Néha 🏳️‍🌈 🧿

Until you get close to it you never really grasp just how many people and groups there are telling govt what they want to hear so they can say they have “talked to govt” and groups and people who advise the govt to do nothing because that will never be controversial.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

The silence from non-profits on Palestine is thunderous And it speaks volumes. Most Australian nonprofits are silent, or worse, both-siding genocide. Anti-racism means showing up, even when it’s risky. Here’s what solidarity looks like. If your nonprofit t...

Sadly the silence of Australian NGOs on Palestinian liberation that @nehamadhok.bsky.social wrote about in 2024 continues today, despite the violent genocide we are witnessing every day. open.substack.com/pub/nehamadh...

That’s because it is 😭

And the lines all our nations have allowed Israel to wilfully stomp over will come back on all of us. There is no international law now. No one is safe. Nothing they do matters. You could see 40,000 babies burned in a room and it would barely make a ripple in the mainstream. I’m so, so broken

There was literally one shouting his own made up slogan at my booth

This kid runs circles around the reporter

Shattering the Silence: 'Inclusion' Without Justice = Branding It's been a month since International Working Women's Day 2025.

We are not here to be included in systems that harm us.
We are here to transform them.

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So what does real inclusion look like?
It looks like leaders giving up power.
It looks like backing people publicly.
It looks like funding inclusion like it’s core business.

That’s not inclusion.
That’s branding.

Inclusion without power-sharing is just assimilation.

As a PoC and someone who now works in anti-racism and inclusion, I’ve seen how often we’re:

🔸 Asked to be visible, but not powerful
🔸 Asked to speak, but not be backed
🔸 Asked to lead, but not be paid for the labour

That moment taught me:
⚡ Power can erase your belonging: Power over
⚡ Politics enters our homes
⚡ Systems are not neutral

And it sparked a fire in my belly.

I was 6 when a red-haired woman came on TV and said Asians should go back to where they came from.That night, I heard my mum say “We might have to go back home.”

I remember my heart sinking. This was our home.

I recently gave a talk titled “Shattering the Silence: From Tokenism to Transformation.”It started with a story from my childhood in south-west Sydney.

Every year, after IWD, the silence returns.The panels end. The hashtags fade. And the power structures stay the same.

So what actually changes? 🧵

The ABC board must keep the liberal party happy at all costs 😌

The guy who does the afternoons is always so cheery, we’re friends!

I’m immediately sold on these impractical bizarre shoes I love them

Boomer postie today…chastised and complimented me simultaneously for? Being home? To receive my parcel?

If Palestine is the litmus test everybody has failed it, so it's not a surprise the West is in a dire State. The same men bombing brown & Black people indiscriminately will also snatch your white elderly Mom's social security. That's why fighting for rights can't be selective. Everybody or nobody.

HR’s only job is to protect the interests of the employer, including cutting DEI programmes when they’re not in vogue anymore.

That’s why we need to build our power at work, and the best way to do that is through your union.

White Women Won With DEI - But Who Lost? White feminism is so over babe.

White Women Won With DEI - But Who Lost?

DEI doesn’t work because these are employer-led initiatives that live in Human Resources (HR) departments.

I reckon they’re trying to appeal to the disaffected young men who love Trump 🙃

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Popped on over to twitter just to see what was happening and…the barrage of hate was immediately notable. Fuck the billionaires man.

Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.

we’re so grateful for the strong reaction people are having to Vivian Wilson’s convo w Ella Yurman ❤️‍🔥 @teenvogue.com

it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes

I think about the peoples supermarket at least once a week

This is about stoking fear, and division, and importing Trump-style policies to distract from the real issues facing Australians: cost of living, housing affordability, and climate disasters like Ex Cyclone Alfred. Read the full piece: nehamadhok.substack.com/p/deportatio...

Six cyclones spin around the Southern Hemisphere at same time in rare weather event One of the cyclones - Alfred - is set to hit Australia in the coming days. The last time the Pacific Ocean had six named storms at once was 1974

Oh goody! Six cyclones spin around the Southern Hemisphere simultaneously in rare meteorological event: One of the cyclones - Alfred - is set to hit Australia in the coming days. The last time the Pacific Ocean had six named storms at once was 1974

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

“Identity is a great start for making connections and becoming part of larger communities. But you can’t have a politics of identity that is only about identity. If you do that, you draw sectarian lines, and you abandoned our interdependent ties.” english.elpais.com/culture/2024...