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@WritersofColour
We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer’s movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious - Toni Morrison
May 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Happening now hosted by @caribbeannewsuk and @followMFJ twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNxa… #StopThePlane #Jamaica50 "I'm a mother and have had my door kicked in, there were about 30 of them. That's been happening for 8-10 years. However long we have been married, which is 16 years and have 5 daughters, the government want to split our family" #StopThePlane #Jamaica50
May 11, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Why are you chasing people round the Internet who you don't follow saying to support deportations of black people? None of whom you know what crime they *may* have committed? “I went to school, was granted a driving license, a National Insurance number and got on with my life never thinking it would make a difference. I am not here illegally,”
May 11, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Yeah. It's a slippery slope.

Now what? The revoking of Shamima Begum's citizenship sets a worrying precedent for the children of immigrants mediadiversified.org/2019/02/20/the…
May 11, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
'Next week's mass deportation flight to Jamaica on 18th May 2022 is an injustice that cannot be allowed to take place. 

If it goes ahead, the flight will tear apart Black British families & communities, traumatise children and exile people who are British in all but paperwork' One person scheduled to be on the flight said to @BIDdetention

“I don’t think I could survive in Jamaica, I have no one there all my family are here, everyone – I haven’t been to Jamaica since I was a baby.
May 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The Colour of Madness: ‘The mental health system is not designed with us in mind’ mediadiversified.org/2022/05/10/the… The book is a startling read, mainly because it’s still rare to hear these voices, in their own words and on their own terms. This is something radical psychologist, therapist and blogger Guilaine Kinouani notes in her foreword to the collection:
Apr 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
.@ActionIpp IPP COMMITTEE IN ACTION ARE A GROUP OF FAMILY MEMBERS & FRIENDS OF IPP PRISONERS. THEY UNITED TOGETHER TO TRY & GET #JUSTICEFORIPPs THAT HAVE BEEN UNFAIRLY SENTENCED TO A LIFE SENTENCE THROUGH THE BACK DOOR FOR OFFENCES THAT WOULD NOT WARRANT A LIFE SENTENCE. key facts 1,539 PEOPLE SERVING IPP HAVE SERVED THEIR ORIGIN THEIR AIM IS TO GET MORE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND MORE POLITICIANS TO COME ON BOARD AND HELP END THIS IPP NIGHTMARE.
#JusticeForIPPs
mediadiversified.org/2022/03/05/let…
Apr 17, 2022 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
You're a Tory, you just don't know it yet - @SamanthaAsumadu
samanthaasumadu.substack.com/p/youre-a-tory… 'If you live in Britain and unless you are Sikh or Muslim, you are a Tory. I've not excluded black people and Jews from this sweeping generalisation as it's a bit more complicated for us. White supremacy made it more complicated.'
Apr 17, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
'As a mixed-race woman, in the game of racial Top Trumps my blackness always wins' Leo Shire mediadiversified.org/2015/03/23/as-… 'The idea of ‘race’ has no fixed definition considering the term has no biological basis. Yet all of us from minority backgrounds know what it is to be racialised, to be lumped together into a group with others who share our physical attributes,
Apr 17, 2022 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Been watching any TV this Easter holiday? Did you notice The Racial Pecking Order? #MDClassics fb.me/6wzkOIft1 'Name me a leading classical British actor and you can bet your bottom shilling they’ve done “period drama”. A genre that is all but off-limits to actors of colour. Some might well protest that Downton Abbey recently featured a black character. One.
Apr 16, 2022 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
The Nationality and Borders Bill raises uncomfortable questions about our "British" Identity mediadiversified.org/2022/01/10/the… 'The #NationalityandBordersBill 2021 with its proposed laws making it easier to deprive Black and Asian people in particular of British citizenship provides a practical opportunity to confront the comforting lies we tell ourselves about what it means for us to be British,
Apr 16, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
May 1st 2016: 'Last week, guerrilla projectionists lit up the Australian Embassy in London with the faces of three recently deceased young men, each of whom died while under the ‘care’ of the Australian government in its offshore refugee detention system. ImageImageImage ..The protest is all the more potent after another detained refugee died on Friday. 23-year-old Iranian refugee Omid set himself on fire last Wednesday during a visit by UN officials to the Australian offshore detention centre on Nauru.
Apr 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
2015: Letting migrants drown in the Mediterranean, is this what the Tories mean by ‘British values’? mediadiversified.org/2015/04/16/let… #MDClassics “Britain has lived its long life as an exemplary country, the small island with a massive impact”.

Less than twenty-four hours after David Cameron made this empire-esque declaration at the Conservative’s manifesto launch,
Apr 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
'They were arrested at their homes with no warning, detained and shipped off to immigration detention centres, the horrors of which have been detailed in numerous articles, including on this site' mediadiversified.org/2019/02/06/the… Image 'Earlier this year journalist Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi reported that six people died in or shortly after transfer from immigration detention. One of them was Carlington Spencer who was held at Morton Hall. He died aged 38.
Apr 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We believe that in silencing ourselves, we will encourage others to speak up.

#DoWeCountToo 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
Apr 4, 2022 • 30 tweets • 10 min read
Media Diversified is Going on Strike
Founder @SamanthaAsumadu explains why #DoWeCountToo mediadiversified.org/2022/04/04/med… 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
Apr 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Black British histories didn’t start in 1948 mediadiversified.org/2022/04/04/bla…
by @treventoured 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.
Apr 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
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 🙏🏾 ImageImage Nonetheless you can keep up to date with her writing, interviews, speeches, editing, filmmaking and workshops here: linktr.ee/SamanthaAsumadu
#TheWannabe
Apr 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
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
Feb 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
An open letter on the reporting of #Ukraine: Do not let people of colour be a casualty of war - by @marcusryder mediadiversified.org/2022/02/28/an-… 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.
Feb 27, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Exasperated socialist @2Si_2Vess dissects the Labour Party’s right wing and their cover up of institutional racism and bigotry in the party mediadiversified.org/2022/02/27/who… '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.
Feb 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Editor of a groundbreaking anthology #BlackstarBritain: The Anthology of British Ghanaians,🇬🇭 @JacquelineCourtenay describes the arduous journey to bring her book to publication when so many white publishers and agents turned her down... mediadiversified.org/2022/02/27/bla… "In publishing #BlackstarBritain, Media Diversified gives a timely heartwarming and confident Akwaaba to the full spectrum of all that it means to be British and Ghanaian. A marvel of a book that brings joy to my heart."

Charles Thompson MBE, @ScreenNation