“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.” - Malcolm X (May 19, 1925-February 21, 1965)

There have been a few videos like this recently, showing men breaking down during funeral prayers. I keep thinking about how over 20 months we have seen Palestinian men’s faces and demeanor just collapse - the non-stop fatigue, grief, burden & realization of betrayal now shows on

Wrote about coughing in London, the kindness of strangers and my book launch with Bolu Babalola shubnumkhan.substack.com/p/what-a-cough…

Overheard in a Durban salon: Lady: ‘Nowadays they stealing everything’’ Hairdresser snipping hair: ‘Ya, it’s gone too bad.’ She: They take everything, even our lungs Hairdresser pauses. Everyone is quiet trying to understand. Hairdresser starts to cut again: Yeah, even our lungs.

Tea is suddenly the best thing about life.

this is beautiful and I wish everyone would make this a reality across the world. everyone deserves to experience this.

If life has taught me anything, it's that everything good is about waiting and when the time is right, you blow that thing outta the water.

I have an idea for a new novel! No one should ever tweet anything like this in public, it is reckless, wild, too devil-may-care, but here I am anyway. Do you know how long it takes just to have an IDEA?!

I just want to say l saw this coming.

Been avoiding this video, I don’t know why, but watch it. Heartbreaking, rage-inducing. Fire from the mouth of babes 😢 this can’t go on.

Writing novels is cinema in the best way because you get to be the director and the actor and the audience all at once and reshoot and re-play and change the scenery or the location or the score all in your mind.

In which I write about the loneliness and loveliness of pursuing what you love. shubnumkhan.substack.com/p/how-i-accide…

Would highly recommend Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy if you like books about nature, dystopia and family love.

I'm going to say something I'm prob going to delete but the reason I know that when I finally find a partner he's going to be wonderful is because my father prays for one for me every night. And how can that not bring goodness into my life?

This is a huge win, even if it’s come so late. There has been an incredible and sustained campaign of pressure on PEN for 21 months - glad to see this.

Join authors Shubnum Khan | Order The Djinn Waits and Genevieve Cogman as they discuss what happens when myth and magic collide with history. 📅 - Saturday 28 June 🏛️ - University of Bradford Book your tickets here: 🔗 bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/haunted-… #folklore #fantasy #historicalfiction #BradfordLitFest

Been traveling around the UK by myself and one day I’m going to write an essay about what it’s like to be a female traveling by yourself. So many great things but also exhausting how much you have to think about being safe.

Always thinking about this moment.

The nyt story about zohran illustrates the issues with our conceptualization of race and identity in this stupid country. We want people to easily fit into identifiable categories that we can judge, but this leaves little room for nuance and it can wash out nonstandard identities

Working on something cute for my nephew