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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿

@nehamadhok.bsky.social
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Former Director & Co-Founder @DemocracyColour for racial justice | I live for pop music and trashy tv | cat dad l

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Until you get close to it you never really grasp just how many people and groups there are telling govt what they want to hear so they can say they have “talked to govt” and groups and people who advise the govt to do nothing because that will never be controversial.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.
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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Sadly the silence of Australian NGOs on Palestinian liberation that @nehamadhok.bsky.social wrote about in 2024 continues today, despite the violent genocide we are witnessing every day. open.substack.com/pub/nehamadh...
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The silence from non-profits on Palestine is thunderous
And it speaks volumes. Most Australian nonprofits are silent, or worse, both-siding genocide. Anti-racism means showing up, even when it’s risky. Here’s what solidarity looks like. If your nonprofit t...
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
That’s because it is 😭
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
And the lines all our nations have allowed Israel to wilfully stomp over will come back on all of us. There is no international law now. No one is safe. Nothing they do matters. You could see 40,000 babies burned in a room and it would barely make a ripple in the mainstream. I’m so, so broken
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There was literally one shouting his own made up slogan at my booth
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This kid runs circles around the reporter
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We are not here to be included in systems that harm us. We are here to transform them. 📬 Subscribe to my Substack for tools + reflections on justice-centered leadership: open.substack.com/pub/nehamadh...
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Shattering the Silence: 'Inclusion' Without Justice = Branding
It's been a month since International Working Women's Day 2025.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
So what does real inclusion look like? It looks like leaders giving up power. It looks like backing people publicly. It looks like funding inclusion like it’s core business.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
That’s not inclusion. That’s branding. Inclusion without power-sharing is just assimilation.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
As a PoC and someone who now works in anti-racism and inclusion, I’ve seen how often we’re: 🔸 Asked to be visible, but not powerful 🔸 Asked to speak, but not be backed 🔸 Asked to lead, but not be paid for the labour
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
That moment taught me: ⚡ Power can erase your belonging: Power over ⚡ Politics enters our homes ⚡ Systems are not neutral And it sparked a fire in my belly.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I was 6 when a red-haired woman came on TV and said Asians should go back to where they came from.That night, I heard my mum say “We might have to go back home.” I remember my heart sinking. This was our home.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I recently gave a talk titled “Shattering the Silence: From Tokenism to Transformation.”It started with a story from my childhood in south-west Sydney.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Every year, after IWD, the silence returns.The panels end. The hashtags fade. And the power structures stay the same. So what actually changes? 🧵
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The ABC board must keep the liberal party happy at all costs 😌
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The guy who does the afternoons is always so cheery, we’re friends!
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’m immediately sold on these impractical bizarre shoes I love them
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Boomer postie today…chastised and complimented me simultaneously for? Being home? To receive my parcel?
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
HR’s only job is to protect the interests of the employer, including cutting DEI programmes when they’re not in vogue anymore. That’s why we need to build our power at work, and the best way to do that is through your union.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
White Women Won With DEI - But Who Lost? DEI doesn’t work because these are employer-led initiatives that live in Human Resources (HR) departments.
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White Women Won With DEI - But Who Lost?
White feminism is so over babe.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I reckon they’re trying to appeal to the disaffected young men who love Trump 🙃
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Popped on over to twitter just to see what was happening and…the barrage of hate was immediately notable. Fuck the billionaires man.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 21/03/2025
we’re so grateful for the strong reaction people are having to Vivian Wilson’s convo w Ella Yurman ❤️‍🔥 @teenvogue.com it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes
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Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I think about the peoples supermarket at least once a week
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is about stoking fear, and division, and importing Trump-style policies to distract from the real issues facing Australians: cost of living, housing affordability, and climate disasters like Ex Cyclone Alfred. Read the full piece: nehamadhok.substack.com/p/deportatio...
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Eldritch kcarruthers @kcar.me · 06/03/2025
Oh goody! Six cyclones spin around the Southern Hemisphere simultaneously in rare meteorological event: One of the cyclones - Alfred - is set to hit Australia in the coming days. The last time the Pacific Ocean had six named storms at once was 1974
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Six cyclones spin around the Southern Hemisphere at same time in rare weather event
One of the cyclones - Alfred - is set to hit Australia in the coming days. The last time the Pacific Ocean had six named storms at once was 1974
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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties.” english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Me to my conspiracy theory family members
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My favourite thing about anything that happens to women of colour, is that White Women make it a ‘women’s issue’ only. As though race doesn’t exist. You can’t ’I don’t see race’ your way out of fascism babe
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Is Binge short circuiting White Lotus for anyone else? 😭
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Once again, conservatives threatening us with what we want 😭
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The AJA, the same organisation responsible for distributing the doctored Opera House chant video, has been relentlessly spreading vile, divisive, and racist disinformation every single day—without consequence. Despite their ongoing campaign of deceit and harm, they have yet to be held accountable.
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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Usman Khawaja has asked "where is the justice?" after two Muslim women were attacked at a Melbourne shopping centre, in what's being treated as "prejudice-motivated" "Rather than have an exclusive anti-Semitic summit, how about we stop picking sides and include Islamophobia"
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Economic Media Centre - Australia. @economicmc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@nehamadhok.bsky.social on the limits and political weaponisation of diversity, equity and inclusion policies www.hrleader.com.au/people/26421...
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Will Dutton use the Trump ‘cheat sheet’ to foster disdain against workplace policies?
DEI and flexibility have been scrapped by recently elected US President Donald Trump, leaving many to ponder whether the same procedure may soon reach Aussie shores.
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“It’s political correctness gone mad when you can’t even suggest forcibly removing two million people from their homes without some snowflake saying they’re offended. Also, I am livid that a female soccer player used the words ‘stupid’ and ‘white’". Read more --> tinyurl.com/8ufad22e
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Graham Perrett is a good one. Sorry to see him leave parliament live.australiainstitute.org.au
‘Dehumanising humans due to differences is a pathway to hell’ says Graham Perrett in defence of trans people.
Graham Perrett is finishing his speech with a defence of transpeople and warns against politicians interfering in private health matters:

I especially want to mention the parliamentary friends of LGBTIQ, a plus group that I helped form with Warren Entsch a long time ago, and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. I know it’s in good hands, but with my good friend and comrade, Louise Pratt and Warren leaving soon I concerned that the 48th Parliament might not be ready for the US style attacks directed at the trans community.

In Queensland, in fact, some might say those attacks already here.

Bullies and fascists always seek small groups to target. They are not alone in seeking out the trans community in this way, trying to turn real people into the other.

Remember that Jesus Christ is no weather vane. He loves all people, always, not some people, sometimes.

He loves they and them and even you. And perhaps, if some politicians have become obsessed with how kids go to the loo, maybe it’s time to leave the cult and go see a therapist.

Dehumanising humans due to differences, is a pathway to hell.
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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 09/02/2025
Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
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World - yesterday

As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: time is everything. If you don’t stand up now—if you don’t protest, resist, disrupt, and refuse to comply—you may lose your country forever. Authoritarianism thrives on silence, hesitation, and fear. The longer people wait, the more entrenched the regime becomes, making resistance exponentially harder. Every moment of inaction is a moment the regime uses to tighten its grip. History has shown that those who act early have the best chance of reclaiming their freedom. The time to fight back is now.
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Trans Justice Project @transjusticeau.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
For many trans young people, gender affirming care is life-changing, and often life-saving, healthcare. But the Queensland government is blocking improvements and slashing funding from the Queensland Children's Gender Service (QCGS). Sign the petition to fight back: trans.au/campaigns/pr...
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Protect Trans Youth Health in Queensland
The Queensland Children’s Hospital Gender Clinic was found by an independent review to provide a high standard of care that’s consistent with international guidelines. The review made 25 recommendatio...
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It was giving serious throw back to How I Met Your Mother dick jokes and it just got so exhausting. But agree season 2 is much more normal (other than the infuriating ‘changing your mind about kids’ storyline)
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I enjoy shrinking but the sheer number of dick jokes in season one very nearly put me off
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I just finished the series and I could easily start it again. The show is so layered and nuanced 10/10
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Don’t worry everyone they got their revenge. I got gum on me from the seat. I’ve been trying to remove it from my leg for hours 😃
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Not to let out my inner old man but, why aren’t the school children standing up for adults on the bus?! Isn’t this drilled into them all anymore???? My high school was always at us about this! Because these are public buses! There’s so many of you stinky teens!!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Yes this is the vibe from The Australian
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This Ashes series is becoming embarrassing for England. Australia is gonna have a clean sweep at this rate, and where’s the fun in that? 🏏
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Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿 @nehamadhok.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Grateful to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack for introducing me to more than Walking on Broken Glass 🙏
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