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Standup comic/ screenwriter I Bookings/contact: aamer.rahman@gmail.com I Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Mar 5 7 tweets 2 min read
After not touring for seven years, I put together 'Culture War,' a rough hour of new material that I performed over a week in London. Here's the video I used to start the show each night.
I'll be releasing clips and outtakes soon. Not a full comedy album - more like a mixtape of standup bits and reflections about growing up in the shadow of the War on Terror and the genocide in Gaza. Remember 9/11?
Jan 23, 2023 16 tweets 6 min read
1/ Muslim Andrew Tate stans, clarify something for me: We can't criticise him publicly because he's 'new to the religion,' but it's fine for him to rant about how his enemies have 'annoyed God' while he solicits money for his fake university? Nope. 🧵👇🏾 2/ Run your mouth publicly, get schooled publicly.
You don't get to be the most famous Muslim on the planet with no scrutiny. While selling his get-rich-quick scheme (currently his pinned tweet) Tate also says his info 'isn't available anywhere else.'
May 15, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
1/6 The Israeli military made these cute Instagram cartoons to explain the situation in Gaza, so I made some minor corrections: 2/6
Feb 1, 2021 11 tweets 3 min read
1/ One of the biggest criticisms in the @CollingwoodFC racism report is that the club has always treated incidents of racism as PR problems to be deflected and shut down rather than dealing with them properly. This press conference demonstrated exactly that. #CfcDoBetter 2/ Collingwood's line is that they deserve credit for having the 'courage' to commission a report into their own racism. The only reason this report happened is because of the public pressure @iamlumumba single-handedly brought on them by not backing down from his claims.
Jun 10, 2020 26 tweets 7 min read
1/ Here's how Waleed Aly, Peter Helliar and The Project undermined Heritier Lumumba when he came forward with his experiences of racism while playing for Collingwood. It’s important because this ended public discussion around Heritier’s case. #RacisminAustralia 2/ The Project had an opportunity to use their platform to stand with a Black player who had survived years of racism. Instead, they followed Collingwood’s playbook and effectively killed his story. This is a long thread. Like LONG. Receipts and all.