Beyond/Tu Hwnt is one year old today ❤️ Forever grateful to @lucentdreaming.bsky.social for giving Welsh disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent writers a space to be heard and seen

Nine regional newspaper publishers in the US are the latest to sue OpenAI and Microsoft alleging their AI models have "copied hundreds of thousands of articles and other materials" from their websites pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...

Word of the Year season continues and Oxford University Press has now crowned rage bait as its 2025 winner. It’s a choice that perfectly captures the emotional temperature of our online world. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yhfuph5n 🧵👇 #linguistics #language #wordoftheyear #wordoftheyear2025 #woty2025

ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026. We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404. www.404ink.com/blog/publish...

UK Labour Force Survey data suggests sharp fall in younger journalists in past two years pressgazette.co.uk/diversity/jo...

#OTD 41 years ago, Eleanor Bumpurs, a Black woman with mental health challenges, was killed by the NYPD. Her death still drives calls for police accountability. Historian Ashley Farmer, Bumpurs’ former neighbor, explores why people continue to #SayHerName. buff.ly/j8S3oQP

Had a wonderful time presenting my research at the 2025 BCU PGR symposium earlier this week ✨ thanks to everyone who organised and to all the inspiring fellow PGRs I had the pleasure to meet

I don’t update this profile much, but I thought a recap of the past couple weeks was in order. 1)Power of The Current won an honourable mention at the Breaking TV Film Festival. We are over the moon for our first award 💙 (continued below)

I'm thrilled to share my first publication with @theconversation.com, co-authored with my colleagues Dr @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social & Dr @maxwellmodell.bsky.social, with behind-the-scenes support from Prof. @stephencushion.bsky.social. 🔗 tinyurl.com/526vx978 TLDR 👇 #impartiality #journalism

New research from Cardiff University, published today in The Conversation and on the project's blog, analyses all complaints filed with the BBC and Ofcom during the first half of the year. open.substack.com/pub/mattwals...

Tomorrow at 5.30pm, join the NUJ Ethics council chair and speakers for our webinar on reporting on transgender people within journalism. Spaces are free and the event will explore how journalists can ensure their reporting is accurate, fair and ethical. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1693187151...

Amy Kenny’s 'My Body Is Not a Prayer Request' — part memoir and part disability justice hermeneutic — is a challenge the church desperately needs, writes Elisa Rowe. sojo.net/magazine/may...

Maybe they could all retrain as ballet dancers

Reach hiring journalists in Australia to cover UK overnight hours for first time pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-h...

“We’re putting plasters over inaccessible properties by providing adaptations, which is welcomed, however the design of the properties themselves need to be accessible from the start.” We spoke to ITV Wales about the urgent need for more accessible homes across Wales. www.itv.com/watch/news/f...

Footpath closed and no way to go around the obstacle safely in a wheelchair. Almost got run over 3 times. What the hell @cardiffcouncil.bsky.social

Watch R Sánchez-Rivera discuss “Slippery Eugenics,” their new book for the Social Science for Social Justice series. In this interview, Sánchez-Rivera explores the lasting impacts of eugenic ideas. Learn more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/r-sa...

No posts about disability pride month from me, because I feel no pride, just anger. Probably my own fault for choosing to do a content analysis of the Daily Mail and reading these headlines all month 🫠👇🏻

How did I not know Routledge has an entire series about Autocritical Disability Studies? Sharing the link in case anyone is interested and, like me, didn't know this existed www.routledge.com/Autocritical...

How do anonymous platforms like Queering the Map & PostSecret create intimate publics? Olivia Sutherland & @megansharp.bsky.social show how anonymity and ephemeral connections reveal new forms of digital intimacy. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Cutting funding to PBS and NPR threatens a key pillar of American #democracy. Despite political claims of bias, research shows public media is among the most trusted and balanced sources of news. theconversation.com/pbs-and-npr-... #SavePublicMedia #PBS #NPR

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat. For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

For the evening podcast crowd, I’m on Today In Focus chatting about a chaotic week of disability benefits (with lots more about other things that don’t make you want to scream). Listen here: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

This is where I am. New book in the making. Thousand words a day if I can. They don’t have to be good words.

How nice to be told by Keir Starmer that my mother who delivered babies, as a midwife, worked nights and damaged her back lifting patients as a nurse, was a pillar of her community as a health visitor has caused “incalculable damage” to the UK !

Lurching to the right on immigration will never get Reform supporters to vote Labour again but it will push progressive voters towards the Greens and Lib Dems. As well as being morally grotesque, truly baffling Starmer’s team don’t get the electoral maths of today’s speech.

If we don't laugh we'll cry... As an immigrant, I'm feeling defeated today, and also somewhat unsafe.

New report reveals increasing inequality in arts and culture. 🎭 Research found growing inequalities in arts and cultural participation, especially across class, ethnicity, and regions. The report makes clear the scale of the challenge facing policymakers. ⤵️ www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

A question that I haven't heard a good answer to: if cutting migration by a third in a year hasn't changed the narrative on it at all - what would make you think cutting it by another third (or half] would?

Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'

I was just walking down the street when a man looked at me and crossed himself 😂. I can’t figure out if he did it cause I’m disabled or cause I was wearing a sweater from a heavy metal band which I guess might look satanic to a devoted Christian. I love upsetting bigots with my sheer existence lol

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the problem. I'd like to offer mentoring to trans people trying to get into journalism, free of charge. Most of my experience is obviously in political commentary, but I might be passably useful in news and other areas.

"The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating." Powerful essay from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social on End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I’m excited (and slightly nauseous) to say The Guardian is launching Who Wants Normal? into the world with two exclusive extracts from today. This is the most personal thing I’ve ever written but is for anyone going through a tough time with their health. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

We already have a shortage of critical thinking, and this is only going to make it worse. Very worried about the generation that is being raised on this kind of stuff. I can envision a world where it might be helpful.

ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂

Really looking forward to this event and the conversations to be had. www.eventbrite.com/e/safe-for-w...

If you're in London between now and September, the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social has an exhibition about disability justice and zines - sharing information in spite of hostile govt and medical systems. My zine 'Your Life Is Not Over: A Book Of Apocalypses And How To Survive Them' is included!

Taking a stand against authoritarianism, for 25 hours straight.

EVENT: Poverty and the press - how should journalists report ethically? Chris Frost, chair of the NUJ Ethics Council & emeritus professor of Journalism at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, will chair an online event for NUJ members + non-members on 8 April at 5:30pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poverty-an...

🚨NEWS🚨 'Forgotten and abandoned, young Disabled people are fighting back against cuts through a new collective' @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social solidarity! www.disabilitynewsservice.com/forgotten-an...

Submissions for our political resistance-themed anthology open on the 29th. Send your short fiction, essays, and poetry. Hold a megaphone in one hand and a mirror in the other. We need your voice. www.inspired-quill.com/anthology-su...

Very sorry to hear of the death of Robert McChesney, founder of @freepress.bsky.social freepress.net/news/press-r...

“Black authors…were often labelled “difficult” for advocating for themselves”.

This is why we need a broader conversation about the exploitation of disabled people by the mainstream media. Absolutely disgusting. You have all my sympathy @inadarkwood.bsky.social

Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

“Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it?” My col. for the people who are still in their own personal lockdown - and those in power who must finally help them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...