I am a Queer Muslim, and it’s now been a year since I was attacked by a group of far-right thugs on Armistice Day 2023. Ferhan Khan / QueerAF* They abused me in the full view of the public, on a Saturday in the largest and busiest train station […]
Human Rights
Parallels between the imprisonment of Gazans and Guantánamo
The Chiminea-named after those French vertical ceramic barbecues like the one adorning my former landladys’ garden meeting place- is a late-night alternative weekend radio show broadcasting from Battersea, SW London, now in its 10th year. Andy Bungay / The Chiminea The region has a cluster of independent activism […]
If Palestine had been occupied by Russia
It is unusual to wish a foreign occupation of your homeland, but I wonder if that’s what Palestinians find themselves thinking today. Sul Nowroz / Real Media* Palestine , an occupied state Palestine has a protracted history of occupation. Since the beginning of the 20th century, it has been […]
Seven reparations, one reckoning: Farah Saleh’s embodied call for justice in Palestine
Balfour Reparations 2024-2044, a performance lecture by Farah Saleh, uses a mix of movement, spoken word, and participatory action to confront the UK’s colonial role in Palestine and our role in shaping a decolonial future. Samar Jamal | /Greater Govanhill* Photos: Lucas Chih Peng Kao What would you […]
Naila and the uprising
“Naila and the uprising” was a DocHouse screening. It’s rare that a film makes me so angry that I can’t seem to describe it without a rant summarising it as ‘o the injustice!’ but that really was the effect of Julia Bacha’s film. Abena Clarke/ myDylarama* Opening scene: […]
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