This coming Saturday we have the first of our one-to-one craft skill sharing sessions with Emily. This one is free, and she's offering to help people who want to learn how to sew to repair their clothes, so if you fancy mending your own trousers or coats, this is for you!

Interesting event by XR Winchester: “Let’s Clear the Air” on Clean Air Night Thursday 22 January, 7–9pm (refreshments available from 6pm) South Downs Social Café, 3–4 Kings Walk, Middle Brook Street, Winchester, SO23 8AF Tickets: Free – booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-clear...

💭 Have you read The Dream Hotel by Layla Lalami? 📖 There’s time before GPW Bookclub: Tues 27 January ⏰ 19.00 👩🏽‍🏫 But it doesn’t matter if you haven’t read it 🤗 All members & friends welcome 👇🏼 Registration Link below

So happiness is linked to ….. “transit, healthcare and parks” and “a sense of community” ….. “The conditions of the neighbourhood affect happiness” It’s a delicate formula that we each have agency within, so get involved #Chorlton

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Gemma Correll, British cartoonist who currently lives and works in California #WomensArt #Backtowork

Welcome thoughts on a cold, dark, January night: Young Greenfinches take their first bath, in June. @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdoftheDay #Finches #Nature

January can feel a little bleak, but connecting with nature can make a world of difference. Listen to our Wild About Wellbeing podcast as we explore ways to soothe eco-anxiety & give you steps to help make a positive impact on the environment. https://f.mtr.cool/xqpfrcksax

❄️ Women's Christmas - Nollaig na mBan - 6 January 🇮🇪 A mhná na hÉireann agus a mhná an domhain, seo chugainn oraibh go léir. Slante! 💚 Women of Ireland and women of the world, here's to all of you. Slante!

📚 GPW bookclub TONIGHT! 👩🏽‍⚖️ Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich 🗓 Tues 30 December: 19.00 ⚖️ @h-cwj.bsky.social has been at the forefront of some historic legal cases for women let down by our justice system 🤗 All members & friends welcome 👇🏽 Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

From Cuban born artist Ana Mendieta's goddess-like Silueta Series (1973–1980), pioneer in combining performance and land art #WomensArt

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes #WomensArt #snow #winter

'The Skate Girls of Kabul' photographic series by Jessica Fulford-Dobson featuring girls from the Afghan capital before the Taliban took control. #womensart #NeverForget women and girls of Afghanistan #HumanRights

December 7 is Ukrainian Scarf (khustka) Day. And look what I saw today at the Christmas market – absolutely gorgeous.

NHS can’t be fixed while poverty and cold homes destroy health. Green policies: 100,000 green jobs, warm homes, fair pay - link the crises, fix them together. One system fails us all: low pay, no homes, dirty air. Greens deliver fair work, social homes, clean energy. Real solutions, not excuses.

🧵 (1/2) #16DaysOfActivism Action 5: Join us. Petition the government to introduce legislation to stop abusers getting custody or unsupervised access to their children if they have been bereaved by domestic abuse suicide 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... #Petition #DomesticAbuseSuicide

“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says. Misleading and nasty in equal measure.

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #NoExcuse Because violence against us is not inevitable. Be an active feminist & take a daily action for women & girls via our #16Days page ✊⬇️ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/16daysofacti...

#WarOnMotorists? No It’s a war on pedestrians Pavements are never a priority Cluttered with street furniture, extra parking space for vehicles, never really cleared of leaves or snow and always in a bad state And yet almost everyone uses a pavement daily

📚 GPW bookclub 🤯 Mania by Lionel Shriver 🗓 Tues 25 Nov: 19.00 🫣 "Merciless & funny" 🤐 What if calling someone stupid was illegal? 😱 Satirical farce or dystopian future? 🤗 All members & friends welcome 👇🏽 Registration link us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Be an #ActiveFeminist Inequality is the cause & consequence of male violence against women & girls. As the International Day to End Violence Against Women & Girls approaches, YOU can make change with our range of #16Days actions: #ActivismWorks Link brightonsisters.wordpress.com/16daysofacti...

Another Green councillor seat won. @greenparty.org.uk @greenpartyemma.bsky.social @sh-greenparty.bsky.social @greenpartywomen.bsky.social @greenpartynetwork.bsky.social @greenpartymolly.bsky.social @greenpartyscott.bsky.social #greens #GreenWave #climate

As winter descends on the UK it might help to know that there's still floral colour to be found throughout the winter. There are a small group of plants that lift my spirits between now & February-here are a few of them (& my illustrations alongside):

Mill workers were hugely important in the push to get women the vote. Although wages were low they, wielded economic power and were well organised. They often, unfairly, get overlooked in the popular narrative where the quest for the vote gets cast as a purely middle or upper class movement.

"Asia’s Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change" 'Women organize communal food production, lead reforestation efforts, manage essential water systems, and actively protect both forests and biodiversity' thediplomat.com/2025/11/asia...

The #birdoftheday theme for today is Thrushes. Here are 4 members of the thrush family at the #weedypond The first 3 are all winter migrant visitors - notice the totally black Blackbird - both beak & eye-ring. Fieldfare; Redwing; Blackbird; Song Thrush. #thrushes @ianparsons.bsky.social

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New independent report reveals locations of poisoned raptors in northern England, 2015-2023 - information that has been suppressed by government raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/17/n...

Thank you to Later Life Ambitions for speaking with me recently. Every person deserves dignity in later life, and we must value what older people give to society — from caring for family to volunteering, working and keeping communities strong. #LaterLifeAmbitions

Absolutely sickening. Please read and share as far and wide as possible. Brilliant work by Hunt Saboteurs exposing this!

Toni Morrison & Alice Walker in 1974, photo by Jill Krementz

"Microbial legacy effect was much stronger with plants that were native to those exact locales than plants from elsewhere". We've got to #unlearn so many simplistic understandings about the way our fields work #SoilHealth #Microbiome phys.org/news/2025-10...

We do not care if we bought everything we need for a hobby and then don't do the hobby. Shopping for the hobby has become the new hobby. #WeDoNotCareClub #Melani #WDNC BOOK NOW! WOMEN ONLY FREE CRECHE BRIGHTON www.tickettailor.com/events/siste...

Since 2015, an average of 53 bank branches have closed every month nationwide. Over 85% of banks in Waveney Valley have shut during that time. This isn’t sustainable. I’ve written in this week’s EADT on why we need more banking hubs to keep communities connected. www.eadt.co.uk/news/2557825...

Yarn-bombing is thought to have originated in Texas USA, instigated by clothes-shop owner Magda Sayeg and a group known as Knitta Please, who began the "knit graffiti" movement to brighten up public spaces as a form of street art #Womensart

Lancaster City Councillor Sue Tyldesley launches Sustainable Warton and Yealand (SWAY) Initiatives include: - Surplus Produce swop/shares - A repair cafe - Eco cleaning products production - Litter picking on the shore - Work with young people in the Ecogang and local schools.

congratulations to Natasha Osben on being chosen as the Green Party candidate for Essex Mayor 2026

Horrific. The far right say they want to 'protect our women' as an excuse for their thinly-veiled racism. But sexual violence against women & girls isn't caused by an attacker's race. It's dangerous men asserting power over women in the most damaging way. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was pleased to attend the Macmillan Cancer coffee morning in Parliament last week. Every cancer patient deserves support through one of the most difficult times in their life. The work that Macmillan does is truly invaluable,

Police estimates that 50.000 people turned out in the Women’s Strike in Reykjavík today. (The population of Iceland is 390.000)

Private water companies have ripped off customers and polluted our rivers and oceans for far too long. It's time to bring them all into public ownership.

There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet. "Pesticides are ubiquitous, not only in agricultural areas but also in environments far from crop fields". And we're just starting to grasp implications for #PublicHealth www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shamsia Hassani, fine arts lecturer and first known female street art artist from Afghanistan #WomensArt

The work of hand knitting fiber artist Kendal Ross #WomensArt

📚 GPW Bookclub 🗓 Tues 28 October 19.00 📣 The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht 🙊 What's it about? Why did it become controversial? 🙉 Have you read it? Come & listen either way & make your own mind up 🤗 Members & friends welcome 📲 Link here to register us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Next week, the Green Party will defend Worcestershire Councillor Hannah Robson in the High Court. The Reform UK candidate is hoping to overturn our election win! Can you help us defend Hannah and democracy from this attack? Please donate if you can 🙏 donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/make-sure-we...

Gear up - #CycleToSchoolWeek is almost here! 🎉 Unlock adventure by choosing pedal power next week. Pledge to discover somewhere new on your cycle and get pedal ready for independence. Make your pledge and start exploring 🌍 cycletoschoolweek.com

🚨 NEWS! The UK’s biggest-ever legal case over environmental pollution has hit the High Court. Nearly 4,000 people are suing Avara Foods, Freemans of Newent & Welsh Water over the state of the Wye, Lugg & Usk - rivers choked by chicken waste & sewage. 🔗 - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

#FiLiA2025 has arrived in #Brighton ♀️ Building Sisterhood and Solidarity ♀️ Amplifying the Voices of Women ♀️ Defending Women's Human Rights 🎟️ filia.org.uk #Sisterhood #Solidarity