Sachini Perera

Taika, a white cat with a pink nose and pink toe beans, looking into the camera

Escape Artist Caught Mid-Escape

Israel has shut down the Internet of Gaza to intensify its genocidal operations.

Iran did the same in 2019 and killed civilian protesters all around the country in the dark.

Fascist states are alike despite their geopolitical differences.

Play The Mini Crossword All the fun of the larger New York Times Crossword, but you can solve it in seconds.

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Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have b... Medical-aid groups in the Gaza Strip told Insider they were running out of supplies due to Israel's counterattack and blockade.

Doctors Without Borders in Gaza says 100% of the patients it has treated in the past 24 hours have been children

Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a question and answer...

BREAKING: Israel has used white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, putting civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries.

White phosphorus causes excruciating burns and can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful.

Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the...

Five million documents from the Dutch East India Company will be searchable starting on Wednesday, with an improved version of the database expected next year #archives
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The official White House line is that Palestinian resistance is unprovoked terrorism. But Israel locked Gaza in an open air prison. They’ve bombed and attacked this prison. Settlers have been killing people in the West Bank. Resistance to apartheid violence is utterly provoked.

"Do the Palestinians have a right to resist the non-stop aggression to which they are subjected? Absolutely. There is no moral, political or military equivalence as far as the two sides are concerned. Israel is a nuclear state, armed to the teeth by the US. " newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

If you're in the Bay area, please join me at the @Stanford Humanities Centre next week! I'll be speaking about Afrapix, and spillin some ☕️ about all the institutional + interpersonal violence I routinely deal with, doing research towards this project
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Spent the last few days taking stock of our 2023 work plan and honestly we’ve done enough to not do anything else for the rest of the year but of course somehow there’s always more to do.

Going back on LinkedIn after many years has been…interesting. People are very intensely passionate about their jobs and “Shit Nonprofits Say” seems to be posting direct quotes from there 😬

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize for fight against oppression of wome... The Nobel committee said “her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal cost.”

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize for fight against oppression of women
In an audio recording from the prison published by CNN on Friday, 6 Oct, Mohammadi was heard leading chants of "Woman, life, freedom," the slogan of the protests.

RESURJ Dispatch from Women Deliver 2023! What we liked, what we thought could have been better and what we were concerned about.

Taika, a white cat with black markings, sitting on a yellow blanket and looking cherubic

Is this angel face the same cat who finished his breakfast and snuck into a neighbor’s kitchen to eat fish heads from the garbage? Such an embarrassment.

Feminist organisations call on the Dutch government to reconsider budget cuts in development cooperation. #StopBezuinigingOpOntwikkeling 1/6

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Seeing Deepika Padukone in Jawan confirmed yet again that she could step on my neck anytime she pleases 😳

Taika, a white cat with black markings, laying down sideways under a wooden cabinet and looking outside.

trying to avoid monday like:

Been reliably informed @thegutterflower.bsky.social did not in fact anticipate that we’ll all be bawling over this 🫠

How are you all coping with this weather Taika and I have started going to bed by 8pm.

3 are only in it for money but that yellow one just can't wait

Desperately trying to recreate the Twitter experience over here like it didn’t spectacularly backfire once already 🥲

Reflections on Our Countries | 2nd Edition, 2023 - RESURJ In this edition, RESURJ members and Secretariat members from Brazil, Mexico, Mozambique, Paraguay, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Zambia explore politics of pride, faultlines of feminist approaches to accounta...

South feminist analysis from the ground. RESURJ Reflections on Our Countries. resurj.org/reflection/r... #Feminist #Writing #GlobalSouth

Those wondering about the best way to sign off emails could try this, by Flaubert to Ernest Chevalier from a letter written in 1832: "Your dauntless, dirty-minded friend till death.”

Taika, a white cat with black markings, fast asleep in the kitchen

Life hack from Taika. If you fall asleep in the kitchen, you don’t have to run to the kitchen when it’s dinner time.

Two small cups with Turkish coffee in the foreground.

Baklava and Turkish coffee weather ☕️

Black and white photo of a short or medium haired tabby kitten with white paws. It is sleeping sitting up on a dark prop in a studio setting. He has a very elaborate tiny crown on his head, the kind that is trimmed on the bottom in white ermine.

Sleepy prince. 👑 1955. www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-...

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Nothing as illustrative of the inherent contradictions of “feminist foreign policy” as navigating the obstacle course that is the Schengen visa application so that I can…get this…attend the Dutch Foreign Ministry’s Shaping Feminist Foreign Policy conference 🥲😅

Taika and I continue to pursue TikTok stardom 🐱💁🏾 vt.tiktok.com/ZSNdJDBwg/