Vanessa ✨✨

Erstwhile writer/reporter/critic. You’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties.

[Vanessa ✨✨ @Vanessa_doubleO]

For @CJR’s new issue I wrote about who is afforded dignity during a crisis, using an example that hit very close to home. https://t.co/XiUcpMbh0W

[Vanessa ✨✨ @Vanessa_doubleO]

With thanks to my editors @JahDuran and @PaddyClarke, who were a breeze to work with, and THEE @joemuggs for the precious insights.

[Vanessa ✨✨ @Vanessa_doubleO]

Dusted off my quill for the first time in way too long for a new essay, in @theQuietus. It’s about trip hop, genre tags in music more broadly and other musings, inspired by one of my favourite albums.

https://t.co/w1YnI7MQvJ

[Sade @sadearchive]

sade at the cologne cathedral, 1986

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Haruki Murakami was about to turn 30 when a thought occurred to him: “You know what? I could try writing a novel.” Then he realized, “If I wanted to have a long life as a novelist, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.” https://t.co/5q8MYwR4MK

[Vanessa ✨✨ @Vanessa_doubleO]

@shar_ondabird Nailed it, 10/10

[Ali Al-Baroodi علي البارودي @AliBaroodi]

I can't imagine Iraq without rivers. Tigris & Euphrates gave this land a name & identity, Mesopotamia. This photo cooled & warmed my heart y-day. I got rain wet after a harsh summer of frequent dust layers that left our houses, streets, & ethng brown. May it be a rainful winter.

[Ahmad Mousa @AhmadMousaQ]

Iraqi farmers are struggling with low water flows in the rivers. The drought crisis is a result of the construction of dams in Turkey & Iran, the overuse of water for agriculture. It's also due to high temperatures and rainfall scarcity, which is driven by climate change.

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

Remembering Curtis Mayfield, born on this day in 1942 in Chicago. Here he is performing “Move On Up” in 1972.

[Jean-Nicolas Beuze @jnbeuze]

Impressive pic from @RESCUEorg of a sandstorm on a camp for displaced in Anbar.

Imagine the impact on people living under tents in informal settlements in arid areas.

Drought & water scarcity are increasingly leading to internal displacements in Iraq.

#ClimateActionNow

[Jaafar Jotheri جعفر الجوذري @JaafarJotheri]

Iraq’s ancient buildings are being destroyed by climate change https://t.co/h2a2dVtd9u

[dusttoodigital @dusttoodigital]

Remembering Aretha Franklin, born 80 years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee. Here she is performing "Rock Steady" in 1973.

[IOM Iraq @IOMIraq]

📢In Ninewa+Salah Al-Din, children whose civil documents were lost/destroyed during displacement & undocumented children born during the ISIL occupation have been🚫prohibited🚫from attending school...

Until now.

📰Read more (En/كردي/عربي): https://t.co/15r8qJMKn1

[Belkis Wille @belkiswille]

Authorities in Nineveh, Salah al-Din agree to let all kids go back to school incl. those missing birth certificates. Should have happened yrs ago but amazing to see movement on issue that only recently was impossible to see progress on @IOMIraq @UNICEFiraq https://t.co/UJEdEJWkMr

[Vanessa ✨✨ @Vanessa_doubleO]

@mzrashiid @amarjourno 😂😂😂

[Vanessa ✨✨ @Vanessa_doubleO]

@cobbo3 10/10 outfit, love to see it

[Esquire @esquire]

Here's how Swiss Army Knives are made ↓

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Gianluca, you’re always in our thoughts.

Stay strong and keep fighting. 💙

[Vanessa ✨✨ @Vanessa_doubleO]

@killacal @Nutella__Skin This is so elaborate I— 😂😂😂