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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This is depressing. But grateful for people like @sandeepbak.bsky.social who create space for dialogue and solidarity, which keep hope alive.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I’m trying to educate myself about the political dynamics in Iran. But one thing I know is that liberation will not come via the west.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about decolonial ethics and how it is not identity-based, but practice-based. And how shared racialisation does not equal shared ethics, accountability, or methodology.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Pleased to say last week I passed my PhD Viva with minor corrections.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I look forward to getting my hands on a copy!

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

To flatten South Asia into one story is a colonial impulse disguised as empathy. The universal ‘female body’ and its easy ‘we’ erase class, caste, and difference, turning complexity into aesthetic comfort. Writers need to do better than this.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

‘Recognition’ of Palestine is simply colonial theatre. Palestine is a nation long occupied not ‘invented’ by imperial signatures. Anti-colonial solidarity means standing with a people whose sovereignty lives beyond Western permission. #FreePalestine #Decolonise

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

White-on-white gun crime seems to be a big problem in the US.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

On my way home from a super interesting talk by @arifa.bsky.social about her book Wolf Moon which is brilliantly researched with so many passages that have stayed with me long after reading it.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Colonialism’s most insidious weapon is linguistic erasure; violent severing of communities from their epistemologies, oral histories, and cosmologies. Decolonising lang is not mere translation; it’s the radical reactivation of suppressed worldviews & refusal to think in the grammar of the coloniser.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Seeing a lot of “you’re so brave for speaking about Palestine.” Brave are the journalists reporting genocide. Brave are Gaza’s children & men risking their lives to find food. Brave are the mothers holding what’s left of their homes. Standing with Palestine isn’t bravery, it’s basic humanity.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Absolutely. We need to decolonise decolonisation itself and interrogate the frameworks, the gatekeeping, and who gets to speak for the South.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

After 10 years of bold, brilliant work, 404 Ink is closing its doors. A small press that always played big, fearless, sharp, & committed to its authors. I’m so grateful they gave Gathering a home. Brilliant work by Heather & Laura looked after their authors with such care. Thanks for everything.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Delighted to have two pieces of work exhibited at Manchester Museum until 31 August. I am also running a series of writing workshops around material memory. Check out MM’s website for further details. www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/khawaa...

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Khawaab Mahal and Absent Presence

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So well deserved, especially because of the work by curator Nusrat Ahmed for South Asia Gallery.

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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The "Chowk" column at Lakeer is open for submissions throughout the year. The theme for 2025 is "Borders/Boundaries – سرحدیں/حدود". Submit your poetry, essays, art and photography to chowk.submissions@gmail.com. lakeermag.com/chowk2025

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Postcolonialism has quietly morphed into neocolonialism, visible in climate imperialism, where the Global South bears the brunt of extraction for the Global North’s ‘green’ futures. From carbon offsets to conservation dispossession, and of course Palestine. Colonial logics persist under new guises.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Similarly, when institutions claim to operate within a ‘decolonial’ framework but fail to shift power, resources, or authorship, it becomes a performative exercise. Decolonisation and representation isn’t branding, it’s structural, material, and deeply uncomfortable work.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Ever collaborated on something, only for the other person to later act like it was solely their work and attempt to erase your input to claim full authority? Would love to hear how others have dealt with this.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thinking about terms we use & how decolonised has become a label. Nothing is truly decolonised while neocolonial power still shapes our world. To declare a practice or institution decolonised is to betray the unfinished nature of decolonial struggle. The term is a comfortable lie. #coloniality

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

There are a thousand ways to stand with Palestine. Silence is not one of them. Decoloniality without solidarity is just branding.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Publishing the nationalities of offenders is about reinforcing racialised hierarchies. It echoes neocolonial practices where ‘the other’ is pathologised to justify control, exclusion, and the illusion of moral superiority.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Klaxon-not all gloom. Our brand new inter-uni seminar titled 'Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair' kicks off 2nd May: Paris Book Launch of Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime. Online speaker series next. Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye. undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is neocolonial logic in action— benefiting from Afghan women's resistance narratives to uphold liberal democratic optics, only to discard them when inconvenient. It reveals the deep hypocrisy of asylum systems shaped by imperial logics of disposability. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum

Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I’m interested in how decolonial writing not only resists empire in content but also ways in which it can unsettle the architecture of language itself. What happens when we write from the borderlands and between rupture and rhythm?#decolonisecreativewriting #decolonialthoughts

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 05/04/2025

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/03/2025

📆 One week left! We're looking for a passionate campaigner/journalist to join our team. Apply below 👇 goodlawproject.org/vacancy/jour...

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Journalist/Campaigner: Project "No One Left Behind" | Good Law Project

Join the team at Good Law Project

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Jhalak Prize longlists are out too:

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Tiberius @ecomarxi.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It needs to be said loudly and clearly that the more a country aligns with the United States and its rampage of oppression across the globe, the less support it should get from humanity in terms of solidarity and economic custom. There are almost eight billion of us. We can win.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This was a lovely evening. Affirming in many ways.

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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This event is about the #PhD by Published Works in Creative Writing - and at least one of my supervisors is now coming to tell you about entry requirements & all about how it works at York St John. We also have candidates on the trad route from Leicester and Swansea universities coming along!

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Spiegelman & Sacco collaborated on this cartoon and it’s everything.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This careless and outlandish take by Dhume smacks of ignorance of the horror that was #partition

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you are interested in finding out more about a Creative Writing PhD, I’ll be talking about journey at this event. You can grab a ticket by following the link below.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Just found an edit note I left myself at stupid o’clock: ‘make this… better. But like, in a cool way.’ That’s super helpful. What’s the weirdest editing note you’ve left yourself?

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Writing tip: If you’re stuck, write the worst possible version of your idea. Just absolutely ruin it. I find that sometimes, breaking it makes fixing it easier.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Site visit to South Asian Gallery @ Manchester Museum with head curator Nusrat Ahmed & Ways of Working team ahead of the new iteration of the Dream Palace and Absence Presence. Continuing our dialogue about decolonisation. #manchestermuseum #southasiangallery #cliveofindia #decolonial #wales

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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Best thing for me about the #Curae prize number number 48: it’s an unbelievable gift to receive the first piece of work that anyone has sent out ever. Sometimes, the first piece they’ve ever written. #carers thecuraeprize.uk Entries close 1st March: unpaid carers - this is just for YOU 💙📚

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Timothée Chalamet shines as Bob Dylan in #ACompleteUnknown. Woody & Pete deserve a film of their own. However, the credits incorrectly claim Dylan is the only songwriter to win the Nobel Prize in Literature—Rabindranath Tagore, was awarded it in 1913.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 27/01/2025

Not sure if I have anything to pitch to it, but if u write first-person in particular, a friend recommends AFM, a new magazine by Feeld (yep the dating app): feeld.co/magazine/pla...

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How to pitch AFM | Feeld

We know the Feeld community has a lot of valuable wisdom and experience to share—why not pitch us your ideas?

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@jaydprosser.bsky.social today I was discussing Loving Strangers with my PhD supervisor and how it’s influencing my research—only to find out you supervised her PhD! This connection really enriched our discussion.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Did the name “Elon” come from an infamous Nazi? Also yes! 🧵

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