Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia)

Resistance: Self-Defence for Muslims (All Genders) Inclusive self-defence class for Muslims of all genders, including gender diverse. Session led by Bender Defenders.

Amidst rising Islamophobia in the UK, still a few places left for Inclusive Mosque Initiative’s Self Defence for Muslims class tmrw (wmn & gender nonconforming only)—w Bender Defenders, ‘a queer & trans martial arts commty empowermt movemt’.

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Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including works from ANMLY on this roundup! Read us, read em all!!

‘Annah Infinite is essential, groundbreaking work, deconstructing and reframing colonialism, art, disability, ableism, racism and the understanding of pain, exploring selfhood and interconnectivity under the multiply dehumanising colonial gaze of the art world and medical gaze of the abled world. A unique and life-changing read.’ — Polly Atkin

Terima kasih to @pollyrowena.bsky.social for these superlatives about ANNAH, INFINITE!

Can’t believe August 19 pub date is in less than two weeks—still time to pre-order

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If historians know something it is this: nothing is inevitable just because it is popular. AI is not an exception. Nor is fascism.

Support African Translation Project African Translation Project; Current Goal: $2500 by the end of August - to begin translation of: The Crocodile Doesn’t Hunt / Zvinobvinza by Pauline Chirata-Mukondiwa, translated from Shona by Zukiswa...

Would you help our friends at Paivapo Publishing fund the translation of three books?

$5, $10 help so much - and there's also an Art Shop with many names you'll recognize!

Please help spread the word. Time is running out for book 2, but the author is excited, and I know we can *do* this:

a woman in a blue sweater is making a funny face with the words so many things above her Alt: a woman in a blue sweater is making a funny face with the words so many things above her

When I’m interviewed by Indonesian grad students, abt what cld be done better in publishing to make Indonesian lit in translation more viable in western markets…

Inevitably at some point I catch myself and say ‘Apologies for the rant’. They do seem to enjoy it

That was such a brilliant present from @shreedaisy.bsky.social, and a great day in those legends’ company!

🧵 We have decided to pause mid-year fundraising & ask that you donate to mutual aid & orgs in Gaza. Prism is fine, our U.S. writers & staff are fed, housed, & safe, but our friends in Gaza are not.

We cannot justify fundraising for ourselves while Israel starves Gaza.

Learn more & donate ⤵️

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Image shows the cover of Into Being (the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform) by Lily Dunn

Image shows the cover of Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka

Image shows the cover of The Book of Bogs (stories from a Yorkshire Moor and other Peatlands), edited by Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw

My current pre-order list:

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Listening Books - an audiobook lending charity for the print impaired. Listening Books, a UK charity providing an audiobooks lending service to those who cannot read printed books due to a print disability.

A student put me onto www.listening-books.org.uk, free/low-cost audiobooks for the print-impaired, and for everyone.

#DisabilityJustice means understanding there isn’t a hierarchy of the senses, and audiobooks are just as valid as any other format of literature.

Eagerly awaiting this new book by @mailbykite.bsky.social, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social

You've collectively donated almost $14,000 from this post in just under a week! A huge thank you to everyone who's sharing and donating. I promise you it makes a difference!

What's Left is Tender by Travis Chi Wing Lau — Small Harbor Publishing

It's officially release day for WHAT'S LEFT IS TENDER, a book that I truly didn't think I had it in me to write: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...

Also just laughing at how miserable the tiger looks under that hip thrust.

*spit-take at that image

As #WiTMonth is nigh, your friendly reminder to also read women translators, as well as women who are translated, and that reading both may count towards this challenge! #xl8

‘Annah, Infinite is a powerful, poetic and urgent text that defies categorisation. It is about many things, including art and Gauguin, but also colonisation, exploitation, othering, pain, gender, and the body as it is perceived and as it is experienced – in the past and in the present. Khairani Barokka draws the reader into her concerns by layering what is known, with what might be known, and what can easily be imagined if one chooses to take the risk. And it is a risk because Annah, the 'Javanese girl’ who was painted by the artist Gauguin - naked and with a monkey at their feet - is given a voice, many voices, including that of the author. All these voices are possible and they become a chorus of truths that corrupt the art, the artist, the critic, the historian and the viewer. As with any chorus, it cannot and should not, be ignored. I read this book with awe.’ —Pip Williams, author of The Dictionary of Lost Words

Terima kasih banyak to Pip Williams, herself obviously a writer steeped in historical research for fiction, for understanding ANNAH, INFINITE.

An ever-present chorus of insistent voices was always the goal.

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Workshops — Workshops 4 Gaza

Donate to the Sameer Project, which continues to do crucial mutual aid work in Gaza: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

And join and support upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social runs to benefit the Sameer Project. Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach a workshop:

‘what it means to be tender, not as a result of violent hammering but as a result of tenderness begetting tenderness’

Really looking fwd to Travis’ debut poetry collection, What’s Left is Tender.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

‘A major work on language and translation, art-reading and writing, race, femininity and, above all, on pain. It has a definitive and reclamatory power, combining elegy with research and personal experience in a way that is scholarly, expressive, and immensely readable.’ —Preti Taneja

ANNAH, INFINITE comes out AUG 19. Terima Kasih Byk kl sdh pesan. Pre-orders mean a lot to authors, so I’m v thankful for all yr support.

Enormously grateful for this blurb from Preti Taneja. (Blurbers are part of this book, readers are part of this book 🙏🏼)

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This gives me Bong Joon-Ho calling the Oscars ‘very local’, and I’m here for it.

‘Clipping’ from Herizon magazine’s Summer 2025 issue with Ghinwa Yassine’s review of ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (trace press)

Beautiful #review of #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar

“This collection of poems travelling …between English & Arabic, here & there, the future & the past, are like Fadwa Tuqan’s wish ‘to rid this planet of the nightmare of war,’ a wish to save our dreams from being lost in translation.”

(Herizons, 39:2)

Thank you for using my sanctuary translation concept in yr article on historical context of ‘the rise of China’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Hard yes to ‘What if we translated what we care about, not what’s “rising”?’

Whether you're awaiting trial, facing prison, or carrying the weight of state repression - this space is here to hold you. No one should have to navigate repression alone.

If you’re facing/recovering from state repression bc of liberation work, & live in the UK, Solidarity Apothecary is running a 3-mth Herbal Solidarity program, ‘offered via donation with no one turned away for lack of funds’.

More info, including how to apply:
solidarityapothecary.org/hawthorn/

on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance