is definitely the right decision for me. 2/2

I should be announcing my participation in #CheltSciFest today alongside other speakers. Instead, I have withdrawn from this year’s Festival as I cannot share a platform with someone who has spent my entire adult life peddling bigotry & who continues to do so. 1/2

Can y'all beautiful folks help me raise £50 for someone's groceries? Fiver each would cut it! For them and their family 🤎 if you do it'll be a lovely eid present and bugs everywhere will bless you with their souls 🪲🐝🐞 DM me for details ! The person I'm raising for deserves the entire solar system ✨️

3.1K followers on eid hehe 🤎🐛🦋🐝🐌🦗🐞🪲 eid mubarak all ✨️ it falling within pride month for this trans muslim woman is a chance for me to double down on transness being an identity passed from racialised indigenuity in other forms, across timeliness and bloodlines, and one that pre-ceeds its colonial

Lots of new people here, thank you so much for following my journey hehe, I'm Jazmeen, I'm a trans non binary queer muslim interdisciplinary ecologist (which means I look for the links between everything in ecology), a published / spoken word poet, Advisor, Marine Biologist, writer and bug lover 🪲

This pride month, rainbows don't make you inclusive, and neither do "slay" or "yas" or "love is love". Changing systems to be more foundationally regenerative and unpicking the toxicity of classist, racist, heteronormative, colonialist, capitalist and patriarchal misogynist policy. That's inclusive.

Science being stripped of emotional reflection is a tool of western hemispheric colonial science, and the emphasised CONTEMPT for ancestral patterns of "gut feeling", "magic" and cultural sciences, and the REPLACEMENT of them by scientific theory and many ultra linearised formats of study,

Usually when I'm giving a talk or running a workshop on anything, but usually dismantling ecology or queering ecology or something similar....I MUST make reference to the fact that because I am primarily conversing in English

Anyway...keep in mind...when we're "queering", especially within such alternative realities as those of the plant or the invertebrate....it's more an UNEARTHING of how utterly abstract their ecology, environments and behaviours are, and less of a redefinition...we force conformity within

Taking a honey bee from the pavement - bees, especially honey bees, use their wing muscles, and vibrate them to warm themselves up so that they can generate energy to fly, or just to keep warm in order to function...this one was buzzing about but slow and falling over - which can also mean it might

I still have hope that the actions of solidarity we see now, especially from queer folks in other lands and from other backgrounds, with the Palestinian people (again, not a monolith - queer Palestinians exist, as do non-muslim Palestinians), wake the mainstream muslim public up to the insidious

Most orgs can apparently afford to pay their majority white team and white directors but seem to be unable to pay racialised folks to advise them, instead we're forced to VOLUNTEER time and effort to save a structure that's part of the reason we're displaced + poor in the first place

For me...I've given up on so many spaces out of pure exhaustion. If you keep us in the conversation, support us. Racialised muslim trans woman here basically saying that if you include us, include support for us long term...

Please, I'm a trans woman in 2025. Of course I'm a weapon.

Ye labour is anti liberation. If you'd listened to racialised trans women, you'd know this. From their support of Israel, to their dismantling of workers rights, to their destruction of disability support, to their cutting down of trans women.

I love that when I was younger I used to write out the "sound" of the bird I'd heard in a diary (onomatopoeia-esque) and then listen to recordings on the chunkiest websites and try and match it up to ID birds and now Merlin app does it in like 2 secs ahahaha still think there's space to write the

As the US military colonial project in SWANA land known as Israel continues to starve + torture Palestinians - to eradicate them, and take their land, so that it can grab + sell both the land and it's natural resources - here is some TANGIBLE action for YOU. www.humantiproject.org/kitchens/?fb...

I'm back and I have less hair x it's been quite a difficult few weeks tbh, I've been trying to balance work with what's been happening in everything I'm overlapped within...the short answer is I'm still exhausted but some of the weight of societal and global calamity dropped off with the hair 🙏🏽🪲🦋

Artificial intelligence as a concept is extraordinary. The possibilities that are produced and unearthed when we seek to understand thought, consciousness and what makes anything intelligent on any level, what drives choice, what drives want and yearning...and when we seek to replicate that.

Last night I was the poet headliner performing alongside other artists (musicians, drag) in Bristol for the Boycott Eurovision gig. What we sought - attention to Eurovisions complicity in platforming Israel and colonialist allies, and raising money for 3 Palestinian families 🤎 an honour 🙏🏽

Today I was reminded of why it is so important to exist for at least a day without going on your phone and instead spending time in a place that has at least one plant or bug. I am recharged perhaps a bit. And the world continues to be exhausting, but it is nourishing too.

"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Just getting home from a gig where I supported my friends band as a poet and my god I love poetry and the musicians who were at this gig are so incredible 😲