NEWS: The founder of @WritersofColour has had her account locked by @TwitterSupport for 'hateful' behaviour. As @SamanthaAsumadu refuses to delete the tweet that was found harmful, she will no longer be using her twitter account.
It will remain suspended in time for posterity 🙏🏾
Nonetheless you can keep up to date with her writing, interviews, speeches, editing, filmmaking and workshops here: linktr.ee/SamanthaAsumadu #TheWannabe
Her sincere wish, rather than appealing to @TwitterUK who have no interest in supporting black women or gypsies for that matter on here, please become a monthly subscriber to @WritersofColour.
We need the support! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 mediadiversified.gumroad.com/l/cgfnm
These are hard and desperate times for people in the UK, except the elite so we understand if you can't commit to a regular donation.
Save it for your exorbitant fuel bills! But if you can either buy our books or make a small donation we'd appreciate it! mediadiversified.gumroad.com/l/eesiv
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We call on Muslims, Sikhs, Jews black, white and brown trans people, South Asians, East Asians, North, South, East and West Africans, non-binary people, Philipinos, Haitians, white Americans , African Americans, LGBTQI+ people, everybody with a heart to stand against the racists
that are too afraid to look in the mirror as they see only mediocrity and a wasted life peering back at them.
Media Diversified's founder, Samantha Asumadu explains why we believe that in silencing ourselves, we will encourage others to speak up about anti-black and anti-gypsy racism #DoWeCountToo
In his seminal article Melanie Phillips wants to “destroy” the Muslim world Dr. Nafeez Ahmed asked, ‘Do people of colour, do Muslims, do migrants, do minorities, do people on the sharp end of racism, discrimination and white supremacism have the right to speak out?
Anti-Black racism and the hostile environment have a long history. For @treventour , the interwar years of 1919-1938 deserve more recognition in how we understand British history.
'Following heightened discussions about anti-racism in the summer of 2020, I found it challenging that popular media stayed rooted in Windrush as the starting point of anti-Black racism in Britain.
Some sad news. Editor of anthology #BlackstarsBritain Jacqueline Courtenay has decided not to publish her book with Media Diversified & has asked us to terminate her contract, which we have done today
We wish her every success in her journey to publication instagram.com/p/Cb4to5LgW6l/…
In better news we don’t intend to stop publishing books in both print and e-book format and have been receiving unsolicited proposals since we announced our first print book!! mediadiversified.gumroad.com
We will release our submission guidelines this summer once we have a new editorial director who has a background in non-fiction mediadiversified.org/submissions/
Dear newsroom editors and journalists reporting on the current war in Ukraine,
First may I thank you all for doing an incredibly important job under incredibly difficult conditions.
I am sure you are all aware of the old adage; “The first casualty of war is truth”, first attributed to US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson in 1918. In 2022 it is important that diversity, and our principles of anti-racism, aren’t the second casualty.
'There is a grim predictability in seeing yet another crisis being exploited by right wing politicians & journalists to attack left wingers for socialist and anti-imperialist stances. Even more frustrating is the anaemic response from those looked to for leadership on the left.
The Labour Party has targeted 11 current MPs and the former leader for signing a Stop the War statement on Feb 14th which also criticised NATO for their role in the ongoing war in Ukraine that escalated dramatically this week with Russia’s invasion.