Asha Herten

Migrant Aussie feminist | Assistant Professor @PAISWarwick | truth-telling + anti-imperialism + trade (IP, TSD, Indust. Pol) + health | she/her

[Asha Herten @AshaHerten]

The Great Pyramid of Giza has only 4.7 out of 5 stars on google maps and I think that's beautiful.

https://t.co/qMAF6I4odG

[Sarah Deech ☕️ @londonette]

There’s something absurd but also very funny about reviewers giving the Bayeux Tapestry marks out of 5.

Waiting for a: ⭐️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ “Faded cloth, hard to understand, poor lighting, long queues”

[Ashley John-Baptiste @AshleyJBaptiste]

Months of deep, emotional work. Our review into early care leaver deaths is now live. This report is SO important & tells the story of some of our most vulnerable care experienced young people. Please do read & share. 🙏🏽❤️ https://t.co/utyoMc2X6I

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

Today we remember the millions who were trafficked, tortured and enslaved.

And we honour those who brought that system down. On this day in 1791, the enslaved people of Haiti rose up and lit the fire that would end an empire of bondage.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

[United Nations @UN]

Deepening our understanding of major historical events can help foster greater respect and tolerance.

Sunday’s #RememberSlavery Day is an opportunity to reflect on one of the darkest chapters in human history and learn from it.

More from @UNESCO: https://t.co/bs09cMJPvx

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

For FIFTY YEARS after slavery ended, Black newspapers ran a special kind of classified ad and they are the most heartbreaking documents in American print.

They were called "Lost Friends" and "Information Wanted" ads. Freed people, searching for family sold away decades earlier.

Mothers describing children by a scar on a knee, a song they hummed, the name of the trader who drove them off. Husbands naming a wife last seen at an auction in 1849. Grown men searching for a mother whose face they'd carried since age six.

One New Orleans paper's column was read aloud from the pulpits of some 800 churches — so the ads could reach people who could not read, in every congregation, every Sunday.

[Chiara Cordelli @chiaracordelli]

Three years in the making, and it’s finally out! https://t.co/R9uDSC5WEa

[Black Things UK @Blackthingsuk]

A campaign has been launched to save 1 million Black books, one of Britain’s largest collections of Black literature.

Donate or Share: https://t.co/MV09YmEpfC

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

It wasn't to be… but if you are a victim of domestic abuse tonight, call the following number:

0808 2000 247

[helena constance 🕊 @helenarambles]

my friends are getting articles accepted, book contract offers, incredible presentation and conference opportunities, writing for public as well as academic audiences, and no one is getting jobs. our whole generation is in premature mourning for our promised futures.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

i watched every single major western news outlet deny the most obvious genocide in history

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Hard to think of a greater honor than to be considered The Economist‘s intellectual enemy #1.

My work is “intellectual ballast” for the largest number of Americans since 1975 wanting government to “improve the standard of living” of the poor, cut their costs, raise their incomes and stop AI from wrecking society, they say. Dream of an endorsement. Thank you @TheEconomist!

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

Join us at our free screening of 'The Price of Memory' a doc film from Jamaica about slavery reparations, Queen Elizabeth II and Rastafari on Saturday 6 June 2026 at 18:00 GMT at The Black Cultural Centre Islington. Book now at https://t.co/CnibWCnuyF #jamaica #reparations

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.

The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.

When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.

That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.

It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

[Black British Book Festival @BBBookFestival]

The NEWS is finally out!!!

The Black British Book Festival is BACK, and we're coming BIGGER. 🖤🔥

Mark your calendars:
🗓 Sunday 4th October, 2026
📍 @BarbicanCentre, London

More extraordinary Black authors: powerful panels, live performances, book signings, and the kind of energy you can only feel when the entire community shows up. 🙌🏾

This is Europe's largest Black Book Festival, and you already know what that means.

Save the date. Bring your people. Tell everybody.

More announcements incoming. Stay close. 👀

#BBBF26 #BlackBritishBookFestival #BlackExcellence #ReadBlack #BookFestivalLondon

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Naomi Simmons-Thorne @_naomisimmons]

🚨📚I am very proud to announce my new article, “Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn,” published with Hypatia. This article accounts for intersectionality’s decline in recent black feminist thought, and the subsequent turn to Wynter, Spillers, Hartman + others.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link:

https://t.co/OZpVijLzMB