At an event in NY in 2023, Mamdani read from Umar Khalid’s letter. Khalid, a PhD student and scholar has been unlawfully jailed in India; it’s been over four years.
Political prisoners are a blot on our conscience.

What a beauty, this dance. Always wanted to learn how to dance (mostly uncoordinated moves - me). I’ve found my teacher, Noel Alexander, in the state of Kerala, India.
He’s taught the kid so well!

Punjabi queers rock! It’s endearing to see young sibs living their best life. I’ve watched this on a loop! And those sugarcane fields behind 👌🏽🆒👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Reminder that some folks paid a huge price for liberation and understood what it implied to disrupt systems of ransom that whiteness exercises transnationally.
Refusal participates in emancipation.

Sabrina Sebaihi, Green Party MP (France), denouncing with brio ‘l’Algérophobie’ and obsession with Algeria of the far-right party, RN. RN (formerly Front National) wishes to axe the 1968 France-Algeria accord.

Demeaning white supremacist bullcr*p.
1. Human worth is more than rhetorics of contribution.
2. Freddie was born a British subject, like other white folks, who tend to forget it. Not a migrant.
3. Loved so much that Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie) had to erase his Indian-Parsi heritage.
Get a grip!

Marion Maréchal’s insult to Rima Hassan (MP) of Palestinian origin is about the exclusionary construction of a national community (‘we’): ‘We ‘generously’ let you in’.
This ‘we’ is a racialised white ‘we’. Naming its mechanism of exclusion is important; both Hassan & myself are excluded from it.