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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Sep 15

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A live event with Arundhati Roy is not a conversation, it's a strategy.

As well as one of the great joys of my life!

I Needed To Drink Its Inky Blood

An Evening with Arundhati Roy

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jun 2

Caroline Darian’s book is such an honest account of the traumatic discovery that her father Dominique Pelicot was a uniquely depraved criminal

But “chemical submission” is far from unique

Now she is on a powerful mission to change how justice works

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · May 21

Finally got around to reading Fahrenheit 451

It’s so prophetic and not necessarily in the ways I expected…

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Fahrenheit 451

I knew about the book burning but actually I think this is an even more prescient message…

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · May 21

I think you’re confusing me with someone else x

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · May 21

Loved meeting you!

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · May 21

Excited for this today
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social The Invisible Doctrine is 🔥🔥🔥

John Ditchfield @johnditchfield.bsky.social · May 15

I see we have two great figures of contemporay political thinking at @theconduitlondon.bsky.social next week @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @afuahirsch.bsky.social - likely to be a sell-out event from two people staunchly refusing to "sell out" (apologies to genuine humorists)..

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · May 5

Whats the difference btw #Canada + now #Australia, where #elections show voters rejecting Trump-like self-destruction

& #America + #Britain, where they're running towards it?

We're seeing difference btw countries that have a sense of hope and self-belief vs those embracing their terminal decline

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · May 4

Stalin’s legacy. A monster. The work we put into this series I mean, I’ll let you judge the man for yourself… #Legacy #podcast #listen #everywhere @peterfrankopan.bsky.social

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Apr 17

Such an important piece by my brilliant colleague @sandytolan.bsky.social

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Feb 27

Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”

— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 21

That moment where I realised my visa might not get renewed if I write this… before I remembered who I am and the entire point of me, and published it anyway
🤷🏽‍♀️
www.elle.com/uk/news-poli...

The Great Regression: Trump's Presidency Has Real Consequences For UK Women

Today, President Elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. There's much for us all to be concerned about and women in the UK aren't exempt, says Afua Hirsch

www.elle.com

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 21

Intriguing! What comments?

Reposted

Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · Jan 21

Who made this 🤣

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 12

We are all living in the wrong era
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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 10

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BBC - African Renaissance When Art Meets Power Episode 2 Senegal

Dailymotion video by Documentary World

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 10

Ironically African liberation is always helped by French arrogance and failure to acknowledge past wrongs

A history #Macron keeps repeating

As former French President Jacques Chiraq, no left-winger, said in 2007

"Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third world power"

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 10

When Sembène and assistant director Clarence Delgado were filming Camp de Thiaroye decades after the events, the French military refused to cooperate and spied on the production. Then banned the release of the film in #France

#neocolonialism
#Film
#freespeech
#colonial
#crimes

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 10

If you haven’t seen Camp de Thiaroye, by the legendary Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène
you need to

This 1988 classic depicts the true story of how, even after serving France, black African troops were met with racism and brutality by the French state
#OusmaneSembène
#Senegal
#film
#classic

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 10

#Macron says Africans forgot to say thank you for French imperialism

Nope. It’s the other way around
From my 2019 series #Africa Rising
#Senegal

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Jan 7

Musk is weaponising the real trauma of sexual violence to groom low information social media consumers, sniffing out their vulnerability to disinformation abuse, and exploiting it.
It's also predatory. And very, very dangerous.

tinyurl.com/4hfte2dh

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Dec 19

'I think, because Elphaba's otherness is about the colour of her skin, I immediately feel connected to it as a Black woman…”
I talked to Cynthia Erivo for Elle! about this film you might have heard about, it’s called Wicked…

www.elle.com/uk/life-and-...

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thank you! 🙏🏽

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Dec 10

Why I feel so gross about the Jay Z allegations

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Dec 7

What is the true legacy of #Churchill?
Latest series of our chart topping podcast - all eps available now where you like to listen
#Legacy @peterfrankopan.bsky.social
@wonderymedia.bsky.social

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afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social · Dec 6

Thank you! ☺️

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