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Naaz Rashid

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Writer and researcher (recovering academic) IG drnaazrashid she/her

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/10/2026
UCU members at Edinburgh uni are on strike today. Over 400 film and TV professionals, including Alan Cumming, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, back their call to reinstate three creative programmes. Cuts are hitting universities across the UK: educationitsours.org.uk/map/
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe Mahmood should see a therapist instead of working through her identity crisis via Home Office policy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hope his strategy pays off 🤞🏽
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Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A great review (as ever) by @trillingual.bsky.social of @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social new book on ‘End Times Fascism’. Looking forward to grabbing my own copy soon: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and a progressive toolkit for repairing it
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Girl on a Bradford street corner, 1969, photo by Nick Hedges.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes, 💯! Getting colonised people to internalise this narrative was part of the colonial project. Plus some people in colonised countries benefitted/were co-opted into the system (but fortunately some of them turned)
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a gorgeous day to stand in solidarity with your community. Thank you all for standing with us and showing this university what courage and determination looks like. Here's to our strength as the fight continues. But more importantly, here's to us winning. Solidarity, UoNUCU
A photo of the crowd at today's rally
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Maynard Keynes said: “Anything we can actually do we can afford.” It was that mentality that allowed the Attlee government to create the welfare state when debt was running at more than 250% of national income – more than double today’s level www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shown, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two mainstays of Hindu nationalists -- They hate history and Muslims. We see those twin pillars of bigotry merged here in their still-widening assault on historic mosques.  www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/... #Hindutva
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India’s Ujjain tense as mosque partially demolished for Hindu pilgrimage
Fearing outright demolition, Muslims volunteer to take down parts of the city's Shahi Mosque themselves.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A hero, who today would be condemned as an evil people smuggler by our hypocritical governments
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Esther Rantzen surprises Nicholas Winton with children he saved
One of her most memorable career moments came during one particular episode in 1988 - the footage of which has gone viral several times over in recent years.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026
The poet, translator and physician Dr. Fady Joudah will give this year’s Edward W. Said London Lecture, titled ‘Notes on Solidarity’, on 15 October at the Royal Geographical Society. Tickets here: mosaicrooms.org/edward-w-sai...
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Photo Diary @amablephoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
. 📸 ©️ Dimitris Harissiadis Rhodes, Greece, 1955 .
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Photo Diary @amablephoto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
. 📸 ©️ Robert McCabe Mykonos, Greece, 1955 .
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/10/2026
“Morocco has wholly embraced techno-authoritarian practices,” Amnesty Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said. I've lived & taught in Morocco & second this observation. The World Cup will be a red carpet for increased surveillance that won't be put back in the box. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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Moroccan intelligence uses surveillance to ‘silence’ journalists: Amnesty
Probe finds spyware, hidden microphones and infected phones used to surveil journalists, activists, rights defenders.
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Sam @sfsutcliffe.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Far too little being reported on protests in #France on this platform.. ongoing today. Or they're being framed as violent misleading the public.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spotted the paperback version of Vanished in the wild for the first time nestled among the other ‘New, Notable, and Nectarous books.’ 🐯
A display of paperback books on a table in a bookshop, labelled ‘New, Notable & Nectarous: An intriguing collection of new non-fiction, fresh in paperback and ready to feast upon. Our favourites of the floor, from the lauded to the easily missed.’ Vanished is nestled among the other books.
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Fonsi Loaiza @fonsiloaizap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hoy, los jóvenes que acampan en la Puerta del Sol contra los desahucios han ondeado la bandera republicana. Muy grandes.
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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10,000 people take to the streets in Madrid before the indefinite strike of public education
Teachers, students, and families have marched this Sunday through the center of the capital under the slogan "Let's save public education" to demand fewer teaching hours, a reduction in ratios, and sa...
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liberté, fraternité et quoi?
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Historians back UCU strikes. The Business University model has failed
29th September The London Socialist Historians Group, that organises the socialist history seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, has said that it is backing the cur…
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
shame on #bbc for this bad journalism, and for the cowardice
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Books flight...
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People who seem to say this the loudest are middle aged rich people
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This reminds me of a work colleague who described pubs not allowing children as equivalent to the Jim Crow laws. Yes, he was yt and yes he sheepishly apologised the Monday after www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Burnham brands ban on football fans drinking alcohol in stands as 'discrimination'
The prime minister opposes the law - in place since 1985 - and believes there is a case to remove it.
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And then of course there's this...
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I certainly don't agree with Braverman's logic but I never describe myself as English. I'm British by citizenship, Bangladeshi by cultural heritage and a Londoner by birth and choice. But obviously it's none of my business if others, like me, do.
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Hairball 😡🙄😡🙄🌊✊ @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is horrific. This man was shot in the back by ICE and has been taken out of the hospital and put back in detention, *with the bullet still in his back and his entire left side paralyzed.* He was forced to sleep on the floor and given no pain medication. www.macombdaily.com/2026/09/22/i...
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Man shot by ICE in Texas is back in detention after leaving hospital, attorney says
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was being held Tuesday at a federal center in South Texas.
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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil.
A painting of John Coltrane
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Those who fetishise economic advancement,” Pettigrew writes in a rare moment of acerbity, “must confront the role that self-interpreting economics has played in undermining African humanity.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Britain’s Slave Traders by William A Pettigrew review – the inconvenient truth
This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We urgently need more Black blood donors, with the NHS only able to meet half of hospital demand for the Ro blood type. This Sickle Cell Awareness Month, I’ve tabled an EDM calling for action. Please give blood this month and ask your MP to sign 🩸 edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
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Sickle Cell Awareness Month and blood donations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House marks Sickle Cell Awareness Month and draws attention to the continuing shortfall of blood donors from Black and ethnic minority communities and its direct impact on patients living…
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Concerns". In narrative and policy terms, the "legitimate concerns" paradigm must be one of the greatest political disasters of the modern era. A racism laundry run by centrist pundits and politicians, which has achieved one thing and one thing only: the mainstreaming of the far right.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bonnie Greer famously sat with her back to the BNP’s Nick Griffin when he appeared on Question Time in 2009. There was much criticism of the BBC platforming the far right, Now every episode of Question Time is wall to wall far right talking points with open arms and a seat kept warmfor Reform
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Bonnie Greer dies aged 77
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GETTY IMAGES - picture of Bonnie Greer an elder Black woman with short red Afro hair wearing a black button up shirt 

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British-American author and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer has died at the age of 77 after a brief illness, her husband has said.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is an absolute disgrace. There is no excuse for anyone not calling this out for the thuggish extremism it is.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
I really wonder what the story is of Tom Watson's total moral collapse. Is it really just the money and some narcissistic contrarianism? He used to champion digital rights as <the> key Labour ally for @openrightsgroup.org Then he turned betting industry lobbyist, then crackpot theorist, now this.
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think the ' impossible position ' is being told that unless we uphold the self interest & abhorrent politics of billionaires our whole world will collapse .. Macklemore & the support acts have shown us that it doesn't have to be that way 🙏❤️ ☮️ 🇵🇸
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today in why philanthrocapitalism is a policy failure:
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
September 15, 1963... Let us never forget the four young girls who were mudered in the terrorist bombing by the KKK at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. Say their precious names: ADDIE MAE COLLINS DENISE MCNAIR CAROLE ROBERTSON CYNTHIA WESLEY
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
The reason Kanye is allowed to continue to work & Macklemore isn’t is because the people making these decisions don’t care about preventing antisemitism they care about protecting settler colonialism.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Muslims in Germany are being squeezed from both right and left - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/musli…
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Muslims in Germany are being squeezed from both right and left
By copying far-right migration rhetoric to halt AfD gains, Berlin leaves the country's largest minority politically homeless and weakens the democracy it claims to defend
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW The Philosophy of Vinyl Travis Elborough Walthamstow 6 Oct @woodstbear.bsky.social 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000963295...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/09/2026
What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James_AL_Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.
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An Archive of Solidarity
What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.
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Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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