yasmeen narayan 🪐
@aaaqilah.bsky.social
academic with interests in postcolonial theory, transcontinental colonial history, histories of violence, reparative pedagogy, short story writing, kickboxing Brixton v. Guyana & Pakistan https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005507/yasmeen-narayan
Windrush Justice Community Collective | Petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...
Birkbeck Access to Postgraduate Study Scholarship for students with disabilities, refugee status, care leavers, single parents, carers, first generation, from minoritised communities | www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
'Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about' | Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous by Arundhati Roy thewire.in/rights/cockr...
Race Forum at Birkbeck & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Public Symposium: Launch of the Open Cultural Studies Journal Special Issue on 'Violence(s)' | Tuesday 17 February 2026, 6.0 pm | bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
'The pub that changed me: On the Dome in the King's Road' | www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘There’s also a legal question for these companies: if the ICJ ends up ruling that Israel has committed a genocide, then a follow-up question will be: who contributed to that genocide? Which companies helped maintain it and sustain it?’ | www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Help Melissa rebuild her home in the Mississippi Delta | www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...
‘I know most people would rather donate to a donkey sanctuary than fund a programme that keeps junkies alive. But I’ve seen what happens when we look away. People die. My brother died’ | observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
open letter from educators on the hunger strikes | actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
On the programme where prisoners rehabilitate rescue dogs in California | pawsforlifek9.org/paws-for-lif...
Our hearts go out to all those affected by the horrific fire in Hong Kong. We are thinking of every family waiting for news, mourning loved ones, or holding onto hope for those still missing. To the families, friends and communities, we stand with you. You are not alone.
'Towards a reparatory theory of creolization' | eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/56...
‘In 2024, at least 1611 homeless people died across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’ | museumofhomelessness.org/dhp
The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Race Forum at Birkbeck & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Public Lecture: ‘Reframing the Windrush Scandal Through Oral Histories and Community Memory’ by Juanita Cox (@juanitacox.bsky.social), Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 6.0 pm | bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Blood from snake collector bitten hundreds of times by deadly species is used to create universal antivenom | www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
On Haven who sends books to prisoners | www.havendistribution.org.uk/about
Plans for collective legal action announced at People's Tribunal on police killings in UK | www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...