"I want her to live. I really want her to live. And I know she wants to live." 🔗 John Simpson reports on 20-year-old Qesser Zuhrah, now into her 50th day of hunger strike https://bit.ly/4qpRrhM

Can't yap about Heated Rivalry until Friday but omg this season!!

I was watching the John Smyth doc on @channel4tv.bsky.social - brilliant journalism by the team. but it was mad seeing David Coltart - my mum used to work with this lawyer back in the day. great to see him continuing to fight injustice.

published twenty-six articles this year omg

in fun news, one year since I wrote my first article for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on an ever relevant topic - political polarisation between men and women. www.thenewworld.co.uk/why-young-me...

I'm having my end of year existential crisis and really have some dark thoughts about myself, my career, the world so I sort of just started watching Tom and Jerry.

can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently

anyway, leaving you with the news that Bonnie Blue has come out for Reform, unclear if before/after getting arrested in Bali (if you don't know who Bonnie Blue is i do not recommend googling) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Re Farage: Racism and racist jokes were normal but that doesn't make them right or something that marginalised people were okay with. The way I feel about racism is how my grandfather felt about it in the 70s , how my mother felt about it in the 90s.

god I hope Olivia Nuzzi never gets paid even one more cent by a single publication for the rest of her life

don't really care how this makes me sound at this point, but the free open internet was a mistake and a lot of people out there were clearly never going to be able to handle it

This is so so so much worse than you think it is going to be - absolutely phenomenal reporting by Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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