WARSAN SHIRE

@warsan_shire

WRITER & CIYAAL SUUQ

los angeles via london via mogadishu
warsanshire.squarespace.com
Joined December 2010

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  1. May 29

    'every cell in my body lined up for you legs a little open once again' - Bjork

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  2. Apr 20

    here's the beautiful and inspiring ILHAN OMAR reading my poem 'conversations about home at the deportation centre'.

    1 reply . 56 retweets 191 likes
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  3. Apr 20

    SO EXCITED TO BE BACK IN LONDON

    Warsan Shire headlines ! Poetry takes the spotlight with Yomi Sode’s sizzling performance of COAT Octavia Poetry Collective host a Wakanda-themed party at plus more! 29 June – 1 July. Tickets:
    4 replies . 26 retweets 139 likes
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  4. Apr 16

    was beginning to feel like i'd be editing this manuscript for the rest of my natural human life - then i watched an early screening of 'SORRY TO BOTHER YOU' (2018) followed by B's spectacular BEYCHELLA performance and everything fell into place.

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  5. Retweeted
    16 Jun 2017

    . becomes tearful when remembering Khadija Saye, a friend lost in the Grenfell Tower fire.

    644 replies . 17,615 retweets 21,679 likes
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  6. Retweeted
    20 May 2017

    To a Peabody for , an innovative, stunningly beautiful masterpiece:

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  7. 11 Apr 2017

    please please please consider donating!

    2 replies . 182 retweets 179 likes
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  8. 2 Mar 2017

    'get out' is a perfect film and i'll think about it forever

    8 replies . 283 retweets 1,071 likes
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  9. 23 Feb 2017

    'goodnight mommy' (2014) stellar horror

    4 replies . 11 retweets 143 likes
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  10. 23 Feb 2017

    can't wait to watch 'get out' (2017)

    10 replies . 106 retweets 532 likes
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  11. 22 Feb 2017

    listening to 'my favorite murder' really helps calm my anxiety

    10 replies . 74 retweets 482 likes
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    16 Feb 2017

    IF THERES AN ANIMAL IN EXISTENCE THAT VOMITS WITH EXCITEMENT, WE ARE THAT! 🔥

    2 replies . 59 retweets 251 likes
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  13. 17 Feb 2017

    ALLAHU AKBAR

    1 reply . 163 retweets 434 likes
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  14. 28 Jan 2017

    apocalyptic walahi

    9 replies . 245 retweets 411 likes
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  15. 26 Jan 2017

    'if they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.' - angela davis

    11 replies . 2,893 retweets 5,172 likes
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  16. 26 Jan 2017

    So happy to be published w my most cherished writers, and Sharon Olds. Their poems have saved my life.

    10 replies . 117 retweets 476 likes
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  17. 26 Apr 2016

    yosra i hope you're proud of us. 'LEMONADE' the visual album (2016)

    51 replies . 496 retweets 1,776 likes
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  18. 26 Feb 2016

    'the witch' (2015) gorgeous horror, can't stop thinking about it. i also loved 'it follows' (2014) &'the babadook' (2014).

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  19. 7 Jan 2016

    'i reach out in love, my hands are guns, my good intentions are completely lethal.' — margaret atwood

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  20. 7 Jan 2016

    'the legend grows legs when it comes back to haunt us' - pusha t

    2 replies . 273 retweets 564 likes
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