SO obvious she wasn’t treated like this solely because she was suspected (incorrectly!) of having dodged a fare of less than £2. She was treated like this because she was a lowly black woman who failed to show the expected deference and humility to authority. Pathetic thugs.
The
@metpoliceuk
is so far from fit for purpose it’s terrifying.
The heavy-handed and totally disproportionate treatment this woman received (in front of her distressed and bewildered young son) was for suspected bus fare evasion, to the tune of £1.75
1/2
RACIST? YOU CAN STAY MAD - a loving open letter doubly dedicated to my white guys, vanilla kings, gam fam 🌼🤠🌼 & all the phenomenal black women who exist loudly & taught me to speak up in their spaces 🌹♥️🌹 thank u all
A little thing before the weekend: I'mma be on
@BBCRadio4
's
@TheNewsQuiz
tonight discussing
#BlackLivesMatter
. I love this show & its host & the entire team, but I'm donating my fee & I won't return as a guest unless another black person is in the credits as a writer or comic.
dear all the white people i know!!! 💕 if you're saving a cute pic of us in your camera reel 📸 to protect you against hypothetical future racism accusations ☺️ please know i will unreservedly and without hesitation invoke the power of all my ancestors to PUBLICLY SHAME YO ASS
Yesterday I ran the 15 minutes to a train station in under 6 minutes, wearing a Zara strap top. Got stares from slow walkers, ignored them. Upon arrival at station realised both my tits were completely out & flapping in breeze. I guess what I'm asking is how do I sue fast fashion
Okay, I KEEP seeing this kind of performatively stunned tweet, calling out individuals for going back to normalcy, implying that they are selfish and gaslighting the responsible few, the “only ones” thinking about anyone besides themselves...
No but seriously guys I run a comedy night called 'Wacky Racists' and if y'all like the FB page I'll get Auntie to come and set me up on a live dinner date with this Jesus dude at the next show
Hearing an alarm. Putting on the noose. Performing “your” femininity. Receptionists. Pollution. COVID carpool. Social judgement. Staring into the void. The boss’s jokes. Avoiding intern you groped at the Christmas party. Plastic plants. Despair. Indigestion. Leaving early, maybe.
Would this have happened if she'd just STAYED IN THE KITCHEN? Details we've dug up that no-one asked for to justify why a man "murdered" his partner and their daughter in cold blood
No doubt some bright sparks on this lovely tolerant app will be glad our candle’s burned out - but the quiet impact this show managed across six series is astounding. Comedy and comedians with teeth & claws & brains & guts. The team were superb. Boyle’s a genius. I’ll miss it 💋
Ah well, there’s to be no more New World Order on the BBC. Not surprising in the current climate, I suppose. Just very grateful to have had six series of working with the funniest people in the business.
Unbelievable that the attempted gotcha in this interview is “of COURSE we roll our eyes when a multimillionaire middle-aged white MAN cries cancel culture, but what about when it’s a a multimillionaire middle-aged white WOMAN??!?” *mic drop*
One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen. Sensible, honest, smart. I’m posting the video directly as Times Radio tweeted it with a clickbait and somewhat misleading headline that unintentionally confirmed his point. More of this please.
OKAY, so - yes, I may not have taken home any MERCH, and yes, my PRIDE IS SORE, and yes, I will rue certain snap decisions TIL THE DAY I DIE, but bloody hell if
@richardosman
's
#houseofgames
isn't the loveliest show (with fans not at all shy about sliding in those DMs) ❤️
@taskmaster
@daraobriain
@sophiedukebox
Dara smashed a bunch of records this series - along with most points and best PPT, he also won more points as a percentage of his series than any competitor ever (23.12%) and won the most solo tasks in a series ever (17). By almost every metric,
@daraobriain
is top of Taskmaster.
Reeling from recording an interview with Michaela Coel for the final episode of Obsessed With
#IMayDestroyYou
I’M EATING BEANS AND TRYING TO CALM DOWN BUT I AM NOT CALM she is too perfect Je téléphone à la police
Frankie Boyle’s put his money where his mouth is, as a trans comedian with 19 years experience he’s employed me as a writer where many others haven’t and wouldn’t. He’s someone who’s grown as a person and been accountable for what he’s said and done even when his fanbase hated it
I had to be under a blanket while my washing machine bellowed bloody murder from the other room BUT here I am interviewing
@MichaelaCoel
:) for 40 minutes (not 14 hours) about I May Destroy You. 💗MY HEART GREW SIX SIZES THAT DAY
#IMayDestroyYou
@BBCSounds
as much as it pains me to retweet a photo that makes me look like a gibbering satsuma frozen in prayer pose, this show was actually sick - so watch it tonight and count your blessings. anjali mudra bitches 🙏
This is gross. This is classist and smug. This is virtue-signalling. You know who’s ACTUALLY gaslighting us? Who lied to us? Who expects us to self-police, fundraise and do their job for them? The G O V E R N M E N T
@nattykasambala
getting the vibe they don't even own this place. either way they're gentrifiers feeling the pinch & illegally subletting to someone who they want to make feel as small as possible. A WOODEN BOX.
As a little black girl bookworm, I devoured entire series in one sitting, decimated whole libraries, ate up the Enid Blytons. Can confirm that explicitly racist themes were rife in children's "classics" - & they didn't stop me reading, just encouraged me to hate myself.
The Little Black Doll is about a black doll hated by its owner and all the other dolls. The doll runs away from the house and the rain washes it's face to a pink colour. After this, the other toys and owner welcome the doll back.
black people never get time to mourn, to exhale, to heal, to rest. i don't want to see footage of her murder. i just want to see that smile. rest in power now Ma'Khia
#makhiabryant
#BlackLivesMatter
Look at the art. Look at this black girl magic. Look at her joy! Look at that smile and that face. What a beauty. What a baby. Ma’Khia Bryant was just 16 years old.
THIS LITTLE HAG 🌹
IS GOING ON TOUR ❤️🔥
AND TICKETS ARE FINALLY AVAILABLE😍
RETWEET THIS, LOCK OFF THE DATES - AND, I BEG YOU - GET IN EARLY & BUY THOSE TICKETS!!!
LOVE YOU ALL! DO IT NOW 😵💫🤪🥳
(while i recover from bloody WINNING
#Taskmaster
)
Black Lives Matter, and our creative industries should reflect that. Our joy and anecdotes and hot takes and bad impressions and tall stories and wise words and niche references and special subjects ALL MATTER. Give more of us a seat at that table.
It is difficult enough being a woman of colour in comedy, let alone one who is deeply principled. I am not ready to comment but I can’t possibly stress enough how rare and valuable it is to have someone like Saima on your team. Solidarity ❤️
"I’ve decided to do some damage limitation due to allegations of sexual misconduct being made against me. After some brainstorming I want to namecheck TWO comics who I’ve never visibly supported so my virtue-signalling shines bright like a diamond:
@kemahbob
&
@sophiedukebox
"
Your news literacy is a privilege. The media and government have sent us more mixed messages than a thirtysomething Hinge bro that can’t commit. Stop lambasting INDIVIDUALS for perceived violation of a social contract that is under constant revision by clueless egomaniacs.
Why are my melanated peers so frustrated in the UK? Why does it feel like once I'm in the room, some people think their work is done? The UK needs to see and hear all kinds of black people talking about things other than our own pain. I ALSO HAVE THOUGHTS ON AIRPLANE FOOD
I’m not saying Paul from the Traitors is a messy bitch who loves drama, but he did give the vibe that he was walking away from that round table FULLY erect
Your ability to stay home is a privilege. So many of my friends and family have had to work throughout lockdown, or put themselves in harm’s way to literally care for other people. Wanna shame them for having socially distanced pints now it’s officially “allowed”? Fuck you.
Too often powers that be see "no people of colour in this room" then parachute just one in. The pressure to not fuck it up can be paralysing when you're seen as an ambassador not an individual. there's SO MUCH BLACK EXCELLENCE out there, but only a few get invited in at a time
the little girl who tried to walk - with confidence, holding two full mugs of tea - through a glass meeting room wall on her first day writing on
@BBCNowShow
just got nominated for an award 🤪
#FWAwards2021
Best Comedy Writer Award with
#Comedy5050
sought nominations from producers, head writers & executives of television & radio’s comedy shows over the last 2 months. With over 60 nominations we're now happy to announce our top 3 nominees.
I'm fucking funny & more than capable of smashing the shit out of your tv show or writersroom. But I also know for a fact I'm not the only black artist who is. And I'm so often alone, the first, or the token. And I'm just ONE weird black girl! I'M VERY DIFFERENT TO A LOT OF THEM
There’s a lack of verified hot people honestly cataloguing their post-vaccine side effects. To rectify this I shall be live-tweeting my physical, emotional & spiritual response to the Moderna vaccine I had at 8.25 am for the next 48 hours (or until I die, whichever is the sooner)
Like so many black people right now (and in general tbh) I'm physically & emotionally exhausted. I knew we'd be asked a question pertaining to
#BlackLivesMatter
and I prepared a speech. My first take in the record was the first time I got to the end of the speech without crying.
Every single conversation I’ve had over the last week has been about The Traitors. I crave it. I dream about it. I’m in PEAK withdrawal. If Series 2 gets a companion podcast / studio show and I’m not asked to host I will go full Amanda on the entire comedy industry
i’m sure she’ll respawn even viler than before, but in a news cycle so unrelentingly, maddeningly bleak i’m delighted that the latest dog-stamping, shit-stirring, cartoonishly villainous Tory hate merchant is (even briefly) out of a job
#Suella
I wasn't booked on this episode originally. I've already been on once this series. I was asked to be on this week because an all-white line-up seemed inappropriate given the circumstances. We all know the circumstances. Last-minute, I got the call. I replaced a white dude.
It’s a fucking important point and no comprehensive discussion of
#BLM
should miss this. I didn’t say the names of women like Oluwatoyin Salau, Naomi Hersi, Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry, Belly Mujinga, because truth is I have no cute jokes, no hot takes, just tears and rage.
The latest episode of
@frankieboyle
new world order was brilliant but I wish when they were talking about BLM, they would have highlighted the fact that Black women are erased from the discourse. Also,
@sophiedukebox
is a fucking delight
Candice, Michaela, Kelechi... we're barely two months deep in 2021 & already black British women have had to endure an intolerable amount of disrespect from this dusty industry. Hate to see it.
have had to put up with a lot of misinformation in the last few months but honestly the fact that
@Wikipedia
and now
@TheTimes
think that i am already THIRTY ONE is the most galling
This morning: middle-aged white man holding a rollie, screaming abuse at the mainly black and brown people going into Brixton station. Some of it was mocking taunts about Corbyn. I saw a young white man laugh with his partner. No-one did anything. Day one.
This decision to maybe not return to one show I've loved doing, run by good people, might be emotional & arbitrary, not a smart career move or inconsequential. But it's a small thing I can control in a world that feels impossible. I hope, even under my terms, I'll be back soon.
As well as pandemic & protest season, it's also Pride month. I'll be donating my
@TheNewsQuiz
fee to
#ExistLoudlyFund
, set up by
@TanyaCompas
to support Queer Black Young people here in the UK, both online and in person. You can donate to that at
i'm on QUESTION TEAM tonight & can finally reveal i spent the episode trying to act normal around
@RichardAyoade
. think the fact we both wore citrussy shades is some kind of divine sign so thanks
@davechannel
for facilitating this meetcute 🍊🍋
hello WORLD! 📢 this salty old hag hits the 🛣️ with a NEW SHOW & her first EVER nationwide comedy tour! sales start at TEN A.M. on 17-06-22 on my oddly user-hostile website 🎂 🎂 so get set, find your dream date & BUY TICKETS QUICK! mama loves a stampede 🦌
I want to be funny. I also need to honour black lives & hold white supremacy to account.
@susan_wokoma
said black people split themselves down the middle like a horcrux. I just want to do my job, but I always end up multitasking. All black people do. Maybe it's the melanin.
Nationality and Borders Bill: Two in five people (6 million British citizens) from an ethnic minority background in England and Wales may become eligible to be stripped of their citizenship without warning under new plans proposed by the government.
In 2018 I took three white men hostage. The first I blindfolded with his own clothing. I instructed a 2nd to cover the third's naked torso with ham slices. In 2019 I was nominated for Best Newcomer at the
@ComedyAwards
#SaveLiveComedy
& fucking sign at
played
#houseofgames
again earlier this week and a friend referred to
@richardosman
as “big daddy Thursday murder” which is one hell of a honorific ❤️🔥 eternally grateful to the BDTM for having me back 😔
BIG SEXY AWARD ALERT!
@taskmaster
is up for a gong & I BEG YOU to do the right thing tonight - VOTE so the best team in telly take it home. ant & Dec shows have won NINE YEARS RUNNING - cute, but I think these statuesque underdogs deserve their flowers 🏆
In last ditch attempt to entice you into voting for
#Taskmaster
for the Bruce Forsyth Award at the NTAs, here are some outtakes from Alex and Greg's trip to the seaside!
Last chance to vote here:
I’m not doing some things the government says is OK because I simply don’t believe it’s safe but I’m also not going to shame people for drinking the “everything’s cool” Kool-Aid. BE angry. BE scared. EDUCATE. But for fuck's sake, pick better targets.
wild to me how some people will happily watch black women tolerate disrespect and dehumanisation for years then raise eyebrows when suddenly we don't want to jump through your fucking hoops
#Olympics
This week I had to answer my cousin when she asked me "what's so wrong with being black?" She spent her weekend making a
#BlackLivesMatter
sign in her bedroom. She's eleven. We were in Essex. White children played in the grass outside. She made a sign.
I've found it too painful to speak on socials much. I wanted to speak on this on the Beeb to try & communicate to an audience who wouldn't by default be on my side. To say certain names that haven't been said or learned nearly enough. Tony McDade. Naomi Hersi. Belly Mujinga.