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Educator, artist, writer. Stuff & the troubles of belonging. Views my own. https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/angela-piccini Also @BureauButch @37Looe

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Reposted by David Britain, Leo McCann, Angela Piccini

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15d
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Nov 10
In our case, no. SLTs and HR are committed to agendas. We can be as growth-mindset and solutions-oriented as we like but they are determined to follow through. But continuing to fight is always necessary. Both Ahmed and Berlant are helpful

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Oct 27
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Material media for repairing worlds? www.unesco.org/en/days/audi...
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2025
27 October
www.unesco.org

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Oct 14
International Home Movie Day. 11am-3pm. Sat, 18 Oct 2025. The Box, Plymouth. This year's theme: Lesbians in the Attic! Help us to show hidden histories and (maybe) add to the archive!

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Oct 7
INTERNATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY
18.10.2025
11.00-15.00
THE BOX
Free event!

www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/
[Img: CND protest © The Box]

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Aug 27
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. municipal council votes unanimously to ask Ottawa to impose arms embargo on Israel | CBC News
Councillors in Burnaby, B.C., have unanimously passed a motion that asks the federal government to impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel amid the current war in Gaza.
www.cbc.ca

Reposted by Anthony Burke, Angela Piccini

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 31
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Jul 10
@gwr.com On the 10.03 pm LDN to BRS TM, w/ my nearly 80-yr-old mother-in-law. It's really busy. We know how British trains can't cope. But we've travelled by train today a long way through Europe - she's tired. Business men not giving up seats. Can we please shame then into action via the tannoy?

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Jun 24
Water Action actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask your MP to show their support for a people-first future for our water!
We can make our water work for people - not shareholders - but water lobbyists are working hard to shut this solution down. Will you make sure your MP hears about it?
actionnetwork.org

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 28
Gullfest is back! 30 May-1 June. Visual art, performance, moving image, music, creative writing, workshops, rituals, processions and tarot readings. 37 Looe Street gallery + Almanac Cafe, Plymouth. Opens @ 6pm, Friday, 30 May @ Looe Street 37looestreet.org Follow on Insta @gullfestplymouth

Reposted by Angela Piccini

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · May 26
"It is shameful that university cuts have become so severe under a Labour government that our union is now laying the ground for a trade union dispute with the education secretary." @drjogrady.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr...

#ProtectEducationNow #StopTheCuts #ucu2025
UCU threatens government with national strike over HE funding
UK’s biggest academic union eyes showdown with Labour minister as it tries to respond to wave of university cuts
www.timeshighereducation.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 15
Wonderful PhD students have started this petition www.change.org/p/stop-the-c... 10,000 people will lose their UK HE jobs this year. Thousands more in other sectors. This level of brute-force joblessness is what causes us to be strangers, Keir Starmer - not immigrants @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Sign the Petition
Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth
www.change.org

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 14
Given that all the known knowns about bullying, harassment and outright IP theft haven't stopped people from working with BAD people, I doubt that poor financial mgmt will stop people from applying. But if the finances make more of a difference than the ethics, the system should really just burn

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 13
Being back in Vancouver for just 1 day reminds me why Starmer's 'island of strangers' comment is so awful. I grew up in an imperfect city, but it's a city & country that celebrates its diversity. The UK fails to see immigration as a positive part of its identity. It could so easily do otherwise

Reposted by Angela Piccini

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · May 8
“If Labour acts like Reform-light, universities could go under." @drjogrady.bsky.social

Over 10,000 jobs are at risk and international student numbers are under threat from short-sighted immigration policy.

Staff are rallying in London this Saturday to #ProtectEducation
bit.ly/3Sfq2jz
Universities under 'severe financial stress', says UCU in response to HESA and OfS data
The University and College Union (UCU) has today responded to the publication of data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Office for Students (OfS).
bit.ly

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 8
And so it's arrived www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout... @ucu.org.uk
Hundreds of Plymouth Uni jobs, gallery and cinema at risk
'The proposals we’re considering could affect around 200 roles'
www.plymouthherald.co.uk

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · May 3
'Bodies utter and words move' arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/fles...
Bodies in Flight: Flesh and Text - Arnolfini
Here Bodies in Flight return to the very space where it all began in 1989 – Arnolfini, to mark the publication of their book Flesh and Text that celebrates over 30 years of making performance.
arnolfini.org.uk

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 30
In all the tumult, North of North is making me happy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_o...
North of North - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org

Reposted by Angela Piccini

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 21
"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."
#15: Critical Climate Computing
A brief introduction to a new research group I've co-founded at UAL for critical practice at the intersection between technological and climate crises.
wesleygoatley.substack.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 13
Really terrific to experience such richly textured heritage interpretation! It was really moving

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 12
But...what's jarring and I hope they address in subsequent iterations is the relative absence of the Black victims. Explained in the interpretation due to the lack of documentation. But erasure is also violence

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 12
Jarring juxtaposition of polite Cornish countryside & war reminded me of The Zone of Interest. But Hobhouse took action, pushed reform & helped thousands of women & children. Interesting use of analogue tech, video & 360° film - link btwn creative & military tech is productively uncomfortable 2/2

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 12
Finally made it to The Story of Emily thestoryofemily.com. Cornish activist Emily Hobhouse reported on the horrors of the British concentration camps used in the Boer wars. This starvation-as terror-technology inspired Hitler and is now echoed in Gaza, ICE detention centres and so on 1/2
the story of Emily
Emily Hobhouse was an extraordinary Cornish woman, who challenged the social norms of her time, to advocate for the welfare of others. Step back in time to 1875 and explore the Victorian world of the ...
thestoryofemily.com

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Apr 9
Wearing my CBC socks to cast postal vote in the Canadian federal election. Bristol>Ottawa. Mood = Lauren Berlant's cruel optimism rather than hope

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 31
When I saw Star Wars trending on the other site I thought that it was being banned by the Americans for being Antifa

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 22
She says HI! back at you

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 22
Brilliant 3 days in Maastricht! Sefryn Penrose and I (ButCH - Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic) honoured to have been invited to present Swan Out at Regenerate janvaneyck.nl/calendar/mac.... Thanks to Claartje Rasterhoff and Christian Ernsten for being such wonderful hosts!

Reposted by Angela Piccini

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · Mar 14
ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019.
We love finding bridges
A photo of a group of women in a fallen log in a forest in early spring. The log is creating a bridge. Three women are standing, one is sitting with one foot up on the log. The ground is covered with brown leaves and mossy branches.

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 9
Forget the anthropocene and the pyrocene, we're now in the evilfathercene. Maybe darthocene, but that makes all those awful, crazy rich men sound way cooler than they are

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · Mar 9
Yes - absolutely! We're currently in the worst of all worlds of private-public hybrid that suits no one