Rachel Payne
drrachpayne.bsky.social
Rachel Payne
@drrachpayne.bsky.social
Academic, artist teacher, advocate for gender equity, safety and trauma-informed education
These are appalling stats that demonstrate how current UK policy is failing women and families.

#womenshealth #policy #inequality

thenewfeminist.co.uk/2025/07/uk-d...
UK drops to 41st in global women’s health index - The New Feminist
British women now rank 41st out of 142 countries in the Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, slipping from 30th just two years ago.
thenewfeminist.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men.
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She Didn't "Pick Wrong". Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men.
The scale of the risk means we need to stop blaming women for "ignoring red flags" when men turn out to be controlling and abusive partners
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Delighted that one of my paintings is featured in the iJADE conference call for abstracts.

Thank you @nsead.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏
April 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
GBV / VAWG in all its forms is an epidemic globally. Nothing changes because the patriarchy actively resists; it is not getting better. I’m so tired of this shit. I do no feel like celebrating IWD today as a result.

This sums it up for me ⬇️

@thenewfeminist.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signed a £2.26 billion loan agreement with Ukraine to strengthen its defence capabilities, to be repaid using profits from frozen Russian assets 👏
March 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Friends, abstracts are now due for the 2025 Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference. Please see our website for details and we look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in September.
#AcademicSky
#HigherEducation

ethnographyandeducation.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers – Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference
ethnographyandeducation.org
February 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
@throctukes.bsky.social - there is growing resistance.
Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.
The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.
Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.
newrepublic.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
This is a long but important read about the evisceration of collective memory in US education: Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education truthout.org/articles/era...
Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education
Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.
truthout.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Marco Rubio's anti-DEI memo is aligned: note that it's hostile to "the national plan to end gender-based violence."
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is so awesome

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire theconversation.com/how-we-uncov...
How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire
The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.
theconversation.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“Trans-hostile actors generally view the concept of ‘gender’ as dangerous because it challenges traditional social structures, consequently promoting the binary, male-headed nuclear family as the only valid or moral way to live”.

This is an important document to help counter trans hostility

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In recent years, trans-hostile actors and right-wing members of the Conservative Party have introduced into discourse the phrase “Gender Ideology” or occasionally “Trans Ideology”.

translucent.org.uk/gender-ideol...

#GenderIdeology #Transphobia #ConservativeParty #Evangelicals #HeritageFoundation
Gender Ideology the definition Briefing Notes
Gender Ideology, the definition. Briefing Notes for MPs and Journalists.
translucent.org.uk
January 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It was a joy to lead this ‘in conversation’ piece with @mollyhankinson.bsky.social for @nsead.bsky.social AD Magazine. Molly’s work against gender based violence is fantastic.

#vawg #endgbv #nsead #murals #arteducation
January 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How else to address GBV? To disrupt cultures of victim blaming in our institutions by developing a deeper understanding of who a survivor / victim can be.

The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women theconversation.com/the-pelicot-...
The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women
To truly learn from this case, we must accept that the crimes of Dominique Pelicot were not committed in a vacuum.
theconversation.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Final proof read on our big study of arts rich primary schools in England. Done soon but official launch early next year.
December 7, 2024 at 11:11 AM
There’s still time to sign up to our amazing event tomorrow evening
⬇️
December 5, 2024 at 6:38 AM
Delighted to have sold this beauty ‘David’s Smallholding in August’ to David!

#painter #landscapes #colour
December 1, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Oxford Brookes' 16 Days of Activism live panel event:
‘Let's talk about Gender-based Violence in the current climate’

6 Dec, 17:30-18:45pm (GMT)

See link below for more information and to register:

sites.google.com/brookes.ac.u...

#VAWG #endGBV #whiteribbon #16daysofactivism
'Violence Against Women and Girls' - Interprofessional student conference 2024 - 16 days of Activism
‘We can prevent violence against women and girls. It starts with me. It starts with men.’ End violence against women and girls The Global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an an...
sites.google.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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Join us next May 2025 for the International Gender and Education Association Conference 🦋
www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education conference
The 21st Gender in Education Association conference. Discover the themes being discussed, key dates and how to get involved.
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 25, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Autumn, North Aston - work in progress

#cotswoldartist #painter #autumn
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM

Our Violence Against Women and Girls Conference is open to HE students and staff.

It takes place online on Friday 22nd November. Registration is open via the QR code in the flier.

We will be joined by organisations which include Thames Valley Police, White Ribbon and survivors.

#VAWG
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Wheatfield at the Height of Summer is an absolutely beaut. It sold a year ago but I still think about it.

The relationship between the orange, yellows and blues make it feel like the scorching hot day it is based on.

#westoxarts
#cotswolds
#cotswoldsartist
#mixedmedia
#landscape
#landscapepaint
November 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Looking forward to connecting with fellow arty education based academics, and those who work to counter gender based violence in higher education.

Here's artworks from my artist teacher workshop yesterday with my amazing MA students
November 17, 2024 at 5:17 PM