Alisha Ahmed (she/they)

A non binary femme fat person with ginger hair posing for a red carpet picture at the Diva awards 2025 with a placard saying "finalist"

I was in London for the @divamag.bsky.social awards on behalf of Glitter. The opulence was a bit on the nose but maybe it's because coming from grassroots as a disabled queer immigrant of colour that relies on benefit for survival my first though is: think how many people you could help instead.

Selfie of two fems together at an awards ceremony

Photo of my table setting at the 2025 Diva awards, there are bread rolls and glasses of booze a plenty

Photo of a framed Finalist Award for Glitter Cymru at the Diva awards 2025

In London at the @divamag.bsky.social on behalf of Glitter Cymru. It's a bit surreal, thank you for seeing us queer people of colour in Wales. #lesbianvisibilityweek #divaawards

Manifesting is Easy (for white cis het men under Patriarchy) But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight.

If you liked that you should read the rant I did when I came back home and read Hollywood park 😅 (I love Mikel, I truly do) activistwitch.substack.com/p/manifestin...

Manifesting is Easy (for white cis het men under Patriarchy) But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight.

Manifesting is Easy (for white cis het men under Patriarchy)
But Patriarchy hurts men too: on Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett (from The Airborne Toxic Event) and considerations on the story behind his most famous song: Sometime Around Midnight. open.substack.com/pub/activist... #booksky

I swear there's something about stages being allegories of altars and music raising energy the way old pagan rituals have done for millennia. (I'd argue about sacrificial offers in the form of groupies but it's late...)
This is The Airborne Toxic Event at O2 Islington, London UK, 21st March 2025

Music changes lives. It is a dire factory from the business side but what does it make? DREAMS.

A billboard at the O2 academy Islington in London, UK for March 19th, 2025, saying: The Inter sphere The Airborne Toxic Event SOLD OUT Entry Downstairs

Let's pretend that it says 21st...

Scrap dangerous disability benefit reforms The previous government announced changes to disability benefits which will deny vital support to over 400,000 people who become seriously ill or disabled from next year. People could also face sancti...

UK folk - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

The Airborne Toxic Event - All I Ever Wanted (acoustic) YouTube video by Gin In Tea Cups | GiTC.TV

4183 days ago I produced this. Coming back to London to see @mikeljollett.bsky.social take the stage again is wonderful nostalgia therapy. youtu.be/hMsvQsRsehA
I'd definitely have better, more class conscious questions to ask this time about life and death. Time wounds all heels.

"Racialized women are thus hardly being ‘masculinized’ when degendered. They are not being regarded with more respect or afforded more dignity and agency, and are in fact being constructed as less human, marked as acceptable targets of brutalization and sexual violence without repercussion"

Home. Mother. London.
Will I ever stop feeling this way about you? That if I could I wouldn't leave, but it's not up to me, it's up to the silly invented pixel numbers and landlord here want many more than I can rack up. Silly me to miss me, when I was in you.

San Junipero in my head it's proof that @charliebrooker.bsky.social has a heart.

Also my second favourite option after reincarnation. I believe in both the same kind way: wouldn't that be cool?

You never! 🥲🫂❤️

I can't be the only person that, after every meeting without fail, feels like they talk too much and now people hate them. Can I?

Alisha Ahmed – Eclectic Artist, Activist, Educator, Speaker Eclectic Artist, Activist, Educator, Speaker

I have a website. For someone who spent most of the 2000s playing around the CSS Zen Garden it's problematic how I let social media 2.0 destroy my favourite way of expression. One page, all you can eat. If you need me for anything hit me up Alisha.it

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A two canvas collage piece with a projection of the artist on it

This might be as close as I get to understand people who have children. This is a part of me, it has my shape, but it's something else that will be still here when I'm gone.

#artist #autisticartist #queerart #queerartist

So this is my first exhibition.
Opens on Friday.
I will perform a spoken word piece on opening night. #artsky

Reasons I left Meta.