Nasia Sarwar-Skuse

Absolutely. We need to decolonise decolonisation itself and interrogate the frameworks, the gatekeeping, and who gets to speak for the South.

After 10 years of bold, brilliant work, 404 Ink is closing its doors. A small press that always played big, fearless, sharp, & committed to its authors. I’m so grateful they gave Gathering a home. Brilliant work by Heather & Laura looked after their authors with such care. Thanks for everything.

@ronsexsmith.bsky.social thought you’d like this one.

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Khawaab Mahal and Absent Presence

Delighted to have two pieces of work exhibited at Manchester Museum until 31 August. I am also running a series of writing workshops around material memory. Check out MM’s website for further details.

www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/khawaa...

So well deserved, especially because of the work by curator Nusrat Ahmed for South Asia Gallery.

This is such joyful news!

The "Chowk" column at Lakeer is open for submissions throughout the year. The theme for 2025 is "Borders/Boundaries – سرحدیں/حدود". Submit your poetry, essays, art and photography to chowk.submissions@gmail.com.
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Postcolonialism has quietly morphed into neocolonialism, visible in climate imperialism, where the Global South bears the brunt of extraction for the Global North’s ‘green’ futures. From carbon offsets to conservation dispossession, and of course Palestine. Colonial logics persist under new guises.

My Pantry, My Mother’s Tupperware: A Tale of Reused Biscuit Tins and Mysterious Masala Mixes.

It’s obviously a very Pakistani pantry.

How sweet!

Similarly, when institutions claim to operate within a ‘decolonial’ framework but fail to shift power, resources, or authorship, it becomes a performative exercise. Decolonisation and representation isn’t branding, it’s structural, material, and deeply uncomfortable work.

This begs the question, what were you wearing when you first met your partner?

Ever collaborated on something, only for the other person to later act like it was solely their work and attempt to erase your input to claim full authority? Would love to hear how others have dealt with this.

I have been enjoying this very much.

Thinking about terms we use & how decolonised has become a label. Nothing is truly decolonised while neocolonial power still shapes our world. To declare a practice or institution decolonised is to betray the unfinished nature of decolonial struggle. The term is a comfortable lie. #coloniality

There are a thousand ways to stand with Palestine. Silence is not one of them.

Decoloniality without solidarity is just branding.

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can’t wait to get my hands on this.

Publishing the nationalities of offenders is about reinforcing racialised hierarchies. It echoes neocolonial practices where ‘the other’ is pathologised to justify control, exclusion, and the illusion of moral superiority.

Klaxon-not all gloom. Our brand new inter-uni seminar titled 'Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair' kicks off 2nd May: Paris Book Launch of Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime.
Online speaker series next.
Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye.
undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com

Is the pressure on women writers to be attractive something you see reflected in publishing practices as well? I’m thinking about ageism and who gets published.

Right back atcha, sister.

Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return

This is neocolonial logic in action— benefiting from Afghan women's resistance narratives to uphold liberal democratic optics, only to discard them when inconvenient. It reveals the deep hypocrisy of asylum systems shaped by imperial logics of disposability.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Love this for you!

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It’s part of my critical component for my thesis. I’d love to share with you and hear your thoughts.

I’m preoccupied by the thought, can I really write in the colonisers language & still resist the gaze? How to push my words to the edge? I circle back to Silvia Wynter’s work.

I’m interested in how decolonial writing not only resists empire in content but also ways in which it can unsettle the architecture of language itself. What happens when we write from the borderlands and between rupture and rhythm?#decolonisecreativewriting #decolonialthoughts