The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The depths of moral bankruptcy our politicians plumb just keep deepening Meanwhile the life affirming thing is that maybe a million people are out here standing with love 💪🏽🕊️ #ceasefirenow🇵🇸
The man in the center of this photograph is my grandfather Hans Hirsch He survived a childhood lived under Nazi rule as a Jew in Berlin, fleeing in 1938. I never stopped (probably annoyingly) asking him about those experiences. I loved him and miss him deeply. At times like this, when people try to confuse us as to right and wrong, who is oppressed and who is an oppressor, I think about him. He survived one of the most extreme periods of hatred and oppression in history. I ask myself what he would think When I dig deep, I know that one of the reasons I am on this lifelong journey of struggle against unfair systems of power, is his legacy. I know that he stood for a world where the psychosis of genocide could not be repeated. This literally informs everything I do. If you are passionate about fighting antisemitism, as I am, you cannot ignore prejudice and dehumanisation in any of its forms. You cannot be silent when it is weaponised against black people of African heritage. You cannot be complicit in Islamophobia. You cannot tolerate the murder of innocent civilians. You cannot watch Palestine be flattened in the name of security. This mission transcends any one community’s interests, that is the meaning of solidarity. My grandfather’s trauma reminds me that a world in which we are comfortable with killing people in the name of order, security, prosperity, revenge, or any of the other reasons that are inevitably given, is a world in which none of us can ever be safe I know there are Jewish people who have been told those of us who stand against the murder of Palestinians are driven by hatred for them. I hear that fear. I know it’s borne out of trauma. I urge you to engage with the Jewish organisations who are fighting alongside Palestinian brothers and sisters for peace, who are doing such powerful work to dismantle that narrative. I salute them, and every single person who has had the courage to separate themselves from pressure within their own community to take a stand for peace. And for justice. It’s hard. History will judge us. If we stay silent against what is happening in Gaza, we – humanity – we all lose. #knowyourhistory #takeastand #peace
It’s difficult to find language that adequately conveys how comfortable our political leaders have become with overt racism, outright lies, and rhetoric that costs lives Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom with Sajid Javid, we got Priti Patel. When she seemed an unparalleled disaster, we got Suella Braverman. There may be no accountability but we will not forget #racist #leaders #politics #oppression #knowyourhistory
It’s difficult to find language that adequately conveys how comfortable our political leaders have become with overt racism, outright lies, and rhetoric that costs lives Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom with Sajid Javid, we got Priti Patel. When she seemed an unparalleled disaster, we got Suella Braverman. There may be no accountability but we will not forget #racist #leaders #politics #oppression #knowyourhistory
It’s difficult to find language that adequately conveys how comfortable our political leaders have become with overt racism, outright lies, and rhetoric that costs lives Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom with Sajid Javid, we got Priti Patel. When she seemed an unparalleled disaster, we got Suella Braverman. There may be no accountability but we will not forget #racist #leaders #politics #oppression #knowyourhistory
It’s difficult to find language that adequately conveys how comfortable our political leaders have become with overt racism, outright lies, and rhetoric that costs lives Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom with Sajid Javid, we got Priti Patel. When she seemed an unparalleled disaster, we got Suella Braverman. There may be no accountability but we will not forget #racist #leaders #politics #oppression #knowyourhistory
It’s difficult to find language that adequately conveys how comfortable our political leaders have become with overt racism, outright lies, and rhetoric that costs lives Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom with Sajid Javid, we got Priti Patel. When she seemed an unparalleled disaster, we got Suella Braverman. There may be no accountability but we will not forget #racist #leaders #politics #oppression #knowyourhistory
It’s difficult to find language that adequately conveys how comfortable our political leaders have become with overt racism, outright lies, and rhetoric that costs lives Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom with Sajid Javid, we got Priti Patel. When she seemed an unparalleled disaster, we got Suella Braverman. There may be no accountability but we will not forget #racist #leaders #politics #oppression #knowyourhistory
It’s difficult to find language that adequately conveys how comfortable our political leaders have become with overt racism, outright lies, and rhetoric that costs lives Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom with Sajid Javid, we got Priti Patel. When she seemed an unparalleled disaster, we got Suella Braverman. There may be no accountability but we will not forget #racist #leaders #politics #oppression #knowyourhistory
Even as someone constantly self-educating about race and white supremacy, Stamped From The Beginning was LEARNING It taught, entertained, and moved me. We will never exhaust this story of how race was invented and weaponised against Americans and against the world. This is a journey through the exclusive storytelling of African American women. And @ibramxk , because he wrote the book 🙌🏽 Joy to hold space for this conversation with him, the remarkable director @rogerrosswilliams , the FIRST African American director to ever win an academy award, and @maraakil , with whom I a little bit obsessed because having loved her work for years (special shout out for Being Mary Jane) in person she is a force of nature, beautiful, kind, and so generous Watch this on @netflix and be amazed Wearing @edelinelee Styled by @melwilkinson1
Even as someone constantly self-educating about race and white supremacy, Stamped From The Beginning was LEARNING It taught, entertained, and moved me. We will never exhaust this story of how race was invented and weaponised against Americans and against the world. This is a journey through the exclusive storytelling of African American women. And @ibramxk , because he wrote the book 🙌🏽 Joy to hold space for this conversation with him, the remarkable director @rogerrosswilliams , the FIRST African American director to ever win an academy award, and @maraakil , with whom I a little bit obsessed because having loved her work for years (special shout out for Being Mary Jane) in person she is a force of nature, beautiful, kind, and so generous Watch this on @netflix and be amazed Wearing @edelinelee Styled by @melwilkinson1
Even as someone constantly self-educating about race and white supremacy, Stamped From The Beginning was LEARNING It taught, entertained, and moved me. We will never exhaust this story of how race was invented and weaponised against Americans and against the world. This is a journey through the exclusive storytelling of African American women. And @ibramxk , because he wrote the book 🙌🏽 Joy to hold space for this conversation with him, the remarkable director @rogerrosswilliams , the FIRST African American director to ever win an academy award, and @maraakil , with whom I a little bit obsessed because having loved her work for years (special shout out for Being Mary Jane) in person she is a force of nature, beautiful, kind, and so generous Watch this on @netflix and be amazed Wearing @edelinelee Styled by @melwilkinson1
Even as someone constantly self-educating about race and white supremacy, Stamped From The Beginning was LEARNING It taught, entertained, and moved me. We will never exhaust this story of how race was invented and weaponised against Americans and against the world. This is a journey through the exclusive storytelling of African American women. And @ibramxk , because he wrote the book 🙌🏽 Joy to hold space for this conversation with him, the remarkable director @rogerrosswilliams , the FIRST African American director to ever win an academy award, and @maraakil , with whom I a little bit obsessed because having loved her work for years (special shout out for Being Mary Jane) in person she is a force of nature, beautiful, kind, and so generous Watch this on @netflix and be amazed Wearing @edelinelee Styled by @melwilkinson1
Thank you @naomieharris for being a gracious, attentive, warm and engaging host for this conversation about my book #DecolonisingMyBody Talking to you about it felt like the most natural thing in the world! @stylistevents #StylistLive #books #bookstagram #knowyourhistory 💫 I am wearing @zimmermann @jw_anderson Styled by @melwilkinson1 Make up @maxfactor Read about it in @stylistmagazine, Link in bio 🔗 Opening up about the inspiration behind the book, Hirsch said: “We live in a society that’s constantly telling us that beauty, value and status are all connected to being young. And so, as we get older, we feel the pressure that we’re becoming less beautiful and less interesting. So it’s natural that many women would respond to that by trying to prolong the appearance of youth. But I just had this epiphany when I turned 40, where I realised that I regarded it as completely socially acceptable to go under a surgeon’s knife to operate on my body to try to look younger than I am.” She went on to tell Harris and the crowd: “But to mark my body in the way my female ancestors had, in a way that connects me to my community, to my history, that denotes my role and my value as a storyteller, that celebrates ageing as a process – I regarded that as backwards…” For Hirsch, this was a moment when she realised she had done so much work during her career challenging colonial, racist and unfair ideas, but hadn’t been applying those same ideas to her own body. The friends also talked about Hirsch’s vulnerability in Decolonising My Body and the intentionality behind this. “I hadn’t really given myself permission to be the person that I needed to be for this book – to talk openly about my struggles with my intimate self. If there’s one thing to take from this book, it’s that we are the products of our conditioning, and I’ve worked hard to unpick that conditioning. This isn’t a book that tells you what choices you should make about your body. It’s completely judgment-free.” …
Thank you @naomieharris for being a gracious, attentive, warm and engaging host for this conversation about my book #DecolonisingMyBody Talking to you about it felt like the most natural thing in the world! @stylistevents #StylistLive #books #bookstagram #knowyourhistory 💫 I am wearing @zimmermann @jw_anderson Styled by @melwilkinson1 Make up @maxfactor Read about it in @stylistmagazine, Link in bio 🔗 Opening up about the inspiration behind the book, Hirsch said: “We live in a society that’s constantly telling us that beauty, value and status are all connected to being young. And so, as we get older, we feel the pressure that we’re becoming less beautiful and less interesting. So it’s natural that many women would respond to that by trying to prolong the appearance of youth. But I just had this epiphany when I turned 40, where I realised that I regarded it as completely socially acceptable to go under a surgeon’s knife to operate on my body to try to look younger than I am.” She went on to tell Harris and the crowd: “But to mark my body in the way my female ancestors had, in a way that connects me to my community, to my history, that denotes my role and my value as a storyteller, that celebrates ageing as a process – I regarded that as backwards…” For Hirsch, this was a moment when she realised she had done so much work during her career challenging colonial, racist and unfair ideas, but hadn’t been applying those same ideas to her own body. The friends also talked about Hirsch’s vulnerability in Decolonising My Body and the intentionality behind this. “I hadn’t really given myself permission to be the person that I needed to be for this book – to talk openly about my struggles with my intimate self. If there’s one thing to take from this book, it’s that we are the products of our conditioning, and I’ve worked hard to unpick that conditioning. This isn’t a book that tells you what choices you should make about your body. It’s completely judgment-free.” …
If you follow me, you know I’m super curious about history, and seriously unimpressed with how the legacies of key figures have been simplified, erased, manipulated Sooooo when the universe presented the possibility of a more honest conversation about this with @peterfrankopan, one of the cleverest people I know, of course I said YEH 🙌🏽 And the result is Legacy! It’s been hard to keep quiet about this one! But now it’s out! New podcast, with Goalhanger and @wonderymedia starting today And starting with… Napoleon 🎥 Search LEGACY now wherever you get your podcasts or you can binge entire seasons of Legacy ad-free on Amazon Music #podcast #history #knowyourhistory
Here’s a little taste of our new podcast exploring the legacy of major historical figures, which I’m so happy to say is RIDING UP THE CHARTS 🐎🤩🎧 Me and @peterfrankopan have a little surprise in store for you too 👀🎭🎬 First up, #Napoleon @wonderymedia @amazonmusic #goalhanger 👗 @edelinelee 💄 @makeupby_niki 📷 @mark_harrison_photography
