The work diary is a little empty and I am wanting to do some work in November and December - I write about politics, youth politics, social media and gender. I am also available as a researcher in those areas. Check out my work 👇🏾 michaelamakusha.co.uk

Mercury is in retrograde and so it explains so much.

The attacks on my friend @meghamohan.bsky.social are awful. This is a journalist who has dedicated her career to telling ignored and forgotten stories about women in the global south - from lesbians in Burundi and Chile, to girls fighting child marriage in Malawi & teens in prison in Palestine.

Please stop dating niggas that “don’t believe in therapy” omg

The death of Teen Vogue's political coverage is devastating for many reasons but mainly for journalism that is engaging Gen Z with accurate and informative and fun journalism that actually speaks to us rather than speaks down to us.

!! someone needs to commission my essay on how reading became a performance for a lot of women and booktok is an extension of this, pushing books that look interesting, but largely based on tropes.

I don't know how I feel knowing Wattpad has shaped mainstream romantic fiction in the last five years.

I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!! open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...

On my weekly Sunday 'should I do PhD panic'

Liberal Hollywood is naked and afraid Cheers may have greeted Stephen Colbert’s win but the awards show bore many reminders of the industry’s fragile state. https://bit.ly/48qsj4o

'If 2020 was the year you needed to listen, 2025 is the year you need to actually do something' New article from me in @glamouruk.bsky.social on things to do to combat the far right and racism right now after the marches on Saturday: www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/far-...

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?

For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

For @theobserveruk.bsky.social I report on the Gen Z women of the anti-migration movement here in Britain and Europe their impact online and offline. What is their message? Who supports this? Is this helpful? I spoke to numerous authors and academics to find out more: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I wrote about not having children and my mother's advice on why you should (or should not) have children either for The Guardian @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Looking for an expert in Scottish law, specifically looking at sexual assault, for a story in Glamour UK #journorequest

'Statements of solidarity without meaningful guardrails and a lack of consequence for trolls means the problem will only persist' words in Marie Claire UK on women's football and racism: www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/health-...

Being black in the UK feels like an olympic sport at times.

I'm this month's guest writer in The Logging Club newsletter, discussing the yearning I have for the children to be able to log into child-centric spaces online. So much fun working with @adelewalton.bsky.social - whose book you should read if you have not!! open.substack.com/pub/loggingo...

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.

Avon & Somerset police tasered its own race relations advisor, harassing him twice. The officer was cleared. You’d think they’d focus on their own racism www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

I am the least cool writer in this series but was so excited to write for The Guardian's Unexpected Pride series. I wrote about the Lumineers, late nights on Tumblr and why fiddles are oddly soothing for a teenage girl: @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I wanted games back just not like this!!

The internet and social media platforms mainly being created ultimately to service creepy men explains so much and really calls back to how misogyny is at the core of everything ffs

between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

New from me in @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the need to bring back kid-centric spaces online and the nostalgia I have for my childhood introduction to the internet. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

New column from me in this week's issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social (Rather The New World) on that attempt at a rally by racists in Birmingham and how racists have evolved! You can see it in print and online: www.thenewworld.co.uk/michaela-mak...

I wrote about the cozying up the British and American right have been doing with one another and are now emboldened to do last December, so Farage's remarks on family and abortion should not be a surprise. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/farage-trump...

I really need to leave the country for a few days omg

In print with a really cool illustration of my face! Thank you to Women Migrant Press for giving me the space to write about this:

My debut article for Teen Vogue last year is one of my favourites because it's evergreen for people wondering why the UK is like *gestures vaguely* this: www.teenvogue.com/story/uk-rac...

Gerard Depardieu, Tory Lanez, DDG, Diddy, and Chris Brown all are experiencing a terrible week but then the abuse defenders pop up, ruining my mood.

Latest column from me reflecting on museums and why a myopic view of history is a bad thing. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/michaela-mak...

taking marriage offers from eu citizens please and thank you

A year older and still scared of geese

Read Marie's new column!! she's great and funny.

Sinners is now part of my personality and the music is fabulous - shout out to my mum for getting me into movie scores and jazz and blues! The music is so important in this film: a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/fi...

Let's just say this is not the PMQs tactic I would have taken, were I leader of the opposition the day before some really quite tricky local elections. But then, I'm not Kemi Badenoch www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

This being an actual ad on the other site is insane to me

It's my birthday! Legally, you have to read my work but also donate to @NotAPhaseOrg 💖 -ig.me/239mKx7UY2jMGYy

Sinners is now part of my personality and the music is fabulous - shout out to my mum for getting me into movie scores and jazz and blues! The music is so important in this film: a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/fi...

The best part of Sinners is really the natives who decide to just go home and mind their business.

Are people talking about The Pitt over here???

I think for me, it was always just the principle of caring about other oppressed people. My mother raised me that way, she herself was friends with a lot of queer people when she was younger, so just passed down that compassion.

Train trouble and antidepressants not kicking in really had me ready to end it all but then I bought an iced coffee and hair products, so I was fine.

wrote about my trans friends www.theneweuropean.co.uk/marie-le-con...