Lyndsey Stonebridge

@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social

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Writer, Prof, botherer.

PLACELESS PEOPLE (2018), WRITING AND RIGHTING (2021), WE ARE FREE TO CHANGE THE WORLD: HANNAH ARENDT'S LESSONS (2024),

OLD WOMEN: A HISTORY OF OUR FUTURE (COMING 2027)

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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

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Art 16%

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 2d

I do so wish late capitalism hadn't abolished the quiet.

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 6d

At any other time and in many other places this amount of rain would be taken as a sign that we should be doing something different

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 7d

She said if she had been 20 years younger: “I might not have dared to refuse a closed-door hearing."

The untold story of the Pelicot case: age, feminism, and the courage of older women.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Gisèle Pelicot describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in memoir

Pelicot writes of ‘brain stopping working’ when police tell her of crimes of man she shared her life with for 50 years Gisèle Pelicot, who became a global symbol of courage during the trial of her ex-husband and the dozens of men who raped her while she was unconscious, has described her shock when police first showed her images of the crimes, likening herself to a “rag doll”. In extracts from her forthcoming memoir, A Hymn to Life, Pelicot, 73, describes her shock when police told her of the actions of her ex-husband Dominique, whom she considered “a great guy” and had shared her life with for 50 years. Continue reading...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

Gisèle Pelicot describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in memoir

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you ! Will read soon.

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 10d

When I first read this post, I thought it was from a history account.

Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 10d

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 10d

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11d

Scandals can be corrected. That's why they're often titillating - think 18thc sentimental comedy, think Profumo, JFK, etc...Scandals are transgressions that reset norms

The Epstein files are not a scandal.

They're proof of the violent misogynist contempt that structures wealth and power.

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11d

Every word, Marina Hyde, every word.

Also: the high number of academic men in the files? The problem is not the "funding model" ffs. It's moral depravity.

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Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde

I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for their coverage of The 2026 National Humanities Lecture, delivered earlier this week at Senate House by Elif Shafak.

The piece highlights the vital role humanities play in our education and culture.

📰 Read more here: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Do...

When arts education is dismissed as a waste of time it damages us as a society. The focus of learning is not just to enrich our economy but also to enrich our souls

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 13d

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Public Humanities Fellowship

Our Public Humanities Fellowship stimulates new ideas and conversations around public humanities.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 13d

Beautiful lecture from the ever-wise Elif Shafak at SAS last night.

Elif's talk was part of a suite of events and initiatives by the newly launched Fellowship of Public Humanities - of which I'm delighted to be a member.

School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you to Elif Shafak and those who joined us last night in person and online for The National Humanities Lecture.

Drawing on literature, history and her own experience as a writer and storyteller, Shafak made an impassioned case for the humanities. Watch here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Elif Shafak Delivers The National Humanities Lecture

The award-winning novelist and storyteller Elif Shafak has delivered The 2026 National Humanities Lecture at Senate House.

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School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social · 13d

Elif Shafak Delivers The National Humanities Lecture

The award-winning novelist and storyteller Elif Shafak has delivered The 2026 National Humanities Lecture at Senate House.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 14d

She would have ABSOLUTELY approved. 💙🚬

Philo 🔜 NFC @opfuchs.gay · 14d

Reading @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social 's We Are Free To Change The World in the smoking room in a Berlin queer bar at 1:45 in the morning on a Tuesday is a vibe of which I think Arendt herself would've approved

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d

It's vicious! I just sat next to two young women in a nail bar slagging off the weedy incompetence of their mothers. As though they'd be born out of the ribs of Zeus!

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d

Since I've let my hair grow grey, I note that young women have started pushing in front of me in the supermarket.

Girls: I'm not slower than I was, I'm greyer.

And if you knew what was really going on in my old grey head, you really wouldn't be pushing in front of me so recklessly.

Last warning.

Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d

Allons-y!

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15d

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor

The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15d

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor

The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d

*"bitter joy"

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d

"Rather than overt grieving, the videos depict euphoric scenes, including women without traditional Islamic head covering, whooping and dancing to popular songs being blared from stereo sound systems."

Joy contra tyranny.

Arendt would have approved.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15d

Music and dancing signify defiance at celebratory funerals of Iran’s protesters

Euphoric scenes are a snub to theocracy’s culture of piety, say analysts, and carry message of rebellion

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15d

Music and dancing signify defiance at celebratory funerals of Iran’s protesters

Euphoric scenes are a snub to theocracy’s culture of piety, say analysts, and carry message of rebellion

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 16d

I've been approached to write a book on the unhappiness of intellectuals...

eeyore is sitting next to a pile of logs and says `` thanks for noticing me '' .

ALT: eeyore is sitting next to a pile of logs and says `` thanks for noticing me '' .

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 17d

I keep on thinking of Virginia Woolf's scathing contempt of the puffed-up self-important men of the liberal professions - the academics in their robes, the lawyers in their fancy wigs, the sheer pompous stupidity of their craven lust for power that they know, deep down, they so lack. (3 Guineas).