Christina Curry

Psychologist living in London. Views expressed are my own - Retweet ≠ endorsement. She/her

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

On the same day, they killed a woman, Fatima, for refusing to wear the clothes they decreed. He was the faamous man; she was the unknown woman - both victims of ISIS. More in my book 'I Brought The War With Me', published next month. https://t.co/1GZ6wOKVRJ

[Av. Cemil Çiçek @avcemilcicek01]

Depremde gece gündüz depremzedelere bakan Suavi'ye terörist diyenler, depremde halka çadır satanlara, ülkeye kaçakları dolduranlara tek kelime laf edebildi mi? Seninleyiz! @Suavi_Suavi

[Christina Curry @sink_or_cycle]

"It’s strange that, in order to overcome trade barriers erected because of Brexit, the NHS is now obliged to pay a private company to circumvent those barriers, but then these are strange times". @lrb https://t.co/Ylpep8I50O

[rob delaney @robdelaney]

RIP to a real one ☮️✊🏼

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

What a source of shame for our country

'Where should the birds fly after the last sky?” The poet Mahmoud Darwish asked this decades ago, and every day for the past 10 months, I’ve been asking myself the same question. How can the world be so vast, yet when it comes to us Palestinians, there isn’t enough space for us?
My life in Gaza was constantly at risk, and I could have been targeted and killed at any moment. Had I stayed, there is every chance that I would’ve been one of the 40,000 Palestinians killed by Israel, of which as many as 17,000 are children, over 11,000 women and 113 journalists like me. A Lancet study even suggests that the Gaza death toll could exceed 186,000.

I had less than 24 hours notice that I was leaving Gaza, but it wasn’t one of those times where I was excited to pack to go on a vacation. It felt like I was living everything my grandpa once lived through during the Nakba in 1948. I left Gaza with a heavy heart, a fake Dolce & Gabbana top, a black jacket and lipstick.
'And now that I’ve fled and survived, I find myself this week a “national security risk” for Australia?’

I fled Gaza to Australia not by choice but as a matter of survival. How can I be a security risk? | Plestia Alaqad
https://t.co/M4auICzWww

[Dr Waheed Arian @DrWaheedArian]

I entered the UK with no school certificate but an immigration stamp...

More than 20 years ago, I arrived in the UK as a teenager with no family support, not much formal education, and only $100.

I started studying English and then A-levels at Colleges. When I asked a tutor to help me with Cambridge University interview, he said:
"You are an Afghan refugee, not white, and not privately educated to go to Cambridge."

A few years later...

Studying at Cambridge and Harvard, I achieved my dream of becoming an NHS doctor and founder of a global humanitarian non-profit Teleheal, and also an innovative mental health service Arian Wellbeing to help everyone in need including hard to reach populations.

It's a lifetime of hardships and rejections that have taught me most in life.

Many young people's dreams have been ended by their school grades today.

My message to them or anyone else is - don't let grades or other people's opinions define who you are. Always believe in yourself and your dreams.

Please consider sharing this message with anyone who might need to hear this today.

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

Viet Thanh Nguyen traces American empire from the Vietnam War to the genocide in Gaza and beyond:

“You cannot separate the domestic politics of the United States – its inequities, its contradictions, its oppressions – from what the United States does outside of this country.”

[Mums For Lungs @MumsForLungs]

There was a 63 per cent rise in the use of cargo bikes across London between 2022 and 2023 🥳. We need more of this!

Deliveries so often mean a #Diesel van, but it doesn't have to be that way. #DitchDiesel
https://t.co/BU451nxBac

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'The Urchins' a collaberative work and installation, by architect Jin Choi of Choi +Shine, using crochet to create macro light objects inspired by sea urchins #WomensArt

[London Cycling Campaign @London_Cycling]

🦏 courtesy of IG: @forestbike_uk

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israel just keeps killing and killing and killing and killing. We just keep watching and watching and watching.

There is great sickness in all of this.

[Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden]

Police press offices are starting to have some fun

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The University of St. Andrews dismisses its rector for supposedly making Jewish students "fear for their safety" by accurately describing Israel's apartheid and genocide. Student comfort should never be an excuse for censoring the truth. https://t.co/NzAV9W6Fxn

[Caroline Russell @CarolineRussell]

Road death and injury are not inevitable.

We know measures like 20 mph speed limits can reduce road death and serious injury.

There’s no excuse for any resistance to making roads safer with lower speed limits where people walk or cycle and need to cross the road.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Shame on every journalist in the West who has sat silently by and not said a word as over a hundred of their colleagues in Gaza have been killed by Israel, again and again and again. What happened to ‘journalism is not a crime’? To standing for press freedom? Shame on them.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel has just murdered Palestinian Al-Jazeera journalist, Ismail al-Ghoul.

Israel has now killed 176 journalists in Gaza in 294 days.

The number of journalists killed in Gaza by Israel is unparalleled in history.

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Number of plastic bags found on UK beaches down 80% since charge introduced https://t.co/MoUR6CL8aa

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Oxfam: “We have been blocked, consistently, in trying to access food, latrines, wash materials. We put out a report last week that found the Israeli military has destroyed key Oxfam infrastructure that is essential for water and sanitation services in Gaza