alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Really loved chatting to Douglas Stuart about his new novel ‘John of John’ for @dazeddigital.com. Imo, it’s his best yet www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...dazeddigital.comDouglas Stuart: ‘Homosexuality and faith have been a struggle all my life’The Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo speaks to Dazed about being orphaned at 16, queer life in the Outer Hebrides, and his heart-rending new novel John of John 000
Reposted by alim kherajSam Gregory – Sheffield journo @sammgreg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026It's an absolute scandal that @artscouncilengland.bsky.social, through their National Portfolio, spend just £6.59 per person in Sheffield, compared to £44.60 in Manchester and £35.65 in Leeds. Our city deserves better! Great piece in @nowthenmag.bsky.social by @benjamintassie.bsky.social 👇nowthenmagazine.comSheffield's classical scene has so much potential – why are we not making the most of it?Composer and outgoing programmer at Music in the Round Dr Benjamin Tassie writes for Now Then about why the city’s scene is at its best when it takes risks and rewards experimentation. 0127
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 18/02/2026There's a new sound gripping Sheffield... the freezers in Ecclesall Road Co-op. For @theguardian.com I went to investigate www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...theguardian.com‘Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezersRedditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles 111
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 03/10/2025This is v astute on the Swift and The Life of a Showgirl: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...theguardian.comTaylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict | Laura SnapesSixteen months after Charli used Brat to air her anxieties about Swift, the US star’s graceless response is a missed opportunity for growth – and betrays her vengeful side 010
Reposted by alim kherajJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2025Sex Matters are trying to force the ponds to operate on a trans-exclusive basis, despite users of the ponds having voted against such an approach. 215450
Reposted by alim kheraj+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 25/09/2025Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls. Yuval Abraham reports. www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...972mag.comMicrosoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls. 3237108
Reposted by alim kherajElaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Well done to all the workers who protested this. This is huge. 24117
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Wrote about 10 of the late Diane Martel's best – and most controversial – music videos for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...theguardian.comFrom Blurred Lines to Genie in a Bottle: the late director Diane Martel’s best music videosLast week, the celebrated US music video director died of breast cancer aged 63. We chart her best – and most controversial – music videos 110
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 18/09/2025something to live for? www.madonna.com/blogs/news/m...madonna.comMADONNA RETURNS TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN(September 18, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) Today, it was announced Madonna, the best-selling female artist of all time, has signed with Warner Records for her highly anticipated, upcoming new dance album.... 110
Reposted by alim kherajAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2025But arresting pensioners for protesting against a genocide is still fine 1632093
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I read The Two Roberts while away on holiday and it was marvellous. A novel that felt alive! 110
Reposted by alim kherajDamian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 31/08/2025"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?" I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely. tinyurl.com/bdfjszbutinyurl.com‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgotRobert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity? 912745
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 11/08/2025V interesting piece on eroticism and surveillance lux-magazine.com/article/priv...lux-magazine.comBringing Sexy BackInternet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it. 000
Reposted by alim kherajMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Allowing ‘no Blacks’ and ‘no trans’ while banning ‘no zionists’ is insane 5245441410
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 22/07/2025When does a flop era go on for so long that it starts becoming a flop life? 120
Reposted by alim kherajRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/07/2025Bye forever, WeTransfer. 20969043699
Reposted by alim kherajEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 15/07/2025The entire trans moral panic in the UK is based on absurd hypotheticals, which provably don’t play out in reality 28530
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comPoorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnellThe welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor 000
Reposted by alim kherajKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/07/2025Smaug dies though 491098154
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Interviewed Jeremy Atherton Lin about his new, brilliant book DEEP HOUSE (out in the US and UK tomorrow) for The Face. theface.com/culture/this...theface.comThis is the gayest love story ever toldIn his new book, Deep House, Jeremy Atherton Lin chronicles the beauty and difficulty of his own long-term relationship against a backdrop of extensive,… 020
Reposted by alim kherajDan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 04/06/2025“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.” 66020
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 21/05/2025to quote @cmatbaby.bsky.social: "I've been having a horrible time." 000
Reposted by alim kherajNick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 21/05/2025In the week that The Podcast Academy gave Steven Bartlett the International Governor’s Award for Diary of a CEO (citing how he “elevated podcasting as a medium for insight, vulnerability, and meaningful dialogue”) he released this episode about “reversing” stage 4 cancer through dietary change. 253
Reposted by alim kherajTawseef Khan @tawseefkhan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Friends! There’s just ONE MONTH to go until my novel Determination comes out in paperback. I’d be ever so grateful if you supported it by pre-ordering and also spreading the word. It’s a Jhalak Prize-nominated novel, don’t you know! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dete...uk.bookshop.orgDetermination: Longlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize a book by Tawseef Khan.'A compassionate, beautifully told portrait' Guy Gunaratne 'Absorbing, witty, eloquent fiction, as well as a trenchant political critique' Tom Benn'A hymn to empathy, alive with care and love' Rebecca... 072
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Earlier this year I became obsessed with fake designer bags and very soon it took over my life and my social media feeds. I’ve written about that for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | How I Got Duped by Designer Dupes 031
Reposted by alim kherajEmma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social · 16/05/2025For @lwlies.com I did something a little different and wrote a video essay about the wigs (and hairstyles) of Nicole Kidman across her very long career www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_D...youtube.comThe wigs of Nicole KidmanYouTube video by Little White Lies 5275
Reposted by alim kherajEd Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 14/05/2025If you're in the UK and you're annoyed that you don't know which AI companies are training on your copyrighted work without permission, the reason is now simple: the Labour party. This isn't a political statement - it's a fact. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 18678399
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Had an absolutely silly time writing about "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "The Stop Remix" for the latest In the Zine: open.substack.com/pub/inthezin...open.substack.comOn "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "The Stop Remix"“I’m a singer who dances, definitely” — Britney Spears, MTV Making the Video, 1999 010
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 14/05/2025so thoroughly obsessed with this song soundcloud.com/journalofado...soundcloud.comMarianneI would like to be the next stage girl because I believe pop music can save lives. Ariana Rihanna Katy and more saved mine! Also here are the lyrics: I know I’ll never be your wife I know I’m not you 010
Reposted by alim kherajThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/05/2025LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK rulingtheguardian.comLGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK rulingCharities say the judgment creates ‘a legal framework that simply cannot uphold the dignity’ of trans people Fourteen national LGBTQ+ charities have written to Keir Starmer seeking an urgent meeting to discuss what they describe as “a genuine crisis for the rights, dignity and inclusion of trans people in the UK” after the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex. The UK supreme court ruled last month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred only to “a biological woman” and to “biological sex”, with subsequent advice from the equality watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as. Continue reading... 1826361
Reposted by alim kherajMomentum @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025By failing to offer real change, the Labour Government risks handing the country to the far right. Our statement on the Runcorn & Helsby byelection. 🔽 33316
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 01/05/2025First proper In The Zine is live: On "...Baby One More Time". inthezine.substack.com/p/on-baby-on... 010
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Had a gorgeous conversation with Seán Hewitt about his sublime novel Open, Heaven, which if you're into queer yearning and beautiful writing about the British countryside, is well worth your time www.anothermag.com/design-livin...anothermag.comSeán Hewitt’s New Book Explores the Pain and Power of Queer YearningIn his debut novel Open, Heaven, poet and memoirist Seán Hewitt traces the fevered contours of queer teenage desire, memory, and first love 020
Reposted by alim kherajArthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Carla was brilliant on Kuenssberg this morning She explained the guidance actually calls for banning trans people from both men’s & women’s spaces, rather than the “trans man gotcha” we’ve seen from some Nice to hear from someone who’s actually read the damn thing, rather than spouting propaganda 954499
Reposted by alim kherajCarla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Solidarity with all trans, non-binary & intersex people facing the harsh and ill-considered guidance issued by the EHRC. It’s full of holes & has clearly been written without input from trans people. I will push for this to be withdrawn until thought-out guidance can be produced. 761765308
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 27/04/2025transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/04...transactual.org.ukStatement on EHRC ‘guidance’ on single sex spaces – TransActualAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight BackgroundLinks UnderlineReadable FontReset 000
Reposted by alim kherajJohn Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Again, ask yourself, would any of this be happening if the Supreme Court ruling went the other way? Would the Government be rushing to enshrine trans protections? Would there be calls to assess the damage of GC hate that “captured” the media? Would MPs be lining up to declare trans women are women? 227078
Reposted by alim kherajbenjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025again, eg: the change in law does not stipulate that a business offering a women’s only service or space *must* refuse transgender women. it *does* stipulate that a transgender woman refused access to such a space would not have legal recourse to protest this. (both wrong, but very different). 0101
Reposted by alim kherajbenjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025it is actually incredibly important we disambiguate this for as many people as possible. there is a very real risk that business owners or service providers might start policing trans use of single-gender spaces only because they think this is a legal requirement (it is not!). 2254
Reposted by alim kherajEilís 'pidge' Ní Fhlannagáin @dirtycitybird.trann.ie · 23/04/2025You don't get to like Andor and then complain when someone chalks a statue at a trans protest. 08623
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Really great substack from Lauren John Josephlaurenjohnjoseph.substack.comS-T-A-U-N-C-H womenThe Supreme Court are horrid, horrid girls. 000
Reposted by alim kherajDiyora Shadijanova @thediyora.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Wow, "gender critical activists" now shifting their focus to xenophobia?! I had no idea this was going to happen! 46223
Reposted by alim kherajArthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The response to yesterday’s ruling by terfs, the popping of champagne corks, the odious glee, shows that they were never afraid of trans people. No, they delight in our fear and our misery. Refuse to be miserable. Find community. Love loudly and proudly. Laugh together. Share joy. 10745173
Reposted by alim kherajM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025All the EHRC has done the past few years is be transphobic. That’s why Kishwer Falconer was appointed and Labour have kept her in post. 17621
Reposted by alim kherajJean Roddenberry, Gravity-Critical Science Officer @jean-roddenberry.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It's particularly noxious that the Supreme Court repeated the GC lie that this ruling was in part to protect lesbians, when cis lesbians are regularly demonstrated to be one of the demographics most supportive of trans rights. 216947