Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
@rajnishah.bsky.social
listener-gatherer-writer
queer, quiet, trans non-binary, brown
feminist killjoy 🍉🇵🇸🍉🏳️⚧️🌈
Collective Listening as Survival (essay in small parts): https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558896/1937426
queer, quiet, trans non-binary, brown
feminist killjoy 🍉🇵🇸🍉🏳️⚧️🌈
Collective Listening as Survival (essay in small parts): https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558896/1937426
An updated edition of this beautiful book is available, and I recommend it. I have the first edition and treasure it. 'Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari'. Learning from ancient and enduring healing wisdoms.
www.magabala.com/products/tra...
www.magabala.com/products/tra...
Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari (New Edition)
WINNER, 2013 DEADLY AWARDS, PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE YEAR
COMMENDED, 2013 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, NON-FICTION
An updated, stunning new edition of a Magabala classic, Traditional Healers is a...
www.magabala.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
An updated edition of this beautiful book is available, and I recommend it. I have the first edition and treasure it. 'Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari'. Learning from ancient and enduring healing wisdoms.
www.magabala.com/products/tra...
www.magabala.com/products/tra...
For anyone who is buying gifts, Handmade Palestine (as well as their US site) now has a website that ships from and to EU. Really beautiful stuff.
www.handmadepalestine.eu
www.handmadepalestine.eu
Handmade Palestine EU
Handmade Palestine EU
www.handmadepalestine.eu
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
For anyone who is buying gifts, Handmade Palestine (as well as their US site) now has a website that ships from and to EU. Really beautiful stuff.
www.handmadepalestine.eu
www.handmadepalestine.eu
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.
Yessss small joys among the great despair - I have loved @suchmayer.bsky.social words over these years and can't wait to have this book as a paper companion. Also an excellent gift for weird big-hearted word lovers ❤️
It's here.
BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25
"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi
Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25
"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi
Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
October 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Yessss small joys among the great despair - I have loved @suchmayer.bsky.social words over these years and can't wait to have this book as a paper companion. Also an excellent gift for weird big-hearted word lovers ❤️
A year ago, I wrote "aware of all the ways in which destruction and distraction dance together in these days." Same same. The ways we hold attention are political. Trying to learn this again today.
October 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A year ago, I wrote "aware of all the ways in which destruction and distraction dance together in these days." Same same. The ways we hold attention are political. Trying to learn this again today.
🇵🇸 the people's encampment outside the european commission in brussels are seeking support - if you are in brussels please stop by with a warm drink or a supportive presence for as long as you can stay. if you're on instagram they are here: www.instagram.com/thepeoplesen...
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
🇵🇸 the people's encampment outside the european commission in brussels are seeking support - if you are in brussels please stop by with a warm drink or a supportive presence for as long as you can stay. if you're on instagram they are here: www.instagram.com/thepeoplesen...
On the afternoon of saturday nov 1st, Sanne Pols & I will host our third iteration of Waterworks, a queer grief gathering, this time beside the sea in Zandvoort. Tickets are 7.50 with no one turned away. Please join us if you feel called to be in community.
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...
Waterworks III: stories on Queer Grief ~ The Beach Edition
Let sand and sea be our friend. Let the wind caress our cheeks. Let us be together in our shared, personal grief.
www.eventbrite.nl
October 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
On the afternoon of saturday nov 1st, Sanne Pols & I will host our third iteration of Waterworks, a queer grief gathering, this time beside the sea in Zandvoort. Tickets are 7.50 with no one turned away. Please join us if you feel called to be in community.
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...
GPS (Global Performance Studies) new issue on Cultural Resistance to Genocide - open access: gps.psi-web.org/issue/view/11
GPS: Global Performance Studies
GPS: Global Performance Studies is a peer-reviewed, Open Access academic journal committed to cultural and scholarly activism
gps.psi-web.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
GPS (Global Performance Studies) new issue on Cultural Resistance to Genocide - open access: gps.psi-web.org/issue/view/11
Feminists Against Genocide Statement - open for signatures and sharing, especially within the academic community.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
FEMINISTS AGAINST GENOCIDE: End Academic Complicity Now!
Preamble
We issue this statement to support ongoing efforts to demand that universities – a sector we inhabit – act on their social responsibility to do their part in stopping Israel’s genocide in Gaz...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Feminists Against Genocide Statement - open for signatures and sharing, especially within the academic community.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
How the world is responding to Israel’s interception of Gaza flotilla
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
bit.ly
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
Global Sumud Flotilla has entered the high risk zone. So inspired by this heart led mission in this time of hatred and unending violence. This is what humanity can be.
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
Gaza Sumud flotilla: How Israel breaks international maritime law
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
bit.ly
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Global Sumud Flotilla has entered the high risk zone. So inspired by this heart led mission in this time of hatred and unending violence. This is what humanity can be.
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
Gaza Sumud flotilla: How Israel breaks international maritime law
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
bit.ly
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
Palestinian journalist Mustafa Ayyash is being held at Schiphol airport. He is trying to visit his brother in the Netherlands. Please sign the petition, it needs more signatures: www.change.org/p/free-pales...
Sign the Petition
Free Palestinian journalist Mustafa Ayyash!
www.change.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Palestinian journalist Mustafa Ayyash is being held at Schiphol airport. He is trying to visit his brother in the Netherlands. Please sign the petition, it needs more signatures: www.change.org/p/free-pales...
NATIONAL DEMO
The biggest humanitarian civilian mission in history needs your voice. Let's pressure our government into calling for a safe and free passage to Gaza to break the siege and to open a humanitarian corridor.
🗓️ Sunday 28 September
🕕 15:00
📍 Dam Square, Amsterdam
The biggest humanitarian civilian mission in history needs your voice. Let's pressure our government into calling for a safe and free passage to Gaza to break the siege and to open a humanitarian corridor.
🗓️ Sunday 28 September
🕕 15:00
📍 Dam Square, Amsterdam
September 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
NATIONAL DEMO
The biggest humanitarian civilian mission in history needs your voice. Let's pressure our government into calling for a safe and free passage to Gaza to break the siege and to open a humanitarian corridor.
🗓️ Sunday 28 September
🕕 15:00
📍 Dam Square, Amsterdam
The biggest humanitarian civilian mission in history needs your voice. Let's pressure our government into calling for a safe and free passage to Gaza to break the siege and to open a humanitarian corridor.
🗓️ Sunday 28 September
🕕 15:00
📍 Dam Square, Amsterdam
'From Ground Zero' short films made in Gaza showing in UK and Ireland September and early October. 🇵🇸 🖤🤎❤️
www.cosmiccatfilms.com/from-ground-...
www.cosmiccatfilms.com/from-ground-...
From Ground Zero | Cosmic Cat Films
From Ground Zero is a collection of 22 short films made in Gaza. Initiated by Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, the project was born to give a voice to 22 Gazan filmmakers to tell the untold stor...
www.cosmiccatfilms.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
'From Ground Zero' short films made in Gaza showing in UK and Ireland September and early October. 🇵🇸 🖤🤎❤️
www.cosmiccatfilms.com/from-ground-...
www.cosmiccatfilms.com/from-ground-...
Yet more hard to stomach truths about the kind of systems we're living in. 'The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media' - written by Darumbal/South Sea writer Amy McQuire (excellent blog to follow if you don't already).
amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity...
amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity...
‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media
The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media.
amymcquire.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Yet more hard to stomach truths about the kind of systems we're living in. 'The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media' - written by Darumbal/South Sea writer Amy McQuire (excellent blog to follow if you don't already).
amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity...
amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity...
"You might feel powerless. That it is too late.
It is way too late for way too many.
But way too late is going to have to be soon enough."
'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...
It is way too late for way too many.
But way too late is going to have to be soon enough."
'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...
The Sound of Solidarity
“From Birzeit University, in the heart of occupied Palestine, we are screaming with Gaza.
feministkilljoys.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
"You might feel powerless. That it is too late.
It is way too late for way too many.
But way too late is going to have to be soon enough."
'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...
It is way too late for way too many.
But way too late is going to have to be soon enough."
'The Sound of Solidarity' from @saranahmed.bsky.social
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/the-sound-...
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
Beginning to plan a book tour for No is Not a Lonely Utterance (UK/Ire). It means so much to share this work about our shared work! Let me know if there is somewhere I should go. The email for the book is the same as for the research [email protected] www.penguin.co.uk/books/470363...
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance
‘Behind many disasters are unheard complaints’
To complain is an intimate, dangerous act. Whether it’s speaking up about racism in the workplace or taking a stand against sexual harassment at univers...
www.penguin.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Beginning to plan a book tour for No is Not a Lonely Utterance (UK/Ire). It means so much to share this work about our shared work! Let me know if there is somewhere I should go. The email for the book is the same as for the research [email protected] www.penguin.co.uk/books/470363...
🙏🏽 @saranahmed.bsky.social for these words "the urgency of the times we are in, the need to say no to business as usual, because Israel is conducting a genocide in Gaza now, does not stop us from writing, urgency travels into the writing.
And into you."
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/a-useful-m...
And into you."
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/a-useful-m...
A Useful Manifesto
Old tales and trails
feministkilljoys.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
🙏🏽 @saranahmed.bsky.social for these words "the urgency of the times we are in, the need to say no to business as usual, because Israel is conducting a genocide in Gaza now, does not stop us from writing, urgency travels into the writing.
And into you."
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/a-useful-m...
And into you."
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/a-useful-m...
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
FREE NEWSLETTERS FOR CREATORS! NO FASCISM!!! Bookmarking for the international support, woopwoop.
The Comradery Beta is here! 🥳
-Free newsletters (substack style) are now available to creators!
-For Creators in the USA, most can now start creating your project page instantly (international support coming soon)
Share this thread and check out our blog post- comradery.co/news/posts/b...
-Free newsletters (substack style) are now available to creators!
-For Creators in the USA, most can now start creating your project page instantly (international support coming soon)
Share this thread and check out our blog post- comradery.co/news/posts/b...
July 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
FREE NEWSLETTERS FOR CREATORS! NO FASCISM!!! Bookmarking for the international support, woopwoop.
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
wrote about oceanic feeling, intimacy, improvisation and joanna newsom's divers for the jupiter cazimi and cancer new moon 🌊
"kindness and love is essentially the only real immortality"
water exalts the benefics
staroats.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
wrote about oceanic feeling, intimacy, improvisation and joanna newsom's divers for the jupiter cazimi and cancer new moon 🌊
The sicknesses within all our desires to be right, to be home, to be okay, to be seen as well. Holding the trouble of so many truths. #FreeWriting
July 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The sicknesses within all our desires to be right, to be home, to be okay, to be seen as well. Holding the trouble of so many truths. #FreeWriting
'What Now? Learning from Conflict in Spiritual-Political Homes' - 10th July - Buddhist Peace Fellowship
www.eventbrite.com/e/what-now-l...
www.eventbrite.com/e/what-now-l...
What Now? Learning from Conflict in Spiritual-Political Homes
A gathering to explore healing conflict in spiritual-political spaces with Kazu Haga, sujatha baliga & Leah Penniman.
www.eventbrite.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
'What Now? Learning from Conflict in Spiritual-Political Homes' - 10th July - Buddhist Peace Fellowship
www.eventbrite.com/e/what-now-l...
www.eventbrite.com/e/what-now-l...
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
"As illustrated throughout this issue, the two nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that we commemorate today, had a profound impact on many more geographies and peoples than solely on the hundreds of thousands of people murdered by the blasts."
The Colonized and the Atomic Bomb: Introduction
Welcome to the 60th issue of The Funambulist, which concludes the 10th year of publishing the magazine! In the past, we’ve dedicated issues commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1871 Paris…
thefunambulist.net
June 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"As illustrated throughout this issue, the two nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that we commemorate today, had a profound impact on many more geographies and peoples than solely on the hundreds of thousands of people murdered by the blasts."
Reposted by Rajni Shah (they, them) 🍉
Saturday June 28th 5-8pm Amsterdam Oost
Waterworks, Stories on Queer Grief: workshop + dinner
(supported places available)
💚💙💜🤎🖤
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...
Waterworks, Stories on Queer Grief: workshop + dinner
(supported places available)
💚💙💜🤎🖤
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...
Waterworks: stories on queer grief.
How do we want to be held in our queer grief?
How can we support one another in these impossible times?
Workshop + vegan Ethiopian dinner
www.eventbrite.nl
June 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Saturday June 28th 5-8pm Amsterdam Oost
Waterworks, Stories on Queer Grief: workshop + dinner
(supported places available)
💚💙💜🤎🖤
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...
Waterworks, Stories on Queer Grief: workshop + dinner
(supported places available)
💚💙💜🤎🖤
www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-wa...