Amidst all the chaos, the world remains silent on the plight of Afghan girls, denied education and even the most fundamental necessities.
Every day that girls are not in school, is a wasted opportunity for the future of Afghanistan.
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
“Wherever I go and whatever I do I tell myself that Benjamin Zephaniah is just a working-class street poet from Birmingham trying to defend working-class people who got a bit lucky with his poetry. I don’t think I’m anything special.”
#poet
#writer
Before his death he formed a trust & donated all of his rights of publicity - his name, likeness, voice, identity – to a non-profit company. He also famously barred the commercialisation of his identity for 25 years after his death
#SagAftraStrike
#AMPTP
This is now bumped up to the
@thetimes
lead. Clearly this is not a niche story. Compare and contrast the BBC still running a Baby Reindeer story on its politics front page
There’s a new campaign to get teenage girls into sport. Called
#strongisbeautiful
it’s been kicked off by Team GB rugby players posing in lingerie.
Feels really regressive and sexist to me.
Maybe I’m old.
HUD is maybe the most important movie in the paul newman canon because in 1963 newman went to the venice film festival to promote that movie and that's where this picture was taken
Institutionalized poverty is not a business model. If the studio execs want to prevent a worldwide labor revolt, they should start by ending the strikes at home. That, or get a real job.
#AMPTP
#WGAStrong
#SAGAFTRAStrong
#Netflix
Netflix's Ted Sarandos and the CEOs of all the other studios appear to have underestimated the power of artistic solidarity, writes Times columnist Mary McNamara.
#wga
#sagaftra
#writersstrike
#actorsstrike
Studies found, "massive amounts of PFAS within brain tumours" Dr Bennett explains. We're only now beginning to understand the harm done by toxic forever chemicals polluting our water & our bodies. More in our new podcast 👇
#DarkWaters
Raphael Elizé was a WWI veteran from Martinique and veterinarian trained in Lyon who became France’s first elected Black mayor in 1929. In WWII Elizé worked with the French Resistance but was deported to Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 where he was killed.
‘I don’t agree with your wording dump. Dump is not the correct wording to use.’ Says spokesman of company who took a great big dump in Lake Windermere.
Just going to leave this here after todays piece by
@joe_crowley
Last time round United Utilities initially denied this sewage being dumped in the middle of the lake, but it turned out to be true and they had to admit that on national TV. The piece also
When are people going to start really tackling workplace toxicity.
Workplaces should be hives of happy brilliant activity not places of heartlessness and personal self-interest.
Since March 2022, 86 skilled staff have left the RSA due to pay & toxic environment. We joined RSA believing we would help shape radical change but the reality is so different.
Watch these brave RSA leavers share their stories
Support us in our upcoming strike on 10 & 18 Oct!
My Uncle was Palestinian he died two weeks ago. My Aunt is still writing letters of thanks to hundreds of well wishers in his community who came to show their respect to a man who gave so much to others.
I share far more with Palestinians on the other side of town in East Jerusalem than I could ever share with this armchair uber-patriot purporting to "support" Israel.
Anyone for whom Israel is dear, and for whatever reason, are duty-bound to totally discredit the likes of him.
From where I stand on the ground, it feels like the legislation protecting the same sex intimate care of non-verbal, severely disabled girls and women is being overlooked, eroded and undermined
@NHS
@DHSCgovuk
@DisabilityAPPG
Please support this new project designed to collect the stories of those who rely on domiciliary care and ergo highlight the wide scale problem facing women who request same sex care provisions 💚🤍💜
@CaringADignity
Hope this will cover those stories of women falling from balconies while on holiday. “Police Scotland stated there had been 10 homicides involving women falling from height, while Humberside provided data between 2017 and 2023, stating there were seven incidents.”
The hidden homicides of women being pushed to their deaths. Killed Women’s Fallen Women campaign calls for the deaths of all women who have fallen from a height to be reviewed by police to check whether domestic abuse may have been a feature.
#fallenwomen
Heard through the grapevine
@BBCWomansHour
have sent a reporter right past this story and on to the one about brave Bob Morris, 56, who plays on the under 18s girls lacrosse team up at St Andrews.
@yourisolde
I'm asking why a *Women's Library* has chosen to display a comic which centres the desires of straight men, is focused on shaming lesbians for their sexual orientation and has a cover depicting a protected group dying out. This is not a feminist book, or one that deals with
It is beyond belief that this individual, who was too spineless to attend his own sentencing, has the audacity to appeal the very sentence he couldn't be bothered to witness.
I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons, knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky
#Writers
#music
#songs
#arts
#culture
“Like Dickens, she loves children and reserves her greatest concern for them. But she will not lie to them, and people who refuse to lie in public these days are indeed hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies now contending for our souls.”
This all conquering Women’s Caucus better be finding answers to these things if it has any hope in solving the never ending problem of why some men hate women.
One of these posts garnered many assertions that the writer must be drunk, deranged or both.
The other didn't.
What could explain the difference?
Answers on a postcard to Miss Ogyny, 44 Womenknowyour Place, Little Speaking, YRU T4LK, United Kingdom.
So women who indentify as men shouldn‘t under any circumstance be held in males prisons - because well, they’re likely to get their heads kicked in, raped or murdered - because of well biology, but men who identify as women should be in women’s prisons because..?
#StoneWallOut
Ruth Hunt, ex head of Stonewall: “So we would accept that trans women are women - that is not up for debate - but what do we do about prison? And the starting point of that conversation is that trans men should never go in a men’s prison, right? So we are conceding that there is
STUDY OPPORTUNITIES
From October 2024 I will be offering supervision for students to study with me online for an MA by Research in Literature on :
#Vampire
Literature and Culture
or
Literature and
#Folklore
One year full time or two years part-time
Ah, the social media team at NBC/Universal/Comcast’s
@peacock
thanks by turning off the comments people won’t tell them to pay their writers.
Well: pay your writers.
Put that in your social media sentiment report and smoke it.
#WritersStrike
#WGAStrong
#SAGAFTRAstrong
Our
#EHRM23
found disabled people were significantly more likely to experience domestic abuse and sexual assault compared with non-disabled people. Govt & police forces must take urgent action to reduce disabled people’s greater risk of experiencing crime:
More ex-employees speaking out in a fair & balanced way on how companies treat their staff will start to see more management accountability. At the moment, across every industry, the way management treat staff and the consumer, ie PEOPLE & our world is a disgrace.
Since March 2022, 86 skilled staff have left the RSA due to pay & toxic environment. We joined RSA believing we would help shape radical change but the reality is so different.
Watch these brave RSA leavers share their stories
Support us in our upcoming strike on 10 & 18 Oct!
How far should protests go and where do protests end and hate speech begin. Also should all face coverings be banned at protests? Hot topic issues debated town hall style
@acadofideas
#Battlefest
When you re-read Sendak you're not doing it for nostalgia, you're not doing it for history, you're not doing it to look back, you do it to look in.
- Frank Cottrell-Boyce
According to the latest Flexible Working Index, “Demand for a 4-day week has remained steady.”
You bet it has!
People want jobs with work-life balance. If, after all the research and evidence, a company still won’t provide that on a full-time salary, they’ll look elsewhere 👀
Such a dangerous phenomenon that has festered at universities and then seeped out into wider society causing devastating damage to democracy - If I can make you out to be a bad person then I don’t have to listen to what you have to say and then neither does anybody else.
There is now a growing surge in the number of women committing suicide in
#Afghanistan
.
Yet on the world goes.
Not only looking the other way, but pretending that being female in a world run by violent, hate-filled males is just a state of mind.
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
Is it men pushing inequality and sex discrimination again through organisations that are supposed to protect women and babies? Same men who say men are women and biological differences do not exist except when they need an incubator for ‘their’ child.
Just as Stonewall got their claws in to every public institution, surrogacy agencies are doing the same.
Yesterday, MySurrogacyJourney presented on stage to 2000 midwives at
@MidwivesRCM
conference.
They’re on a drive to normalise separating mothers & babies. This cannot stand.
#Messi
could not say anything to “tarnish”
#SaudiArabia
image or reputation. Take that in for a moment. Saudi Arabia basically bought arguably the greatest footballer of all time’s silence for a grand total of $25 million.
For those who missed my talk at
@playthegame_org
in Norway, you can now read the speech in its entirety, where I offered new perspectives on how best to understand Saudi Arabia's sports strategy
…for Barrymore to place herself on the same side as executives whose strategy is letting “union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses” doesn’t align with her image as an exemplar of active love…
#WGAStrike
#SAGAFTRAStrike
61% of private sector jobs are in small & medium businesses - like the b&bs, shops, cafes near Cornish beaches who lose out when tourists are put off by the prospect of swimming in poop. Lax regulation protects water company profits at the expense of businesses providing jobs.
Quite unbelievable it’s almost like they’re using men who think they’re women as a Trojan Horse to say look men are miraculously harmless now some of them even carry handbags. Any policy or person that advocates for choosing to shame women 1/2
Women have the right to not share a lift with any man.
Women have the right to exit the lift if a bloke in there creeps her out and makes her feel unsafe.
Women have the right to put our safety before the feelings of men who pretend be women.
Shadow Sec of State Defra,
@SteveReedMP
“We have a plan to crack down on water companies & put them on special measures that will involve compulsory monitoring of every single outlet, severe automatic fines & personal criminal liability for water executives.”
How is correctly gendering a complete stranger a hate crime when they look like the gender they no longer associate with and when 1. Sex matters and 2. Many people don’t believe in gender. 3. For women, correctly identifying males is a safety issue. Where are their rights? 2/2
@JennaLongoria
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“If you are born as a girl in Afghanistan,the systematic gender oppression by the Taliban has decided your future for you. This is the worst form of discrimination: women denied every basic right and opportunity.”-
@Malala
#EndGenderApartheidIn
🇦🇫
#Harmony
is coming to Broadway!
Enjoy this behind-the-scenes video with the cast and creative team of
#Harmony
.
Broadway Previews begin October 18th.
Get Tickets🎟️:
Oh no
#writers
having a good time
@joerussotweets
“I heard from inside one of the major studios... The fact that the AMPTP hasn't broken the WGA's spirit yet is driving the upper brass NUTS and they HATE seeing writers having fun on the picket line.”
#WGAStrong
Reckless politicians, thuggish activists, fearful celebrities, non-journalists, & a spiteful charity forgot that other people live in the world too.
Asking questions about medicine isn’t a crime & standing up for rights you already have isn’t either.
#Stonewallout
My name is Polly Clark. I’m a writer, a mother, and I’m not frightened of the bullies anymore. I hope the Cass Report may help other anons feel they can break cover at last. And goodbye Jean, thank you for everything. XXX 12/12
The damage of
#nodebate
‘to the likes of
@JoPhoenix1
’ their livelihoods, careers, mental health, safety, privacy, rights to their own sexuality boundaries, their own sports and to speak about their lives has been catastrophic. You’re a bit late to the party.
#journalism
#ethics
There is a way out of cancel culture – but it’s not free speech.
@HargreavesBC
argues that a “competing human rights” framework would help the likes of
@JoPhoenix1
and her critics into a dialogue shaped by active listening.
I was just thinking Stephen you & the gang over
@BBCHARDtalk
are one of the things that the
#BBC
gets right - just watching Ciarán Hinds the other night on his thoughts on
#Ireland
More of this programming please
Wow. When I look back at interviews like this one with James Taylor I realise what a ridiculously privileged job I’ve had….Talking to an array of fascinating brilliant people prepared to go into difficult territory.
But where is the financial support? The investment for those between jobs? That’s what
#freelancers
need. That’s the kind of infrastructure you should be looking at.
Bectu has been in discussions with broadcasters about the need to support film and TV freelancers through this incredibly challenging time for the industry.
Welcome news and we hope further initiatives will follow.
With the
#CassReview
highlighting serious issues around treating gender dysphoria and the influence of non-medical activists in influencing the medical and psychological care of young people you’d think
@ChtyCommission
would have this investigation as a top priority.
It has been over a year since the Charity Commission started its investigation into Mermaids, we believe neither the Charity Commission or Mermaids are taking this or the safeguarding of children seriously.
We ask the
@ChtyCommission
to step up, finalise their investigation as
ground rules please. If you guess someone’s age & it’s wrong is that a hate crime? If you assume they have children but they don’t, hate crime? mispronouncing someone’s name? If you don’t like Indian food? Are they hate crimes?
@FAANews
@nytimes
@washingtonpost
1/2
@JennaLongoria
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Talking of
#Hijack
good to see Mr Neil Maskell on board. The maestro of menace. Last seen scaring the crap out of everyone in this little British horror/revenge thriller gem.
#WGAStrike
@GAltringham
@Gibboanxious
Singing in the rain is the perfect film. The complete film. Goodfellas is also very good. But I can’t remember it raining in Goodfellas.
.
@UKLabour
@HarrietHarman
@Keir_Starmer
you’re completely out of your depth dealing with this institutional misogyny the fact that you’re blind to it says all we need to know about your complete lack of leadership in safeguarding women & children 2/2
6 months ago he joined the Independent Office for Police Conduct as Head of Comms to help 'restore trust' in the police.
3wks ago he mocked Rosie Duffield, days after a man was convicted of threats to kill.
Now this, about female nurses who don't want to undress in front of men
.
@NHSuk
@NHSConfed
@NHSMillion
@CommonsHealth
middle-management in our public sector is a real issue. And seems to be a gravy train for executives who seem to do the work they want rather than the work that is needed & cling on to their jobs all the way to their pensions
The NHS should NOT be spending £40m on diversity-related jobs when brutal delays are rife.
It's wasteful, it's divisive and it's insulting to all those who work hard and pay their tax to fund the health service. Our advice? The NHS should get back to basics.
Do you agree?🤔
Subtext: it’s so annoying that in the U.K. you have to at least pretend to develop a relationship with a surrogate mother.
Unlike in the US, where you can just hire one 🙄
Is
@SkyNews
worse than the BBC at this point?
Who has gone in and done this? Feels like fresh activist input
JK Rowling: Trans newsreader India Willoughby calls comments by Harry Potter author 'grotesque transphobia' | UK News | Sky News
The FA is resisting government pressure and will continue to allow transgender women to compete in women's football, Sports Editor
@stevescott_itv
writes
Starmer is a 61-year-old former director of public prosecutions and he expects congratulations for acknowledging what every crayon-stained toddler in a kindergarten knows? We should have higher expectations of the man who wants to run the country.
We must never forget – or forgive – Keir Starmer’s trans lunacy. He threw Rosie Duffield to the wolves. He took the side of men in dresses over the women who were raising concerns. And he abandoned scientific truth. It was shameful, says Brendan O’Neill
Have been saying for ages that inequality in those on boards and the number of boards that people are on is not democratic or social justicy, fair or equitable - this is how change is made. Best story of the day for me. Well done
@artshomelessint
#BBC
shining bright like a diamond…again.
“Pity R2 controller Helen Thomas didn't show him the same respect when she stripped him of his fantastic afternoon show.”
6 months ago he joined the Independent Office for Police Conduct as Head of Comms to help 'restore trust' in the police.
3wks ago he mocked Rosie Duffield, days after a man was convicted of threats to kill.
Now this, about female nurses who don't want to undress in front of men
Money grab continues at
#Olympics
#IOC
#LA28
#RoadToParis2024
What do athletes who train to compete at Olympics get paid? How do they sustain their training over the years? This kind of salary can’t be justified if athletes are living hand to mouth.
Afghan women & girls are bravely fighting Taliban's repression inside & outside Afghanistan. Please stop portraying them as victims & that you are saving them. 2.5 years of their bravery must become part of world's women's movement history.
But I’m hearing that women are being stoned to death, imprisoned in their homes, can’t got to schools or parks. I’m sure Malang is a nice guy & the country beautiful but some of its people are not welcoming to the women & girls who live there. I can’t really forgot that.
That and Lost Boys & Fairies were worth an audiences time this year. Hopefully more British original work will get commissioned that tell stories in an honest way about how we all rub up along with one another in this imperfect world.
Sad that such an iconic sportswoman has a man in her life who doesn’t believe in women’s sports - thankfully her father and mother and coaches thought women and girls deserved their own sports back then.
#SaveWomensSports
“That’s the brilliant thing about this squad there is no sulking, there is no moments to be dismayed to sap any energy out of the squad. You just see the girls get on with it.”
#Lionesses