Rachel Hewitt
@rachelhewitt.bsky.social
Writing books about women, feminism, trauma, abuse, grief, recovery, joy, the great outdoors, running, sport, history, maps. Free weekly Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
3 pumpkins and a punk-kin
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
3 pumpkins and a punk-kin
For Halloween, I wrote about how, in C18th Yorkshire, women were suspected to be witches, not because they mixed potions or cast spells, but because they seemed to enjoy running outdoors. Apparently there was no other explanation for a woman enjoying running. Link in bio!
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For Halloween, I wrote about how, in C18th Yorkshire, women were suspected to be witches, not because they mixed potions or cast spells, but because they seemed to enjoy running outdoors. Apparently there was no other explanation for a woman enjoying running. Link in bio!
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Maria Nordin "Act of Comfort" (Sweden, 2022), depicting a woman carrying an impossibly large pile of linen for the laundry. Nordin likes to portray women's unpaid labour in the home, but in beautiful shapes and colours.
#womensart
#womensart
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Maria Nordin "Act of Comfort" (Sweden, 2022), depicting a woman carrying an impossibly large pile of linen for the laundry. Nordin likes to portray women's unpaid labour in the home, but in beautiful shapes and colours.
#womensart
#womensart
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Owners 'distraught' as geese removed by council in Stillington, north Yorkshire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stillington geese removed from pond by parish council
The birds are removed from Townend Pond in Stillington after the council raises safety concerns.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Owners 'distraught' as geese removed by council in Stillington, north Yorkshire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today marks a decade of living in God's Own Country; ten years of being a (North) Yorkshire lass. It's been a very hard decade in many ways, but Yorkshire's incredibly beautiful landscapes have helped to sustain me. I feel very lucky to live here. It feels like home.
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today marks a decade of living in God's Own Country; ten years of being a (North) Yorkshire lass. It's been a very hard decade in many ways, but Yorkshire's incredibly beautiful landscapes have helped to sustain me. I feel very lucky to live here. It feels like home.
Wet cat and dying embers
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Wet cat and dying embers
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‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thank you for all your lovely, supportive comments! If you’d like to read about how I built the library from @ikeaunitedkingdom.bsky.social Billy bookcases, I wrote a “how to” on my newsletter. Link in bio
This week I built a library. Now I just have to paint it 😱
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Thank you for all your lovely, supportive comments! If you’d like to read about how I built the library from @ikeaunitedkingdom.bsky.social Billy bookcases, I wrote a “how to” on my newsletter. Link in bio
This week I built a library. Now I just have to paint it 😱
September 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This week I built a library. Now I just have to paint it 😱
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Very interesting, inspiring & enraging episode of Subject to Power with @rachelhewitt.bsky.social - all the episodes I've listened to have been fascinating, on a wide range of feminist subjects open.spotify.com/episode/7z5o...
Banning Women
open.spotify.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Very interesting, inspiring & enraging episode of Subject to Power with @rachelhewitt.bsky.social - all the episodes I've listened to have been fascinating, on a wide range of feminist subjects open.spotify.com/episode/7z5o...
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Was delighted to spot @rachelhewitt.bsky.social’s book at a bookstore in Geneva today!
September 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Was delighted to spot @rachelhewitt.bsky.social’s book at a bookstore in Geneva today!
ICYMI: for the weekend crew
There are still spaces on my WRITING RETREATS in November and January! These are for anyone writing about outdoor adventure: running, hiking, climbing, swimming, or embezzling £60K from your former employer and having to go for a very long walk. More info & book at www.rachelhewitt.org/retreats
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
ICYMI: for the weekend crew
There are still spaces on my WRITING RETREATS in November and January! These are for anyone writing about outdoor adventure: running, hiking, climbing, swimming, or embezzling £60K from your former employer and having to go for a very long walk. More info & book at www.rachelhewitt.org/retreats
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There are still spaces on my WRITING RETREATS in November and January! These are for anyone writing about outdoor adventure: running, hiking, climbing, swimming, or embezzling £60K from your former employer and having to go for a very long walk. More info & book at www.rachelhewitt.org/retreats
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I've become fascinated in the origins of modern peer-to-peer support groups for grief. And I’ve discovered that we have second wave feminists to thank for many of them!
September 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I've become fascinated in the origins of modern peer-to-peer support groups for grief. And I’ve discovered that we have second wave feminists to thank for many of them!
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@rachelhewitt.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you.
Yes, yes, yes - all the power of women in this piece. All about ultra-athletes. Loved this with my entire running heart.
www.womanandhome.com/life/inspira...
www.womanandhome.com/life/inspira...
"Let’s be honest: women have been enduring for centuries" – inside the rise of female endurance athletes
Adventures, freedom, mental strength and greater confidence in everyday life are some of the benefits these women report from taking up long-distance running, cycling and swimming
www.womanandhome.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
@rachelhewitt.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you.
I've become fascinated in the origins of modern peer-to-peer support groups for grief. And I’ve discovered that we have second wave feminists to thank for many of them!
September 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I've become fascinated in the origins of modern peer-to-peer support groups for grief. And I’ve discovered that we have second wave feminists to thank for many of them!
This is a thread on gendered differences in experiences of bereavement – and why it’s important that bereaved women have single-sex spaces. If you'd prefer to read this as an essay, there's a full version with refs (link in bio). This is for anyone who prefers to read on Bluesky.
September 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is a thread on gendered differences in experiences of bereavement – and why it’s important that bereaved women have single-sex spaces. If you'd prefer to read this as an essay, there's a full version with refs (link in bio). This is for anyone who prefers to read on Bluesky.
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The audiobook of Flipping Patriarchy releases NEXT THURSDAY 4th September! Pre-orer now.
https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781004200986/
Unabridged and narrated by total legend, Amanda Abbington. @wfhowes
https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781004200986/
Unabridged and narrated by total legend, Amanda Abbington. @wfhowes
RBmedia | Flipping Patriarchy
Listen to the audiobook Flipping Patriarchy, written by Man Who Has It All.
rbmediaglobal.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The audiobook of Flipping Patriarchy releases NEXT THURSDAY 4th September! Pre-orer now.
https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781004200986/
Unabridged and narrated by total legend, Amanda Abbington. @wfhowes
https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781004200986/
Unabridged and narrated by total legend, Amanda Abbington. @wfhowes
I wrote about having Botox and fillers, and the feminist politics of injectables
*braces self*
If you’re interested, you can read it by following the link in my bio
*braces self*
If you’re interested, you can read it by following the link in my bio
August 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I wrote about having Botox and fillers, and the feminist politics of injectables
*braces self*
If you’re interested, you can read it by following the link in my bio
*braces self*
If you’re interested, you can read it by following the link in my bio
Holidays with a teenager
August 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Holidays with a teenager
The increasingly online nature of porn, hook-ups & sex-buying have made it easier than ever before for men to cultivate secret lives. It’s occurred to me that these factors also make it easier for men’s secrets to be *discovered*. Often all it requires is access to their phones.
August 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The increasingly online nature of porn, hook-ups & sex-buying have made it easier than ever before for men to cultivate secret lives. It’s occurred to me that these factors also make it easier for men’s secrets to be *discovered*. Often all it requires is access to their phones.
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Increasingly I think a major function of “masculinity” IS its crisis — a vehicle for the dominant & dominating group to justify focusing their social attentions primarily on themselves
August 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Increasingly I think a major function of “masculinity” IS its crisis — a vehicle for the dominant & dominating group to justify focusing their social attentions primarily on themselves
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There is just under a month to enter for the women’s history network’s best first book prize, for a first academic monograph, in women’s or gender history
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
womenshistorynetwork.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
There is just under a month to enter for the women’s history network’s best first book prize, for a first academic monograph, in women’s or gender history
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
