Themrise Khan
@themrise.bsky.social
Ex development aid practitioner now convinced aid skeptic. Migration policy/governance person. Researcher/writer. Pro-peace/anti-war. Independent in all ways. Co editor; White Saviorism in International Development, Daraja Press 2023.🐱lover 🇨🇦🇵🇰
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Themrise Khan
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· Jul 7
Opinion: How the Carney government can do foreign aid differently
Canada must stop linking foreign assistance to foreign policy
www.theglobeandmail.com
My Opinion piece in todays @theglobeandmail.com on how Mark Carney's new(ish) Liberal government can do #foreignaid differently. I lay out three key ways.
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You absolutely should question if this 4-hour interrogation of an internationally renowned legal expert on his *95TH BIRTHDAY* was politically motivated and an abuse of power
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
You absolutely should question if this 4-hour interrogation of an internationally renowned legal expert on his *95TH BIRTHDAY* was politically motivated and an abuse of power
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
If CBSA refuses to explain itself, it is betraying the public's trust and deserves no benefit of the doubt
Are you going to give me one for free @waterstones.bsky.social ?
If you see this post you deserve a new book 🤗
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Are you going to give me one for free @waterstones.bsky.social ?
The smart being stupid.
"Amazon Web Service's outage caused people's "smart beds" to overheat and get stuck in an upright position."
That is a sentence that belongs in a really badly written B-grade public-access TV type of sci-fi show.
The fact it is true is why I am happy none of my appliances (or beds) are smart.
That is a sentence that belongs in a really badly written B-grade public-access TV type of sci-fi show.
The fact it is true is why I am happy none of my appliances (or beds) are smart.
October 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The smart being stupid.
White Billionaire donors just being replaced by White Billionaire philanthropists. Everyone wants to “low income countries to “prosper” but for their own gains. Our countries are not your testing grounds. #philanthropy
As old growth models falter, the Gates Foundation and, more recently, Open Philanthropy are testing new ways to help low- and middle-income countries prosper. They’re able to take risks, test ideas, and inform policy reforms that multilateral banks and bilateral donors often can’t.
As aid shrinks, top philanthropies test new ways to spur economic growth
As aid shrinks, top philanthropies test new ways to spur economic growth
www.devex.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
White Billionaire donors just being replaced by White Billionaire philanthropists. Everyone wants to “low income countries to “prosper” but for their own gains. Our countries are not your testing grounds. #philanthropy
Pakistans first ever Bank run by and exclusively for, women. Sold, to a nation that treats women like a commodity.
www.dawn.com/news/1949648
www.dawn.com/news/1949648
Pakistan sells First Women Bank to UAE firm
PM Shehbaz says deal will pave the way for more joint ventures and partnerships across diverse sectors.
www.dawn.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Pakistans first ever Bank run by and exclusively for, women. Sold, to a nation that treats women like a commodity.
www.dawn.com/news/1949648
www.dawn.com/news/1949648
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social could you wear a Blue Jays hat to the Whitehouse tomorrow? 🙏 It would be so funny.
October 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social could you wear a Blue Jays hat to the Whitehouse tomorrow? 🙏 It would be so funny.
I would be more than happy for my taxes to be used for the welfare of these Beluga whales, than see them being used as a weapon of war or economic “growth”. This is on us.
#endanimalcaptivity
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#endanimalcaptivity
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Federal government denies Marineland request to export belugas | CBC News
The federal department of fisheries and oceans has denied permit requests from Marineland Canada to export its 30 beluga whales. Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in China has been considering buying the whales...
www.cbc.ca
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I would be more than happy for my taxes to be used for the welfare of these Beluga whales, than see them being used as a weapon of war or economic “growth”. This is on us.
#endanimalcaptivity
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#endanimalcaptivity
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patriotic rhetoric hides violence against Indigenous peoples. Real strength means truth, reconciliation, and resisting colonialism, not shallow nostalgia.
canadiandimension.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“We ask them, where are the men?; they tell us, our men have been executed.”
A MUST-WATCH/READ. The scale is of horror and pain is inconceivable.
news.sky.com/story/sudan-...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
A MUST-WATCH/READ. The scale is of horror and pain is inconceivable.
news.sky.com/story/sudan-...
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Sudan war: Torture, rape and forced starvation as paramilitaries suffocate besieged city
Sky's Yousra Elbagir visits displacement camps in North Darfur, a region which has been virtually impenetrable to journalists for more than two years due to ruthless armed conflict.
news.sky.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Let’s see how this goes. Not holding my breath #indigenousrights #cdnpoli
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his Indigenous Advisory Council, Wednesday evening.
In total there are 11 Indigenous representatives from across the country that will work with his recently created Major Projects Office.
In total there are 11 Indigenous representatives from across the country that will work with his recently created Major Projects Office.
September 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Let’s see how this goes. Not holding my breath #indigenousrights #cdnpoli
That was the exact intended outcome.
There you have it. May the world have mercy on the hostages, their families, and *all* of Gaza. ( the W Bank, too) That’s all she wrote. Netanyahu’s mission accomplished
Qatar announces immediate suspension of mediation efforts
www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/666118
Qatar announces immediate suspension of mediation efforts
www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/666118
Qatar announces immediate suspension of mediation efforts
Real time news brief - Qatar announces immediate suspension of mediation efforts - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site
www.israelnationalnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
That was the exact intended outcome.
This! 🔥🔥🔥
2023 tweet; still valid.
Global North academics repeat after me:
Since I did not raise objections to the genocide, I shall not teach courses on decolonisation, decoloniality, post-genocide literatures from Palestine or other cognate ‘radical’ courses that advance my career & help me procure grants.
Global North academics repeat after me:
Since I did not raise objections to the genocide, I shall not teach courses on decolonisation, decoloniality, post-genocide literatures from Palestine or other cognate ‘radical’ courses that advance my career & help me procure grants.
September 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This! 🔥🔥🔥
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Brilliant review of Alana Lentin’s 2025 book.
“The new racial regime is something quite different, Lentin argues. It is the weaponisation of race by white supremacy in contemporary times, by blurring the line between racism and anti-racism”
By @themrise.bsky.social
“The new racial regime is something quite different, Lentin argues. It is the weaponisation of race by white supremacy in contemporary times, by blurring the line between racism and anti-racism”
By @themrise.bsky.social
NEW✨ The New Racial Regime by Alana Lentin @plutopress.bsky.social explores how race is weaponised to uphold white supremacy, from the Critical Race Theory backlash and the "war on woke" to how Israel and the West frames the brutal oppression of Palestinians.
#Review by @themrise.bsky.social
#Review by @themrise.bsky.social
The new racial regime – weaponising race to uphold white supremacy - LSE Review of Books
Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime interrogates contemporary modes of weaponising race to uphold white supremacy from Critical Race Theory to the war on woke.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
August 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Brilliant review of Alana Lentin’s 2025 book.
“The new racial regime is something quite different, Lentin argues. It is the weaponisation of race by white supremacy in contemporary times, by blurring the line between racism and anti-racism”
By @themrise.bsky.social
“The new racial regime is something quite different, Lentin argues. It is the weaponisation of race by white supremacy in contemporary times, by blurring the line between racism and anti-racism”
By @themrise.bsky.social
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NEW✨ The New Racial Regime by Alana Lentin @plutopress.bsky.social explores how race is weaponised to uphold white supremacy, from the Critical Race Theory backlash and the "war on woke" to how Israel and the West frames the brutal oppression of Palestinians.
#Review by @themrise.bsky.social
#Review by @themrise.bsky.social
The new racial regime – weaponising race to uphold white supremacy - LSE Review of Books
Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime interrogates contemporary modes of weaponising race to uphold white supremacy from Critical Race Theory to the war on woke.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
August 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
NEW✨ The New Racial Regime by Alana Lentin @plutopress.bsky.social explores how race is weaponised to uphold white supremacy, from the Critical Race Theory backlash and the "war on woke" to how Israel and the West frames the brutal oppression of Palestinians.
#Review by @themrise.bsky.social
#Review by @themrise.bsky.social
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I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
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The Palestinians were right all along. I’m so sorry.
Not nearly enough people are saying “The Palestinians were right all along. We are so sorry.”
August 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The Palestinians were right all along. I’m so sorry.
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