Alisha Ahmed (she/they)
@alishaahmed.bsky.social
Fat Queer Enby, Autistic Immigrant, Intersectional Feminist Educator and Speaker, Poet and Eclectic Artist, Witch of Colour. Born in Italy, Egyptian Heritage, Living in Wales
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I was in London for the @divamag.bsky.social awards on behalf of Glitter. The opulence was a bit on the nose but maybe it's because coming from grassroots as a disabled queer immigrant of colour that relies on benefit for survival my first though is: think how many people you could help instead.
April 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I was in London for the @divamag.bsky.social awards on behalf of Glitter. The opulence was a bit on the nose but maybe it's because coming from grassroots as a disabled queer immigrant of colour that relies on benefit for survival my first though is: think how many people you could help instead.
In London at the @divamag.bsky.social on behalf of Glitter Cymru. It's a bit surreal, thank you for seeing us queer people of colour in Wales. #lesbianvisibilityweek #divaawards
April 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In London at the @divamag.bsky.social on behalf of Glitter Cymru. It's a bit surreal, thank you for seeing us queer people of colour in Wales. #lesbianvisibilityweek #divaawards
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Manifesting is Easy (for white cis het men under Patriarchy)
But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight. open.substack.com/pub/activist... #booksky
But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight. open.substack.com/pub/activist... #booksky
Manifesting is Easy (for white cis het men under Patriarchy)
But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight.
open.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Manifesting is Easy (for white cis het men under Patriarchy)
But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight. open.substack.com/pub/activist... #booksky
But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight. open.substack.com/pub/activist... #booksky
I swear there's something about stages being allegories of altars and music raising energy the way old pagan rituals have done for millennia. (I'd argue about sacrificial offers in the form of groupies but it's late...)
This is The Airborne Toxic Event at O2 Islington, London UK, 21st March 2025
This is The Airborne Toxic Event at O2 Islington, London UK, 21st March 2025
March 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I swear there's something about stages being allegories of altars and music raising energy the way old pagan rituals have done for millennia. (I'd argue about sacrificial offers in the form of groupies but it's late...)
This is The Airborne Toxic Event at O2 Islington, London UK, 21st March 2025
This is The Airborne Toxic Event at O2 Islington, London UK, 21st March 2025
Music changes lives. It is a dire factory from the business side but what does it make? DREAMS.
The Airborne Toxic Event helped save my life during the past 11 months
Using & incorporating their music into exercises to rehab my injured brain gave me more improvement in the first 6 months than I had seen in the previous 3 years combined
There are no words to express how grateful I am
Using & incorporating their music into exercises to rehab my injured brain gave me more improvement in the first 6 months than I had seen in the previous 3 years combined
There are no words to express how grateful I am
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
March 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Music changes lives. It is a dire factory from the business side but what does it make? DREAMS.
Let's pretend that it says 21st...
March 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Let's pretend that it says 21st...
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UK folk - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Scrap dangerous disability benefit reforms
The previous government announced changes to disability benefits which will deny vital support to over 400,000 people who become seriously ill or disabled from next year. People could also face sancti...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
UK folk - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
4183 days ago I produced this. Coming back to London to see @mikeljollett.bsky.social take the stage again is wonderful nostalgia therapy. youtu.be/hMsvQsRsehA
I'd definitely have better, more class conscious questions to ask this time about life and death. Time wounds all heels.
I'd definitely have better, more class conscious questions to ask this time about life and death. Time wounds all heels.
The Airborne Toxic Event - All I Ever Wanted (acoustic)
YouTube video by Gin In Tea Cups | GiTC.TV
youtu.be
March 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
4183 days ago I produced this. Coming back to London to see @mikeljollett.bsky.social take the stage again is wonderful nostalgia therapy. youtu.be/hMsvQsRsehA
I'd definitely have better, more class conscious questions to ask this time about life and death. Time wounds all heels.
I'd definitely have better, more class conscious questions to ask this time about life and death. Time wounds all heels.
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"Racialized women are thus hardly being ‘masculinized’ when degendered. They are not being regarded with more respect or afforded more dignity and agency, and are in fact being constructed as less human, marked as acceptable targets of brutalization and sexual violence without repercussion"
"racialized cis women face transmisogyny" has two glaring issues.
1. For women of color, *degendering* has always been a vector of dehumanization; the modern trans panic only gave new language to an extant phenomenon.
2. Crucially, it forgets about trans women of color.
Read my latest:
1. For women of color, *degendering* has always been a vector of dehumanization; the modern trans panic only gave new language to an extant phenomenon.
2. Crucially, it forgets about trans women of color.
Read my latest:
Degendering and Racialization
Or: Do cis women of color "experience transmisogyny"?
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"Racialized women are thus hardly being ‘masculinized’ when degendered. They are not being regarded with more respect or afforded more dignity and agency, and are in fact being constructed as less human, marked as acceptable targets of brutalization and sexual violence without repercussion"
Home. Mother. London.
Will I ever stop feeling this way about you? That if I could I wouldn't leave, but it's not up to me, it's up to the silly invented pixel numbers and landlord here want many more than I can rack up. Silly me to miss me, when I was in you.
Will I ever stop feeling this way about you? That if I could I wouldn't leave, but it's not up to me, it's up to the silly invented pixel numbers and landlord here want many more than I can rack up. Silly me to miss me, when I was in you.
March 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Home. Mother. London.
Will I ever stop feeling this way about you? That if I could I wouldn't leave, but it's not up to me, it's up to the silly invented pixel numbers and landlord here want many more than I can rack up. Silly me to miss me, when I was in you.
Will I ever stop feeling this way about you? That if I could I wouldn't leave, but it's not up to me, it's up to the silly invented pixel numbers and landlord here want many more than I can rack up. Silly me to miss me, when I was in you.
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San Junipero in my head it's proof that @charliebrooker.bsky.social has a heart.
Also my second favourite option after reincarnation. I believe in both the same kind way: wouldn't that be cool?
Also my second favourite option after reincarnation. I believe in both the same kind way: wouldn't that be cool?
March 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
San Junipero in my head it's proof that @charliebrooker.bsky.social has a heart.
Also my second favourite option after reincarnation. I believe in both the same kind way: wouldn't that be cool?
Also my second favourite option after reincarnation. I believe in both the same kind way: wouldn't that be cool?
I can't be the only person that, after every meeting without fail, feels like they talk too much and now people hate them. Can I?
February 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I can't be the only person that, after every meeting without fail, feels like they talk too much and now people hate them. Can I?
I have a website. For someone who spent most of the 2000s playing around the CSS Zen Garden it's problematic how I let social media 2.0 destroy my favourite way of expression. One page, all you can eat. If you need me for anything hit me up Alisha.it
Alisha Ahmed – Eclectic Artist, Activist, Educator, Speaker
Eclectic Artist, Activist, Educator, Speaker
Alisha.it
February 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I have a website. For someone who spent most of the 2000s playing around the CSS Zen Garden it's problematic how I let social media 2.0 destroy my favourite way of expression. One page, all you can eat. If you need me for anything hit me up Alisha.it
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How do other lesbians avoid biting off their partner's toes?
My wife's are within biting distance right now and I'm sweating hard 😶
My wife's are within biting distance right now and I'm sweating hard 😶
February 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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This might be as close as I get to understand people who have children. This is a part of me, it has my shape, but it's something else that will be still here when I'm gone.
#artist #autisticartist #queerart #queerartist
#artist #autisticartist #queerart #queerartist
February 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This might be as close as I get to understand people who have children. This is a part of me, it has my shape, but it's something else that will be still here when I'm gone.
#artist #autisticartist #queerart #queerartist
#artist #autisticartist #queerart #queerartist
Reasons I left Meta.
January 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reasons I left Meta.