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

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, US printmaker and sculptor who focused on the lives and the struggle for Civil Rights of US Black communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

♀️ #FiLiA2025 speaker news ♀️ MARIA NOBLE, Black #Lesbian feminist activist, community organiser & advocacy & founding member of Abasindi Women’s Co-op. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #LesbianVisibility #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Margaret Preston ( 1875–1963) Australian printmaker and painter, known for her hand coloured woodcuts of native flowers and landscapes, a leading modernist of the early 20th century #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

💥 #FiLiA2025 performance news 💥 BODY COUNT: after an amazing run at @edfringe.bsky.social, Gabrielle is mesmerising in this darkly funny one-Woman show imagining what the world would be like if there was real justice for Women. Not to be missed! 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #BodyCount

🤗 Thanks to all who came to GPW's meeting/get together at the @greenparty.org.uk Conference 😊 Lovely to see so many of you, especially when there was other exciting stuff on at the same time! 😟 So sorry that tech probs halted our Zoom, when it's VITAL for online members to be included 1/2

A moment away from politics with a wonderful piece of cross-species preservation of the past www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Thank you Adrian and Carla! 💚

🧳 Going to the @greenparty.org.uk conference today/over the weekend? 💚 We always have a great stall and lots of visitors 👋 Come and say hello! 🤔 Not been to Conference before? Come sit with us in the hall or get advice on what's what 😍 See you there! #ForWomenAndPlanet

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 FiLiA WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY: Women of Greater #Manchester, #Cardiff, #Glasgow, #London, #Portsmouth, #Bradford & #Brighton, come & meet other Women from your city & hear about how the #FiLiAWomensAssembly can support you. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with two Children, 1932-1936, sculpture #WomensArt

After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi #WomensArt #Tuesday

I spoke to Times Radio about why @greenparty.org.uk are against Gatwick’s second runway. It’s a runway to climate chaos, not the future we need.

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

World Athletics Championships 2025: Keely Hodgkinson goes for gold in 800m and more – live

Yes @endsexisminschools.bsky.social Suggestions from me: Levellers Katherine Chidley & Elizabeth Lilburne, Educationalist Bathsua Makin, Celebrity Moll Cutpurse, Soil Association Founder Lady Eve Balfour, peace campaigner Helen Crawfurd #WomensHistory #WomeninScience observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Self Portrait at the Dressing Table,1909 by Zinaida Serebriakova #WomensArt

Important research on street trees: it should be no surprise that for them to provide us with maximum benefits, they need a healthy, well-watered environment #OneHealth #PublicHealth phys.org/news/2025-09...

One of my favourite finds was this Deptford Pink, Dianthus armeria, in Cambridge in July, as it is reportedly rare and an endangered plant that has been lost from many areas in the UK #DeptfordPink #favouriteplant #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

"We’ve got to the point where the burden of ill health caused by #AirPollution is so huge, I’m asking myself: ‘What will it take to make the public demand more action?’." Well said @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social. Such a powerful read about the rise of #LungCancer in non-smoking, healthy young women.

Rare ladybirds discovered in New Forest - New Forest National Park Authority share.google/EDk2wtRinVIN...