afuahirsch.substack.com/p/i-needed-t... A live event with Arundhati Roy is not a conversation, it's a strategy. As well as one of the great joys of my life!

Caroline Darian’s book is such an honest account of the traumatic discovery that her father Dominique Pelicot was a uniquely depraved criminal But “chemical submission” is far from unique Now she is on a powerful mission to change how justice works afuahirsch.substack.com/p/ill-never-...

Finally got around to reading Fahrenheit 451 It’s so prophetic and not necessarily in the ways I expected… open.substack.com/pub/afuahirs...

Excited for this today @georgemonbiot.bsky.social The Invisible Doctrine is 🔥🔥🔥

Whats the difference btw #Canada + now #Australia, where #elections show voters rejecting Trump-like self-destruction & #America + #Britain, where they're running towards it? We're seeing difference btw countries that have a sense of hope and self-belief vs those embracing their terminal decline

Stalin’s legacy. A monster. The work we put into this series I mean, I’ll let you judge the man for yourself… #Legacy #podcast #listen #everywhere @peterfrankopan.bsky.social

Such an important piece by my brilliant colleague @sandytolan.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Are you a communist?” “No I am an anti-fascist” “For a long time?” “Since I have understood fascism.” — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

That moment where I realised my visa might not get renewed if I write this… before I remembered who I am and the entire point of me, and published it anyway 🤷🏽‍♀️ www.elle.com/uk/news-poli...

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We are all living in the wrong era shorturl.at/LciR8t

#Macron says Africans forgot to say thank you for French imperialism Nope. It’s the other way around From my 2019 series #Africa Rising #Senegal

Musk is weaponising the real trauma of sexual violence to groom low information social media consumers, sniffing out their vulnerability to disinformation abuse, and exploiting it. It's also predatory. And very, very dangerous. tinyurl.com/4hfte2dh

'I think, because Elphaba's otherness is about the colour of her skin, I immediately feel connected to it as a Black woman…” I talked to Cynthia Erivo for Elle! about this film you might have heard about, it’s called Wicked… www.elle.com/uk/life-and-...

Why I feel so gross about the Jay Z allegations

What is the true legacy of #Churchill? Latest series of our chart topping podcast - all eps available now where you like to listen #Legacy @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @wonderymedia.bsky.social

My unexpected cultural journey continues :) shorturl.at/Qq0UE

This headline got me Imagine taking the time to *know* something before forming an opinion 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Wondering what’s wrong with #BandAid ? Or as many of us call it, that stupid song.. Compare it to an African gaze, courtesy of #EshetuTireneh #AfricanRenaissance #documentary

What the teenage girls are saying: If your boyfriend likes Trump Put hair in his shampoo If he wants to act like Andrew Tate He can look like him too 🫠

New Substack drop ✍🏽 afuaisdecolonising.substack.com/p/shark-infe...

New season #podcast alert @peterfrankopan.bsky.social and I discuss the legacy of #Churchill If you’re one of these people whose really freaked out by deeply researched analysis and an abundance of facts, this one’s not for you xoxo #Legacy @wonderymedia.bsky.social

Quote of the day: "Capitalism paraded without even a loin-cloth to hide its nakedness" Walter Rodney, on the systems and behaviour or Europeans during four centuries of enslavement (Walter Rodney, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800)

I just saw Wicked for the second time. The first time was pre-election. Today it landed completely differently. Especially the shots fired at performative allyship and people who claim to be on the side of kindness but end up following power instead of principle…

In other news... how conglomeration and general regression has delivered a dire state of affairs for black owned beauty brands. I've been feeling this as a consumer, this rings very true @businessoffashion.com.web.brid.gy

Very happy to say that I will be in conversation with one of my absolute faves, Trevor Noah! 29th November, come through :) www.fane.co.uk/trevor-noah

Adeus Rio! 🇧🇷🖤

I am in love with the Festa Literária das Periferias (FLUP) In English: the Literary Festival of the Urban Periphery This year it was curated by Mame-Fatou Niang and was just a haven of Afro-Brazilian and general black Atlantic genius A haven of honesty & creation in a mad, self destructive world

I just have a feeling we are going to need to remember this more than ever in the coming era substack.com/@afuahirsch/...