a concert backdrop that says over 30 universities destroyed in iran against black and white picture of rubble

backdrop that says last standing university in gaza against a black and white image of al-israa university

giant three screen stage backdrop showing footage of the bombing of a university in gaza

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

A wooden planter with green leafy mint, light blue forget me not, blue and pink lung wort, purple bugle weed and orange calendula all in flower

Our air pollution defence planter looking fab with forget me not, lung wort, and bugle weed all in flower #WildFlowerHour

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unusually slow) walk-in-progress over the past two weeks. The full thread (122 posts) is below.

So much of this resonates. And I know it’s not all about me but it is a very depressing space to occupy as someone who actually
likes teaching and thinks it matters. A kind of mass grief, really.

I took a walk from King's X to Blackfriars with the brilliant artist Christie Swallow on a blustery day and it became an Anastrophes podcast! Listen in to 'Queer Ecology, the Imagination, and Lost Landscapes' here: linktr.ee/anastrophes

Garlic mustard plants looking through a wire fence with small white flowers starting to show

Stinging nettles behind a wire fence

A hand holding young Linden leaves with the bark of the tree trunk in the background

3 wild foods that are perfect to eat (in London) right now... Garlic mustard, linden leaves, nettles, yum! #UrbanForaging #EastEndJam #WildFood remember to pick responsibly and double check identification B4 eating 🚶‍♀️🏙️🌱

Garlic mustard plants looking through a wire fence with small white flowers starting to show

Stinging nettles behind a wire fence

A hand holding young Linden leaves with the bark of the tree trunk in the background

3 wild foods that are perfect to eat (in London) right now... Garlic mustard, linden leaves, nettles, yum! #UrbanForaging #EastEndJam #WildFood remember to pick responsibly and double check identification B4 eating 🚶‍♀️🏙️🌱

One of the things I miss about old Twitter is if I posted something like this on there then my entire print run for that week would sell out in about two hours and I’d spend days fulfilling the orders. I’ve only sold one print via Bluesky in all the time I’ve been here.

The cover of the book walking and leisure: mobilities, encounters and critical engagements edited by Miriam Snellgrove

Chapter title page of creative walking, repetition, rhythm and respite in pandemic times by Clare Qualmann, Deirdre Heddon, Maggie O'Neill, Morag Rose and Harry Wilson

Contents page with chapters including: where is the leisure when walking with a baby?, disabled mobilities and critical embodied entanglements in the park, the Queer politics of walking with digital technologies, race, nature and historical memory, the role of the erotic in black women's leisure

Contents continues including: walking with cancer, walking and stopping together in the carceral landscape of Portland, walking with a cat, storying a place through walking, the importance of everyday walking routines for aging well in place, walking in the spatial order of automobility, reimagining the city walking tour, walking as a sociopolitical form of transforming civic experience

Woop woop! New publication with the brilliant #WalkCreate team 'creative walking, repetition, rhythm and respite in pandemic times' in a new volume on walking and leisure. So many fab looking chapters. But it's £££ so get your library to buy (or DM if you'd like to read the chapter) 🚶‍♀️🏙️🏞️

A child with hands stained purple holding a white cup of mahonia berries

The mahonia at the community garden are ripe, so the kids made juice, super tasty, but needed sugar #UrbanGrowing #Hackney #CityGarden 🚶‍♀️🏙️🌱

CFP: Waste, Garbage, Surplus: Art and Cultural Imaginaries in the Age of Hyperconsumption, Barcelona networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Mind-blowing things that David showed me? Not only the awesomeness of the suffragette banners... But also the plans, designs, choreography of the marches in which they were carried. The theatrical craft & pageantry as well as the documents of the rivalries between the suffragettes & suffragists

I'm so happy that the collection found a new home @lselibrary.bsky.social and continues to hold the stories and histories of so many brilliant women. After years of weird disregard, the weight
Wright and wright designed reading room at London met is at least back in use as a library...

In collaboration with Emily Butterworth I created a walking tour of East End launderettes past and present, weaving a narrative from the women's library building & the baths & washhouses act, via russian steam baths in Bethnal green, ending at the Boundary estate community launderette in Shoreditch

A drawing of instructions for hanging out washing from the papers of Ethel Robson

Sorry that should be old castle street! During the heyday of the purpose built space I was privileged to undertake a research residency, exploring the collections in relation to the history of the former wash houses, with a project called #SpinningStories spinningstories.wordpress.com

In 1999 the collection was in a basement in the Calcutta house annexe (I think there are still signs visible from Goulsten street) dangerously exposed to damp/flooding risks etc.

1 of my clearest memories of starting work at the library service, London Guildhall university, 1999 was the induction to the Fawcett library with David Doughan. Name change to the women's library, with it's own building was such a major event. Sadly ended in shame in 1 of London met's many crises

Google maps screenshot showing a route along a dual carriageway that is impossible to cross

This is the so called crossing point... A gap in the hedge and a gap in the central reservation. The cars are doing 70mph. We almost gave up.

PSA for anyone attempting to get to Tremenheere sculpture garden on foot... Do not follow Google! You cannot walk along the Longrock bypass, & you cannot cross it at the marked point, unless you have a death wish/no children with you. #Cornwall #CarFree #FamilyAdventure #walking

A grassy sandy path with a small adder making an s shape with it's body as it flees

An adder zipping off the coast path at Hayle yesterday 🐍! Can you spot it? Making a perfect s shape.

Walk providers - Bristol Walk Fest 2026 programmes are ready to collect from Tuesday 7 April!
Pick up your bundle (plus a sheet of brand new stickers) from 100 Temple St, Redcliffe, weekdays 9am–7pm, from 7–17 April.
Take the door marked 'office' on the right. No need to call ahead.
#bristolwalkfest

So sad that that is now flats... Bet it was a beautiful library

Sara Ahmed (@feministkilljoys) Ten years ago this month, I resigned from my post and my profession in protest at the failure of my institution to deal with the problem of sexual harassment. It was a lot to give up. But it was neces...

10 years. A love letter to diversity workers. And gratitude for my complaint collective. substack.com/@feministkil...

12 yo has a new joke.... 'why are the pyramids in Egypt?..... Because they are too heavy to move to the British museum' #TheKidsAreAlright #jokes #DecolonisingTheJokeBook

@hackneycouncil.bsky.social

Hey not sure what happened to this! I just paid £5+ for a 12 minute lime ride in hackney... I would have bought a pass, but I thought there was a borough cap? Anyone know if it's actually running? @hackneycyclist.bsky.social

A group of people gathered on frosty grass, with trees in the distance and the sun starting to rise

Got up for the sunrise yesterday at hackney marshes, a beautiful new gathering building there over a couple of years. 'we don't know what this is' just invites people to come, hang out, wait for the sun, notice the changing season ☀️ 🌅🏙️🚶‍♀️