What a 19th-century Welsh riot reveals about gender, power and why disruption isn’t always liberation ✍️ @llinosanwyl.bsky.social 

A difficult name creates the same tiny scene over and over again. I wrote about what that repetition does to people, and why not every awkward interaction needs to become a moral event. 'Explaining My Name Is Boring, But Being Bored Is Not Oppression' llinos.substack.com/p/explaining...

Because of woke

Here’s an article I wrote! In the Rebecca Riots, men wore women’s clothes as disguise, not to undo gender, but to move through it. Sometimes identity becomes something systems can and will absorb (even rely on), without anything really shifting underneath

Cultural erosion doesn’t announce itself; it thins slowly (like men’s hair once they reach their mid-30s). Fewer dates. Smaller guarantees. More unpaid labour disguised as passion. ✍️Llinos Anwyl wp.me/p8Mk4U-1gLS

Cymraeg is held up as proof that Welshness is validated in an ancient and deep sense. But the same framing implies that its natural home is elsewhere: in the past, in the landscape, in feeling, in retreat✍️ Llinos Anwyl wp.me/p8Mk4U-1bU6

1/2 Iolo did turn away some money if it was connected to slavery, sometimes when he was in real financial hardship, and boycotted slave-grown sugar He also took handouts from his enslaver brothers, got a hefty inheritance from their Jamaica estates, and sold other products made by enslaved people

A Language You Can Love Without Learning open.substack.com/pub/llinos/p...

Dronau’r Cyngor: Cwestiynau am oruchwyliaeth a diogelu data yng Ngheredigion Mae Cyngor Sir Ceredigion yn ystyried defnyddio dronau ar gyfer ystod eang o dasgau ✍️ Llinos Anwyl

The curated version of ‘Welshness’, framed through woodland, ritual, and a promise of depth, feels generous and narrowing at the same time. At its core, the problem is this: Welshness is not misunderstood. It is enjoyed in ways that prevent encounter ✍️ Llinos Anwyl

Solidarity has been reserved for other stateless nations such as Catalunya, the Basque Country and Corsica. These are all noble causes, and we should continue to support them, yet solidarity should be unconditional. What of states in the global south... undod.cymru/en/2019/01/2...

A powerful piece about the lack of criticism in Welsh culture. llinos.substack.com/p/the-villag...

This is brilliant on the fetishisation of the Welsh language and challenges it faces. "A culture cannot survive on affection alone. And a language cannot live if it is only ever encountered as a feeling."

Terrific article from @henbapurnewydd.bsky.social on Welshness, myth and the algorithm: open.substack.com/pub/llinos/p...

A Welsh writer and researcher has called for meaningful 'solidarity' from the left in Wales, arguing that they can no longer stay monolingual as Wales' native language continues to decline