afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 15/09/2025afuahirsch.substack.com/p/i-needed-t... A live event with Arundhati Roy is not a conversation, it's a strategy. As well as one of the great joys of my life!afuahirsch.substack.comI Needed To Drink Its Inky BloodAn Evening with Arundhati Roy 0162
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Caroline Darian’s book is such an honest account of the traumatic discovery that her father Dominique Pelicot was a uniquely depraved criminal But “chemical submission” is far from unique Now she is on a powerful mission to change how justice works afuahirsch.substack.com/p/ill-never-... 052
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Finally got around to reading Fahrenheit 451 It’s so prophetic and not necessarily in the ways I expected… open.substack.com/pub/afuahirs...open.substack.comFahrenheit 451I knew about the book burning but actually I think this is an even more prescient message… 1172
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Excited for this today @georgemonbiot.bsky.social The Invisible Doctrine is 🔥🔥🔥 0476
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Whats the difference btw #Canada + now #Australia, where #elections show voters rejecting Trump-like self-destruction & #America + #Britain, where they're running towards it? We're seeing difference btw countries that have a sense of hope and self-belief vs those embracing their terminal decline 1132
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Stalin’s legacy. A monster. The work we put into this series I mean, I’ll let you judge the man for yourself… #Legacy #podcast #listen #everywhere @peterfrankopan.bsky.social 3183
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Such an important piece by my brilliant colleague @sandytolan.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... 060
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Are you a communist?” “No I am an anti-fascist” “For a long time?” “Since I have understood fascism.” — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls 2263
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025That moment where I realised my visa might not get renewed if I write this… before I remembered who I am and the entire point of me, and published it anyway 🤷🏽♀️ www.elle.com/uk/news-poli...elle.comThe Great Regression: Trump's Presidency Has Real Consequences For UK WomenToday, President Elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. There's much for us all to be concerned about and women in the UK aren't exempt, says Afua Hirsch 0286
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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025We are all living in the wrong era shorturl.at/LciR8t 160
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025#Macron says Africans forgot to say thank you for French imperialism Nope. It’s the other way around From my 2019 series #Africa Rising #Senegal 2154
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Musk is weaponising the real trauma of sexual violence to groom low information social media consumers, sniffing out their vulnerability to disinformation abuse, and exploiting it. It's also predatory. And very, very dangerous. tinyurl.com/4hfte2dh 0145
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024'I think, because Elphaba's otherness is about the colour of her skin, I immediately feel connected to it as a Black woman…” I talked to Cynthia Erivo for Elle! about this film you might have heard about, it’s called Wicked… www.elle.com/uk/life-and-... 0140
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Why I feel so gross about the Jay Z allegations 120
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 07/12/2024What is the true legacy of #Churchill? Latest series of our chart topping podcast - all eps available now where you like to listen #Legacy @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @wonderymedia.bsky.social 093
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024My unexpected cultural journey continues :) shorturl.at/Qq0UE 040
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This headline got me Imagine taking the time to *know* something before forming an opinion 🤷🏽♀️ 140
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Wondering what’s wrong with #BandAid ? Or as many of us call it, that stupid song.. Compare it to an African gaze, courtesy of #EshetuTireneh #AfricanRenaissance #documentary 01710
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024What the teenage girls are saying: If your boyfriend likes Trump Put hair in his shampoo If he wants to act like Andrew Tate He can look like him too 🫠 020
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024New Substack drop ✍🏽 afuaisdecolonising.substack.com/p/shark-infe... 050
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024New season #podcast alert @peterfrankopan.bsky.social and I discuss the legacy of #Churchill If you’re one of these people whose really freaked out by deeply researched analysis and an abundance of facts, this one’s not for you xoxo #Legacy @wonderymedia.bsky.social 0202
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Quote of the day: "Capitalism paraded without even a loin-cloth to hide its nakedness" Walter Rodney, on the systems and behaviour or Europeans during four centuries of enslavement (Walter Rodney, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800) 0120
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I just saw Wicked for the second time. The first time was pre-election. Today it landed completely differently. Especially the shots fired at performative allyship and people who claim to be on the side of kindness but end up following power instead of principle… 091
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024In other news... how conglomeration and general regression has delivered a dire state of affairs for black owned beauty brands. I've been feeling this as a consumer, this rings very true @businessoffashion.com.web.brid.gy 021
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Very happy to say that I will be in conversation with one of my absolute faves, Trevor Noah! 29th November, come through :) www.fane.co.uk/trevor-noahfane.co.ukFane | An Evening with Trevor NoahBook an audience with the most exciting names in culture and entertainment. Fane specialises in producing and curating spoken word events. 0171
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I am in love with the Festa Literária das Periferias (FLUP) In English: the Literary Festival of the Urban Periphery This year it was curated by Mame-Fatou Niang and was just a haven of Afro-Brazilian and general black Atlantic genius A haven of honesty & creation in a mad, self destructive world 1112
afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I just have a feeling we are going to need to remember this more than ever in the coming era substack.com/@afuahirsch/...substack.comAfua on SubstackWhite working class - Black solidarity: a lesson from Brazil 182
