Mehrunissa Shah

EMC Twilight: Belonging and unbelonging in children’s literature

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!

Book by: 8am tomorrow
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This is awful! Solidarity, Liz. Hope the English team are fighting strong. ✊🏽

My new book is published in a fortnight and I'm at the amazing Bard Bookshop, in east London, in conversation with brilliant culture journalist Ammar Kalia alongside Aniefiok Ekpoudom. Please join us! 7pm, 3 July, Bard Bookshop, London

Link to article: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Such a joy to interview Jason Reynolds. This piece gives a flavour of our 3 hour conversation!!

British South Asian actors need more recognition for their achievements, says Hamza Jahanzeb, calling for more diversity within theatre PR teams: www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/more...

Free Read Aloud and Make event for families! I'll be there with Beyond the Secret Garden co-author @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and artist Laura X Carle. Come along!

Details for our London Association for Teachers of English summer conference are now live! Please join us on 5th July, with @iancushing.bsky.social and Su Hippisley, for a day 'Talking about Oracy'. With workshops from @darrenchetty.bsky.social and others.

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Chappell Roan, surely? If so, it's awesome.

My latest piece on Substack is about the incredible FIRST in the UK and West End history earlier this month - please do consider subscribing if you want to support my independent journalism: hamzajahanzeb.substack.com/p/maimuna-me...

I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child.

It's a genocide.

screenshot with a quote from coates highlighted: "We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can't the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy ... and I would submit to you that if you can't draw the line at genocide, you probably can't draw the line at democracy."

ta-nehisi coates

I’m old enough to remember the collective government freak out about TikTok being an arm of the Chinese government. Turns out the call is literally coming from inside the house.

Terrifying and outrageous and all too believable: “The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said. cnn.it/4iDMApA%E2%8...

Tomorrow!
Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the....

school discipline policies can be core tools to perpetuate linguistic injustice. for some children, especially those from marginalised backgrounds, their alleged inability to 'speak properly' gets framed as symptomatic of their alleged inability to 'behave properly'.

Response to Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report EMC's take on the what the interim report means for secondary English teaching

So @barbarableiman.bsky.social + @andrewemc.bsky.social have written a response to the interim report for the Curriculum + Assessment Review. Some positives, but some aspects to ask serious questions about too

englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-res...

National Literacy Trust Primary Conference - Bradford 27th of March 9-4pm

Join us at the Primary Conference 2025, where thought leaders including A. M. Dassu, Matt Goodfellow and Wilko Wilkes will share their insights on children’s oracy.

Secure your place now:
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I mean could they not just try doing some traditional Labour things well

This will be great! Proud to be hosting !
#CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽

this is today, at 4.30 GMT! me and clare will be talking about how our collaborations between critical applied linguists and teachers have been focused on dismantling linguistic injustice in schools, and building futures of linguistic justice 💜

Absolutely blown away by the Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist! Huge congratulations to this incredible list of books & authors on the list 🤩📚🎉

#JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading

Lots more copies sold. BTSG will be making waves!

On Tuesday 25th March, @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social and I will be talking about Beyond the Secret Garden at Brixton Library. It’s a free event. Come along!!

APNewsAlert: APNewsAlert: DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (@AP) — Gaza’s ministry of health says at least 44 people have been killed in morning airstrikes by Israel.

Was watching this thinking, ‘man, I hope they talk about this on the Filmcast’. Only gripe was the teachers were properly hopeless in episode 2. Particularly galling as teachers and schools have been on the frontline dealing with these issues.

PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock!

god I resent knowing who Chuck Schumer is, it’s like Americans having to care about — or even be aware of the existence of — Baroness Smith of Basildon