3 DAYS LEFT! Wasafiri is open for creative submissions on the theme SOLIDARITIES until 24 August. Please share with your networks. We can't wait to read your work β
Full details and how to submit: buff.ly/6nOSBon
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Enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
The 2025 Queen Maryβ―Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the sixteenth edition of the prestigious prize, is open from 30 January to 30 June.
π¨You have just ONE WEEK LEFT to enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize!
Open to entries in Poetry, Fiction, and Life Writing, including translated work, this prize is awarded to individuals who have not yet published a book-length work in English.
Submit your work:
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So excited to be working on this with some brilliant people! Register for the conference on the @nvpoco.bsky.social website β¨
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Te PΔti MΔori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka
MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.
Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Wasafiri are currently accepting submissions for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize!
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The reason why protest is essential to political change is that only when people *see* the scale of discontent do they realise they are not alone, and that the tide can turn.
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it is never if a pipeline will leak it is always WHEN will it leak and just how much damage is it going to cause
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βI felt I would dieβ: Palestinian Oscar winner after Israeli settler attack
Hamdan Ballal says he was assaulted by settlers and soldiers outside his home in Susiya in the occupied West Bank.
βI felt they were going to kill me, not just to punish me. β¦ I felt I would die."
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Balla recounts being attacked by Israeli settlers and soldiers outside his home in Susiya, in the occupied West Bank
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Meditations: Sophia Arnold on βBy the River: Essays from the Waterβs Edgeβ
In this Meditations piece, our current CHASE intern Sophia Arnold reflects on her relationship with rivers and water bodies, and the wider environmental humanitiesβ¦
Our CHASE intern Sophia Arnold (@sophia-arnold.bsky.social) reflects on her relationship with rivers & water bodies, weaving in her reading of 2024 anthology BY THE RIVER: ESSAY'S FROM THE WATER'S EDGE, inciting important conversations on how we can better care for our climate.
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Hereβs what happens when thereβs 6 dead birds at an oil and gas site #investigation #BritishColumbia #oilandgas
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π¨ Emergency Protest - Stop Bombing Gaza
β° 18 March, 6PM
π Downing Street, London
Israel has resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza, killing at least 330 Palestinians overnight. Join us today to demand our government immediately #StopArmingIsrael and push them to #CeasefireNOW
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Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits β forcing more disabled people and children into poverty β the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over Β£10 million.
It would raise Β£24 billion β five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
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Introducing sub(VERSE)ive β a brand new & exclusive limited interview series from Wasafiri! Hosted by Prerana Kumar, these conversations will showcase various established and emerging poets discussing their 2025 book releases. Stay tuned π
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Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY out now https://www.harpercollins.com/products/by-the-fire-we-carry-rebecca-nagle?variant=41322925359138
Leverhulme ECF at Uni of Kent researching the Hostile Environment and Migration | Author: β(Re)framing Womenβ | Views my own | She/Her π©·ππ
Dedicated to building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples while fostering a world built on justice + equity for all people and Mother Earth.
linktr.ee/NDNCOLLECTIVE
PhD researcher at the University of Leeds exploring literary representations Black British mental health under Hostile Environment. I also talk about chronic illness and disability. She/Her
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Cultural and environmental historian of Canada and the Arctic. Author of *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North* (2025). Co-editor of *Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History* (2018). She/her.
Retired Professor, Geographer, Environmentalist, Cyclist: OnPoli, CdnPoli: born at 310.4 ppm: he/him π¨π¦
βοΈ Researcher on Indigenous-State Relations & Land Justice in Canada βοΈ
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/LAX/YEG.
https://kimtallbear.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@ktallbear
Critical Indigenous Policy Perspectives. Based at the Faculty of Arts, Toronto Met. University | linktr.ee/yellowheadinstitute
Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag Anishinaabe | Indigenous Geographies and Climate Justice | Director, GIF Lab | Public Scholar | Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia | Ohio State, Minnesota-Duluth, St. Cloud State alum | Posts = my views.
We are an interdisciplinary program at Simon Fraser University based in BC, Canada. Join us as we forge the urban future with our grads and undergrads! #sfuurb
historian, mother, settler, feminist, lousy speller. Based in Treaty One and Manitoba Act lands.
Politics professor & AUFA member at Acadia U. Critical theory, environmental politics, political economy, media/cultural studies. Also dad jokes and TML complaints. Co-author of Organizing Nature (UTP 2023).
Indie bookstore in Tkatoronto. Radically supporting 2SQTBIPOC writers since 1987
#ownvoices kidlit and YA experts/ founder: Sheila Koffman
315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6R 2M6
hosting events throughout GTA
anotherstory.ca
TΔΕtΔn, scholar, Media Indigena contributor, faculty - UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs & Critical Indigenous Studies. Books: How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts / Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities
she|her - geographer...anti-racist, decolonial, feminist scholar, who can be a bit sweary. π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
Co-facilitator of the Embodiment Lab. | Associate Professor at UDelaware/unceded lands of the Lenape Peoples: https://sites.udel.edu/lnaylor
Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
Environmental journalist covering forests, climate and the energy transition.
writer. activist. prof.
CRC Indigenous Political Ecology @uvic
Indigenous feminist geographer.
Kwakwakaβwakw. 2SQ. She/her. ππ
www.coastaljustice.ca
