chithira

Journalist. Researcher. they/them. @gfc_forests. @the_hindu. @NewIndianXpress. Views are my own.

[chithira @chithira_v]

In the last 50 years, we have lost a staggering 73% of our planet's biodiversity.
My article with Juana VD is out in @truthout today on how the ongoing violation of Indigenous women's rights is deeply connected to this crisis.

[Truthout @truthout]

As COP16 on biodiversity nears, will Indigenous women—key advocates for land and territorial rights—be heard, or will corporate lobbyists dominate the conversation?
https://t.co/EDkvUTrz4x

[Shilpak. @ugach_kahitarii]

What a fantastic pic grab by Arbab Kamal Khan!

Loved it ❤️

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

White phosphorus ignites on contact with oxygen. It sticks to skin and burns down to the bone. It is very hard to extinguish. Israel is bombing Gaza and Lebanon with white phosphorus. Iran's strikes on Israel's white phosphorus factories are a service to humanity.

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

No cure for endometriosis. No proper management for menopause. No adequate symptomatic relief for menstrual discomfort. But let’s get handicapped sperm a wheelchair to make not so healthy babies because it would make men feel strong.

[Amanda🥀 @smelltouchfeel]

@moorehn I keep thinking about James Baldwin’s point about how Black people were forced to understand white people for survival, and bc of this they know us better than we know ourselves. I don’t know how to explain it but I’m starting to think this dynamic extends geopolitically, too.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

Why is every Iranian roast so funny and perfect 😂😭

[Tithi Bhattacharya @DrTithi1917]

History professor here:

Settler colonial countries have a history of max 200 years, some significantly shorter. So they bomb beautiful, thousand year old historical monuments with no understanding of their meaning for all humanity.

[Sreekara Adwaith @Adwaith_WS]

Gig Workers Unions have forced the government to put an end to 10-minute delivery!!!

Corporates can’t advertise / promise ten minute deliveries anymore!

This might seem small, but is a MASSIVE victory. Workers forced a policy change through a strike!

[chithira @chithira_v]

@SagarAwatade Hey @SagarAwatade, please check your message requests. @ORACURA's customer care number is unresponsive.

[EM🚀🛸 @em80echo]

I used to volunteer at the library and they had backpacks for kids experiencing different things like the birth of a sibling, death of a loved one, first day of school, etc. And inside the backpack would be a little care package, goodies, and books that talked about the situation and addressed their emotions in a child friendly way :’)

[chithira @chithira_v]

@BankofIndia_IN For anyone who would like to know if Bank of India followed up, they've just said 'we have alerted the branch' and that was the end of that. They aren't really doing anything except sending automated messages. Do not bank with them-you will lose your money.

[gal galoch @antifatwa]

this is how every zionist feels, perpetually

[Sol 🍂 @autumnpard]

women in HAMSTER (humanities, art, music, social sciences, theatre, economics and rhetoric)

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

Here, the cauliflower is a reference to the 1989 Bhagalpur pogrom when 100+ dead bodies of Muslims were recovered from the cauliflower fields of Logain. This is being used to celebrate the extrajudicial killings of Maoists & Adivasis.

Viler than anything we’ve seen till date.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"There are no civilians in Gaza" is a very ballsy claim coming from people who have compulsory military service for every man and woman.

[Good Shepherd Collective @Shepherds4Good]

zionism, in all its “forms”, requires a complete detachment from reality and elementary concepts of morality.

[Sarah Elder @sarahelder]

If you’ve used a bathroom on a plane, you’ve used a gender neutral washroom.

[Your Comrade drlearnalot @DrLearnALot]

Strategy

[The Full Picture @fullpicturenet]

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