I have recently, for many months, been too busy to use social media much....but now I've kind of got to screaming point and so this is my safety valve. I am not dyslexic but I work with lots of people who are and do you know where POTUS can go with his comments about dyslexia? #dyslexia #ignorance
She Spoke Too: How Hibo Wardere Is Changing the Story open.substack.com/pub/shewrote... - it was wonderful to speak with Hibo last week about her work on preventing FGM through education and supporting victims.
nicolamorgan.substack.com/publish/post... - the UK's response to the US No Kings movement, the No Kings Brother shift @maitlis.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/nicolamo... It is six months today since my little brother died and I wrote this short story about what his reflections might be from the afterlife about his death and what has happened since called 'Not my Best Night'
This is the most worrying sign we have seen yet of where this is going. nicolamorgan.substack.com/p/why-comedy...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social - this is why I was so concerned about Kimmel being 'suspended' nicolamorgan.substack.com/p/why-comedy...
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @therestpolitics.bsky.social I joined Fuse on your recommendation back in June for the reason that I would get my TRIP membership. 3 months and over 25 emails later, it's not sorted out. I was a member and they just link me to my old scheme which has expired.
I'm also a bit bored by this calling out 'left' and 'right' in the sense that when people say it, do they actually understand ideology and how broad they all are? (Not picking on you here - I am just concerned by these polarising conversations).
A memorial for Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated by a right wing nut job.
Might be an idea.
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/nicolamo... - I'm looking to post WW2 for inspiration as to how to build a better story than we currently have.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I watched brilliant Paloma Faith’s podcast with you today. I had something in my eye at your words on your wife! And so did my husband.
See the videos by Gary Economics which supports your case
witches will rise! The portrayal of witches and what we make of it open.substack.com/pub/nicolamo...
For sociologists of gender, medicine, mental health, "deviance"..."Witches" on @mubi.bsky.social is a deeply personal docu-essay by Elizabeth Sankey on post-partum psychosis, using footage from movies on witches to show how the image is used to both stigmatize women but can also be a way of coping
@lewisgoodall.com
10,000 steps
It was such a pleasure this week to speak with ABitOfAChristie for She Wrote Too podcast #agathachristie
Got a new logo!
Well, this is still all quite new but it seems like Bluesky is the new place to be after he who shall not be named got the 'other one'. Hooray!
