An introduction to 6 trans opera singers. www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/features/tra...

Great thread here

Today, I listened to one of the most extraordinary, inspirational woman of the past decades: Tarana Burke, founder of MeToo. She was speaking at WOW-Athens, and reminded us that ending gendered violence is possible -- if each of us fight for it. thewowfoundation.com/festivals/wo... metoomvmt.org

Thank you @lydiamoland.bsky.social for introducing me to Jessie R. Fauset (1882-1961), who, I learn, was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her fictional work often focused upon the black middle classes.

This is brilliant

Commemorative Stela for Queen S.wa of Gao, Mali, c. 1108. These were Queen regnants who ruled with full authority and founded their own lineages www.patreon.com/posts/tifina...

This will only interrupt your scrolling for a few seconds. Just do it, please?

King Charles is set to meet Trump next month to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US. Trump is conducting an illegal war on Iran – the King’s visit would serve as a statement of support for this illegal war. It must not go ahead. stoptrump.org.uk/petition-no-...

Day 14 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: educator & activist Margaret Murray Washington! Washington rethought transnational solidarity by founding study groups for Black American women to learn about women of color around the world. #herstory #Blacksky #womenshistory

Day 12 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US #peace activist and organizer Addie Hunton! Hunton rethought Black #internationalism and promoted racial justice as a condition of peace. To quote Melinda Plastas, she “helped usher in a reconfigured Black political consciousness." #herstory #blackhistory

This looks terrific

President Carter in 1980 signed a proclamation to designate an annual women’s history week. This fact reminds me that in my teens and early 20s I really did have faith in the notion of progress….

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - what a brilliant woman #blackhistory

' "race” is a social construct'

I know this is naive, but I’m so shocked by this

Loved so many fab posts on African history from @rhaplord.bsky.social recently: C16 material culture bsky.app/profile/rhap... C16 fortresses: bsky.app/profile/rhap... C15 complex agricultural practices bsky.app/profile/rhap... pioneering intellectuals: bsky.app/profile/rhap...

I hadn’t thought of it in that way. But yes we 1st wavers especially knew this was something new and terrible #longcovid ✊

Continuing the labour of love of sorting through my late father-in-law’s record collection. Today musing on the earlier practice of head shots for LP covers. What’s with the side eye Wilhelm? 😂

Here’s another Phantasie which won a Cobbett Prize in 1908. This piano trio is by Alice Verne-Bredt. Such a magnetic opening opening theme youtu.be/j1RKqUNFXic?...

Terrific list of #womencomposers from @geshtin.bsky.social My list (today anyway): Bacewicz Farrenc Strozzi Tabakova Hensel Auerbach Pejacevic Schumann Mayer Wallen Williams Carwithen Grondahl Strohl Kapralova

Please please can someone leak the mug shot?

This is happening tonight, Hampton, London. The school is doing such a great job of introducing its students to women composers. @endsexisminschools.bsky.social #womencomposers

Finding so many treasures in the record collection of my wonderful father-in-law who died recently, aged 90. Lovely to find that on this recording of Holst conducting The Planets, his daughter, Imogen Holst, wrote the sleeve notes. She was also a composer.

This link provides a super easy way to contact your MP to demand humanitarian agencies are allowed to work in Gaza. All it takes is a few clicks. Please repost www.redlineforgaza.org.uk

Thanks to @carlharnryd.bsky.social for this post on Emilie Mayer’s extraordinary piano trio (pubd 1861). It is brilliant! youtu.be/9glN4ZvVr8o?... #womencomposers #classicalmusic #emiliemayer #chambermusic

Mary Ellen Pleasant, American civil rights pioneer, entrepreneur. The “Mother of Civil Rights in California”; one of the wealthiest & most powerful people in California. Key role in major #civilrights court cases; California black rights activist #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #woc #PolSky

From seeing a name on a placard to transcribing and co-editing the complete works! Proud and grateful to have played a part in bringing the works of the first composer racialised as Black to publish music in Europe to a modern scholarly edition.

1/ Julie Hayden (c. 1857 – August 21, 1874), sometimes Julia Hayden, was an American seventeen-year-old Black school teacher murdered by members of the White Man's League within days of starting a teaching position at a school for Black children in Tennessee. #WomanToday

My stuff just arrived! Thanks @ukstoptrump.bsky.social #stoptrump

Professor types: how did we not know this before?!

My stuff just arrived! Thanks @ukstoptrump.bsky.social #stoptrump

In 1999 (!) the Home Office’s guide for good working practices: ‘a transsexual employee [the term then used for transgender people] should be granted access to "men only" or "women only" areas according to the sex in which they permanently present’. So simple isn’t it

Oh this is lovely - big recommend if you’re after a 2 min micro break

Please sign!

Today I googled a new medication to check it was ok with existing meds. Acc. to first google searches they weren’t safe together. We rang the pharmacy. The google advice was wrong & it transpires AI generated. AI is dangerous, wrong, unreliable & makes things up. Why on earth hasn’t it been banned?

Children leading anti-ICE protests in Minnesota

If anyone is looking for classical music to explore , @fredreibell.bsky.social is posting about a different woman composer every day 😀 Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️ 🎶 #womencomposers

If anyone is looking for classical music to explore , @fredreibell.bsky.social is posting about a different woman composer every day 😀 Yesterday was Mel Bonis, my fave of hers is the string quartet no. 2 in D major. So beautiful ❤️ 🎶 #womencomposers

UK people: there is a vigil TONIGHT 6.30 pm at the US Embassy for Renee Nicole Good and all victims of ICE violence. #stoptrump Details here:

Stop Trump Coalition is a UK organisation. It seeks to challenge the British government when it appeases Trump; stand with those whose rights are under attack from Trump; support Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples. I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…

💜 🎼 I try to post everyday about women composers, because we need to give more visibility to women composers of the past whose work has often been erased from music history. There is so much wonderful music composed by women to be discovered and championed. #WomenComposers

Stop Trump Coalition is a UK organisation. It seeks to challenge the British government when it appeases Trump; stand with those whose rights are under attack from Trump; support Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples. I don’t want to look back and think I didn’t even try…

I became a supporter of the Stop Trump Coalition today. Agonising on social media isn’t enough. Democracy and peace are active processes - they don’t just happen. We have to work to uphold them. stoptrump.org.uk/who-we-are/

We can’t do nothing A petition isn’t much, but it can register something. I tried to start one but not up to writing that much coherent prose; nor espy being the email contact. Ditto - writing to MP Can anyone help? here’s the link for starting a petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/new

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

There's also this petition to protest against the king's visit to the USA: bsky.app/profile/beac...

We can’t do nothing A petition isn’t much, but it can register something. I tried to start one but not up to writing that much coherent prose; nor espy being the email contact. Ditto - writing to MP Can anyone help? here’s the link for starting a petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/new

UK people: anyone up for starting a petition calling for something along the lines of urgent request for parliamentary debate on UK relationship with USA/Starmer’s policy towards Trump? I’m too long covidy to think it through and the wording etc rn