researcher and freelance trouble maker. interests: political histories, 1980s ephemera, contemplating the things we know but cannot tell. she&they.
London, UK
Joined July 2009
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There are ppl who talk about queer lives & ideas - whether w. curiosity or hostility - like they're outsiders looking in. & there's ppl who talk about them like they're a jacket they're considering putting on. @yourewrongabout's Sarah Marshall's was always one of the latter...
@Sheaf_Porter_RT Hiya at an event last w/e someone mentioned a training happening for river rangers in May but I can't see details anywhere online - what time and where will it be?
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See also: the Brown report plan for democratic and economic renewal of the UK, which they call... 'New Britain'.
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Insane own goal from #BBC to pull Lineker from #MatchOfTheDay & make it into the talk of the pubs on a Saturday. Combined w pulling Attenborough's prog from linear TV + discovering the Chair being involved in arranging loans for Johnson, its lack of independence is plain as day
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Really enjoyed chairing this session where I got to explore some of my personal bugbears about contemporary podcasting
If you missed our event last Thursday, we had an excellent conversation with @HamzaMSyed & @ShirishMM about reporting with personal stakes, the fallacy of objectivity and the furture of journalism. Watch it back on youtube:
youtube.com/watch?v=8tIkQUa4…
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Less than 3 weeks til the Media Democracy Festival! Sat March 25th, 11-5.30pm, Birkbeck
We've got sessions on unions, responding to culture wars, future of the BBC, building the left online + keynotes from @zarahsultana & Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana @impressreg.
Full programme:
Main action day at climate camp 2010 outside RBS HQ: spent all day moving a giant papier mache rhino down to butt a wall set up by the police hours earlier, cos green investment bank or something?
in solidarity with the soup action, let's all share actions we did in the past that others / you (on reflection) think weren't v strategic
for me, dressing up as fruit and doing a photo stunt outside Fruit Of The Loom's office to protest anti union repression
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RIP #BrunoLatour. He influenced me loads, esp in understanding more clearly the parallels between scientific & religious knowing.
Also v. grateful to @ZoeSTodd whose critique of 'The Great Latour' helped demystify him + got me to search more rigourously for his own sources.
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At Goldsmiths our Peggy has just been fired and rehired and no longer has her own office. When she leaves - cos why would she stay - I wouldn't be surprised if it all collapses.
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@cosmosoftrees hey Stella, I'm about to move to Sheffield & need to make a career change - I listened to the About the adventure podcast you did & felt v inspired by your arborist journey, wd love to talk to know more! DM me if you'd be up for chatting sometime...
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Continuing bullsh*t from @GoldsmithsUoL - Head & Deputy Head of Media Dept @lazebnic & @gkhiabany still suspended for supporting students where @GoldsmithsUoL had failed. massively bullying & discriminatory behaviour openletter.earth/reinstate-d… #FreeDesAndGholam
My main take away from #suegray is that ppl at No. 10 always thought pandemic public health measures were a joke. So many ironic references to 'socially distanced' or 'hands face space' in their messages to each other
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Hearing from multiple ind media outlets that Facebook is becoming almost unusable due to shite like this. think there's serious qus to ask as campaigners about how much we rely on corporate tech platforms (like this one) for audience and reach...
Here’s a good one: Facebook has prevented us from promoting our article on record rents today because it’s “discriminatory” against… landlords.
We appealed as well: no dice. Big Tech censorship is off the wall.
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There are no good arguments for privatising #Channel4, but plenty of gd arguments for making it into a People's Channel 4
As we fight #BorisJohnson's plans to privatise #Channel4, we need to do more than just defend the status quo - we need a positive campaign to transform it into a People's Channel 4
youtube.com/watch?v=VUBzZsPr…
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Chairing this sesh at 1pm today on 'Creating a People's Channel 4'
with doc film maker Ahmed Alauddin Jamal, Tom Morton of @We_OwnIt
& former C4 commissioner @RodStoneman - should be good!
youtube.com/watch?v=HN7PN4Pw…
And there was the Evening Standard the other day saying "deaths remain low". it's kind of terrifying that the scale of the fck up in the first year of the pandemic is now being used as the barometer for what is 'high'. Taiwan has had 851 deaths IN TOTAL
If you’re tempted to think it’s over and we don’t need the data much longer : another 534 deaths within 28 days of testing positive for Covid recorded today
My hot take on #DontLookUp, the Hollywood Global Disaster Movie genre, + where those of us in the heart of the Empire should be looking for solutions to the messes we've made
lwbooks.co.uk/the-real-messa…
(h/t @immigrantmoves for many thoughts & rewatching a bunch of 90s movies w me )
I wrote a piece on why we need a #PeoplesBBC for Open Democracy @mediareformUK
How would you reform the BBC?
Here's some ideas > opendemocracy.net/en/opendem…
@JohnBooth2017 Hi John I work for @mediareformUK on the BBC and Beyond campaign - wondered if you wanted to mention it in your JVL piece on why we should defend it? our call for a People's BBC seems very close to what you are arguing for bbcandbeyond.net/
There's a particular kind of overwhelm when the thing you work on is suddenly trending. I don't post much on here, but in case you didn't know a) I run this campaign and b) we have a plan for a People's BBC that could get us out this pro/anti-BBC bind bbcandbeyond.net/