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Lyndsey Stonebridge
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social

Writer, professor, botherer.

'We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love & Disobedience', 2024.

'Old Women: A History of Our Future', coming 2027.

https://lyndseystonebridge.com/

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA FEA is an English scholar and professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Her work relates to refugee studies, human rights, and the effects of violence on the mind in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also a regular radio and media commentator, writing for publications such as The New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, and New Humanist. .. more

Political science 29%
Art 16%

Reaching peak anti-capitalism point, as I do every December 23rd, when I realise I not only have to live with surplus value but bloody wrap it up and put a bloody bow on it.
#labour
#dotheyknowitschristmas
Just up on the Telegraph, a thorough and thoughtful piece about the wrongheaded policy changes at WAC. Thanks to Kate Murphy, @illuminations.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social and @marklewisohn.bsky.social for giving up their time. Gift link here

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...
The BBC scandal of 2025 that went unnoticed
The Written Archives Centre has closed its doors to the public, despite being funded by the licence fee
www.telegraph.co.uk

"...the more time passes, the more of a feminist I become."
Grace Paley in 1998, aged 76.

All of which is to say feminism is much older, stronger, and wiser than any of this shit.
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Painted aged 90 (with macular degeneration).

#OldWomen
Georgia O'Keeffe,
You Are The Sun, 1977
#Womensart #Solstice
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

Husband: So ready to go?
Me: Yes
Husband: So let's go then!

They remain tapping at their laptops.

Very much enjoyed talking to the poet and critic, Jack Gutorow, for this issue of Explorations, and at a moment in Europe's history when Poland seems exactly the place to begin talking about Hannah Arendt's legacy.

explorations.uni.opole.pl/wp-content/u...
explorations.uni.opole.pl

I only lasted a week!

A hundred years ago, it was suggested, politely & snidely, that I might not actually be suited to be a Girl Guide.

Never been prouder.

In case anyone still doubts the point of the arts....
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

In Trump country, a group of principled, motivated, and organized citizens have pushed back against ICE. They are experienced in the courage it takes to think and act for themselves because they have lived on this planet for many years. They are also used to being patronised because they are women.

I wrote my book on Hannah Arendt during Covid, watching the world contract. Delighted to be joining this discussion on Arendt now. Has political violence finally undone any hope of natality? Are we, for better or worse, firmly in a post-Arendtian time?

Discovering that Muriel Spark adopted Patricia Highsmith's cat, Spider, is all I needed to make a dull day better.
Some trivia: The cat Spark’s holding on the cover was named Spider; she’d adopted him from Patricia Highsmith. Spider was a fan of fireworks - he found that their booms tended to stun the nearby lizards, making them easy for him to hunt down and kill. I imagine Spark admired this display of cunning…
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469
One woman or girl killed every ten minutes by intimate partners or family members, UN says
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but according to the UN the number of women and girls killed intentionally remains unchanged.
jrnl.ie
📣Announcing our third seminar in the series, titled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health"!

Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience!

See schedule and registration details here:

birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...
Network Seminar: "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health", January 14th, Birmingham and Online
Emotions are important drivers of human behaviour. They help shape our goals and desires and endow our lives with meaning. Insights into emo...
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com

We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Hugely looking forward to this!
With the extraordinary @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling recent biographies.

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With the extraordinary @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling recent biographies.

www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...
Couldn't be more excited for next week's Hannah Arendt Days at the @ateneubcn.cat - curated with the Goethe Institute Barcelona.

www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...

The cyber attack itself was an assault on our capacity to think, learn, and establish the historical truth. Small wonder others thought it worth targeting. What does it say about us that we didn't seem to really care?

At the very moment when the nation's history- its archive - is so politically vital, the nation is blithely indifferent to the fate of the institution which literally holds these things in custody, and those who work in it.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com