Dr Khawla Badwan
@khawlabadwan.bsky.social
A scholar of language, culture, education and social justice. A poet: https://sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-telling-of-gaza/
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I quit Palestine', a sentence from historical drama, #Palestine36, said by Thomas, a British diplomat who was disturbed by the injustices he witnessed. We can't 'quit Palestine' as injustices, colonial baraberity, and the language of fake peace remain the same
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I quit Palestine', a sentence from historical drama, #Palestine36, said by Thomas, a British diplomat who was disturbed by the injustices he witnessed. We can't 'quit Palestine' as injustices, colonial baraberity, and the language of fake peace remain the same
On language and the colonial custody of words and meanings in a world where linguistic gaslighting is a daily encounter:
Who decides
which meanings to ascribe
Who decides
which meanings to ascribe
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
On language and the colonial custody of words and meanings in a world where linguistic gaslighting is a daily encounter:
Who decides
which meanings to ascribe
Who decides
which meanings to ascribe
On language, activism and compassion:
Learn this creative wordsmithery
that breathes compassion
Learn this creative wordsmithery
that breathes compassion
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
On language, activism and compassion:
Learn this creative wordsmithery
that breathes compassion
Learn this creative wordsmithery
that breathes compassion
On language, Ai, and care:
The interruption of care
The disruption of the machine
The interruption of care
The disruption of the machine
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
On language, Ai, and care:
The interruption of care
The disruption of the machine
The interruption of care
The disruption of the machine
and the coldness of the world
#KeepTellingofGaza
#KeepTellingofGaza
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
and the coldness of the world
#KeepTellingofGaza
#KeepTellingofGaza
On language, thinking and feeling: to feel is to engage a different type of reason
feel deeper
and feel more fully
feel deeper
and feel more fully
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
On language, thinking and feeling: to feel is to engage a different type of reason
feel deeper
and feel more fully
feel deeper
and feel more fully
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
On #language as rebellion, preservation, and imagination:
words with wings
wings with words
#KeepTellingofGaza
words with wings
wings with words
#KeepTellingofGaza
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
On #language as rebellion, preservation, and imagination:
words with wings
wings with words
#KeepTellingofGaza
words with wings
wings with words
#KeepTellingofGaza
yet attempted again
#KeepTellingofGaza
#KeepTellingofGaza
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
yet attempted again
#KeepTellingofGaza
#KeepTellingofGaza
From a year ago
We #keeptellingofgaza
We #keeptellingofgaza
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
From a year ago
We #keeptellingofgaza
We #keeptellingofgaza
A different world is possible
Keep Telling
Keep Telling
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A different world is possible
Keep Telling
Keep Telling
Reminder of this talk tomorrow. Please join me as I discuss edu-caring, Palestine, aphasia and young people.
Register here: tinyurl.com/5bn7jvbk
Register here: tinyurl.com/5bn7jvbk
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reminder of this talk tomorrow. Please join me as I discuss edu-caring, Palestine, aphasia and young people.
Register here: tinyurl.com/5bn7jvbk
Register here: tinyurl.com/5bn7jvbk
For care,
bigger than
braver than
louder than...
bigger than
braver than
louder than...
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
For care,
bigger than
braver than
louder than...
bigger than
braver than
louder than...
Language not only describes the world. It transforms us alongside the world
We demand and we demand
We demand and we demand
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Language not only describes the world. It transforms us alongside the world
We demand and we demand
We demand and we demand
This Sunday
Join us for an evening of poetry reading, solidarity and witness. Join us as we word the world with Gaza in this medicinal ritual of making the articulation of pain possible and pronouncable. Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/sdhepre…
Join us for an evening of poetry reading, solidarity and witness. Join us as we word the world with Gaza in this medicinal ritual of making the articulation of pain possible and pronouncable. Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/sdhepre…
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This Sunday
Join us for an evening of poetry reading, solidarity and witness. Join us as we word the world with Gaza in this medicinal ritual of making the articulation of pain possible and pronouncable. Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/sdhepre…
Join us for an evening of poetry reading, solidarity and witness. Join us as we word the world with Gaza in this medicinal ritual of making the articulation of pain possible and pronouncable. Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/sdhepre…
From language defeat to language rebellion: #Linguistics for genocidal times
in withness with souls
crushed into non-being
in withness with souls
crushed into non-being
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
From language defeat to language rebellion: #Linguistics for genocidal times
in withness with souls
crushed into non-being
in withness with souls
crushed into non-being
On language structures under genocidal violence
There are no new words
but new combinations
There are no new words
but new combinations
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
On language structures under genocidal violence
There are no new words
but new combinations
There are no new words
but new combinations
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
On the meaning and mattering of language:
'Word my world', a voice cries
before leaving the world
#GazaGenocide
'Word my world', a voice cries
before leaving the world
#GazaGenocide
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
On the meaning and mattering of language:
'Word my world', a voice cries
before leaving the world
#GazaGenocide
'Word my world', a voice cries
before leaving the world
#GazaGenocide
From interculturality to solidarity: with the other and beyond the self
Let Gaza hold your hand
To a world of unfinished struggle
Let Gaza hold your hand
To a world of unfinished struggle
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
From interculturality to solidarity: with the other and beyond the self
Let Gaza hold your hand
To a world of unfinished struggle
Let Gaza hold your hand
To a world of unfinished struggle
From a year ago
It remains very true
It remains very true
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
From a year ago
It remains very true
It remains very true
It's OK to declare
We. Are. Not. OK
We. Are. Not. OK
October 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's OK to declare
We. Are. Not. OK
We. Are. Not. OK
It's with humbling honour that we receive this award in the category of Research Collaboration & Innovation for our #VoicesoftheFuture. Thanks to all children & young people who challenged us to rethink what we knew about the social & cultural significance of urban treescapes
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It's with humbling honour that we receive this award in the category of Research Collaboration & Innovation for our #VoicesoftheFuture. Thanks to all children & young people who challenged us to rethink what we knew about the social & cultural significance of urban treescapes
This is where children
aren't permitted to grow
aren't permitted to grow
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This is where children
aren't permitted to grow
aren't permitted to grow