Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾

🇮🇪 /🇵🇰 Dub 🙋🏽‍♀️ tiktok. ex-Stripe / Storyful / YouTube. Trinity & SOAS alum. 🐱+🐱+👶🏽mom. Bikes, sounds, clouds and rhubarb.

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

@RazanIRL 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

@patrickc You missed running in an apartheid state, while it's actively commiting genocide. Are you OK @patrickc? (Heard you'd posted this and had to sign back on to this platform for first time in a long time to ask, as genuinely concerned!)

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

@kieranarose still no decision??

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

The US is "standing with Israel" by arresting Jewish folks protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza. Makes a lot of sense.

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

Palestine solidarity demonstration in #dublin today during @RBoydBarrett speech.
https://t.co/enkWAjnve2

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

There is no "both sides" argument:

~Only Palestinians live under military occupation

~Only Palestinians have homes stolen for illegal Israeli settlements

~Only Palestinians are being dispossessed

~Only Palestinians face apartheid laws

ALL of this is done by one side: Israel

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

Belfast, Ireland 📍

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

@Aoibhin_B I've used mymind, but finally found one I've made serious progress with at Spectrum. I had a series of other therapists before those. Getting started is the hardest part and it's OK to start over if you don't feel you've found the right therapist for you. Good luck x

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

We’re a people that has sought hope and refuge beyond our island for hundreds of years, mostly just as economic migrants seeking better lives. We need to do better. We can’t be passive and just watch the toxic rhetoric rise. GET ACTIVE - not on social media, in your community ❤️

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

Asylum seekers are normal people, with stories so heartbreaking most people couldn’t imagine, most probably worse than my family’s. Many are young men - it’s not just women and children who need to escape. These men and boys are hurting and need hope and refuge too.

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

This goes not just for asylum seekers, but for every sector of Irish society that faces ostracization. The political and economic causes of growing structural inequality across Ireland are what we need to tackle, not people who are already on their knees.

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

The “not in my back yard” sentiment being used - even by some on the left - is a slippery slope. It is dehumanising and wrong. We need an approach based on compassion and solidarity, not “risk” mitigation.

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

He’s still Czech but he’s Irish too, with an Irish family. The recent rise in hatred and attacks against refugees in Ireland makes me feel physically sick. I feel it in my stomach. I feel it in my heart. I want to hide from even thinking about it. Intergenerational trauma is real

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

Austria interviewed him, believed him, housed him, and let him work, till he was offered residency in Sweden, as a refugee with a UN passport. There he met my wonderful Mam 💪 who brought him back to Ireland, which has been home ever since - for the last 42 years.

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

A few months before my Dad was conscripted to the army, he was being shown a border post in training. He saw an opportunity to escape, and he took it, running across no-man’s-land to Austria as he was shot at. Needless to say, he did not have time for papers.

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

There are many other stories of state violence in my family alone. It’s rare that these stories are told or shared even in private, so it feels difficult to share this so publicly now. If you weren’t a member of the Communist party, Czechoslovakia at the time was a tough place.

[Holly Kilroy @hollykilroy]

I don’t usually get personal on here but…🧵 My Dad is a refugee who made Ireland his home. He fled a repressive Czechoslovakia in 1967 at the age of 18. His older brother, Standa, had been imprisoned - for being gay they think - and was beaten to death in jail by guards...

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

@laundryheap terrible customer service. Can I please get a response???

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

@Conorworld Not at all. Come join x

[Fatima 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈 ✊🏾 @_fafafatima]

Great #IrishTwitter vibes over on #Mastodon this morning. Connection, knowledge sharing and discourse are wonderful things. That's not what happens when people = products. Nice to feel the hope of the potential of social media again. See you over there, @[email protected] 👋🏽