I have come across this with musicians too. Please make sure people who like your work can contact you!

Currently reading the excellent paper 'Historical Women Composers and the Transience of Female Musical Fame' by Paula Higgins and my tiny mind is blown. 'Thus each generation of women writers has found itself, in a sense, without a history, forced to rediscover the past anew.'

This is why all the Epstein stuff hits so hard. He was only exceptional in terms of the amount of money and power he had, which allowed him to do whatever he wanted on a grand scale. But on the every day scale, there are tens of thousands of Epsteins.

Another example of how the average woman doesn't have a problem with trans inclusivity. Exclusion is a specific agenda pushed by a very small but powerful minority.

'Jenny said she reported him to the police in 2017 after he sent her images of his genitals. [She] said it had a huge effect on her work as a singer after people turned against her for calling him out. "I stopped getting hired by bands, but they carried on hiring Ben," she said.'

Just doing some light reading on Clara Schumann and the teaching she did in London. I'm mainly researching an obscure English woman composer/pianist and her obit said she was a student of CS, so trying to find out a bit more info...

If you do not agree that new school guidance should include a full bathroom ban, full PE ban, and full school trip accommodation ban for trans kids, please fill out the consultation 👇 it's cruel, discriminatory and against evidence.

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

An extremely short horror story I wrote, set in the future.

Ridiculously excited to take my 5yo to see the 40th anniversary showing of Labyrinth at @wshed.bsky.social next week 😍

Definitely Sue Perkins. Although Kate Moss went to my primary school.

This applies to young people too, if ANYTHING changes with your bowel health, ask your GP for this simple test 👇

Discovered that a friend has spent half their life thinking that they don't like Saint Saens, when ACTUALLY it's Messiaen they don't like. I feel at once happy and sad.

I think this is the club for me.

I'm talking about Avril Coleridge-Taylor online at 9pm this evening! Please come along and ask me lots of questions about women's compositions in World War II - this is the first outing for ideas from my next book so would love thoughts :D www.boulangerinitiative.org/virtual-even...

This is terrifying. I've had sinus surgery and they did warn me about the risks that brain fluid might leak, but that the risk was very small. Not so small now, it seems...

I am begging people to understand that "illegal" does not mean "impossible." "How is that allowed? Isn't that illegal?" Laws of society aren't laws of physics. Life isn't a video game. There's no Big Boss who's going to fire someone from life for not playing by the rules.

On February 23rd, at 19:30 CET, we will be recording the main theme of 'Halve' with an orchestra, and you can join us! I have booked a Remote Shared Session with the Budapest Art Orchestra and will stream the entire session live on YouTube! youtu.be/1Kr4nkWTKYw

I consider myself a pretty literate person, but why does spelling the word 'cemetery' get me every time...

Applications for Vaughan Williams Scholarships are open! Grants of up to £8K each for postgraduate composition study will be awarded in 2026. Applicants should demonstrate exceptional talent and be planning a professional career in composition. Details via our website.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Apparently Cash-In Cora is teaching a class on how to write romance with artificial intelligence. Guess what, I have an actual romance craft book coming out, based on 20 years of editing and 10 years writing romance, which will teach you how to write romance using your own intelligence!

The whole promotion of Wuthering Heights as a steamy romantic Valentine's movie makes me think of the misjudged 'grab your florals, girls!' It Ends With Us promotion...

I'm still seeing creatives who (I think) are just ignorant of this fact starting Substacks... It makes me groan every time, though 😥

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

My husband is doing some research that involves hunting down lots of different scientific papers. Today he was reading a journal paper that referenced another paper that definitely did not exist. It's so disturbing how AI has infected academia.

It's Bandcamp Friday! And for just £4 you can get these four synth dreamy little tracks. 🌞

I won't stop posting about this until these things are banned in any areas that aren't off grid. Get a nice electric fake one if you like the look - they're really good these days.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Finished The Night Manager S2 last night.

The Daily Fail interviewing the people who write angry comments under every local news story on Facebook, I see...

The Western Australian police force spammed me on LinkedIn extolling the virtues of moving to Aus and joining up... Not sure they're really targeting the right people. 🙄

Question for Victorian historians: I'm very excited as I've found an amazing photographic portrait of a little known composer. Her sister's name was Ada, and she appears to be wearing a broach right in the middle of her collar with her sister's name. Ada was still alive. Was this a normal practice?

International friends who have tabled at UK cons in the past and do not have British citizenship - what kind of visa did you apply for? Tourist or a work visa? Asking for a friend - all help appreciated!

Question for British Library experts (please share!): if one wanted to put on a concert that included a piece that could only be found in the BL, then I guess the copying of that music would count as 'commercial gain'? Is permission very expensive?

Question for British Library experts (please share!): if one wanted to put on a concert that included a piece that could only be found in the BL, then I guess the copying of that music would count as 'commercial gain'? Is permission very expensive?

Today's newspaper story from the Bristol Mercury, 1866. Not the best way to end one's wedding day... 😥

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Today's wtf newspaper advert from 1862. Google rabbit hole tells me there was a 'garrotting panic in the 19th century' 😬 Fascinating! www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

I based the lead character in my opera in Cugoano. His writings are so visceral, poetic and compelling. It's hard now to imagine how someone could read them and not be moved to action, but I guess we have plenty of contemporary examples of those in power ignoring the suffering of those beneath them.

That first shot looks JUST like Jason Isaacs in The Patriot... I want to see all the thousands of takes they had to discard because someone grew an extra arm mid sentence, or swapped voices.

'This decision is a major setback for Sex Matters, which raised more than £65,000 to try and force the pond to ban trans people, trying to go against regular swimmers. More than 32,000 people said they wanted the ponds to remain trans inclusive – 86% of the respondents to the consultation'

If anyone wants a guaranteed way to raise your stress levels, I would very much recommend trying to build this with a 5 year old.

I saw the following article opening after this thread and thought it fitted. "I realised just how far the association of classical music with relaxing affect instead of real emotion had gone." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

I'm researching a very obscure Bristol-born historic woman composer, and have just found that she was born EXACTLY 150 years before me...!

OMG. I (and many, many others) hope they don't fold...

This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”

Innocently researching a composer by searching local Victorian newspapers and I come across... this??

You should also know that a lot of celebrity “drama” is actually a multi-billion dollar industry of shaming and humiliating public figures for upsetting the status quo, whether that’s cutting off your parents or a sexual harassment lawsuit against your boss. It’s conservative ideology at its core.