Ash Sharma
@ashdisorient.bsky.social
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autodidact : teacher : cultural studies : global film: black marxism : cognitive mapping: inter-asia : contemporary art : darkmatter journal : open access : dis-orienting rhythms : undercommons : poet : affirmative sabotage substack.com/@ashwanisharma1
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charleskeener.bsky.social
Gaza has sealed the fate of the West, even if the repercussions are not felt for decades. The damage has been done. There is no way to undo what has been witnessed by billions of people, both in the West and in the Global South.
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Ekō @eko.org · Aug 11
No more statements of condemnation. No more “keeping dialogue open” to allow trickles of aid deliveries. No more complicity in ethnic cleansing and genocide. We call on every government in the world to urgently suspend trade and sanction Israel NOW.

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URGENT: No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW.
The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif. We are w
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rrgould.bsky.social
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
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Displacement of Gaza residents in 2025. Copyright Jaber Jehad Badwan. Image is not linked to the letter but is taken from a post about the famine in Gaza by one of the letter's authors https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/health-humanitarian-crises-centre/news/465306/famine-and-genocide-gaza-personal-view
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anodynesix.bsky.social
"Western powers are not only colluding in genocide, but ... language has been twisted beyond recognition: mercenaries slaughtering the starving call themselves the ​'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation'; wars of aggression become ​'self defense.'"
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
Now that U.S. officials have wrapped up their visit to Potemkin aid distribution sites in Gaza, the IDF can resume the regularly scheduled shooting of desperate people seeking food.
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Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians again sought food, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and health workers said Saturday.
Israeli gunfire kills more Gaza aid-seekers as U.S. envoy meets with hostages' families
Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians again sought food, killing at least 10 people,…
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tgpb.bsky.social
You might be interested in Stuart Hall comparing the active urban risk-based play of Sesame Street quite favourably to its much more paternalistic, domestic and racialised middle-class British equivalents for the Open University.
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1982 Open University Programme About Children's Television
YouTube video by grodvin
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Netpol @netpol.org · Jun 30
"We’ve had authorities in Bangladesh telling us we shouldn’t even be editing footage of garment workers and activists advocating for their rights, and we’ve been followed by the police in Cambodia, but we have never encountered anything like this" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
Palestine Action documentary makers fear being criminalised under anti-terror laws
Exclusive: Directors of To Kill a War Machine take legal advice as Home Office plans to proscribe protest group
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Latest Tricontinental Dossier, The Bandung Spirit

In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left?

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The Bandung Spirit
In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of ...
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread,meat,shoes,coal,& light” In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything"

I was on Return to Bandung podcast on how societies are being beat back into poverty
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ianhunt.bsky.social
So this looks good: a Bandung conference at LSE. Kuan-Hsing Chen, Noer Rachman, Hilmar Farid, Su Lin Lewis, John Munro, Jesook Song, Priyamvada Gopal, Ashwani Sharma ('independent scholar' -- way to go), Ling Zhang, Zhiguang Yin. #Bandung
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mitropoulos.bsky.social
Except that no credible biologist would support this definition of "biological sex."

Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.
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morganmpage.bsky.social
What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...
Illegally Female
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.
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