Yassmin Abdel-Magied
@yassmin.bsky.social
screenwriter + novelist
forthcoming: AT SEA @canongatebooks (UK) @pegasus_books (US) and SILVERBROOK @hachettechildrens
Weekly newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
forthcoming: AT SEA @canongatebooks (UK) @pegasus_books (US) and SILVERBROOK @hachettechildrens
Weekly newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
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For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin.bsky.social) reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin.bsky.social) reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
Full piece 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/i-ca...
Reposted by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. @yassmin.bsky.social reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease ⬇️
I carry rage & grief over my land & people amidst war in Sudan
For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure — Yassmin Abdel-Magied reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.
www.newarab.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure. @yassmin.bsky.social reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease ⬇️
This news is about as bad as it gets. After over 550 days of SIEGE, #Elfasher has now been taken by the Rapid Support Forces (a rebranded Janjaweed, who committed the 2003-5 genocide in Darfur)... and the violence that has followed is horrific. www.bbc.com/news/article...
El-Fasher: Rebel group claims capture of key city in Sudan
The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforces a de facto split in the nation.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This news is about as bad as it gets. After over 550 days of SIEGE, #Elfasher has now been taken by the Rapid Support Forces (a rebranded Janjaweed, who committed the 2003-5 genocide in Darfur)... and the violence that has followed is horrific. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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UN pleads for safe passage for civilians trapped in war-hit Sudan city
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#ElFasher #RSF
Some of the footage dripping out from there is horrendous
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#ElFasher #RSF
Some of the footage dripping out from there is horrendous
El-Fasher: UN pleads for safe passage for civilians trapped in war-hit Sudan city
The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforce a de facto split in the nation.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
UN pleads for safe passage for civilians trapped in war-hit Sudan city
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#ElFasher #RSF
Some of the footage dripping out from there is horrendous
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#ElFasher #RSF
Some of the footage dripping out from there is horrendous
I don't trust ChatGPT with shit, and yet the UK GVT seems happy to let the MINISTRY OF "JUSTICE" onto it? I CANNOT www.cityam.com/uk-justice-m...
UK justice ministry adopts ChatGPT to cut red tape
OpenAI has signed a new agreement with the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) that will see 2,500 civil servants gain access to ChatGPT.
www.cityam.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I don't trust ChatGPT with shit, and yet the UK GVT seems happy to let the MINISTRY OF "JUSTICE" onto it? I CANNOT www.cityam.com/uk-justice-m...
how loud do people need to be talking in a quiet coach for you to justify saying something to them? 🤔
October 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
how loud do people need to be talking in a quiet coach for you to justify saying something to them? 🤔
Kevin roose is obsessed w anthropomorphising LLMs. Why??
October 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kevin roose is obsessed w anthropomorphising LLMs. Why??
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A teen wizard runs a magic makeup business with resources from his Fae, Merfolk and Undead friends. When he learns someone is stealing these same items–and there’s a link to his missing dads–he must find the thief or risk losing his friends, his business and the chance to find his parents #DVPit #GN
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A teen wizard runs a magic makeup business with resources from his Fae, Merfolk and Undead friends. When he learns someone is stealing these same items–and there’s a link to his missing dads–he must find the thief or risk losing his friends, his business and the chance to find his parents #DVPit #GN
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When two ex-best friends are reluctantly crowned persons of honor, their petty feud escalates into all-out sabotage. When the bride vanishes a day before the wedding, they’re forced into a frantic search, only to discover the one thing they can’t sabotage is their feelings. #DVPit #romcom #MF #Black
October 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
When two ex-best friends are reluctantly crowned persons of honor, their petty feud escalates into all-out sabotage. When the bride vanishes a day before the wedding, they’re forced into a frantic search, only to discover the one thing they can’t sabotage is their feelings. #DVPit #romcom #MF #Black
I’d be embarrassed 🤭
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
September 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I’d be embarrassed 🤭
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A huge thank you to @alomshaha.bsky.social and Rebecca Struthers, on their launch for their book- ABOUT TIME.
A brilliant book concept for young readers, about the history of telling time and clocks.
The venue - Watches Of Switzerland on Regent Street was super cool!!
Take a bow, Alom and Rebecca...
A brilliant book concept for young readers, about the history of telling time and clocks.
The venue - Watches Of Switzerland on Regent Street was super cool!!
Take a bow, Alom and Rebecca...
September 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A huge thank you to @alomshaha.bsky.social and Rebecca Struthers, on their launch for their book- ABOUT TIME.
A brilliant book concept for young readers, about the history of telling time and clocks.
The venue - Watches Of Switzerland on Regent Street was super cool!!
Take a bow, Alom and Rebecca...
A brilliant book concept for young readers, about the history of telling time and clocks.
The venue - Watches Of Switzerland on Regent Street was super cool!!
Take a bow, Alom and Rebecca...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MTo... you have to listen...watch nowww god this made me weeeeeep with pride, nostalgia, joy... I fucken love being sudaniaaa
Mustafa: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MTo... you have to listen...watch nowww god this made me weeeeeep with pride, nostalgia, joy... I fucken love being sudaniaaa
This is unsurprising. When I first started on the patch in 2012, they needed two MWDs (workers) per rig. By the time I moved job two years later, one MWD was responsible for four rigs, via remote platforms etc. I was almost completely automated out in a tiny period of time.
Fossil fuels are not a driver of job creation : Oil and Gas Loses Economic Clout as Jobs Per Barrel Drop 43%
www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-...
www.theenergymix.com/oil-and-gas-...
Oil and Gas Loses Economic Clout as Jobs Per Barrel Drop 43%
Canada’s oil and gas sector is no longer the job creator or economic engine it once was, with the industry creating 43% fewer jobs per thousand barrels of production in 2023 than it did in 2012, the P...
www.theenergymix.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is unsurprising. When I first started on the patch in 2012, they needed two MWDs (workers) per rig. By the time I moved job two years later, one MWD was responsible for four rigs, via remote platforms etc. I was almost completely automated out in a tiny period of time.
Anytime folks bang on about Denmark’s gender equality and what not, I like to remind them of how they treat Greenlander folks. This story is terrible, but not surprising: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Anytime folks bang on about Denmark’s gender equality and what not, I like to remind them of how they treat Greenlander folks. This story is terrible, but not surprising: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Sudan's war is about everything, and don't you forget it.
Oh, you've already turned away? Mashallah 3alayk, mashallah.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Oh, you've already turned away? Mashallah 3alayk, mashallah.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Is the Sudan war really ‘about nothing’?
There's no such thing as a war about nothing. And Sudan's war is about everything
substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Sudan's war is about everything, and don't you forget it.
Oh, you've already turned away? Mashallah 3alayk, mashallah.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Oh, you've already turned away? Mashallah 3alayk, mashallah.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
England doesn’t even have a map of who owns what land (individuals, not shell companies/obscure bodies) - imagine this!
Every year Icelandic tax records are open for a few days. And all the media outlets dig into them and write multiple stories about how much money some people made and how much they paid in taxes. We even have a special newspaper called The Salary Paper that only comes out once a year.
August 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
England doesn’t even have a map of who owns what land (individuals, not shell companies/obscure bodies) - imagine this!
My iPhone is all but unusable only four years after I bought it new. An iPhone 12 mini. It’s been laggy and slow for about two years, and no matter how much space I make on it, its battery lasts barely a few hours…this forced obsolescence makes me so mad. Build things to LAST!
August 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My iPhone is all but unusable only four years after I bought it new. An iPhone 12 mini. It’s been laggy and slow for about two years, and no matter how much space I make on it, its battery lasts barely a few hours…this forced obsolescence makes me so mad. Build things to LAST!
Another shout out for this excellent event happening next week in Sheffield, where the Sheffield Sudanis at???
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
An Evening of Sudanese Literature - News & Events - English PEN
www.englishpen.org
August 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Another shout out for this excellent event happening next week in Sheffield, where the Sheffield Sudanis at???
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
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Thrilling panel at @edbookfest.bsky.social with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! @yassmin.bsky.social was our chair & interlocutor.
For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest
For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest
August 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thrilling panel at @edbookfest.bsky.social with @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! @yassmin.bsky.social was our chair & interlocutor.
For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest
For a 30% discount on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social, 1/
💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #HAMH #edbookfest
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A brilliant few days @edbookfest.bsky.social. We talked all things demonisation, dehumanisation - and, of course, Gaza. Thanks to all who came and to @yassmin.bsky.social for chairing. Signed copies of 'Anywhere But Here' are in the festival bookshop now.
August 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A brilliant few days @edbookfest.bsky.social. We talked all things demonisation, dehumanisation - and, of course, Gaza. Thanks to all who came and to @yassmin.bsky.social for chairing. Signed copies of 'Anywhere But Here' are in the festival bookshop now.
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@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social's ANYWHERE BUT HERE should be required reading for anyone who wants to publish words about immigration or asylum seekers. She and I are speaking at the #edbookfest later today. www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Surekha Davies, Omar El Akkad & Nicola Kelly: Who Counts as Human?
From Fri 15 Aug - Three writers grappling with the toxic rhetoric humans apply to one another explore how the boundaries of humanity are set to exclude certain communities…
www.edbookfest.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social's ANYWHERE BUT HERE should be required reading for anyone who wants to publish words about immigration or asylum seekers. She and I are speaking at the #edbookfest later today. www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
"I am reminded of the death of a marriage. When there is an argument there is the hope for progress, because at least the parties are engaged with each other. When there is silence, when all sides have left the table, then you know the battle is lost."
yassmin.substack.com/p/the-battle...
yassmin.substack.com/p/the-battle...
The Battle of Narrative
and its lack thereof, as pertaining to Sudan
yassmin.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"I am reminded of the death of a marriage. When there is an argument there is the hope for progress, because at least the parties are engaged with each other. When there is silence, when all sides have left the table, then you know the battle is lost."
yassmin.substack.com/p/the-battle...
yassmin.substack.com/p/the-battle...
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