I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Great to get @katiecrosson.bsky.social expert take on what the relaunched #PlayforToday strand could be ⬇️ #televisionhistory #tvdrama #mediahistory

Couldn’t agree more with this!

Great piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social on PFT's non-negotiables. theconversation.com/play-for-tod...

Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.

Play for Today (2025) could foster solidarity between people facing issues that might not immediately appear connected, through a programme that joins up the dots. Here are 9 ways it can live up to its namesake (me for The Conversation) theconversation.com/play-for-tod...

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Just under three weeks until the belated launch event for Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene at the Barbican. We'll have copies for sale, and Spencer Banks on the panel. And Cinema 1 is the best possible way of seeing the glorious 2016 remaster. Tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

This is an important point. The 'general public' are now excluded from WAC facilities following the recent policy changes.

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

!!!!!!! words to come www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

New Backlisted! A Taste of Honey, and what Shelagh Delaney did next 🎈 with @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social and me. @backlisted.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...

okay maybe there is an obvious answer to this question because ??? but: how do adults will full time jobs take driving lessons? everything is booked up and 2 hour sessions mon-fri 9-5 ??? please 🚗 help 🚗

Our brilliant @womensscreenwork.bsky.social post-doc researcher, Jessica Boyall, wrote an excellent piece on Gurinder Chadha for the Recent BFI Blu-ray release of Bhaji on the Beach. Jessica is working on the Gurinder Chadha Collection for the WSW project.

Why Cats Meow sounds like a John Berger book you’d pick up feeling bemused and have a life changing experience 40 pages in

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

@bookhaus.bsky.social is a third of the way to its target with 50 days left. Let's guarantee it gets there: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

Because of the impending ban on Palestine Action, it seems very likely "To Kill A War Machine" will no longer be available to download after tomorrow evening so get your copy (and details of the last public screenings nationwide) here tokillawarmachine.com

Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action

If you need cheering up, or even if you don't, I strongly recommend CMAT's set from earlier.

I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.

This is a brand new letter by “Not in Our Name - Women”, a collective group of cisgender women who support the transgender community and object to the false divide between women’s rights and transgender rights. If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️

The Centre for Gender, Media and Sexuality and the Critical AI Centre's statement on trans rights 💙

(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

I’ve signed this letter. If you teach at a UK uni you come into contact with many trans students; they’re no different, apart from the higher barriers to inclusion they face. If you teach queer history, you know that gender diversity is a simple fact. We have to resist this harmful moral panic.

New book announcement! Not many single programmes deserve a big long look, but Penda's Fen does. A *lot* went into this and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I hope you'll all agree when you see it. Out late June but you can pre-order here: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pend...

Tom May & I are delighted to announce publication of our co-authored/edited article ‘Spaces for criticism: the Play for Today Viewing Group on work, gender and the body in The Bevellers (1974) and Not for the Likes of Us (1980)’, Open Access in Critical Studies in Television 📺

I just find it interesting how many British centrists can see the issue when billionaire Elon Musk uses his money and power to influence American law and Government policy to operate how he wants it to, but don’t see the problem when JK Rowling does the same in Britain.

Solidarity. Always.

Feeling utterly enraged for all trans people for whom this will be yet another point of erasure. To all trans people, know that you are seen and loved by many of us, despite the continued institutionalisation of hate

Today’s Supreme Court ruling on the For Women Scotland case is a disgraceful attack on trans rights. In a process that excluded trans voices and centred anti-trans groups, this is not justice — it’s erasure. We will never stop fighting for our trans community 🏳️‍⚧️

As we all are.

NEW! MCCS are awarding a limited no of 100% fee waivers for 2025–26 for students who are the first in their family to attend university on these MAs: • MA Cultural Studies • MA Gender, Media and Culture • MA Race, Media and Social Justice Full details: www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

🎬✨On the final day of women's history month - a taster of the fantastic material we have on the women who shaped cinema. ~ Alice Guy-Blaché banner, by Ruby Wright to promote the film 'Be Natural' EXEBD 71789 ~ Marlene Dietrich’s shoes from 'Knight without Armour' EXEBD 71932 #film #WomenFilmmakers

BFI Special Collections have two vacancies for a Curator and Assistant Curator. Come join our lovely team! bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk

So excited to announce that in April I’ll join @uniofexetercomms.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Curation on the project ‘Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible’! I’ll be working w/ project lead @helenexeter.bsky.social & a wonderful team; still pinching myself.