Najma Sharif Alawi
@najmamsharif
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Writer. Journalist. 🇸🇴🇾🇪 Represented by @fuseliterary I run a newsletter called Inconvenient Taste - https://t.co/2klybevEsb
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Joined January 2010
I saw a kid in Gaza making fun of Drake on TikTok. That's when I knew it was over for him.
Indian people were making Not Like Us remixes at their weddings and Drake thinks bots were involved.
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what did y'all think decolonization meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.
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The response to Motaz from people who think they’re well-meaning makes me realize that people wanted to watch him die. His reporting was entertainment to them, a countdown to his inevitable death that they claimed they’d riot over. He saw right through it, I’m glad he got out.
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They won their seats because they understood their base. Which is why telling us Kamala lost because of misogynoir is a superficial way of understanding US politics in 2024.
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar won re-election by comfortable margins and the rest of the party are fighting for their lives in these states. Let’s not pretend we don’t know how that happened.🤷🏻
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can you believe people asked us what our dream jobs were as kids. a dream "job" smh. who dreams about working? what kind of sick conditioning was that?.
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Why can’t people make the connection between the lack of third spaces and hyperconsumption. These people have no time, few friends and nothing to do. They’re going to collect cups and other things they don’t need to feel alive. They’re crying out for help lmfao.
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Come delete the tweet.
One year anniversary of one of the most evil Tweets of all time. I am not even kidding when I say that this one short post played a significant part in changing my worldview forever.
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It’s embarrassing that a legacy publication dedicated to Black women didn’t post daily coverage of the trial. A meme after the fact for engagement? SMH. Taking a “let’s wait and see” approach to this case is the opposite of believing and protecting Black women. We see you.
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Diaspora wars are so funny (I’m guilty) because everyone’s arguing in English. We lost.
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Why is the president-elect crowd funding on the tl? This country is so embarrassing.
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My Twitter moment of the decade was when the Paris riots were happening and Black French Twitter treated it like some scenic backdrop to their pictures. What a chaotic diaspora.
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Every app is harassing us to vote but these politicians couldn’t even offer a crumb of free health care during a pandemic, or debt forgiveness. They want us to vote for vibes.
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Everyone has this instinct to humble Black women lol gross. This is so gross.
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Our “allies” were calling us flies last night. How wild is that lmfao.
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You can’t convince me that people watching everything you post but never engaging is normal. It’s evil eye, it’s surveillance. Use someone’s Netflix password if you want to watch something. I don’t do that to people and I expect the same. Clicking on every story like a stalker.
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People who attached all their self-worth to their productivity are having such a hard time. What a good time to self-reflect and procure a sense of dignity that is innate regardless of where you are and what you do.
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Nothing moves anyone like love. I want everyone to be a sappy mess next year. Fall in love or try. That is enough life for anyone.
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Remember when white people tried to discover empathy and they called it ally fatigue. I’ve been thinking about that cause it’s still unbelievable to me lol.
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Just woke up, but you know who didn’t? Henry Kissinger.
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gen-z this, millennial that, no one here can buy a house.
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Not being able to handle grief is killing us. We make no space for people dealing with grief. Being a little inconvenienced and uncomfortable to make space for people experiencing loss is something we should all learn to do as life becomes harder for us.
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Mia Khalifa loves rilling up Muslims, and specifically Muslim women because she's aware of how unprotected Muslim women are. She will never apologize for how she's sexualized a group of people that don't want to be because who cares about hijabis or Muslim women lol.
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take care of each other. protect each other. help each other. choose compassion and care over greed and hyper individualism. without community, we can’t survive. study, join an org, mask up, and try to dedicate any amount of time to the people around you. we need each other.
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They’re upset with him for living because it’s not exciting for them anymore. If these are allies, who needs enemies?.
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clinical, seasonal, pandemic and political depression.
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I sent the most “evil tweet.” Meanwhile Israel is sending bombs. Shut up Drew.
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I can’t believe MuslimPro is selling us out like this, time to start using a stick and checking the shadows to figure out salah times.
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I love making mistakes and being wrong and still being gentle with myself. I love not internalizing the harsh, unforgiving, and punitive attitudes of others. Unlearning that shame, guilt, and fear has equipped me to grow and be kinder to myself, and no one can take that from me.
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Let me put y’all on.
there's probably a pdf out there that would change your whole life.
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Y’all took a beautiful moment she didn’t even have to share and made it into discourse.
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We're witnessing the fall of Drake and Israel at the same time.
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Just because it’s Ramadan doesn’t mean that people can’t get swung on. The Battle of Badr happened during Ramadan, don’t get got.
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I love love. I love falling in love fast. I love being loved. I love love letters. I love calling my friends about how in love I am.
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James Baldwin’s decade in Turkey and the influence it had on his writing isn't talked about enough for me. We tend to fixate on time in France but he wrote the majority of his books in Istanbul.
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thinking of how broke James Baldwin was and how if he were alive today he'd have a cashapp link in his bio and a GFM for housing and a lot of you would hate him. read Living in Fire by Bill Mullen if you haven't. his 100th birthday is coming up and nothing has changed!.
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I wrote about Ivy Park, Bey's capitalist antics, celebrity and how athleisure is just depoliticized streetwear for @BitchMedia
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I need Black women to demand more in every facet of our lives. We deserve it triple times.
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Being a child in school post-9/11 was so funny cause no one understood Islam beyond whatever stereotypes they had so my friends and I convinced our teachers that we needed 30 min to pray duhur. Sure there was some trauma but we got away with so much.
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Muhammad Ali was ready to go to jail when he got drafted but you can’t withhold a vote? 😭 where are the real Muslims? This is embarrassing!.
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Love is the only reason to live. Tell the people you love how much you love them today. Be corny, be cringe, look silly. Life is short, let the love spill out of you freely. Remember this love as we imagine and fight for a future that will be filled with love inshaAllah.
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I need Muslim girl brain rot to end in the West and I need the girls to start reading some theory. Every day can’t be matcha, Vela scarf and Dubai vlogs.
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sometimes you have to remind yourself that everyone you love is suffering under capitalism and they haven't neglected you, they're treading these waters too. you are loved. our time is being stolen.
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I’ve started my journey to memorize the Quran again because I forgot some of it and I really want to have it all memorized again and the way it’s cured my brain fog? By next Ramadan I want to pray taraweeh at home without any assistance 🥰 Allah SWT made me a genius. MashaAllah.
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While I was in Minnesota I met up with the multi-hyphenate sweetheart Halima Aden for @papermagazine
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Work is so boring. another reason to dismantle capitalism. We shouldn't have to live boring lives, I'm too young to be this bored.
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Strangulation is a major sign that domestic abuse will turn deadly. I hope she’s getting the support and help she needs to heal. Who cares that he was your fave, let’s be happy she was alive to make that report.
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Lol at some of our parents surviving dictatorships, fleeing and then coming here only for round two.
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They’re in Qatar and no one has a niqab to throw on the field to scare the French? Zero forward thinking.
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When I said people voted for vibes. I got yelled at.
New - Biden completely rejects Schumer/Warren proposal to cancel $50K of student loan debt per borrower: . “I will not make that happen.". Says he doesn't want to forgive debts of borrowers from elite schools -- and money would be better spent on early childhood education.
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every other day I'm denying North Africans their African identity but once Morocco made it to the quarter finals?
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a lot of you are passive participants in your lives. it’s why you won’t demand anything from a partner, a friend, a co-worker, a sibling, a parent, or a presidential candidate. why would anyone listen to you when you let life happen to you?.
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Love is the revolutionary force that will free us. Love makes us bold. Love puts life and death into perspective. Love reminds us that time is limited. Love exhorts us to act. Love exists beyond life. Love is greater than death.
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"stay at home gf/wife" content is being sold to the girls as a lifestyle that doesn't go beyond domestic labor ––which we all know is difficult, but making content every day, recording your every moment and collaborating with brands is a job. they are still working.
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The idea of Drake being happy right now is pissing me off.
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Dating is haraam cause you should be coming to my family with 500 goats and asking for my hand in marriage if you want my attention. What is heartbreak. You will be held to account by my entire tribe if I cry.
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People have eviction notices on their doors and their stomachs are grumbling and they have the audacity to ask for OUR help 😭.
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This has done something to my spirit that I didn’t know I needed. They really took it all back. 😭.
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It’s everyday lmfao and I’m not taking back a word. Look at my header photo. You can’t govern what I say Rabbi.
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Debating which genocide was worse is a little insane and useless. Please do something else with your short time on earth.
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Shoutout to the Moroccans in Amsterdam, I cant wait for the Isntrealis to meet the Algerians in Paris. If only Fanon was around to see this.
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Time has never felt more fake. A new year? What does that even mean right now.
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This was Obama
Obama on his how his discovery of Marx and Foucault in college became inseparable from “a strategy for picking up girls”:
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Stop calling it privilege and call it what it is: POWER.
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In 50 years, who do you think we’ll learn was funded by the CIA to neutralize dissent?.
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If you’ve ever worked a minimum wage paying job, you wouldn’t say that working class people don’t engage with leftist ideas.
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If this isn’t the recession, then what is it? Do you mean to tell me we’re only microdosing the recession right now? Explain it to me like I’m five.
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This country is run by people who should be in hospice care.
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REAL.
#themarvels star Saagar Shaikh on posting about Palestine in hollywood: "I don't give a fuck. People are dying. I'll go become a carpenter" check out full interview here
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Who are these Somali girls and what are they doing on a Nathan Fielder show. I am legit screaming about this?????
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For the people protesting tonight, here’s a resource on how to protect yourself from being tracked and recognized by facial recognition tech and aerial surveillance.
In our anti-surveillance toolkit you can learn how to scrub images of metadata, use police scanner maps, find encryption tools, and learn how to stay safe both online and when going to actions: - find us on Instagram @/maskonzone
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Sinead O’Connor (Shuhada Sadaqat) held me down when I started writing, and encouraged me to speak up more. We DM’d all the time. I don’t know if I would’ve survived without her. I’m praying for her this Ramadan. May Allah SWT grant her jannah.
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Nightlife has been decimated by COVID/ the recession. Without clubs, bars and spaces for young people to congregate at a low cost, there is no culture. Music doesn’t spread organically and artists can’t thrive, street fashion dies, and the ability to make friends? Gone.
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I want more softness and tenderness next year and not only in my romantic relationships, I want it in all of my relationships.
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it looks like the Parisians are turning up again too. they set things on fire so casually whenever they need to lol.
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Karlie Kloss bought one of the coolest magazines and just said that's done.
Scoop: i-D magazine, which was bought by Karlie Kloss late last year, laid off most of the editorial staff in London today -- about 10 employees -- global editorial director Olivia Singer and features editor Mahoro Seward are staying for now, I hear.
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Read anything. Even just a page a day. The first word revealed in the Quran is “read” cause God knew people would struggle with that one.
Read less Fanon and more Marx.
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People are being dense in the quote tweets saying Essence is a lifestyle magazine. True. But go check their site and check out the news section where they cover politics and culture – a section where they could’ve hired a journalist with legal expertise to cover this lol anyway.
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It’s almost the fourth anniversary of the essay I wrote about Bey critiquing her for being a capitalist btw. I feel an exhaustion that can’t be explained. They really tried to kill me over that and now here we are, finding out that billionaires are bad.
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No one has to engage with everything but I’m not going to act cool and comfortable with people watching me when I’m just a regular person. 400 likes for the photos but 4,000 views on the stories is very unsettling. Very weird. I love blocking y’all.
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How much longer do we need entertain this kind of thinking because to me it’s just counterinsurgency. How many times will people tag Palestinians for you to listen to, read and follow before you stop being a coward and pick a side? This is cowardice.
It's completely okay not to have an opinion on an international conflict because you may not be the most informed and just listen.
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