It is one thing to suspect your people do not matter, another to live it, to be reminded of it, to see it in the faces of those who ask âhow your year has beenâ. Do you mention the war, the devastation, your grief? Or do you smile, say fine, talk about the weather?
Do you know how wild it is to mourn a country beset by what is being labelled âa forgotten warâ? The war is not over and yet it is already forgotten, such is the value of Sudanese life in the international arena.
Goddamn I sometimes think âshould I return to STEMâ and then I see the foolishness is still foolishingâ lucky I believe in life after death, bc this life can be A LOT
Wait! I forgot Adam! Adam. Named after the first man. Y3ni, if heâs named Adam heâs pretty much definitely going to make the right decisions for us all. MASHALLAH!
What a CHANGE!! So DIVERSE! So INCLUSIVE! So JUST! So OPEN! Well, with the best of the best like these, the Global Majority (women and people of colour) will be so looked after, so fine. đ Mashallah!
With Sam, Bret and Larry in Charge, Iâve never felt safer. Wallahi, what else could an African Muslim woman want in leadership!
My top substack post has been on an issue many have struggled with recently - friendships in heightened and trying political times. yassmin.substack.com/p/on-friends...
Can you be friends with folks on the opposite ends of an issue?
Thrilled that SAG-AFTRA have a deal. Selfishly happy because Sandman can start shooting again, and we can finally do the audio dubbing with our SAG actors on Anansi Boys and unselfishly happy because my (other) Union pulled it off and the world can restart.
SAG/AFTRA strike is finally over. The actors won. Unions rule: variety.com/2023/tv/news...
SAG-AFTRA has approved a tentative agreement that will end the longest actors strike against the major studios in Hollywood history.