Rachael Maria
@tomethatscinema.bsky.social
refugee advocacy. border abolitionist. against the detention estate ~ campaigner with No to Hassockfield: https://www.notohassockfield.org.uk/
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#OtD 1 Nov 1936 the Jarrow marchers arrived in London. They had marched all the way from Jarrow in North-East England to protest hunger and unemployment as a result of the closure of the town's shipyard, which was the main employer in the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8136...
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#OtD 1 Nov 1936 the Jarrow marchers arrived in London. They had marched all the way from Jarrow in North-East England to protest hunger and unemployment as a result of the closure of the town's shipyard, which was the main employer in the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8136...
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URGENT ACTION 🚨
If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives.
Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇
If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives.
Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
URGENT ACTION 🚨
If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives.
Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇
If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives.
Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇
This weekend! 🧡
Please join No to Hassockfield, @right-to-remain.bsky.social and @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention!
Saturday 18th of October 2025, 1-3pm
See you there!✊
Please join No to Hassockfield, @right-to-remain.bsky.social and @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention!
Saturday 18th of October 2025, 1-3pm
See you there!✊
October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This weekend! 🧡
Please join No to Hassockfield, @right-to-remain.bsky.social and @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention!
Saturday 18th of October 2025, 1-3pm
See you there!✊
Please join No to Hassockfield, @right-to-remain.bsky.social and @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention!
Saturday 18th of October 2025, 1-3pm
See you there!✊
Stop the Deportation of Arjeta — A Survivor of Trafficking Who Sought Safety - Sign the Petition! c.org/hjqFY2DtKF via
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Stop the Deportation of Arjeta — A Survivor of Trafficking Who Sought Safety
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October 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Please join No to Hassockfield, Right to Remain, and These FallsMust Fall as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention.
The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention -18 October 2025, 1-3pm.
The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention -18 October 2025, 1-3pm.
October 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Please join No to Hassockfield, Right to Remain, and These FallsMust Fall as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention.
The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention -18 October 2025, 1-3pm.
The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention -18 October 2025, 1-3pm.
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The government has rushed out another cruel anti-migrant policy to appeal to Reform voters.
Humanity is not a transaction, nor something anyone should be forced to earn.
We should be proud to give people the chance to build their lives here.
Our piece for the Metro:
metro.co.uk/2025/09/30/w...
Humanity is not a transaction, nor something anyone should be forced to earn.
We should be proud to give people the chance to build their lives here.
Our piece for the Metro:
metro.co.uk/2025/09/30/w...
It's wrong to demand migrants prove their worth to the UK
There is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ migrant, only human beings.
metro.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The government has rushed out another cruel anti-migrant policy to appeal to Reform voters.
Humanity is not a transaction, nor something anyone should be forced to earn.
We should be proud to give people the chance to build their lives here.
Our piece for the Metro:
metro.co.uk/2025/09/30/w...
Humanity is not a transaction, nor something anyone should be forced to earn.
We should be proud to give people the chance to build their lives here.
Our piece for the Metro:
metro.co.uk/2025/09/30/w...
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My first book, titled Wes Anderson: A Retrospective, will be out on 27 November with @geminibooks.bsky.social.
You can preorder here: www.amazon.co.uk/Wes-Anderson...
You can preorder here: www.amazon.co.uk/Wes-Anderson...
August 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My first book, titled Wes Anderson: A Retrospective, will be out on 27 November with @geminibooks.bsky.social.
You can preorder here: www.amazon.co.uk/Wes-Anderson...
You can preorder here: www.amazon.co.uk/Wes-Anderson...
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If you’re concerned about plastic waste and want to create a safer, less polluted planet then there’s never been a more important time to make your voice heard.
TAKE ACTION!
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TAKE ACTION!
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Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks
Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.
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August 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If you’re concerned about plastic waste and want to create a safer, less polluted planet then there’s never been a more important time to make your voice heard.
TAKE ACTION!
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TAKE ACTION!
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The huge presence of these plastic-loving lobbyists threatens the Global Plastics Treaty.
They don’t want real solutions, all they want is more profits.
Tell the UN to kick them out of the plastics talks now👇
act.gp/4licpMq
They don’t want real solutions, all they want is more profits.
Tell the UN to kick them out of the plastics talks now👇
act.gp/4licpMq
Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks
Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.
act.gp
August 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The huge presence of these plastic-loving lobbyists threatens the Global Plastics Treaty.
They don’t want real solutions, all they want is more profits.
Tell the UN to kick them out of the plastics talks now👇
act.gp/4licpMq
They don’t want real solutions, all they want is more profits.
Tell the UN to kick them out of the plastics talks now👇
act.gp/4licpMq
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🚨BREAKING: Fossil fuel/chemical industry lobbyists OUTNUMBER scientists 4 to 1 at the Global Plastics Treaty talks.
Does anyone else think this is SCANDALOUS?
Does anyone else think this is SCANDALOUS?
August 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🚨BREAKING: Fossil fuel/chemical industry lobbyists OUTNUMBER scientists 4 to 1 at the Global Plastics Treaty talks.
Does anyone else think this is SCANDALOUS?
Does anyone else think this is SCANDALOUS?
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📣 #FreeFatou campaign UPDATE 📣
Fatou's situation is now critical. She has been told that she will be removed TOMORROW Tuesday 6th May and flown to The Gambia.
We need you to write to your MP urgently. Model letter is availalbe at linktr.ee/FreeFatou
(More details below)
Please share!
Fatou's situation is now critical. She has been told that she will be removed TOMORROW Tuesday 6th May and flown to The Gambia.
We need you to write to your MP urgently. Model letter is availalbe at linktr.ee/FreeFatou
(More details below)
Please share!
May 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
📣 #FreeFatou campaign UPDATE 📣
Fatou's situation is now critical. She has been told that she will be removed TOMORROW Tuesday 6th May and flown to The Gambia.
We need you to write to your MP urgently. Model letter is availalbe at linktr.ee/FreeFatou
(More details below)
Please share!
Fatou's situation is now critical. She has been told that she will be removed TOMORROW Tuesday 6th May and flown to The Gambia.
We need you to write to your MP urgently. Model letter is availalbe at linktr.ee/FreeFatou
(More details below)
Please share!
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Fatou’s family said ‘No action was too small, and we are very grateful to each one of you.’ So many people and groups came together today to stand in solidarity with Fatou. Thank you.
Image credit: @migrantsorganise.bsky.social
Please keep on signing the petition!
www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
Image credit: @migrantsorganise.bsky.social
Please keep on signing the petition!
www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
Sign the Petition
Stop the Deportation of Our Sister Fatou – Her Life Is in Danger if she is Deported
www.change.org
May 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Fatou’s family said ‘No action was too small, and we are very grateful to each one of you.’ So many people and groups came together today to stand in solidarity with Fatou. Thank you.
Image credit: @migrantsorganise.bsky.social
Please keep on signing the petition!
www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
Image credit: @migrantsorganise.bsky.social
Please keep on signing the petition!
www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
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Today, people power stopped Fatou's deportation again!
Thanks to everyone’s solidarity, Fatou’s deportation was cancelled at the 11th hour today. We understand that she has been taken back to Yarls Wood detention centre, after her ordeal at Heathrow Airport.
righttoremain.org.uk/people-power...
Thanks to everyone’s solidarity, Fatou’s deportation was cancelled at the 11th hour today. We understand that she has been taken back to Yarls Wood detention centre, after her ordeal at Heathrow Airport.
righttoremain.org.uk/people-power...
May 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Today, people power stopped Fatou's deportation again!
Thanks to everyone’s solidarity, Fatou’s deportation was cancelled at the 11th hour today. We understand that she has been taken back to Yarls Wood detention centre, after her ordeal at Heathrow Airport.
righttoremain.org.uk/people-power...
Thanks to everyone’s solidarity, Fatou’s deportation was cancelled at the 11th hour today. We understand that she has been taken back to Yarls Wood detention centre, after her ordeal at Heathrow Airport.
righttoremain.org.uk/people-power...
Great displays of solidarity from campaigners at No2Hassockfield today! 🧡🧡
We will continue to protest until Derwentside IRC is shut down!
#EndImmigrationDetention
#SetHerFree
We will continue to protest until Derwentside IRC is shut down!
#EndImmigrationDetention
#SetHerFree
March 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Great displays of solidarity from campaigners at No2Hassockfield today! 🧡🧡
We will continue to protest until Derwentside IRC is shut down!
#EndImmigrationDetention
#SetHerFree
We will continue to protest until Derwentside IRC is shut down!
#EndImmigrationDetention
#SetHerFree
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was asked for my big hot take of oscars night and it’s that they probably shouldn’t have spent more time mourning james bond than they did david lynch
The Oscars spent more time mourning 007 than David Lynch – what a travesty
In a ceremony that championed independent film and individual creativity, the visionary director behind ‘Blue Velvet’ received only a cursory mention. Meanwhile, James Bond was treated to a mind-boggl...
www.independent.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
was asked for my big hot take of oscars night and it’s that they probably shouldn’t have spent more time mourning james bond than they did david lynch
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Today I have called for a Chilcot-style inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Our concerns have routinely been met with evasion and silence. We need a full, public, independent inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth. news.sky.com/story/starme...
Our concerns have routinely been met with evasion and silence. We need a full, public, independent inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth. news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer faces calls for UK's role in Gaza war to be scrutinised in Chilcot-style inquiry
In a letter to the prime minister seen by Sky News, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says UK officials may have been implicated in "the gravest breaches of international law".
news.sky.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Today I have called for a Chilcot-style inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Our concerns have routinely been met with evasion and silence. We need a full, public, independent inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth. news.sky.com/story/starme...
Our concerns have routinely been met with evasion and silence. We need a full, public, independent inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth. news.sky.com/story/starme...
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✨Delighted to announce✨ my latest publication, in the lovely feminists@law journal (open access): Postcolonial Dynamics in Pro- and Anti-Trans Activism in the United Kingdom and Ireland journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
Postcolonial Dynamics in Pro- and Anti-Trans Activism in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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journals.kent.ac.uk
November 6, 2023 at 8:59 AM
✨Delighted to announce✨ my latest publication, in the lovely feminists@law journal (open access): Postcolonial Dynamics in Pro- and Anti-Trans Activism in the United Kingdom and Ireland journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
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i reviewed BOTTOMS which is finally, finally out in the UK!!! it's funny as hell & has a lot to say about modern conversations around feminism
Teen lesbian fight club comedy Bottoms is as weird as it is hysterical – review
There are ‘Heathers’ parallels to filmmaker Emma Seligman’s casually subversive high school movie, starring buzzy up-and-comers Rachel Sennott (of ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’) and Ayo Edebiri (of...
www.independent.co.uk
November 4, 2023 at 11:22 AM
i reviewed BOTTOMS which is finally, finally out in the UK!!! it's funny as hell & has a lot to say about modern conversations around feminism
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We were warning about this when I worked at the anti-child trafficking charity Love146 last year. Since then the situation facing child refugees in the UK has got increasingly worse. It is not longer "if", but "when" more children get treated as adults.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-de...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-de...
‘I wouldn’t be surprised if kids end up on Rwanda flight’
Children being classed as adults under flawed age assessments could end up on Rwanda flight
www.opendemocracy.net
November 3, 2023 at 8:43 AM
We were warning about this when I worked at the anti-child trafficking charity Love146 last year. Since then the situation facing child refugees in the UK has got increasingly worse. It is not longer "if", but "when" more children get treated as adults.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-de...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-de...
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30 mins to argue your case against the state trafficking you to Rwanda. On top of the already catastrophic collapse in Safe Routes & immigration advice. Braverman’s brutal border regime.
October 16, 2023 at 7:55 AM
30 mins to argue your case against the state trafficking you to Rwanda. On top of the already catastrophic collapse in Safe Routes & immigration advice. Braverman’s brutal border regime.