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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
sophiegilbert.bsky.social Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 14d
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
Kate Macintosh designed Dawson’s Heights for Southwark Council in 1964 aged just 28. (She's alive and well and still fighting for high quality social housing.) English Heritage described it as ‘an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscape’
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View of ziggurat block and central open space View of ziggurat block and landscaping Walkway uphill to entrance View from block
September 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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lindseyhilsum.bsky.social
My first live report from Khartoum, as a strike on a mosque by the Sudanese paramilitary RSF kills 75
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Drone strike on mosque by Sudanese paramilitary kills 75
A drone strike by a Sudanese paramilitary group has hit a mosque in a camp for displaced people in Darfur, killing at least 70 people.
www.channel4.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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lauratisdall.bsky.social
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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laylamoran.bsky.social
Parliament has an exciting opportunity for teachers to attend the Teacher Ambassador Programme between the 2nd-4th February 2026 to help build confidence in teaching about the UK Parliament. For more information on this opportunity and how to apply visit: buff.ly/1toYdwN
September 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Mary Beard, in her landmark 2014 essay "The Public Voice of Women" traces this silencing/dismissal/exclusion of women's voices (in Europe/Near East) cultures back to Telemachus telling his mother to shut up in The Odyssey.
There is something faintly ridiculous about this wet-behind-the-ears lad shutting up the savvy, middle-aged Penelope. But it’s a nice demonstration that right where written evidence for Western culture starts, women’s voices are not being heard in the public sphere; more than that, as Homer has it, an integral part of growing up, as a man, is learning to take control of public utterance and to silence the female of the species. The actual words Telemachus uses are significant too. When he says ‘speech’ is ‘men’s business’, the word is muthos – not in the sense that it has come down to us of ‘myth’. In Homeric Greek it signals authoritative public speech (not the kind of chatting, prattling or gossip that anyone – women included, or especially women – could do). What interests me is the relationship between that classic Homeric moment of silencing a woman and some of the ways women’s voices are not publicly heard in our own contemporary culture, and in our own politics from the front bench to the shop floor. It’s a well-known deafness that’s nicely parodied in the old Punch cartoon: ‘That’s an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.’3 I want to look too at how it might relate to the abuse that many women who do speak out are subjected to even now, and one of the questions at the back of my mind is the connection between publicly speaking out in support of a female logo on a banknote, Twitter threats of rape and decapitation, and Telemachus’ put-down of Penelope.
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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sophiacollins.bsky.social
In all my life, I have NEVER seen a news story where a women murders a man and his entire family, just because he split up with her. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Former soldier found guilty of raping ex-partner before murdering her
Kyle Clifford, 26, had already admitted murdering Louise Hunt, her sister Hannah and their mother, Carol
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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i say this as someone who does research in this field: is it that "no one has any good idea of what to do about it" or that the people with good, effective ideas are ignored and drowned out by people with terrible ideas?
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Feb 24
The far-right radicalization of young men (and almost exclusively young men) is a global phenomenon, and no one has any good idea of what to do about it.
February 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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sianushka.bsky.social
It’s such a tell when men agree with you on how there’s impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence- until it’s some dude they like and then it’s all “he was never convicted” or “well the police dropped the investigation”. It’s always “other men” isn’t it.
February 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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jcyaroch.bsky.social
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters. Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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michelawrong.bsky.social
Jason Stearns is always worth reading on DRC. www.ebuteli.org/publications...
Goma: Understanding the M23 and RDF attack | Ebuteli
Large parts of Goma are now under the control of the M23 and their RDF allies. This is likely to be seen, looking back twenty years from now, as a major inflection point in the history of the Congoles...
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January 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
why does this sentence lead with the effect on men when the effect on women is actually worse?
mc00.bsky.social Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · Jan 23
'Men with a diagnosis of ADHD die seven years sooner, on average, than similar people without, while for women the life expectancy gap is almost nine years, the first study of its kind has revealed.'
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Adults diagnosed with ADHD have shorter life expectancy, UK study shows
Data based on recorded deaths raises concerns around under-diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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aloner.bsky.social
Also: 'Meta now permits content that argues for “gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs"'

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’
Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM