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words and theatre. associate lecturer in creative writing at Birkbeck ๐Ÿ’ซ novels are Wild Time and The Belladonna Invitation

London, England
Joined February 2009
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This is an incredibly significant mobilisation across 110 ports in 22 countries. Organisers estimate 52,000 containers will remain idle, holding $2.8 billion worth of cargo. The largest coordinated port action ever held, grinding the global arms trade to a halt.
HAPPENING NOW Dockworkers are taking action across all six inhabited continents in a historic day of strikes against war, the arms trade and labour exploitation.
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Rose ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ retweeted
She was found hanging from a tree branch. Two weeks old. The 'israeli' bomb murdered her entire family and flung her into a tree. No one survived to claim her. No one knew her name. Her nurse adopter her. Named her Malak (angel). She's now 3 years old. This too is resistance.
In a story that encapsulates the pain of tragedy and the hope of life.. A baby girl was found all alone, hanging from a tree branch following the Al-Sabra neighborhood massacre in Gaza City on November 19, 2023, which claimed the lives of nearly 300 people while others remained missing.ย  She arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex as an infant, barely two weeks old. With no one to claim her, she remained unidentified for a full month until nurse Amal Ismail adopted her, naming her โ€œMalakโ€ and choosing October 29 as her official birthday.ย  Malak turns three surrounded by the love of Amal, who raised her as her own child, while hope endures that her relatives will one day recognize her so she can reclaim her roots and identity. ููŠ ู‚ุตุฉ ุชุฎุชุตุฑ ุฃู„ู… ุงู„ูุงุฌุนุฉ ูˆุฃู…ู„ ุงู„ุญูŠุงุฉ.. ุทูู„ุฉ ูˆูุฌุฏุช ูˆุญูŠุฏุฉ ูˆู…ุนู„ู‚ุฉ ุนู„ู‰ ุบุตู† ุดุฌุฑุฉ ุจุนุฏ ู…ุฌุฒุฑุฉ ุญูŠ ุงู„ุตุจุฑุฉ ุจู…ุฏูŠู†ุฉ ุบุฒุฉ ูŠูˆู… 19 ู†ูˆูู…ุจุฑ 2023ุŒ ูˆุงู„ุชูŠ ุฑุงุญ ุถุญูŠุชู‡ุง ู†ุญูˆ 300 ุดู‡ูŠุฏ ุจูŠู†ู…ุง ุจู‚ูŠ ุงู„ุขุฎุฑูˆู† ููŠ ุนุฏุงุฏ ุงู„ู…ูู‚ูˆุฏูŠู†.ย  ูˆุตู„ุช ุฅู„ู‰ ู…ุฌู…ุน ุงู„ุดูุงุก ุงู„ุทุจูŠ ุฑุถูŠุนุฉ ูŠุบู…ุฑู‡ุง ุงู„ูู‚ุฏุŒ ุจุนู…ุฑ ู„ุง ูŠุชุฌุงูˆุฒ ุงู„ุฃุณุจูˆุนูŠู†. ู„ู… ูŠุณุฃู„ ุนู†ู‡ุง ุฃุญุฏุŒ ูˆุจู‚ูŠุช ู…ุฌู‡ูˆู„ุฉ ุงู„ู‡ูˆูŠุฉ ุดู‡ุฑุงู‹ ูƒุงู…ู„ุงู‹ุŒ ุญุชู‰ ุชุจู†ุชู‡ุง ู‚ู„ุจุงู‹ ูˆู‚ุงู„ุจุงู‹ ุงู„ู…ู…ุฑุถุฉ โ€œุฃู…ู„ ุฅุณู…ุงุนูŠู„โ€ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุฑุนุชู‡ุง ูˆุฃุทู„ู‚ุช ุนู„ูŠู‡ุง ุงุณู… โ€œู…ู„ุงูƒโ€ุŒ ูˆุงุฎุชุงุฑุช ูŠูˆู… 29 ุฃูƒุชูˆุจุฑ ู„ูŠูƒูˆู† ุชุงุฑูŠุฎ ู…ูŠู„ุงุฏู‡ุง.ย  ุชูƒู…ู„ ู…ู„ุงูƒ ุนุงู…ู‡ุง ุงู„ุซุงู„ุซ ููŠ ุฃุญุถุงู† ุฃู…ู„ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุงุญุชุถู†ุชู‡ุง ูƒู‚ุทุนุฉ ู…ู† ุฑูˆุญู‡ุงุŒ ุจูŠู†ู…ุง ูŠุธู„ ุงู„ุฃู…ู„ ู‚ุงุฆู…ุงู‹ ุจุฃู† ูŠุชุนุฑู ุนู„ูŠู‡ุง ุฃุญุฏ ุฃูุฑุงุฏ ุนุงุฆู„ุชู‡ุง ูŠูˆู…ุงู‹ ู…ุงุŒ ู„ุชุณุชุนูŠุฏ ุฌุฐูˆุฑู‡ุง ูˆุญู‚ู‡ุง ููŠ ุงู„ู‡ูˆูŠุฉ.
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Rose ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ retweeted
This is the work of Andreas Malm, Swedish writer whom Keir Starmer's govt...sorry...Andy Burnham's govt, has just banned from entering Britain. The best way to respond to state censorship is to share the voices they are trying to slience.
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This story is bigger than a book simply being cancelled. Penguin Random House pulled Alana Hadid and Jenan Matariโ€™s book about the Palestinian experience after clashing with them over how to tell Palestineโ€™s story. Apparently, even a childrenโ€™s book about Palestine needs a disclaimer making sure everyone knows October 7 was illegal, while the Nakba, occupation and decades of dispossession are up for editorial debate. Alana and Jenin eventually walked away rather than publish a version they couldnโ€™t stand behind. Imagine having to fight a publisher just to tell your own peopleโ€™s story. Thankfully, Palestinian-owned Interlink Books will publish it in 2027.
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So many people who talk about the male gaze have never read two of the most seminal works on the matter: Berger's Ways of Seeing, and Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
I miss when "male gaze" was about the camera and the assumptions of spectating as opposed to becoming preoccupied with what Bryce, 23, thinks about a woman wearing one dress versus another
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This weekends column on a Mayo word, a Mayo writer, and the limits of symbolic solidarity. "The question is not whether individual Israelis should be able to read Sally Rooney. It is whether any cultural transaction that gives oxygen to the appearance of normality is morally defensible while the state continues to annihilate Palestinian life."
โ€œIsrael is not a normal country having complicated conversations. It is a state committing war crimes in full public view, protected by American power, European cowardice, and a global architecture of euphemismโ€ ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿฅ
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Rose ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ retweeted
every time an author disappoints me when it comes to speaking up about the genocide in Gaza & not normalizing the israeli occupation of Palestine i remind myself sally rooney exists & having a conscience as a well known best selling author isn't impossible
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At a conference in Ireland in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement, author Sally Rooney spoke out against the complicity of the EU and the Irish government in Israelโ€™s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza โ€” and urged people of conscience to take strategic, moral and collective action.
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semi-regular easter anniversary sharing of Keir's egg ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽจ
this easter sunday marks three years since Keir absolutely trounced everyone in the egg painting competition
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Really loved this piece's candid take on class divisions among writers and, more specifically, how they shape one's literary legitimacy. There is the survival work of the working class, and the inherited capital that finances the lives of the upper class. thebaffler.com/odds-and-endsโ€ฆ
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most of the books were found in the rubbles, he took them and cleaned them. he built the first library in Gaza since the genocide and organized all the books he found in the shelves. he also installed a projector in the library to make learning easier- this is beyond beautiful ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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Jonathan welcomes back Rose Biggin to the Fantasy Hive for a chat about her most recent work, short-story collection MAKE BELIEVE AND ARTIFICE, available now from NewCon Press Read more: tinyurl.com/3b63k9da @NewConPress
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An archive commemorating the lives of Palestinian scholars killed in the genocide in Gaza. rememberinggazascholars.org/
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Incredible. Iran launches a missile in remembrance and in honor of Aaron Bushnell. Yesterday they did the same in revenge for Rachel Corrie. Iran is the only government to honor these American heroes, whose deaths have been ignored by US political and media Epstein class.
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