Sumaiya Muyeen

full-time cat mum. part-time everything else.

[Teju Cole @tejucole]

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

[Sumaiya Muyeen @sumushi1]

✊🏽✨🙏🏽

[Teju Cole @tejucole]

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

[Sumaiya Muyeen @sumushi1]

So beautiful 💔 this letter alone is a whole archive

[Sumaiya Muyeen @sumushi1]

2/ I’m so disheartened seeing this list of signatories, & honestly astounded at the political amnesia around the same discourse only 20 years on. This is what disposability looks like. Imperial rescue narratives are NEVER neutral let alone productive, neither in intent or design.

[Sumaiya Muyeen @sumushi1]

1/ Yep. Can we take even a minute to think about how the west’s ‘moral obligation’ to save the hapless ‘rest’ always, literally ALWAYS, traffics neatly into a political space that legitimises and vindicates neocolonial ventures and genocidal, expansionist projects?

[Glumcore @theprimalplot]

I can't help see this in racial terms. It's so performative to a liberal gaze and to a particular vision of the nation by Afghan elites often disassociated from the realities of Afghan life.

[Glumcore @theprimalplot]

I think we can pose this question to pretty much everyone who is shocked by the Taliban's 'return' and sudden concern for the state of the country. Where were you when it was being bombed for 20 years?

[morgue, on bsky: fromthemorgue @mr_orgue]

The opposite of a mermaid is a landlord

[Sumaiya Muyeen @sumushi1]

@AJ_Whittaker 💔

[Sumaiya Muyeen @sumushi1]

omg #RhodesMustFall

[Rob Morris @Morris_RPD]

Deeply ashamed of @OrielOxford's decision to retain the statue of #CecilRhodes due to "regulatory and financial challenges".

Instead they will "contextualise" the statue. Let me suggest some facts that should be included in that context. 🧵 (1/x)

https://t.co/eHhhhfiIZC

[afikra | عفكرة @afikra]

In the years after the 1967 Six Day War, the Israeli army arrested/harassed anyone displaying the Palestinian flag's colors in Gaza and the West Bank. In response, many Palestinians in the region would carry sliced watermelons in a sign of subversive protest.

[Crystal McKinnon 🇵🇸 @crystalam]

Hi all - Amanda Porter @amanda_j_porter and I are back today to bring you updates today from the inquest into Wayne Fella Morrison death in custody.
#JusticeForFella

[Glumcore @theprimalplot]

@mehdirhasan and other commentators & analysts persist with this claims that Hamas was “created” by Israel. @Raja48 does a great job of here of taking on this distorted account of history & correctly identifies its roots in orientalism & islamophobia. https://t.co/usQQbUU3h6

[Down with US Empire... Yankee Go Home @jaybeware]

So the AP had their offices bombed by Israel and turned right around and fired their one employee who had a history of solidarity with Palestine.

[Crystal McKinnon 🇵🇸 @crystalam]

Hi all - @amanda_j_porter and I are here again today w updates from the inquest into Wayne Fella Morrison’s death in custody. The first witness today is Mr McPherson, who has worked as a taxi driver in Adelaide for several years. He is sworn in at 10am #JusticeForFella

[J.T. Roane @JTRoane]

"Malcolm X does not live in the dry texts of his words as we read them; he lives in the energy we generate and use to move along the visions we share with him. We are making the future as well as bonding to survive..."-- Audre Lorde

[Mariam Mahareeq 🥑 @mariam_moh7]

Ahmad, a 28-year-old Palestinian man with special needs, holds one of several rescue kitten he cares for, on a side street after evacuating his home earlier to a safer area due to Israeli air raids in #Gaza City. #GazaUnderAttack