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Weronika Strzyżyńska
Reporter for Hyphen
She/Ona (allegedly)

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Never will I forget how the world treated this genocide and how the so-called "human rights" Ethiopians and Eritreans opining on everything and anything were cheering on this genocide.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women
Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
ACTUALLY, the first american pope was David Bawden (Pope Michael I)
May 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Worth reading in full to see how bad things have become. Looks like it might become a standard tactic for stuff that the far right notices. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anti-racism campaigner’s London book events cancelled amid threat of far-right violence
Freedom of speech groups alarmed after events to promote book by Hope Not Hate employee are called off
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 AM
how i feel picking up my SSRI prescription on Monday after I ran out on Friday
November 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Fatima converted to Islam in the 1880s after joining Liverpool's temperance movement. She was a working class woman who saw Islam as a hope for social reform and female emancipation. She was a cofounder of UKs first mosque where she also taught. Unlike her male contemporaries, she was forgotten
Fatima Cates, an important Victorian figure, is inspiring new generations.

‘It’s our duty as Muslims, especially in Britain, to share her life,’ says Hamid Mahmood, founder of Fatima Elizabeth Phrontistery.

@weronikas.bsky.social reports.

📸 Jane MacNeil

hyphenonline.com/2024/11/18/f...
Forgotten pioneer of British Islam Fatima Cates is being written back into history
More than a century after her death, the rediscovery of an important Victorian figure is inspiring new generations
hyphenonline.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Fatima Cates, an important Victorian figure, is inspiring new generations.

‘It’s our duty as Muslims, especially in Britain, to share her life,’ says Hamid Mahmood, founder of Fatima Elizabeth Phrontistery.

@weronikas.bsky.social reports.

📸 Jane MacNeil

hyphenonline.com/2024/11/18/f...
Forgotten pioneer of British Islam Fatima Cates is being written back into history
More than a century after her death, the rediscovery of an important Victorian figure is inspiring new generations
hyphenonline.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:30 PM
this site had big Cath Kidston energy that im not sure how to navigate
November 16, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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'Queer people of colour are forced to augment who they are to move through the world,' says Amrou Al-Kadhi.

We spoke to the British-Iraqi drag performer and filmmaker about their debut feature Layla (out 22 Nov) and finding joy in storytelling.

📸 Nick Delisi

hyphenonline.com/2024/11/15/i...
Amrou Al-Kadhi: ‘Drag is like a love letter to my mother’
The writer, director and drag artist on their new film Layla, and their enduring and complicated relationship with their mother
hyphenonline.com
November 15, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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A Kentucky woman who's 7 weeks pregnant is challenging the state's abortion ban for the very valid reason that she simply doesn't want to be pregnant (from Monday)
apnews.com/article/abor...
A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky's near-total ban
A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky. It's the latest challenge to the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.
apnews.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:47 AM
BREAKING: Trump appoints Cato the Elder as ambassador to Carthage
November 15, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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This is long overdue, & a good reference point for tackling one of the darkest aspects of Norway's history.

That the most populist right-wing party opposed the measure is an important sign that this motion is very, very necessary.
November 12, 2024 at 7:33 PM
The woman was transferred to a psychiatric hospital by the authorities.

Amnesty International said it had found evidence [of] electric shocks, torture, beatings and chemical substances [used] on prisoners taken to state-run psychiatric institutions

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Fears grow that woman arrested for undressing in Iran could be tortured in psychiatric unit
Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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Everyone always reaches for Cable Street in these moments, but London kept fighting fascists for decades: this is a picture of Mosley trying to hold a rally in Hackney and being punched to the ground by antifascists literally as soon as the meeting opened 💪
October 28, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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I love these little fragments of a life you find in stories like this:
Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub
John London, a landlord, paid rates so could take part in Westminster byelection despite being called a ‘blackamoor’
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Ok, powiem tak. Pomysł z seansem wywoływania duchów i przeprowadzanie wywiadu ze zjawą brzmi bardziej normalnie niż wywiad z kimś generowanym przez ai.
October 24, 2024 at 5:51 PM
The only appropriate way of approaching Trump's story would be a Death of Stalin style Czech production of an Ivana biopic where Donald is played by a Czech actor with a funny accent
October 19, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Just watched the Apprentice and oh my god can we stop doing this cartoonish Russian thing for every eastern euro accent.
October 19, 2024 at 8:51 PM
I thought it said "Kielce"
October 18, 2024 at 8:49 PM
they should bring back the 2012 feature where you could change the display colour and background image. I have not known endorphins since
October 18, 2024 at 3:58 PM