Eid al-fitr Mubarak from all of us at the other side of hope! We wish all those celebrating a joyful and peaceful day. #eidmubarak

Excited to announce the launch of The Other Tongue, Mother Tongue - our inaugural multilingual poetry issue! The beauty of diverse languages through poems and translations.
March 23, 2024 || 7pm - 8.30pm GMT || Online
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Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay 2024! Meet Asma Asif, adding a delicious twist to Southampton's culinary scene! Let's celebrate women like Asma enriching our communities.
Happy International Women's Day!
#SupportLocal #SouthamptonCuisine

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Behind the pages: Shereen Pandit on her story, Oh Sister! - published in Volume 3.2 online, December 2023. Read it here: othersideofhope.com/oh-sister-sher…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
🌍 English submissions only
📝 Fiction/Poetry: Migrants only; no theme.
📖 Non-Fiction, Reviews, Interviews: Open to all, themed.

Payment: £300 for cover art (Migrant artists). £100 for other selected submissions.
🔗 Submit: othersideofhope.com/submissions.ht…

Today! Launching the third online issue of the Other Side of Hope Magazine. You can still book your ticket 🎟️📚

Date: Tue, Jan 30 • 18:00 GMT

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Look. The Barbie movie wasn’t good. It wasn’t funny. It’s entire purpose was to sell merch (including super-feminist anti-cellulite cream).

The real feminist story of the Oscar noms is Lily Gladstone being the first Native American woman to be nominated.

Girl bosses don’t @ me.

Interventions on human trafficking + modern slavery largely focus on the symptom rather than the cause.

Alongside Migrants At Work LTD., we mark Human Trafficking Awareness Day by looking at the root causes of trafficking and how UK visa schemes enable it.
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🛒Browse our online store for non-book products and click and collect them from the shop!

Toiletries, cleaning products, food: plus gifts, notebooks, diaries, calendars... it's all instore and online

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Useful Free Movement primer on the three different backlogs of people who have applied for asylum (pre-Illegal Migration Bill, between Bill and Act, and post-Act), and what might happen to them.

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'Misery is lucrative' - Alison Thewliss 🧡 MP

It costs more a night to keep people seeking asylum on the Bibby Stockholm than it would to put them in hotels. Yet there are 4 private companies; Mears, Serco, Clearspring and CTM who are profiting exponentially from this model.

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Migrants are not 'voiceless'. They are made voiceless by racist immigration systems.

The insinuation that migrants are ‘voiceless’ denies them their agency. It detracts from the systems that force the migrant voice to be silenced. #WordsMatter 🦋

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To be a refugee you have to be persecuted for 1 of 5 reasons, known as the Convention Reasons.
Free Movement quickly look through those reasons, define the difficult ones, and look at their importance in refugee status claims. All in under 1 minute.
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Join us on Tuesday, January 30th, as we introduce you to some of the brilliant contributors behind the UK's first-ever literary magazine of sanctuary.
Save the date:
🗓️ Tuesday, January 30
🕕 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM GMT
📍 Online

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Looking for a new way to support refugees this year? Heard of Refugees At Home?

🏡 Refugees At Home is a UK charity that matches people who can offer a spare room, to individuals in the asylum system or those facing challenges in finding accommodation.

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land of insects—for Baba, who taught us to love & respect the small things. published in the other side of hope || lit mag || subs OPEN 💘💘

Behind the pages: Garry Engkent unveils 'Paper Son' from our latest Vol. 3.1, Autumn 2023 print issue.
'Paper Son' is a fiction tale grounded in the real challenges of Chinese families under Canadian immigration law.
#PaperSon #LiteraryDiscussion

This year, despite the very best efforts of government, at least 100K people made it here to seek safety. Tiny comparative to need & our ability to help, but something to be celebrated.

And almost 750K new people came home to the UK.

Welcome all and Merry Christmas lovelies 🧡

Cris and I will be running in the ABP Southampton Marathon in April! We're not just running for the thrill - but to raise funds for refugees and their families. Feeling the festive vibes? Join the party with a donation! Click here to find more:
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