Sharan Dhaliwal 🍉🏳️🌈
@sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
Founder of Burnt Roti and Middlesex Pride
Freelance editor and journalist
Author of Burning My Roti
Queer
Free Palestine
(she/they)
Freelance editor and journalist
Author of Burning My Roti
Queer
Free Palestine
(she/they)
Pinned
free palestine, sudan, congo, kashmir, syria, yemen, hawai'i, lebanon, indigenous lands, every place effected by colonisation and imperialism, now and forever
“With the Labour Party’s apparent fall into becoming a Reform-esque government with hard-right policies, they are attracting more of a hard-line narrative on underrepresented groups. Studies have shown those who are anti-immigration tend to be homophobic and transphobic”
metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/k...
Keir Starmer’s shock at homophobia is absurd and ignorant
Queer people are simply not feeling safe in the UK.
metro.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
“With the Labour Party’s apparent fall into becoming a Reform-esque government with hard-right policies, they are attracting more of a hard-line narrative on underrepresented groups. Studies have shown those who are anti-immigration tend to be homophobic and transphobic”
metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/k...
metro.co.uk/2025/11/27/k...
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almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
decided to pick up a painting i worked on 3 years ago - this is 2 hours of work!
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
decided to pick up a painting i worked on 3 years ago - this is 2 hours of work!
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It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny
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I have seen a lot of 'dont comment on women's bodies' etc posts about the Wicked press & i generally agree but the normalisation and celebration of ever-shrinking forms is being blasted into the retinas of thousands of young girls across the world & that is also bad
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I have seen a lot of 'dont comment on women's bodies' etc posts about the Wicked press & i generally agree but the normalisation and celebration of ever-shrinking forms is being blasted into the retinas of thousands of young girls across the world & that is also bad
If anyone can take a photo of page 2 of the Metro newspaper and send it to me, I would greatly appreciate it x
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If anyone can take a photo of page 2 of the Metro newspaper and send it to me, I would greatly appreciate it x
Shabana Mahmoud suggesting we seize the assets of refugees to pay for their asylum, literally robbing people not only of their jewellery - ripping gold from their necks - but taking their memories and ancestral lineage with it. Absolutely needlessly vicious.
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Shabana Mahmoud suggesting we seize the assets of refugees to pay for their asylum, literally robbing people not only of their jewellery - ripping gold from their necks - but taking their memories and ancestral lineage with it. Absolutely needlessly vicious.
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✏️ BEST FEATURE
Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
✏️ BEST FEATURE
Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
Hi! I'm looking for a queer accountant to help with Middlesex Pride CIC's accounts - if you are one or know any, please get in touch 🙏🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Drop me an email with 'Accountant' in the subject line at: [email protected] 💌
Drop me an email with 'Accountant' in the subject line at: [email protected] 💌
October 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Hi! I'm looking for a queer accountant to help with Middlesex Pride CIC's accounts - if you are one or know any, please get in touch 🙏🏽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Drop me an email with 'Accountant' in the subject line at: [email protected] 💌
Drop me an email with 'Accountant' in the subject line at: [email protected] 💌
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Two years. I can't believe it. What a disgusting time. What a horrific time. We live in the age of monsters, and all we can hope for is to finally defeat some of them. Free palestine.
October 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Two years. I can't believe it. What a disgusting time. What a horrific time. We live in the age of monsters, and all we can hope for is to finally defeat some of them. Free palestine.
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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no excuse for being this bad
October 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
no excuse for being this bad
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IMAGINE SENDING 20 WARSHIPS TO INTERCEPT BOATS CARRYING MILK POWDER AND BABY FORMULA FOR STARVING CHILDREN. THIS IS THE GREATEST EVIL EXISTING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW!!!!!
October 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
IMAGINE SENDING 20 WARSHIPS TO INTERCEPT BOATS CARRYING MILK POWDER AND BABY FORMULA FOR STARVING CHILDREN. THIS IS THE GREATEST EVIL EXISTING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW!!!!!
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson
Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson
BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about wrongdoing at Charing Cross police station
The Metropolitan police are braced for an undercover documentary showing officers and staff allegedly being supportive of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, making anti-Muslim comments and using excessive force against suspects in custody.
The allegations, which centre on Charing Cross police station in central London, are contained in a BBC Panorama documentary airing on Wednesday evening. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson
this one has been ten years in the making ... ✍🏽
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
this one has been ten years in the making ... ✍🏽
I'm looking for work!! 👀
- I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers.
- I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace.
- I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us.
- I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride.
sharandhaliwal.com
- I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers.
- I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace.
- I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us.
- I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride.
sharandhaliwal.com
Sharan Dhaliwal
Founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride
sharandhaliwal.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I'm looking for work!! 👀
- I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers.
- I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace.
- I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us.
- I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride.
sharandhaliwal.com
- I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers.
- I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace.
- I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us.
- I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride.
sharandhaliwal.com
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Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
just a bunch of war criminals deciding the fate of civilians, nothing to see here www.ft.com/content/527b...
Tony Blair set to serve on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
Some in former UK prime minister’s Labour party react with surprise at his proposed role in Palestinian territory
www.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
just a bunch of war criminals deciding the fate of civilians, nothing to see here www.ft.com/content/527b...
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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
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Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White
Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White
I’ve seen the unredacted chats and other internal conversations, and I know the context. Believe me, there is more trouble to come, says journalist Nadine White
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White
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“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.”
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.”
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf
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being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
September 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.
The UN still hasn't declared Israel is committing genocide - it's a commission of inquiry, meaning it is an independent mandated fact-finding report. The UN itself are yet to use the word genocide. We can't stop pressuring them to do so.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The UN still hasn't declared Israel is committing genocide - it's a commission of inquiry, meaning it is an independent mandated fact-finding report. The UN itself are yet to use the word genocide. We can't stop pressuring them to do so.
This is how they’re protecting women. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Police investigating alleged rape of Sikh woman as racially motivated attack
The Sikh Federation said the perpetrators allegedly told the woman during the attack: ‘You don’t belong in this country’
www.independent.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This is how they’re protecting women. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...