Sushmita S Preetha

Activist, journalist and researcher. Editor, Star Weekend Magazine, The Daily Star. I focus on human rights, labour, neoliberalism, feminism and politics.

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

The media continues to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal participants in a conflict, but events in Sheikh Jarrah expose the reality – what we're seeing is a battle between coloniser and colonised. https://t.co/EovPNbG90y

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Maybe, just maybe, rather than advocating for "crossfire" of rapists, we prohibit the outdated, offensive and utterly disgusting use of "character evidence" in rape cases?
https://t.co/AvQpkTQGnt

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@MunimRifat we meet again!

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Read @AnnuJal in our partition special: States of being divided https://t.co/LnDeePVIxP

[The Star Weekend @TheStarWeekend]

Who is a Bengali? The British legacy left Bengal in tatters culturally. By @annujal https://t.co/XbwD471sJC

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You embarrass yourself, Home Minister, and make a mockery of those who died. @bloggers #FoER

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Home Minister of Bangladesh Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said “Yesterday’s attacks are isolated incidents” @dailystarnews.

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"I don't want justice for my son's death. In this country, justice is not meted out in the courts... It's all political," blogger's father

[Rezwan @rezwan]

Update: bloggers under attack in Bangladesh-Tutul &Ranadipam stable now. Praying for Tareq. See blood related info

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Another publisher, Faisal Arefin, stabbed to death. Earlier, Avijit's publisher and two other #bloggers were also stabbed

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Claim: NSA mass surveillance keeps us safe. Fact: In over 10 years, not 1 life saved in US. https://t.co/vzJmBec2Yq

[Karen Hunter @karenhunter]

Interesting that we never hear from the so-called pro-life folks when a real child is killed #TamirRice:... http://t.co/A5Xxa05Pic

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Colonial Violence & Mental Disorders: an extract from Frantz Fanon's 'Wretched of the Earth' http://t.co/txAz1yWvOq

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@feminarkist SHUT UP IT'S HARD WORK. This devil doesn't even wear Prada.

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@rifat_islam @dailystarnews My one loyal reader. You and my parents.

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Draft law proposes that government officials can't be arrested without special permission #OnlyinBangladesh
http://t.co/0bTSHfK5Hl

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Three years after the communal violence at #Ramu -- promises made and promises broken. My latest column: http://t.co/073ERdKCBs

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@shayansk How do people *do* Twitter in addition to maintaining a semi-functional life? I struggle with the latter as it is #epicfail

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@shayansk Wait, wait, but... like... *stutters into obscurity (again)*

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@rifat_islam @Snowden oh yes, because that's really why I'm (back) on Twitter.