Heads up. If you’re one of the many many people I’ve tried to convince to come to Belfast for the book festival, now’s the time to make that dream come true. The programme is live and it is cracking belfastbookfestival.com/festival-pro...
#OnThisDay in London gay history: the squatted South London Gay Centre evicted, Railton Road, Brixton, 1976
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More here: www.revoltinggays.com
“Those who perished fulfilled their mission to the end, until their last drop of blood which soaked into the street of the Warsaw Ghetto. We who have survived leave it to you that their memory does not perish.” - Marek Edelman
According to the complaint, agents laughed at Rahman, accused her of lying about her needs and forced her to walk once inside the building after she had asked for a cane or a wheelchair.
Could be interesting!
Quick hit on why Orban’s electoral defeat dealt a blow to the global anti gender movement
www.opendemocracy.net/en/orban-hun...
Tom Waits just released his first original song in 15 years, in collaboration with Massive Attack.
Looks fascinating... on the list.
Painting of a tabby cat in a summer meadow. Surrounded by dandelions and other flowers.
Cat in the Summer Meadow, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).
It takes SIXTEEN paragraphs for the New York Times to mention why the administration wanted to destroy nearly $10 million in contraception:
It's because they claim the stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants are “abortifacient birth control.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
Make it go viral.
‘Though it isn’t really war we’re sending 50 thousand more...
Update this one?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXcG...
This week both the Kremlin and the White House will ramp up their coordinated efforts to tamper in Hungary’s election to try and keep Putin’s puppet Viktor Orban in power.
I hope the image of this woman haunts #pambondi's dreams forever. Until she dies.
The Northern lights were spectacular last night!
The tributes to Jenni Murray are focusing on her interviews with powerful and privileged women. Here at Project Resist we would like to pay tribute to the fact that she always made sure the voices of the most marginalised and vulnerable women were heard. 1/2
Green aurora strands dancing behind birch and poplar trees.
I stepped outside at 1:30 AM and this was my view. Aurora rarely disappoints. Good morning from Two Rivers, Alaska.
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
Going all out on the fake job thing
1/ To mark #InternationalWomensDay2026, a reminder of two posts by Lynne Dixon - ‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’: Women’s Influence on State Housing in the Era of World War One and After
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/t...
Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.
Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.
Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.
Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.
The government has announced major changes to the UK’s refugee protection system, making status temporary and subject to reassessment for asylum-seeking women and victim-survivors of VAWG.
This means prolonged precarity, fear and instability. 1/3
Just over half (54%) of Reform UK members want ethnic minority British citizens born abroad to be encouraged/forced to leave. This drops to 1/5 (22%) for British-born children of migrants. A Survation survey of 629 Reform members, commissioned by Hope Not Hate
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I spoke to BBC reporter Tim Whewell for this programme on Syria’s Kurds and the women’s revolution of North East Syria.
Worth a listen, not for me but for the Kurdish women who speak so movingly about their lives transformed- and the threats ahead. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities
McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
Remembering the squatting of Tolmers Village that saved half the square 50 years back. What now?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No worries! I did get get in eventually!
Having trouble accessing the link.
I tried to log into Eventbrite and I get endless captcha shit! One after the other...
🔴Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front
Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience
