Pratibha Parmar
@pratibha.bsky.social
Writer. Director Film & TV (feature docs: My Name Is Andrea, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth - T.V.- Queen Sugar, Law&Order: SVU
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Pratibha Parmar
@pratibha.bsky.social
· Sep 18
It is an honour to be asked to give the Annual Maud Sulter lecture.
Friday 31 October, 4.30 - 6pm
Glasgow School of Art, Reid Building
🎟 Free, open to all
Friday 31 October, 4.30 - 6pm
Glasgow School of Art, Reid Building
🎟 Free, open to all
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BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
BREAKING: At least two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack east of Gaza's Khan Younis, Al Jazeera’s team on the ground and Wafa are reporting.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8wt2nx
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#starmer is a moral failure.
Cutting aid for disease fund would be moral failure, Labour MPs tell Starmer
Cutting aid for disease fund would be moral failure, Labour MPs tell Starmer
UK expected to reduce contribution to Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 20%
A group of seven Labour MPs who served as ministers under Keir Starmer have written to the prime minister warning that an expected cut to UK funding for aid to combat preventable diseases would be both a “moral failure” and a strategic disaster.
With ministers and officials expected to decide the UK’s contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria within days, the letter renews pressure on Starmer to pull back from an expected 20% cut. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#starmer is a moral failure.
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The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things.
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things.
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures
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This is the Cheney obituary to read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is the Cheney obituary to read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Horrifying
“The 460 patients and their companions were reportedly killed Tuesday at Saudi Hospital by fighters from the Rapid Support Forces in the city of el-Fasher…
…RSF fighters also went from house to house, beating and shooting at people, including women and children.”
“The 460 patients and their companions were reportedly killed Tuesday at Saudi Hospital by fighters from the Rapid Support Forces in the city of el-Fasher…
…RSF fighters also went from house to house, beating and shooting at people, including women and children.”
Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds at a hospital in Darfur, residents and aid workers say
Sudan's paramilitary forces have reportedly killed hundreds at a hospital, including patients, after seizing the provincial capital of North Darfur.
apnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This is an incredible & necessary scholarly project full stop, as well as a chance to support a Gazan translator. donate or share!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
Click here to support Chance Bonar's story *AncientGazanLitTranslation
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October 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is an incredible & necessary scholarly project full stop, as well as a chance to support a Gazan translator. donate or share!
These days I need a daily reminder of beauty. This beautiful handmade butterfly by a dear friend popped through the post today. Softening the despair at deliberately inflicted evil. #friends #beauty #goldenbutterflies
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
These days I need a daily reminder of beauty. This beautiful handmade butterfly by a dear friend popped through the post today. Softening the despair at deliberately inflicted evil. #friends #beauty #goldenbutterflies
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
Finally had time to send out a newsletter. eepurl.com/jnnxRs #newsandviews
Atelier Parmar-Haq - Fall News
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October 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Finally had time to send out a newsletter. eepurl.com/jnnxRs #newsandviews
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
Happy Diwali. May the light lead us to liberation.
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Happy Diwali. May the light lead us to liberation.
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Lorin Stein, the sexually abusive former editor of The Paris Review, helms pro-genocide Zionist magazine Tablet: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Is Lorin Stein Doing at “Tablet”?
The former Paris Review editor was ostracized over sexual harassment allegations. Now he’s editing a divisive, right-wing Jewish magazine. What’s going on?
www.thenation.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Lorin Stein, the sexually abusive former editor of The Paris Review, helms pro-genocide Zionist magazine Tablet: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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BREAKING: Gaza's Media Office says the Israeli army has committed 47 violations after the truce deal entered into force in early October, killing 38 Palestinians and wounding another 143 people.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nuq6mi
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October 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
BREAKING: Gaza's Media Office says the Israeli army has committed 47 violations after the truce deal entered into force in early October, killing 38 Palestinians and wounding another 143 people.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nuq6mi
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nuq6mi
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Israel killed 3 Palestinians today
Israel is still not allowing UNRWA to deliver aid. UNRWA said they have enough food to supply Palestinians for 3 months. Israel hasn’t let them bring any aid into Gaza in 7 months.
Israel is still not allowing UNRWA to deliver aid. UNRWA said they have enough food to supply Palestinians for 3 months. Israel hasn’t let them bring any aid into Gaza in 7 months.
October 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Israel killed 3 Palestinians today
Israel is still not allowing UNRWA to deliver aid. UNRWA said they have enough food to supply Palestinians for 3 months. Israel hasn’t let them bring any aid into Gaza in 7 months.
Israel is still not allowing UNRWA to deliver aid. UNRWA said they have enough food to supply Palestinians for 3 months. Israel hasn’t let them bring any aid into Gaza in 7 months.
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Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
October 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Highly recommend. Thanks @suchmayer.bsky.social and team for a brilliant launch last night of this gorgeous book. Love everything about it. Especially the maps.
We're bringing the book of the exhibition to Glasgow! 4 Nov, Waterstones
www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...
www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...
A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.
www.waterstones.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Highly recommend. Thanks @suchmayer.bsky.social and team for a brilliant launch last night of this gorgeous book. Love everything about it. Especially the maps.
Absolutely. We will never forget. #freepalestine
We mourn. We rest. We renew our strength and commitment. Then we turn up again and again and again. Until liberation and accountability.
We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes!
#FreePalestine
We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes!
#FreePalestine
October 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely. We will never forget. #freepalestine
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“The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.”
Prof Conor Gearty’s final essay in @lrb.co.uk is a painfully clear analysis of how the UK Supreme Court is depressing human rights norms.
Prof Conor Gearty’s final essay in @lrb.co.uk is a painfully clear analysis of how the UK Supreme Court is depressing human rights norms.
Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.”
Prof Conor Gearty’s final essay in @lrb.co.uk is a painfully clear analysis of how the UK Supreme Court is depressing human rights norms.
Prof Conor Gearty’s final essay in @lrb.co.uk is a painfully clear analysis of how the UK Supreme Court is depressing human rights norms.
Looking forward to this & being in Glasgow. #maudsulter
The Glasgow @womenslibrary.bsky.social’s Maud Sulter Annual Lecture
31 Oct @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social – free
@pratibha.bsky.social will discuss the vibrant Black women’s arts movement of the 1980s in dialogue with Sulter’s work & their reverberations today
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-ma...
31 Oct @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social – free
@pratibha.bsky.social will discuss the vibrant Black women’s arts movement of the 1980s in dialogue with Sulter’s work & their reverberations today
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-ma...
The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture with Pratibha Parmar | Glasgow Women's Library
Parmar will talk about foundational moments in dialogue with Maud Sulter’s work and their reverberations today.
womenslibrary.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Looking forward to this & being in Glasgow. #maudsulter
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Just watched an English VoxPop & what was striking was that a number of respondents genuinely believed the UK has nothing to do with the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In fact the UK is part of the military attack on the Gaza Strip & its political & military leaders at risk of ICJ & ICC prosecution:
UK’s surveillance flights over Gaza raise questions on help for Israeli military
Government says it controls what information is shared as critics question the role of intelligence gathering
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just watched an English VoxPop & what was striking was that a number of respondents genuinely believed the UK has nothing to do with the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In fact the UK is part of the military attack on the Gaza Strip & its political & military leaders at risk of ICJ & ICC prosecution:
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Beautiful advance copies of The Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com! Edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. Publishing 21 October. Use the code LEGUIN for 10% off when you pre-order here: www.silverpress.org/collections/...
October 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Beautiful advance copies of The Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com! Edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. Publishing 21 October. Use the code LEGUIN for 10% off when you pre-order here: www.silverpress.org/collections/...
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I keep saying to anyone in earshot that every single Labour policy & pronouncement is Palantir-servicing. ID cards, transphobia+, deportation, AI caving on copyright, data centres. It's all Thiel. When you see this, everything lines up. Still feel sick but in a very linear way.
EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel behind Trump exporting MAGA playbook to Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers. By me with @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...
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'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?
bylinetimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I keep saying to anyone in earshot that every single Labour policy & pronouncement is Palantir-servicing. ID cards, transphobia+, deportation, AI caving on copyright, data centres. It's all Thiel. When you see this, everything lines up. Still feel sick but in a very linear way.
Fly high dear Assatta Shakur . You personified truth, grace and courage. It was an honour to meet you with Alice Walker & Angela Davis and feel the warmth of your smile. This photo and posting from Alice Walkers website.
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Fly high dear Assatta Shakur . You personified truth, grace and courage. It was an honour to meet you with Alice Walker & Angela Davis and feel the warmth of your smile. This photo and posting from Alice Walkers website.