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ho11and.bsky.social
@ho11and.bsky.social
English teacher, book lover, procrastinator
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The VAWG Curriculum: Day 6
We need male allies to end violence against women because gender-based violence isn’t just a 'women’s issue'; it’s a societal issue rooted in gender inequality, and men play a critical role both in its causes and in its solutions.
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Girl on a space hopper, 1971,
Byker series, Newwcastle, UK, by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Brave New World
We haven’t ended up in Orwell’s nightmar but instead have drifted into Huxley’s. This piece draws on Neil Postman’s writing as well as new cognitive research to show how distraction is hollowing out the very capacities democratic life depends on open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
Brave New World: the republic of distraction
How Neil Postman’s warnings about attention reveal the intellectual cost of our digital age
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Dutch avant-garde painter
Jacoba Heemskerck van Beest, Komposition, 1912 #womensart
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The work of Sue Welfare, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmaker
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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More Zack…
And less fucking Reform on TV please… it’s nowhere near balanced.
These two parties have the same amount of seats
October 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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What aspects of language does DLD impact on? Watch this to find out!
October 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Book cover art, c.1910 by Margaret Neilson Armstrong, US designer, illustrator, author known for her Art Nouveau style #WomensArt
October 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Magpie Morning’ by contemporary UK #printmaker Annie Soudain #WomensAr
September 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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The husband and wife inventors of the brochure have sadly died.

RIP Pam Flett, and her husband, Lee.

#dadjokes
September 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Released on this day forty years ago, "Rain" by #TheCult was the second single from their second studio album, "Love".

It reached 17 on the #UKSinglesChart and is a #gothclub mainstay to this day!
The Cult - Rain HD
YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records
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September 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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We need to be very clear about this.

Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.

humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
humanists.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, 1979, used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #womensart
September 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Monday's TGT is up already. Introduce your students to the best selling female author of all time. Just the 2 billion books sold. Tell your students about the interesting life of Agatha Christie.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
September 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Teaching isn’t about “balancing” teacher-led & student-led activities.
It’s about asking which approach closes & which wides attainment gaps
If you’re mixing without knowing the answer, you’re not balancing you’re gambling with the lives of the most vulnerable.
open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
The myth of balance in the classroom
Why the case for mixing teacher-led and student-led activities doesn’t stack up
open.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in battle in 1914 profoundly affected the artist, who expressed her grief by creating many prints on the theme of mothers protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt
August 12, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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August 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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*NEW* for AQA: 2026 English Language & Literature exam date posters, like these 👇 There’s 23 in the folder covering most set texts.

Repost and help yourself 😊

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sp8bi...
August 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM