Editorial Collective
Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin
Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin is a writer focusing on queer themes in music, literature, visual culture, and politics. Outside of Vashti, her work has been published by The Guardian, The Observer, Frieze, The London Standard, Dazed, AnOther, Teen Vogue, Glamour, Émergent, and more.
Read Alexandra's work for Vashti here.
Asha Lyons Sumroy
Asha is an interdisciplinary writer and researcher and frontline community worker. Research specialities include co-operativism, neoliberalism and education and transformative pedagogy. Their film work has shown internationally, including notes on mikvah a thesis surrounding transness and Jewish ritual.
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Ben Reiff
Ben is a senior editor at +972 Magazine. His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the New Statesman, Prospect, The Nation and Haaretz.
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Eli Machover
Eli is an activist and academic. Alongside his advocacy work in Westminster supporting the British Palestinian community, his doctoral research in political theory at the University of Oxford focuses on the birth of Zionism and historical materialism.
Read Eli's work for Vashti here.
Evan Robins
Evan Robins is a writer, editor, and fact checker, currently on the publishing staff at The Nation.
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Francesca Newton
Francesca is an editor and writer, formerly the digital editor at Tribune. She currently lives in Melbourne.
francesca-newton.com | @francesca__newton
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Kate Greenberg
Kate is a writer and activist based in Jerusalem.
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Kendall Gardner
Kendall is a writer and organiser. Her PhD in political theory at the University of Oxford focuses on the intersection between settler-colonial ideology and climate collapse. Her writing has also appeared in Dazed and Tribune.
@kendietweets | @kendall_gardner
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Contributing Writers
Eli Cugini
Eli is a writer across media, culture, and politics, who focuses for Vashti on anti-left and anti-trans culture movements. Outside of Vashti, his work can be found at The Baffler, Dazed, Tribune, Xtra Magazine, AnOther, Gay Times, Electric Literature, Little White Lies, and elsewhere. He is also a PhD student in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester.
Read Eli's work for Vashti here.
Hamza Yusuf
Hamza is a British-Palestinian writer and journalist based in London. He reports extensively on Palestinian affairs, British media coverage, and the United Kingdom’s foreign policy toward Palestine. His work has been published by outlets such as Declassified UK, Middle East Eye, The Nation, Mondoweiss, and others. Hamza has also appeared on major broadcast platforms including Sky News, LBC, and AJ+.
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Joseph Finlay
Joseph is an historian, writer and musician. He specialises in British Jewish history and culture; issues of Jews and race; and Jewish engagements in empire. He writes the newsletter Torat Albion, has recently written a history of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, and is currently writing a book for Manchester University Press on Jews and race relations in postwar Britain. He is an honorary fellow at the Parkes Institute for Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.
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Sasha Baker
Sasha is an investigative reporter. They were a British Journalism Award finalist in 2024 for their work on the anti-trans movement, and also write about politics, activism and healthcare. They currently work as a subeditor and fact-checker for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
@sasha98.bsky.social | @sashabaker98
Read Sasha's work for Vashti here.
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