Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️‍🌈

Keir Starmer’s shock at homophobia is absurd and ignorant Queer people are simply not feeling safe in the UK.

“With the Labour Party’s apparent fall into becoming a Reform-esque government with hard-right policies, they are attracting more of a hard-line narrative on underrepresented groups. Studies have shown those who are anti-immigration tend to be homophobic and transphobic”
metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/k...

almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.

decided to pick up a painting i worked on 3 years ago - this is 2 hours of work!

It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny

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I have seen a lot of 'dont comment on women's bodies' etc posts about the Wicked press & i generally agree but the normalisation and celebration of ever-shrinking forms is being blasted into the retinas of thousands of young girls across the world & that is also bad

If anyone can take a photo of page 2 of the Metro newspaper and send it to me, I would greatly appreciate it x

Shabana Mahmoud suggesting we seize the assets of refugees to pay for their asylum, literally robbing people not only of their jewellery - ripping gold from their necks - but taking their memories and ancestral lineage with it. Absolutely needlessly vicious.

Sonia Sarkar, FGM In The UK: A Common Sexual Assault On Migrant Women Alannah Francis, My daughter, 15, was murdered by her ex. It must be called domestic abuse Shanti Das, ‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes – and the women fighting back Alia Waheed, For Muslim women, images of us without our hijabs can be as damaging as nude photos Anna Moore, ‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex Sharan Dhaliwal, Too many crimes against women of colour are being ignored Lucy Morgan, Bonnie Blue, Channel 4 and the problem with commodifying sexual violence

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Hi! I'm looking for a queer accountant to help with Middlesex Pride CIC's accounts - if you are one or know any, please get in touch 🙏🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Drop me an email with 'Accountant' in the subject line at: hello@middlesexpride.co.uk 💌

Two years. I can't believe it. What a disgusting time. What a horrific time. We live in the age of monsters, and all we can hope for is to finally defeat some of them. Free palestine.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

no excuse for being this bad

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about wrongdoing at Charing Cross police station The Metropolitan police are braced for an undercover documentary showing officers and staff allegedly being supportive of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, making anti-Muslim comments and using excessive force against suspects in custody. The allegations, which centre on Charing Cross police station in central London, are contained in a BBC Panorama documentary airing on Wednesday evening. Continue reading...

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson

this one has been ten years in the making ... ✍🏽

My Biggest Worry When Coming Out As Bisexual Wasn’t That People Would Judge Me. It Was That They Wouldn’t Believe Me “It was only when I realised I was planning my wedding without thinking about the groom that I knew I had to stop lying.”

For British Vogue, I wrote about coming out and how Bram Stoker's Dracula was a big part of my journey. www.vogue.co.uk/article/comi...

The radical history of Southall, London's Little India When an 18-year-old was killed in a racist attack in Southall in 1976, it sparked the first and biggest youth-led movement of anti-racism the district had…

For HUCK Mag, back in 2020, I wrote about the radical history of Southall against the far-right. www.huckmag.com/article/the-...

TERFs have had their anti-trans 'victory' - now they're after migrants We need to stop fooling ourselves into thinking this is about women’s rights.

For Metro UK, I wrote about how *pretend shocked face* TERFs were racist too. metro.co.uk/2025/04/23/t...

Think Rylan is right about asylum-seekers? So does Tommy Robinson… The TV presenter divided opinion by saying live on This Morning that it is ‘insane’ that illegal migrants are put up in hotels – but when the far right’s most notorious poster boy comes out in your fa...

For the Independent, I wrote about Rylan's inaccurate claims about migrants, and debunked misinformation. www.independent.co.uk/voices/rylan...

Too many crimes against women of colour are being ignored While police overwhelmingly fail to act on domestic abuse reports on the whole, it is ethnic minority victims who are affected most.

For Metro UK, I wrote about how women of colour were being failed by the system and ending up dead. metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/w...

a thread of some things i'm very proud of. if you like them too, you should hire me.

Sharan Dhaliwal Founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride

I'm looking for work!! 👀
- I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers.
- I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace.
- I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us.
- I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride.
sharandhaliwal.com

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

Tony Blair set to serve on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza Some in former UK prime minister’s Labour party react with surprise at his proposed role in Palestinian territory

just a bunch of war criminals deciding the fate of civilians, nothing to see here www.ft.com/content/527b...

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White I’ve seen the unredacted chats and other internal conversations, and I know the context. Believe me, there is more trouble to come, says journalist Nadine White

Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.”
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being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

The UN still hasn't declared Israel is committing genocide - it's a commission of inquiry, meaning it is an independent mandated fact-finding report. The UN itself are yet to use the word genocide. We can't stop pressuring them to do so.