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Dr Katy Pilcher
@kpilch.bsky.social
Sociologist - power, inequalities, gender, sexualities, ageing, community led culture, creative activism, visual & sensory methods
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Creative Voices, Activist Voices in Blackburn! ❤️
📍 The Bureau Centre, Blackburn | 16 Sept–5 Oct | FREE

Discover how creativity fuels social change through stories & objects from UK communities.

✊ Join us Sat 4 Oct, 1-4pm for placard-making. Come create & share your call for justice!
September 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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🚨 NEW: Britain’s most powerful people are still 5x more likely to have been privately educated than the general population.

Our brand-new research reveals that jobs in the media, business, charity, creative and public sectors remain dominated by those from private schools ⤵️🧵
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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#LSA2025 #GenderandJustice is a New interdisciplinary & feminist social science journal.
Does your research focus on:
✅ Gender
✅ Inequality
✅Justice
Consider sending your work to us. Details 👇
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
May 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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We’re thrilled that the Creative Voices, Activist Voices exhibition is headed to Portrush, Northern Ireland in 2 weeks! 🎊

Location: Arcadia, East Strand, Portrush
Launch Event: Friday 30 May, 7–9pm
Exhibition Open: Saturday 31 May – Sunday 1 June, 9am–5pm
Free Entry | All Ages Welcome
May 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Is culture still bad for you?

In 2020, ‘Culture is bad for you’ was published. To mark the updated second edition, co-author @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, reflects on what’s happened to the cultural sector since then for @artsprofessional.co.uk: www.artsprofessional.co.uk/feature/is-c... #booksky
Is culture still bad for you? - Arts Professional
In 2020, ‘Culture is bad for you’ was published. As its second edition is about to be released, one of its authors, Dave O’Brien, thinks now is a good moment to reflect on what’s happened to the cultu...
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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📣 NEW LEX EVENT with @chloejskennedy.bsky.social entitled 'Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law' on 11th March open only to members. To sign up ➡️ www.lexnetwork.org/lex-seminar-...
February 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Final call DEADLINE Friday 31/1/25 Calling senior feminist academics come join our editorial team & shape the future of feminist research Details 👇
@maggieoneill.bsky.social @kayteecruz.bsky.social @drmacaretta.bsky.social @kpilch.bsky.social @ruthholliday.bsky.social @midwifeteacher.bsky.social 1/2
📢 FINAL CALL Gender and Justice seeks a suitably qualified senior feminist academic to join the existing team as Co-editor-in-chief. Details 👇@
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... @sharronfitz.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @stinewadrian.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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In Arts Professional: @kpilch.bsky.social (Aston University) & @amietaylor.bsky.social (@funpalaces.bsky.social) share more about their Centre-supported collaborative research project, exploring the question "To what extent can finding a creative voice unlock your wider civic activist voice?"
January 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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To what extent can finding a creative voice unlock your wider civic activist voice? Dr Katy Pilcher and Fun Palace’s Amie Taylor have been investigating the question. and here they share their findings. https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/feature/creative-voices-activist-voices-sensory-stor…
Creative voices, activist voices: Sensory stories of creative communities - Arts Professional
To what extent can finding a creative voice unlock your wider civic activist voice? Dr Katy Pilcher and Fun Palace’s Amie Taylor have been investigating the question. and here they share their findings.
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January 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM