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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 · 11/09/2025

The fact that he had a big influence on Said speaks volumes.

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Likewise! I had so many questions about your books, but I didn’t want to hold up the queue.

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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 · 19/05/2025

My Pantry, My Mother’s Tupperware: A Tale of Reused Biscuit Tins and Mysterious Masala Mixes. It’s obviously a very Pakistani pantry.

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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 · 17/05/2025

This begs the question, what were you wearing when you first met your partner?

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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 · 10/04/2025

Is the pressure on women writers to be attractive something you see reflected in publishing practices as well? I’m thinking about ageism and who gets published.

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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

It’s part of my critical component for my thesis. I’d love to share with you and hear your thoughts.

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

I’m preoccupied by the thought, can I really write in the colonisers language & still resist the gaze? How to push my words to the edge? I circle back to Silvia Wynter’s work.

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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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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The decade will go down — not in the history they teach, but in the veins of those who lived it — as the era of free party people and real community. Dirt under fingernails. Sweat on skin. Lawless joy. We carved out spaces in the ruins, made temples from broken buildings. 6/8

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Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Run by rigs in quarries and squat parties that roared like the end of the world. This wasn't a scene, it was a fucking movement. An underground pulse. We were the ones who tore through the silence with basslines and diesel fumes. 5/8

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