Statement from ASRA Club – a call out to community on safe spaces and the erasure of Black Muslim women

ASRA Club, founded by GEM member Sahra-Isha, is "a community space centring Muslim women in sports, wellness and sisterhood".  Given the group's foundational aims of creating an inclusive environment of care and community, it is angering and upsetting that they are still faced with the forms of violence and harm described in their statement below. We note also that whilst the incidents described below involved various forms of Islamophobic, racist and…

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#EndColonialComplicity – co-signed Palestine Solidarity statement

Migrant and Anti-Racist Community Groups in Britain:Stop the ethnic cleansing in Palestine, and end Britain's colonial complicity in crimes against the Palestinian peopleWe are writing, as Black, brown, migrant and racialised groups in Britain, united in our shared struggle for justice and freedom, to demand an immediate end to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, unrestricted humanitarian access and an end to the British complicity making Israel’s war crimes possible. We…

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