We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The 2024 Little Richard documentary, I Am Everything, is currently streaming on C4 in the UK. Ignore the usual talking heads who appear at the start as this is excellent. Particularly good on the "queer" subculture of the American South. youtu.be/4YC8WUrWtZY?...

Resharing this for #InternationalLesbianDay

I tried to become minimalist but I discovered my personality is primarily composed of small, unnecessary decorative items and vague regrets.

Remembering Bette Davis who passed on this day, October 6, 1989.

📣 Share your views! The Senedd’s Culture Committee survey on greyhound racing in Wales is now live. You've only got a couple of weeks to take part, so make sure you have your say 👉 https://bit.ly/4q4JGhR

🛸 It Came from Outer Space (1953).

Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Faces in the Rocks' by Mariee Sioux youtu.be/0r6ZbOeA8UE?...

Me: "These things happen to me" Andie: "You put your hand up for it, didn't you?" Me: ".... yes, yes I did"

📚🚨 SALE 📚🚨 We have 70% off on over 400 titles in our new academic year sale! Celebrate the start of a new term with some fantastic offers ⤵️ www.uwp.co.uk/sel-sale/

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Dydd 209 of #365DaysOfFood - this rather nice sounding slow cooker veg curry with our own onions, garlic, potatoes, cauliflower, courgette and bell peppers! cupofyum.com/recipes/easy...

Soundtrack to the week: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Nick Drake, The Breath, Aimee Mann.

I’m glad to see that AI nudification apps are receiving more attention, with increasing calls to ban them. These apps almost exclusively target women and girls, with no age verification and, regarding nudifying adults, no adequate consent processes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good luck to everyone doing the Cardiff Half Marathon today!

There's so much more than just the words spoken. (There's everything in the spaces in between, in experiences past, feelings lingering, assumptions held, and judgements jumped to).

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Laid low by horrible autumn lurgy. Oh well, guess it's an opportunity to stay in bed, read books, and listen to podcasts.

Tracy Chapman released ‘Crossroads’ 36 years ago on October 3, 1989 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/TCCrossroads

There is no bad reason to buy a nice new pretty notebook.

And a very special #CookbookCorner shoutout for Around The Table: 52 Essays on Food & Life by Diana Henry! Much as I love Diana’s recipes, it’s a treat to have the gift of her beautiful writing just as it is. And the audiobook is a joy, too.

This Friday is Bandcamp Friday! On October 3rd, from midnight to midnight PST, we'll once again waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels.

Our researchers have launched a new guide to help tackle the growing threat of domestic abusers using technology against older people. 🖱 tinyurl.com/yurp4xnh #Research #Guide #Technology #DomesticAbuse

The massive outpouring of love for Jane Goodall is an important reminder - especially in these disturbing, distressing times - of the widespread human appetite for gentleness, care, depth, & curiosity. And how these things are actions, not just words.

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves" Rest easy Jane 🫶🏽

RIP Queen

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Self-soothing meditation. Grounding exercise.

The Future Generations Commissioner has called for a new  Community Right to Buy Bill, warning that much-loved pubs, parks, religious buildings, village halls & heritage buildings could be lost forever unless communities are given a fair chance to save them. 🔗 futuregenerations.wales/news/give-co...

Hello October! Or should that be Moth-tober? 🎃🦋 With autumn well underway, keep an eye out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces.

Starting the day with a box breathing meditation

Things I'm looking forward to in October: - Putting fairy lights on in the evening - Wearing boots, dungarees and corduroy again - Falling leaves - Fungi, especially hunting for waxcaps - Watching thrushes eating berries - Listening to my autumn playlist - Reading spooky books for Halloween

Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members. Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]

Andie: "So, this is something I feel I should know about you after over 10 years of marriage". Me: "What?!" Andie: "How do you feel about dog-earing the pages of books?"

Had a great week (and a bit) off. Lovely few days of walking in Shropshire, met up with two old friends, and saw Belly play in Bristol last night.

Congratulations to Dr Laura Shobiya! Laura has co-edited a book ‘A Welcoming Nation? Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales’. The book is available in print and as an ebook. www.uwp.co.uk/book/a-welco...

We're pleased to launch our 2026 manifesto for the Senedd elections today! #WeNeedNature #AngenNatur waleslink.org/manifesto-20... waleslink.org/cy/maniffest...

🎙️ Podcast episode 7 is out now What the REF is wrong with “culture”? Listen to What the REF?! via our website, on Youtube or wherever you usually find your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=u47-... Have a question about REF you'd like answered? 👉 [email protected]

A lush, lavishly arranged statement of defiance, Neko Case's "Neon Grey Midnight Green" is our Album of the Day.

We are a community of kindness and connectivity or we are less. If we can’t manifest this in our behaviours we fail ourselves as well as those around us.

Being Human Cardiff and Swansea Festival Programme 2025. 'Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities in celebration of humanities research through public engagement' www.cardiff.ac.uk/being-human-...

Friends, my first course back with @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social starts this week, and I'd love it if you could share details with any LGBTQ+ networks you're part of, or simply like-minded friends... thenerdynotebook.substack.com/p/back-and-b...

This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Soundtrack to the week: Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Meg Baird, Israel Nash, Johnny Flynn, Lia Ices, Fleet Foxes.

The Long Neolithic provides an ongoing infrastructure of wonder. Its portal tombs become gates to mystery. Its mounds barrows and circles infect our imaginations, demand we riddle them. Our archaeology is an amplifier of awe, not an eraser. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

The Green Community Grants Programme offers one-year flexible funding for not-for-profit groups in England, Scotland and Wales with an annual income between £10,000 and £1 million - deadline 8 October www.wildlifetrusts.org/green-commun...

Good to see a couple of Comma on the wing yesterday, probably my least seen species of butterfly this year. #insects #nature #wildlife #UKWildlife #photography #bugsky #UKButterflies #butterflies