Gemma Chan
@gemma_chan
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Actress • Producer • @UNICEF_UK Ambassador
Joined July 2011
1. To understand Iran's protests it's striking to juxtapose images of the young, modern women killed in Iran over the last week (Mahsa Amini, Ghazale Chelavi, Hanane Kia, Mahsa Mogoi) with the images of the country's ruling elite, virtually all deeply traditional, geriatric men.
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First time at @la_Biennale and it was one to remember ✨ #DontWorryDarling #Venezia79 #BiennaleCinema2022
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I’ve been thinking about this piece for a year. There’s so much more I could say. The only thing that matters is that Martha should be alive today… ‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death
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Martha was 13; her whole life stretched out ahead of her. But our faith in doctors turned out to be fatal. This is what I wish I’d known
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The letter is accompanied by a public petition: https://t.co/Di9ctLbfoH /4
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Official recognition of East & South East Asian Heritage Month in the UK
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The letter is addressed to @GEOgovuk @CommonsDCMS @DCMS @cabinetofficeuk, and signatories include @gemma_chan @wongrel @Kt_Leung @misszing @novareidoffic @ppvernon @Edward_Enninful @danieldaekim and many more. 3/
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Our aim is to celebrate these diverse communities every year in the month of September, between South Asian Heritage Month (July-August) and Black History Month (October). ESEA Heritage Month is open to everyone who wishes to learn and celebrate. /2
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📢ANNOUNCEMENT! In a letter signed by 79 prominent members of the ESEA community and its supporters, we are calling on the UK Equalities Office, Cabinet Office & DCMS to endorse the second ever East and South East Asian Heritage Month this September. /1
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The UK’s first support and reporting service for East and Southeast Asians is here! We offer tailored support that is culturally competent and trauma-informed, for free at any time. We are #OnYourSide. Call us or Contact us online. ☎️ 0808 801 0393
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When we let nature be nature amazing things can happen. Protect nature in all its forms. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateAction #climate #energy #nature #rewilding
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Thankful that decades of determined campaigning by the Liverpool-born children of deported Chinese seamen has finally received the recognition they deserve: that the treatment of their fathers and their families was racist and coercive. https://t.co/gLheG8nBbu
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Exclusive: secret deportations campaign, which separated families, was racially inflected, report says
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Huge, if long overdue, vindication for the families that have campaigned for justice for so many years. The Home Office admits the deportations of Chinese seamen who served in the British Merchant Navy in WWII were coercive and “racially inflected” @KimJohnsonMP @danhancox
Exclusive update to my long read: Home Office admits for the first time Chinese seamen with British families were "coerced" into leaving in "racially inflected" secret deportation programme in 1945-6
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Harper’s Bazaar September 2022⚡️Photographed by Josh Shinner @BazaarUK On newsstands July 28th
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Be a part of musical history by entering our Blue Vinyl Prize Draw! You could win a special edition vinyl from 10 incredible artists, with all proceeds being donated to our Children's Emergency Fund. Enter here until 10th Aug: https://t.co/FCoiHyghGC
#UnicefBlueVinyl
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Here's a 1-minute video showing--in the words of visualization hero @EdwardTufte--the "compared to what" factor for today's amazing @NASAWebb image. Thanks to the @WWTelescope for making this possible, and @ADavidWeigel. I only wish @NASA and @POTUS had shown the image this way!
@AlyssaAGoodman @NASAWebb And you can zoom on the first one (SMACS 0723) interactively here in @WWTelescope:
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We admire Sir Mo Farah’s courage to speak out on his childhood trauma and experience of being trafficked as a young boy. 1/3 https://t.co/f0u4eOCWsK
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The Olympic star says the name Mohamed Farah was given to him by a stranger who flew him to the UK.
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Utterly disgraceful exit speech … selfish; self-centred, narcissistic, poor me the victim, no regrets, no fault, no mistakes, no apology, no resignation.
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Here’s how the abortion laws affect pregnant women who want their babies. For those still refusing to see how this affects ALL women, read Chloe’s story:
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The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, according to a UN report by 270 researchers from 67 countries.
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