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Leila Billing

@leilabilling.bsky.social
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Feminist, book lover, mama. Co-founder We Are Feminist Leaders.

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
International law=Rules Made by White People for Brown and Black People. Hope that clarifies.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/04/2025
“We strongly condemn his killing and call... for the immediate restoration of the ceasefire.” Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says its 11th staff member has been killed in Gaza in an Israeli attack alongside his family members. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/sxg5ta
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/03/2025
Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah
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Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah
Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israel’s military has admitted it fired on ambulances in the Gaza Strip after identifying them as “suspicious vehicles”, with Hamas condemning it as a “war crime” that killed at least one person. The incident took place last Sunday in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood in the southern city of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border. Continue reading...
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
While the BBC headline is an outright lie, about the outcome, here is the correct observation. A moment of truth prevailing, increasingly rare these days. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Cambridge University loses bid for long injunction on Israel-Palestine protests
Its lawyers had argued the injunction is ‘urgently’ needed ahead of a graduation ceremony this Saturday.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Horrific: More than 160 Gazan medics are still being held in Israeli prisons, with many said to be tortured and starved. Detention of healthcare workers is illegal under international law, whilst also eradicating the healthcare of Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture
Senior doctors claim they were subjected to months of physical abuse, as UN calls for release of those still detained
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Found this on the girls’ bathroom wall in my local secondary school where I go in the evenings to practise speaking Chinese. I mean… they’re not wrong!
Graffiti reads Romance is boring!
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Nan Goldin: principled and courageous. This is a great article about how Germany’s support for Israel illuminates how *little* they have come to terms with their past lithub.com/on-the-coura...
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On the Courage of Nan Goldin and the Truth About Germany’s “Never Again Is Now” Resolution
“Were you uncomfortable?” the photographer Nan Goldin asked from a lectern in Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie on a chilly Saturday in late November. “I hope so. We need to feel uncomfortable,” Goldin…
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Utterly sickening news in todays @theguardian.com - also notable is that Meta removed the clause in its guidelines prohibiting users from calling women ‘household objects or property’ #Meta #Transphobia #Misogyny #Misinformation
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I didn’t read Percival Everett’s James for months because I was scared it wouldn’t live up to the hype. I was wrong - it’s utterly brilliant, as is he #goodreads
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The ongoing attempt to frame child exploitation in the UK primarily as the result of the ‘dangerous brown man’ is a tale as old as time. The main losers when we limit the debate in this way are the survivors themselves www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Kemi Badenoch calls for national inquiry into 'rape gangs'
Alexis Jay, who led a major inquiry into historical child sex abuse, says changes are needed, not more research.
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Does anyone else feel disheartened that so many Best of... books lists are just so Eurocentric? I always make it a point to check out Brittle Paper's annual 100 notable African books. And there are some real beauties in this list... brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...
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100 Notable African Books of 2024
Explore African Literature
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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya #FreePalestine
The abducted Dr Hussam Abu Safiya walks towards the colonisers' tanks amidst the destruction of North Gaza
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Beyond sad to hear that the poet Nikki Giovanni died this week. Here’s one of my favourites. Rest in Power, Nikki.
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I never thought I wanted nor needed a PHD until I saw the instructions to use my toilet in Bangkok
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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I went on a temple tour in Bangkok, and I could hear Jamaica Kincaid’s “Ugly Tourist Essay” the whole time at the back of my mind.🫣😂😭
Essay titled “The Ugly Tourist.”
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If you want to know how you will look in 20 years’ time, with a hangover, I really recommend looking in the mirror in the aeroplane bathroom. I have never NOT looked like the bride of Frankenstein
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/11/2024
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee has said without providing any evidence that one of the three World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in Gaza purportedly took part in last year’s October 7 attack on Israel. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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Israel kills aid workers and food seekers in Gaza; 45 dead since dawn
Three aid workers from World Central Kitchen are killed in southern Khan Younis as Israel bombs people waiting for food.
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Whenever I want to cower, even though I know the right thing to do is to step forward, I look at Zanele Muholi’s pictures. They are incredible - what a powerhouse they are…
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Spending today talking about intersectional organising - the pleasure and the pain. We use this picture of parliamentarian Sarah Jammah as a teaching tool - she was thrown out of the legislature for refusing to take off her keffiyeh. Pay attention to her colleagues… #feministleadership
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Social Movement Technologies @socialmovetech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ready to organize for power? Free movement building training and support for Africa- and Asia-Pacific activists and campaigners to build people power. March - May 2025, followed by coaching support. Language access. Learn more and register here: socialmovementtechnologies.org/movement-bui...
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Movement-Building Training & Support Program for Africa and Asia - 2025
[Go to: All upcoming SMT trainings] Ready to organize for power? From Africa to Asia, people across the regions and their families want a just and sustainable future. To achieve it, we must use non-vi...
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This was a great event - loved hearing from @jaseokundaye.bsky.social and Colin Grant. Thank you Jason for reminding us about what Baldwin had to say about Palestine. For those interested in how Baldwin's opinions about the state of Israel evolved, check out this pod: www.npr.org/2024/08/28/1...
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This article is essential: many of us have been highlighting how NGOs have been censoring staff and perpetuating double standards on Palestine for years. Including those that purport to have signed up to ‘feminist’ leadership approaches www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2024/11...
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Staff accuse IRC management of Gaza bias and censorship
As Israel’s destruction of Gaza has escalated, the months-long rift between aid staff and leaders has widened.
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Poetry will restore you like nothing else. I loved Natalie Diaz’s beautiful collection - the sorrow, the humour and the humanity. So happy it came into my hands
Natalie Diaz book, red cover when my brother was an Aztec
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Leila Billing @leilabilling.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
God bless the British. They just love water - especially when it's frozen in cubes and surrounded by Gin.
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