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Simple but deep wisdom. PS: @michaelpedersen.bsky.social 's book Boy Friends is a most excellent read on male friendship, and navigating grief, and much funnier than that sounds.

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The Doreen Lawrence Zine is now on the website! Beautifully designed and created by artist-in-residence @joshmoirart.bsky.social print them out, fold them and pass them along. We also have a digital viewer that's pretty cool. Subscribe for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

'People will try to capitalise upon the..things that pull us apart rather than the many..commonhoods that draw us together. So always, always focus on the joy and rally back towards the light' @michaelpedersenoyster ends our first series with hope. Full episode here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

"I convinced myself I was studying literature within the realms of law and it was very easy to do so because it is a celebration in almost a flamboyance of language." is there anything that @michaelpedersen.bsky.social can't make beautiful? Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

Coming to the website this week - the Doreen Lawrence Zine. Beautifully created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange

'I was trying to experience this grief as the last reverberation of loving someone' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social explains the process of writing the beautiful book Boy Friends in the wake of his dearest friend, Scott Hutchinson's, passing. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'it just seemed ridiculous... that they were gonna look down on me...when their education costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and we were sitting at the same table and perhaps I was even getting better grades...' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

Shami Chakrabarti shared the following on the sad passing of former Victims' Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove 1/2 "The brave and wonderful soul and much-loved Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove has passed away. She was an instinctive rights campaigner..

Need a mid-week pick-me-up? Warm, witty and wonderful - Michael Pedersen is in the Speakeasy this week. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak... and his beautiful first novel, Muckle Flugga, is available in all good bookshops. www.faber.co.uk/author/micha... #ScottishFiction

'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

NEW EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW with the rather wonderful @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Subscribe on our website www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk and prep your ears for a gourmet linguistic experience. #MuckleFlugga #Makar #poetry #shamichakrabarti #friendship #HairGoals

'You need to create law which is lasting and not dependent on a certain type of technology' Baroness Charlotte Owen on the need to carefully craft legislation to protect against the harm, rather than focusing on an iteration of tech. Listen to the episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

This is a really good interview with Baroness Charlotte Owen, who has been spearheading in the House of Lords new legislation to criminalise creating AI-generated sexual images/videos of people. As ever, new technologies immediately being put to use to perpetuate misogyny! youtu.be/woMtATKrLpA?...

Find out more about the dangers of generative AI and what Charlotte Owen is doing in the House of Lords to protect us. Listen to the full episode in all the usual places podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #Deepfake #AI #Consent #BigTech

'The way that I always describe it to people is imagine a woman walking into a pub and suddenly you can take her image and put it into a sexually explicit content of her.' Baroness Charlotte Owen on why it's Image Based Sexual Abuse, not Deepfake Porn. Listen now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

The Darren McGarvey edition of the Speakeasy Zine is on the website now! Beautifully created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange

Our most recent episode has Baroness Charlotte Owen talking AI, consent and the law with Shami in the Speakeasy. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'Women are more reluctant to use AI because they consider it cheating in the workplace and this is putting women at a disadvantage.' Is AI cheating? New episode with Baroness Charlotte Own as she discusses AI, image-based sexual abuse and the law. Listen and subscribe now www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

For those at the back....'of course Reform are a threat. Of course populist far-rightism is a threat. It's a threat this country saw off in the 30s and 40s.' Feeling despondent? Join our Speakeasy community for hope, solidarity and action. Subscribe for free at www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

"..all the training data is around women's bodies. So if you put a man's image into the model, it would simply produce a man's head on a woman's body." Listen to the full episode with Baroness Charlotte Own podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

New zines incoming this week! All designed by the wonderful @joshmoirart.bsky.social Darren McGarvey Speakeasy Zine will be on the website this week and subscribers will receive the Baroness Doreen Lawrence Zine. Subscribe for free for early access to zines & more www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

'Using AI..you can take any woman's photograph..and create a sexually explicit image..without her consent' NEW EPISODE! Baroness Charlotte Owen visits the Speakeasy to talk about AI, consent & the need for law to catch up with technology. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

The Asma Khan edition of the Speakeasy Zine is on the website now! Beautifully created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social - print it, fold it, pass it on...and subscribe on our website for early access! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk #ArtActivismChange

'We shouldn't be sending arms. We should not be sending arms.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence on Gaza in this week's episode of the Speakeasy. Listen to the episode in full please sign up as a free subscriber to receive our zine inspired by this episode www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

'Stephen wasn't the only young black boy who was murdered. There was others before him. And others since. But the care that people have around the black community is never the same.' Baroness Doreen Lawrence in the Speakeasy. Listen to this episode in full www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

' I think where the police was concerned, they used it as...we can't do this because we'll be accused of being racist...but if you do your job and do your job correctly, nobody would accuse you of anything' Baroness Doreen Lawrence episode in full podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #BlackHistoryMonth

'Stephen wasn't the only young black boy who was murdered. There was others before him. And others since. But the care that people have around the black community is never the same.' Listen to this episode with Doreen Lawrence in full podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'They see Stephen as a role model...I'm so pleased that I've managed for them to see that, rather than just talking about his death all the time' Baroness Doreen Lawrence talks about her work with young people - Listen to this powerful episode today podfollow.com/shamis-speak... #Blackhistorymonth

'I was spied on by the police...they did not like to think of the influence I was carrying' NEW EPISODE RELEASE: In the last week of #BlackHistoryMonth, Baroness Doreen Lawrence joins Shami in the Speakeasy for a wide-ranging - and rare - conversation. listen here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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The Baroness Hale Speakeasy Zine is now on the website! Headthere now...while you're there, why not subscribe so you receive the Zines as soon as they're released? It's free to join our community of Barflies! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

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'So I'm just empting Solpadeine Max tablets into a glass and pouring water in it, and everyone just thinks i'm taking paracetamol. Because that's what I want them to think' Darren on the night he won the Orwell Prize, while in his own private hell. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

Darren.McGarvey in the Speakeasy 'you spend enough time on social media and you literally are just living anxiety'. Listen to the full episode and help us grow - follow, share, subscribe! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

On Far Right mentality: 'It's like guys that used to be bodybuilders and then they're 80....you can either keep charging about like you're a 20 year old in your prime and get knocked out or you can just accept nature's run its course.' Full Darren McGarvey episode here! podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'It's the sort of shock of who is this working class guy with this attitude that he's just taking out there to all these middle class people? I mean, this guy doesn't give a f***.Then when you start doing well..caution creeps in' Listen to Darren McGarvey's full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'There's a part of me that's like, go for it, Nigel. Go for it. I'll vote for you. Because he's done what brought down every other government. He's made a cast iron electoral pledge. No way can he live up to that.' Darren McGarvey gets stuck in! Full episode here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'... my experience of the reality of becoming publicly identified with very specific time in your life that you disclosed before you had even made real sense or meaning of that' Darren McGarvey is this week's guest - and it's a cracker! listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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The Speakeasy Zines are now on our website! There's a version for printing and folding (in real life!) and a Zine viewer that allows you to spin it around (not as good as in real life, but pretty good), all created by @joshmoirart.bsky.social Sign up for early access www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

'That is your food..there's a land that you come from, which you will never see, maybe, but your food is telling you who you are.' Food is politics, history, identity and love - beautiful words from chef and campaigner Asma Kahn, this week's guest in the Speakeasy - listen now short-url.org/1hzoZ

'you will always struggle to find that perfect balance between what you want to do and what you feel you're being forced to do...I tell women this, go sow a harvest you will not reap.' Words of wisdom from Asma Khan in the Speakeasy this week - listen now short-url.org/1hzoZ