Hannah Mudge
@boudledidge.bsky.social
Splendidly niche. Geriatric millennial. Ex-blogger and opinion-haver. Mum of boys. Digital things @ Church of England.
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
The funniest thing about the theobros sharing this approvingly over at the other place is that they spend most of their time cancelling people and having tantrums...
this is the moral cowardice of conservatism that i've been on about. andrews can't just directly say "i think a little friendly competition is good." she has to dress it up in this pseudohistory about men and women's inherent natures as revealed by the Savannah™️
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Great Feminization
In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world.
www.compactmag.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The funniest thing about the theobros sharing this approvingly over at the other place is that they spend most of their time cancelling people and having tantrums...
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🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
October 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
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The same pattern we see so often
Manchester synagogue terrorist was bail for alleged rape at time of the attack
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Manchester synagogue terrorist was on bail for alleged rape
Exclusive: Jihad al-Shamie had been under investigation over alleged sexual attack earlier this year, sources say
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The same pattern we see so often
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"In an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter and stronger shaped by prayer and lit from within by the glory of Christ. That is what gives me hope."
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"In an age that craves certainty and tribalism, Anglicanism offers something quieter and stronger shaped by prayer and lit from within by the glory of Christ. That is what gives me hope."
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
– The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, in her address this morning 🕯️
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Most people in Britain don't know who Kirk was. This is who he was
More tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.
September 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Most people in Britain don't know who Kirk was. This is who he was
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Kirk’s murder is horrible and political violence is unacceptable.
But he was not a “conservative” talking “common sense”. TPUS is not best known for getting the vote out.
We can condemn the killing without sanitising his views and actions.
But he was not a “conservative” talking “common sense”. TPUS is not best known for getting the vote out.
We can condemn the killing without sanitising his views and actions.
September 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Kirk’s murder is horrible and political violence is unacceptable.
But he was not a “conservative” talking “common sense”. TPUS is not best known for getting the vote out.
We can condemn the killing without sanitising his views and actions.
But he was not a “conservative” talking “common sense”. TPUS is not best known for getting the vote out.
We can condemn the killing without sanitising his views and actions.
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Every single Democrat should instantly condemn him for this and demand a retraction and apology. Blow it up. He's supporting domestic violence! It's nightmarish!
Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"
September 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Every single Democrat should instantly condemn him for this and demand a retraction and apology. Blow it up. He's supporting domestic violence! It's nightmarish!
Never made them, but maintained folders of them organised by theme and spent hours choosing exactly which ones to use once I got the ability to have the maximum number of them on a paid account 🤣
Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours!
Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...
Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...
September 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Never made them, but maintained folders of them organised by theme and spent hours choosing exactly which ones to use once I got the ability to have the maximum number of them on a paid account 🤣
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Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement
Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement
The movement towards simple, Christian living can be a yearning for order in a chaotic age. It’s also alarmingly retrograde
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement
Antifeminist women’s summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’ << each new paragraph brings more 🤮
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
TPUSA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit vision for women
The pitch: Trade feminism for femininity, ditch your career aspirations, and focus on finding your husband and becoming a stay-at-home mom.
www.splcenter.org
July 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Antifeminist women’s summit: ‘The kitchen is where the real revolution starts’ << each new paragraph brings more 🤮
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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Everything about this is horrifying. Strangulation now thought to be second leading cause of strokes in women under-40. As one expert says - if this is supposed to be about sensuality, why is it mostly men strangling women?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘There is no safe way to do it’: the rapid rise and horrifying risks of choking during sex
Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage. How...
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Everything about this is horrifying. Strangulation now thought to be second leading cause of strokes in women under-40. As one expert says - if this is supposed to be about sensuality, why is it mostly men strangling women?
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Other dubious things Peterborough is famous for (thanks to the camp, also the world's largest collection of prisoner crafts) 😅
Site of first purpose-built prisoner of war camp saved by Historic England funding
Site of first purpose-built prisoner of war camp saved by Historic England funding
Norman Cross prison in Cambridgeshire was home to up to 7,000 inmates during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars saw thousands of enemy prisoners incarcerated in the UK; so many that the Admiralty, with responsibility for their welfare, had to devise swift solutions to cope with rocketing numbers.
One was the construction of what was reputedly the first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, sited on the Great North Road in Cambridgeshire – far from the sea so prisoners could not easily escape back to France. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Other dubious things Peterborough is famous for (thanks to the camp, also the world's largest collection of prisoner crafts) 😅
I know funding is causing crisis in the sector, but did not realise that the number of childminders has halved in the last decade.
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
Why childminders across the UK are giving it up
They teach children essential skills and help to prepare them for school, but their ranks have shrunk by more than half, threatening the future of the system
www.thetimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I know funding is causing crisis in the sector, but did not realise that the number of childminders has halved in the last decade.
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done.
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Give new dads six weeks off work at nearly full pay, MPs say
A report says dads should be paid 80% of earnings and allowed six weeks off work when they have a child.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done.
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Obviously I have not read the book, just the review, but it strikes me how a lot of the feminist re-appraising of the 00s misses the fact that feminists were making these arguments in the 00s. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?
“Girl on Girl,” by the critic Sophie Gilbert, is the latest and most ambitious in a series of consciousness-raising-style reappraisals of the decade’s formative texts.
www.newyorker.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Obviously I have not read the book, just the review, but it strikes me how a lot of the feminist re-appraising of the 00s misses the fact that feminists were making these arguments in the 00s. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I am 'feeling the need to make a Gazza/fishing rod/chicken joke' years old
hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha
June 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I am 'feeling the need to make a Gazza/fishing rod/chicken joke' years old
Her memoir, In Our Time, had a huge influence on me. A really long time ago I wrote about it: www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...
May 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Her memoir, In Our Time, had a huge influence on me. A really long time ago I wrote about it: www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...
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Let's be clear: Republicans don't want more 'parents' at home. They want more *women* at home.
If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention
If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention
May 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Let's be clear: Republicans don't want more 'parents' at home. They want more *women* at home.
If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention
If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention
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For Mother’s Day I talked to moms who are being put through hell because of the new administration’s policies.
“I am aware of Project 2025 and their goals of getting women out of the workforce, and this really feels like part of it.”
Read here:
“I am aware of Project 2025 and their goals of getting women out of the workforce, and this really feels like part of it.”
Read here:
Being a mom in the federal government wasn’t easy. Trump made it “impossible.”
The Handbasket spoke to several moms about the series of painful choices they've had to make since January.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
For Mother’s Day I talked to moms who are being put through hell because of the new administration’s policies.
“I am aware of Project 2025 and their goals of getting women out of the workforce, and this really feels like part of it.”
Read here:
“I am aware of Project 2025 and their goals of getting women out of the workforce, and this really feels like part of it.”
Read here:
Really looking forward to reading this
My review of Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever by Lamorna Ash is out now. Spoiler: it’s really good.
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Book review: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A new generation’s search for religion by Lamorna Ash
Elizabeth Oldfield reads about an experiment in participating in church
www.churchtimes.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Really looking forward to reading this
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This is excellent news, I'd love to see more data about how they did this!
May 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is excellent news, I'd love to see more data about how they did this!
This is it.
yeah a lot of commentary from the 2010s-2022 looks like the polical-cultural equivalent of ZIRP these days. like you can write about how problématique ‘girlboss feminism’ or whatever is only when people who straight up don’t believe women deserve jobs aren’t ascendant.
You still see some backwash of this among the less creative millennial intellectuals, but the trend seems to thankfully be abating in the face of liberal feminism’s near-total policy and cultural defeat. People can no longer pretend that attacking “feminism” isn’t punching down.
April 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is it.
I mean yes, but also, people were writing critiques of callout culture at the time and it often led to them being absolutely monstered.
Need some critical reflection on the feminism of the 2010s—how it became so timid and cowardly about defending gender equality on principle that it devolved into a kind of circular firing squad in which the only acceptable “feminist” position was a critique of feminism itself.
April 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I mean yes, but also, people were writing critiques of callout culture at the time and it often led to them being absolutely monstered.
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Today I wrote about the belief that anything presented in a TV show is endorsement of that thing (and that every character has to be likable.) www.cartoonshateher.com/p/a-tv-show-...
April 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Today I wrote about the belief that anything presented in a TV show is endorsement of that thing (and that every character has to be likable.) www.cartoonshateher.com/p/a-tv-show-...