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After my first book came out, I wrote about the compulsion to search for one's own book in bookstores & how easy it is to lose sight of why we write. As my 2nd book's pub nears, I'm revisiting many of these same qs. Sharing in case it's helpful to you? longreads.com/2018/06/06/for…

Pay on publication is insane. Should be illegal.

If you're a working class writer in Ireland or the UK, DM me. Always looking for authentic new voices!

Zaineb Majoka Ammar Rashid this constant posturing is exhausting. ofc nationalist movements don't emerge in a vacuum -- who doesn't know this?! why can't one hold 2 facts at once: that a movement may emerge from legitimate conditions & pockets of it still may be compromised in ways worth scrutinising?

There is an odd tendency in progressive and nationalist circles in Pakistan that when there's a certain fact that's also consistent with what 'the state' is saying, then it cannot be acknowledged, agreed with or incorporated in your political understanding. I think this is a

Ammar Rashid To add, granting legitimacy to a position or argument simply because it is anti-State is also reactionary and childish. It is the other side of this “State narrative” coin. Basically, pro-State is lie and anti-State is true.

this is a deliberate overextension + misreading of what he said. he drew a parallel between the BLA (is it not rooted in baloch nationalism?! news to me) & baloch rebels in iran, & followed it with a complaint about how raising the topic invites accusations of chauvinism.

(thread) leftists have stood + continue to stand with baloch students & organisers demanding an end to enforced disappearances long before social media optics mattered.

(thread) for anyone clocking patterns: we all rely on the “you are not x, you are y” style of writing, but AI writing overdoes it. it is an immediate tell cos it signals formula instead of thought. just dealt with a comment built on this, which i will use as an example.

Plans coming into full view. If Pakistan agrees to acquiesce to the Israeli regime change push in Iran for Trumpian promises of minerals & crypto deals, it will push our country into a dark, violent tunnel. No Israeli proxy installation in Iran should be accepted on any terms.

Muslim friends who can take a joke: Does god really want us to get through these times sober?

A labourer who’s voted in 7 elections; an auto driver, wife & 3 brothers in three. All have voter IDs & #Aadhaar, which Election Commission of India won’t accept in new #Bihar voter rolls. Sumit Singh & Syed Abubakr Fatmi on the spectre of mass disenfranchisement article-14.com/post/anger-cha…

Israel’s aid distribution system is creating “chaos, starvation, and death,” says a group of more than 100 international organisations. But Israel denies responsibility for hunger in Gaza economist.com/middle-east-an…

"the commodification of research and its immersion in the discourse of metrics, databases, publication targets, publication profiles, impact factors, citation statistics, university rankings, and the image of the academic profession that is produced as a result".

New report documents how #Assam’s citizenship trials overseen by Foreigners’ Tribunals routinely violate due process, leaving thousands stateless. By Mohsin Alam Bhat, Arushi Gupta & Shardul Gopujkar of @NLSIUOfficial & Queen Mary University of London article-14.com/post/unmaking-…