Do you know about this? @errollynwallen.bsky.social commissioned for #IWD21, premiered in my ‘Century of Music by UK Women’ programme, filmed @rcmlondon.bsky.social I gave the US Prem in @middaymusic.bsky.social San Francisco who also have a BLM strand. youtu.be/0psZ1NtT97g?...

Charles Dickens would have known a number of women composers. Sarah Flower Adams, Eliza Fox, Clara Macirone & Laura Wilson Barker, for a start. Perhaps others though his wife, Catherine (Elizabeth Philp) or his sister: bsky.app/profile/kghi... #womencomposers #charlesdickens

Poor Boris Johnson - he had to get a great willow tree chopped down - the leaves were getting in his swimming pool. If only we’d all known we could have crowdsourced one of those netted pool skimmers for him. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2616621...

I saw my brother last Friday. Just for *1 minute*. I thought I’d be ok but got a reaction the next day which lasted more or less until today. Main thing is it was brilliant to see him. Still… #longcovid is an absolute bastard - pass it on.

Ok - brace yourselves. Look who was born in my friend’s garden in Scotland early this morning… This little piece of magic was most welcome today #longcovid ✊

Would love to know if there are any recordings of opera singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones - though can’t locate any as yet? I see her father had been enslaved. She sang for 4 consecutive presidents (but had to enter the building through the back door for the first 3…) [wiki] #opera

PEOPLE please tell me: if I cut off a chunk from the end of my ponytail would it work as a hair cut? Can’t have a hairdresser round (LC). Partner did great job with fringe, but worried about this! I’m like what’s the worst that could happen? 😬😂 #DIYhair #longcovid #CFS/ME

The very best thing about hot weather is that getting un/dressed is soooo much easier #longcovid #CFS/ME

The relationship between Jamaican poet Claude McKay and suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst seems relevant now: "He adamantly rejected the widely-circulating logic that color or national origin determined sexual aggression and violence": csalateral.org/issue/5-1/cl... Thanks again Ziggi Alexander CBE

This will no doubt see me hounded from bluesky, but I guess I'm not the only one who knows the rumour about Queen Liz and David -enough-of-his-birthday-already Attenborough 😉

An often forgotten aspect of being #housebound is the knock-on effect on access to routine, but vital health care: breast/cervical cancer screening; dental and opticians’ appointment. #longcovid #CFS #ME Pleased then that the large print edition of the #scrabble dictionary has just arrived…

One of the things my #longcovid brain likes doing best is the @merriam-webster.com blossom game. A new pb for me today: 632, and my average is now 415. Kinda pathetic to boast i know, but #housebound and proud 😄

Thank you @brucehodges.bsky.social I’ve just listened to the opening piece by acclaimed composer Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres). Gorgeous

Great news from @sarahfritz.bsky.social and lovely to see her on here ♥️🎶😀

There was a power cut in the village the other evening but we knew nothing about it #solarpower

Extraordinary project deciphering names of people who were victims of the Nazis. Even if you don’t want to try deciphering, thoroughly recommend taking a look. I was on the questionnaire of a schoolboy following his liberation from concentration camp arolsen-archives.org/en/participa...

I'm continuing to learn about Black women's internationalism . . . #OTD in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was the only woman of color at the UN founding conference, which she hoped would allow Black Americans become "integrated into the structure of the peace and freedom of all people everywhere.”👇

Another amazing thread from @rhaplord.bsky.social

A beautiful, breathtaking survey of African writing traditions and their multiple reinventions

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