Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she)

Scrap the Bathroom Ban 🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

MPs aren't going to save the future, but we can dig our heels in to save vulnerable folks, whilst working on the ground to make sure there are spaces to shift into as the system that should crumble is dismantled.

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ours, then we stand no chance of being free.

the care of the people of the Congo. They have lived with the land beyond what we know, and are so deeply rooted in our present reality, in our tech, in our lungs, and in our worlds. If we do not understand how their world has built ours, and how their liberation is all of

the Lungs of the Earth, the second largest rainforest on the planet, the forest that absorbs more carbon than the amazon, and produces a vast chunk of the oxygen we breathe.
That area is not protected by whitewashed conservation, or scientific research, that area is protected by

The indigenous folk of Congo, the many tribes and communities, the people who work across the land and across the cities, the stability of their life and the socio political stability of their futures and their dreams...that is what protects, nourishes and gives ecosystem calm to the Congo Basin,

we talk about that coming from the bloodied and roughened hands of Congo without their consent and without rightful resources for themselves. It is ripped from their corpses and pushed into our hands.
But you know what we don't talk about?
Breathing.
You breathe because of Congo.

We talk about the power core of our devices, the very things we scroll through our realities, the very thing that changes whether we have medical appointments that save our lives, the very thing that we are reaching out to other souls on and that is keeping us from isolation...

and "help" in the local area, is seen as the expert, and thus much land and people become exploited, under a front of charity work.

Charity cannot follow a corporate format. It becomes a toxic structure if allowed to do so.

accept responsibility for the "greenwashing" of their work abroad, where there is no respect towards indigenous and local folks who know the land and wildlife, and this is discarded as the more priveleged scientist or individual who has come in to secure funding for their research

aid and support and care networks, around community, mutual aid and support and care networks, not high profile white charity workers who climb the ladder of titles via this charity work.

And yes it is also linked to wildlife charities and the constant refusal of wildlife organisations to

Part of "decolonising" charity work is understanding that "aid" can't stand on its own. There must be sovereignty of resource and land that is achieved for the folks who have had their worlds destroyed, and this must be worked towards alongside a charity format structured around community, mutual

Which also includes their allies in the other areas of this planet

By "western" I mean post modern colonial nations and the largest current economies on the planet.

Then we DARE to say we don't care about their plight at the hands of the government's of the societies we live in that continue their oppression.

If western wildlife charities had always been in charge of the world's largest ecosystems then we would have all died a long time ago. The communities that have lived in reciprocal relationships with the land for centuries are the reason we are alive today and

be a part of. There will be no wildlife to be in relationship with. There will be no land to connect to.

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Diamonds drenched in blood: Unmasking Israel’s role in the Congolese crisis The Israeli diamond industry garners prestigious accolades and recognition at home -- starkly contrasting with its role in fueling conflict and destabilization in resource-rich nations like the Congo.

They try to confuse us with narratives of "the oppressor is not clear here" but the oppressor IS clear, and have always been. If we do not pay attention to the sovereignty of african nations, there will be no liberation the world over.
There will be no ecosystem to

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within its vast ecosystems.
NO western wildlife charity will save this land without the liberation of its people. So be interested.

(funding patriarchal and hierarchal figures and emphasising their tribal affiliations) and CHARITIES fronting as freedom when in fact they are taking the lens AWAY from the backhanded corruption (funded via CIA, etc.)...] you cannot have this land survive without the communities who are organisms

has occurred over hundreds of years [for the oppression that has occurred over hundreds of years repression, and the reparations [for the oppression that has occurred over hundreds of years of pain at the hands of western hemispheric powers through military expansion, destabilisation of the region

Journey into the Congo Basin – The Lungs of Africa and Beating Heart of the World Spanning over six countries, the Congo Basin is the world’s largest carbon sink. In the run-up to the Africa COP-27, Central African voices are calling for adaptation. Listen to voices of local climat...

THIS BREATH YOU TAKE is entirely impossible without the people of Congo. Without their liberation and their thrival. The sovereignty of the communities of this land, the dismantling of their oppression and repression, and the reparations [for the oppression that

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I've completely burnt out. I was so afraid to say it before, but the way things are in my life and in society has pushed me to the end of my energies. I can't even get through a paragraph of writing, barely even one line some days, before I lose the ability to think and it just dissappears.

...does this not FASCINATE US ALL?? There's no MONOPOLY on age, biological change or evolution it is almost impossible to find ways to make it linear unless you FORCE it and ERASE the clues to everything else.

evolution not a "omg I just learnt how to change" sequence) and comes down to many groups of INVERTEBRATES "growing" up in INSTARS (changes that account for radical biological change and not tethered easily to one line of growth that we attach to so many organisms)

different organism altogether is one that exists in MILLIONS of other organisms and is also MILLIONS of years older than what we know as moths and butterflies (again this isn't really true either bc if everything is just an adapted version of everything else then this is a gradual

start forming "changepods" (chrysalis and cocoons) from skin (chrysalis) instead of saliva (cocoons) - did they do this because of the change in environment ? In temperature? In emotional state? The "change" that is basically caterpillars turning to "mush" and then becoming a

and who knows - want? - plus there's day flying moths too and also ones from both "groups" that fit into both of these categories and neither) - then do they make their "child" growth stages different because of different environments? Feelings? The intermediate animals that

(which isn't strictly true as they didn't just emerge as a clumped group it's more that different versions of these animals emerged in different environments over different periods due to environmental changes INCLUDING food source change,

I think what's so interesting about the differences in butterfly and moth cocoons is the way they are formed and why - essentially, if moths as a group are older than butterflies, and butterflies evolved from them seemingly to feed on different kinds of nectar and flowers

It's me and queering ecology !!! This episode was an absolute joy to record ! 🦋🪲🧡