Calling #UK #VAWG peeps You may have spoken to Reem @unsrvaw.bsky.social in 2024 or you may have missed her but you can hear her speak about her visit & report at this #CWASU event on 25/9. She will be in discussion w' @proflizkelly.bsky.social & me. Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

With a foreword by @proflizkelly.bsky.social, and chapters entitled: Building a Movement; Looking Outwards; The Unyielding Heart of the Struggle: Violence against Women; Sexual Terrorism? Pornography and prostitution; The Tail Wags the Dog: The gender/sex debate;

📣📣📣 Mark your diaries: 25 September 1700 BST Reem AlSalem will be discussing her #UK report on #VAWG with me & Liz Kelly Join us to hear about the report & to discuss what needs to doing now Registration link coming next week #unsrvaw @unsrvaw.bsky.social @profLizKelly.bsky.social #cwasu

This article takes *17 paragraphs* to even mention the privatisation of England's water supply, and even then it does so in an equivocal 'some say' fashion - without mentioning, for example, that England is one of the only countries in the world with privatised water. Excrable journalism as usual.

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 HISTORY OF ACTIVISM AGAINST MVAWG. Join us for a conversation on the history of the women’s movement & activism against #MVAWG, with four trailblazing who helped shape it @proflizkelly.bsky.social 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Sisterhood #Solidarity #Brighton

We were honoured to welcome @drsarahyde.bsky.social, @purnasen.bsky.social, @proflizkelly.bsky.social, @jessasatomp.bsky.social & Sarah Russell at the launch of our new pamphlet, ‘Only Halfway? A Rights-Based Approach to Ending Violence Against Women in the UK’ Here were some key insights shared 🧵

Active in the field of violence against women & children for 40 years, @proflizkelly.bsky.social authored Surviving Sexual Violence, available at #OurFeministLibrary 🔗 uk.bookshop.org/a/7614/9780745604633 Watch her in convo with @campbellbeatrix.bsky.social at #FiLiA2023 📺 youtu.be/3e3ZDnHfRyY

Saturday #FiLiA2025 news! @proflizkelly.bsky.social, Director of Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit, Professor of sexualised violence, Roddick Chair on Violence Against Women and former co-chair of EVAW, will be speaking at #FiLiA. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #EVAW #VAWG #ChildAbuse

Come and hear Catherine MacKinnons latest take on prostitution. This Friday 5pm GMT. Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

"Seadog" (Otter) animal thread painting - hand embroidery artwork by Emily Tull, wildlife portrait artist and embroiderer #WomensArt

This is an era where it’s really important to know your rights and to make sure others around you know their rights, NO, ICE cannot enter your home without a *judicial* warrant. Not an administrative one like what they were trying to use with the WI judge to arrest someone. A judge-signed warrant.

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We are supporting the launch of @rahilag.bsky.social and Beatrix Campbell's new book, Planet Patriarchy The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and is chaired by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social 🗓️ 3rd July 6.30pm BST 📌 Women's Resource Centre, London 🎟️ bit.ly/PlanetPatriarchy #PlanetPatriarchy

Usually, weekends mean listening to jazz music. Yesterday and today, I listened to great jazz guitarists : Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, Larry Carlton, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, etc. And Emily Remler's double live album, released late last year. Superb collection.

#JoiningTheDots tomorrow 9 April - a chance to hear about * the women’s house * 50:50 government structures * ending #Sharia laws …and more With @RahilaG and Behiye Murad 1700 BST C/o CWASU Join us! 👇🏽 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

Time to sign up! What can we learn from #Rojava? #VAWG #DomesticViolence #Sharia #Polygamy #ChildMarriage #JoiningTheDots at #CWASU 9 April

#JoiningTheDots reconvenes on 9 April to discuss #Rojava - where they developed specific approaches to #VAWG Jail time for #domesticViolence #perpetrators is one method they use With #RahilaGupta in London and #BehiyeMurad in Rojava Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joining-th...

The women's revolution in #Rojava has adopted novel ways of dealing with #DomesticViolence such as jail time & gender equality training for #perpetrators. Join @RahilaGupta (London), Behiye Murad (Rojava) and me on 9 April, 1700 BST to learn more! #JoiningTheDots rb.gy/f1apyd

The USA stopping support for #contraception and #abortion means that #women across the world will feel the harsh consequences. Many will die - avoidable deaths. 💔💔💔 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h... Join us tomorrow / 4 April to discuss #SRHR 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Be sure to join us on Friday 4 April to hear about current and anticipated challenges on sexual and reproductive rights #SRR #SHRR #CWASU #JoiningTheDots Register below👇🏽

In Costa Rica for my daughters birthday, birds and monkeys

Yes please and all countries need to follow suit. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Leading one to necessarily reflect on the 'inevitable fallibility of policing' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Cécile Nobrega (1919 – 2013), Guyanese-born UK poet, playwright, composer, activist who led a 15-year campaign to establish the 1st public statue of a Black woman to be on permanent display in England - 'Bronze Woman', Stockwell, London #WomensArt

Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No 13, 1915 #womensart

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

The online world is indeed a 'free-for-all' that we are failing to regulate. We bow down to tech giants while abuse intensifies online. But we carry on, making the case, as is powerfully shown here. www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/onli...

Maryam Namazie and Sukhwant Dhaliwal at the annual CWASU and SBS event. Liberation will not be won through identity but solidarity politics

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Wrote something for @theguardian.com today with @claremcglynn.bsky.social on the new independent porn review and what needs to happen next www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

@koltai.bsky.social delves deeper into Clothoff. The app notorious for generating non-consensual deepfake pornography now claims it is funding an organisation to support those affected by AI. The ownership of this organisation, or how it helps victims, is unclear. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Penal populism has broken Britain’s prisons. My piece for @newstatesman.com on why our addiction to longer sentences is unsustainable. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

The government is busy - but the work is not being reported. From banning toxic pesticides to funding green jobs, here are 20 things that happened last week.

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

Trump's executive orders, Musk's power grabs, dismantling institutions faster than anyone can track, attacking science, knowledge and international *cooperative* bodies and allies are all part of the authoritarian playbook. I've also grouped the actions in a table to illustrate this. 2/9

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Day 78. People chanting "Revolt!" "Until the end!" "Strength is in unity!" while "Fire to the oligarchy!" is depicted on the Parliament, implying the oligarch's state capture that led to his dictatorship. People are also happy about the EU Parliament resolution. #GeorgiaProtests

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

My challenge to @Google to take far more proactive steps to reduce deepfake sexual abuse. Relying on reports by victims is wrong approach. Me👇🏽at #AIActionSummit in Paris at even organised by French Gov’t Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online #FreedomOnline

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

Hmmm, this bit fell off... See @veragraf.bsky.social's book, Right Amount of Panic policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/the-righ… & @proflizkelly.bsky.social's idea of safety work.

The first heat pump in the UK was installed in Norwich in 1945 but today only 1% of UK households currently use heat pumps. In fact, the UK has just 412 heat pumps per 100,000 people compared to the European average of 3,068. The problem? A huge public knowledge gap about heat pumps in the UK.