Bhakti Shringarpure @radicalbooks.bsky.social
@bhakti_shringa
writer | editor | prof 🌸 doing things for Radical Books Collective
Killing displaced families sleeping in tents, food massacres masquerading as aid distribution sites, targeting all and any food source: farm land, water points and animals, farmers and fishermen. Annihilating medical care: abducting and torturing doctors , bombing hospitals and…
Leila Aboulela’s PEN Pinter prize win is wonderful news at a time when there is a literal global war on Muslims. Her writing offers nuanced, beautiful portraits of Muslim women and her oeuvre is a fierce defense of Muslim lives despite its quiet tone🥳💖 theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…
Frantz Fanon would have turned 100 this year. According to @bhakti_shringa, his words resonate powerfully, serving as both a source of empowerment and a reminder of ongoing struggles. An important time for contemplation and commemoration. Read more in the article linked below. ⤵️…
“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon In a candid interview with @bhakti_shringa Olivier Fanon reflects on the legacy of his father Frantz Fanon at 100 years and speaks intimately about his late mother, Josie. radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-want-…
“I think everyone who has ever written anything or taught anything that had the word ‘liberation’ or ‘decolonization’ or whatever…everyone who's done that and hasn't said anything about Gaza, then none of your work matters. It doesn't mean anything.” — @Dr_mauraf 📣 new…
Except Libya and Somalia ‼️😡
so not all Africans
Grateful for this conversation with @bhakti_shringa and for the necessary work she does in resisting, building community, and speaking back to and against structures of oppression.
""With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." I spoke to Arabic literature scholar @FakhreddineHuda on being vilified at a US congressional hearing, UPenn's cowardice & the racism of literature depts even as Palestinians are being massacred radicalbookscollective.com/p/with-gaza-we… @WARSCAPES
53 yrs ago, Beirut: Ghassan Kanafani's assassination via 3-kilo car-bomb was witnessed by his wife Anni Kanafani. She recounts the moment in heartbreaking detail in her book “Ghassan Kanafani” (1973)❤️🩹

Nairobi friends, I will be @chechebooks on Friday in dialogue with Maxamed Abumaye. Come through!
""With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." I spoke to Arabic literature scholar @FakhreddineHuda on being vilified at a US congressional hearing, UPenn's cowardice & the racism of literature depts even as Palestinians are being massacred radicalbookscollective.com/p/with-gaza-we… @WARSCAPES

"With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." - Huda Fakhreddine with @bhakti_shringa of Radical Books Collective (@WARSCAPES) radicalbookscollective.com/p/with-gaza-we…
Monsters and mercenaries shooting starving people in “aid distribution” kill zones for play. #Gaza
The producer of "The Mauritanian" is set to adapt GHOST SEASON, the debut novel by Sudanese-American author @fatinabbas. The project comes from Smashing Dandelions, a new production company founded by Michael Bronner & @bhakti_shringa brittlepaper.com/2025/07/direct…
...humanitarian response to the so-called 'refugee crisis'... political rights downgraded to 'humanitarian favors' & humanitarian aid orgs are big biz in tandem with governments & militaries... In Genocidal Inhumanitarianism @bhakti_shringa @WARSCAPES radicalbookscollective.com/p/genocidal-in…
On genocidal (in)humanitarianism Instead of discussing, depicting, amplifying, appealing to Palestinian humanity it is time we banished THEM from the category of “human” open.substack.com/pub/radicalboo…
It was a pleasure to join @bhakti_shringa and @rim_mugahed to discuss #Yemen, literature and The Book of Sana'a (@commapress) I was such a fan of @WARSCAPES and now equally following the work of their new venture with the Radical Books Collective. Do check it out.
🎤 new Radical Futures podcast featuring Laura Kasinof & Rim Mugahed talking about "The Book of Sana’a" published by @commapress It brings together 10 translated stories from Yemeni writers. "It is only through fiction that the world can stop misunderstanding Yemen."…
🎤 new Radical Futures podcast featuring Laura Kasinof & Rim Mugahed talking about "The Book of Sana’a" published by @commapress It brings together 10 translated stories from Yemeni writers. "It is only through fiction that the world can stop misunderstanding Yemen."…