Hannah Thomas

Digital Comms @LDN_VRU & Trustee @SOSUKCharity. All things faith, climate justice & life as a British South Asian. All views my own.

[Hannah Thomas @hnnhthomas]

It’s so sad how our South Asian community often embodies the ‘model minority myth’ and forgets just how much we’ve benefitted from the Black community.

We can’t forget who were standing with us during some of the toughest times.

[Emma Dabiri @EmmaDabiri]

Barbara Beese and son Darcus Beese marching in support of the Bengali community Bethnal Green in the 1970s #SmallAxe

[Preeti Dhillon @preetikdhillon]

Two months today until ‘The Shoulders We Stand On’ is published! If you feel the same way reading this book as I did when researching it, then you will come away feeling hopeful and fired up. Knowing that together we can make a positive change is a much needed lifeline right now.

[Anil K Antony @anilkantony]

Finally saw the ‘Elephant whispers’ today. Hard not to fall in love with Bomman, Bellie , Raghu and Ammu. Brilliant cinematography and heartwarming. Totally worth a watch ! Special congratulations and best wishes for the Tamil Nadu conservation department. @NetflixIndia

[Hannah Thomas @hnnhthomas]

@breantonia_ Finally listening to your dear old grandma

[bre. 🍊 @breantonia_]

Vapour rub on your feet, + thick socks, while you sleep when start to get sick! So it can sweat everything out.

The grandma is @hnnhthomas

[MeeraSyal💙 @MeeraSyal]

25 years ago...blimey. And thank you all of you who still remember and love it. We love you back, truly.

[Reha रेहा @rehakansara]

Teenage me would have felt so seen. I grew up in a predominantly S.Asian area where despite the comforts of community, being overtly Desi wasn't cool. 🧵
https://t.co/bo5pvpjtwF

[Melissa Frakman @MelissaFrakman]

How many of you in the fintech community know that we have just lost a legend that changed tens of millions of lives?

Ela Bhatt pioneered a new cooperative model that paved the way for microfinance and even last mile consumer financial services delivery around the world. (1/3)

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

🌍Rishi Sunak has demoted his climate minister and pulled out of the COP summit in Egypt… yet No 10 says tackling climate change remains a “priority”. Meanwhile:

https://t.co/zDnckW4r6q

[Neha @NehaRaySays]

UK: Rishi Sunak, Conservative Party leader who is richer than 99% of the country's population and plans to cut funds for public services and workers' wages, is the new PM.

Indian Diaspora: YAY REPRESENTATION! EQUALITY!!! FREEDOM!!!

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

What does Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister mean for the Black and Asian households who are 3 to 4 times more likely to experience food insecurity than the national average?

[Hannah Thomas @hnnhthomas]

Sending hugs to fellow Indians who find this hard to stomach. This is not the ‘racial equality win’ we work so hard for.
Starting with:
- the model minority myth aka throwing POC under the bus to elevate rich white people
- ‘tough decisions’ that working class people will pay for

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

1 in 7 people in the UK are skipping meals and GOING HUNGRY, while fossil fuel companies rake in RECORD PROFITS.

What kind of country do we live in?

[Abraham @IbrahimBuriro1]

I tell our story of dispossession and catastrophe due to floods in my country & family. State's resource extraction mindset towards water infrastructures & Global North's unchecked predatory capitalism is existential threat to us. We are all connected.
https://t.co/FwQPaIw7oy

[Hannah Thomas @hnnhthomas]

Can’t recommend @spokeworld enough. 10/10.

[abiola @abxola]

Not everything is for everybody. In a world where broadcasting your life brings attention, privacy still, subtly, reigns supreme.

[Sims 🇨🇩 @leizenomis]

Sorry but this trend on Christian TikTok is sending me 😭😭

[Clean Air Fund @CleanAirFund]

Breaking: Our new report finds that #CleanAir funding doesn’t match the scale of the world’s #AirPollution crisis.

👉 36 x more aid money went to fossil fuel projects in Africa than clean air ones.

Watch 👀 and retweet!

#WorldCleanAirDay #TheAirWeShare https://t.co/PzbymQilOW

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

A black kid in poverty won’t be inspired that it’s a black Chancellor letting him go hungry.

A brown mum being deported won’t be comforted that it’s a brown Home Secretary tearing her family apart.

“Diversity” at the top means nothing if they’re kicking those at the bottom.