Poetess & writer, rambler of thoughts & countryside, lover of film, theatre & literature. Debut poetry collection coming soon with @theblackcatpp 🐈⬛✨ She/Her
Joined February 2013
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Remembering Emily Dickinson, who died on this day in 1896, with her love poem to reading themarginalian.org/2022/07/2…
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Another allegation of sexual assault in parliament. If @Keir_Starmer and @RishiSunak are serious about tackling sexual violence they need to start with their own workplace.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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Letter in today’s Guardian: “In recent years, the food bank has used grants from the national lottery to support its activities, but recent applications for funding have been unsuccessful. They have been told that much of the funding is going to events celebrating the coronation”
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Musician (Sonic Youth) and artist Kim Gordon, She is the darkness, 2010 (featuring lyrics by Stevie Nicks) #WomensArt
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🔊 Survivors, your safety matters. If you need to turn #EmergencyAlerts off to keep your phone from being detected during the test today at 3pm, follow this #Apple guide. The alert will sound even if your phone is on silent, and when it is switched back on. 🔄 Please share.
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The #OnlineSafetyBill was designed to make the internet safer. But if women and girls are to be protected from abuse online, it must be amended! We can all #MakeItSafer for women and girls online.
Find out how 👉 ee.co.uk/hopeunited
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The tender, unearthly magic of the Spring has crept into my heart. I hear the song of birds, I smell new odors, see new colorings, and the softness of the air melts me
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I don’t aspire to anything, I just want to be allowed to think and contemplate the landscape and to be left to read in peace, that’s the truth. I prefer not to think unless I am alone. When I am alone I read, I think and I write.
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. The police know it and they know we know it too.
In any decent society women would be protected from this gang…
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This is plainly wrong. A key tenet of Holocaust education is never again, for anyone. The Holocaust is unique, but "never again" is universal. Drawing out similarities and parallels is critical and part of the education
“However passionately we feel about important and pressing issues of the day, comparing those current concerns with the unimaginable horrors of the Nazi period is wrong”
My piece @thetimes @redbox @HolocaustUK
thetimes.co.uk/article/de968…
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“They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.” - Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021), Egyptian writer, activist, physician who was imprisoned for her feminist writing.
Portrait by Maral Bolouri #WomensArt
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'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling" Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington #WomensArt
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at my age, my heart seems more than ever like a sunflower, always turning toward the light and warmth for more strength and force of character, for more beauty and wisdom.
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My column for the @guardian: Why women artists are still defined by men; will the narrative ever change?
1% of the @NationalGallery's collection is by women; women's prices are just 10% of that of a man; what does this say about the state of art today?
theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Nicola Sturgeon has been a towering figure at the top of Scottish politics for 16 years: a strong leader, formidable opponent and important feminist role model, persisting despite the vitriol and abuse that sadly is synonymous with being a woman in public life. /
"I'm not expecting violins here but I am a human being as well as a politician"
As Nicola Sturgeon resigns, she speaks of the pressures of being first minister of Scotland
bbc.in/3YOvtac
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lending credibility to the voices of those who spread hate.
Disgusted doesn’t cover it. Solidarity to all the communities having to live in fear for their own safety and lives for simply existing right now.
RIP Brianna. You deserved so much better. ❤️
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The dehumanisation of these communities is used to justify violence against them, and the bile spewed and tactics used against them often stem from the same place (see alliances between the far right and TERFs). Mainstream media is also 100% complicit by virtue of amplifying and
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It’s not hyperbole to describe the UK as a fascist island when you have the attack on the Black girl outside Thomas Knyvett College, the anti asylum seeker riot in Knowsley and the murder of trans girl Brianna Ghey in the span of one week.
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📢 The remaining #Oscar2023 nominations are now in, a staggeringly disappointing amount of nominations for #filmsbywomen this year, with no nominations in the Directing Category and only one for Best Picture. Follow our thread for the full breakdown...
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