Afua Hirsch

Decolonising My Body… out now!

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

Happy Publication Day, Decolonising My Body!

I’ve been overwhelmed by how much you tell me you need this book

Proud to finally bring it fully into the world today 🙏🏽💫

#DecolonisingMyBody
#DMB
@SquarePegBooks

“Somewhere along the line, the story of my making has been lost”

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

It's easy to critique a broken media, harder to fix it.
Very proud to be among some of the best journalists in the UK joining @zeteo_news new Zeteo UK. Creating the change we want to see
https://t.co/6vTnIrYD56

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

A joyful, optimistic rebuke against the dumbing down of everything. A change is coming

https://t.co/nysvxnm4Em

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

Have no doubt: the campaign to sack Misan Harriman is part of an assault on black figures in public life. We are all expected to take note, for fear of equally stepping out of line.
My piece in today's Guardian https://t.co/ElG6VzGkXA

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

We need to talk about “The West”…

[Misan Harriman @misanharriman]

It's wild that I have to do this, but @HeidiBachram clipped 57 seconds of this video to misrepresent me. I use a quote from a conversation with Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Sontag, in which she discusses human behaviour after studying the Holocaust. In that context, I talk about human behaviour and how we can build community in the lead-up to the next general election. In this video, I actually say that reform voters are not devils. Yet due to NOT watching the full video, @RobertJenrick is saying I am comparing reform voters to nazis. Truth matters, folks, even on X.

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

Trump shows us what 'the West' really is: a made-up history of white colonisers
My piece is out now @theipaper

https://t.co/6xKMQN92Vu

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

https://t.co/TA637Vfvqj

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

We've just released another episode about Iran on Legacy. Brilliant insights from @KimGhattas, who is superb as always on the revolutionary legacies of 1979 - and how/why they still shape Iran and the wider region today. Essential listening @afuahirsch
https://t.co/9jQihRuHj6

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

For those wanting a break from the news, here’s the first in @afuahirsch and my series on #Legacy about Environmental Shocks that Changed the World https://t.co/3BExweMHc9

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

Over on our Legacy podcast, @afuahirsch and I are doing a series on Great Environmental Shocks in history 1/4

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

Final thing ☺️
(Although if you head here there will be plenty more…)
💪🏽

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

Thank you to everyone who's been following me here for the last 16 years.
For the last two of those, I've barely used it.

But I'm sharing loads on my Substack! Follow me and subscribe, link here https://t.co/z7NEb0rYrS

I'm also on Bluesky and IG, both @afuahirsch

Forward!✨

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

If you missed the Audible version…. Now you can listen to Brit(ish) and another book for one credit

You’re welcome :)

@audibleuk
@vintagebooks
@PenguinUKBooks

#book
#audiobook
#BlackHistoryMonth

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

Are you a journalist or academic with expertise on Latino communities and the border?
Apply!
Deadline is November 1st @USCAnnenberg #professor #opportunities #journalism #immigration 👇🏾🏃🏾‍♀️✍️🏾

[Ben Carrington @BenHCarrington]

We have a new tenured position at @USCAnnenberg for a Professor (Associate or full) in Journalism. We're looking for scholars or journalists with an expertise in Latino communities, including immigration, the US-Mexico border & Latin America more broadly.
https://t.co/V3g7s2LSOp

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

This man - in no particular order - hounded MLK, drove Garvey out of America, put Trotsky under surveillance, put America under surveillance, persecuted women, changed his country in ways still resounding
Me & @peterfrankopan break it down
#Legacy #podcast
https://t.co/8ryBoXuo4w

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

This is precisely why we have an International Criminal Court - peace and justice are indivisible #ICC

https://t.co/YeA8UA3qet

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

He's not sorry.

If he was, he would confess all the other times he's assaulted women and now feel equally "disgusted".

Or he would tell us this incident was a total one off.

He did neither, because the only thing that's disgusted him is getting found out

#Diddy

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

My 1st job was for Aryeh Neier. Hard to overstate how influential his views on human rights
"I'm now persuaded Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. What changed my mind is its sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance"
@nybooks

[Macklemore @macklemore]

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

[Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch]

The response to student protests at universities like mine @USC and throughout America has been unacceptable

Not to mention counterproductive, even on its own terms
#Gaza
#protest
#freespeech

Thank you to all the students and faculty standing up for our values
@amanpour 🙏🏽

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“I do question how much the university administration understands the concept of free speech,” says @USC journalism professor @afuahirsch. “The point of free speech is that people have the right to say things that you might find uncomfortable or inconvenient,” she tells me.