Great piece and insight from colleagues in @refugecharity.bsky.social team supporting victims of domestic abuse, who are increasingly subjected to perpetrators' use of technology to coerce, control and harm.

So excited about this fabulous event on Fri 24th & Sat 25th October in central London: SURVIVING #SPYCOPS. With a brilliant line up of speakers on Friday including the wonderful comedian Mark Thomas plus fantastic new protest art. Not to be missed! Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surviving-...

Human rights in the age of populist authoritarianism. 'In a political moment defined by the rise of authoritarian far right movements and figures, we argue that this is an urgent task for a Feminist Anti-Racist Left.' By @feministdissent.bsky.social www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

Women took Thalidomide from 1957 until 1961, when it was taken off the market. Paracetamol has been in safe use for over 70 years. It's a perfect example of how populists undermine trust in institutions: it's a bullshit false equivalence, but only an expert would be able to rebut it live on air.

Populism always makes things worse for people - the economy, social cohesion, culture, all wither under its weight. It's a prerequisite for dictators to undermine the authority of the institutions like academia, science & the courts, that track this decline & communicate it to the public.

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 POLICE SPIES OUT OF LIVES: STOP STATE-SPONSORED ABUSE OF WOMEN BY #SpyCops Survivors of the undercover policing scandal in conversation about their fight for justice. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

"We demand decisive government action to shut down far-right intimidation and foster a bold, anti-racist, anti-sexist vision for our society and pledge support for the 12 demands made by SBS with support from 60+ organisations" southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/its-tim...

As part of the 10th celebrations, we share news of a book by @rahilag.bsky.social, British Feminism: Through A FiLiA Lens, a herstory of the #Feminist voices & activism of the last decade of #FiLiA Pre-order for collection at #FiLiA2025 or delivery 🔗 shop.filia.org.uk/products/bri...

9 months ago @jamestplunkett.bsky.social went full-time supporting the energy at the edges. Our old bureaucratic institutions struggle more each day. This is a movement to build a more human alternative. 👀 medium.com/@jamestplunk... Our thanks to the many people who have shaped the thinking. (1/3)

I wrote a thing a while ago about how one of the important tasks for a new Labour government was to make space for the sadness people felt as a result of the pandemic, austerity and more. Sadness, not despair or its proxy anger. There is a lot of sadness with nowhere to go, hiding in other things

Wankered: Understanding and addressing [developer] exhaustion [in the software industry] Great piece…(too) easy to extrapolate out to the VCSE sector Wankered: Understanding and addressing [staff and volunteer] exhaustion [in the VCSE sector] flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/w...

Conservatives have been bragging all week that they got the Trump administration to pull NIH funding from 17 studies using fetal tissue. What the 'pro-life' movement won't tell you is that one of those studies was seeking to cure brain cancer in children. jessica.substack.com/p/nih-brain-...

There may or may not be a case for continued drilling while we continue to transition to clean energy, but the idea it will meaningfully boost the economy, solve the UK's fiscal woes, or bring down energy bills is beyond laughable. It's treating voters with contempt.

Meet Jasmine and Josh. Jasmine is a mathematician. Josh is a male mathematician. Actual T shirts you can buy and wear! 10 % off EVERYTHING until Midnight on Sunday. Use code TENOFF at checkout. https://manwhohasitallshop.com/collection/hers-and-his

SARS2 presents a considerable risk to preschool kids, both acutely and in the longer term cf other CHILDHOOD DISEASES, NOT ADULTS. The childhood vax is incredibly safe and incredibly good at preventing both. 2-6% of infections result in #LongCovid. Vax lessens this risk. Vax DOES reduce transmission

This & the rape last week in Oldbury should be national news but will be ignored by newspapers too excited at the thought they might get to play at being court press for fascists

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Building a resilient workforce for today and tomorrow“ by noelito noelito.medium.com/building-a-r... “Because in the end, it’s not about surviving another restructure. It’s about whether we create organisations where people feel anchored, supported, and ready to thrive — whatever comes next.”

💥 #FiLiA2025 speaker news 💥 VICTORIA SMITH @glosswitch.bsky.social, author of Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women & Unkind: How ‘Be Kind’ Entrenches Sexism. She writes regularly on #feminism, with an interest in ageism, the female body & Women’s mental health. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

🌟 We're hiring! Southall Black Sisters seeks a Helpline Coordinator to support Black, minoritised, and migrant women facing violence. 💼 ~£36-39k | 📍Southall (up to 2 days WfH) | 🗓️ Apply by 22 Sept | Interviews 2-3 Oct southallblacksisters.org.uk/get-involved...

Morning! Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter #2 is arriving in inboxes now. A little bit on Musk and X, much more about future plans + organising buttondown.com/society-of-h... and great to have a group of fellow organisers coming together 💪

This is an excellent cartoon about MVAWG using @evawuk.bsky.social and @hopenothate.org.uk research and resources. I’ll be sharing with North East Anti Racism Coalition. Thanks for creating it @vulgadrawings.bsky.social

Being stubbornly female from @ccriadoperez.bsky.social newsletter- great news about a trial treating women for heart disease (the leading cause of death for women globally), at home smear tests, diagnosing endometriosis using menstrual blood. open.substack.com/pub/caroline...

The is still not very much infrastructure to support little autonomous groups of folks doing what they do for the good of their community. There's still a weird attitude from funders without knowledge of a community or a group or org to give advice linked to funding that doesn't help or deforms orgs

It's kind of wild how little the austerity of the 2010s was opposed at the time. It was all 'ah fresh broom!' all the way up to the EU referendum. And wild how high the level of unhappiness is now with failure to undo the results of decisions made in 2010-2015 in less than one year.

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What is it about their culture that makes them do these things

The audiobook of Flipping Patriarchy releases NEXT THURSDAY 4th September! Pre-orer now. https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781004200986/ Unabridged and narrated by total legend, Amanda Abbington. @wfhowes

We will have a panel on the new report by @projectresist.bsky.social & The Angelou Centre at #FiLiA2025, chaired by Rosie Lewis and she will be joined by Faty Kane, from The Angelou Centre & Jasmine Mohammad from Safety4Sisters Read ⬇️ 🔗 angelou-centre.org.uk/stories-of-c... #WhyDoIHaveToHideAway

Why do I have to hide away? New report "centred on lived experiences of Black, migrant and minoritised women and children in the wake of the 2024 far-right riots." From Angelou Centre and @projectresist.bsky.social angelou-centre.org.uk/stories-of-c...

The weekly FiLiA newsletter is out now and is packed full of all the lovely #lesbian sessions at #FiLiA2025 👭 🔗 mailchi.mp/filia/filia2... Plus a @filiahaguemums.bsky.social webinar, #FiLiA book, #WhyDoIHaveToHideAway report by @projectresist.bsky.social & Angelou Centre, EqIA workshops and more!

We have now surpassed 1,900 tickets and it will officially be the BIGGEST #FiLiA yet! 🪩🥳💃 Make sure you join us at #FiLiA2025 ♀️ 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets When Women Gather, Magic Happens 🪄🔮🧙‍♀️

We're proud to be one of the 200 organisations calling on the Government to address the dangerous weaponisation of violence against women and girls. Vital conversations about VAWG are being hijacked by people seeking to use women and girls’ pain and trauma - & the threat of it - for political gain.

🚨Ending #VAWG & defending migrant rights go hand in hand. Leaders can’t halve VAWG, while not challenging lies about its causes. We join 200 organisations in rejecting the weaponisation of VAWG by those with an anti-migrant agenda. 🔗 hibiscusinitiatives.org.uk/news/joint-s... #NotInOurName

The asylum hotel outrage is all down to Tory party failures - failures supported by Jenrick, and that they and Reform are now blaming on Labour. And Labour needs to tell that story. In 2023, the Conservative government “banned” small boat arrivals from claiming asylum. This was the IMA.

Mark Carney has tried to end a flight attendant strike with a return-to-work order, with some accusing him of betraying #womensrights #Canada 🇨🇦 www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

The BBC gained access to a mental health facility in #Afghanistan and spoke to Women trapped there. Distressing story... #AfghanWomen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police in #Nepal are accused of victim blaming and of ignoring cases of rape in Women, unless there is physical evidence #maleviolence #MVAWG kathmandupost.com/national/202...

I join my colleague in expressing alarm at this sentence #Iran

The UK Emergency Alerts system will be tested on 7 Sept 2025 at 3pm. It shares warnings during emergencies like floods, wildfires and storms. Domestic abuse survivors with concealed phones might need to turn off alerts. Here's how you can opt out ⤵️ www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...

Understanding why people behave differently when spending other people’s money (cost v quality) by Bob, Think Different ✅ spend like it’s your own policies, transparency, sharing Also touches on other people time, effort, credibility, attention flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/o...

Spot on by @stephenkb.bsky.social Digital id is part of the security and regulatory infrastructure. It should not be outsourced for the same reason as privatising the Land Registry would have been wrong.

#LongCovid is a patient-driven concept. LC research builds on unpaid advocacy-research from patients, especially first wavers. People who are financially profiteering from the unpaid labour of advocates/patient-researchers have a duty to engage ethically with LC and data sharing

WE DO NOT NEED YOUR PROTECTION!!! This is a party that does not GAF about women's rights - see what they have to say about abortion. See how the far right responds to Andrew Tate. Men abuse women. Men control women. Your narrative of "protection" is a narrative of control.

The increasingly online nature of porn, hook-ups & sex-buying have made it easier than ever before for men to cultivate secret lives. It’s occurred to me that these factors also make it easier for men’s secrets to be *discovered*. Often all it requires is access to their phones.

North East Together 28: It’s a netPARTY not a netWORK (July 2025) - here's a write up of our event last month. medium.com/northeasttog...

Rising wealth inequality limits social mobility, undermines democracy, and harms productivity & growth. It’s also deeply gendered as men hold significantly more wealth than women. We’re calling for more progressive taxation to help tackle gendered wealth inequality & build a fairer future for all.