Ash Sharma
@ashdisorient.bsky.social
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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Mark Serwotka isn’t ONLY a transphobe, he’s literally married to the founder of Woman’s Place UK
“Your“ Party is doomed to repeat the same mistakes as the British Left over and over because the red carpet is continually rolled out for people who’s only job seems to be to wreck campaigns
“Your“ Party is doomed to repeat the same mistakes as the British Left over and over because the red carpet is continually rolled out for people who’s only job seems to be to wreck campaigns
Just days after saying there was no place for transphobia in her new party Zarah Sultana cheered recruiting anti-trans trade unionist Mark Serwotka.
Mark now saying exactly what you'd expect - that he intends to expunge the trans rights movement from Your Party to bring in anti-trans campaigners.
Mark now saying exactly what you'd expect - that he intends to expunge the trans rights movement from Your Party to bring in anti-trans campaigners.
Mark Serwotka, who you campaigned with in Wales, said this in an article in the Morning Star today.
Why are you organising with people like this?
Why are you organising with people like this?
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Mark Serwotka isn’t ONLY a transphobe, he’s literally married to the founder of Woman’s Place UK
“Your“ Party is doomed to repeat the same mistakes as the British Left over and over because the red carpet is continually rolled out for people who’s only job seems to be to wreck campaigns
“Your“ Party is doomed to repeat the same mistakes as the British Left over and over because the red carpet is continually rolled out for people who’s only job seems to be to wreck campaigns
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This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London.
Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social
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FREE TO READ: historian Daniel Frost traces the history of far-right activism in Croydon, from the "National Fascisti" of the 1920s to the Farageist TikTok reels of today
renewal.org.uk/articles/sub...
renewal.org.uk/articles/sub...
Suburban fascism: the far right in twentieth-century Croydon
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Croydon is frequently used as a touchstone for farright narratives of decline and demographic change. Daniel Frost traces the suburb’s ...
renewal.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London.
Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social
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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.
August 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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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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.
action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
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
action.eko.org
August 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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.
action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
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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
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
August 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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"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.'"
As Western governments repress Palestine solidarity and enable Israel’s impunity, the “liberal international order” is no longer bothering to manufacture consent. inthesetimes.com/article/pale...
Defending the Indefensible
As Western governments repress Palestine solidarity and enable Israel’s impunity, the “liberal international order” is no longer bothering to manufacture consent.
inthesetimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"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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The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social
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Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...
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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.
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,…
buff.ly
August 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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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.
youtu.be/_AQ6BzxURX0?...
youtu.be/_AQ6BzxURX0?...
1982 Open University Programme About Children's Television
YouTube video by grodvin
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August 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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.
youtu.be/_AQ6BzxURX0?...
youtu.be/_AQ6BzxURX0?...
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"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
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"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...
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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?
thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...
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?
thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...
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 ...
thetricontinental.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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?
thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...
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?
thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...
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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
open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZ...
I was on Return to Bandung podcast on how societies are being beat back into poverty
open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZ...
May 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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
open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZ...
I was on Return to Bandung podcast on how societies are being beat back into poverty
open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZ...
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Can we fulfill the aspirations of Bandung without bringing forth a post-capitalist system of economic, social, and political relations?
www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
How Can the Global South Fulfill the Promise of Bandung in the 21st Century? | Common Dreams
To celebrate the spirit of Bandung is not simply to mark 70 years since the Asia-Africa Conference, but to affirm what being faithful to its principles and ideals means today.
www.commondreams.org
May 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Can we fulfill the aspirations of Bandung without bringing forth a post-capitalist system of economic, social, and political relations?
www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...
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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
May 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... Might be of interest.
International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference
Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism
www.lse.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... Might be of interest.
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Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Palestinians.
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...
“Pools of Blood”: Israel Kills 100 Palestinians in Gaza, Incl. Attack on Restaurant and Marketplace
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Pale...
www.democracynow.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Palestinians.
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...
www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...
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Except that no credible biologist would support this definition of "biological sex."
Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.
Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.
I welcome this decision by the
@supremecourt.uk holding that the term "man" "woman" and"sex" in the Equality Act of 2010 refers to biological sex. It represents the triumph of reason and facts based deliberations and the return of common sense.
www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
@supremecourt.uk holding that the term "man" "woman" and"sex" in the Equality Act of 2010 refers to biological sex. It represents the triumph of reason and facts based deliberations and the return of common sense.
www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
For Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v The Scottish Ministers (Respondent) - UK Supreme Court
Is a person with a full gender recognition certificate (“GRC”) which recognises that their gender is female, a “woman” for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 (“EA 2010”)?
www.supremecourt.uk
April 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Except that no credible biologist would support this definition of "biological sex."
Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.
Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.
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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.
www.autostraddle.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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...