@shamimsarif.bsky.social
Writer, Director, Humanist https://youtube.com/@enlightenmentpodcast?si=l5FiEfCnVgW9RuoX
Current read. And what a fragile, heartbreaking joy it is.
09.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Someone just recognised me and Hanan at a coffee shop in London. I Can’t Think Straight was one of their favourite films. Considering I may still be using a ten year old PR shot on my socials, I was sort of reassured...
08.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trans people didn't shut down the government. Trans people haven't inflated an AI bubble that is moments away from wrecking the world economy. Trans people aren't stealing people off the streets or destroying democracy or committing genocide. That would be billionaires.
You're mad at the wrong 1%.
As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked.
Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.
Dream cast on a dream show - and I get to direct the first three episodes :)
25.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A good time to celebrate, too, the amazing contributions of librarians over 100 years for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway (as was) Medals, as well as their astonishing Shadowing programmes that have seen hundreds of thousands of young people reading and voting on the shortlists.
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‘Nothing has changed’: Gaza health workers report almost no medical aid entering the strip - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nothing-has-changed-gaza-health-workers-report-almost-no-medical-aid-entering-strip
25.10.2025 11:05 — 👍 116 🔁 108 💬 0 📌 4Ok no!!!
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🎙️Ep 47: For #AhedTamimi, the occupation is not only the theft of land—but of humanity, thought, and identity. She shares memories of childhood under military rule and the unbreakable spirit of her people.
Watch → www.youtube.com/watch?v=BanF...
#FreePalestine
Perfect Sunday
03.08.2025 11:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A worthwhile read and an important reminder.
How Mandela Showed Me Justice Is a Story We Choose to Tell by @shamimsarif.bsky.social #Writing #Justice #empathy #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #justice
shamimsarif.substack.com/p/how-mandel...
Hi! I just signed this urgent call to award UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump just issued sanctions against her, because she’s standing up for the people of Gaza! Can you sign and share as well? Thank you 🙏
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Shooting in Paris.
05.06.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Israeli settlers set fire to homes while families were still inside, according to Palestinian media reports about an arson attack on a village in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel kills two Red Cross workers and 11-year-old influencer Yaqeen Hammad after seizing 77 percent of Gaza’s land.
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14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.”
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Find IDF Soldiers is a new database from The Maple containing profiles of 163 Canadians that have joined the Israeli military. findidfsoldiers.net
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Jill Sobule (1959–2025) 🎸
Devastated to learn of the passing of Jill Sobule — a fiercely original artist, queer icon, and one of the most tender, fearless voices in music.
Jill gave us so much: Supermodel, I Kissed a Girl, and a body of work that was satirical, subversive, and deeply human.
Out in Toronto with our youngest
22.04.2025 01:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love you x
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Morning blue skyers.
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society says it has been informed by the Red Cross that Assad Al-Nsasrah, its medic who has been missing since an Israeli attack on Rafah last month that killed 15 aid workers, is being held by Israel.
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Ah Microsoft. Free speech as long as you don’t expose our genocidal complicity
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It’s spring. I’m gonna keep saying it and hope it helps
09.04.2025 00:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As will genocide deniers who lead us against the findings of the ICJ
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