Sign in

Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈

@sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
942 followers 161 following 146 posts

Founder of Burnt Roti and Middlesex Pride Freelance editor and journalist Author of Burning My Roti Queer Free Palestine (she/they)

PostsRepliesMedia
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Come to the Common Press Shoreditch tomorrow from 6pm to see @sabahchoudrey.bsky.social and I do a live recording of our podcast Queer and (de)colonised where we talk about a queer South Asian person from history! Tickets £5 💕 www.outsavvy.com/event/39429/...
outsavvy.com
Queer and (de)colonised podcast LIVE! Tickets - London - OutSavvy
Join Sharan Dhaliwal (she/they) and Sabah Choudrey (they/he) on their season one finale episode of Queer and (de)colonised LIVE. Sharan will tell Sabah about a historic moment, person or people from S...
000
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Sports Media LGBT+ @sportsmedialgbt.com · 12/07/2026
🗣️ “I want trans people to feel welcome in fitness spaces, to be allowed to take care of their bodies and go to the gym, or play a sport… I want other trans people to feel free in their bodies” - Zelah Glasson 👏 ✍️ @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social, @metro.co.uk #LGBTQ #sports #football
metro.co.uk
I went topless as a trans man - and finally felt like one of the lads
I want trans people to feel welcome in fitness spaces.
0146
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.
123133052996
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The UK asylum system is a form of neo-colonialism me for @opendemocracy.net "Britain’s asylum system demands intimate proof of queerness from people whose countries still have laws and social norms shaped by British colonial rule." www.opendemocracy.net/the-uk-asylu...
opendemocracy.net
The UK asylum system is a form of neo-colonialism
Our hostile immigration system forces traumatised queer migrants to perform rigid, Westernised scripts for safety
111
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Israel advert is sickening metro.co.uk/2026/06/12/g...
metro.co.uk
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Israel advert is sickening and completely tone-deaf
Gwyneth is a millionaire who clearly hasn’t given too much thought to what she is endorsing.
021
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Henry Nowak’s fatal stabbing is no reason to ban the kirpan Me for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/kirpa...
independent.co.uk
Henry Nowak’s fatal stabbing is no reason to ban the kirpan
Demands that ceremonial daggers like mine be banned miss the point, says Sharan Dhaliwal – the blade that killed the 18-year-old university student wasn’t an article of faith
020
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I'm old enough to remember when dozens of Farage's school friends confirmed ON THE RECORD he was indeed a racist and an antisemite and no one did anything really
1263
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/04/2026
Later today, this episode will become our most watched Cancel Me Daddy episode on YouTube! youtu.be/foppBBy2NJU
youtu.be
We Followed JK Rowling's Harry Potter Money — Here's Where It Actually Goes (ft. Jessie Gender)
YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy
119058
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“When the quality of the content they release is this low, I really can’t help but conclude that Question Time isn’t worth airing anymore. I said this to a producer who emailed me in 2020, asking me if I wanted to consider being a panellist.” metro.co.uk/2026/03/27/q...
metro.co.uk
Question Time is vitriol posing as entertainment – the Reform controversy proves
I wondered why this convicted criminal was given the space that, say, a youth worker could have taken.
111
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hello! I'm looking for queer and trans people to tell their positive stories please! About love, dating, euphoria, hobbies, family - just really nice stories - for @metro.co.uk Real Life section 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ More PoC, faith, disabled & working class voices pls ❤️ PAID£ Email me: sharan.dhaliwal@metro.co.uk
065
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
RIP to a real one
tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020 

"Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."
111582354
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
in case you’re wondering, my new hair is my entire identity now 🙏🏽
140
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.
761897422
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war. Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war. The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.
1012100595
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
hope Matt Goodwin disappears into the little hellish cavern he spawned from
052
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“This woman of Indian heritage wants to get rid of the very thing that could shield her from any kind of discrimination she could face – because if she experiences any racism, or sexism, it is the Equality Act that protects her.” Me for Metro metro.co.uk/2026/02/18/i...
metro.co.uk
I'm an Indian woman - Suella Braverman is a risk to us both
As ever with Reform, it is all problems and no solutions.
021
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐉𝐢𝐦 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 ‘𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝’𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 "It isn’t just an interesting bit of trivia from the past – it’s the very reason that many countries have refugees, through the legacy of displacement and economic disparity." metro.co.uk/2026/02/12/t...
metro.co.uk
The only thing worse than Jim Ratcliffe’s comments was his ‘apology’
He really believed that Britain was ‘colonised’ by immigrants, that those coming to the UK sincerely have taken control of this country.
041
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.
31564704
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Hello! I'm looking to commission more first person stories at Metro UK - in mental & physical health, parenting, scams, weird dates or an interesting/funny travel experience. Queer, trans, PoC, disabled, young people, first time writers - get in my inbox. PAID. sharan.dhaliwal@metro.co.uk
1159
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“I don’t believe Trump, Netanyahu or even Blair are looking to bring peace to Palestine. Everything we know about these men suggests they are concerned exclusively with looking after their own financial and military goals.” metro.co.uk/2026/01/23/b...
metro.co.uk
Blair and Netanyahu are perfect for Trump’s fake Board of Peace
This feels like satire – but so does everything Trump says.
011
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/01/2026
Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.
3853451618
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“I’m glad I left that horror of a site in April last year – by then, it was a cesspool of racism, far-right misinformation and the kind of bad AI and offensive caption combination that you might normally see forwarded from a dodgy uncle.” Me for @metro.co.uk metro.co.uk/2026/01/13/p...
metro.co.uk
My photos have been sexualised online – but I've escaped Grok
I couldn’t stop thinking about what people were doing while looking at my photos.
010
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
“No matter the government’s intentions, racist, religious, sexist, homophobic or transphobic abuse – which often leads to violence – could become even more commonplace under these proposed policing changes.” Me for Metro ✍🏽 metro.co.uk/2025/12/23/s...
metro.co.uk
Scrapping non-crime hate incidents is a gift to racists
050
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
there’s people out there defending a pedo rapist. this is a child’s foot. no one can excuse or support this man or anyone he brought into his world.
012
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts. You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.
bristolpost.co.uk
Bookshop owner unsure how much longer business can stay open
"I’m even looking for a second job in the evenings just so I can pay my own rent. Running a bookshop isn’t quite as glamorous as it may seem"
1229168
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“With the Labour Party’s apparent fall into becoming a Reform-esque government with hard-right policies, they are attracting more of a hard-line narrative on underrepresented groups. Studies have shown those who are anti-immigration tend to be homophobic and transphobic” metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/k...
metro.co.uk
Keir Starmer’s shock at homophobia is absurd and ignorant
Queer people are simply not feeling safe in the UK.
061
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
131204252
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
decided to pick up a painting i worked on 3 years ago - this is 2 hours of work!
050
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny t.co/QhuKU9HCxA
691333179
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I have seen a lot of 'dont comment on women's bodies' etc posts about the Wicked press & i generally agree but the normalisation and celebration of ever-shrinking forms is being blasted into the retinas of thousands of young girls across the world & that is also bad
822226
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If anyone can take a photo of page 2 of the Metro newspaper and send it to me, I would greatly appreciate it x
010
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Shabana Mahmoud suggesting we seize the assets of refugees to pay for their asylum, literally robbing people not only of their jewellery - ripping gold from their necks - but taking their memories and ancestral lineage with it. Absolutely needlessly vicious.
042
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
EVAW Coalition @evawuk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
✏️ BEST FEATURE Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
Sonia Sarkar, FGM In The UK: A Common Sexual Assault On Migrant Women

Alannah Francis, My daughter, 15, was murdered by her ex. It must be called domestic abuse

Shanti Das, ‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes – and the women fighting back

Alia Waheed, For Muslim women, images of us without our hijabs can be as damaging as nude photos

Anna Moore, ‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex

Sharan Dhaliwal, Too many crimes against women of colour are being ignored

Lucy Morgan, Bonnie Blue, Channel 4 and the problem with commodifying sexual violence
123
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Hi! I'm looking for a queer accountant to help with Middlesex Pride CIC's accounts - if you are one or know any, please get in touch 🙏🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Drop me an email with 'Accountant' in the subject line at: hello@middlesexpride.co.uk 💌
011
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Two years. I can't believe it. What a disgusting time. What a horrific time. We live in the age of monsters, and all we can hope for is to finally defeat some of them. Free palestine.
025647
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
11833741836
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
no excuse for being this bad
6230347
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 01/10/2025
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
193098564
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2025
Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson
theguardian.com
Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson
BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about wrongdoing at Charing Cross police station The Metropolitan police are braced for an undercover documentary showing officers and staff allegedly being supportive of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, making anti-Muslim comments and using excessive force against suspects in custody. The allegations, which centre on Charing Cross police station in central London, are contained in a BBC Panorama documentary airing on Wednesday evening. Continue reading...
31225103
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
this one has been ten years in the making ... ✍🏽
010
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I'm looking for work!! 👀 - I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers. - I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace. - I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us. - I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride. sharandhaliwal.com
sharandhaliwal.com
Sharan Dhaliwal
Founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride
133
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
342314624
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
just a bunch of war criminals deciding the fate of civilians, nothing to see here www.ft.com/content/527b...
ft.com
Tony Blair set to serve on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
Some in former UK prime minister’s Labour party react with surprise at his proposed role in Palestinian territory
032
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 23/09/2025
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️
379126413606
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2025
Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White
theguardian.com
Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White
I’ve seen the unredacted chats and other internal conversations, and I know the context. Believe me, there is more trouble to come, says journalist Nadine White
84912
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/09/2025
“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.” bit.ly/4guj9Gf
independent.co.uk
Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’
825388
Reposted by Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
254663981
Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The UN still hasn't declared Israel is committing genocide - it's a commission of inquiry, meaning it is an independent mandated fact-finding report. The UN itself are yet to use the word genocide. We can't stop pressuring them to do so.
062