Our aim is to celebrate these diverse communities every year in the month of September, between South Asian Heritage Month (July-August) and Black History Month (October). ESEA Heritage Month is open to everyone who wishes to learn and celebrate. /2

The letter is addressed to @GEOgovuk @CommonsDCMS Department for Culture, Media and Sport Cabinet Office, and signatories include Gemma Chan Benedict Wong @Kt_Leung Zing Tsjeng Nova Reid Patrick Vernon Edward Enninful OBE Daniel Dae Kim and many more. 3/

The letter is accompanied by a public petition: chng.it/Y4wCpVzPGw /4

Please show your support by retweeting and using #ESEAHM2022 Full programme of events can be found on our website: besean.co.uk We look forward to celebrating with you! /5

The full letter can be found here:

#ESEAHM2022 in the news! Gemma Chan and Benedict Wong call on UK government to recognise ESEA Heritage Month independent.co.uk/life-style/gem…

For Black and African writers and creators who feel trapped by the white gaze, this is for you. Watch the iconic Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembéne brilliantly rebuff a question about how his films were received in Europe.

This is a very personal piece about my undying desire for food as a person who uses a feeding tube for nutrition 🍨🥟🍜🍟 Thank you to @eater & erin deJesus for publishing it! Shout out to bettina Roy Choi Esther Choi who fed my cravings w/ their posts Art: Felicia Liang 梁楷平

a short and incomplete thread of common ableist microaggressions and why they’re bad 🧵:

If you want a General Election, get out on the streets and demand one.

Endless gratitude to @SarahOwen_ who regularly calls out anti ESEA racism in Parliament, but always saddened to see the flak she has to take for it.

I’m on Mastodon Mai-Anh Peterson on the mastodonapp.uk server. Hoping to see more and more #ESEA folks over there soon!

"I am not here to be a politician. We want to fly Africa's flag high just like Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon. We are here to represent Africa." ~ Morocco 🇲🇦 coach Walid Regragui — when asked if his team's win over Spain was a "win for the Arab world."

Gross. Just fucking gross on every level

We have a woman of colour as Home Secretary pushing through a law that would make it impossible for a victim of sex trafficking to access help through the UK's Modern Slavery System, if they entered the country through illegal means. Representation isn't equality, pass it on.

Wondering if Novara Media could cover the state violence in #Senegal and resurgence of the #FreeSenegal movement? Govt suppressing social media and 10 people killed so far - the West needs to be aware of what’s happening in #Dakar. #NovaraLive Michael Walker