I've been writing about Phyllis Schlafly and right-wing women vs Shere Hite and found this superb! I'm hoping for some discussion of Schlafly's self-help book, 'the power of the positive woman' in part 2. @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social

Out now! In this book I explore struggles for reproductive rights & liberty in postwar France - telling a different story about the era of sexual liberalisation & legal reform, avoiding a celebratory narrative but looking at persisting injustices and inequalities. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

“In this time of extinctions, we are going to be asked again and again to take a stand for life, and this means taking a stand for faith in life’s meaningfulness” - Deborah Bird Rose

It was so big in Melbourne that you could not physically exit the Melbourne central mall onto the street

amazing that the anti-sexist men's movement propose gender-neutral pronouns (te/tir) & attaché as alternative to husband/wife. As someone who likes a smart briefcase I could get on board!

Very exciting book news from Rosa Campbell, one-time editorial fellow at History Workshop 📖 👀

My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social! It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26! mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Sexual violence has been both endemic and normalised within many British police forces — and sexual violence against girls from working class backgrounds has long been ignored by the wider British state. Sometimes the obvious answer is, in fact, the correct answer. Nobody cared about these girls.

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

excited to read this! I love Anthea Taylor's work and this one chimes with my own project on Shere Hite, especially making sense of reader letters. 💌 Clever, clever cover too!

It’s our movements that did it. For tenants rights, for Palestine and yes, the me too movement! People left and right love to hate on #metoo but without a mass movement against sexual violence Mamdani would never have been able to call Cuomo a sexual predator & have it stick!

❤️ zohran mamdani ❤️ Sometimes in life money is not enough

Thinking of u NYC!🗽 Got my community organiser fingers crossed for Zohran Mamdani. We are all worth more than Cuomo with the pre- #MeToo politics, the bullshit flyers, the racism, the same old yakety yak.

fabulous! and thank you @sandyosullivan.bsky.social

well done @zorasimic.bsky.social, Jordy and Ben Silverstein. this is one of those articles that opens things up and makes it possible for others to say things too. So, let's say it together: Free, free Palestine. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

loved this! and lots of surprises... "Amandla initially performed American songs...replicating voices such as Barry White, performing for audiences in Angola who were fond of American music until...one of the ANC leaders instructed them to sing South African songs instead."

would LOVE to connect with other writers in London working on creative non-fiction projects! drop me a line 💌 reposts welcome!

Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

There is no better place to open this beautiful book by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social than on my sittin' log by my little patch of brookside in the birdwood. It is a place where imagining worthwhile futures feels small but possible.

if starmer was serious about tackling 'a nation of strangers' he would bring in rent controls today. since moving to London in 2013, I've moved 11 times. of course my neighbours and I were "strangers." Now, I have housing that's a little more secure, I looked after my neighbour's baby yesterday.

Just finished making this great vegan chocolate cake to fuel the London Renters Union branch meeting tomorrow. Thanks @nigella.bsky.social for ur sumptuous cake and sumptuous politics 🌹🧁 www.nigella.com/recipes/dark...

Pleased to have an essay coming out on global women's peace camps of the 1980s here. I loved thinking about women's visits to Greenham Common including Nawal El Saadawi 🕷️🕸️ 🌎 💜 ☮️* & alongside such an all-star cast of great historians! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

I find it so funny that 'the joy of sex' is modeled on 'the joy of cooking'. A 'cordon bleu guide to lovemaking.' "A cookbook tells a novice how to tackle a live lobster, what to do when the mayonnaise separates" so this book covers "human heterosexuality…fantasies and staple diet."

Thinking of all my honeys running the #Londonmarathon today in these warm conditions. You all got me round my 10k this morning. What a beautiful sport. It has utterly changed my life 👟💕

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history. Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

at its heart, feminism is about making life more livable. this supreme court decision and its repercussions are so deathly.

gender congeal party

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cape-town-... "Food is sometimes invested with an exaggerated level of cultural symbolism – I know this well as a diaspora kid who used to do slam poetry – but pickled fish is so idiosyncratic." toothsome, funny & surprising as usual from @vittles.bsky.social

OTD in 1998, Patrick Corporation, the company which ran the operations at the major Australia ports, sacked their entire workforce. How did personal experience of this strike shape understandings of Solidarity Forever? ✊🗃 @rosavcampbell.bsky.social from the archive: www.historyworkshop....

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... join the renters union. we win. londonrentersunion.org

Next we have this timely piece on women’s sport past and present which was chosen by Elly (@ellydezateux.bsky.social) Rosa Campbell (@rosavcampbell.bsky.social) highlights the ongoing struggles of cis and trans women and how they continue demanding their right to play the game.

why does fascism appeal to women? why do people get involved in movements against their own interests? Or rather WTF is up with right wing women?????? Great piece here about women, fascism and the 1930s on @historywo.bsky.social www.historyworkshop.org.uk/anti-fascism...

I loved this interesting, beautiful and nuanced book. I would love to review. If you need a reviewer, hit me up!

On #IWD, London Renters Union joined the women's strike. Housing is a feminist issue. every meeting women talk about scrubbing mould off walls, how their kids can't have friends over, how stressed they are keeping kids safe. many of us feel shame. we learn that shame is not ours, but landlords.

Loved resistance at @turnercontemporary.bsky.social. Here, a lovely march against section 28 in 1988, at the back a crumpled up “lesbians & gays boycott genocide” banner against the 🇦🇺 bicentennial celebrations that same year. the global shimmers at the edges of our movements, just look.

Yesterday London Renters Union stopped an eviction! 💪 After 7 HOURS standing our ground, defending multiple entrances, we sent the bailiffs and the police packing - defending our members from being evicted from their homes. Together, we have the power to stand up to the rich and win. ❤️

Here, @dranastevenson.bsky.social and I ask why feminists used the concept of 'female sexual slavery' in the 1970s-80s? how was it indebted to older ideas of 'white slavery?' how was it repurposed beyond those ideas? what does it say about power? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HQEX9...

It's been such a pleasure to work with @rosavcampbell.bsky.social on this journal article in which we find in the International Feminist Network Against Female Sexual Slavery a crucial 1980s link between the 19C "white slavery" campaigns and 21C anti-trafficking legislation. doi.org/10.1080/0143...